The Fifth Leaf Village

"What do you think, Obito, do you want to try to resolve this destabilizing factor?" Black Zetsu slowly approached Uchiha Obito and asked.

"In order to ensure the success of the Moon Eye Project, any destabilizing factors must be eliminated." Uchiha Obito said coldly, turning his head and glaring at Black Zetsu, "Also, call me Uchiha Madara."

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After Uchiha Dohuan and Kakashi returned to the village, the village was peaceful for a while.

During this period, Sarutobi Hiruzen would bring Jiraiya with him whenever he participated in some high-profile events, such as the opening of a store in the village and inviting the Hokage to cut the ribbon.

Although Jiraiya is famous as one of the three ninjas, he has not been active in the village for many years. Most people in the village know that Jiraiya exists but do not know him. Sarutobi Hiruzen did this to make Jiraiya familiar to the villagers.

Furthermore, in the nearest village, stories of Jiraiya's heroic deeds during the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars began to spread again.

It can be said that Sarutobi Hiruzen put in all his efforts to pave the way for Jiraiya.

However, after actually taking over the position of Hokage's advisor, Jiraiya found that his work was not particularly smooth.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen gave Jiraiya the authority to mobilize the Anbu and the Jonin Squad, Jiraiya discovered while working that among the Anbu and the Jonin Squad, except for the ninjas from the Ino, Shika, and Chou clans and the Sarutobi clan, the other ninjas were not very enthusiastic about his orders.

Although the ninjas who received the mission would eventually complete the mission with quality and quantity, it was nothing compared to the situation when people from the Security Department asked the ninjas from the Anbu or the Jonin Class to handle some collaborative tasks together, and everyone rushed to sign up.

In fact, this is also human nature. When participating in tasks related to the Security Department, the Security Department will pay them another salary according to the Security Department's salary standards after the task is completed, not to mention that there are hidden benefits such as dinners during and after the task. Naturally, the tasks that Jiraiya issues as he pleases are not very attractive.

What made Jiraiya even more upset was that he was not very successful in recruiting the fourth generation's former subordinates such as Genma Shiranui.

He originally thought that as Minato's teacher, he should be able to smoothly take over his disciple's former subordinates. However, after he proposed to Shiranui Genma and others his plan to promote them to the rank of Jonin, documents applying for transfer to the Security Department appeared on his desk that afternoon.

Although they all have a close relationship with Minato, in the eyes of these former subordinates of the Fourth Hokage, Jiraiya's identity as the Fourth Hokage's teacher does not seem to be as useful as Kakashi's disciple.

After all, when the Fourth Hokage had raised Shiranui Genma and the others from obscurity, Kakashi had fought alongside them, but what was Jiraiya doing at the time? He was roaming around the ninja world collecting material, and he wasn't even there the night the Fourth Hokage died.

If it were just that, it would be fine. But after the Fourth Hokage died, Jiraiya never even came back to see Naruto, the Fourth Hokage's only orphan. Now he wants to have the audacity to gain their loyalty directly. What right does he have?

In addition, Jiraiya also discovered that the current ninjas in the Anbu and Jonin classes have more or less received the favor of Uchiha Dohuan and Kakashi, and they all praised the two when they mentioned them, which made Jiraiya very worried.

"Looks like it's time to have a good chat with Kakashi." Jiraiya thought to himself at his desk, "I might as well go see that kid Naruto."

While Jiraiya was having a headache every day because of these things that he was not good at, Kakashi was living a pretty good life.

Although he has officially started working in the Security Department, the special department where he works, which Uchiha Touhan jokingly calls the Minamigagawa Hotel, is used to detain and investigate people with special identities. Currently, only Utane Koharu and Mito Kado En are detained there. His daily work is very leisurely. He only needs to visit the interrogation room every day to check the progress of the interrogation of the two.

The several Uchiha clan members sent to him by Uchiha Dohuan also gave him a lot of face. Every time he went on patrol, they would drag out these two old men and beat them up. Kakashi was of course happy to see this happen.

