Become the mastermind behind the Akatsuki organization

After reading about the situation related to Kirigakure, the Third Hokage was gloomy.

It was a good thing that Kirigakure fell into chaos, and it was also a good thing that the Fourth Mizukage lost his fighting power. This meant that in the next ten years, Konoha would not need to guard against enemies from the sea.

But after seeing that the ninja who controlled the Fourth Mizukage was a masked man, the Third Hokage could no longer remain calm.

The masked man was the culprit of the Nine-tail Night. If there had not been the Nine-tail Night, the Fourth Hokage and the Nine-tail Jinchūriki would not have died at all, and the wars with Kumogakure and Iwagakure would not have broken out one after another.

If all this had not happened, Konoha should have recovered its vitality and presented a scene of vitality and prosperity.

However, all this has happened, and the dead ninja cannot be resurrected.

Soon, the Third Hokage noticed the second important person besides the masked man, that is, Hanzo's disciple, Bai Ye, who had met him once.

He had seen Bai Ye's strength. If nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely be a ninja at the level of the Five Shadows in the future.

But what the Third Hokage did not expect was that in this intelligence, Bai Ye defeated the Fourth Mizukage and the masked man successively, and used the Wood Release of the First Hokage.

After seeing the word Wood Release, the Third Hokage even suspected that he had read it wrong.

Bai Ye is a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village. Even if he has the blood of the Uzumaki clan flowing in his body, how could he master the Wood Release of the First Hokage? That is the blood limit that belongs to the First Hokage, and even Tsunade and Nawaki did not inherit it.

Yamato, the only ninja in the village who has learned the Wood Release ninja, is just a survivor of the Wood Release experiment.

Could it be that Bai Ye has undergone the Wood Release experiment and is an unknown survivor? But judging from the time, even if Bai Ye has undergone the Wood Release experiment, the ninja who performed the operation was not Orochimaru.

And from the intelligence records, Bai Ye's use of Wood Release is extremely skillful.

Although he cannot compare with the Wood Release attainments of the First Hokage, he is at least at the level of Kage.

When the Third Hokage thought that Bai Ye, a ninja from the Hidden Rain Village, was about to make a name for himself in the ninja world by using the Wood Release Technique, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly. He felt a sense of absurdity that the orthodoxy of Konoha was in the Hidden Rain Village.

At this time, an idea came to the Third Hokage's mind.

If he could recruit Bai Ye, as a descendant of Uzumaki and with the bloodline of Wood Release Technique, and make him the future core senior of Konoha, could he help the village get rid of the dilemma of a lack of successors?

Soon, the Third Hokage dispelled this idea.

If Bai Ye wanted to join Konoha, he would have taken the initiative to join Konoha. If he applied to the Hidden Rain Village at this moment, he would not only fail to recruit Bai Ye, but also offend the Hidden Rain Village and the Salamander Hanzo.

After more than ten years of keeping a low profile, the Hidden Rain Village is no longer the Hidden Rain Village of the past.

Although the Hidden Rain Village has never been able to rank among the top five ninja villages due to its land area and population, the Hidden Rain Village has already possessed the strength of the top five ninja villages in this situation of decline and growth.

Besides, the relationship between Konoha and the Hidden Rain Village is pretty good now, so he can't do something that offends people.

Retracting his gradually divergent thoughts, the Third Hokage closed the intelligence scroll and looked out the window, wondering what he was thinking.

At this time, Kakashi knocked on the office door.

After getting the permission of the Third Hokage, Kakashi walked into the Hokage's office and reported to the Third Hokage:

"Third Hokage, Naruto has grown very fast in the past few months. He has not only learned many chakra control techniques, but also mastered the changes of wind attribute chakra..."

"Rasengan?" The Third Hokage knocked on the table and fell into deep thought.

Kakashi continued, "Naruto's chakra is wind attribute. In addition to Rasengan, I don't know what ninjutsu to teach him, but Naruto is still young. Should he be trained in the Ninja World School for a few more years before becoming a Genin?"

Hearing this, the Third Hokage looked at Kakashi with a playful look in his eyes.

He knew Kakashi's idea. Kakashi didn't want Naruto to graduate early because he didn't want him to go to the war too early. Naruto's identity was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, so he had to go to the front line.

Regarding Kakashi's idea, the Third Hokage said lightly: "I won't let Naruto graduate early. Just let everything take its course."

