XX-level Hokage

“Mashiro is indeed an excellent child, but she is far too young. You know, Minato was 25 when he succeeded him, and Mashiro is only 18 now. Her experience is too shallow,” said Mitokado Homura.

Although he liked Mashiro, his junior, rules are rules.

"Furthermore, there has never been a Hyuga clan member who has served as Hokage in Konoha. As a large clan, and one that relies on its inherited Byakugan, becoming Hokage would inevitably lead to the clan becoming excessively powerful," said Koharu Utatane.

Neither the Uchiha nor the Hyuga clan believed that becoming Hokage was possible.

"Then, let's vote," Mashiro said softly. "Raise your hand if you oppose the proposal," Tsunade said.

Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu raised their hands. They had assumed that most of the senior executives in the meeting room would raise their hands as well, but they were wrong. Apart from the two of them, no one else raised their hands.

Among the high-level officials present, those from various departments remained neutral and never participated in the voting.

Among the various clans, the Inu family and the Aburame family are on good terms with the Hyuga family, so these two families naturally do not object.

Mashiro once saved Ino, so the Yamanaka clan wouldn't object.

In recent years, the Hyuga clan and the Akimichi clan have maintained close relations, and the Akimichi clan will not object.

Shikaku clearly understood the situation; the Nara clan wouldn't object. The Sarutobi clan, being close confidants of the Third Hokage, naturally wouldn't object either.

As for the remaining members of the Dark Side and "Root," they naturally had no objections. Thus, the situation was settled.

Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu looked at Mashiro. They knew that Konoha had unknowingly fallen into the hands of this young man they couldn't understand. The next day, the matter of the Hokage election was officially announced to the village.

Chapter 145: Konan VS Obito

Thanks to the hype generated over the past few days, the news of Mashiro becoming Hokage was easily accepted by the people of Konoha and the rank-and-file ninjas.

This news has already been sent to the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, and once the appointment letter arrives, Shinji will officially become the Sixth Hokage.

Following the meeting and based on the results of the discussions, Konoha's aid force to Kumogakure officially set off. It's worth mentioning that this aid...

The training program for medical interns was organized by Karin; Tsunade specifically entrusted this important opportunity to her second disciple.

After it was confirmed that Mashiro would succeed as Hokage, many people went to visit him, but without exception, no one saw Mashiro. The explanation given by Teihan was that Lord Mashiro had something to take care of and was not at home at the moment.

Meanwhile, in the Land of Rain.

Inside the Tower of God, Konan stood alone at the top, looking down at the Rain Village in the rain.

After bringing the Eight-Tails back to Akatsuki headquarters, she announced Pain's "death," and the Akatsuki organization is now completely fragmented.

Pain is dead, Hidan is dead, Kakuzu and Sasori are missing, Itachi is silent, Kisame is thoughtful, Deidara is indifferent, Zetsu has no reaction, and as for the masked man and the newly joined Kaguya Shinji, they did not attend the meeting at all.

Meanwhile, Xiao Nan was waiting for their arrival. "Have they finally come?" Xiao Nan turned around and said coldly.

Not far away, a black vortex appeared, and Obito showed himself.

"Is Nagato's physical body with you now?" Obito asked, looking at Konan. "Is this what you want?" Konan said coldly, holding out a transparent jar containing the Rinnegan.

A flicker of surprise crossed Obito's eyes, then he said, "Oh, so you already know something? That's perfect, saves me the trouble of explaining. Just hand over the Rinnegan."

Obito extended his hand.

He was met with dozens of paper shurikens.

But the paper shuriken pierced through Obito's body as if it were air.

“Don’t underestimate me, little girl,” Obito said, seemingly genuinely believing himself to be Madara Uchiha. Konan was not surprised at all.

Her body began to shatter, turning into sheets of white paper, which then transformed into paper butterflies and flew out of Amegakure. Obito understood Konan's meaning and followed her.

In the vast ocean outside Amegakure, paper butterflies gathered on a reef and transformed into Konan. Meanwhile, Obito arrived at another reef on the opposite side.

"Don't you understand? Your attacks have no effect on me." Obito said calmly. Konan ignored him.

