Naruto: Starting with Creating a Genius Persona

Chapter 158 Thinking of this, Shinichi couldn't help but get excited.

The next morning.

The snowstorm stopped, but the sky remained overcast.

An urgent letter bearing the Hokage's seal was delivered by a special envoy to the Southwest Front Command, and copies were quickly sent to the heads of major units and logistics and medical personnel.

The first half of the document highly praised the heroic performance, unwavering will, and enormous sacrifices of all the ninjas on the southwestern front in the Battle of Kikyō Mountain, fully affirmed the merits of the frontline soldiers in defending their homeland with their blood and lives, and expressed deep condolences to the fallen.

After the commendation, the document turned to the practical part, clearly stating that, given the ongoing nature and attrition of the current battle, in order to maintain the fighting capacity and morale of the soldiers, Konoha Village will dispatch a new batch of rested and replenished combat and logistical personnel to the southwestern front in three days to carry out rotation missions.

Each department must complete the statistical work within two days.

Which wounded soldiers need to be sent back to the village for further treatment in three days, which ninjas need to be rotated and rested due to prolonged combat, and which personnel can continue to stay behind?

After the list is compiled, it will be submitted to Tsunade and Jiraiya for final approval. All handover matters will be completed on the day the replacement troops arrive.

After the order was given, the entire camp sprang into action once again.

Each squad leader began to take stock of the casualties under their command, the medical department worked overnight to compile a list of wounded who needed to be evacuated, and the logistics department checked the consumption of supplies in preparation for the handover with the troop rotation unit.

Inside the command post.

"Tsunade," Jiraiya hesitated for a moment before looking at Tsunade and tentatively asking, "Regarding the personnel arrangements for this rotation... especially in terms of medical support, do you have any specific ideas? Particularly concerning Shinichi, what are your thoughts?"

"Let him go back."

Tsunade pondered for a moment before speaking, "This kid has been incredibly busy lately and has caused quite a stir. He should go back and rest for a while. Anyway, Sunagakure won't be able to mount a decent offensive for a long time, so we won't need him."

"I'm here, that's enough."

Upon hearing this, Jiraiya nodded and said, "Alright, it's settled then."

three days later.

At the camp entrance, a group of wounded soldiers and replacement personnel who were about to return to Konoha were assembling, and all tasks had been handed over.

Tsunade crossed her arms and watched the group gradually disappear into the distance. Suddenly, she said, "That kid should be promoted to Jonin by the time he gets back."

"That should be true."

Jiraiya stood beside her and nodded upon hearing this: "Shinichi's actions and achievements these days, any one of which alone would be enough to qualify him for the Jonin position, let alone the fact that he has done them all."

"Although he is very young, even naive, given his contributions, no one can object to promoting him to Jonin."

"This kid will only turn eleven next month, a ten-year-old Jonin!" Tsunade sighed, her tone complex. "Konoha has never had such a young Jonin in its history. This kid has broken another record."

"Who was the youngest person to hold the record before?"

Tsunade muttered to herself, "I remember it was Sakumo Hatake, right? He was only fourteen years old then, which was already incredible. But this kid broke the record four years ahead of schedule. With such a great reputation and so much attention, I wonder if it's a good thing or a bad thing?"

Upon hearing this, Jiraiya fell silent, knowing what Tsunade was worried about.

They worried that if Zhen's reputation became too great and his fame too high, he would become the enemy's primary target.

But Jiraiya knew in his heart that even without the title of ten-year-old Jonin, Shinichi's actions during this period had already made him quite well-known in the ninja world.

His intelligence has likely already been put into the intelligence networks of major ninja villages, and he's probably one of the most closely watched.

The fact that Sunagakure's Pakura personally led a team to hunt him down is the clearest signal that whether or not he has the title of the youngest Jonin, his enemies' desire to kill him will not change.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to just give him the title that should have been given to him long ago.

He was molded into a symbol of Konoha's new generation, a young hero who achieved unparalleled feats on the battlefield, broke records, and rose to the rank of Jonin, to inspire the soldiers on the front lines and reassure the people in the rear.

Although he was not clear about Sarutobi-sensei's specific arrangements, based on Jiraiya's understanding of Sarutobi-sensei, he was very likely to do so.

Thinking of this, Jiraiya said, "As teachers, all we can do is provide support when students need it, and believe in them. Young people still have to walk their own path in the future."

"Let's go."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade remained silent for a moment, then lowered her arms, turned around, and strode towards the camp: "There's still a lot of mess to clean up, I don't have time to keep lamenting here."

"Hey, you're right!" Jiraiya laughed and quickly followed.

Now that I'm back in the village, I should be able to become a Jonin, right?

As Shinichi led a force of nearly three thousand men back to Konoha, he thought to himself.

More than twenty days ago, when he followed the first batch of large-scale medical logistics support troops to the southwestern front, he was just a highly regarded genius newcomer in the team, a medical backbone who needed to be protected, and his identity was a special jonin.

