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Chapter 288 Fifth Hokage, your Hokage assistant is about to cause big trouble!

The Naruto Building.

Gamabunta lay down next to the Hokage Building.

Fukasaku pulled his robes tighter and sat sadly in the Hokage's office, whispering something to Tsunade that pained him.

"first…"

"Jiraiya-kun died in battle."

"..."

Tsunade's mind went completely blank.

As the Hokage of Konoha, Tsunade's emotions had just begun to turn somber, and she was even replaying the scenes of her conversation with Jiraiya in her mind when she had to suppress her grief and maintain a calm demeanor.

"Lady Tsunade!"

Shizune noticed that Tsunade's body was trembling slightly!

"It's okay."

Tsunade shook her head, slowly lowering her head in an attempt to suppress her emotions, and continued to speak to herself, "Sage Fukasaku, please tell me what happened..."

"Feel sorry…"

Fukasaku closed his eyes and calmly continued, "Perhaps what I'm about to say will have a huge impact on you..."

No, it won't.

Tsunade shook her head firmly, but her voice still trembled as she continued, "In this world, there is probably nothing that shocks me more than Jiraiya's death in battle..."

"Compared to what I'm about to say..."

Fukasaku sighed and was about to continue talking about an even more troublesome problem.

"Lady Tsunade!"

An ANBU member suddenly interrupted their conversation, shouting, "Lord Jiraiya is back, along with Hanzo of the Salamander, the leader of Amegakure..."

"..."

When Tsunade heard the first half of the sentence, she hurriedly stood up. Anyone could see just how excited the Fifth Hokage was!

"Jiraiya is still alive!"

Fukasaku, oblivious to the fact that he had delivered the wrong information, merely wore a look of delight: "I thought he had died at the hands of Akihara Kagura!"

"Wait...who?"

Tsunade abruptly stopped in her tracks, as if she had just hallucinated, a wave of dizziness washing over her: "You just said that the person who wanted to kill Jiraiya... who was it again?"

"Akihara Kagura".

Fukasaku was forced to reveal this harsh truth, even adding, "He was Jiraiya's disciple, and the assistant to the Hokage of Konoha..."

"..."

It was as if there was a taut string in Tsunade's brain, and the moment she clearly heard that name, that string suddenly snapped!

"Fukasaku Sennin!"

"That joke isn't funny!"

Tsunade angrily smashed the office door with her fist. She had to see Jiraiya first, make sure he was safe, and then get the truth out of him!

One minute later.

Tsunade met Jiraiya.

Tsunade also saw Konan and Nagato who had come along.

as well as…

A man wearing a gas mask.

"Hanzo the Salamander!"

Tsunade's nerves immediately tensed up.

Even though her current strength is vastly different from when she was young, she has never forgotten how terrifying the leader of Amegakure was back then!

"Don't be nervous, little girl."

Hanzo of the Salamander was very magnanimous and kind. He still treated Tsunade like a junior, but he also showed respect for the Hokage: "Now that you're the Hokage..."

Many years have passed.

Their identities have also changed.

The female ninja who survived by revealing her name on the battlefield has become the Fifth Hokage of Konoha, while the once proud demigod ninja has long since aged...

"I must thank Lord Hanzo this time..."

Jiraiya lay weakly on his sickbed, saying, "If it weren't for Lord Hanzo, I would probably be dead at Kagura's hands..."

"Is it really... Akihara Kagura?"

The Fifth Hokage had to accept a cruel fact: Jiraiya was indeed injured by Akihara Kagura, and almost died in the Land of Rain.

"We've all been fooled by these young people..."

Jiraiya placed his hand on his forehead, his face no longer showing its former cheerfulness, but instead bearing a self-deprecating bitter smile: "About ten years ago, when Obito Uchiha first revealed his identity and appeared in Konoha, Akihara Kagura colluded with Obito Uchiha..."

"etc…"

Tsunade interrupted Jiraiya, raising a question: "Although we weren't in Konoha at that time, I checked the village's records about Obito Uchiha..."

Tsunade's expression turned somewhat strange: "If I remember correctly, the first person to discover Obito Uchiha's identity and report it to the village was Akihara Kagura..."

