Naruto: Starting as Tsunade's Desk Mate

After vomiting for a while, the daimyo of the Land of Fire collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, and asked...

"what do you want?"

An Yan smiled upon hearing this.

"Oh? Weren't you just acting all arrogant, calling people 'lowly commoners'? Please revert to your previous attitude."

The young daimyo looked embarrassed: "No, no, don't joke around, Your Excellency."

Having faced life and death several times, he had long understood that the person before him was different from the ninjas he had encountered before. He was a lawless and unruly individual. If it weren't for the fact that keeping him alive was more useful than killing him, he would probably be dead already.

Having figured this out, the young tyrant immediately lost his arrogance.

Chapter 124 Warning to the Daimyo

Seeing the Fire Country Daimyo's extremely cooperative manner, An Yan nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm, it seems you've figured out a lot of things. First of all, congratulations on your change of attitude, otherwise I would have to consider who would be more suitable to be the daimyo."

Although An Yan spoke in a nonchalant manner, Daming knew that the person in front of him had no intention of intimidating him. The chilling killing intent was constantly pressing down on Daming's spirit, making him feel cold all over.

"You jest, sir. What business does Konoha have with you?"

Daming chuckled twice, forcing himself to communicate with An Yan despite his fear. He wanted to finish quickly and go home.

Seeing the daimyo's forced smile, An Yan chuckled: "First of all, I wasn't sent by Konoha. I came here secretly because I personally disapproved of some of your actions. Secondly, no matter what means you used to become the daimyo, now that you've become the daimyo, you should think carefully about what you should and shouldn't do."

The young man nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you are right."

An Yan didn't care whether the daimyo was truly listening or just going through the motions. He simply continued, "The truth of the world is in the hands of the strong. Although you are nominally the daimyo of the Land of Fire, it would be easy for Konoha to kill you. I understand that as a young person, you want to make a name for yourself, but you should know that top-tier strongmen can wipe out a city in an instant. What you've done is meaningless to us. I'm meeting with you privately now to save face for the daimyo of the Land of Fire. If you cause any more trouble for Konoha next time, our conversation won't be so peaceful."

The daimyo of the Land of Fire gritted his teeth as he listened to An Yan's words, a raging fire burning in his heart. He originally wanted to hold back, but as a young man, he had a sense of pride. Under An Yan's lecturing words, he directly asked a question.

"Does Konoha dare to defy the world and directly attack the Daimyo?"

An Yan smiled and said indifferently, "Don't think too highly of yourself. The world can go on even without anyone. Although we ninjas are attached to the Land of Fire because we don't engage in production, we represent the military power of a country. If the Land of Fire breaks off relations with us, we can simply eliminate the nobles and take over the Land of Fire directly. While you see ninjas as tools of war, your daimyo are just tools for us to manage ordinary people and collect money, nothing more. If we can get along well, we don't mind giving the daimyo a superficial respect. If we can't get along well, we ninjas have many different kinds of ninjutsu to control a person."

The daimyo of the Land of Fire looked rather grim, but An Yan didn't tolerate him and directly revealed the cruel truth.

"Although the death of the Fire Country's daimyo will lead to some negative consequences, these consequences are entirely within Konoha's capacity to bear and are even quite easy to handle. We only need to place the daimyo's brother or child in the position of daimyo, and he will treat us very politely as well."

The daimyo remained silent. What An Yan said was a completely open scheme. If you oppose Konoha, we can kill you directly and support your brother or son to take over. This is very reasonable. The daimyo could even think of all the procedures involved. Konoha only wanted an obedient puppet.

Although the daimyo knew about these things, he was unable to deal with them effectively. Even if he could harden his heart to kill his own brothers and sisters, he still couldn't bring himself to do it to his own children.

An Yan continued talking.

"We hope that Konoha and the Daimyo can get along well in the future. The previous Daimyo did a good job in this regard. If you are sensible, you can continue to be the Daimyo and enjoy your wealth and honor. If you are not sensible and insist on opposing Konoha, we do not mind changing the Daimyo."

