From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 117 He Saw (5k)

Karajima Yagura sat quietly on the spot, as if he had completely lost consciousness, his eyes wide open staring blankly ahead, seemingly completely unable to maintain consciousness.

In the illusion just now, he saw countless scenes that were shocking, terrifying, thrilling, and even completely incomprehensible.

He saw the blade covered in flames in Sawara Kiri's hand suddenly become extremely retracted, forming a colorful and charred blade that looked like a dead tree.

After the words "Bankai: Zankajitachi" were shouted out, the sword that was obviously no longer usable, at the moment of swinging the blade, burst into a blaze that engulfed the boundless sky.

It was a blade that could engulf the human world, with a temperature of over 15 million degrees Celsius, comparable to the high temperature near the core of the inner layer of the sun.

The entire world could be destroyed simply by maintaining its release.

With a seemingly ordinary blow of the sword, the land of dozens of kilometers in front of him was completely wiped out in an instant, and the ninjas standing in the woods were also turned into countless ashes.

He saw Sawara Kiri standing on the surface of the sea, facing the familiar island in front of him.

Countless Mist Ninjas stood on the shore as if facing a formidable enemy, and launched an almost life-and-death charge towards him, roaring across the sea, and trying to swallow him whole with all kinds of water-based ninjutsu.

However, he was like an island standing on the sea. No matter how hard the impact was, he would not move an inch. He just looked at the people running towards him with mockery.

Until the end, he suddenly shouted "Tremor-Tremor Fruit", then stretched out his fist and punched the surface of the air walls on both sides with a "dong". Cracks exploded in the void and continued to spread like spider webs. Amidst bursts of crackling sounds, endless ripples spread out in all directions with him as the center.

The next moment, the entire sea surface, including the island that supported the Hidden Mist Village, was turned upside down in an instant by the irresistible violent shock.

The raging tsunami quickly engulfed the entire Kirigakure and countless Kirigakure ninjas with lightning speed.

He saw time flowing backwards and space twisting;
He saw a punch thrown, ripples running;

He saw the giants called Ultraman, who were tens of thousands of tons flying at Mach 10;
He saw Sawara Kiri transform into a magical girl;

He sees he sees he sees
Countless images flashed through his mind, and Gotachibana Yagura felt a little overwhelmed by the mental pressure of being there in person.

He began to be certain from the bottom of his heart that all of this was an illusion made up by the man in front of him in order to conquer his heart, just like a movie.

"Fake!"

"Hahahaha-"

“It’s all fake!!”

He suddenly lost his composure and shouted, "Hui Ye Lian, you damn liar! Traitor! You made up all these scenes!!!"

"I've seen through your tricks!"

However, Sawara Kiri was only nonchalantly replaying in his mind the scene in which he had head-on defeated the One-Tailed Shukaku some time ago.

"is it?"

Yellow sand filled the sky, spells and monsters.

Its gigantic body seemed to merge with the entire desert, and it roared madly and spewed out the extremely powerful Tailed Beast Ball towards him.

Yagura Karatsuka had seen the tailed beasts.

The three-tailed isobutsu and the six-tailed rhino are the weapons that the Hidden Mist Village has valued the most throughout the ages.

However, the Tailed Beast Ball, which was exerting its full strength, was completely shattered into a diffuse ball of chakra light at the moment when the crimson-purple light shone.

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Karuju Yagura couldn't help but be stunned.

It was like he was speechless for a moment.

That was the scene recorded in the internal report.

[The One-Tail Jinchūriki was shot through the abdomen and died]

In the entire ninja world, although there are not many people who have the ability to subdue the tailed beasts, there are definitely not too few of them.

However, there are also huge differences between uniform tailed beasts and uniform tailed beasts.

One way is to fight with the Eight-Tails until he is exhausted like the Third Raikage did. Another way is to drive a wooden man mecha like the First Hokage did, hold the Nine-Tails' head with one hand and the Tailed Beast Ball with the other hand, and shout: "Nine-Tails, you are too powerful. You must be sealed!"

Can the two be compared?

Karuji Yagura thinks that's not possible.

His voice was a little hoarse, as if he had gradually calmed down in the face of the cruel reality. He raised his head with difficulty, looked at the man in front of him who was always smiling gently, and whispered:
"How did you do that?"

Be it hysteria or disbelief.

He is now a dying man, and no matter what happens in the future, any information he can get now will be a gain.

When Karuju Yagura said this, he did not realize that his heart had begun to waver.

"It's not just this space ninjutsu."

"Also, what are those techniques that I just saw?"

Sawara Kiri slowly leaned over, met his eyes full of desire and curiosity, and gave an answer that Karagi Yagura least wanted to hear:
"Those are the images that my future self saw, Master Yagura."

Goji Yagura's pupils constricted.

Before he could ask any more questions, Sahara Kiri had already spoken:
"Since I was young, I don't know why, but I can see many, many pictures that are different from this era."

"Some of them I sacrificed for Kirigakure, some of them I was killed by Kirigakure's people, and some of them died worthlessly on the battlefield."

