Konoha: Tsunade, I am the Hokage!

A few minutes later, at a corner with a road sign, Yahiko and Konan stopped, looked around, and then continued on their way.

Not long after crossing the bridge, the four people appeared in an instant.

"Hello, I am……"

"We know that you are Yahiko from the Hidden Rain Village, and this must be Konan, right? The Hokage has already explained the situation."

"I just didn't expect you guys to go to Tansho Street."

Gekkou Hidesaku looked at the two of them, his tone slightly odd.

Jingyan was worried that something might happen to Yayan and Konan, so he specifically asked him to take care of them secretly. As a result—

Well, I'm an adult after all.

He coughed lightly.

"You two, what did you learn from this investigation?"

"The Fire Nation is indeed prosperous!"

Yahiko coughed lightly, feeling a little embarrassed.

Gekkou Hidesaku said with a smile: "The ninja world has not been very peaceful recently, so I will lead you to Konoha."

"The ninja world is not peaceful?"

Yahiko was slightly startled.

He had been in the Fire Country for a few days, and basically no information from the Hidden Rain Village and the Bird Country had been sent to him, so he lacked understanding of the outside world.

He wanted to stop talking.

But then I thought about it.

If the other party doesn't want to disclose it, why bother bringing up the subject?
Yahiko immediately asked: "What happened?"

"The Iwagakure Village has sent a large number of ANBU and intelligence ninjas to the Rain Country and the Wind Country. Some of our Fire Country has also infiltrated."

"Iwagakure Village..."

Yahiko was shocked at first, then his face became serious, and he understood why Oonoki reacted so violently.

Once the Fire Kingdom, Wind Kingdom, and Rain Kingdom form an alliance, the Earth Kingdom will face tremendous pressure.

but.

There is no choice in the Rain Kingdom.

Under the current situation, if we don't cooperate with Konoha, we can only cooperate with the alliance formed by the Iwagakure Village, the Kumogakure Village, and the Mist Village.

No matter which one they choose, they are the core of the Three Kingdoms battlefield, and the Hidden Rain Village can only choose the lesser of two evils.

"Please take us to Konoha."

Yahiko suddenly lost interest in visiting.

……

In Konoha, outside Minato Namikaze's house, Rasa was looking forward to it.

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, the expected figure did not appear.

inside the house.

"Temari, are you really not going to go out and meet someone?"

"We just met, what's there to see?"

Temari was cold and heartless.

Kushina sighed helplessly.

She understood Temari's emotions very well, but regardless of the previous experience of Uzumaki Mito or the experience she had summed up...

The sealed tailed beasts are best at transmitting their negative emotions to the human sacrifices through chakra.

In order to fight against the emotional pollution of the tailed beasts, one must have an extremely strong heart.

Temari is in a very dangerous situation now!

but.

It was obvious that she hated Luo Sha.

Kushina thought about it, walked out the door, her eyes gradually became cold, and she said to Luo Sha unhappily: "You'd better leave, you are not welcome in my house!"

"Temari..."

"She doesn't want to see you. If you stay here, it will only make her feel more annoyed."

Kushina was very rude.

Luo Sha's eyes dimmed, but then he forced a smile and said, "I understand. Thank you for helping to convey it. Also, thank you very much for taking her in."

He said, bowing deeply.

As the Kazekage, Luo Sha cannot be said to be well versed in human nature, but he is definitely not completely ignorant of it.

He could see...

Kushina really likes Temari, otherwise she wouldn't be angry about this.

It was indeed Temari's own blessing that she could enter such a family boarding house in Konoha, but -

Konoha!
Luo Sha sighed and felt even more depressed.

On the way back to his residence, he looked at the bustling streets with caravans coming and going. It was more than ten times more prosperous than the Sand Village.
Are these children really willing to return to the village?
He was unsure.

but.

If we don't send a few people over to hold Temari back with the bonds of friendship, Temari will only drift further and further away from the Sand Village in hatred in the future.

He had no choice in this question!
……

Outside of Orochimaru's base, Kyouhiko formed seals with his hands and pressed them on the ground.

In an instant, trees grew out, combining and changing their states under the control of chakra.

soon.

Under the control of Chakra, a turtle-like puppet appeared before his eyes.

The next moment, under Jing Yan's control, pieces of steel quickly pierced into the puppet's body.

In just a few minutes, a puppet was made.

Orochimaru couldn't help but admire: "Although it's just a casual creation, your puppetry is already amazing!"