"I understand your meaning completely."

The daimyo looked rather grim as he spoke to An Yan. Seeing that frost was beginning to form on his body again, An Yan patted the daimyo's shoulder and performed a simple chakra nature transformation. A wave of heat swept over his entire body from head to toe, making the daimyo shiver with pleasure.

"Well, as long as you don't use your ulterior motives against Konoha, you can easily live out your life. Isn't life all about enjoying yourself? Konoha only asks this of you, it shouldn't be too difficult to do, right?"

“It’s not difficult at all.” The daimyo naturally accepted An Yan’s words without question. He was just an ordinary person and could do nothing but accept the demands of a powerful figure.

An Yan found the seemingly humiliating expression on the daimyo's face somewhat amusing.

"Your Excellency, you must clearly understand one thing: the Land of Fire cannot do without Konoha, not the other way around. If you insist on causing trouble for Konoha, we can simply ally with another country and help our neighbor conquer the Land of Fire."

The daimyo's expression hardened. If things really came to a head, such a thing could indeed happen. The difference in martial prowess between a country with and without ninjas is like night and day. If the Land of Fire didn't have Konoha, other countries would probably have attacked immediately and divided up its territory, especially the Land of Wind, since most of its territory is desert and they have long coveted the Land of Fire.

"Of course, despite all that I've said, I don't trust you at all. After all, you're a fool who would kill your own father for power. However, I've left a seal on you. It has no other function than to remotely control your life and death. Of course, you can try to find someone to test it on and see if they can break the seal. Oh, right, there's something I forgot to tell you. My sealing technique is currently almost the best in the ninja world."

An Yan let out a cheerful laugh, the kind of pleasure that comes from having control over the life and death of others.

The daimyo said with a grim expression, "I have always maintained good relations with Konoha. Why would you resort to such methods?"

An Yan scoffed, "People like you are cowardly and narrow-minded. If I don't use some tricks on you, you'll probably cause trouble again."

The daimyo of the Land of Fire was speechless, and An Yan had nothing more to say to him. He had said everything he needed to say, and he took the daimyo on one last high-altitude bungee jump.

Daming, who had already ridden several roller coasters, surprisingly didn't wet her pants. Of course, it's also possible that she was out of food.

The daimyo's residence was in complete chaos. Samurai, ninjas, and various servants were searching everywhere for the daimyo who had suddenly disappeared. An Yan placed the daimyo on the highest building and quietly left.

Although the daimyo of the Land of Fire was standing on a high point of the building, he clearly felt a sense of relief upon sensing An Yan's departure.

But An Yan's words came again, light and airy.

"By the way, make up for the cuts."

Chapter 125 BT-7274

In the latter half of the night, An Yan successfully returned to Konoha.

Tsunade was half asleep when An Yan suddenly pulled her into the Castle of Love. Her sword slipped back into its sheath, and the two of them enjoyed a nighttime entertainment.

One night fish and dragon dance.

The next day, An Yan went out feeling refreshed and began inspecting the ninja academy. This period was the last time he would serve as the dean of students at the school.

An Yan toured the classes and found that the students were all studying diligently. The ninja school had developed a strong culture of intense competition, and now very few students were playing around; almost all of them were studying hard.

Students in Class B were thinking about Class A, while those in Class A were afraid of being eliminated. The students were all working harder than the last, which made An Yan nod in approval.

Some students even studied until they were exhausted, then found a corner to break down and cry. After crying, they continued to study. In such cases, An Yan could only sigh. Being a ninja is a high-risk profession. The more they learn, the longer they might live.

After touring the school one last time, An Yan left. He didn't leave empty-handed; in the school library, he left behind a scroll of Laura's archery techniques that he hadn't used in a long time. Although it wasn't very powerful, it was more than enough to deal with ordinary chunin and genin, leaving the students with a little opportunity.

The following time was relatively leisurely. An Yan stayed at home on standby, occasionally going out to meet with friends like Hiruko and Hatake Sakumo, and have a few drinks.