"yes…"

Jiraiya looked at Tsunade, a helpless expression on his face: "So, no one in the village will suspect that Obito Uchiha and Kagura Akihara are colluding, right?"

This is so obvious.

Obito Uchiha had always been active as the mysterious masked man and Madara Uchiha, and even gained the respect of Konan and Nagato through this identity.

result…

Obito Uchiha's identity was suddenly revealed.

This incident caused Obito Uchiha a lot of trouble, and almost caused the cooperation between Obito Uchiha and the Akatsuki organization to fall apart.

Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha had vastly different identities.

Obito Uchiha managed to weather this crisis thanks to his Mangekyou Sharingan, and the price of exposing his reputation was considerable.

but…

The profits are also quite considerable.

Because it was Akihara Kagura who exposed Obito Uchiha's identity, Konoha never suspected that Akihara Kagura had any collusion with the Akatsuki organization.

"When I took Akihara Kagura on our travels through the ninja world and we met Nagato and Konan again, Kagura had completely allied herself with the Akatsuki..."

Jiraiya's expression gradually turned serious, because what he was about to say was quite troublesome: "Over the years, Akihara Kagura has maintained contact with the Akatsuki organization, and has even been using his identity to secretly interfere with Konoha's investigation into Uchiha Obito and the Akatsuki organization..."

"..."

Tsunade gasped.

This news was quite surprising to her.

Jiraiya glanced at Konan and Nagato in the hospital room and added, "The reason Kagura colluded with the Akatsuki was that he wanted their support to become Hokage, and in return, he would help them capture the Tailed Beasts and cover their tracks..."

"This solution..."

Jiraiya hesitated for a moment, then looked in the direction of Hanzo the Salamander: "He probably learned it from the previous Root leader, Shimura Danzo..."

"Danzo and Lord Hanzo had been in contact before. Danzo's goal was to get Lord Hanzo's support to become Hokage, but Lord Hanzo did not agree..."

"certainly…"

"There's not much the Akatsuki can do for Akihara Kagura."

"..."

Tsunade's eye twitched.

Why are both generations of Root leaders in Konoha so troublesome?!

The previous root leader was always annoying, but this root leader is surprisingly not so annoying, yet he does things even more extreme than the previous one!

"I have a question..."

Tsunade hesitated for a moment, looked at Jiraiya, and asked a question: "Didn't Kagura become Hokage, and didn't the Akatsuki organization fall apart?"

"Because becoming Hokage wasn't his goal in itself."

Jiraiya shook his head and continued in a deep voice, "The fact that he secretly had the Akatsuki support him in becoming Hokage was merely a pretext for Kagura's collusion with the Akatsuki. His real purpose was Nagato's Rinnegan..."

"..."

Tsunade didn't know how to start the conversation.

Although Akihara Kagura's actions were somewhat excessively dark, and she even colluded with members of the Akatsuki organization, it wasn't entirely unacceptable for her to obtain the Rinnegan...

The roots...

He's always been doing dirty work...

Furthermore, Akihara Kagura had been pushing for an investigation into the Akatsuki and Uchiha Obito in Konoha, and even repeatedly suggested at the Five Kage Summit that the four previous Hokage kill Uchiha Obito.

Tsunade frowned and raised another question: "All along, Kagura's attitude towards me has been one of strongly advocating for hunting down the Akatsuki and Obito Uchiha at all costs..."

"But none of these have ever succeeded, have they?"

Jiraiya then looked at Nagato and Konan and answered the question: "Because Nagato and Obito Uchiha kept asking Kagura to cancel Konoha's operations, the previous Hokage's pursuit of Obito Uchiha was always intermittent..."

"and…"

"No matter what he does, no one will suspect that he is colluding with the Akatsuki or having private contact with Obito Uchiha."

"And the purpose of all this..."

"It's all for obtaining Nagato's Rinnegan."

"And the weapons of war that the Rinnegan can control."

"This time, my trip to the Land of Rain to investigate the Akatsuki's base was entirely within Akihara Kagura's plan..."

Jiraiya looked at Tsunade and said in a deep voice, "Kagura is using the potential conflict between me and Nagato to gather information about Nagato. He thinks I can't gather enough information on my own, and he's even using Orochimaru..."

