Konoha: Offer your heart to the Hokage!

The next day.

Shen Er went to the land of the Thousand Hands Clan.

Hashirama Senju removed his divine robes and donned his signature fiery red ninja armor. Mito Uzumaki also wore a sharp ninja outfit, with two long sealing talismans hanging from her hairpins.

Hashirama seemed to have completely recovered from the weakness following the battle at the Valley of the End, and said casually, "Tobirama, well, Mito and I are off to capture the Tailed Beasts."

"While we're away, we're entrusting the safety of the village to you."

Tobirama nodded: "Leave it to us."

Shen Er, speaking from a doctor's perspective, advised, "Hashirama, remember to be careful during battle. Your body hasn't fully recovered from the last battle. If you get seriously injured again, there's nothing I can do."

Hashirama felt a warmth in his heart.

Shinji was probably the person who cared most about his health, besides Mito.

"it is good."

"Ghana!"

Hashirama Senju left behind these words, took the coordinates of the tailed beast, and went out with his wife.

...

Nine-Tails was in an extremely bad mood.

He was inexplicably controlled by the Sharingan of Indra's descendant, inexplicably forced to fight against the descendant of Ashura, and finally grabbed by that damned wooden figure and passed out.

The descendants of that old man Yu Yi are all incredibly cunning.

It remained hidden at the bottom of the valley, without moving.

It's not that I don't want to leave, it's that I really need to recover from my injuries.

First, it was pierced through by Susanoo's sword, then it took a direct hit on its own Tailed Beast Ball at point-blank range, and finally it was crushed unconscious by the wooden golem like a chick. Even with its "infinite" chakra, it couldn't withstand such depletion.

This period of rest lasted for more than a month.

until today.

Nine-Tails felt that its injuries had almost healed and decided to leave this heartbreaking canyon that had caused it so much humiliation.

Just then...

call out!

Two figures appeared on the mountaintop.

Hashirama greeted him warmly: "Hey! Little fox, you look pretty good."

"Is this the Nine-Tails? It's truly magnificent," Mito exclaimed softly from the side.

Are you coming again?!

They're descendants of the old man in feather robes again!

"Roar!!!"

The Nine-Tailed Fox roared to the sky, opening its blood-red maw to condense its hatred and raging fury into a Tailed Beast Ball.

"You dare to breathe on me? That's really unfriendly."

Seeing this, Hashirama Senju stepped forward to shield Mito behind him, then clapped his hands together:

"Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

"Kuo'an enters the lower hand!"

The Buddha's large hand pressed down on the nine-tailed fox's head again, causing it to fall into a deep sleep.

Hashirama turned his head, his eyes filled with tenderness, and said, "The rest is up to you, Mito."

"Ah."

Mito Uzumaki took a deep breath and formed a hand seal:

"Sealing Technique: Vajra Seal!"

Chakra chains gleaming with metallic luster shot out from behind her, tearing through the sky and binding the sleeping Nine-Tails.

"Sealing Technique: Four Symbols Sealing!"

As her hand seals changed, the power of the Four Symbols Seal extended along the Vajra Chains toward the Nine-Tailed Fox.

A dazzling white light burst forth.

The Nine-Tails' enormous body gradually melted into the air, turning into orange-red chakra, which was continuously absorbed into Mito Uzumaki's body.

Tailed beasts are pure chakra aggregates, and the Four Symbols Sealing Technique is a sealing technique that counters such beings, capable of sealing powerful enemies completely and permanently within the host's body.

The stability of the seal depends on the caster; the stronger the power, the more durable and secure the seal.

The drawback is that the Four Symbols Seal weakens over time. When the host grows old and weak, or when a female Jinchūriki gives birth, the seal is at its most vulnerable.

If no one reinforces it in time, the seal will fail.

But these things meant nothing to Princess Mito Uzumaki. Even the complete Nine-Tails, once sealed within her body, would have no chance of breaking the seal.

This is the confidence and foundation of the older generation of Konoha ninjas.

As the entire Nine-Tails was absorbed by Mito Uzumaki, her chakra and the Nine-Tails' chakra simultaneously overflowed and erupted, and her aura continued to rise.

Hashirama Senju looked surprised as he felt the surging power emanating from his wife, and couldn't help but exclaim, "What an astonishing amount of chakra! It's almost catching up with mine."

At this point, the combined amount of chatunra in the couple's bodies was probably more than the combined amount of all the ninjas in a single ninja village.

In Mito's mental world, Kurama is imprisoned in a cage with a sealing talisman.

No matter how much the Nine-Tailed Fox roared and pounded on the cage bars, it was all in vain.

The Nine-Tails roared angrily, "Mito Uzumaki! I will watch over you from here until the very end of your life!"

