Konoha: Intentionally losing to Hinata at the start

It's unlikely that she'll act recklessly as before.

For the first time in the Hokage's room, Yu Ming put his arm around Tsunade's slender waist and calmly smiled, "Once the situation stabilizes, we'll have one, whether it's a boy or a girl. Ideally, the boy should be as handsome and strong as me, and the girl should be as beautiful as you. As for personality, well, it's better if she's gentle."

Yu Ming originally wanted to say that her personality was the same as Tsunade's, but thinking about Tsunade's personality, Yu Ming felt that if he had a daughter, it would be best if she had a gentle personality.

If he were to have children, Yu Ming would prefer a boy and a girl. The boy would inherit his strength and good looks, while the girl would inherit Yu Ming's power and Tsunade's beauty.

After hearing Yu Ming's hesitant words, Tsunade glared at him and said, "Are you saying my personality is bad?"

Yu Ming smiled and said, "No, I just hope she's a little gentle, but as cheerful as you are."

Tsunade is actually quite gentle when she's with herself.

So after just glaring at Yu Ming, she sighed, "I hope our children can live in a peaceful world."

Hearing this, Yu Ming was certain that Tsunade's mindset had not changed; this was the older generation's expectation of the new generation.

However, he is not young anymore. The past twenty years in his previous life, plus the sixteen years in this life, make it almost thirty years.

In fact, the combined age of his two lifetimes wasn't much younger than Tsunade's.

Yu Ming laughed and said, "It's still early, but with me here, if we have children, I will definitely protect them well."

Tsunade smiled slightly, leaned against the windowsill, and looked at the bright sun outside.

The next day, Yu Ming devised a training plan for Naruto, having him train at Konoha's training grounds.

Konoha has many training grounds, and several of them are extremely large, such as the Forest of Death, which has a radius of ten kilometers.

Even a typical training ground can stretch for several kilometers.

Those training grounds are all located on the outskirts of the residential areas.

However, they all belong to Konoha Village.

The central residential area is mostly inhabited by ninja families.

Naruto was training in a large training ground.

Yamato watched from the side. Although an agreement had been reached with Kurama, it was still necessary for someone to keep an eye on things just in case.

For more than a month, Yu Ming was not assigned any missions by Tsunade.

The main reason is that there weren't any tasks that Yu Ming absolutely had to complete.

So Yu Ming either stayed in the Hokage's room reading books or in the Senju clan's secret room reading books every day.

Wherever he was, he spent most of his time reading.

In just over a month, Naruto was able to safely use a portion of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Although he cannot fully utilize it yet, even at the level of the Seven-Tails, he can maintain a clear mind.

Once you reach this stage, you'll be powerful enough.

Naruto, now unleashing his Tailed Beast Mode, has reached Kage-level strength.

Sasuke is probably no match for Naruto anymore.

Tsunade was also quite satisfied. She didn't want Naruto to become too powerful, as long as he could ensure that she wouldn't be captured by Akatsuki when facing them.

Naruto can do that now, as long as he's not facing a master like Itachi Uchiha or Nagato Uzumaki.

While Naruto was mastering the Seven-Tails' mode, Tsunade received information from the Fire Temple.

In the Hokage's office, Tsunade frowned as she looked at Yamato, Naruto, Sakura, and Sai standing in front of her. "This mission is for you to investigate why the bodies at the Fire Temple disappeared. The ninjas buried around the Fire Temple were all members of the former Twelve Ninja Warriors."

Naruto was stunned for a moment, completely unaware of what the Twelve Ninja Warriors were.

"Grandma Tsunade, what are the Twelve Ninja Warriors?"

Tsunade thought for a moment and said, "All you need to know is that they were twelve elite Jonin from the Land of Fire. Their bodies were stolen, so someone must want to use their bodies for something."

Naruto was stunned. "Twelve elite Jonin? Does our Land of Fire have that many elite Jonin?"

You have to understand, those are elite Jonin, not just any Jonin. Even among Jonin, there are only a few dozen in Konoha.

Elite Jonin are even rarer. There are five or six in the Anbu, three or four in Root, and the heads of various clans are probably also elite Jonin. In addition, there are Kakashi, Asuma and others, making a total of only a dozen or so.

However, Konoha has tens of thousands of ninjas.

The 20,000 Konoha ninja in the Allied Shinobi Forces were actually a combination of Konoha ninja and other ninja from the Land of Fire.

Otherwise, Konoha really wouldn't have 20,000 ninjas.

Even though Konoha has around 10,000 ninjas, there are only a few dozen Jonin, and even fewer elite Jonin.

Therefore, you can imagine how strong these twelve elite Jonin are when they are combined.

Even a Kage-level powerhouse would probably have to run if they encountered this.

What those who stole their bodies were trying to do is truly terrifying to think about.

If these people were to be resurrected through the Impure World Reincarnation, it would be even more terrifying.

The technique of Impure World Reincarnation is becoming more and more sophisticated.

In fact, Yu Ming can also perform the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and he has already mastered it to a very high level.

