Born in Sunagakure, dedicated to antagonizing Konoha for decades

Thinking of her youngest daughter, Yusa, she felt a pang of sadness. That girl had no dream of being a hero riding on a colorful cloud. Unfortunately, the goddess was willing, but the hero was heartless. Her youngest daughter was doomed to meet that bastard, Masato.

Just as he was feeling sad for his youngest daughter, he saw the silent Umekawa Naito across from him. His eyes darted around, and an idea came to him. He raised his eyebrows and said to Umekawa Naito, "I'm in a bad mood, but I can't let this bastard have his way."

This bastard brags all day long about how many sons he has, how talented he is, and how he only has two or three in his lifetime... If it weren't for the fact that we're colleagues, I would have challenged this bastard to a duel long ago. Damn it, is he trying to provoke him into not having a son or something?

Your son's all that swagger, huh? Well then, why don't you do it yourself! ヾ(^Д^*)/

"Ahem... Clan Chief Yusa is joking. As Lord Shinto just said, the position of Kazekage requires someone of both virtue and talent. My son is still too inexperienced and cannot compare to Rasa at all. He should not run for the position..."

Originally acting as if it were none of his business, Umekawa Naito nearly burst out laughing when he heard his old rival's words. He glared at Yusa Kadoko with a murderous look on his face, and when he saw everyone's eyes looking at him, he quickly waved his hand and said...

He was just kidding; he was only bragging to that old bastard Yusaka to provoke him about not being able to have a son. How could he not know what kind of person his eldest son was? He was great at procreation, but if it came to a real fight, he couldn't even beat his younger son, who had become a mad inventor and received a disability certificate...

Damn it, Yusaka, you just wait... (▼he▼メ).

656. The most unlucky guy, Rosa, rises to power.

"Hey! Clan Chief Meichuan, don't say that. Young people have a future, right? Young Luo Sha is still young too. The future will eventually be handed over to the young. If you're not experienced, just come out and prove yourself. Look at me, I debuted at nine and I'm only in my thirties now. Who the hell dares to say I'm not experienced? You've been watching for so long, you have to pick one or two promising players, right? Otherwise, young Luo Sha will have no rivals..."

Half an hour passed, and not a single seeded player had appeared. After secretly showing off, Masato looked at Rasa, who had been forced into the position, with some pity.

Choosing Rasa to take over had nothing to do with him. Although he had a long tenure in the village, given his usually unreliable and erratic personality, Chiyo wouldn't consult him. In fact, she discussed it with Ebizo for a long time overnight before finally deciding that Rasa would be the next Kazekage.

It was somewhat of a helpless situation. They had all agreed that Sasori was the next Kazekage. Although Sasori had some personality flaws, he wasn't as unreliable as Shinto, and he had exceptional talent. His background, status, and fame as a child star made him the best candidate for the next Kazekage. But now, Sasori was gone, and the only young person with the potential to become Kazekage was Rasa, who had been groomed as the Kazekage's assistant, essentially the village head. Rasa had good talent, though not as much as Sasori, but at least his awakened Magnet Release allowed him to control gold sand, making him a relatively unique young talent. Although he was currently only a Red Rank, becoming a Double Flower Red Rank in a few years wouldn't be difficult. Besides Rasa, there really wasn't any other talent among the younger generation.

Rasa, who was originally groomed to succeed Ebizo as the village head, had a decent background—he was Sunagawa's disciple and Chiyo's family member—but his fame was far less. While he had gained considerable renown within the village by running errands for Sunagawa over the years, it wasn't enough in the ninja world. When people talked about Sunagakure, the first names that came to mind were Shiki, then Kazekage Sunagawa, then Chiyo, and finally the super-genius Sasori. Even Ebizo, the long-time Minister of State, wasn't mentioned. Therefore, to secure his position as head ninja, Rasa needed to accumulate enough fame and prestige. This was something invisible and intangible, but crucial for a head ninja. Without the support of the people, even with Chiyo and the others, the position wouldn't be secure. Moreover, Chiyo was currently preoccupied with her grandson's affairs and couldn't be there for him constantly. And while it might be manageable for a short time, if he couldn't manage it after a year or two, it would mean he lacked the talent to be head ninja.

