Konoha's Strongest Brother

Chapter 253 Candidates for the Fourth Hokage

At noon the next day, the trio who went out had already returned to Konoha Village.

In the Hokage Building, Hiruzaru Sarutobi was still processing documents, and three people stood in front of his desk.

Hiruzaru Sarutobi's face didn't change much, after all, he had only seen it half a month ago, but compared to half a month ago, Hiruzaru Sarutobi's face was more exhausted, and he was so majestic in the Hokage robe. It made people feel a little sad and helpless.

After processing the most important documents at hand and putting down his pen, Hiruzaru Sarutobi stopped working, looked up at the three people in front of him, his eyes changed from tough to warm.

"It's good to be back." He said softly.

"My lord, you don't need to worry." Duan Ren shook his head, "With those people alone, Minato and I won't be able to stay."

"I want to hear from you how the mission is going, although I already have information."

"Then let me talk about it." Duan Ren took a step forward and said in a low voice: "It's very simple, Minato and I took Lin to the Iron Country, and the place we decided over there was in a valley, and the valley happened to be We can ambush people, but it doesn’t matter how much, after we went there, we waited for a few days, and the meeting officially started. We kindly told them about the situation, but their attitude was very bad, and we couldn’t agree on a word, so we started fighting. An enchantment was set up in the valley, and they wanted to kill us in the enchantment, but I killed more than a dozen of them. Then they got scared and agreed to let Lin stay in Muye Village, but they had to pay some compensation. That's it, it's not complicated."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi glanced at Duan Ren, thinking that the information reported to him was not such a simple matter, and almost caused another ninja war. When he saw this information, even he regretted sending Duan Ren went to carry out this mission with Minato. Originally, he only wanted to intimidate, but Duan Ren's temper was already so irritable. Kill all the envoys, if you really kill all the people, the ninja war will start again."

Duan Ren lowered his head in a funny way, pretending to be wronged and said rascally: "I thought that the third generation of adults sent me to the Iron Country to do this, but it turned out not to be so, then you should have said it earlier, and you can't blame me for this."

Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't know what to say anymore, but luckily the wisest decision was to let Namikaze Minato go with him.

"Since it has already happened, it's okay. Let's let this matter go like this. At most, I will give you more compensation. There is also Xiaoduanren. Go back and write an apology and hand it in. Konoha will also give you some formalities." I will tell you earlier to let you know."

Duan Ren naturally didn't take these innocuous punishments to heart, and shrugged his shoulders to express that he didn't care.

After saying this, Hiruzaru Sarutobi looked at Minakaze Minato and Lin again, and asked in a low voice: "Jiraiya said, Minato, you are going to teach Lin Xianju."

"Yes, three generations of adults."

"Don't be so nervous." Hiruzaru Sarutobi laughed and said, "No one said no, is there any difficulty?"

"Cultivating immortality itself is a difficult thing, and it is still unclear."

"In this way, where do I have a few scrolls of information about immortal arts, I will organize them later and send them to you. I don't know how useful they will be, so I can only try them."

"Thank you three generations of adults."

Hiruzaru Sarutobi laughed and said, "Minato, you are too polite compared to that fellow Jiraiya."

He turned his head and said a few words of comfort to Lin.

After saying a few words, Hiruzaru Sarutobi covered his chest in pain, trembling slightly, and coughed violently as he covered his mouth, the person next to him immediately handed over some pills and a glass of water, Hiruzaru Sarutobi It's better after drinking water.

If civilians are easy to get sick, ninjas rarely get sick through chakra and their own body cultivation, unless it is a very serious blood-stained disease, or wounds from battles, Sarutobi Hiruzen is actually impossible for both, His coughing indicated that his health was really bad.

Looking at the concerned eyes of the three people in front of him, Hiruzaru Sarutobi forced a smile and said, "It's okay, that is, I had too much work a while ago, now that the war is over, everything will be fine."

Duan Ren and Namikaze Minato really didn't know what to say. As a ninja, he was very bad at saying useless soapy words like please pay attention to your body.

Looking at each other, both of them were about to leave, not wanting to disturb Hiruzaru Sarutobi's work.

Before he could speak, Hiruzaru Sarutobi suddenly said: "Don't worry, nothing will happen. I'm going to choose someone to replace me to complete the work of Hokage, which is the fourth generation of Hokage. At that time, I will be more relaxed .”

Is there going to be a fourth Hokage?

This is great news. Namikaze Minato and Lin were startled and dazed, while Duan Ren shrugged boringly, not surprised at all, because he knew that the original fourth Hokage was Namikaze Minato, and Now Sarutobi Hiruzen said this in front of Namikaze Minato, without thinking about it, it is still Namikaze Minato, no surprises.

Broken Blade thought about the position of Naruto?I'm sorry, I never thought about it, Hokage is nothing more than a false name in his opinion, neither has absolute power, nor absolute majesty, he is too busy to deal with things, besides being able to get a little respect from the people in the village, there are other things ?Just because of this false name and title, it also caused a group of people to fight desperately, stupid or not.

