Jiraiya comforted the 20 tied up Konoha ninjas, and then asked them to go back to rest on the grounds that it was getting late.
Until the office returned to its previous quiet state.
"Kakashi, tell me what's going on."
Jiraiya turned the chair in one direction, sat down, and looked at Kakashi, Yamato, and Gai sitting on the side.
Kakashi usually follows the rules.
Even if Kakashi entered the Hokage's office, he would not be so casual. Even if the sky outside the window is gradually getting clearer at this moment, and the morning sun rises like a golden egg in the east, everything is cherishing this period of sleep before dawn.
But Kakashi was really exhausted.
A day of running around.
Arrive in Konoha from Amegakure Village.
As soon as the front foot came back, the back foot immediately took over the task of searching for the hostages.
Without him as the next Konoha labor pacesetter, Kakashi himself would feel unworthy.
"Labor pacesetter..."
This word flashed through Kakashi's mind, and he immediately remembered that it was a word spread from the Uchiha Ninja Village. Immediately, he thought, and responded to Jiraiya mechanically:
"Jiraiya-sama, we checked the entire forest around Konoha and found 50 rescue points. It turned out that these 50 rescue points, including the rescue point that you and Baiyu-sama dealt with before, are all used by the enemy. Bai Jue’s disguised trap area.”
Kakashi said and looked at Yamato.
Yamato, that is, Tenzo, understood immediately and immediately reported: "Thanks to Mr. Bai Yu's reminder, the losses of our Konoha ninjas were minimized in this rescue."
This is what Yamato himself wanted to say.
Kakashi took over the words and continued:
"We used fool-like methods of asking privacy questions to eliminate trap areas one by one, and we fell into a daze with no clue. However, we were lucky. After expanding the search area, we found our kidnapped companions in the Death Forest."
Kai grinned and showed his white teeth, gave Kakashi a thumbs up and said:
"Jiraiya-sama, this time it's all Kakashi's credit. Without Kakashi, it might have taken some time to rescue our people. In terms of finding people, I, Metkaif, am not the best."
Jiraiya nodded slightly, and just as he was about to speak, as the first ray of morning sunlight fell outside the window, Naruto rubbed his eyes and slowly climbed up from the table. When Jiraiya's clothes fell behind him, Naruto caught it quickly with quick hands and eyes.
"Hmm...where's Bai Yu?"
Naruto put his clothes on the chair, looked around, and after realizing that it was dawn, he murmured softly:
"Hey, lustful fairy, according to our previous agreement this weekend, you can't interfere with my rest."
"Sorry, Naruto, the agreement may need to be changed."
Jiraiya said sorry to Naruto, then looked at Kakashi and said also sorry:
"I'm also sorry, Kakashi, Tenzo, Gai, thank you for your hard work. Kakashi, please go back and rest first."
Yamato and Kai, who had stayed up all night, had different expressions when they heard that they could rest.
Yamato looked relaxed.
Kai patted his chest and said excitedly: "Haha, Master Jiraiya, you underestimate the power of youth. You only stayed up all night. This difficulty will not be able to defeat the blue beast of Konoha at all!"
Jiraiya: "..."
Yamato:"……"
Kakashi: "..."
Naruto:"……"
Kai saw everyone looking at him with dark circles under their eyes like they were looking at monsters. He immediately laughed, scratched his head and praised himself in his heart:
"It seems that they are all infected by my enthusiastic youthful atmosphere, which is great!"
Kakashi's eyes suddenly turned serious. He slowly got up from his seat, shook his head and said:
"Jiraiya-sama, it's daybreak. Baiyu-sama said yesterday that a summary meeting will be held. In addition, I have to leave for Sunagakure today to attend the funeral of Granny Chiyo. I think I should attend."
"Too."
Jiraiya sighed softly, stood up from his seat, patted Kakashi on the shoulder, and comforted:
"Thank you for your hard work Kakashi. When you come back from Sunagakure this time, I will arrange some relaxing activities for you so that you can rest peacefully for a while."
As he spoke, Jiraiya unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and then returned to his solemn expression.
Jiraiya has decided that when he returns from Sunagakure, he will take Naruto to find Tsunade.
As for the position of Acting Hokage, I will temporarily teach it to Kakashi, who is young but experienced.
After all, although Kakashi is young, it won't be a big problem if he has a talented military assistant like Shikaku and has been acting Hokage for several months.
Jiraiya put away his gaze, immediately looked at Tenzo and even Kai, and ordered: "Go and notify people and invite Lord Tsuchikage and Lord Baiyu over."
Kakashi and the others nodded.
Kakashi still didn't know what Jiraiya was thinking, and he didn't know what fate was waiting for him in the future. He breathed a long sigh of relief and felt much more relaxed.
Everyone was about to leave and get busy.
Swish——
Bai Yu suddenly teleported behind Naruto, holding two large food boxes that were floating everywhere. Everyone stopped and looked back.
