Konoha: Sage Body

"Shinobi Beast!"

Hanare looked at the huge black cat that appeared below and immediately realized that it was not good, and hurriedly flapped her chakra wings and flew higher into the air.

At the same time, she stopped doing her shooting and quickly formed seals with both hands.

A huge air chopper jetted out from her mouth.

Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Wave!

"Meow!"

Facing the incoming huge air chopping wave, the huge black cat's reaction was to extend its sharp cat claws to fight against it.

"Clang!"

A sound of hilts clashing suddenly appeared.

The huge Air Cutter Wave that Hanare had formed with Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Wave was torn apart by the huge black cat's claw.

Not only that, three huge Chakra Cutting Waves appeared between the huge black cat's swings of its claws after shattering the Air Cutting Waves, shooting towards Hanare at high speeds, and in the process, they even split into a large number of fine Chakra Cutting Waves.

This sudden change of tactics caused Hanare to be startled, and she scrambled to dodge in the air.

However, her flying technique was obviously not as agile as a real bird, and she was unable to completely avoid the dense Chakra Cutter attacks.

For a time, many Chakra Cutting Waves hit her body one after another.

However, Hanare was not injured, the Chakra Armor on her body had amazing defense and blocked all the Chakra Cutting Waves, and she was only hit so hard that her body's chakra and blood churned, and she suffered some internal injuries.

But her crisis did not disappear.

Chizuru's attack came.

A wave of black fire spewed out of her mouth.

By this time, she had been hit with real fire, and finding the opportunity to strike, she decisively used her curse mark chakra to strengthen her jutsu.

Spell - Fire Release - Great Fire Annihilation!

The black fire wave covered a very large area and it was fast and furious, Hanare had absolutely no evasive attacks, the only thing she could do was to defend and fight hard.

Hanare chose to fight hard.

Although she was unwilling, she understood that she was not far from losing when Chizuru summoned this powerful summoning beast in front of her.

At this, she was annoyed, annoyed that she should have begged Orochimaru-sensei to obtain the qualifications for the Ryūchi Cave Summoning Scroll contract.

If she could have summoned the Ryūchi Cave's giant snake, there would still be a fight to be had in this battle.

Unfortunately, there were no ifs.

She didn't admit defeat on this, and decisively converged the little remaining chakra in her body quickly on top of her right hand.

In the next moment, a high density of chakra was quickly released from the palm of her right hand, and a powerful spiral chakra shockwave suddenly appeared, punching a huge hole in the incoming wave of black fire before continuing to point directly at Chizuru on the cat's head.

Gentle Fist - Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm - Helix!

Although the chakra shockwave was invisible, it was clearly visible to Chizuru's Sharingan eyes, and when Chizuru saw this, she coldly said, "Hmph, dying struggle."

As she spoke, she placed her right hand on the hilt of the famous sword Lightning Strike at her waist.

Black lightning instantly appeared on the scabbard, shining with a furious aura.

Sword Technique: Thunder Flash!

Then, a black blade light that seemed to cut space in half appeared in Hanare's eyes.

The high-speed spiraling chakra shockwave was sliced in half.

The Chakra Armor on Hanare's body was also sliced with a large gash, and a large amount of blood splattered out from it as it began to fall down from the air.

"Hanare!"

In the audience, Minato Namikaze saw Hanare get hit by Chizuru's Chakra Slash Wave, his face changed greatly, and he shouted anxiously, and then immediately threw a specially made Kunai at Hanare, who was falling down.

It was Minato Namikaze who had specially spent a lot of money to hire a specially made Flying Thunder God Kunai.

This Kunai was made entirely of chakra metal and was incredibly sharp.

Minato's speed in rescuing Hanare was fast, but someone was faster than him.

A loose quicksand suddenly rose from the ground, and when it was about to catch the falling Hanare, a body covered in black lightning suddenly appeared and landed on top of the quicksand one step ahead of Hanare.

"Hmph!"

Chizuru replaced the quicksand with the aid of Hanare, then let out a heavy cold snort.

Outside the oasis, on top of the towering sand tower, Kirito watched through his puppet as Chizuru caught Hanare one step ahead of him, and couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile before casually maneuvering the quicksand to slowly descend and eventually dissipate.

"Sorry, just struck a bit hard, you should be able to stand up on your own."

Immediately after Chizuru landed on the ground, she said with a cold face to Hanare who was on both arms.

Her eyes were sharp, this Byakugan woman was injured, but not fatally.

Just after she finished speaking, she didn't care if Hanare agreed or not, she directly threw Hanare out of her hands.

