Naruto: Uzumaki Menma walks out of the infinite moon reading - Chapter 239

c234 Asuma and Hiruzen’s feud

The end of Konoha 62, winter.

“Welcome to the next stage~”

Amidst the enthusiastic shouts of welcoming guests, Kakashi walked out outside the Konoha branch of Mockingbird Cinema.

“Ah~ I’ve been fooled…”

Kakashi looked at the “Intimacy Guide·Signed Edition” in his hand, and a look of helplessness flashed in his dead fish eyes.

In “Intimacy Strategy”, the heroine is played by Fenghua Koyuki, a famous figure in the land of snow.

However, compared to the identity of the other small country’s daimyo, the stage name of Fuji Fuyukie is more famous.

A young girl brimming with beauty and elegance can be said to be the biggest talking point in the ninja world these days.

But compared to “Princess”, a movie that was at its peak since its debut, the movie adapted from the novel “Intimacy Strategy” received a mediocre response.

“Obviously Jiraiya-sama has restrained enough this time, why do you want to cut off the exciting parts? That is the essence of what Jiraiya-sama wants to express!”

Kakashi scratched the back of his head and felt very sorry.

The movie tickets in the front row cost hundreds of taels, and Mockingbird Productions didn’t understand art at all.

However, despite the criticism, the theaters were still full and it seemed that it was still making a lot of money.

“well……”

Not sure what he was thinking of, Kakashi sighed suddenly.

“There will be no time for such leisure in the future.”

Xiao Li, Tenten Ningji and the others have already graduated. Akai even took the three of them to see the blood. It won’t take long for Naruto and the others to graduate.

Even if Kakashi thought about it with his toes, he knew that the Third Hokage would not let him relax.

The most suitable person to be the teacher for Naruto and Sasuke, besides Lord Jiraiya, is Kakashi Hatake.

But there is absolutely no need to do that kind of thing.

One has already initially learned the senjutsu of Mt. Myoboku and has basically inherited the mantle of Lord Jiraiya. The other has inherited the sealing techniques and wind release ninjutsu of the Uzumaki clan, and has even become a perfect Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki.

Without using all their strength, Naruto and Sasuke were evenly matched.

Kakashi even felt that the strength of the two of them had exceeded that of himself as a Jonin.

I can’t think of any other students who would be suitable to form a team with them.

Letting them start as genin is a complete waste of time.

“…Forget it, let’s go and ask.”

After thinking for a moment, Kakashi stuffed the “Intimacy Strategy” into his ninja bag and walked towards the Hokage Building.

If possible, he didn’t want to be the leading jounin.

Especially he didn’t want to be the leader of those two perverted jonins.

After a while, Kakashi quickly arrived at the Hokage Building.

However, when he saw the “second-hand smoke” coming out of the crack in the office door, his eyes twitched and he immediately stopped.

“…It seems that someone is more worried than me.”

The smoke was squeezed out of the office, and one could imagine what the scene was like inside.

at this time.

Click!

Iruka, whose face turned red, opened the door and walked out of the office.

The moment he came out, he closed the door and started breathing heavily, looking like he was surviving the disaster.

“Teacher Iruka, what are you…”

Seeing Kakashi in front of him, Iruka gave a wry smile.

“Good afternoon, Kakashi Jounin.”

The two looked at each other, and Kakashi immediately understood the third Hokage’s bad mood. He nodded and walked to the corridor with Iruka.

After being far away from the Hokage’s office, Iruka breathed a sigh of relief and said with relief: “The atmosphere just now was so scary, I almost couldn’t breathe.”

Kakashi asked softly: “What’s wrong, Hokage-sama?”

After hesitating for a moment, Iruka sighed with a wry smile: “Asuma Jōnin had another quarrel with Hokage-sama. Their tempers, well, you know…”

Hearing this, Kakashi showed a look of surprise.

“Asuma still hasn’t found his jade?”

Asuma is the second son of the Third Hokage, but his ideas are incompatible with those of his father, and he can be called a deviant.

He was questioning whether the Shadow should exist, and even whether the Will of Fire was correct.

However, after all, it was a conflict between father and son’s family affairs and ideas, and it was impossible for their subordinates to say anything about it.

“This time seems different from before.”