Bai Yu weighed the food box in his hand, looked at everyone's confused eyes, and said with a smile: "The breakfast Ino made for everyone, let's eat it together before working!"
Jiraiya rubbed his hands excitedly, looked at Naruto aside, and chuckled:
"Naruto, have you seen that Ino is a little younger than you, but now he is so sensible."
Bai Yu smiled slightly.
The reason why Ino is so mature is entirely because she was influenced by herself, which led to a huge change in Ino's personality when facing herself.
Naruto gave Jiraiya a roll of his eyes, then ran to Bai Yu with a smile, took a food box, and said gratefully:
"Bai Yu, it's better for you. Without you, Ino wouldn't be so kind as to make breakfast for us!"
The three Kakashi smiled.
He was about to decline on behalf of Tenzo and Kai.
I saw two guys, Tianzang and Kai, leaving him there with the same smiles, and then walked towards Bai Yu.
Bai Yu handed the food box in his hand to Naruto and Tenzo, and said with a smile: "After eating, you can finish your work. Ino has prepared several breakfasts."
The main reason was that Ino was busy early in the morning and the breakfast production was excessive. Bai Yu didn't want to waste food, so he brought it over.
Jiraiya smiled, patted Kakashi on the shoulder, and everyone gathered around the Hokage's desk to enjoy the breakfast Ino had made early in the morning.
The ingredients for breakfast are very simple, including millet porridge, sushi, rice balls, and some Ino-baked bread. They are exquisitely made and taste good.
Bai Yu himself had already eaten at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, and told Ino to wait at home today, and take her with him when he went to Sunagakure after the meeting in the morning.
Just when everyone was enjoying breakfast.
Bai Yu stood quietly behind the Hokage's desk, looking at the scenery of Konoha outside the spacious glass window. The wooden houses outside the window were lined up in a row, and many bricks and tiles retained traces of the passage of time.
Thinking back to those days, he was able to stand here only because of Danzo's blessing.
Now things have changed.
"Bai Yu, if you had not made that choice and solved the Uchiha problem in another way, you would have had the opportunity to stand in this place every day and take the entire Konoha into your eyes."
Jiraiya was holding a bowl of porridge, drinking and eating the fish sushi he held in his left hand, and joked boredly.
When Kakashi, Tenzo, Kai and others heard Jiraiya's teasing, they immediately looked at each other and no one dared to speak. They knew what happened that night very well.
As the Sandaime Hokage, my orders were invalid.
As an advisor to the Konoha Hokage and the leader of the Anbu Training Department Root Organization, the big shot was executed on the spot.
If the subsequent Hokage wants to avenge this lord, the first person he should look for is Uchiha, and the second is those Konoha ninjas who disobeyed the Hokage's order.
but……
This will not happen unless a participating ninja from the Shimura clan can take the position of Hokage in the future.
But after the remaining ninjas of the Shimura clan were used as war cannon fodder by Bai Yu, the remaining lucky ones all fell into the torrent of ordinary people.
Kakashi and others continued to enjoy breakfast, but the sound of chewing food became much quieter.
Bai Yu looked relaxed, with his hands behind his back, and said with a young and mature look:
"Neither Uchiha nor I had a choice at the beginning. This matter was almost unsolvable. The fact that such a situation could occur was all due to my luck."
It was indeed good luck.
With the blessing of the system, his abilities have made a qualitative leap at that stage. In addition, he used various tricks to convince Shisui and Itachi, the two young men who were sprayed beyond recognition in their previous lives.
No blessing from luck.
The only way Bai Yu could choose was to become a rebel ninja and escape from Konoha on the eve of the night of genocide.
There is absolutely no chance that he can get his hands on the throne of Konoha Hokage like Jiraiya thought.
Jiraiya continued to eat. After eating, he quickly put away the bowl and sighed: "What a pity. I really feel sorry for Konoha."
If Bai Yu's talent can be used in Konoha.
Jiraiya guessed that Konoha must once again ascend to the top of the ninja world, and it will still be the kind of one-stop riding. Before he became the acting Hokage, he insisted on the Third Hokage's tolerance towards the Uchiha clan.
pity……
There is a cancer in Konoha like Danzo.
Bai Yu shrugged and responded:
"There is nothing to regret. Whether I am in Konoha or not, it will not have much impact on Konoha."
With that said, Bai Yu looked at Kakashi and others who fell into silence, sighing in his heart, Kadian is really stable.
But they didn’t know that when Orochimaru invaded Konoha and kidnapped the third generation, they also didn’t fight to save him...
Although the third generation has orders ahead.
It can be said that with the strength of Kakashi and Gai at that time, it was not impossible to break through the "Four Purple Flame Formation" among the four sound ninjas under Orochimaru, but they did not do that after all.
This kind of nature is not much different from the night when Bai Yu killed Danzo, and they silently resisted the Sandaime.
Eyes twinkling.