"I'm just trying it out. This puppet is very simple and can only perform basic manipulation, transformation, and hidden functions."

Jingyan said this, moving his fingers, and the puppet started to move with a click.

Its head suddenly stretched out and pounced on Orochimaru.

Orochimaru counterattacked with a slap.

can.

The "turtle"'s tail suddenly turned into "snakes" that flew out, opening its mouth and spewing chakra.

The feet suddenly grew, and the abdomen opened up...

This is to demonstrate the use of puppet.

but.

But Orochimaru knew that Kyouhiko meant more than just that.

His eyes lit up: "Earth escape puppet?"

"Earth escape is the foundation. Fire escape and wind escape can be added to earth escape to form a fusion of three attributes, but that is the ultimate state..."

Jingyan talked about his idea.

Earth escape defense and earth escape movement are its basic abilities, while wind escape and fire escape are its offensive abilities.

"Three attributes. Indeed, if this puppet armor is expanded a bit, it will be impossible for one person to control it."

Orochimaru nodded, "What about you now?"

"It's for the little girl from the Sand Village. Yamato smashed her puppet directly. We have to show our appreciation."

Kyohiko grinned.

Orochimaru said, "Is it necessary for those people from Sand Village to be so concerned?"

"If we want to unify the ninja world, this is a necessary step."

Jing Yan put away the puppet, "Unification is not just about unifying the territory, but also unifying their thoughts and consciousness."

"maybe."

Orochimaru remained noncommittal.

He didn't really care about Kyouhiko's great achievements. The so-called unification of the ninja world was just an unnecessary effort in Orochimaru's eyes.

Such unstable things, even if they are unified and integrated for a while, will separate sooner or later.

"gone."

……

"Give me?"

Rina looked at Maki in bewilderment.

Maki couldn't understand Jingyan's thoughts for a while.

Send a Sand Village ninja puppet?
Still a child...

"It's just a small apology. After all, it was our ninja who broke your puppet yesterday, and it is also a symbol of friendship between our two villages."

Jingyan laughed.

Rina didn't dare to answer.

At this moment, a voice came from behind.

"Take it."

"Kazekage-sama!"

Maki breathed a sigh of relief.

Rosa is back!
Finally, he doesn't have to decide.

Luo Sha nodded slightly, indicating that Rina should accept it, and then asked her to bow to Jingyan to express her gratitude.

Jingyan nodded slightly and left.

Maki scratched his head: "Is he really here to give a gift?" "What do you think?"

Luo Sha glanced.

Maki lowered his head: "I think he wants to get information..."

"We don't have any news that needs to be inquired, and you must understand that you will be living in Konoha for a long time in the future."

Luo Sha paused for a moment and said, "You will encounter many problems, Maki. You are their leader. You must have the ability to distinguish and make decisions."

"Yes!"

Maki bowed his head.

Luo Sha sighed softly, realizing that this was also embarrassing for Maki.

Even he couldn't handle such a thing, let alone Maki?

He looked at the puppet scroll.

"have a look."

Unblock!

Soon, a turtle-shaped puppet appeared before his eyes.

Maki looked confused.

Can……

Luo Sha's face turned serious.

As a ninja who masters magnetic escape, he can clearly feel the distribution of metal inside.

This puppet is very sophisticated!
Its construction and production are very sophisticated, almost catching up with the ones made by Scorpion. The reason why it is not as good as...

It’s not that the other party can’t do it, but that they don’t want to do it.

Konoha's puppet-making technology has actually reached such a terrifying level!

Rina moved her fingers, and the chakra threads attached to them, and soon the puppet began to move with a click.

however.

After a while, the parts came out one by one, and she used all her strength to collect all the parts back.

"Master Fengying, this puppet..."

"Keep it, but remember to study it carefully and learn its technology. If you can figure it out one day, the puppet-making technology of the Sand Village may be able to be improved."

Luo Sha said.

Rina was stunned for a few seconds, then looked at the puppet in front of her and realized that this thing might be very precious.

Konoha's puppet...

In the past, she always thought that the puppetry of the Sand Village was the strongest, and puppet geniuses like Scorpion of the Red Sand were born in the Sand Village.

Even until yesterday when she was defeated, she still believed so.

Konoha is not a puppet at all!
But today—

This puppet broke her fantasy.

It’s not that Konoha doesn’t know how to make puppets, they really don’t bother to make such puppets, otherwise their technology is no less than theirs.

She bit her lip. All her pride and confidence as a Sand Village ninja were destroyed at this moment. She felt as if her faith had collapsed.

