Uzumaki Naruto returned to the ninja world.
Naturally, he appeared in Namikaze Minato's office.
When Uzumaki Naruto walked out of the Hokage Tower, all the passing ninjas greeted Uzumaki Naruto with smiles.
"Naruto-kun, long time no see. Have you gone on a mission again recently?"
"Naruto-kun is the future of Konoha. He must have become stronger again."
"Naruto-kun, do you want to practice together?"
"..."
Uzumaki Naruto would also smile, but it was no longer as bright as when he was on Earth.
Just a polite smile.
Kyuubi was in Uzumaki Naruto's body, looking at everyone outside, and smiled disdainfully, "Whenever I see these, it makes people laugh."
"Nine Lamas, they were just deceived at first." After saying this, Uzumaki Naruto fell silent and did not respond.
Uzumaki Naruto indeed has light within.
But it doesn't mean that Uzumaki Naruto has no IQ.
On the contrary, under the guidance of his parents since childhood, his views on things have become clearer and clearer.
So now it became that Uzumaki Naruto didn't know how to face the people in the village.
It was true that the people in the village were full of malice toward him in the past, and it was also true that they were full of kindness toward him now.
It is true that most of the people in the village were deceived, but there were still many people who knew his identity but did nothing.
If you want to give them a reason, it is that they couldn't do anything under the pressure of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo.
The reason is just a reason, but it cannot completely convince Uzumaki Naruto.
Regarding this situation, Fuma did not enlighten Uzumaki Naruto to show kindness to everyone. Instead, he told Uzumaki Naruto that he didn't need to like everyone, and he didn't need to let himself be liked by everyone.
All he has to do is seize his own destiny and break the shackles imposed on him by others.
What Fengma breaks is the shackles of "the son of a defeated dog".
Uzumaki Naruto broke the shackles of the "demon fox".
Uzumaki Naruto proved that he was not a demon fox and would not harm the people in the village. Instead, he was protecting the village and won the respect of most people with his own strength.
At this time, Uzumaki Naruto saw a few people on the street. This time he showed a sincere smile and shouted to greet them.
"Neji, Xiao Li, Tenten, Shikamaru, Ino, Choji, why are you together? Are you doing a mission together?"
"It's Naruto, long time no see."
"snort."
"Naruto, let's have a taijutsu battle!"
"So complicated."
"..."
The only friends that Uzumaki Naruto can truly accept sincerely are these classmates of similar age, because friendships that started in childhood are always without impurities.
It was Hyuga Neji who looked at Uzumaki Naruto with complicated eyes.
Because there were rumors in the family recently that the fourth generation wanted Naruto Uzumaki to marry Hinata Hinata as his wife, the family patriarch and elders were very excited.
With Namikaze Minato's reputation and status in the ninja world, as long as he could get closer to Namikaze Minato, any sectarian opinions would not be a problem.
As for the arranged marriage, Hyuga Hinata didn't seem to be unhappy at all, but she fainted out of shyness.
I just don't know that Uzumaki Naruto is not clear about this matter.
Regarding Naruto Uzumaki, who might be the son-in-law of the Hyuga family in the future, Hyuga Neji forced out a complicated smile.
"Naruto...Master?"
Is it okay for the eldest lady’s future husband to be called young master?
While the young people were communicating, the jounin squad leader Nara Shikaku saw this scene upstairs from the Hokage.
He also noticed Hinata Neji.
Naturally, Nara Shikaku knew about Namikaze Minato's proposal to marry the Hyuga clan. This matter was also recognized by Uzumaki Kushina. It seemed that he was just looking for a good match for Uzumaki Naruto.
But is it really that simple?
Just looking at Uzumaki Naruto chatting with his son, Nara Shikaku fell into deep thought.
Since that war, Konoha has changed.
The returning Yondaime has also changed.
The Yondaime used to be a very considerate person who could treat everyone in the village as family.
But now, the Yondaime is the Yondaime, and the others are just his subordinates. There is no special relationship between them anymore.
Nara Shikaku naturally knew the reason why it would become like this. It was naturally what Konoha did to Uzumaki Naruto back then, which chilled the heart of Namikaze Minato, the hero of Konoha.
He did not betray Konoha or destroy Konoha. He could only say that Namikaze Minato really loved the village.
Only Hatake Kakashi, his former disciple, could make him take him seriously. There is an intention to pass the position of the Fifth Hokage to Hatake Kakashi.
Under the leadership of Namikaze Minato, Konoha is indeed becoming stronger.
But in the past few years, Nara Shikaku has increasingly discovered that Namikaze Minato is not only making Konoha stronger, he is also planning something secretly.
One of the manifestations is that Namikaze Minato continues to secretly dispatch ninjas to the border, and at the same time strengthens the investigation of other countries' intelligence.
The purpose of doing this is undoubtedly that Namikaze Minato wants to attack other countries.
What is the purpose?
Nara Shikaku can only think of one purpose, and that is for Namikaze Minato to unify the ninja world!