Namikaze Minato's expression gradually calmed down, and he told him honestly: "This is also a good thing, the third generation can take a good rest."

Has Namikaze Minato ever thought about the position of Hokage?This is a topic that can be studied carefully. Namikaze Minato has long been the patron saint of the village. Later, he became more and more powerful and now stands at the pinnacle of the ninja world. Some people in the village regard him as one of the candidates for the Fourth Hokage. One, and the voice is not low, but based on Duan Ren's understanding of him, Namikaze Minato should not have too many thoughts. His temperament is warm and quiet. Maybe he used to regard becoming Hokage as his goal, but he is about to touch it. When it came to this goal, I was foolishly at a loss.

A clear smile appeared on Sarutobi's face, and he asked with a faint smile: "Minato, don't you want to know who will become the Fourth Hokage?"

"Eh~~" Minato Namikaze hesitated, "Is it Tsunade-sama?"

"Tsunade has left Konoha, and I don't know if she will come back."

"Is that Master Orochimaru?"

Hiruzaru Sarutobi pondered for a moment, let out a breath slowly, and said two words with a firm tone: "No."

Namikaze Minato was silent, maybe he also guessed what Sarutobi Hiruzen meant.

Sarutobi Hiruzen encouraged, "Guess again."

"Could it be a teacher?"

"Jiraiya has enough strength and prestige, but sometimes he hates being serious, so he is not suitable for Hokage."

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head, as if regretting that none of his three disciples could become Hokage, he looked at Minakaze Minato seriously after a while, and said seriously: "Minato, I hope you can become the fourth Hokage, Lead the village!"

"I?!"

"teacher?!"

Both Minato Namikaze and Lin were surprised, Lin had a surprised and happy expression written on her face, but Minato Namikaze's face was stunned with surprise.

"Yes, it's you, Minato. This is a decision I've been thinking about for a long time. I believe you will lead the village to another glory!"

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When the three of them came out of Hokage's office, except for Duan Ren, the other two were in a bad mood, and the atmosphere seemed awkward and dull.

Duan Ren, on the other hand, was calm, with an indifferent expression on his face as he folded his hands.

Over the past few days, there seems to have been some changes in the atmosphere in Konoha Village, probably because of the location of the fourth Hokage. Although there is no specific news, it may be that a little news leaked by accident, and the village has become like this , it is most appropriate to describe it with the four words "chasing wind and shadow".

Lin was so happy that she was about to jump up, with an excited face, but Namikaze Minato advised her not to talk nonsense, after all, this matter has not yet been settled, and his becoming Hokage is only the preliminary decision of the third Hokage-sama, and the decision of the advisory group is also very important ... But then again, Hokage is the head of a village, and the advisory group also serves Hokage. When Hokage makes a decision that doesn't seem so wrong, what reason does the advisory group have to object?
Walking on the road, Namikaze Minato proposed to sit down at his house together, and have a light meal by the way. Speaking of which, Duan Ren has never been to Minato's house, but he has seen Uzumaki Kushina several times in the street and Hokage's office. I don’t know a few words, so it’s okay to go to Minato’s house if I have nothing to do now. Lin yelled for Kakashi to come over, and Duan Ren was about to go to Hatake’s mansion to call for someone, but Namikaze Minato immediately gave an explanation, saying It is Kakashi who has entered Anbu, and is probably being ordered to take care of Kushina.

Duan Ren's heart sank again, he didn't know about it yet, but it seemed that Namikaze Minato already knew about it, but he didn't explain it to him immediately, what does it mean?
Several people caught Kakashi on the beam outside Namikaze Minato's house. To be honest, Kakashi's flamboyant silver hair is more unsuitable for Anbu than Duan Ren.

Kakashi was puzzled at first, but after seeing that it was Namikaze Minato and Duan Ren who caught him, he was immediately relieved. It would be a strange thing if he hadn't been caught by the two of them now.

We talked about going to Minato’s house as a guest, and Kakashi followed in a daze. Minato’s house arrived in two or three steps. Kushina greeted the guests with a big belly, and immediately shouted that there was not enough food to go shopping, wearing slippers and carrying Basket jumped out of the window to buy vegetables, and seeing Kushina running up and down with her big belly, Duan Ren finally knew who Naruto inherited from.

Bought Naiku Shinnai to cook in the kitchen, Lin was helping at the side, and occasionally called Kakashi together, a happy scene.

Namikaze Minato was still deep in thought, Duan Ren looked at him in surprise and asked, "Still wondering why I became the Fourth Hokage?"

Namikaze Minato didn't understand what Duan Ren wanted to say, thought for a while and asked, "You know?"

Duan Ren put down his teacup, looked at Namikaze Minato and said seriously: "Compassion and kindness are very debatable emotions in my opinion. The world is always dangerous. I don't want these two to appear in my ninja way, but The world needs these two very much.”

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(End of this chapter)