Naruto: On the Night of the Nine-Tails, I Resurrected the Previous Hokage

Several days have passed since the annihilation of Root. Although it was done in secret, everyone in Konoha with a bit of influence knows what happened behind the fire that day.

Furthermore, Minato thoroughly investigated the corrupt elements within some family factions, which truly frightened these factions.

Minato also took the opportunity to visit the heads of most of the clans, expressing his attitude and hoping that they could join him in defeating the Hidden Cloud Village.

On that day, they were given plenty of empty promises, such as how many benefits they would receive after defeating the Hidden Cloud Village.

However, given the current situation in Konoha, they have no choice but to accept this offer.

As a rising star from humble origins, Minato already had the support of many ordinary ninjas behind him, and his reputation was also quite good, which allowed him to barely manage to tie these clans to his side.

Now, the task is to defeat Kumogakure, and not only defeat them, but also obtain enough benefits to fulfill Minato's promise.

Conflicts along the border of the Land of Fire have become increasingly frequent recently, and even Jinchuriki have appeared on the battlefield.

Fortunately, Jiraiya traveled around the Land of Hot Springs, which provided the eastern front with equivalent high-end combat power.

Wars between ninjas, unless they are on the scale of a major ninja war, are generally small-scale skirmishes where victory is determined by capturing enemy strongholds to gain intelligence advantage.

The fact that they've already sent out Jinchuriki during this intelligence-gathering phase clearly demonstrates Kumogakure's determination to start a major war.

Of course, it's also possible that they're bluffing to force Konoha to make concessions.

Because once a major war breaks out, there will definitely be more than two sides involved, which is something that Cloud Village would not want to see.

Orochimaru has been staying in Konoha recently, doing some training whenever he has free time, and checking on Tobirama's progress in developing sealing techniques in the laboratory.

Orochimaru was definitely going to get involved in the major event of the Cloud Village's attack on Konoha. Even if it weren't for the unknown reward from the system, he didn't want Minato to fall.

Orochimaru's house.

Fugaku was sitting upright on the tatami mat in the living room, with several scrolls placed in front of him.

These are all sealing scrolls, and what's sealed inside are naturally the outer shells of the scientific ninja tools that Orochimaru asked Fugaku to help him make a few days ago.

A total of six hundred, enough to arm a combat squadron.

Don't underestimate a squadron. If a well-trained squadron is proficient in all five elemental transformations and can coordinate perfectly to unleash ninjutsu, it is enough to sweep aside an army led by a Kage-level ninja.

In the original work, the Allied Shinobi Forces were able to deflect the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball by simultaneously releasing Earth Release: Earth Wall, which is enough to demonstrate the strength of this elite ninjutsu unit.

"Lord Orochimaru, everything you requested is here."

Orochimaru casually put away the scroll and then took a sip of tea.

"Fugaku, is there anything else?"

Fugaku hesitated for a moment upon hearing this, but still managed to say, "Um... Lord Orochimaru, you forgot to pay."

Orochimaru then realized that Fugaku's earlier statement about commissioning him was actually a ploy to collect money from him.

However, everyone was quite happy at the time, and Orochimaru didn't think about the money.

Moreover, these custom-made ninja tools are usually very expensive, and Orochimaru wanted a metal with excellent chakra conductivity.

In the original work, Asuma's chakra blade, which resembled a brass knuckle, was acquired by Hiruzen Sarutobi at a great cost, and Asuma always cherished his weapon.

Although the shells Orochimaru wanted weren't made of the finest metal, there were still six hundred of them, which were worth a lot of money.

Orochimaru wasn't wealthy; otherwise, Danzo wouldn't have exploited him so much in the original story, even after his defection, to the point that Danzo still had to develop an arm for him using Hashirama cells.

Fortunately, he would buy on credit.

Looking at the lives of those business tycoons, they all obtained a large amount of start-up capital by getting something for nothing in the early stages.

"Fugaku, I have a chance to rise to the top in one step. I wonder if you'd be interested?"

Seeing that Orochimaru remained silent about money and then revealed such an obviously malicious expression, Fugaku felt extremely frustrated.

Do you really think I can become Hokage overnight? Do I look like a sucker?

However, Orochimaru was a favorite of the Fourth Hokage and possessed one of the strongest abilities in Konoha, so Fugaku dared not offend him.

"Lord Orochimaru, please speak your mind."

Orochimaru also understood that if you want to attract angel investors, you first need to have a good-looking PowerPoint presentation.

The world doesn't have PowerPoint presentations yet, but it's still necessary to show investors your product.

Thinking of this, Orochimaru stood up and gestured for Fugaku to follow him.

Although Fugaku was puzzled, he followed along so as not to be taken advantage of.

Orochimaru led Fugaku directly to a training ground, and without exchanging any pleasantries with him, took out a case and put it on his wrist, then took out a small scroll that Tobirama had developed over the past few days.

Then, he used hand seals to break the seal on the small scroll in an open area of ​​the training ground.

Huhuhu~

Intense flames, like giant red serpents unleashed from their cages, spewed from Orochimaru's wrist.

As he watched Orochimaru's demonstration, Fugaku's pupils constricted sharply, revealing an expression of disbelief.

The hand seal that Orochimaru just used was only to release the seal on the scroll, not a Fire Release seal, but it was definitely a Fire Release that came out from the wrist guard.

Fugaku immediately asked to do it again and activated his Sharingan.

Orochimaru naturally satisfied the other party.

"That's incredible!"

In Fugaku's view, Orochimaru did not refine even a single bit of chakra; he simply guided the fire-style chakra in the scroll to spray out from his wrist guard.

This is a revolutionary product! All a Chunin with slightly better chakra control needs is enough scrolls, and he can become a ninjutsu turret!

Orochimaru was very pleased with Fugaku's current expression: "How is it, Captain Fugaku? Isn't it amazing? What do you think would happen if we sold this weapon to the Fourth Hokage?"

Upon hearing this, Fugaku quickly grasped the crux of the problem.

Many clans in Konoha have business dealings with Konoha. For example, the Nara clan sells herbs, and the Akimichi clan sells military rations.

In fact, the Uchiha clan also wanted to expand their kunai shuriken business to the Hokage's residence, but the F4 refused, citing concerns about village security.

Fugaku was certain that such a useful item would sell very well, so he agreed to Orochimaru's request without hesitation.

"Very well, Fugaku, then let's discuss the specifics of the contract."

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The Hokage's residence, the Hokage's office.

Minato Namikaze seemed to sense something, his expression suddenly changed, and he disappeared from the office.