Bai Yu continued to look out the window, and suddenly found Ohnoki walking towards the Hokage Building with Kurotsuchi and the ninjas from Iwagakure Village.
It was still early in the day, enough to show that the Tsuchikage attached great importance to this morning's summary meeting.
After a while, there was a regular knock on the door. A Konoha ANBU ninja pushed the door open and reported respectfully: "Jiraiya-sama, Tsuchikage-sama has arrived outside the office."
"Arrange them to go to the conference room!" Jiraiya responded with a smile.
The ANBU ninja nodded and quickly retreated.
The people in the office finished their breakfast one after another, and at this moment, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open again, and Ohnoki entered with Kurotsuchi.
"Hey, everyone, we are all here." Ohnoki floated in the air, barely equal to Kurotsuchi's height, came to Bai Yu, and said excitedly: "Brother Bai Yu, I have to take time alone to deal with Kurotsuchi. Thank you, please be sure to give me For the sake of my face, come to Iwagakure when the time comes and let me entertain you well."
Bai Yu: "..."
Just this shout out to my brother who made my seniority crazy. I also have to give you some face.
When Kurotsuchi saw the delicious food in the food box, his beautiful big eyes suddenly shone with light, and he asked expectantly: "Bai Yuda... that, can I eat it?"
Before Bai Yu could speak, Onoki gave Kurotsuchi a fond look, and scolded softly: "Didn't we just eat?"
Bai Yu smiled and said: "You can eat it. I think there is also a piece of sea fish sushi. I will bring it to you."
With that said, Bai Yu opened the compartment of one of the food boxes, took out a piece of seaweed and fish sushi and handed it to Kurotsuchi.
"Thank you." Kurotsuchi took the sushi and after tasting it, he deliberately raised his eyebrows and asked: "Is it yours who made it? It tastes really good. Then you can formally introduce me to it!"
Seeing that Kurotsuchi seemed to have a good relationship with Bai Yu, Naruto felt slightly uncomfortable and ate some more bread.
Jiraiya still laments Bai Yu's luck in love. No wonder this guy can write romances of higher quality than his own.
Bai Yu smiled and replied to Kurotsuchi: "Okay!"
Immediately, Bai Yu looked at Onoki and responded: "Master Tsuchikage invited me, so I will naturally not refuse. Since everyone is almost here, let's go to the conference room."
Onoki nodded and looked at Jiraiya aside. The two looked at each other and nodded to each other.
Jiraiya said to Tenzo and Kai on the side: "Since you are full, go and invite Master Shikaku and the others to come over."
Tenzo and Kai nodded respectfully and then stepped back.
…
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Konoha Hokage Building Conference Room.
Bai Yu sat at the end of the long table facing the door, and Jiraiya sat at the end of the front door.
Tsuchikage sat on the left side of Bai Yu, and Zhishui sat on the right side of Bai Yu.
Seated in the remaining seats were Koharu Koharu, the only two Hokage advisors left in Konoha, and Mito Kadoen.
Although these two people no longer interfere in the affairs of Konoha's top management, they still have to attend and sit here to listen to such important events involving the future of Ninja Village.
Kurotsuchi stood behind Ohnoki.
Naruto stood behind Jiraiya.
These two little guys were specially sent in by Bai Yu. Originally, they could not participate in a meeting of this level.
But Bai Yu was worried that Obito would use various means to deal with Naruto, so he didn't act carelessly. Ino was protected by Hidan, so he didn't need to be very afraid of Obito.
As for Kurotsuchi, it was purely because he let Naruto in and it was unjustifiable not to let Kurotsuchi in.
Kakashi and Shikaku, with a pen and paper in their hands, sat in the middle of the conference table.
When Kakashi saw that the main staff had arrived, he stood up, glanced around, then sat down, cheered up and said in a calm tone:
"Everyone, I will be the host of this meeting. Before the meeting begins, I will recount the cause, process and results of this mission in detail."
Everyone nodded.
Kakashi spent the next ten minutes recounting the "mission to save the Jinchuuriki" in detail.
Among them, Payne’s ability and the monster that seals the tailed beast are described in detail.
Finally, Kakashi described Bai Yu's contribution and Chiyo's sacrifice for Gaara.
After listening to Kakashi's description.
Jiraiya, who was not involved in this matter, and the two Hokage advisors in Konoha frowned, especially when they heard that Pain had the eyes of the legendary Sage of Six Paths, they all felt chills on their backs.
As for Ohnoki and Kakashi themselves, it was as if they had experienced the powerless frustration of being manipulated by Pain all over again, and they fell into silence at the same time.
The conference room was silent for a long time.
However, the elderly Koharu who moved to bed broke the deadlock, looked at Kakashi and Onoki with solemn eyes, and asked: "Can you analyze the origin of the monster that absorbed the tailed beast?"
Onoki shook his head.
Kakashi had nothing to say.
Jiraiya then looked at Bai Yu.
Bai Yu said in a deep voice: "Ten-Tails!"