Orochimaru!

Tsunade heard a name that should have died long ago!

"Yes."

"Akihara Kagura has always been in cahoots with Orochimaru. In fact, he was Orochimaru's spy planted in Konoha. Perhaps he was able to return to Konoha through Orochimaru."

Jiraiya recounted these past events, continuing in a deep voice, "Sasuke Uchiha didn't kill Orochimaru; perhaps it was just a ploy for Orochimaru to escape Konoha's hostility through death..."

"Orochimaru and Akihara Kagura have maintained contact. Orochimaru detonated a trap set by Konan to cover Nagato and Konan's escape, and his whereabouts are still unknown..."

"etc…"

Tsunade heard a lot of information.

The Hokage felt she needed to catch her breath; she rubbed her temples, trying her best to piece together the information bit by bit.

Is the village's Hokage's assistant a spy for Orochimaru?

Ironically, the people who have been actively pushing for the investigation of Akatsuki and Obito Uchiha in the village are the ones who have the deepest collusion with these hostile ninjas.

"Tsunade..."

"terribly sorry…"

"There's no time for you to take your time now..."

Jiraiya shook his head, looking at his somewhat troubled old friend, and could only continue in a deep voice to explain the crux of the matter: "We escaped Akihara Kagura's pursuit, but that doesn't mean the end of the matter; the real trouble has only just begun..."

"There's no rush to issue the arrest warrant..."

Tsunade, still rubbing her temples, stated her position in a deep voice: "Jiraiya, do you realize the magnitude of the uproar this will cause if the village's Hokage's assistant colludes with the Akatsuki and Orochimaru?"

To put it bluntly...

Kagura Akihara resolved most of Konoha's crises!

Although many of the crises were caused by Akihara Kagura...

Tsunade was the Fifth Hokage of Konoha. She knew very well how much the Konoha ninjas of that time admired Akihara Kagura. They had all witnessed Akihara Kagura's power. The village could do without her as the Fifth Hokage, but it absolutely could not do without that Hokage's assistance!

"These things are insignificant compared to what I'm about to say..."

Jiraiya shook his head, his eyes becoming incredibly serious. He looked at Tsunade and continued, "The ninja world is about to face a truly terrifying crisis..."

"The Akatsuki's original plan was to collect the Tailed Beasts to create a terrifying weapon of war. This weapon was controlled by Nagato's Rinnegan. They intended to use this weapon, capable of destroying a major country with a single blow, to deter the major ninja villages in the ninja world from starting a war..."

"but…"

"This plan will be used by Akihara Kagura."

"Akihara Kagura is searching for Nagato's Rinnegan. He intends to use that weapon of war to destroy the ninja world, kill all the ninjas, end all the ninja villages of this era, recreate new ninjas, and usher in a new era for the ancient ninja sects!"

"Let me take my time..."

Tsunade took another deep breath, turned around, and slammed her fist into the wall!

For Tsunade, today was like a rollercoaster ride. She was still grieving the news of Jiraiya's death, but then Jiraiya came back alive...

Ok.

This is something to be happy about.

As a result, she learned that her Hokage advisor had colluded with the Akatsuki and Orochimaru. Actually, it was relatively easy to resolve within Konoha, and this wasn't unprecedented...

The previous Hokage, Danzo Shimura, always made mistakes behind the Third Hokage's back, didn't he? If things were kept within Konoha, a small meeting room could have been a good way to discuss them...

but…

Jiraiya is here to tell me again...

The "future of Konoha" that the Konoha ninja always liked to talk about has become the most dangerous and terrifying rogue ninja in the history of the ninja world.

Tsunade turned to look at everyone present, her gaze falling on Nagato's Rinnegan. Her solutions were often somewhat violent: "Since everything is caused by the Rinnegan and weapons of war, why don't we just destroy these Rinnegan that bring chaos?"

"No!"

This is Xiao Nan, who is firmly opposed.

"It doesn't seem like it will work..."

This is Jiraiya, who is frowning and shaking his head.

"Tsunade, you'd better not do that..."

This is Orochimaru, stretching his neck to squeeze into the hospital room through the window.

and many more…

Orochimaru?

Let me add this!

(End of this chapter)