This reputation and prestige are built up over time. For someone like Luo Sha, who was forced into this role, to be honest, it feels just like the original story – he's going to have a tough time.

Why did Rasa agree to conspire with Orochimaru to kill Konoha in the original work?

Did he really not know that Orochimaru had a shamanic personality?

He knew this, but he had no choice at the time because his rise to power wasn't entirely legitimate. His reputation and prestige weren't very high, and he couldn't control the village's higher-ups who were much more senior than him. He originally planned to gain more prestige during the Third Shinobi World War, but Sunagakure suffered a crushing defeat under his leadership during the Third Shinobi World War, even worse than in the First and Second Shinobi World Wars. If it weren't for his youngest son becoming a Jinchūriki to gain some prestige, and with Chiyo and Ebizo retiring and not taking charge, it would have been very difficult for him to secure the position of Kazekage.

Moreover, his reputation from the three wars was completely overshadowed by the Third Raikage's invincibility and Minato Namikaze's single-handed defense, instantly killing dozens of Jonin and holding off thousands of Iwa ninja. He gained absolutely no reputation. So when Orochimaru approached him to conspire for something big, even though he knew it might be a trap, he had no choice but to cooperate with Orochimaru in order to secure his position as Kazekage. In addition, Konoha was indeed at its weakest at that time. White Fang committed suicide, the Fourth Hokage died, the Legendary Sannin left, and the only high-level fighter in the village was Hiruzen Sarutobi, who should have retired long ago. The only one who was still recognizable was Kakashi, the "Konoha Technician," who became incredibly weak after getting the Sharingan. Under these circumstances, cooperating with Orochimaru from the inside out did indeed give him a significant boost in reputation.

But this guy was unlucky. He was tricked and killed by Orochimaru before the fight even started, and in a most humiliating way. If he had been killed by Orochimaru, that would have been better. After all, Orochimaru was famous before him, and he could even poison the tough Third Raikage. Even if he died, he would still have some honor. But this guy was killed by one of Orochimaru's unknown underlings, which hurt his pride...

So Shinto is very sympathetic to the kid in front of him. Now, the kid's situation might be a little better because of him, but it won't be much better. He can't help him with fame and reputation; he has to rely on himself to earn them. But the protagonists of the Third Shinobi World War are destined to be the Third Raikage and Minato Namikaze.

You could say this guy is the unluckiest person in history...

“…”

Everyone present was speechless. "If my son were as good as you, I'd have him debut at seven! What the hell are you trying to prove... (▼ヘ▼#)"

"Alright, since no one has chosen a candidate, then the next Kazekage will be Rasa. Rasa will take office in two months and then declare war on Konoha. Rasa, the village will depend on you from now on!"

Seeing her precious nephew, whose arrogance was once again unleashed and who was even more photogenic than today's protagonist, Rasa, Chiyo had no choice but to step in and hand the camera over to Rasa. If her precious nephew continued to act like that, no one would know who today's main character was...

"Please rest assured, Lady Chiyo, I will not let you down, nor will I forget my teacher's teachings!"

After being stunned for a long time, Rasa solemnly said to Chiyo.

This incredible gift came so suddenly; he still hasn't processed it. He was still grieving because of his teacher's disappearance. His father died early, and his teacher had perfectly played the role of a father during his childhood, not only teaching him skills but also principles of life, and even imparting all his singing and dancing skills to him. As the saying goes, "A teacher for a day is a father for life." How could he not be heartbroken and saddened that his teacher had disappeared so inexplicably for so long? For a while, he cried every day, unable to eat or sleep. If it weren't for his girlfriend, Jialuo, who stayed by his side to comfort and encourage him, he still wouldn't be able to get over the grief of losing his teacher.