And in the "Paper Dance" mode, Obito unleashed countless paper shuriken made of white paper, spreading paper wings and launching an attack. The countless white papers instantly surrounded Obito.

Suddenly, Obito reached out and grabbed Konan from behind the blank sheet of paper. "This is it."

Then Kamui began, and Obito's left eye unleashed a vortex that sucked all the white papers into the Kamui dimension.

This was exactly what Konan wanted. With a loud thud, Obito's mask shattered, and along with the torn Akatsuki clothes, scattered into the sea.

Konan mixed explosive tags into a piece of white paper to counter Obito's Hollowfication. After the explosion, both Konan and Obito were quite ruthless.

Konan floated breathlessly in the air, a large amount of white paper being transferred into the Kamui dimension, greatly weakening her chakra and strength. Obito, on the other hand, had lost an arm in the explosion, and a piece of his mask was shattered, revealing his crimson Sharingan. He was now sitting on a reef.

"I absorbed and redirected the entire explosion. I was faster, and I only suffered minor injuries. Thanks to me, you were saved too. Thank me."

Obito looked at Konan floating in the sky and spoke.

"Your schemes should end here," Obito said calmly as he stood up.

As the papers gathered, Konan's body began to recover. She pointed at Obito and said coldly, "You are darkness. In a world without light, flowers can only wither."

She knew she couldn't defeat Obito on her own, so she decided to use her ultimate technique: the God of Paper Technique.

This ninjutsu can transform paper into any object. She has already disguised 6000 billion explosive tags as the ocean. This level of explosion and eruption has exceeded the time it takes for the masked man in front of her to become invisible.

Konan stretched out her hand, and the sea began to tremble violently, while Obito looked around with great unease.

"Luckily, we arrived in time." A clear, girlish voice rang out. Mashiro floated in the air and came to Konan's side.

Upon seeing Mashiro arrive, Konan stopped moving, and the trembling of the sea ceased.

Seeing this, Mashiro breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, they arrived in time. That was a whopping 6000 billion explosive tags; even disregarding their monetary value, the sheer number of them...

Even in the Great War of the Shocking World, they might not have been able to use up so many; they were almost replaced by an ordinary Sharingan.

Then I looked at Xiao Nan, what a spendthrift.

Konan looked completely innocent, and for some reason, she felt like she'd been scolded. "Leave the rest to me," Mashiro said softly.

Konan nodded, handed the jar containing the Rinnegan to Mashiro, then flew to a nearby reef to rest.

Obito coldly watched this scene, then said in a cold voice, "Hyuga Mashiro, the next Hokage of Konoha, what are you doing here?" "Why? Just to save money, I suppose," Mashiro said with a light laugh.

Obito didn't understand what Mashiro meant. Looking at the Rinnegan in Mashiro's hand, he said, "I see. It seems the three of you were in contact all along." Mashiro didn't say anything, but simply shook the jar containing the Rinnegan in her hand and said, "Want this? Defeat me, and this will be yours."

Obito sneered, and then a massive fireball hurtled towards him. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique"

Looking at the raging fireballs approaching, Mashiro couldn't help but sigh, "As expected of the Uchiha clan, they always use either fire or lightning."

Then, with a gentle lift of his hand, the seawater surged, forming a massive wave that completely extinguished the fireball. Smoke billowed everywhere.

Obito appeared out of nowhere behind Mashiro and put his hand on Mashiro's shoulder. "Kamui!"

A black vortex appeared in her left eye, seemingly about to suck Mashiro in completely.

However, Mashiro remained calm and composed, and an inexplicable force blocked Obito's Kamui.

Just as Obito was speaking in shock, Mashiro lightly drew a line with her finger. Then Obito was cut in half at the waist and fell into the sea.

"Is it resolved?" Konan, who was watching from a distance, asked. Mashiro shook her head.

Then a wooden cage completely surrounded Mashiro. "Gotcha."

A soft, gentle voice came from nearby, followed by a young man appearing not far away, standing on the water with his hands clasped together.

Mashiro turned to look at the young man, then looked puzzled; she had never seen him before. With a flick of her finger, the wooden prison was reduced to ashes by the flames.

