Konoha: Sage Body

"Fighting when you want to, and peace talks when you want to, this Sunagakure has quite the face, and this Hokage-sama of ours is as good-tempered as ever."

Kirito mumbled to himself again after crushing Sunagakure's sand sculpture with one foot.

The next moment, a grim voice rang in his ears, "So what do you want to do about it, it's Hokage-sama's order."

Orochimaru then slowly stepped out of the shadows in the room.

"Orochimaru-sama, didn't you go back on the transfer order? Why are you back again."

When Kirito saw Orochimaru appear, he didn't answer Orochimaru's question, but only said with feigned surprise.

Not long ago, Orochimaru had received a transfer order from the Sandaime to step down from his position as the Frontline Commander of the Land of Wind and go back for a debriefing, while he, Kirito Tosaka, had been temporarily appointed as the new Frontline Commander because of his great achievements.

However, this new appointment is Kirito's own fight to come, not Sandaime's initiative, the other party initially gave him orders to assist another soon-to-be-appointed frontline commander-in-chief's orders, and to be completely obedient.

As the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Unfortunately, some people don't understand that there is another sentence behind this sentence, that is, the greater the gain.

To talk only about responsibility and not benefits was to be a rascal.

Kirito wasn't a simple-minded blade, and his pride wouldn't allow him to give full command to others until he had his approval.

Sandaime, for example, had taken some offense to this Hokage-sama's commands, as the other still seemed to see him as a child that could be casually satisfied, and the other's reward for granting him his duty was merely a decent amount of money.

This, of course, Kirito could not possibly put up with, he had long since passed the stage where he craved for money. Now money was just a number to him.

So, he simply took the initiative and offered Sandaime to replace Orochimaru as the new battlefield commander-in-chief.

No threats were said, merely expressing what it was that he wanted.

In the end, he managed to get what he wanted, and Sandaime took his request very seriously, quickly issuing him a new appointment as the new Battlefield Commander-in-Chief here.

Unfortunately, just as he was about to make a move and launch a new attack on Sunagakure, Sunagakure actually wimped out and sent an emissary for peace talks, causing him to have to stop launching attacks on Sunagakure for the time being.

"It's nothing, I just got a new mission and just happened to pass by, so I came over to see you, how's it going? Still adapting? It's not a good commander-in-chief, is it?"

Orochimaru replied as he gave Kirito a somewhat cold smile.

"So that's how it is, it's true that this commander-in-chief is a bit hard to be, after all, I'm still a bit too young, it might make certain old-timers feel uncomfortable and mobilization not too smooth, but I'm sure it'll be fine, Orochimaru-sama doesn't need to worry too much."

Kirito scratched the back of his head with his hand and laughed bitterly.

At the same time, he laughed coldly in his heart, "What kind of bullshit new mission, it's clearly an order from Sandaime to come over and watch over me so that I don't have the means to mess up, right?"

It was true that he was now the commander-in-chief here, but what he had just said was already true, because he was too young, even though he possessed matching strength and prestige, there were still many people who were unconvinced by him as the newly appointed commander-in-chief, and either dragged their feet in carrying out the orders he gave, or disobeyed them and intentionally screwed up things.

Faced with such a situation, Kirito now had a headache, if he could, he would like to kill these guys who disobeyed his orders, but if he really did that, at least half of the senior combatants in this barracks would be lost.

Yes, the ninja who disobeyed him were basically more or less related to the Sarutobi clan.

To be precise, they were all Orochimaru's subordinates, the forces Orochimaru had developed in the military over the years.

And each of these people has a considerable position in the military, with a large number of people under them.

Orochimaru is relying on these people to control this ninja force of nearly 5,000 people here.

Now that Orochimaru has returned here, these people who were not quite on the same page with him have a backbone, and their resistance to his orders has grown stronger.

It could be said that Orochimaru's arrival had caused him to lose control of this ninja force all of a sudden.

"I completely understand your difficulties, I was the same way when I first started as the commander in chief, take your time, there's no rush, and at your age, there's no need to be in too much of a hurry at all, you'll definitely be able to shine in the military in the future, the future belongs to you."

Orochimaru looked at the bitter smile expression on Kirito's face, and with the posture of a person who has been there, he consoled in a serious tone.

"Orochimaru-sama is right, by the way, you just came back from Konoha, do you know where we are in the peace talks between Konoha and Sunagakure?"

Kirito asked curiously.

At these words, Orochimaru's expression became a bit unnatural, but instantly collected himself and replied, "It's going quite well, it shouldn't be too long before we, Konoha and Sunagakure, can put an end to this meaningless war without having to continue staying here and eating sand."