657. Bai Ya got caught in the crossfire and became famous.

Since becoming his teacher's disciple, although he was a candidate for Kazekage, the village had always groomed him as the successor to the village head, Lord Kaizo. The next Kazekage had already been decided to be Sasori. He was well aware of this and respected the village's decision, since Sasori's talent was indeed stronger than his. In order not to let down his teacher's training and the village's expectations, he diligently completed every task assigned to him by his teacher.

He had just emerged from the grief of losing his teacher and was preparing to search for his teacher's whereabouts, determined to find him alive or dead, when he suddenly became the village's leader without any rivals. He was overwhelmed by this huge surprise, but at the same time, after Chiyo-sama and Shinto-sama confirmed that his teacher had most likely been killed by Konoha's White Fang, he was now filled with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, and felt the burden on his shoulders grow even heavier.

"Damn it! I've seen your extraordinary potential since I was a child. Sigh, back then, your father gave up his promising position as the Crown Prince of the Dark Guard to follow me to the battlefield to protect the village. That scene still feels like it was just yesterday. Now his son has become the Kazekage. I guess I haven't let your father down..."

Shinji patted Rasa on the shoulder with a comforting look, like a father looking at his son.

"......"

The surrounding crowd was speechless. If it weren't for the "Uchiha Great Sword" that terrified them, they would have rushed up and killed this shameless bastard right now.

Rasa was trained by the Kazekage, what's it to you!

Shameless! ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

"...Don't worry, Lord Masato, I will definitely carry on my father's will and protect the village well....-_-||"

Looking at the unreliable middle-aged man's nauseatingly sycophantic eyes, Luo Sha felt a chill run down his spine. If this bastard wasn't his grandfather's old subordinate with incredible strength, he would definitely give him a gold dust meal to show him who the son and father were... (╬￣皿￣)

.......

Konoha in the late 46th year, Sunagakure in the late 45th year.

Two months after the Sand Village and Konoha engaged in fierce clashes, news came from the Sand Village that the Third Kazekage, Sunagawa, had been killed by Konoha's White Fang, and that Rasa had succeeded him as the Fourth Kazekage, officially declaring war on Konoha.

The news caused an immediate uproar, shaking the already volatile ninja world to its core.

Everyone was stunned when they heard about this disappearance.

Is the Third Kazekage dead?

And he was killed by Konoha's White Fang!

This is absolutely insane!

A legendary figure, destined to be recorded in history, died just like that, and was killed before the war even began. This is absolutely astonishing!

Everyone was even mourning for the Third Kazekage. It felt like he had died before he could even begin. Everyone felt that although the ninja world hadn't officially started a war yet, it was coming soon. It was just a matter of which village couldn't hold back any longer.

But at that very moment, Feng Ying was actually killed by Bai Ya, which was just too much...

Meanwhile, the ninja world was also shocked by White Fang's strength. Since the end of the Third Shinobi World War, White Fang of Konoha had kept a low profile. The last time he appeared in the news headlines was when his son, Little White Fang, became the youngest ninja. Several years have passed since then, and many people have even forgotten how powerful White Fang was. In recent years, White Fang's popularity has gradually declined, and he is only mentioned occasionally when Golden Lion makes the headlines.

Now, suddenly it's been revealed that the Kazekage has died, and it was White Fang who did it. That's incredibly powerful. He doesn't make a move unless he's sure of anything, and when he does, he takes down a Kazekage. It's been a long time since a village Kazekage has died since the First Battle!

For a time, White Fang, a veteran ninja who had been keeping a low profile for many years, suddenly became popular again, carrying the blame thrown at him by Sunagakure, and his popularity remained high.

.....

"Sukushiro Ichi! Sakumo-sama is amazing! He actually killed the Kazekage! And Kakashi, you're just so ordinary..."

When the news reached Konoha, it further solidified White Fang's popularity and status. Now, walking down the streets of Konoha, you can't feel the atmosphere of a world war at all. The villagers go about their business as usual, and almost everyone is talking about this.

