Naruto: The whole world knows I am the savior

Chapter 125: Responses from Various Ninja Villages

"I'm such a devil!"

When Shirokumo Yosuke opened his eyes, he thought about how he had impulsively added another person to his list of partners last night.

Fortunately, Sasuke Uchiha managed to drag Sakura into the mess; otherwise, given her personality, she might have told Ino, and then his plan would have failed.

Sakura, who has little experience, is being fooled by Yosuke Shirakumo, as if she has stepped into a quagmire. As time goes by, she will only sink deeper and deeper until she is completely unable to extricate herself.

Early in the morning, after quietly waking up in Tsunade's arms, Shirokumo Yosuke tiptoed away from the warm embrace, intending to go downstairs to wash up and prepare breakfast.

When Tsunade returned last night, she happened to be having a drink again, so Shiraku Yosuke took her back to her room and then clung to her all night; this time he went a step further than last time.

"That brat!"

After Shirakumo Yosuke quietly left and closed the door, Tsunade suddenly opened her eyes and cursed. She had been awake for a while, but she didn't rush to attack Shirakumo Yosuke when she saw him sleeping soundly.

Anyway, having experienced it once before, it wouldn't be a big deal to do it a second time. Besides, Tsunade saw that Shiraku Yosuke fell asleep quickly last night, and all she could think about was how hard this kid worked for Konoha. She couldn't help but feel a little pity for him.

If it weren't for Hakuun Yosuke, Tsunade couldn't help but imagine the consequences: if Hakuun Yosuke had been taken away by people from other ninja villages, Konoha would be in a terrible state right now.

Orochimaru won't return, his subordinates and research on Konoha won't be involved, and neither will the ninja games and the Uchiha's ninja tool workshop, nor will the Daimyo provide unconditional support.

It is because of Yosuke Hakukumo that Konoha has been able to develop to this point, having the foundation to fight against two ninja villages and the confidence to destroy Kumogakure.

"Hmph, let's just consider this a little perk she, the Hokage, is giving to this idiot disciple."

Tsunade rolled over and pulled the blanket over herself again, intending to sleep a little longer before Shirakumo Yosuke finished making breakfast. She hadn't slept well last night because she was so nervous.

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In the Sand Village, in the Kazekage's office, after receiving a message from Konoha, Rasa straightened the Kazekage's hat and said, "It's finally about to begin. Maki, how are Gaara and the others preparing?"

"Not bad. With Gaara's strength, he should be able to get a top ranking, or even first place, in this Chunin Exams. There shouldn't be any genin who can beat Gaara."

Maki spoke up, as Gaara's Jonin leader, he knew Gaara's condition better than anyone else.

If it were Gaara from two years ago, it would be hard to say; but since the seal was changed, although Gaara is still like a madman, he can at least sleep and slowly control the power of the One-Tailed Beast through the seal.

"The gourd of sand behind Gaara seems to be helping him control the power of the One-Tailed Beast. Kazekage-sama, at this rate, Gaara will soon become the force that protects the village."

"That's not Gaara, that's Karyu helping her child."

Luo Sha spoke with a nostalgic expression, but shook his head before finishing his sentence. He then said to Ma Ji, "Go and prepare. I will set off with you in a month."

"Yes, Lord Kazekage."

In the same scene, at the newly rebuilt Mizukage building in Kirigakure, Mei Terumi rubbed her forehead, looking somewhat troubled, and then asked Ao beside her, "Ao, how's the selection of the genin teams going? Are there any usable ones?"

"Well, Mizukage-sama, although we've prepared some genin teams, the Chunin Exams are too rushed. It will be quite difficult to get a top ranking or even first place."

Mei Terumi sighed and said, "Never mind, we didn't focus on training genin before. It's a pity that Chojuro is already a chunin, otherwise it would have been perfect to let him participate in this exam."

Ao said thoughtfully, "Lord Mizukage, how about letting Chojuro be a genin?"

"Don't even think about it, Ao. Chojuro is one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. If he sneaks into the Chunin Exams as a genin and gets discovered by Konoha and Sunagakure, Kirigakure will lose face."