"Because there was so much to see, there were naturally more and more things worth learning for me. So when I was about ten years old, in an environment like Konoha where there was no one to teach me, I already had abilities that surpassed ordinary jonin."

"As my strength increases, the power I can learn also becomes stronger and stronger, so strong that mortals like you cannot understand it."

Sawara Kiri turned around and looked at him with a smile: "I can understand your feelings, Lord Yagura."

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Goji Yagura looked at him in a daze.

I see?

I see! !
No wonder, he was an ordinary ninja from the Kaguya clan, a half-grown child who was abandoned as a disposable item, but was able to protect himself and hide his identity in an environment like Konoha.

No wonder he is so young but has such a deep mind that can hide it for ten years, and such superb fire escape and sword skills that are so strong that it seems as if they have been honed for countless years.

No wonder he was able to independently develop this integrated offensive and defensive spatial ninjutsu that goes beyond the current understanding.

If it is seen from the 'future'.
All this irrationality now makes sense.

But how could such an outrageous thing happen in the world? And why did it happen to this man?

If it were me
It was almost difficult for Karuta Yagura to control himself as this thought came to his mind.

Whether it is the village's problems, future obstacles, or the general direction of development, there are more.
This feeling of unwillingness, as if encountering a wall, seemed to engulf Karuji Yagura's entire heart.

But then, as if he suddenly thought of something, he raised his head and looked straight in the direction of Sawara Kiri:
"wait wait wait--"

"You said that was a different future?!"

"But, but why, every scene you are in, is about slaughtering ninjas from other villages?"

"This is unreasonable!"

Karutagi Yagura suddenly asked loudly and looked at Sawara Kiri with horror.

Under normal circumstances, after realizing that Sawara Kiri is a ninja as powerful as the first Hokage, as long as the leaders of the other villages at that time were sane enough, they would no longer be his enemies.

Submit and develop peacefully.

This should be the real path of that era.

but why?
Karuju Yagura stared at Sawara Kiri.

This handsome young man with a bright smile suddenly broke into a brilliant smile:

"It seems that you have discovered it."

Goji Yagura's expression suddenly froze.

Sahara Kiri didn't intend to take his feelings into consideration at all, and continued in a gentle tone:

"Yes, it's what you think."

"No matter which world line it is, I intend to embark on a path of completely destroying other ninja villages."

“The world is too chaotic right now.”

"The powerful force that should be used to accelerate development is used by ninjas to fight each other. Don't you think this is a very stupid approach?"

"Because of the existence of this omnipotent force, there are almost no limits to the development of all disciplines, whether it is biology, chemistry, environment, or materials. Even wild animals can possess human wisdom with this power."

"People, on the contrary, are like wild beasts."

Saihara Kiri said this, turned his head and looked at the already stiff-faced Karatachi Yagura, and said in a calm voice:
"I want to end this era of chaos."

"I don't intend to change anyone's mind, nor do I intend to reason with them. Only annihilation on the material level can remove all the weeds."

"I am destined to be the strongest in this era."

"But I will never be as soft-hearted as those two adults, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha."

“——They are really too gentle.”

Karuji Yagura listened to his words, but felt his throat dry and hoarse, unable to speak:
"You crazy person!"

"Do you know how many people there are in the other ninja villages? Do you know how many people you will have to kill to accomplish this goal?"

Sawara Kiri looked at him strangely and asked, "Have you ever counted how many ninjas have died on the battlefield since the establishment of the ninja village?"

“Is it worth it to eradicate one generation of people in exchange for peace for at least five generations to come?”

"Have you really thought about this question?" Karuju Yagura was stunned.

But when he began to think deeply along the lines of Sawara Kiri, and compared the current natural birth rate and death rate with the ninja death rate to calculate a simple result and data model, Karuta Yagura suddenly felt that there might be something wrong with his brain.

It's not the difference in numbers;
But?

Among these possible victims, is there anyone he cares about?

At this moment, Karuju Yagura suddenly realized his own narrow-mindedness.

Putting himself in other people's shoes, he almost subconsciously said: "Don't you care about anyone in Kirigakure? You are a ninja from the Kaguya clan!"

Sahara Kiri looked at him with a very puzzled look and asked, "Are you talking about the fourth elder of the family who pushed me out for selection and training because he didn't want his second son to be chosen as a spy?"

"Or is it the clan leader who pretended not to know even after seeing the missing persons list?"

"Or they don't care about other people's lives or their own lives at all, except for fighting and breaking each other's bones for fun."

"The Kaguya clan?"

what.

This kind of look is like looking at an enemy.

Ruined.

Karajima Yagura finally gave up hope of convincing him, and subconsciously imagined the day in the future when all the people in the village would be slaughtered, with a tragic smile on his face.

Sawara Kiri patted his shoulder and said in a gentle tone: "Think positively, Lord Yagura."

"Trust me and spy for me."

"You are not going to destroy Kirigakure. On the contrary, you are the hero who endures humiliation and sacrifices everything to preserve the last spark of Kirigakure."

When he heard the last sentence, a tiny light suddenly lit up in the depths of Goji Yagura's eyes.

