Hokage, I am Uzumaki Naruto

When the women heard this, they were all worried: "In that case, doesn't it mean that there will be many candidates who will be eliminated?"

Jiu Xinnai nodded, "That's also a matter of no way."

Everyone thought to themselves, and this is indeed the case, so they stopped talking and turned to other topics.

............

Time passes slowly.

Inside the Hokage Administration Building office, Watergate was immersed in the paperwork at hand as usual. In his spare time, he looked up at the window from time to time, as if he remembered something happy, and the corner of his mouth unconsciously raised a smile.

At the same time, in the sky, a lone eagle circled over the building a few times before landing steadily on the window of the Pratunam office.

Watergate quickly noticed the lone eagle, which he had sent out to inquire about Kakashi's progress over there in Sunahide Village.

Now that Lone Eagle had returned, he thought to himself, I am afraid that the exam on Sha Yin's side has ended.

He took Kakashi's letter from the lone eagle's leg and looked at it carefully for a while.

As expected, Kakashi stated in his letter that the exams over there in Sunahide Village had largely ended. A total of one hundred and eighty-four candidates passed the second exam.

And Kakashi has already ordered the candidates to come straight here.

So Watergate didn't think much about it, and shouted out the door: "Come, call me Lu Jiulai, I have something to find him."

"Yes." As soon as the guards standing outside the door heard this, they instantly cast an instantaneous technique and disappeared in place.

Not long after, the door to the office was opened.

Shikaku walked straight in from outside the door, looked at the water gate and said, "Naruto-sama, is there something to find me?"

Watergate smiled at him and said, "It's okay, I called you here to inform you, the exam over there has ended, and the candidates will be here soon."

So what should be prepared on this side of the city, is it ready?

Lu Jiu said, "All ready."

"That's good."

Watergate motioned for him to sit down, and asked: "You say, how many of the candidates can come here this time?"

Shikaku shook his head, "I don't know.

Watergate said, "Just guess the number."

Lu Jiu thought for a moment and replied, "Five hundred people? Still is...... Four hundred? Or less than three hundred. After

all, he thought, with so many people participating in the competition, it would be nice to have a third of them qualify.

However, he was afraid that the actual number of people who advanced was not as good as he expected, so he lowered the number of guesses.

At this time, Watergate handed the note he had just received to Lu Jiu.

Shikaku took the note and glanced at it, after seeing what was written on the paper.

His calm face instantly revealed a touch of shock!

"How come? More than 2,000 people took the exam, and up to now, there are less than 200 people left?

He looked at Watergate with some disbelief and said.

This elimination rate is almost one out of ten.

Its harsh promotion criteria are even harsher than before.

Without waiting for him to slow down, Watergate then said unhurriedly: "This is just the number of people who set out from there." The number of people who actually come here to participate in the qualifiers is even less.

"Yes?"

Lu Jiu took a deep breath, thinking in his heart that such a high elimination rate, I am afraid that in the end, the number of people who have advanced to the ranks, can exceed twenty, it is already remarkable.

Looking up at Shuimen, there was always an expression on the face of Gujing Wubo.

Lu Jiu knew that this was to select talented people from among the candidates and cultivate them.

But I still can't help but feel sorry for those candidates who were eliminated!

And he has a hunch that this should not be the first time.

Instead, it's more like a beginning.

Watergate waited for his mood to calm down a little before he slowly spoke: "The conditions for candidates to advance are harsh, but there is no way around it."

Only in this way can the most talented candidates be selected and cultivated to become the backbone of the future of the ninja world.

Speaking of this, Shuimen's face flashed a touch of vicissitudes that did not belong to his age, and said, "Besides, Lujiu should be very clear." The reason why today's Fire Country can maintain a unified situation for the time being.

The fundamental reason for this is that there are Naruto and Sasuke, as well as the four of them in Hatsuyo and Madara . It was able to temporarily deter those wolf ambitions.

"In other words, if Naruto and they all leave one day, will this ninja world fall into a new war again?"

"This..."

Shikaku choked.

He is a smart man and naturally understands the meaning of Watergate. It is also clear that not everyone in the high-level of the Fire Nation today is convinced by Watergate's rule.

So he pondered for a moment and said, "Then what good idea does Naruto-sama have about this?" The

corners of Watergate's mouth hooked slightly, revealing a light smile: "My idea is that while I am still young now, I have a lot of time to cultivate a group of genius ninjas who are loyal to the Land of Fire after Naruto Sasuke."

In this way, even if one day, Naruto and Sasuke, and even me, will not be in the ninja world.

Then these cultivated people can also have enough strength to protect the ninja world from falling into division when unknown dangers come. "

What do you mean?

The deer was stunned for a long time.

Listen to Naruto-sama's words, are they leaving?

After a long time, Shikaku asked tentatively, "So, Naruto-sama, is this preparing for his departure?" Watergate

watched him so quietly.

After a while, he replied seriously: "It's not enough to leave, it's just a precautionary plan in advance."

After all, no one can say for sure when the people Naruto mentioned before about the Otsuki clan will come.

When Lu Jiu heard this, he thought that this was indeed the case.

Then he spoke again, "Even so, what did Naruto-sama say that Naruto and Sasuke might leave the ninja world?"

Watergate said, "Isn't this simple?" With the strength of those two boys now.

They would definitely think that instead of waiting for the people of the Otsuki clan to attack the ninja world. It is better for them to take the initiative and go to the mysterious high-altitude plain world to kill the people of the Datumu clan.

"And this... Also what might happen that I've been worried about.

Lu Jiu was puzzled: "But now, it seems that they have no intention of leaving?"

Watergate shook his head and smiled: "That's because you don't know those two brats, their ambitions are much bigger than I thought."

"The reason why they stopped fighting in these two years." On the one hand, he feels that he is too young and his strength is not enough to launch a new conquest.

On the other hand, the two brats are trying to attract new people to join their plan. "