It's not just her.

Maki was also somewhat disillusioned and found it difficult to calm down.

Konoha had never studied puppets before, but it only took such a short time to surpass the decades of research of the Sand Village.

This is just the puppetry aspect.

Poison, medicine, ninjutsu...

As long as Konoha wants to do it, it seems that there is nothing it can't do.

The strength of Konoha was far beyond his imagination, so he didn't even want to think of becoming an enemy of Konoha.

Being enemies with such people and such a village...

Is there really a future?

He suppressed his sadness, looked around, and wanted to say something, but he couldn't find any inspiring words in his heart.

Judging from the current situation, the gap between them and Konoha is indeed so great that it cannot be covered up in words.

Luo Sha saw everything.

He himself was also very desperate, and the repeated defeats in the past seemed to be right in front of him.

Available at the same time.

He had to cheer up.

Because he is the Kazekage!

"Children, you have to face up to the gap. Konoha is indeed strong, much stronger than us. That is why we need you to come here to study."

"The Sand Village awaits your return. Rebuild the village and make it great again!"

Luo Sha's voice was excited.

Maki and others were moved to tears after hearing this.

At this moment, they really have the idea of ​​returning to rebuild the Sand Village after completing their studies, and they even imagine the scene of themselves returning to the village in the future.

As Luosha continued to talk about their importance to the Sand Village, the children's faces turned red.

"To make Sunagakure great again!"

……

"It's done!"

"Succeed? Third-generation master, what a coincidence, I succeeded too!"

Jing Yan smiled and handed over the puppet's blueprints and some simple parts, "You are the only one missing."

"what?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned for a moment, then took it and looked at it.

Good guy!
Earth escape, wind escape, fire escape.

Three combinations.

He has just figured out one type and just finished researching it, but Jingyan has already raised the requirement to three types?

Sarutobi Hiruzen was silent: "Kyohiko, your design is good, but researching armor patterns is not such a simple matter..."

"Third generation, we really don't have any talent in this area. The next generation is still being trained. Please bear with me. As for the puppets, make a defensive earth escape first."

Get the wool first!
Jingyan took over Sarutobi Hiruzen's armor, and then skillfully inserted it into the reserved space -

Ordinary puppets are not the cell version of Hashirama, and do not require such sophisticated protection.

The installation is complete.

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded, then created a shadow clone and entered the inside of the "turtle".

soon.

A layer of yellowish earth covers the turtle's body.

Earth escape·hardening technique!
then.

With a shake of his feet, the soil underneath quickly turned into quicksand. The huge puppet disappeared in an instant and quickly emerged from beside Jingyan.

Although it was his first time using it, Sarutobi Hiruzen was able to control it with ease.

"There's a lot of chakra. Please release the area in the middle."

"what is this?"

A voice came from inside.

Seal, liberate!
The next second, a burst of chakra burst out from inside.

boom!
The soil surged and quickly rose up, turning into a high wall.

Sarutobi Hiruzen canceled the clone and said, "Is that the Yin Seal?"

“Similar, but for pure idiots.”

It is not difficult to improve and optimize it with Jingyan's master-level Yin Seal. A similar seal had been planted on Ye Cang before.

It can absorb part of the user's chakra, accumulate it over time, and then release it in one breath during battle.

There is no living organism to provide additional energy, and the seal is in place, so there is no need for it to expand or erode indiscriminately.

"it is good!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help but marvel at it, and at the same time he was very impressed.

As expected, it’s Jingyan!
"Is this considered a success?"

"Well, the basic part is successful, and the rest is to add more functions. This thing is much simpler than Yamato's."

Jingyan nodded.

Sarutobi Hiruzen touched the puppet, then said with a smile: "Just give it to me!"

Jingyan glanced at the system panel.

[The research team you formed successfully conquered the Earth Escape Amplification Armor and completed the construction of the Earth Escape Puppet Armor.]

[Reward: Earth Escape: Heavy Rock Technique (Grandmaster)]

The technique of increasing the weight of rock?
This thing...

nice one!
If he could master it, it would be a huge improvement for him as well as Jiraiya and Kakashi.

The point is-

Knowing what it is, you can research more derivative techniques based on this ninjutsu.

Jingyan's eyes lit up and he looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with eagerness.

Just one type of puppet armor has such a reward. If all types are manufactured, or even the ultimate five escape structures are completed...

Is that okay?

"Third generation, you have to work harder!" (End of this chapter)