Chapter 78

The Hokage's office at this time.

The third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, sat on a chair with a pipe in his mouth expressionlessly, and the entire Hokage's office was hazy with smoke.

On the desk is a list of all the rewards for the daimyo, and the name of his third generation Hokage is not included in it.

It seemed that the victory of this war had nothing to do with the Daimyo of Fire Country, which was why the ANBU report that Hatake Sakumo was wearing the Hokage half-sleeve seemed particularly harsh.

"Xiaochun, Yan, what do you think the name means?"

As he spoke, he handed the list on the table to the two people in front of him. In the reward column of Hatake Sakumo, in addition to some common items, there was also a samurai glory decoration written on it.

As for the ANBU report, this so-called samurai glory decoration is no ordinary decoration.

"You, Hiruzen, were not included in the daimyo's rewards this time. On the contrary, Tsunade and that brat who did not go to the battlefield later received a lot of rewards.

The financial rewards alone are worth the cost of launching a small campaign. It's really biased. "

Mito Kadoyan looked at the string of numbers after Tsunade and Beixuan's names on the list. The rewards for these two people only had one word, money.

There is nothing fancy, but it is just this simple word that makes both Mito Kado and Koharu jealous.

"The rewards of this war are much richer than those of the first Ninja War. It seems that the Daimyo is also very happy, but...this reward shows his dissatisfaction with you, Hiruzen."

After going to bed, Koharu closed the list and looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen meaningfully. Not only was there no Sarutobi Hiruzen or the two of them on the list, but Danzo's name was there.

However, Danzo's reward seemed humiliating, and the amount was even lower than that of an ordinary jounin.

"It doesn't matter. The daimyo has been dissatisfied with Konoha for more than a day or two. He sent a warning about Tsunade's matter before, but what we need to deal with now is Hatake Sakumo's problem."

Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled a puff of smoke with cold eyes.

Sarutobi Hiruzen is not old now, but he is definitely not young. Every other ninja village has plans to become the successor of the Shadow.

On the contrary, there was no movement in Konoha. Putting on Sakumo Hatake's half-sleeves would easily break the peace of Konoha. Even if you, Hiruzen Sarutobi, can't go to the battlefield, what if something unexpected happens?

The Hokage can't be like you when you came up again, right? Hokage shouted that he was the second heir and sat on it.

You must know that Sarutobi Hiruzen did not simply sit on the position of Hokage. At that time, Konoha was not what it is now, and the old people in the Warring States Period were not yet dead.

It can be said that if it weren't for Uzumaki Mito to protect several people, no one sitting in the position of Hokage today would be from the ninja clan.

"How about... canceling Danzo's house arrest?"

After turning to bed, Koharu said tentatively, after all, she doesn't have some support from Danzo now, and it's not particularly easy to do many things just relying on Yan.

"Don't mention this matter again. Danzo can't come out, and I can't agree to the promise I made to Tsunade and Bei Xuan. If Bei Xuan is angered and fights, my chances of winning are only half..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen smoked a cigarette and lowered his eyes. Bei Xuan was really too young. He had such strength before he reached adulthood and had never been heard of in the ninja world.

The last time the fight was able to stop was entirely because Bei Xuan's sharp sword had the scabbard of Tsunade, and the last time it was able to stop peacefully it was only because the scabbard still cared about the master-disciple relationship with him.

But now…………

Sarutobi Hiruzen silently thought about his three disciples. Tsunade and himself had completely broken apart. Even if they met, they would only call them the Sandaime.

Orochimaru also did some bad things behind his back, and the communication with him became less and less and even began to disappear. Even the disciple Naoki rarely met.

Jiraiya... Veins popped up on his forehead when he thought of Jiraiya Sarutobi Hiruzen. This disciple who was most like him still had no news at all.

………………

Hokugen, who originally didn't want to tell Hatake Sakumo too much about Konoha's political issues, was being pestered by him and wanted to know more.

He was euphemistically saying that he was afraid of walking into another pit and having a bad impact on Kakashi, while Minato was also looking at Bei Xuan brightly from the side.

For Minato, he appreciated many of the political issues that Hokugen said and would always take a small notebook to write them down. This would be an essential experience for him as Hokage in the future.

"………………"

Taking a deep breath, Beixuan silently pointed to the empty tea cup on the table. Upon seeing this, Minato immediately took the teapot and filled it up for Beixuan.

Beixuan picked up the teacup and took a sip. Then he looked at all the people and Pokémon around him, coughed and started talking.

"Before I talk, let me ask you a question. Except for Kirigakure Village, which has always used the Xuanwu Sect inheritance method to select shadows, do other villages have their own successors?"

As soon as Minato said this, he glanced at the Hokage Hansode who was put aside by Hatake Sakumo and seemed to realize something.

"What is the inheritance law of the Xuanwu Sect? But other villages are indeed training successors, especially the Sand Gold Ninja of Sunagakure Village and Ai of Kumo Hidden Village. Among them, Kumo Hidden is the most high-profile."

Hatake Sakumo thought for a while and said, as the ANBU minister, Hatake Sakumo naturally knew this information, and all the villages were silently cultivating Kage's successors.

Especially Kumogakure, who is extremely high-profile. Each generation will announce the successor of the next Kage in advance and give Ai the name.

Then, a person who can inherit the title of "Bi" will be randomly selected in the village to form a partner with Ai.

As for the Shadow Successor of Hidden Suna Village, everyone present was actually familiar with him, and had seen him fight against Suna Ninja more than once.

Especially Minato, even in Konoha, Bei Xuan had heard the news that Minato killed the sand gold ninja in Sunagakure Village with one move.

"Tch, that upstart? He was taken down by Minato with just one move. The future of the Suna ninja will be worrying because such an unreliable person succeeds the Kazekage."

After talking about this, Naoshu curled his lips, obviously very impressed by Luo Sha. After all, for someone whose pocket money disappeared inexplicably or was snatched away by a blonde woman since childhood.

The person who can command a lot of gold dust to fight with is the nouveau riche.

"It was just a fluke. At that time, he had already been cut through the sand gold defense by Sakumo-senpai, so I was able to get close to him and use the Rasengan to hit him."

Minato scratched his head when he heard that and said with a smile.

"There is no such thing as luck in a ninja's battle. Minato's strength has indeed far surpassed that of Rasa."

As a cooperator with Minato, Hatake Sakumo naturally had the right to speak, and he fully recognized this yellow-haired boy with a sunny smile on his face.