On a river in Konoha, Obito, as White Fang's son's teammate and best friend, naturally wouldn't let such a good opportunity pass him by. He also wanted to take advantage of his spare time to put down his teammate, best friend, and love rival, and to belittle the other person in front of his dream girl, making them seem as pathetic as himself—this had been his long-standing strategy...

"...Instead of wasting time talking so much, you should hurry up and deal with this garbage."

Kakashi, who was cleaning up the trash on the bed while standing on the river, rolled his dead fish eyes and was not provoked by the words. He simply finished speaking and continued cleaning up the trash on the bed, as if the legendary powerful man who killed the Kazekage had no blood relation to him.

In fact, the powerful figure who killed the Kazekage had absolutely nothing to do with him. He had already asked his father last night. He was no longer a rookie who had just started out. He had been grinding D-rank daily quests for several years. He knew much more about the situation and dynamics of the ninja world than his peers who had just graduated this year.

Seeing that the friction between Konoha and other villages was getting more and more intense, and there was an atmosphere that war was about to break out, their village had always observed the First Hokage's love and peace-loving ideas. How could his father possibly go and kill the Kazekage? Wouldn't killing the Kazekage break out the war?

His father also clearly told him that he did not kill the Kazekage, and that the Kazekage was not so easy to kill, let alone kill him silently. There are very few people in the ninja world who can do that.

Although his father had deceived him on core values, this time he trusted his father.

"Teacher, was it really Lord White Fang who started the war against the Kazekage? I don't think Lord White Fang is that kind of person..."

Obito, the girl next door to Kakashi, was asking the perfect ninja Minato Namikaze about his own world. The girl, who had seen White Fang many times, felt her male father was quite gentle, which didn't quite fit the stereotype of someone who would kill people so easily...

"...This is just a rumor. Nobody knows the truth right now. But it's certain that Lord White Fang didn't kill the Kazekage. Killing the Kazekage isn't that easy, and besides...the strongest in Sunagakure is Golden Lion Shiki. Killing the Kazekage wouldn't be very effective..."

Minato Namikaze was sweating profusely as he looked at his female disciple. If you knew how many people Lord White Fang had killed over the years, you'd know whether he seemed like that kind of person... -_-||

As one of Konoha's newly promoted top lieutenants and a member of the village's high-level council, Minato Namimori knows far more than Kakashi, a veteran who's been doing menial tasks for years. At the last meeting, his partner Shikaku had already analyzed that regardless of whether the Kazekage was actually Sakumo-sama's doing, Sunagakure would use this as a pretext to make them take the blame. Now it seems his partner's guess was correct; without concrete evidence, Konoha is definitely going to have to take the fall...

658. Obito: Isn't that Minato-sensei's father?

"Golden Lion? What's his background? Teacher, isn't the strongest in Sunagakure the Kazekage? (⊙_⊙)?"

Upon hearing his teacher's words, Obito, who was still bickering with his best friend and love rival, stopped walking and looked at his teacher with a puzzled expression, as if he were hearing about this person for the first time.

"...Well, Shiki is basically White Fang's lifelong rival, and I think Kakashi knows him better than I do..."

Minato Namikaze looked at his disciple, who was full of question marks, with a helpless expression. This was truly an oddity among the Uchiha clan. To be honest, if this child did not have the Uchiha fan symbol on him, it would be really difficult to classify him as a member of the Uchiha clan.

In his memory, the Uchiha clan, while somewhat arrogant, was indeed a clan where everyone was exceptional. Even the slightly mediocre Uchiha who hadn't yet awakened their Sharingan had never been at the bottom of the rankings. Every Uchiha was a top student. Yet, this person still managed to break the Uchiha clan's long-standing record and become the bottom-ranked member through sheer hard work. Not only was he incompetent in both academics and martial arts, but he also loved to boast. His mysterious confidence seemed innate. Despite being clearly weak, instead of thinking about how to improve, he spent all his time scheming to fight Kakashi over girls...