Hanare hurriedly flipped in the air and landed on the ground, then covered her still bleeding wounds, gritted her teeth and stared at Chizuru, cursing darkly, "Damn red-eyed woman ..."

Chizuru stared at Hanare without showing any weakness.

For a moment, the audience at the scene felt a huge pressure appear, and it was only when two medical ninjas appeared and came to Hanare's side that the pressure quietly disappeared into thin air.

After Chizuru watched Hanare leave, she did not intend to continue staying in the arena and quickly left.

After her battle with Hanare today, she had already realized where her true shortcomings were, and what she needed to do most now was to make them up.

"What should I do to be able to fly?"

Chizuru thought hard.

On the other hand, Kirito and Chizuru's good teammate, Nawaki, was foaming at the mouth as he lay in a hospital bed, his face turning a saucy purple color as if he was about to pass away.

Nawaki's current strength was already quite good, once the five gates were opened, the elite jōnin might even be taken out by him, but he was ultimately a fleshly mortal, as a physical ninja who lacked means of defense, he probably wouldn't die on top of the enemy's frontal attack, but he would most likely die on top of the enemy's secret plans.

For example, using poison.

As the saying goes, it's easy to hide from open fire, but it's hard to defend against hidden arrows.

In order to improve Nawaki's survival rate, Kirito decided to give him some harsh poison resistance training.

The process of poison resistance training is very simple, that is to test the poison with the body, as long as the poison can not die, the body will naturally be born poison resistance.

Nawaki as a body art ninja can open five doors, plus both Senju clan and Uzumaki clan physique, physical quality is amazing, poison resistance training went well, only a few days time, Nawaki's poison resistance is enough to make him immune to ordinary toxins.

It was the process that was a bit less elegant, the poisoned Nawaki was tortured by various toxins.

"Kirito, are there any outstanding defensive jutsu, I promise I'll try to practice them, this poison resistance training is out of the question."

After a while, Nawaki's tongue finally gained some sensation and said miserably to a humanoid puppet in front of the bed.

The humanoid puppet immediately issued Jinchuuriki's voice: "Just be content, after I become a one-tailed Jinchuuriki, I guess it's unlikely that I'll be able to carry out missions with you again, take advantage of the fact that there is time to be free now, and raise your poison resistance up, so that you won't be shadowed by the other people with poison."

When Nawaki heard Kirito say this, he instantly hung his head and didn't say anything, continuing to endure the physical discomfort caused by the poisoning.

He was naive, but not stupid.

After being out for so long, he had long understood the malice of the outside world towards him, and if it wasn't for the presence of Kirito beside him, a good companion who excelled in medical ninjutsu, he would have long been poisoned to death by all sorts of strange toxins.

And odds were what Kirito had just said was going to happen.

His grandmother was a Jinchuuriki, so of course he knew exactly what a Jinchuuriki meant to a shinobi village.

Now that Kirito had become a One-Tailed Jinchuuriki, there was a high probability that he would become just like his grandmother in the future, and would not be able to leave Konoha at will.

Naturally, it was also impossible for Kirito to go on missions with him anymore.

The next road, he would have to walk on his own.

To be honest, Nawaki was a little apprehensive now, feeling a hint of fear about having to face this outside world that was not very friendly to him alone next.

But more than that, he was looking forward to it.

He was someone who aspired to become Hokage, what was the point of hiding under someone else's shelter all the time, and if he continued like this, he would never be able to become Hokage in his lifetime.

His good brother Kirito was already many steps ahead of him, he had to step up his efforts to catch up in order to do so, even if he knew that he might not be able to catch up in this lifetime, but at least he couldn't fall behind.

It was time for him to become independent, he had grown up so much and had been helped by so many people that if he wasn't able to survive, it would only prove that he wasn't fit for Hokage.

"Just don't worry, I'll survive."

After a moment of silence, Nawaki suddenly swore to Kirito.

"I'll see."

The humanoid puppet made Kirito's voice.

He then picked up a syringe with a dark purple color** inside, and then injected the venom inside the syringe into Nawaki's body under Nawaki's fearful gaze.

A few seconds later, Nawaki was once again foaming at the mouth and convulsing.

...

Time passed day by day, and the matter of the protest letter finally broke out on the fifth day after Sandaime received it.

The news leaked out.

Overnight, the streets and alleys of Konoha were filled with people discussing about Sandaime receiving protest letters from the major Shinobi villages.

At the same time, some rumors about how Konoha would be attacked by a coalition of the major Shinobi villages and how Kirito would not as well hand over the Tailed Beasts for the sake of the village also surfaced.