"I will sever, cut, and chop up the filthy souls of humanity!"

“You call me a beast. Even the fiercest beast knows a shred of compassion, but I do not know compassion, therefore I am not a beast. You think I have been defeated and bound, but I never yield.”

"I am a tailed beast, the king of tailed beasts!"

"I am Kurama!"

"I stand firm, I will torment our humanity and unleash the Tailed Beast Ball! Those who imprison me will pay a painful price!"

"I'll get out someday!"

The Nine-Tails roared madly through the sealing barrier, its chakra, marinated in malice and rage, overflowing and corroding Mito's soul. It tempted her to kill her husband and destroy Konoha…

Mito Uzumaki frowned.

The Four Symbols Seal was reinforced again to isolate the Nine-Tails' chakra.

After his condition stabilized, he slowly opened his eyes.

Hashirama Senju rushed forward and asked with concern, "Mito, how are you?"

“It’s over. The seal is very secure. There’s no way the Nine-Tails can escape before I pass away,” Mito said softly. “It’s just that its resentment is extremely strong, and it keeps howling.”

"Phew..." Hashirama breathed a sigh of relief and said gently, "This is also for the good of that fox."

"The ninja world is currently in turmoil. If it is manipulated by ambitious ninjas using some strange illusion techniques to get involved in war and massacre people, it will only be hated and feared by humans more deeply in the end."

"Then the conflict between the tailed beasts and humans will truly be unsolvable."

"Let time do its work," Hashirama Senju said confidently. "I believe that the wisdom of future generations will resolve the conflict between Jinchuriki and Tailed Beasts."

...

There was no time to rejoice over sealing the Nine-Tails, as the Eight-Tails, also from the Land of Lightning, arrived on the battlefield immediately afterward.

Hashirama and Mito had no shortage of chakra, and they used Body Flicker Technique and ate soldier pills to travel through the ninja world with astonishing efficiency.

The tailed beasts were unable to put up any decent resistance and were captured one after another.

Hashirama used the Kouan-in-Dai-Shu technique to put the Tailed Beasts into a deep sleep one by one, while Mito used the Reverse Summoning Technique and Sealing Technique to send the eight Tailed Beasts back to a secret location in the Land of Fire and imprison them.

The only slightly troublesome ones are the seven-tailed and one-tailed ones.

The former possessed the ability to fly; Hashirama waited for three days in the Land of Waterfall before seizing the opportunity when it landed, instantly subduing and taking it away. The latter, however, was in the desert, guarded by a group of monks; Hashirama had to exert considerable effort to steal it.

The disappearance of the tailed beasts one after another has caused quite a stir in the ninja world.

As the leaders of the various ninja villages gathered their village leaders to analyze the situation, an invitation to the Five Kage Summit from Konoha was already delivered.

...

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The Hashirama couple, weary from their journey, returned to Konoha.

Shen Er couldn't help but sigh, since the battle at the Valley of the End ended, the entire ninja world's progress seemed to have been put on fast-forward.

The moment Hashirama returned, he went straight to the Hokage Building and announced that all nine tailed beasts had been captured and were temporarily imprisoned in secret.

The operation to capture the Tailed Beasts has now come to a successful conclusion.

The Five Kage Summit was immediately put on the agenda, scheduled for the end of this month, and the location was chosen to be the Land of Iron.

The Land of Iron has no ninja groups; instead, it is protected by combat groups known as "samurai." It possesses an independent culture and combat system and has no obvious vested interests with any other faction, making it the most suitable place for negotiations.

Although the meeting was nominally the "Five Kage Summit," the invitees were not only from the five major hidden villages, but also from a number of smaller ninja villages such as Takigakure and Kusagakure.

Regardless of whether he intended to sell the Tailed Beasts to them, Hashirama wanted to gather everyone together to have a good talk about his vision for future peace.

Shen Er thought that the upcoming Five Kage Summit had nothing to do with him anymore.

After all, those assigned to participate in the Five Kage Summit were the First Kage and the designated Second Kage from each village. In Hashirama's mind, Tobirama was clearly already the only candidate for the Second Hokage.

Unexpectedly, Hashirama Senju chose him.

"Shen'er, take care of the most important tasks you have on hand during this time. Hand over the less important tasks first, and come with me to the Land of Iron at the end of the month to attend the Five Kage Summit, where you will be my bodyguard."

"Me, the bodyguard?"

"Yes, is there a problem?" Hashirama Senju said matter-of-factly. "You were the one who drafted the plan to distribute the Tailed Beasts. I'm afraid I won't be able to convince the other four villages when it comes time to explain it to them. You'll have to do it."

"I feel that your speaking skills are better than mine."

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