"That's great, I hope peace can come sooner rather than later."

Kirito said happily with a happy smile.

Orochimaru looked at the bright smile on Kirito's face and smiled slightly, "Peace is not easy to come by, and our Konoha is in great need of it right now, well, I have to go and continue my mission, so I won't bother you with your work."

After saying that, he turned around and opened the door to leave.

"Take care Orochimaru-sama."

Kirito sent Orochimaru to the door.

A few seconds later, Orochimaru disappeared from Kirito's eyes, and the smile on his face faded away to become expressionless before he reentered the office.

By this time, there were ten more people in the office, Chizuru Umino Daio, Iguchi Takeshi, and Yuzuru Yukimi were clearly among them, and the remaining six were all about the same age as them, all between 11 and 14 years old.

After Kirito became the commander-in-chief, naturally the first thing he did was to gather his own forces in the army, and these ten people were his base squad in this army.

"Kirito-sama, Orochimaru is back, those old things are definitely going to be dishonest again."

Takeshi Iguchi, who was only 12 years old but already 1.8 meters tall, spoke immediately when he saw Kirito coming back, without any respect for the old senior in his voice.

"Enough, Takeshi, speak politely, those old-timers are people who deserve respect, don't call them old things old things day after day, you're making enemies for Kirito people by talking like that do you know that."

Yuzuru Yukimi, who was 1 year older than Takeshi Iguchi, stared at Takeshi Iguchi and said in a very dissatisfied manner.

"Who let those old guys always rely on their old age, obviously their strength is not good, but still want to tell us what to do."

Takeshi looked at Yuzuru Yukimi, who as a Taijutsu ninja subconsciously avoided meeting her eyes, and said with disinterest.

In his opinion, a ninja should speak with strength, and what kind of skill was it to rely on one's old age.

Moreover, his boss Kirito Tosaka is now the commander-in-chief here, why should he still be polite to those old things that are not as strong as him.

If you want him to be polite, you can, just beat him.

Unfortunately, so far, none of the old guys who had bossed him around were his match.

"So you think you're strong, do you want to compete with me."

Yuzuki said with a cold face as she saw that Takeshi didn't have the slightest bit of remorse.

In the next moment, her eyes instantly changed, turning into a pair of Two-Tomoe Sharingan.

Seeing this, Ignoble Takeshi instantly stopped talking and decisively conceded.

He is a taijutsu-type ninja, the most afraid is Yuzuru Yukimi this kind of illusion type ninja, he used to be not too afraid of the other party, but since the other party does not know where she obtained a pair of Sharingan eyes, the ability of illusion has increased greatly, he is completely unable to beat.

It was the first time Chizuru had seen the Two-Tomoe Sharingan in Yuzuru Yukimi's eyes, and she frowned slightly before looking at Kirito, her eyes becoming dangerous.

Kirito blinked at Chizuru, revealing big innocent eyes, and secretly explained with Mind Body Transmission Technique, "I didn't buy Sharingan."

Yuzuru Yukimi's Sharingan really wasn't something that he had gotten for the other party, it was something that the other party had bought from the black market for a large sum of money, and it had started out as just a pair of one-hooked jade Sharingan eyes.

But the surgery to transplant the Sharingan was done by him for Yuzuru Yukimi.

Yuzuru Yukimi was able to keep her Sharingan eyes until now, and the delay in having them retrieved by the Uchiha clan was due to the fact that he had spoken to Yuzuru Homura, the head of the Uchiha clan, beforehand.

Otherwise, just with Yuzuru Yukimi's strength and the power of the Lesser Shinobi Clan behind her, it was impossible to carry the pressure from the Uchiha clan.

"Hmph."

Chizuru received Kirito's explanation, snorted coldly in her heart, and stopped paying attention to Yuzuru Yukimi's Two-Tomoe Sharingan.

"Yukimi, what Takeshi said actually makes sense, it's those old-timers who looked down on us first, and since it's hard to resolve our conflicts with them, I don't think there's any need to please them."

The simple-faced Umino Daio stood out to support Iguchi Takeshi.

"That's right, these old guys are simply uneducated, I see their perfunctory attitude towards Lord Kirito's orders and I get angry, obviously their strength isn't good, but their temper is still so big, they are truly shameless."

The speaker is a Uchiha clan ninja, he is Kirito in the Uchiha clan adopted little brother Uchiha Feng, he is now looking at Yuzuru Yukimi eye socket Two-Tomoe Sharingan, some upset said.

