Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

Outside Kirigakure Village, there is a training ground that has been abandoned for a long time and is almost unknown to anyone.

This is where Rei Kaguya and Mei Terumi are at the moment.

"Let me tell you, we're just talking about a topic that doesn't really need to be talked about directly. Is it really necessary to come so far away, Rei?"

Looking at the increasingly deserted environment around her and the bits of blood stains remaining on the abandoned training facilities, Terumi Mei frowned and asked Kaguya Rei with her hands on her chest.

"Atmosphere, atmosphere problem," Kaguya Rei came to a human-shaped target with a big hole in its chest, raised his hand and stroked the target's body, which was already tattered by the wind and rain, and replied leisurely:

"Some words need to be spoken in a suitable environment as a backdrop in order to convey the speaker's true thoughts more clearly..."

"So, what are you going to say to me using the environment of this abandoned training ground?" Terumi Mei found a scarred tree and leaned against it, tilting her head and waiting for Kaguya Rei to speak.

"Stop being so cold and pressing every step of the way... We have known each other for five or six years. Except when I can be not serious, when have I not been serious?" Kaguya Rei took a bite of the three-color dumpling that was still warm in her hand. , and then pointed the skewer he didn’t eat at Terumi Mei:

"Want something sweet? I heard someone said that sugar is very good for thinking..."

"Then you'd better tell me some information that will allow me to use the extra sugar, Rei."

Terumi Mei raised her hand to catch the three-color dumpling thrown by Kaguya Rei, and took a small bite on it. The soft and sweet dumpling had a sweetness that was a little too high for ordinary people, and the sweet dumpling was easily eaten. The taste filled Terumi Mei's lips and teeth, and the cold surrounding environment was weakened a lot by the warmth of the dumplings.

"It's so sweet...how much extra sugar did you ask the store to put in it?"

"Isn't that because, in this cold and depressing Kirigakure Village, only sweets with high sugar content can bring me a little bit of warmth?"

Kaguya Rei ate the last pill in her hand, and then looked at Mei Terumi, whose body suddenly tensed up and even stopped chewing subconsciously, and asked with a half-smile:

"Why, do you think that after I said that, I'm going to say some heart-wrenching rebellious remarks to you? Hey, hey, this reaction makes you a little too distrustful of me, Terumi Mei?"

"That's not because you have always been a guy that I can't understand from the time we met until now..." Terumi Mei didn't feel embarrassed because her subconscious actions were exposed, so she swallowed. After eating the dumplings inside, she asked in a calm tone:

"So, what do you really want to say when you call me to this place?"

"The Sandaime's ideas are outdated."

boom.

Over the Kirigakure Village, where it rains all year round, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed, completely lighting up the slightly gloomy sky. What followed was a rumbling sound that was enough to frighten young children away. Loud thunder coming out.

But how could the thunder from nature be more shocking than the words Kaguya Rei just dropped casually?

"Rei..." Terumi Mei took two steps back, and her originally steady breathing became a little hurried, "What happened to you when you were performing this mission? Why, why did you say this suddenly? What a strange thing to say!?"

"Hmm, do you suspect that I am someone else pretending to be someone else? No, no, no, no, unless it is the Sannin of Konoha, the Kage of the Four Great Ninja Villages or a Jinchuriki master, no one can replace me so easily of."

Kaguya Rei waved her hand, indicating that Terumi Mei didn't need to worry about being brain-controlled or being disguised by others. Then she put her right hand into the big hole in the chest of the humanoid target next to her, and said with a little emotion:

"Ask a question, do you know where this training ground is?"

"Where is it?" Terumi Mei asked cautiously.

"This is where I took the ninja school graduation exam and became a genin."

Kaguya Rei closed her eyes as if recalling something, and began to walk around the abandoned training ground with great familiarity. As she walked, she murmured to herself in a sleepy voice:

"Here, I killed a guy who I had always been at odds with in the ninja school. But in fact, the hatred between him and me is far from the point of wanting you to live and die... But even though I feel that way, He didn't seem to think so, so as soon as the graduation exam started, he rushed towards me, as if he would not stop until he killed me."

"Then, that guy's best friend, who lost his graduation assessment target, pounced on me and wanted to use my life in exchange for the qualification to graduate from the ninja school and become a genin."

"He died too, at the hands of my best friend in ninja school...well, she was a girl."

“But what’s funny is that she protected me not because we were friends, but to ensure that I would die in her hands so that she could become a qualified ninja and earn money to support her younger brothers and sisters. "

"I don't know if you encountered something similar to me when you took the graduation exam of the Ninja School... But from that day on, I have always believed that there are problems with the various systems currently in place in Kirigakure. .”

A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky again, illuminating Kaguya Rei's face that was as calm as a mask. After listening to his soliloquy, Terumi Mei sighed and whispered:

"But this is Kirigakure Village's long-standing tradition, isn't it?"