His current strength has reached the ceiling of the ninja world. Only Madara, who has the Rinnegan, can make him somewhat wary. If he wants to improve his strength further, he can only capture the nine tailed beasts and become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. Otherwise, he can only hope that a super powerful up-rate pool will be refreshed someday.

As An Yan had been hoping for, his prize pool arrived at its annual refresh time. This year's featured pool was quite interesting, as it was Titanfall 2. The pool contained a large number of high-tech products, which propelled An Yan's technological level to new heights, allowing him to enter the interstellar era.

The various types and sizes of spaceships even gave An Yan the idea of ​​launching a counterattack against the Otsutsuki. However, considering the Otsutsuki's extremely strong individual strength, An Yan felt that if they really went to fight, their chances of survival would be slim. Although the firearms from the interstellar era were incredibly powerful, the Otsutsuki, with their super strong individual strength, were not easy to hit. An Yan even doubted whether these firearms could deal with a Kage-level expert.

However, An Yan still obtained a super trump card: a hyperspace folding weapon that destroyed a planet in the game, as well as the weapon's energy core—the Holy Ark.

However, this thing is a suicidal tactic, only suitable for overturning the table. It might be worth trying if An Yan loses and can't take the game anymore.

Besides these, there are intelligent robots, ordinary Titans, and Vanguard-class Titans. These six- or seven-meter-tall weapons of war can easily kill ordinary people, but it's hard to say what they will do against ninjas. They should be fine against chunin and genin, but against jonin, it's really an unknown.

The previous rewards were nothing compared to what made An Yan happiest. What made An Yan the happiest was that he obtained the Vanguard-class Titan, bt7274. An Yan had lost this friend twice when he was playing the game, and now that he had gotten it back, he was naturally overjoyed.

bt7274 is not just a combat mech; it is also a powerful artificial intelligence with supercomputing power, capable of independent thinking and problem-solving. It goes without saying how much help a powerful artificial intelligence can bring to An Yan.

The prize pool of Titan's Fall, while not improving An Yan's individual strength in the slightest, directly gave him the power to unify the ninja world. The next step is to see if An Yan wants to do it.

An Yan's answer was naturally affirmative. Although he was rather indifferent at heart and had never thought about world peace, no man would refuse the opportunity to be Qin Shi Huang, let alone now that he had descendants. Creating a peaceful environment for them was a father's duty.

Now everything is ready except for the final push. An Yan is waiting to become Hokage so that he can rightfully lead Konoha to face the world.

While An'an was waiting, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, resigned from his position as Hokage, citing his inability to protect the Daimyo of the Land of Fire as the reason.

Hiruzen Sarutobi submitted his resignation directly to the Daimyo's office and summoned all members of the Jonin team to recommend and elect the next Hokage.

Although Konoha has always promoted the idea that the Hokage is elected by the people, this "people" does not refer to the villagers, but rather to all the officially appointed Jonin in the Jonin team.

In theory, every Jonin has the potential to become Hokage, as long as they can secure the votes of the majority of Jonin.

As a Jonin, An Yan naturally attended the meeting. This meeting was attended not only by Jonin from Konoha, but also by staff from the Daimyo's office in the Land of Fire. The Daimyo should have been present as well, but he had enjoyed the roller coaster ride and was feeling a bit cold.

At the conference table, one row of officials from the Land of Fire sat on one side, and the other row of high-ranking officials from Konoha, led by the Third Hokage, including Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, as well as Sakumo Hatake, the captain of the Anbu, and Torifu Akimichi, the Jonin class leader.

Behind the conference table, rows of chairs were neatly arranged, and all the Jonin members of Konoha were in place.

An Yan naturally took the seat in the first row, with Tsunade, Orochimaru, Hiruko, Jiraiya, and others sitting on his left and right sides respectively.

These seats aren't just for random people. Most of the ninjas in the first row are powerful figures in the village. Tsunade is the head of medical affairs, Hiruko is the leader of Root, Orochimaru inherited Tobirama Senju's Konoha technology research and development department, and Jiraiya is the head of Konoha's intelligence department.