However, given his strength, there could only be one purpose for him to use the Impure World Reincarnation technique: to coordinate it with the Multiplication Explosive Tags.

As for summoning powerful individuals to help him, Yu Ming has no need for that.

Naruto's doubts were met with a smile from Yu Ming, who said, "The Land of Fire is much bigger than you think, and the ninja villages aren't just Konoha. There are many strong ninjas, but that's not important. Your mission this time is to investigate this matter and find out who stole their bodies."

"What was the purpose of stealing their bodies?"

Chapter 265 Another incident in Sunagakure

Naruto nodded and said, "Okay."

Now Tsunade has begun to push Yu Ming to the forefront, whereas Yu Ming had always stayed behind Tsunade.

However, Tsunade may want to retire now because she is a wife.

She wanted to help Yu Ming get ahead.

However, Yu Ming recommended Kakashi to her.

Tsunade felt that Kakashi was not yet strong enough to accept the position of Hokage.

The result of the discussion between Yu Ming and Tsunade was that Yu Ming could take on some of the responsibilities of the Hokage, but the main work would be done by Tsunade.

Another part was left to Yamato and Kakashi to do.

Currently, Yamato is in charge of the Anbu, while Kakashi is responsible for the overall defense of Konoha.

Yu Ming is in charge of handling emergencies in Konoha.

Basically, at present, Tsunade, Yuu, Kakashi, and Yamato form the core power of Konoha.

However, Yamato of the Anbu is currently having some difficulty attending to his duties, so Yu Ming will be involved in matters concerning the Anbu.

For example, just now, Yu Ming explained to Naruto the detailed purpose of this mission, which used to be the Hokage's duty.

Tsunade asked Yu Ming to explain, actually to establish Yu Ming's prestige, even though his prestige was very high in Konoha and even in the entire ninja world.

After Yamato led Naruto and the others away.

Tsunade frowned and looked at Yu Ming. "Do you think it might have been Akatsuki?"

Yu Ming shook his head. "I don't know, but it's unlikely, because there's no point in Xiao taking those corpses away."

Tsunade nodded; she also thought it unlikely, mainly because the recent appearance of the Akatsuki organization made her somewhat sensitive.

"These are truly turbulent times."

"Tsunade sighed."

Yu Ming stood by the window and said calmly, "It's nothing. This kind of thing has happened before, it's just been happening more often lately."

"They stole the bodies of the Twelve Ninja Warriors. Their purpose may be to target Konoha. These people have not been very friendly to Konoha in the past."

The Twelve Ninja Warriors were originally the bodyguards of the daimyo, but later a conflict arose among them, leading to a split.

However, all twelve of them believed that the Daimyo was the most important person in the Land of Fire. The reason for the dispute was that some people thought that the Hokage should be eliminated, while others felt that doing so was too extreme.

The two sides then began to fight.

Several people died in the end.

However, even the daimyo of the Land of Fire felt that the idea of ​​erasing the Hokage was too extreme, so he distanced himself from those people.

However, those people still insist that the Hokage must be eliminated.

We need to establish a nation dominated by daimyo.

They simply didn't understand that the daimyo of the Land of Fire was merely cooperating with the ninja village.

But they never thought of erasing the existence of the ninja village.

The ninja village's military expenses are provided by the daimyo, while the ninja fight for the interests the daimyo needs.

But if you ask a daimyo to manage a ninja village, he knows he has no chance of doing it well.

Therefore, the daimyo of the five great nations and the kage of the five great ninja villages are basically in a cooperative relationship. Of course, sometimes the kage of the five great ninja villages will bow down for the sake of military expenses.

However, such things rarely happen, because the daimyo of the five great nations also hope that the ninja villages can become stronger so that they can compete for their own interests.

After all, if the ninja village loses, they will also have to pay the price.

Therefore, although the Daimyo of the Land of Wind reduced his financial support to Sunagakure, he never intended to cut it off completely.

However, Sunagakure was indeed disappointing, and the Land of Wind's finances were also not very good, so military spending on Sunagakure was significantly reduced.

As for Kirigakure, it was purely because Kisame was brain-dead. Kirigakure didn't care what kind of Blood Mist policy they implemented, and the Daimyo of the Land of Water didn't care. Who knew that Kisame would assassinate the Daimyo when he defected? Such a thing rarely happens among the Five Great Nations.

Since the village lords and daimyo have a cooperative relationship, what can you change by assassinating a daimyo?

It would be more meaningful to assassinate the Mizukage.

Mei Terumi intervened because she noticed something unusual about the Fourth Mizukage, which ultimately changed Kirigakure.

Therefore, Kisame Hoshigaki's behavior is indeed somewhat puzzling.

It wasn't the daimyo of the Land of Water who made Kirigakure become what it is, and assassinating the daimyo would be pointless. What the daimyo said wouldn't have any effect on the ninja village anyway.

The Twelve Ninja Warriors were a group of ninjas who believed that the Daimyo was the true ruler of the Land of Fire.