Not to mention that these two old men have admitted under the illusion of fists, feet and Sharingan that they were the ones who spread the rumors about Kakashi some time ago. After learning and growing over this period of time, Kakashi's perspective on thinking has changed unconsciously. When he re-examined the incident involving his father, he also realized that these two old men were definitely not clean in it.

Therefore, coming over to watch the two old men get beaten has become one of Kakashi's daily entertainment activities during the past period of time, in addition to staying in the office to watch Jiraiya's masterpieces during working hours.

The clock in Kakashi's office showed five o'clock. Kakashi closed the Intimate Paradise and got up to leave work on time.

After getting off work, Kakashi thought about it and rushed towards the ninja school. There were banquets every night in the past few days, and he had neglected to take care of Naruto. When he returned home every day, Naruto was already asleep, so Kakashi decided to spend some time with the child today.

When Kakashi arrived at the ninja school, the children who had finished school came out one after another. Not long after, Kakashi saw Naruto walking out with Sasuke, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Inuzuka Kiba, arm in arm.

"Naruto!" Kakashi waved at Naruto, signaling him to come over quickly.

"Brother Kakashi?" Naruto showed an incredible expression on his face when he saw Kakashi coming to pick him up.

After saying goodbye to his friends, Naruto ran over with his small schoolbag on his back.

"Why are you here? Isn't there a banquet today?" Naruto asked.

"I have nothing to do after get off work today, so I came to pick you up. What? Don't you want me to pick you up from school?" Kakashi said with a smile.

"Well, that's not the case..." Naruto stuck out his tongue and said a little guiltily.

Before Kakashi took Naruto in to take care of him, Naruto was quite envious of other children who had their parents come to pick him up after school. After moving into Kakashi's house, at first Kakashi would come to pick him up after school every day when he was not busy, which was also the happiest moment of his day.

However, after the excitement wore off, Naruto felt that this was just the way it was, and soon, like other children, he regarded being able to go to and from school alone as a symbol of growing up.

Especially during this period, Kakashi had a banquet every night. Naruto found that he could eat ramen freely every night instead of having to eat those extremely unpalatable green peppers under Kakashi's gaze. So Naruto even wished that Kakashi would go to the banquet every day.

But Naruto's little thoughts could not be hidden from Kakashi's eyes. Kakashi did not say anything, but led Naruto slowly towards home.

When Naruto relaxed his guard, Kakashi suddenly said, "The new dream soy sauce ramen that the village has recently launched doesn't seem to taste very good."

"No way! I've been eating that ramen every day recently! It tastes really good!" Naruto blurted out without thinking.

By the time Naruto realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, Kakashi was already staring at him with dead fish eyes.

"Naruto, don't I have someone make dinner for you and send it to your house every night? But you just eat ramen every day?" Kakashi asked.

"Sorry..." Naruto said, looking down.

"Naruto, I know you like to eat that, but if you only eat ramen, you won't get enough nutrition and you won't grow tall." Kakashi said helplessly, "Forget it, I will try to come back for dinner next time."

After the two returned to the Hatake family's ancestral home, they met an uninvited guest at the door. Jiraiya was holding a gift in his hand and was peeking inside the door of the Hatake family's ancestral home.

Jiraiya turned around when he heard the noise and saw Kakashi and Naruto standing together.

"Kakashi, you're back from get off work." Jiraiya greeted Kakashi, but his eyes involuntarily moved to Naruto. Looking at Naruto's golden hair that was exactly the same as his father's, a strange look flashed in Jiraiya's eyes.

"Old man, who are you? Are you a relative of Brother Kakashi? You both have white hair." Naruto looked at Jiraiya and asked curiously.

"Good question!" After hearing Naruto's question, Jiraiya took two steps back as if some mechanism had been triggered. He casually formed a seal and after a bang, smoke exploded. A giant toad, as tall as a person, with a rosary with the word "loyalty" written on it hanging around its neck appeared out of thin air. Jiraiya stepped on the toad's head and made an exaggerated pose.