It was just a flash of light, captured by Sawara Kiri.

Karuju Yagura sat there in deep thought for a long time.

Finally, take a deep breath.

"My mission has failed. Even if I can go back, I will definitely be executed by the village. What's the point of you telling me so much now, but it's just for a dead person to hear?"

"Even if you want to cooperate with me, you have to give me a way out."

Cooperation, not undercover.

And it is only limited cooperation, not espionage under unilateral control.

Karuju Yagura was thinking in his mind, but his thoughts had already wavered unconsciously.

He has accepted the reality that "Sawara Kiri is destined to become the strongest of this era and will destroy the entire ninja world except Konoha."

Looking at his dejected appearance, a smile slowly appeared on Sawara Kiri's face.

"Who said your mission failed?"

"No, quite the opposite."

"Your mission was very successful, and you confirmed that the seal was still effective against 'Hugyalen', but because there were multiple ANBU teams lurking around the target, you were forced to retreat before you could make further gains."

He spoke eloquently as if everything he said was established fact.

Sawara Kiri looked at him with a calm expression:
"Trust me, Yagura-kun."

"When you first return to the village, you may be thrown into jail, but before long, you will be praised to the sky by the entire Kirigakure and become the magic weapon for victory in the eyes of everyone in Kirigakure."

"You will become the hero of Kirigakure."

Karuju Yagura murmured subconsciously: "Will I become the hero of Kirigakure?"

Mingming, has it come to this?
"Yes, hero."

Sahara Kiri lowered her voice and repeated it in his ear.

Like the devil's whisper, it bewitches people's hearts.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Shimura Danzo raised his head, accompanied by several Root ninjas, and stood in front of the tunnel to take a look. He snorted in disdain:
"The secret base I built for the Root is actually being used for this purpose?"

"Waste utilization."

“That’s really your style.”

While he was observing the entrance of the cave, Mizutomon En beside him was also looking at him.

Eyes, arms.

All the original defects were healed by some unknown means, and the Root Ninjas who followed him all showed chakra reactions that had never been seen before.

All of this will cost an unknown amount of resources.

This guy Danzo is indeed the one with the richest family among all the consultants.

In addition, his aura has also changed a lot.

Arrogant, confident, and high-spirited.

It's like going back to my youth.

No.

To be precise, his chakra reaction is indeed much stronger than before.

Is it because of that arm?
Mitokado En's eyes glanced over casually, but still looked as if he had noticed nothing - if it were during the time when Hiruzen was still awake, Danzo's increased strength might have posed a threat to the balance of the advisory group.

But now the threat from the "Entire Bank Group" is getting more and more serious, and the advisory group has become dispensable. The power of several of them has been severely eroded, and it is even unclear whether the advisory group will be able to exist in the near future.

At this time, Danzo's increased strength became good news for them.

Mitomon Yan thought so in his heart, and said casually:

"All right."

"Don't say those sarcastic words at a time like this."

"Humph."

Danzo didn't say anything more. He snorted and strode ahead as if he was going home, and stepped into the secret base.

After a while, it stopped in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The light in the stone chamber was still bright.

However, the man who was once so majestic and imposing has now become a dried-up shell waiting for death on this stone platform.

Danzo Shimura watched this scene indifferently.

It is impossible to say that he had no feelings in his heart. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

Non-vegetation, ruthless Practice makes perfect.

Even though he had already dedicated his life to darkness, he had longed for and yearned for the position where he could stand in the sun for a long time - to be precise, he still longed for it until now. At the same time, he was also confused about the decision that Sarutobi Hiruzen made in the past.

It was his lifelong regret that he failed to take the lead when Tobirama-sensei chose the person to leave behind.

In order to make up for that regret, he chose the most dangerous and difficult path shrouded in shadows among the ninjas, trying to make up for his past cowardice.

But now, the person who should have been standing in the sun has once again chosen the path of sacrifice and is lying here. Instead, he, the person in the darkness, is struggling like an earthworm to burrow deep into the soil and survives in his current state.

This strong sense of contrast made him feel inexplicably angry.

But gradually, watching him lying there, this strong feeling of anger inexplicably disappeared and turned into the same indifference as at the beginning.

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"Hiruzen."

"You idiot, how long are you going to humiliate me?"

"But it doesn't matter."

Shimura Danzo looked at him quietly. The pale arm covered by heavy bandages gradually showed blue veins. He clenched his fist tightly and said in a cold voice:
"He's just the Third Raikage."

"Just wait a little longer. Once the control experiment of that arm is successful, I will let him see the true power of the 'Ninja God'."

"When the time comes, I will take your place with a great victory."

"Then, I'll show you how a real Hokage should act."

He came here and looked quietly for a long time, as if just to make such a declaration.

After finishing all the words he had wanted to say for a long time, Shimura Danzo's gaze lingered for a long time on Sarutobi Hiruzen's face which was covered by the medical seal. He turned his back and remained silent for a long time:
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"Huruzen, I am the Hokage."

But this time, no one refuted him like before.

In this silence, Shimura Danzo walked out of the stone chamber.

"Yan, tell me about the current situation."

　First update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)