However, Iruka shook his head and said with confusion in his tone; “When the two of them quarreled before, the Asuma jounin was silenced by the Hokage, and then became so angry that he pushed the door open. ”

“Although I still don’t understand what Asuma Jounin means, he can actually argue with Hokage-sama for a few times.”

“I feel like Asuma Jounin has found his ‘Jade’.”

At that time, he was discussing Naruto’s graduation exam with the Third Generation.

As a result, Asuma Jounin didn’t even knock on the door, but just barged into the Hokage’s office yelling.

He was still shouting about “military restructuring”, “Hokage and daimyo should not be separated”, and “civilians and ninjas should be integrated into one body”…

Anyway, Asuma Jounin talked a lot, but as a “teacher”, he didn’t understand anything.

But looking at Hokage-sama’s angry face and flushed face, I’m afraid it’s some treasonous and deviant remarks.

He stood there uneasily for half an hour, but the Hokage only focused on teaching Asuma a lesson.

Until the quarrel between the two completely turned into a cold war, one was smoking a pipe and the other was smoking a cigarette.

The whole Hokage office was filled with mist. He finally couldn’t help coughing before he remembered to let him out of the office.

“Alas, there are so many strange and bold ideas. I don’t know where Asuma learned them from.”

Iruka sighed and said, “I always feel that the burden on the Hokage is getting heavier and heavier. If the candidate for the fifth Hokage can be decided as soon as possible, the current situation may be much better.”

He smoked constantly when he was physically and mentally exhausted every day, for fear of becoming the first “shadow” to die from smoking or overwork.

“That depends on whether Tsunade-sama is willing.”

Kakashi shrugged his shoulders and replied, “We are just subordinates. We just need to do our own job well and try not to worry about the Hokage-sama.”

The issue of the fifth Hokage’s position is indeed a big deal in Konoha.

Although Kakashi is not keen on power and status, for a jonin of their level, it is inevitable that they will still hear some sensitive topics.

And the thoughts of the senior management on this matter are not difficult to guess.

Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, is already an enemy of Konoha.

Jiraiya is eccentric and doesn’t care about politics, so he is not suitable for the position of Hokage.

Kakashi doesn’t dare to imagine what Jiraiya will do to Konoha after he becomes Hokage.

Perhaps, he will change all the bathhouses into open-air bathhouses?

This absurd thing is entirely possible.

Therefore, the only person who has the ability and reputation to serve as the fifth Hokage is Tsunade, the last of the three ninjas.

As for the rest, they are either too old, too young, or lack the qualifications to be the Hokage.

“But…”

Kakashi thought secretly in his heart: “If the Konoha high-level knew my current strength, they should also put me in the candidates for the fifth Hokage.”

Unfortunately, he did not have the dream of becoming a Hokage.

If he had to say, he now wanted to find the masked man who called himself “Uchiha Madara”.

If he used “Purple Lightning” to break the guy’s mask, he would see what face was under the mask.

“Oh, Kakashi, I almost forgot.”

Iruka turned around and said, “Hokage-sama told me that you should be the leader of Naruto and Sasuke.”

“Ah, is that so? I don’t know what Hokage-sama thinks…”

Kakashi scratched his head and said in distress, “It seems that I have to be a nanny for three little kids again.”

The orphan of the Uchiha clan, plus the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and a nympho from a commoner…

Thinking of this, Iruka looked at Kakashi with pity.

“It’s really a headache. Do you want to talk to Hokage-sama?”

These two are hot potato-level existences, and other jonin will avoid them as much as possible.

Adding Haruno Sakura, a nympho, between these two monsters, this combination makes people’s scalp numb just thinking about it.

“I’m not stupid enough to run into trouble with Lord Hokage at this time.”

Kakashi looked hopeless and said to himself, “Forget it, there’s only one person who needs guidance anyway, I’ll just take it as a paid vacation.”

Of course he understood why Lord Hokage chose him.

In the entire Konoha, the only one who has the time and strength to take on this task is probably Kakashi.

“Haha, thank you for letting me get rid of it.”

Iruka smiled and patted Kakashi’s shoulder: “For someone like me with mediocre talent, those two little monsters are too torturous. It might be better for a genius like you.”

Hearing this, Kakashi’s mouth twitched, and finally swallowed his complaints.

In fact, it would be the same for anyone.

The difference is that he has already played badly.