As a master of flirting who had already charmed Konoha's little pepper to the point of obsession at the age of nine, this guy thought it was only because Kakashi inherited the Hatake clan's traditional slowness when it came to romance that Obito, this disciple, wouldn't have had even the slightest chance. But considering the Hatake clan's reputation for attracting women, Obito didn't seem to have much of a chance either. And that's not all; the story of Shiki and Sakumo-sama is covered in three large sections and two smaller parts of ninja history textbooks. This disciple went to school for six years and didn't even know Shiki? Were he just flirting for six years?

But I haven't seen him succeed in flirting with anyone...-_-||

"So powerful, Lord White Fang's lifelong nemesis? (⊙_⊙)?"

After Obito finished speaking, he and Rin glanced at Kakashi, who was rolling his dead fish eyes to the side.

White Fang is Konoha's national idol. If it weren't for the fact that only the Hokage can carve human heads, White Fang would be the fourth head on the Hokage Rock in Konoha right now.

As for the Sand Village's Golden Lion, the studious World Rin certainly knew about it. However, the three main chapters and two smaller sections in their Konoha textbooks mainly introduced Kakashi's father, Lord White Fang, with the Golden Lion being just a supporting character. She didn't know much about him, only that the teacher had mentioned him as Lord White Fang's opponent.

This is Konoha, after all. Who the hell would call someone an enemy, especially one who keeps causing trouble in Konoha? The fact that he was relegated to a minor role in the introduction of White Fang shows Hiruzen Sarutobi's magnanimity; the fact that he didn't erect a statue for the villagers to spit on every day is a testament to his high moral character...

"...That guy went to the battlefield when he fought my father, and they've been rivals ever since. My father said that he and the Third Raikage are considered to be the strongest defenders in the ninja world... He's a bit unreliable. Didn't you guys meet him a few years ago?"

Kakashi, noticing the looks in his two friends' eyes, stopped and rolled his deadpan expression, saying, "The image of that unreliable, blond-haired middle-aged man pops into my head. To be honest, if his father hadn't said that guy was strong, he really wouldn't have been able to see what was so strong about that frivolous middle-aged man..."

"We've met before?? When? He came to Konoha? (⊙_⊙)?"

Now it was Obito and Rin's turn to be dumbfounded. Obito's eyes turned into beady eyes as he asked.

"A few years ago, not long after I graduated, that blond middle-aged man who looked just like Minato-sensei took me out that night... Obito, didn't you get along quite well with him?"

Kakashi was about to say "golden hair," but then he remembered Minato's hair color, so he immediately changed his mind...

"...What?! That guy is Golden Lion! He looks so much like Minato-sensei, I thought he was Minato-sensei's father!! Σ(⊙▽⊙a)"

Obito thought for a long time and seemed to recall that there was indeed a blond middle-aged man with Kakashi back then, and Ebisu and Asuma had mentioned that the guy was some kind of golden lion. However, his focus was not on that. His focus was on the fact that the blond middle-aged man seemed to have taught him how to flirt with girls back then. However, they had too much fun that night, and he had forgotten when the guy taught him.

"...Speaking of which, that Golden Lion really does look a bit like Minato-sensei!"

Hearing Obito's words, Rin and Kakashi began to scrutinize their teacher, especially Kakashi. He hadn't really paid much attention before; the guy was always unkempt, his beard never shaved properly. But now, with Obito's reminder, the more he looked, the more it seemed to him...

"Hahaha... Some people just look alike..."

Minato Namikaze was sweating profusely... He'd been the butt of jokes for this reason countless times over the years, practically to the point where he'd have to ask Orochimaru to do a DNA test for him...

"But isn't that guy Lord White Fang's nemesis? Why would he just come to our village? Besides, you two seem to get along quite well; he even took you to eat ramen."

Obito was even more confused. In his worldview, it was either enemy or friend. This guy was clearly Kakashi's father's enemy, but his relationship with Kakashi didn't seem like that of an enemy at all. The adult world is so complicated.

"........"