Kakashi looked at the Third Hokage with a surprised look.

The Third Hokage lit his pipe, took a puff and said: "The conflict between us and the Hidden Rock Village will soon end. If the Hidden Rock Village doesn't use the Jinchuriki, it's not easy for us to use the Jinchuriki."

"And recently something big happened in the Hidden Mist Village..."

The Fourth Mizukage was controlled, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki was abducted... After hearing these news, Kakashi was extremely shocked. He finally understood why the Third Hokage didn't let Naruto graduate early.

Although Naruto now has the strength of a Chunin, he is not enough to compare with the average Kage-level strength of the Jinchuriki.

In Konoha Village, Naruto was still protected by himself and the Anbu from being attacked by the masked man. Once he left Konoha Village, Naruto's safety could not be guaranteed.

However, the reason why the masked man attacked Konoha that year was finally found out, it was for the Nine-Tails.

In addition, Bai Ye's outstanding performance in the Hidden Mist Village also attracted Kakashi's attention. He still remembered that he and Bai Ye were almost the same in strength back then, but now Bai Ye can repel the masked man.

The gap between geniuses is sometimes greater than that between people and dogs.

At this time, Kakashi suddenly remembered something and said with a stiff face: "Third Hokage, I have something to ask you."

The Third Hokage looked at Kakashi, nodded and said: "What is it?"

Kakashi took a deep breath and said: "Third Hokage, since Naruto already has the ability to protect himself, should we tell Naruto about his life experience?"

After hearing this, the Third Hokage's face changed, exhaled smoke and said: "It's not the right time to disclose Naruto's life experience."

"May I ask Third Hokage, when is the right time? ? "

The Third Hokage was silent for a few seconds, then said: "Wait until Naruto becomes a jonin, and Naruto has not been bullied in the village. With his understanding of the will of fire, he has won the recognition of the villagers. "

"It doesn't matter whether Naruto's identity is announced or not."

After hearing this, Kakashi's eyes flashed with an imperceptible complex look, nodded and said:

"Since the Third Hokage has made a decision, it's not good for the subordinate to say anything. The Third Hokage, take care of yourself, and the subordinate will leave first."

After speaking, Kakashi left the Hokage's office.

After Kakashi left, the Third Hokage took a deep puff of smoke. With his experience, he knew that Kakashi was expressing his dissatisfaction with him.

But what can he do?

At present, Naruto has been recognized through his own efforts. If he announces the news that Naruto is Minato's orphan at this time, the villagers' attitude towards Naruto will not change much.

But he will inevitably have a stain on him.

The villagers and the former subordinates of the Fourth Hokage would question his actions, accusing him of why he did not disclose Naruto's identity earlier, causing the orphan of Minato to be treated unfairly.

But if he continued to delay, the situation might be even worse...

Throwing all these messy thoughts behind him, the Third Hokage shouted to the air: "Anbu, send me all the information about the major ninja clans in the village."

The Anbu nodded and soon sent the ninja clan information of these days.

Among the major ninja clans in Konoha, the Anbu mainly monitors the Uchiha, Hyuga and Ino-Shika-Chou clans, all of which have the ability to threaten the Hokage.

The information about Ino-Shika-Chou is the same as before, with no major changes.

Ino-Shika-Chou still holds a low but irreplaceable position as before. He has never thought of replacing the Hokage, but has never lost in political struggles and is always the winner.

The Hyuga clan has the ambition to become the Hokage.

Especially after the demise of the Uchiha clan, the Hyuga clan took over the title of the first ninja clan and became the biggest force threatening the status of the Hokage.

However, unlike the extreme Uchiha clan, it is still very simple to deal with the Hyuga clan.

The Hyuga clan was divided into the main family and the branch family by the caged bird. At the beginning, the main family and the branch family were just the relationship of protection and protection, but as time went on, the branch family and the main family had extremely fierce conflicts.

Theoretically, the main family has the power of life and death over the branch family, and no branch family can resist the main family.

But the caged bird system cannot override the rules of Konoha. He only needs to express support for the Hyuga branch family regularly to make the Hyuga clan fall into endless fighting.

Finally, there is information related to the Uchiha clan.

After Uchiha Itachi exterminated the clan, Sasuke was the only Uchiha left in the village, and it was very convenient to monitor him. It was enough to send two Anbu to take turns.