Mei Terumi immediately rejected Ao's idea, then sighed and said, "Forget it, this Chunin Exams were too sudden. Just participate normally. But Ao, you can stay in Kirigakure this time."

"Huh? Why? As the Mizukage's bodyguard, I should..."

Before Ao could finish speaking, Mei Terumi pointed to her right eye and said to him, "We've just formed an alliance with Konoha, so we should try to avoid this kind of thing. Otherwise, if the Hyuga clan of Konoha sees it, something bad might happen."

"That general from the Land of Fire is incredibly tough, and his strength is truly astounding. Ao, have the villagers hurry and search for the Three-Tails' whereabouts. And Utakata, tell him to master the Tailed Beast's power as soon as possible and stop thinking about escaping the village."

The Fourth Mizukage died so suddenly that they didn't even have time to perform the Three-Tails transfer.

Previously, Kirigakure paid little attention to Jinchuriki, but after witnessing the catastrophic power of Yosuke Shirakumo, Kirigakure began to consider training Tailed Beast Jinchuriki again.

Unlike Shiraku Yosuke, as long as one can fully control the power of the tailed beasts, it will greatly enhance the village's strength.

Unfortunately, Kirigakure realized this too late. Even if they train them now, it will be difficult for them to catch up with the next Shinobi World War. Otherwise, dealing with the Cloud Ninja would be much easier for them.

In Kumogakure, Mabui relayed Konoha's message to the Fourth Raikage, who, unusually, did not become angry.

The Fourth Raikage pondered for a moment before asking, "Tsuchikage, Azaburo, what are your opinions? What is Konoha planning to do?"

"If it were just the Chunin Exams, it would be nothing more than showing off our strength and trying to suppress us in terms of the new generation of ninjas; however, not long after what happened in Kirigakure, Kirigakure must have already formed an alliance with Konoha. I just didn't expect Konoha to be able to tolerate this."

Tsuchitai shook his head, feeling somewhat guilty for his initial idea, which had wasted Omoro's life and led to the alliance between Kirigakure and Konoha.

The death of a village envoy in the enemy ninja village would cause a huge uproar if the news got back to the village. They used the same excuse to force the head of the Hyuga clan of Konoha to pay with his life.

Unexpectedly, Konoha tolerated this and even formed an alliance with Kirigakure.

"Tsuchidai, it's not your fault. The plan was good, but those guys in Konoha were too useless. They'd agree to any demand just to form an alliance. How's their intelligence gathering going?"

The Fourth Raikage said in a deep voice that he had been thinking about revenge against Konoha for the past two years, and therefore had developed military equipment for more than two years. Now the strength of the Cloud Ninja had recovered to its previous level, and even surpassed it in some aspects.

Tsuchitai shook his head and said, "Not good. There's very little useful intelligence. In the past two years, we've lost more than a dozen lurking ninjas, but we've only managed to gather a handful of useful information. All we know is that Konoha has increased its training of medical ninjas, and that they've opened up several highly secret locations around Konoha."

We know such places exist, but we can't even get close to them.

Konoha has classified several locations within the village into different levels of security. Places like Konoha Hospital, which are only classified as Level 2, are usually patrolled by Chunin.

The Flying Castle, the Scientific Ninja Tool Research Institute, and Orochimaru's research base are all at the same level of secrecy as the Hokage Building; they are not only protected by barriers, but also patrolled by reconnaissance-type Anbu ninjas, making it impossible for any Cloud Ninjas to get close.

"However, it is speculated that Konoha is also engaged in an arms race, and it seems that they also have plans to prepare for war."

The Fourth Raikage said coldly, "It doesn't matter. We anticipated an arms race, and we already have a countermeasure against the earthen platform. How long until the chakra cannon is ready?"

"It will take at least three months, and charging alone will take ten days."

Tsuchitai said, "The Chakra Cannon is the Cloud Ninja's ultimate weapon. Its maximum power is even comparable to the Eight-Tails' full-force attack. However, it takes too long to charge, and after charging, it can only fire two shots before it needs to be charged again."

"Three months, roughly the month after the Chunin Exams, let's inform the Iwa ninja and start the war against Konoha around that time!"

