On the night of the Nine-Tails, I shattered the Tailed Beast Ball with a single punch.

Looking at Minato's inexplicably confident expression, Nagasawa scratched his head, wondering if he had been hiding his true abilities too much, causing Minato to imagine many things that didn't exist.

However, in a sense, Minato was right.

With his Whitebeard-like appearance, he is indeed a strong figure in the current ninja world.

Nagasawa lowered his head in deep thought, analyzing the pros and cons of entering the Dark Side.

I used to hide my skills because I was afraid of danger. Chunin and Jonin face very different missions on the battlefield.

Another reason was that he was afraid of being discovered by those cunning old foxes in the ninja world.

But now he is bound to Konoha, and if Konoha is destroyed, he is in danger.

With the addition of the Whitebeard panel, his strength is now quite respectable, so he can try changing his strategy and taking more initiative.

“Okay, I agree. I’ll do my best, but I might not be able to meet your expectations,” Nagasawa replied.

"Yeah, I know, after all, you're just an 'ordinary Chunin'."

Seeing that Nagasawa had agreed, Minato smiled and made a teasing remark.

“I will notify you of the specific details in three days. The handover of power is not yet fully completed,” Minato said.

Nagasawa nodded and then walked out of the Hokage's office.

Next up was the young couple's celebration time, and he didn't want to be bombarded with another dose of PDA.

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……

After leaving the Hokage Building, Nagasawa did not go home, but instead went to a forest in a corner of Konoha.

The scorching sunlight was blocked by the bright green leaves, with only a few rays shining through the gaps between the leaves into the forest, forming patches of green light.

Nagasawa walked through the bright, green forest and finally stopped in a clearing.

This is where he practices his daily routine.

Because he needed to conceal his strength in the past, he disliked going to the training grounds built in the village.

He set one up himself in an inconspicuous corner of Konoha.

He even learned a sealing technique from Kushina, and here he sealed a simple, trigger-based spell.

He can tell if a place has been exposed by the disappearance of chakra, and then simply move to another place.

In any case, there are only some traces of ninjutsu practice, and no research data.

There were wooden stakes and some large stones in the open space.

Sometimes, when practicing powerful ninjutsu like the Rasengan, wood isn't suitable; you need a harder stone.

Yongze walked up to a five-meter-high boulder and raised his fist.

But unlike usual, this time he didn't use any ninjutsu, or even chakra.

Instead, it used the power obtained from the bound panel—Armament Haki!

Soon, Nagasawa's entire arm was covered by a dark substance, making it look like an arm made of steel.

boom! ! !

Yongze punched the rock directly.

Rumble!!!

The stone shattered instantly, sending fragments flying everywhere and filling the air with a huge cloud of dust.

Nagasawa looked at the shattered boulder and smiled with satisfaction.

It should be noted that he hadn't even used half of his Armament Haki or his own power.

If such a punch were to land on an ordinary Jonin, it would absolutely kill them instantly.

"If we were to use chakra techniques as well, wouldn't that be..."

At this moment, Nagasawa felt that he could have a friendly taijutsu sparring session with the Fourth Raikage.

At the same time, he was also looking forward to what it would be like after the fusion level was fully achieved.

A 40% fusion rate brought about a qualitative change in his physical strength; if it were 100%, it would be incredible.

Immediately afterwards, Nagasawa used his Observation Haki to sense his surroundings.

He's planning something big, but it wouldn't be good if someone saw it.

Although Whitebeard possessed strong physical skills and Haki, it was the power of his Tremor-Tremor Fruit that was the core of his destructive ability.

The Tremor-Tremor Fruit is practically a Devil Fruit born for destruction, capable of easily creating natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis.

'Luckily, I'm wearing Naruto's clothes. There's no Seastone or anything like that here. The only flaw is gone too,' Nagasawa thought.

The reason why Devil Fruit users in One Piece are afraid of water is actually due to the presence of Pyrobroin in the water, which doesn't exist in the water of the Naruto world.

Nagasawa activated the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit within him, and immediately a circular white halo appeared on his right hand.

He slammed his fist into the ground.

Click!

The air seemed to transform into a shattering mirror, with cracks appearing and spreading in all directions.

Rumble!