But can such a thing really be done?
However, external matters are relatively secretive, but the situation within the village is very straightforward.
Namikaze Minato has been targeting family ninjas, weakening the power of family ninjas and strengthening civilian ninjas, as if to accomplish the goal of the first generation - the village no longer distinguishes between family ninjas and civilian ninjas, so that there is only one Konoha village.
The Sarutobi clan, the Shimura clan, the Mitomon clan and the Tenden clan were the first to bear the brunt.
The most painful, tiring and dangerous tasks are all handed over to these four clans of ninjas.
Even if there is no mission, these four clans of ninjas must be stationed at the border of the Land of Fire most of the time, making it difficult to return to the village. The ninja casualty rate of the four clans is far higher than that of other clans, and their voice in the village is also rapidly weakening.
It was worse than the Uchiha clan back then. At least the Uchiha clan was still within the scope of Konoha. The ninjas of these four clans were almost equivalent to being exiled.
This naturally aroused dissatisfaction among the four clans of ninjas, and even defected ninjas from the other clans.
Namikaze Minato's response was also very simple and direct. After receiving the information, within a day, Namikaze Minato found the defecting ninja and returned to Konoha with his head.
Immediately afterwards, Konoha's public opinion began to slander the transfer clan because of this defection. Even the reputation of transfer Koharu, who "sacrificed for Konoha", was greatly affected after his death.
Naturally, Namikaze Minato also held the clan leader of the dormant clan accountable and punished him at the same time.
This situation undoubtedly allowed the family ninjas to see Minato Namikaze's methods and the ruthless side in his heart.
It's totally a case of treating others in their own way.
Maybe Minato Namikaze not only does not object to the defection of the four ninja clans, but is also looking forward to their defection.
However, in the face of absolute strength, each ninja clan can't do anything.
During the time when Namikaze Minato returned, he visited the other four major villages continuously and defeated the shadows of the four major villages in the name of competition, so that the four major ninja villages did not dare to act rashly during Konoha's weakest period.
There is no doubt that in this era, Namikaze Minato is the strongest, just like the former first Hokage Senju Hashirama.
The four clans of ninjas also had to endure and endure Namikaze Minato's soft knives to cut their flesh, weakening the four clans little by little.
The Nara clan was naturally affected by Namikaze Minato's actions, but not so much.
The four races are just the beginning, and Namikaze Minato will attack other human races sooner or later.
The final result is probably that each family will follow in the footsteps of the Senju clan and completely integrate into Konoha.
From then on, there were no family ninjas in Konoha, only Konoha ninjas.
"If that's really the case, how powerful Konoha would be." Nara Shikaku couldn't help but be startled by his own thoughts.
But that kind of future is really desirable.
It’s just that the family will definitely lose a lot.
As the leader of the Nara clan, even if Nara Shikaku has such an idea, he can only keep it in his heart.
And if you want to take action against Konoha's family, you absolutely cannot avoid the Hyuga clan.
If Uzumaki Naruto really marries Hyuga Hinata, Namikaze Minato will have reason to intervene in the Hyuga clan.
"I remember that the Yondaime seemed to have said more than once that he hated the caged birds of the Hyuga clan. Could it be..."
Nara Shikaku's eyes trembled slightly.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of his office, which made Nara Shikaku recover instantly.
"Come in!" Nara Shikaku said.
Then two silver-haired figures walked into Nara Shikaku's office.
It was Kakashi Hatake and Kabuto Yakushi who came in carrying the bench.
"Nara-senpai, we are here to learn." Kabuto Yakushi said with a smile.
In order to succeed the fifth generation, Hatake Kakashi is now learning management from Nara Shikaku. This gives Hatake Kakashi a huge headache, but he has no way to refuse.
Kabuto Yakushi is a talent that Namikaze Minato has retrieved. In the future, he will serve as Hatake Kakashi's assistant and succeed Nara Shikaku.
"It's you." Nara Shikaku showed a smile, "Come in quickly, how is the Yondaime-sama today? Do you have anything to explain?"
"Teacher and Master took Zuosuke and Xianglan to practice. He didn't explain anything." Kakashi Hatake replied honestly.
Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina accepted Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Koro as their disciples respectively. Uzumaki Koro was a Uzumaki clan member that Namikaze Minato brought back from the Land of Grass.
"Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll just get started. Today we're going to learn how to better mobilize on the battlefield..."
Let’s talk about this, I think it will be used soon.
Nara Shikaku thought so.
Kakashi Hatake and Kabuto Yakushi sat opposite Shikaku Nara, and they began to listen to the lecture seriously.
Even Hatake Kakashi felt like he heard Uzumaki Naruto's laughter. He couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, "It's great. I also want to be like Naruto and be able to play outside freely."
"Listen carefully to the lecture!" Nara Shikaku couldn't help but scolded.
"Yes~" Hatake Kakashi replied weakly.
Kabuto Yakushi smiled, his smile bright and sunny.