"I am the Toad Spirit Immortal of Myoboku Mountain, also known as Toad Sage! Jiraiya, I am honored to meet you!"

Naruto had never seen such a scene before and was immediately stunned. It took him a long time to react and he muttered, "How powerful!"

Another burst of smoke exploded, and the toad under Jiraiya's feet disappeared instantly. After Jiraiya landed gracefully on the ground, he also laughed.

"Lord Jiraiya, have you eaten? Would you like to eat something together?" After Jiraiya finished showing off, although Kakashi knew that Jiraiya might have other purposes in coming to him, this man was his master after all in terms of seniority, so Kakashi still patiently invited him.

"Okay, thank you for your help then." Jiraiya said with a hearty smile. After that, he handed the gift in his hand to Kakashi and said, "Take it. I think you will like it."

Kakashi took the thing and took a look at it, his eyes instantly lit up. This turned out to be the latest sequel to "Intimate Paradise".

"I wrote this while I was in seclusion in the Security Department some time ago. This is probably my last work. I hope you like it!" Jiraiya said with a smile.

Kakashi calmly put the book into the sealing scroll he carried with him.

After Jiraiya handed the book to Kakashi, he turned to look at Naruto beside him, gave him another gift, and said:

"I heard from the Sandaime that you like ramen very much, Naruto. These are the special ramen from all over the ninja world that I have collected during my travels in the ninja world over the years."

When Naruto took it and took a look, his eyes immediately lit up. Many of the ramen in this bag were varieties he had never seen before.

Seeing that Naruto liked his gift, Jiraiya breathed a sigh of relief. This time when he came to visit, Jiraiya didn't know how to face Naruto. After thinking about it, he could only use things that Naruto liked to get closer to him.

After Kakashi invited Jiraiya into his home, he asked his neighbors to order a banquet from the village and have it delivered to his home.

After dinner, Kakashi sent Naruto back to bed, then sat back at the table and poured Jiraiya another glass of wine.

"Lord Jiraiya, do you have something to talk to me about?" Kakashi asked.

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Chapter 88 Transfer Order

"Haha, can't I just come to see you and Naruto?" Jiraiya laughed dryly twice and then said, but his face was full of guilt.

He also knew that he didn't have the confidence to say this. He had been back for a while, but it was not until today that he thought of coming to see Naruto.

Kakashi was speechless. After a moment of silence, he finally spoke: "Master Jiraiya, to be honest, you shouldn't have come back to wade into this mess."

"Uh..." Jiraiya didn't know how to respond to Kakashi's direct words.

"Jiraiya-sama, neither Dohwan nor the Sandaime would show the expression you have now," Kakashi said, "Jiraiya-sama, you are incapable of doing these things. Forcing yourself to get involved will only make things worse."

Jiraiya was speechless. He knew what Kakashi was talking about. After being promoted to the position of Hokage advisor by Sarutobi Hiruzen, he often felt uncomfortable. He had never been exposed to these things before, and when faced with the twists and turns in politics, he only felt it was troublesome.

"Kakashi, I hope you can come and help me." Jiraiya took a deep breath and simply stated his purpose.

"Lord Jiraiya, you're joking. I'm a ninja in the village. If Lord Jiraiya needs anything, can't you just give me an order?" Kakashi said.

"Kakashi, you know, that's not what I meant!" Kakashi's words were like saying nothing, and Jiraiya didn't know how to respond, so he could only speak vaguely.

"Then what exactly does Lord Jiraiya want to say?" Kakashi countered.

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The living room fell into silence again. Kakashi sipped the sake in his glass slowly. After a long while, Kakashi finally spoke: "Look, Master Jiraiya, I told you that you are not suitable for this job."

"Kakashi, I have reasons for having to do this." Jiraiya sighed and said, "Dou Huan can't become Hokage."

"Why?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow.

"If Dohuan becomes Hokage, the future will undergo completely uncontrollable changes, and a terrible disaster may occur at that time." Jiraiya said seriously.