But the Anbu ninjas found that there were other monitors besides them.

And all kinds of evidence show that the ninjas who monitor Sasuke are from the disbanded roots. For this situation, the Anbu dare not deal with it and can only report it to the third generation Hokage.

The Third Hokage glanced at it and didn't pay much attention to it. He tacitly agreed with Danzo's actions.

As long as Sasuke didn't disappear from Konoha Village, he didn't bother to care about this Uchiha orphan, nor did he bother to do anything to Sasuke.

As for why the root ninjas still appeared after the root was disbanded.

The Third Hokage didn't bother to dwell on these. As long as the root ninjas didn't have a legitimate identity, he could suppress and recruit them at any time.

It's a good thing that Danzo is now training the root ninjas at his own expense.

It's the spy Uchiha Itachi that made the Third Hokage a little unhappy. When Uchiha Itachi left, he promised himself that he would collect information about the masked man as a condition for him to take care of Sasuke.

But so much time has passed, and Uchiha Itachi hasn't sent back any information.

He doesn't know the ability of the masked man, the conspiracy of the masked man, and how many subordinates the masked man has. Everything is still an unknown.

Sometimes, the Third Hokage wonders whether Uchiha Itachi is in cahoots with the masked man.

However, as long as Uchiha Itachi did not show clear hostility, he would not terminate the deal with Uchiha Itachi. It was rare to have a Mangekyō loyal to Konoha.

After waving his hand to let the Anbu retreat, the Third Hokage picked up the future plan.

Many contents in the plan have been crossed out. These years are all decisions that can help Konoha Ninja Village improve its overall strength. Each plan is at least equivalent to an S-level task.

These include taking over the Land of Waves, striving for overseas interests for Konoha Ninja Village, and holding a joint Chunin exam to enhance the overall influence of Konoha Ninja Village.

The performance of the joint Chunin exam is an exam to select Chunin, which is actually an arms race between ninja villages.

The goal of participating in the Chunin exam is not to become a Chunin, but to show strength in front of the Daimyo of various countries, so as to obtain more resources and commissions.

A few years ago, Uchiha Itachi won the first place in the joint Chunin exam, which brought Konoha a lot of benefits.

At present, due to military conflicts, the time of the Chunin exam has been delayed for several months, but once peace is achieved, the Chunin exam must be continued.

Only by achieving excellent performance in the Chunin exam can Konoha ninja regain confidence.

…

After leaving the Hokage's office, Kakashi came to the training ground.

In the training ground, Naruto and Sasuke had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Kakashi coming, they hurriedly said: "Senior Kakashi, you are finally here. You are late again today."

Kakashi glanced at Naruto, and then his eyes fell on Sasuke.

He actually didn't receive the task of training Sasuke, but Sasuke, as Naruto's rival, came to train together after hearing that Naruto often received special training.

Kakashi wanted to reject Sasuke with the excuse that only elite students could receive special training.

But unexpectedly, Sasuke also quickly learned to climb trees and tread water, and Kakashi was forced to accept Sasuke as a temporary student.

Anyway, taking care of a child is also taking care of one more.

As time went by, he found that Sasuke and his personality were very similar, and the chakra attributes were also quite similar. He could teach Sasuke many ninjutsu.

As for whether the third generation would stop him from teaching Sasuke.

Since the Anbu who was observing from the side did not stop it, it means that the third generation Hokage knew about this matter and acquiesced to his actions.

"What's the excuse today, because you helped an old lady cross the road?"

Sasuke glanced at Kakashi, and then said: "Naruto has helped all the old ladies in the village, so there shouldn't be anyone who needs your help, or are you lost on the road of life again?"

Kakashi secretly thought that his excuse was actually figured out by someone, and then he told the truth:

"Hasn't Naruto always wanted to know his life experience? I just asked the Hokage, and the Hokage is still keeping it a secret, saying that Naruto's strength is not enough..."

"Is Naruto still not enough?"

Hearing this, Sasuke's face changed and looked at Naruto behind him.

He knew Naruto's strength very well. Although the two of them have not graduated from the Ninja School, they are enough to defeat the Ninja School's Chunin teachers. With this strength, are they not qualified to know their life experience?

Naruto didn't react much, and said with a smile: "The Hokage may have his own difficulties. We don't need to force these. Sooner or later, he will take the initiative to tell me."