"When the second-generation lord Kito Gengetsu was still around, Kirigakure Village was not like this... After the first-generation lord established the village, Kirigakure has always abided by the secret laws enacted by the second-generation lord, right? But the second-generation lord has When your Excellency was in power, the graduation exam of the ninja school did not say that students should kill each other in pairs, and only the winner could graduate, right?"

Kaguya Rei used Furui Muha's tone to directly criticize Terumi Mei's statement.

The precocious girl bit her plump lips, but for a moment she couldn't think of how to refute Kaguya Rei's words.

The second generation is the founder of many of Kirigakure's current systems, while the third generation is the one who developed Kirigakure to what it is today. How can it be possible that whose decision between the two is more reasonable? Can she, a little girl who is not yet an adult, explain it clearly?

"But, maybe, the Third Generation has his own considerations, right? You see, at least now, the average quality and mission completion rate of the ninjas in our village are higher than those in other villages, right, Rei?"

After thinking about it, Terumi Mei found a barely tenable explanation, and eagerly conveyed this idea to Kaguya Rei, but Kaguya Rei just shook her head helplessly and asked in a deep voice:

"Average quality, does it work?"

"Counting from the time when the second generation of each village succeeded to the throne, how many Kage-level experts in the ninja world have been trained in other villages?"

"Kumogakure has the gold and silver brothers who assassinated the Second Hokage, the third Raikage who can single-handedly subdue the Eight-Tails and fight tens of thousands of ninjas in the Earth Kingdom, and the perfect Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki Rabbi and his elder brother the Fourth Generation Thunder Shadow Ai;"

"Sunagakure has the third Kazekage who is good at magnetic escape and blood succession limit, the superb puppet master Chiyo and her grandson Akasa no Scorpion, and the fourth Kazekage Rasa who can single-handedly subdue Ichibi Shukaku;"

"Although there are not many famous ninjas in Iwagakure, Onoki, who is known as the Two Scales, can definitely be said to be the undisputed strongest among the third generation of the Five Kages;"

"As for the strongest Konoha, let alone the legendary Sannin, Konoha White Fang Hatake Sakumoge, the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, the founder of the root Shimura Danzo, the rising yellow flash Namikaze Minato, Each one is heavyweight..."

"What about our Kirigakure? In addition to the Sandaime, how many ninjas in our Kirigakure can confidently say that they can compete head-on with the Kage and Jinchuriki of other villages? Not one, not one, all No."

"Even the Amegakure Village, which is smaller than ours, has a figure like Sanshouyu Hanzo who started the Second Ninja War and was even hailed as a demigod."

Having said this, Kaguya Rei paused, then sighed, and in a self-deprecating tone, told Terumi Mei, who was already a little embarrassed, a piece of news that almost stopped her heartbeat:

"Aren't you very curious, Terumi Mei, why I came back to the village so soon?"

"The reason is simple, because our mission failed. Less than one-fifth of the Anbu who participated in the mission, including me, returned to the village alive. Two of the Jonin who led the team died in the battle, and even the precious Three-Tails Because of the death of the Jinchuuriki, it entered the resurrection period where it cannot be used."

"Do you know how we failed? We were defeated by a twelve-year-old Konoha Jounin and an unknown ninja who possesses the power of both Mangekyō Sharingan and Wood Release."

"It's hard to imagine, isn't it? In front of that twelve-year-old brat, Kirigakure's veteran Jonin was killed on the spot without even surviving ten rounds. Dozens of Anbu were transformed into Uchiha who used Wood Release in one glance. It became a scene of tattered rag dolls hanging from the branches..."

PS: (The following content is purely the author’s personal analysis of Kirigakure’s background)

Judging from Zabuza's age, he and Kakashi are almost the same age, and before he reached the age of joining the ninja school, he killed all the candidates of that class, forcing Kirigakure to change the examination policy. Then this matter has been at least twenty years since the beginning of the main line.

And more than 20 years ago when Naruto was born, the Third Ninja World War was not even a shadow, which means that before the fourth generation of water was controlled by Obito, Kirigakure was already executing the Gu-raising examination mode. .

The second-generation water died early, and I don’t seem to be the type to implement such a strict policy, so the blame for this policy can only be thrown to someone who was controlled by Ban Brain, who didn’t know when he died, or even a person who didn’t know when he died. The third generation of water without even a name came to memorize it.

Then after counting the famous Kage-level experts that each ninja village has accumulated in this era, it is not surprising to find that Kirigakure's lineup is so shabby that he was kicked out of the ranks of the five major ninja villages...

Thinking about it this way, Kirigakure's subsequent weakness probably wasn't entirely due to Obito's misfortune. It is estimated that Ma Dala secretly gave Kirigakure a stumbling block when he was still alive.

Later, in the original timeline, Kirigakure was able to cultivate Terumi Mei, a standard Kage level, Samehada Kisame, a strong Kage level, and Zabuza, a Six Paths level (Gakushin). It is true that there is a bit of smoke in the ancestral grave... …