"Thud~, so it really can't be contained?" The young man seemed somewhat annoyed. "But the goal has been achieved." He laughed again as he spoke.

"If you want her to live, hand over the Rinnegan to me." Obito had already grabbed Konan at some point and was holding a black rod to her neck as he spoke.

"Mashiro, don't worry about me, kill them," Konan said calmly.

Mashiro smiled and tossed the jar containing the Rinnegan to the young man not far away. The young man took the jar, turned, and disappeared.

Obito released Konan, looked at Mashiro, and said, "Until we meet again." Then he disappeared from the spot.

"Thank you for choosing to save me," Konan said as she flew to Mashiro's side and landed.

"It's nothing. Don't forget, our goal is to hand over the Rinnegan to them. As for the method used, it doesn't matter," Mashiro said softly.

Xiao Nan nodded gently.

Chapter 146: Poker and the Royal City

"If I hadn't arrived in time, what were you planning to do with the masked man?" Mashiro asked knowingly.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Nan gently waved her right hand, and then the sea surface trembled violently. A huge crack appeared out of thin air, filled with countless explosive tags.

“I’ve hidden 6000 billion explosive tags here using the God’s Paper Technique. If all goes well, he can die right here,” Konan said.

As expected, Mashiro sighed softly and said, "It's truly spectacular."

Konan is very clever; her thinking is correct. Kamui's intangibility lasts for a maximum of five minutes, while the explosion time of six hundred billion explosive tags is more than ten minutes. Obito cannot escape within this time because if he wants to use Kamui to escape, he must become physical. Once he becomes physical, the explosive tags will immediately stick to him, which means accelerating his death. Konan's move was correct.

Unfortunately, Konan only schemed against Kamui and was unaware of Izanagi.

Obito's Kamui Hollowfication lasts for a maximum of 5 minutes, while the explosive tags explode for more than 10 minutes. If Konan knew that Obito had Izanagi, she could have divided the 6000 billion explosive tags into two separate uses.

The first explosion lasted for more than five minutes, forcing Obito to use Izanagi. After the duration of Izanagi, the eyes would be destroyed. At this point, Obito only had his Kamui Sharingan left.

Then launch a second five-minute explosion. If you're lucky, you can kill Obito. If you're unlucky, Obito will have to use Izanagi with his Sharingan again, which will cause him to lose both eyes at the same time. Then it will be a one-on-one battle. Even if Konan is exhausted, the chances of winning the subsequent battle will be greater.

Unfortunately, no if.

"Come back to Konoha with me now," Mashiro said softly, looking at Konan.

Konan looked at Mashiro, then turned to look at Amegakure. After a long pause, she said, "I understand. I'll go to Konoha after I've dealt with the remaining matters in Amegakure."

"I will help you, help Amegakure develop, and maintain the peace of Amegakure." Mashiro hugged Konan and whispered.

"Thank you." Konan turned her head and quickly kissed Mashiro on the cheek before turning away again. Mashiro chuckled softly; this was the first time Konan had taken the initiative.

Mashiro reached out and stroked Konan's waist and hips, nibbled on her ear, and whispered, "I'll let you off the hook for today. We'll discuss the rest once you arrive in Konoha."

After Mashiro finished speaking, she sank into the shadows.

After Mashiro left, Konan touched her slightly flushed face, then quickly regained her composure and flew towards Amegakure.

After failing to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kakuzu and Sasori disappeared without a trace, and neither Konoha nor Akatsuki could find them. Those within Akatsuki believed they had been killed by the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, while Konoha believed they had returned to the Akatsuki organization.

But in reality, the two were hiding in a very secluded corner. In a private room at the Kado Merchant Guild Casino in the Land of Waves.

Kakuzu and Seizo were sitting face to face. "Two, you lost."

Kakuzu threw down the last two cards in his hand and said.

Sasori looked at the three cards remaining in his hand, silently tossed them onto the table, then took out a 10,000 tael note and handed it to Kakuzu. "How boring," Sasori said, getting up to leave.

"Want to say another line?" Kakuzu asked. Sasori didn't finish his sentence. He walked straight out.

Kakuzu turned to Zabuza in the corner and said, "You come here."