As he spoke, he quietly opened his Sharingan, also Two-Tomoe Sharingan.

Yuzuru Yukimi had already seen the Uchiha clan's ninjas displeased with her not for the first time, and several times before, she had even broken out into a conflict and suffered some losses, and it was because of this that she belonged to a very precocious category among her peers.

She didn't respond to the provocation in Uchiha Feng's eyes, put away her Sharingan and retorted, "It's seniors, not old guys, I admit that some of them don't have a very good attitude, but most of them just need to talk properly, these seniors are still very nice to talk to, and we're the juniors, even if we're stronger than they are, we need to give them the proper respect."

"Yukimi is right, seniors are seniors and should be respected, we will become seniors in the future as well, would you like to see that your juniors can belittle you just because they are stronger than you, our biggest drawback now is that our seniority is too shallow and our roots in the military are also shallow, Kirito is now the Commander-in-Chief, we should fight for him to gain more people's support in the military, instead of making enemies for him for no reason."

A teenager with a cowlicked head stood out in support of Yuzuru Yukimi.

"Suzaku is right."

"In favor."

The next moment, a fat teenager and an orange-haired teenager successively also stood out in support of Yuzuru Yukimi.

These three were none other than the Ino-Shika-Cho clansmen, Nara Suzaku, Akimichi Jidou, and Yamanaka Tenno, and the three were the oldest among the group of teenage boys and girls in the room, all of them being 14 years old.

It was now 3 against 4.

And of the rest, that left Kirito, Chizuru, the girl with a black ninja dog Kuromaru, and the teenager with a cool pair of sunglasses who hadn't spoken up.

Iguchi Takeshi and the others didn't bother to look at Kirito and Chizuru, but instead looked at the girl with the canine teeth and the teenager with the sunglasses.

The two were from the Inuzuka clan and the Aburame clan, the Inuzuka girl's name was Inuzuka Tsume and the sunglasses teenager's name was Aburame Shibi.

"It's a pain in the ass, I'll listen to Lord Kirito."

When Inuzuka Tsume and Aburame Shibi saw Iguchi Takeshi and the others looking over, the former immediately blurted out, while the latter nodded in favor of Inuzuka Tsume's words.

The two chose to abstain.

"The weak should obey the strong."

Chizuru suddenly spoke up.

Iguchi Takeshi, Umino Daio and Uchiha Feng were overjoyed when they saw Chizuru stand up in their favor at this time, while Yuzuru Yukimi and Umino Daio frowned slightly before looking at Kirito in unison.

Attitude towards the old-timers in the military.

The current result was 4 votes of disrespect, 4 votes of respect, and two abstentions.

A balanced situation had emerged.

When Kirito saw the result, he sighed, "Treating the old-timers with respect, of course, we have to give them respect, but the premise is that they have to respect us as well, and I think that respect should be mutual, and shouldn't be based on seniority."

Iguchi Takeshi and the other hawk ninjas among the younger generation heard Kirito say this, and each of them had happy smiles on their faces, among them, Iguchi Takeshi and Uchiha Feng both shouted, "Long live the boss."

Yuzuru Yukimi and InoShikaCho's expressions were a bit less favorable, with Nara Suzaku showing a thoughtful expression.

"Boss, then should we continue to mobilize to launch an attack on Sunagakure this time."

Iguchi Takeshi said with an expectant look at Kirito.

What Kirito had just said was clearly leaning towards their Hawk faction's side, which meant that Kirito still wished to launch an attack on Sunagakure in his heart.

Yuzuru Yukimi and InoShikaCho's expressions were getting uglier and uglier when they heard Iguchi Takeshi say that.

They are Kirito's trusted people, of course, a long time ago, it is clear that Kirito is planning to launch an attack on Sunagakure, and it is still a big general attack, only the Sunagakure in time to play the peace talks this move, which makes Kirito's plan is blocked.

Now that Sandaime had ordered that they could not launch an attack on Sunagakure during the peace talks, it would be bad if Kirito was bent on having his way.

"It's the peace talks stage between Konoha and Sunagakure, how can we launch an attack on Sunagakure at this time."

Kirito glanced at Iguchi Takeshi, who was leaping forward at the moment, and said breathlessly.

When Yuzuru Yukimi and Ino-Shika-Cho all heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, happy that Kirito hadn't over-inflated himself because of his great strength.

But in the next moment, they were back on their toes, "Of course, if the people of Sunagakure don't have the sense to launch an attack on us at this time and intentionally break the peace, then we'll have to step in and deal with them."