The Fourth Raikage ordered that the Iwa ninja had tried to outsmart Konoha last time, but in the end, they only managed to force Konoha to surrender by dragging things out. If they had gone all out from the beginning and attacked Konoha together with them, Konoha definitely wouldn't have been able to hold on.

After they withdrew from the war, the Iwa ninja launched a full-scale attack, only to face two of the legendary Sannin, one of whom was a medical expert. To this, the Fourth Raikage could only say that they deserved it, letting that bastard Onoki try to be the mantis stalking the cicada.

"This time, I'm forcing that bastard Onoki to join the attack on Konoha, or I'll attack Iwagakure! None of those bastards are any good!"

The Fourth Raikage angrily cursed the Iwa ninja. If it weren't for the fact that Konoha was an enemy, and that the future of Kumogakure was at stake, he would never have joined forces with those bastards from Iwa.

He wouldn't forget the debt of sending ten thousand ninjas to kill his father; he'd settle it after dealing with Konoha.

Not only the five great ninja villages, but also many small ninja villages in the ninja world received news of the Konoha Chunin Exams.

Takigakure, Kusagakure, Hoshigakure, and Amegakure, etc.

After receiving the news, Takigakure and Kusanagi quickly decided to participate, even though ninjas from small villages were considered mere foils to the major ninja villages in the Chunin Exams.

But they had a strange confidence that if they could get a good ranking in the Chunin Exams, they would become famous throughout the ninja world.

Amegakure

Konan approached Nagato, handed him an invitation from Konoha, and said, "Nagato, Konoha is holding the Chunin Exams. Should we participate?"

"The Chunin Exams?"

"According to the information Zetsu gathered, Konoha has invited almost all the ninja villages, including Iwagakure and Kumogakure."

Konan continued to say to Nagato, "This is probably not a simple Chunin Exam; Konoha may have other plans."

"Did you manage to gather any information?"

Konan shook her head and said, "Several times we were almost discovered by Konoha. They set up high-level security barriers in several places, so we couldn't get any useful information for the time being."

The number of clones Zetsu can be limited now. His clones require Hashirama cells and chakra, and are cultivated using the Gedo Mazo. Madara Uchiha cultivated more than a hundred of them during his lifetime.

Although Zetsu kept creating new clones, the clones appeared very slowly without the support of a large amount of chakra.

Furthermore, Zetsu used most of his clones to search for Obito's whereabouts and the location of the tailed beasts, and his attention was not focused on Konoha at all. After being discovered twice, he gave up.

"Let's send five squads to participate, but why would the people of Konoha invite us? If they notice us, it won't be hard for them to find out that the Akatsuki organization is in Amegakure."

Nagato was a little puzzled by this. Last time, they were all prepared for the Konoha ninja to come and gather intelligence, but Konoha hadn't made any moves for two years, as if they didn't care at all that the Akatsuki organization was accepting the Iwa ninja's employment.

"Konan, I always felt that Konoha was acting very quickly. Even if it was because of Itachi Uchiha, Konoha should have sent people to investigate and gather intelligence, but now there's been little reaction."

Konan was also unsure of Konoha's plans, so she could only advise Nagato, "Perhaps Konoha's focus is on Iwagakure and Kumogakure, and they're not in such a hurry for us."

"Nagato, Iwagakure has sent people again, and they're war mercenaries again. We..."

"Accept it. After this war, we'll have enough funds to begin Project Eye of the Moon."

Nagato told Konan that most of the funds earned by the Akatsuki organization were used to develop the strength of Amegakure. Now Amegakure has trained many people, making it easier for them to obtain intelligence.

Furthermore, the subsequent peace plan will require a large number of people, and they can begin once they accept this employment commission.

"Then, we'll stick to the personnel arrangements from last time. I'll go and reply to the people from Iwagakure shortly."

"Okay, please, Minami."

After saying that, Nagato closed his eyes. He seemed to have discovered a special power residing in the Rinnegan, but his strength was insufficient to use it.

However, as long as he is with Tobi, his chakra will gradually increase, and eventually one day he will be able to fully unleash the power of the Rinnegan.