Konoha, Senju Clan territory, in the Nawaki family study.

"Bang!"

Momo punched on the table, face full of anger to the five Senju clan jōnin in front of him said, " Find out and mobilize all the resources of the Senju clan in Konoha to find out, we must find out all those who spread the rumors behind the scenes."

"Ha~"

The five Senju jōnin replied in unison, and then they all used their shunshin techniques to disappear into the room.

"I've already issued a warning in advance, but there are still people who dare to blatantly create rumors, very well, don't let me find out who's behind the rumors, the Senju clan will never tolerate it."

Momo rolled up a piece of information in his hand and said with a murderous anger.

Overnight, rumors about Konoha had appeared and spread throughout the entire Konoha, it was evident that this was a well thought out rumor making operation, and there were definitely people within the Konoha who were involved in this rumor making, otherwise how else would it be possible to make such a big publicity effort just by the spies that other ninja villages had planted in the Konoha.

"Sandaime, you'd better not have been involved in this."

Momo thought about it and finally targeted Sandaime.

In Konoha, nowadays, the only person who could have the ability to organize such a large-scale rumor-mongering operation in one night was Sandaime, and he was the most suspected of rumor-mongering.

Once the rumor spreads in Konoha, Kirito's personal reputation will suffer a huge blow.

As a result, Kirito will have a hard time running for Hokage in the future.

Hokage Building, in the Hokage Office.

Sandaime was pacing back and forth in the office with a gloomy face.

Rumors finally appeared, only he did not expect to come so quickly and quickly, only one night, the rumor spread throughout Konoha, this is really greatly beyond his expectations.

For the rumors to appear, he was expected, after all, it is only the other ninja village's political conspiracy that can not be stopped.

But he had expected the rumors to fester in secret for a while, and then give him enough time to snuff out the source of the rumors.

Yes, his own attitude towards rumors was to firmly combat them, and for that reason, he had even gone back to the clan to warn the people of the clan to control the people below them, to firmly refrain from creating and spreading rumors, and to preferably catch the rumor spreaders.

As a result, he didn't expect the rumors to spread so quickly and also spread so stealthily.

Regarding the rumors, he the Hokage still didn't know about it until he woke up the next morning.

While the rumor was spreading fast in Konoha, all the people in the ANBU had acted like they were blind, and not a single one of them had noticed it.

This fact was just too unbelievable.

Sandaime felt chills all over his body just thinking about it now.

Since when had he lost control of the ANBU?

Not long after, an ANBU ninja wearing a monkey mask appeared in front of Sandaime.

"Why are you doing this?"

When Sandaime saw this ANBU ninja, he immediately shouted with a cold face.

This ANBU ninja was none other than the ANBU Chief who was in charge of the entire ANBU, as well as his son, Sarutobi Takashi.

If there was anyone who could make the people of ANBU turn a blind eye to the spreading of rumors as well as block him from getting information from the ANBU, it would definitely be none other than this good son in front of him.

"I don't know what you're talking about?"

Sarutobi Takashi said coldly.

"Snap!"

When Sandaime saw that Sarutobi Takashi dared to do something but didn't dare to admit it, he became enraged and slapped Sarutobi Takashi's face hard, shattering the mask on his face and knocking out two of his grooved teeth along with it.

Sarutobi Takashi was slapped hard by Sandaime, but he didn't look half angry, he just looked at Sandaime with a cold face, his eyes even showed disdain.

"Do you want to be angry with me? Do you know what you've done, do you know what the consequences of this will be?"

When Sandaime saw that Sarutobi Takashi was still unrepentant, a feeling of powerlessness was born in his heart, and he exclaimed with a face of sadness and anger, his eyes revealing deep disappointment.

He was really disappointed in this son now.

He really didn't expect Sarutobi Takashi to do something so irrational.

He had messed everything up.

"Father, it seems that you are really getting old, I am feeling ashamed for you when you are a Hokage like this, every day you are afraid of this and that, and as a result, you can't do anything, you can't even get back the humiliation that was inflicted on your own son, do you think that you are really still fit to be a Hokage?"

Sarutobi Takashi saw Sandaime reveal such a look, he was instantly deeply stabbed, then his mind couldn't help but recall his own experience of being humiliated by the mysterious Kage-Level powerhouse as a bug, and said with full of hatred.

He, Sarutobi Takashi, the son of Hokage, after being humiliated by his enemy, was actually only able to hold his tongue in the end, and the mastermind behind it, the Senju clan, didn't give a shit.

From that day on, he knew that his father had grown old.