Large chunks of ground instantly cracked open with a deafening roar, sending dirt flying and dust billowing into the air.

The instant he delivered that punch, Nagasawa used the Body Flicker Technique to disappear.

This was already the result of him restraining his power; the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's destructive power was too great.

He felt that if he were to fight someone in the future, it would be best not to fight in the village, otherwise the enemy wouldn't do much damage while he would destroy all the buildings...

Not long after Nagasawa left, two ANBU ninjas wearing animal masks arrived at this remote forest.

One of the ANBU ninjas looked at the mess on the ground, sensed it for a moment, and frowned, saying:

"There's no residual chakra. Could it be a normal collapse? But it doesn't seem like it..."

Another ANBU ninja rummaged through the pile of rubble and said, "There are some things that look like fragments of wooden targets. This open space may have originally been a training ground."

The two of them immediately felt a little more relaxed.

If it's a training ground, then the option of spies causing trouble can be ruled out.

Spies don't do this for no reason.

However, out of caution, they still searched the surrounding area thoroughly and left only after finding nothing.

With a peace treaty just signed with the Land of Earth, the entire ninja world is in turmoil, and we cannot afford to be complacent.

Chapter 3 Kakashi

During the three days he waited for Minato's message, Nagasawa familiarized himself with the power of the Whitebeard template.

In order to fully utilize the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he even went out of the village.

The only thing he doesn't know the exact effect of right now is Conqueror's Haki.

Due to time constraints, he didn't find any rogue ninjas or anything like that, only a group of bandits, so he didn't yet know the effects of Conqueror's Haki on ninjas.

Moreover, he discovered an unexpected delight: perhaps because his body had become stronger, he could now refine chakra much faster than before.

Nagasawa did not completely give up on the path of chakra, after all, the upper limit of chakra is very high, and beings at the Six Paths level are stronger than even a young Whitebeard!

As Nagasawa was refining chakra, a knock sounded on the door.

"Enter."

A member of the Anbu wearing an animal mask walked in and said, "The Fourth Hokage wants you to go to the Hokage's office."

Nagasawa thought to himself, "They've finally arrived," and nodded.

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……

As Nagasawa entered the office, Minato Namikaze, who had been waiting for him, handed him a document.

"Since this is the Third Hokage's voluntary abdication, the situation is different from when the Third Hokage took over as Hokage before. I'm afraid we can't let you directly become the captain," Minato Namikaze said apologetically.

He originally planned to make Yongze the captain directly, and then promote him to deputy captain and then captain after he made meritorious contributions.

However, the situation was a bit more complicated than he had imagined; his power as Hokage was not as great as he had thought.

Nagasawa flipped through the documents Minato had given him and frowned.

This is a document titled "The Third Hokage Helped the Fourth Hokage Establish a New Dark Division".

In other words, the Third Hokage did not hand over command of the Anbu to Minato, but instead "helped" Minato establish a new Anbu.

Nagasawa had to admit his admiration for Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Because this seems unreasonable, but it actually conforms to the rules of Konoha.

The Anbu is an extremely special department; it reports directly to the Hokage and is not subject to the orders of any other department.

However, since the Anbu was established by the second generation, and the third generation succeeded the second generation because the second generation died in battle, the third generation naturally inherited the Anbu.

But since the Third Generation is still alive, theoretically he still has control over the Dark Division.

The previous Hokage was still the Hokage.

The Third Hokage will send a vice-captain and two squads of Anbu ninja to help Minato build the new Fourth Hokage Anbu.

"Help with construction? I think it's more like we're sidelining you." Yongze threw the documents on the table and mocked.

An ANBU squad consists of seventeen people, so two squads would be thirty-four people. However, Minato's new ANBU couldn't recruit many people in a short time, and most of the positions would be taken by ANBU ninjas who came to "help".

"After all, I'm still too young, so it's normal for the Third Hokage and the others to be worried." Minato was relatively optimistic.

He became the village's Kage in his early twenties, and it was all due to an unexpected situation. This was truly the first time in the ninja world.

“In that case, let me start as a regular member of the Anbu, so that there won’t be any rumors about the Fourth Hokage being a nepotist,” Nagasawa said with a smile.

He was certain that if he dared to become the captain directly, Danzo would not let the opportunity pass him by.