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News came quickly from the various ninja villages; almost all of them agreed to participate in the Chunin Exams.

Even the Star Village sent a team of Genin, but their reply indicated that they wanted to ask Konoha for help because their Star Stone had been stolen, and ten million ryo had been left at the place where the Star Stone was enshrined.

This nearly made the Third Hokage and the other Hokage faint with anger. The Hokage Stone was the symbol of their Hokage Village, and now it had been stolen in such a humiliating way, but they had no way of finding out who the culprit was.

So, coming to Konoha to participate in the Chunin Exams was partly to broaden the horizons of the village's ninjas, and partly to seek help from Konoha ninjas.

However, after learning about Hoshinobu's request, Shirokumo Yosuke could only shrug inwardly. He genuinely wanted to make amends, but he didn't have much money, so he only left behind ten million ryo.

Moreover, the Star Ninja Village would inevitably fall into internal strife because of the Star Stone, so taking it away by Hakuun Yosuke could be considered as helping the Star Ninja Village.

After receiving replies from all the ninja villages, Konoha began preparations; the village had also changed a lot in the past two years, and Tsunade, with ample funds, had improved the village's appearance.

They built some places to entertain guests, as well as some new apartments for villagers, which can accommodate more civilians; they also improved the road infrastructure, which changed Konoha's previous "old, dilapidated and small" style.

It was only in the last two years, with the village having more funds, that Tsunade was able to do this. She also restarted the medical ninja training system, although Shizune was in charge of most of the work.

One day

Yosuke Shiraku went to Tsunade's office and submitted an application and explanation to her.

After reading it, Tsunade frowned and rubbed her forehead, saying, "Why now? Yosuke, this shouldn't be effective in the short term, and war is just around the corner."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's established, that's fine. War might actually promote the development of secret medicine, and researching secret medicine can also make the common people of the Land of Fire richer, which can be considered as improving the income level of the people in the country."

Bai Yunyang waved his hand and said...

However, Tsunade said irritably after listening, "You're starting to spout nonsense again."

Bai Yunyangjie retorted, "How can this be considered fallacy? If a secret medicine is developed, it will definitely require the production of a large amount of medicinal materials. At that time, I can send people to designate a poor village to produce it, and then I will buy it all. This can be considered as creating an opportunity for them to make money."

"That makes some sense, but I don't have much time, and I only tested your medical ninjutsu before; I don't think I've taught you much pharmacology yet."

Tsunade rested her chin on her hand and said, "Besides, the village doesn't have much funding left to allocate to you."

"I don't need Konoha's money; I can pay for it myself. However, I'll need the support of some medical ninjas. The people I select need to join, and all the ninjas captured during the war must be handed over to me."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade understood Shiraku Yosuke's plan, then clenched her fist and said, "You damned disciple, how come you're becoming more and more like your second grandfather!"

Her second grandfather was a master of human experimentation, who had previously developed many forbidden techniques using prisoners of war. Now her disciple had the same idea. Tsunade sighed helplessly in her heart. However, Shirokumo Yosuke was also developing secret medicines to reduce casualties among his Konoha comrades.

Even if she doesn't want to see human experimentation, she can't undermine the goal of reducing casualties among Konoha ninja.

"Alright, I got it. Go ahead and do it. But come back early tonight. I'll give you the notes that Second Grandfather used to keep."

Tsunade sighed inwardly, then paused before continuing, "My second grandfather had a very thorough understanding of the human body and left behind a lot of notes. However, Grandma Mito thought that these notes would affect me and Nawaki, so she sealed them all away. You might find them useful, but it would be best to leave these matters to Orochimaru."

"Also, if there's anything you don't understand, just ask me. There aren't many people in the ninja world who are better at drug research than me."

"Of course, I'll definitely need to trouble you, Tsunade-sensei, since you're a medical genius."

Shirokumo Yosuke gave a thumbs-up in praise, and his words brought an irrepressible smile to Tsunade's pretty face.

Tsunade certainly has the qualifications; there is currently no poison in the ninja world that she cannot cure, and her mastery of medicine has reached the T0 level.

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