In addition to An Yan, in the first row were Uzumaki clan leader, who was in charge of the Konoha Sealing Team, and Uchiha Kagami, who was in charge of the Konoha Guard.

Starting from the second row are the heads of various ninja clans, such as the Hyuga clan, the Ino-Shika-Cho clan, the Gekko clan, the Aburame clan, the Inuzuka clan, the Kurama clan, and the Shimura clan.

Starting from the third row, civilian ninjas appear, such as Minato Namikaze, Nawaki, Konan, and Yahiko.

Although Nawaki belongs to the legitimate bloodline of the Senju clan, the Senju have long since integrated into Konoha, so he would not identify himself as a Senju. His current identity is naturally that of a commoner, just like Tsunade. It is believed that in a few decades, no one will know who the Senju clan members are anymore. After all, Hashirama Senju was too terrifying, and the Second Hokage could only protect his clan members in this way.

Under the solemn gaze of everyone, the discussion about the Fourth Hokage officially began.

There are currently six nominees: Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Sakumo Hatake, Yasuie, and Hiruko.

Chapter 126 Taking Office as Hokage

There are only a handful of outstanding ninjas in this generation, each possessing Kage-level strength, making one marvel at the sheer number of talented individuals in Konoha. In contrast, the lack of successors in ninjas like Sunagakure, Rock Ninja, and Mist Ninja is truly regrettable. What? Killed by Konoha? That's alright then.

However, before everyone could start voting, Tsunade stood up first and announced loudly, "I abstain. In addition, I recommend An Yan to be the Fourth Hokage of Konoha."

Hiruko felt slightly dissatisfied that Tsunade had beaten him to what he wanted to do, and then he was the second to stand up.

“I abstain. In addition, I also recommend Anyan to be the fourth generation.”

The elder brother, Sakumo Hatake, also stated: "If Yasui becomes the fourth generation, I will agree with it."

Orochimaru slowly raised his hand and said, "I need to do experiments, so I don't have time to be Hokage. An Yan is very suitable."

Jiraiya didn't even bother to raise his hand; he simply said, "I'm not suited to be Hokage, An Yan is quite suitable."

As expected, five of the six Hokage candidates abstained, and the result was immediately decided.

Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado were reluctant to let An'iwa become the Fourth Hokage. If An'iwa took over, they would certainly not have their current status. However, the two of them were in charge of administration and logistics, and they themselves did not have much power. Without the support of the Third Hokage, hardly anyone listened to what they said.

Seeing that Tsunade and the others had expressed their opinions, the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, naturally had to do the same. He immediately stood up and said, "In that case, I recommend An Yan to be the Fourth Hokage. Does anyone have any objections?"

The first to express their stance were naturally the officials from the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Fire. Although they were there to be figureheads, they still had to put on a good show.

"Is it An Yan, who killed the Third Kazekage in the previous war? Our Daimyo Prefecture has no objection to his election as Hokage."

Next came the anonymous voting. Among the nearly one hundred Jonin in Konoha's ninja ranks, more than ninety votes were cast for An Yan, with only a few abstentions. He was elected almost unanimously.

An Yan's Jonin approval rating is truly terrifying, but this is the result of his years of cultivating connections. He not only inherited Mito Uzumaki's political legacy, but also Tsunade's connections with the Senju clan.

After the unanimous approval, there was nothing more to say at the meeting. The Third Hokage quickly announced the end of the meeting, and then a notice was clearly posted on the bulletin board of Konoha Village that An'an would become the Fourth Hokage.

Next is the Hokage handover ceremony, scheduled for a few days from now. In these few days, Konoha needs to complete all the necessary handover procedures and documents.

Konoha Ninja School.

The news that An Yan was about to become the Fourth Hokage of Konoha spread. Many students were incredulous that their head of discipline had suddenly become the village chief, but they also felt a little proud because he was their head of discipline.