Isn’t it just being beaten to death on the beach by the waves behind?

It’s also a blessing to be beaten to death with Lord Jiraiya.

………………

At the same time, in the misty Hokage’s office.

Looking at Asuma’s stubborn attitude, Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep breath: “… Can’t you listen to me for once?”

Sarutobi Asuma lowered his eyelids, did not raise his head, and said in a low voice: “I have said everything I want to say. Can I leave now, Hokage-sama?”

Sarutobi Asuma likes Nara Shikaku, and is also a person with a rough appearance and a delicate heart.

Since he was very young, since he came into contact with shogi, there has been a problem that bothers him.

There are eight kinds of chess pieces in shogi.

They are Jade General, Flying Chariot, Corner Line, Fragrant Chariot, Katsura Horse, Silver General, Gold General, and Infantry.

The 3 rows close to you are the “main camp”, and the 3 rows far away from you and close to your opponent are the “enemy camp”

And Jade General is the core of it. Once the “Jade” is killed or trapped by the opponent, then this side represents failure.

Assuming that the Land of Fire is a “main camp”, then is “Jade” the Hokage or the Daimyo?

How can there be two “Jade”s on a chessboard and a “main camp” at the same time?

Hokage and Daimyo, which one is redundant?

As time went by, this idea did not disappear in Asuma’s heart, but grew stronger.

This also made Asuma look tit-for-tat every time he met his father.

Finally, after a quarrel that tore his face apart, he gave up his status as the second son of the Hokage and chose to leave the village to join the daimyo’s mansion and became the daimyo’s twelve guardian ninjas, just to see who is the “Dama”.

But in the eyes of the third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, as the second son of the Hokage, he questioned whether the Hokage should exist. This idea was contrary to the will of Konoha and was completely a betrayer of the will of fire.

“Asuma, although I don’t know where you learned these crooked ideas, your current ideas are really dangerous for Konoha.”

“I don’t want you to continue to be decadent, nor do I want to see my son betray Konoha where he is.”

After a pause, Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed and softened his tone: “Asuma, can you go home for dinner tonight?”

“…You are still giving me orders as the Hokage.”

After a long silence, Asuma frowned: “After returning to Konoha, I thought I would see an ambitious ninja hero, but what I saw was just an old man who was dying.”

The father who once had ambition and ambition in his memory has now become a stubborn and dying old man.

“Maybe what Kazuma said is not completely unreasonable.”

The radical faction headed by Kazuma among the Twelve Guardian Ninjas believes that the Land of Fire cannot be handed over to the cowardly Konoha.

He wanted to turn Konoha’s military power into a military organization centered on the daimyo, and even launched wars against other countries, unified the ninja world, and attempted to directly launch a coup and kill the third generation Hokage.

Therefore, the twelve guardian ninjas, including Asuma, began to kill each other because of their differences in ideas.

Now only Asuma and Jilu are left among the twelve guardian ninjas. In the end, he chose to return to Konoha in despair.

“If you still can’t understand me, just treat what I just said as bullshit.”

Asuma turned around and said expressionlessly: “If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first.”

After saying that, without waiting for Sarutobi Hiruzen to say anything else, Asuma left the office directly.

Watching Asuma’s back disappear in front of him, Sarutobi Hiruzen lit a match with a sad face.

The trembling hands tried three or four times before finally lighting the pipe in his mouth.

“Hu! Cough cough! Cough cough cough!!”

He took a big puff in a hurry.

But he almost coughed out his lungs, and even a few tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt as if something was blocking his throat. After putting down his pipe, he coughed violently for a long time before gradually recovering.

He stood up with his hands behind his back, looking out the window with a faint look.

Looking at the peaceful and comfortable Konoha, he felt powerless.

It has been a long time since I felt so uncomfortable.

Since Naruto became the perfect Jinchūriki, Sarutobi Hiruzen felt so uncomfortable for the first time.

As a Hokage, he is already somewhat unqualified.

But as a father, he is also unqualified.

Sarutobi Hiruzen really couldn’t understand why the second son who grew up in Konoha would question whether the Hokage and the Will of Fire should exist.

As a ninja of Konoha, should he protect the “Jade” of Konoha?

“I just went out for a mission, why… Alas…”

For a long time, Sarutobi Hiruzen had thousands of words in his heart, and finally turned into a sigh.