Naruto: From the capture of the main family to the behind-the-scenes mastermind

Chapter 89: Shikaku: They are Genin, then what am I?
"Master Yu, I will be heading to the venue of the Chunin Exams then."

Seeing that everyone had left, Ye Cang bowed and left.

"Yu, is it necessary for her to participate in the Chunin Exam?"

Shikaku, who was not involved in the welcoming, came out from the dark and asked, "After all, there is no need to hold the Chunin Exam at this time, right?"

Hinata Yu specially arranged the Chunin Exam during this period. He understood the purpose, but there was no one suitable in Konoha.

The preliminaries had already ended under the auspices of Hinata Yu, leaving only the open competition with 24 people. Now he had to take over, which was so troublesome.

Hinata Yu smiled and said, "It's rare for the Fourth Kazekage to come here. Wouldn't it be great if he could see Konoha's strength?"

"What can you tell from a normal Genin contest? Even the next generation of geniuses in Konoha are basically Chunins."

Shikaku's mouth twitched, "And there are also people like the one just now, who looks to be in his twenties or thirties and still hasn't been promoted to Chunin. This doesn't seem to reflect our foundation, right?"

"That's not necessarily true." Hinata Yu chuckled, "Okay, don't worry. How was that matter handled? Are there any other people behind the Jonin?"

"No."

Shikaku sighed, knowing that Hyuga Hane was asking about the jonin who wanted Minato to become the daimyo, "But through them I did find some chuunin and genin who had the same idea, including spies from other countries."

Well, that was expected.

The Fire Country Daimyo is suspected to have a conflict with the Hokage, and other countries will naturally not miss this opportunity to fan the flames behind the scenes, trying to "help" the Hokage take the position of Daimyo.

"There are spies from the Hidden Rock Village and the Hidden Cloud Village. Even the Small Ninja Village has joined in the fun. The Yamanaka Clan has read their memories and confirmed their identities."

Hinata Yu said: "Give me a list of the other ninjas."

Shikaku thought he was worried and handed him the list directly. "These people are ninjas born and raised in Konoha. The neighbors around them are very familiar with them. It is unlikely that there will be any problems."

Hinata Yu nodded noncommittally, "Which Genin haven't been on a mission recently, and haven't participated in the Chunin Exams?"

Shikaku was obviously familiar with the information about these people, and he quickly pointed out some of them, "Most of them are Genin with insufficient potential and have not been promoted for many years, so they did not participate in the Chunin Exam."

After scanning the names, Hinata Yu raised his right hand slightly, and two ninjas instantly appeared behind him, waiting for orders.

Ninjas from the Kuki clan and the Tono clan? They are not the ninjas in the division plan... Did they join because of Hinata Yu's identity?

Shikaku saw the two of them and frowned secretly.

Hinata Yu gave the order: "Call all these people to the training ground in the northeast."

"Yes!"

The two ninjas left, and Hinata Yu turned to Shikaku and said, "I'll go there. I'll leave the Chunin Exam to you."

Lu Jiu withdrew his thoughts and showed a helpless expression.

What's so great about the exam? They even arranged for Senior Jiraiya to be the examiner for the last few rounds of the competition.

Could it be possible that a Genin could kill someone in front of a special Jonin examiner?

But when he arrived at the examination site and saw the competition scenes on the surveillance camera, he fell silent.

The battle ended in an instant with the skilled instantaneous body-flickering technique. The examiner, a special jonin, was unable to react immediately and took a moment to announce the victory...

This kind of scene happened more than once, and the strength of several people reached the level of Jonin.

Is this our Konoha's Genin?
They are Genin, then what am I?
It’s almost scary!

"Where did all these ninjas come from?"

Shikaku looked at an ANBU and asked in a dry voice.

"It seems like these are talents that Master Yu found through Root spies. I had no idea they were so strong." The ANBU said in a strange tone.

Root spies...are all of them this powerful?

According to his experience, the ninjas in front of him were all quite strong among the jonin, and some were even stronger than him. Is there something wrong with the Root to use so many jonin as spies?

How many jonin are there in Konoha?

Wouldn't it be better if you let them stay in Konoha?
That former Root leader really ruined a lot of Konoha's talents...

Shikaku looked at the ninja on the screen who won easily with a bored look on his face, and frowned when he thought of the Root which was now controlled by Orochimaru.

There are no Genin in the Root. All of them are elites above the Chunin level, from many ninja clans, or civilian ninjas.

However, most of the spies sent out had nothing to do with the Konoha Ninja Clan, and were basically professionals trained by Danzo himself.

Generally speaking, their strength shouldn't be very strong.

He had previously thought that these people were at most Chunin, and had not paid any attention to the true strength of these former spies. They were actually...

Shaking his head, Shikaku asked:
"Why didn't Orochimaru jonin take them away when they were under Yu Fusaku's command?"

"It's an order from Hokage-sama, involving the formation of an intelligence network."

That was all the Anbu said.

Shikaku nodded and stopped asking questions, but he started thinking about it in his heart.

The intelligence network does need to be reorganized.

Previously, the external intelligence network was established by the Root, but the list of Root's core spies was not in Konoha's hands, and there were major loopholes in the intelligence collection on other ninja villages.

It's not surprising that this matter was handed over to Hinata Yu.

After all, the Root ninjas under Orochimaru's control cannot be fully trusted, and the new spies certainly cannot be chosen from among them.

The strength of the roots is already strong enough, and it is not suitable to continue recruiting people to expand.

But in this case, isn't the power behind Hinata Yu expanding too quickly?

Although it was inevitable that there would be a lot of support for that position, Shikaku felt a bit of a headache when he thought that in just over a month, the power behind Hinata Yu had expanded rapidly.

The Hyuga... the ninja clan that gradually surrendered... part of the power left by the Root.

Compared to Hinata Yu's side, the power behind Uchiha Fugaku's side grew much slower.

But this matter has nothing to do with Hinata Yu himself. The main reason for the expansion of the other party's power is him and Danzo.

There is no need to say much about Danzo. After some operations, the other party gave Hinata Yu the position of Hokage's assistant, the power to hand over to the daimyo, and also indirectly gave some power of the Root to Hinata Yu.

And he...

In his opinion, Hinata Yu obviously chose to play it safe with him, so after the discussion that day, he sent people to push those ninjas as much as possible behind Hinata Yu.

Rather than letting these ninjas who have thought of overthrowing the daimyo join the Uchiha clan, it is obviously better to let them follow Hinata Yu.

As for Tsunade and himself… the former had no such intention at all, and it was not appropriate for Nara to continue to increase the support behind him.

But at this moment, it seems that Hinata Yu's power covers part of the power of the Hokage, and as the leader of the ninja clan, it has gradually overshadowed the two advisors, because the power of the intelligence network is the only one...

Isn't this the Danzo from before?

Except that the power behind him has not yet reached Danzo's peak, in other aspects, Hinata Yu has everything he needs.

All the powers that Danzo had spent most of his life to acquire were obtained by Hinata Yu in just over a month after he took the throne.

Shikaku found it a little funny, but he couldn't really laugh, so he kept the matter deep in his heart.

After that, remind the Hokage-sama.

(End of this chapter)