Twenty days later, when he embarked on his journey home, his status had changed.

He was no longer just a support staff member, but the person in charge and supreme commander of this nearly 3,000-person, diverse group of people returning to the village.

Although his official rank is still Special Jonin, no one in the team, from senior Jonin to ordinary Chunin, has raised any objection to this; in fact, they all think it is perfectly natural.

All coordination, scheduling, alert arrangements, and emergency response naturally revolve around him.

Why?

Because in those short twenty-odd days, he did so much, and it was all so heavy.

From issuing a warning of enemy attack the day before arrival, thwarting the plot of Sunagakure's Ebizo to assassinate Konoha's medical and logistics forces, to being appointed to temporarily take charge of medical and logistics in a time of crisis, optimizing the entire logistics system to improve efficiency, and then testing poisons on himself and repeatedly deciphering Chiyo's poison techniques to save countless comrades.

Then, at the most critical moment, he took the initiative to lure away Sunagakure's ace, Yekura, and hundreds of elite troops, relieving enormous pressure on the defense line. In the end, he even staged a stunning feat of striking straight at the enemy's heartland, destroying the enemy's command center, and seizing the banner.

Each and every one of these achievements is a real and remarkable feat worthy of being recorded in battle reports and merit books.

Its significance and far-reaching influence have long surpassed the scope of conventional battle achievements that a special Jonin or even a regular Jonin can accomplish.

If we were to rank the individual contributions on the southwestern front, Shinichi could easily be considered to be in the top three.

First, there's Jiraiya. As the supreme commander, he bears the greatest responsibility and rightfully deserves the greatest credit.

Secondly, strictly speaking, it should be him, Shinichi Higashino.

But the reality is that Tsunade can only be ranked second.

Although Tsunade spent most of her time chasing after Yekura, it was he who truly stayed behind to handle medical and logistical matters.

But Tsunade is his teacher, and theoretically, all his achievements can be attributed to Tsunade.

Therefore, Shinichi can only be third.

"Speaking of which, isn't Kumogakure about to make its move soon?"

Shinichi raised his head and looked northeast. The first Battle of Kikyo Mountain had ended, the Sunagakure offensive had been thwarted, and they were unable to launch another decent offensive in the short term.

In the coming period, the southwestern front will enter a relatively calm stalemate. Sporadic small-scale clashes will continue, but a real major battle is unlikely.

And in the Northeast...

almost.

It will be soon.

Shinichi withdrew his gaze, silently calculating his next plan.

Upon returning to the village, my promotion to Jonin is a certainty.

But what happens after the promotion?

He didn't plan to stay in the village for long.

The first thing I did after being promoted was to apply to go to the front lines of the Hidden Clouds.

In the original timeline, why was Minato Namikaze able to become the Fourth Hokage amidst widespread expectations?

The most important factor was his outstanding military achievements.

During the Third Shinobi World War, he made outstanding contributions by using the Flying Thunder God Technique to turn the tide of battle on various battlefields!

He was present on almost every major front against Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure!

After the battle, the name "Yellow Flash" resounded throughout the five great nations, and everyone in the ninja world knew of him.

His military achievements and prestige made him the obvious choice to become Hokage after the war.

Shinichi was well aware of this.

so...

He must do more.

He intends to fight this war from beginning to end.

He has already left his mark on the southwestern front. If he has the opportunity in the future, he will return to this place, preferably to personally lead the war against Sunagakure and bring this front to a perfect close.

He was going to the Northeast front.

He also went to the Northwest Front.

He still went to the southeastern coast.

Four major battlefields.

He had to travel to every battlefield.

On every battlefield, he would achieve extraordinary feats.

Only in this way can we accumulate enough prestige after the war to rival or even surpass Minato.

Only in this way can one have real confidence in the competition for the Hokage position.

Thinking of this, Shinichi felt inexplicably excited.

The last person he set such a target for was Kakashi.

That peer who was hailed as a super genius and given the potential to become Hokage.

Shinichi defeated him, surpassed him, established his reputation as a genius, and went on to leave Kakashi, another genius, far behind.

This time, his target is Minato Namikaze.

That man, known as the "Yellow Flash," will become famous throughout the ninja world in the future.

That Jonin who was ten years older than him had already become the most dazzling star in Konoha.

The person who would have become the Fourth Hokage in the original timeline.

The ninja whom Jiraiya described as someone who "compared to him, everyone else seemed inferior."

The excitement came so suddenly and so intensely that his body trembled slightly.

Shinichi took a deep breath, his expression returning to calm. He began rapidly searching his mind for all information about Kumogakure: their fighting style, preferred ninjutsu, possible tactics, information on their strongest members, even their geographical environment and potential weaknesses...

At the same time, he began to think about how to most effectively persuade the Third Hokage and the advisory group after returning to Konoha to agree to send him, the youngest Jonin who had just returned from a period of rest and deserved to be rewarded and rested, to another potentially more dangerous front line.

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