"Myobokusan said that?" Kakashi almost laughed out of anger when he heard this. Jiraiya should have come up with a reason, even if he said that he discriminated against Uchiha and didn't want Uchiha to be Hokage, it would be better than using the prophecy as an excuse.

Jiraiya didn't say anything, but his expression basically showed agreement.

"So, Lord Jiraiya, if you become Hokage, where will you lead the village?" Kakashi asked.

"I..." Jiraiya was stunned when he heard this. He had never thought about this question before, but at the moment he could only bite the bullet and say, "I will ensure the peace of the village until the Hokage's hat is handed over to the Sixth Hokage."

Kakashi smiled with relief when he heard this.

No wonder Uchiha Dohuan never took Jiraiya to heart. During this period of time, he was a little anxious because Jiraiya frequently showed up in the village, but every time he went to find Uchiha Dohuan, Uchiha Dohuan would just drink tea with him in the office and then tell him not to worry. I guess it was also fun for Uchiha Dohuan to see him getting anxious.

Kakashi's smile left Jiraiya a little confused.

"Master Jiraiya, are there any plans for the sequel to Intimate Paradise?" Kakashi suddenly asked out of nowhere, "If you're out of ideas, how about we go for a walk around Kabukicho in the village?"

"No... no need." Jiraiya saw this and knew that Kakashi was clearly rejecting him. "It's getting late. I won't disturb your rest."

Kakashi stood up to see him off.

When the two of them reached the door, Jiraiya suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Oh, by the way, I got carried away by drinking and almost forgot something important."

"Kakashi, there have been many rebellious ninjas from the Kirigakure on the border recently. The village has received many requests for help. Even the Daimyo has sent a message asking about this matter. The Sandaime-sama plans to send someone to deal with it. You are the best person to lead the team."

Kakashi's eyes darkened when he heard this. Was he planning to transfer him out of the village?

"Okay, I understand." Kakashi nodded without changing his expression.

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Not long after Jiraiya left, Kakashi also rushed to the Uchiha clan's territory.

After arriving at Uchiha Touhan's house, Kakashi learned from the housekeeper Keiko that Uchiha Touhan had gone out for training. After asking for the direction of the training ground, Kakashi rushed towards the training ground without stopping.

After arriving at the training ground that Uchiha Keiko mentioned, Kakashi saw Uchiha Douhuan meditating in the center of the woods at first sight.

"You came to see me so late, it seems that something serious happened." Uchiha Douhuan's voice sounded in Kakashi's ears, but he still maintained his meditation posture. "Jiraiya came to see you?"

"Yes." Kakashi nodded. "He wants me to go to the border to clear out the Kirigakure rebel ninjas whose number has increased dramatically for some reason recently."

"Are they planning to transfer you out of the village?" Uchiha Douhuan exited Sage Mode and slowly stood up. "That's not impossible. You've been in the Anbu, hidden from the public, for years. You need some achievements you can show off publicly."

Although Kakashi made great military achievements at Kannabi Bridge, in the eyes of some people in the village, the achievements of this battle should be attributed more to the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato. Compared with the record of Uchiha Dohan who killed a whole ninja village alone and frightened them, it is not so convincing. In addition, Kakashi has been working in the Anbu for many years and cannot show his true face. Naturally, his achievements cannot be made public.

Therefore, if Kakashi can successfully complete this mission to the border, it will definitely be beneficial to him personally.

"If I leave, will it be okay for you to be alone in the village?" Kakashi asked.

"What problem can I have?" Uchiha Douhuan laughed, "Unless they intend to tear each other apart and start a war directly in the village, but do they have the courage to do that?"

"Instead, you should think about how to complete this mission beautifully." Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile, "If my guess is correct, they should want to transfer you and the Yondaime-sama's former subordinates out of the village. Although Xuanjian and his men are quite powerful, it will still be very troublesome if you are surrounded. Your strength has stagnated for a long time compared to the Third Shinobi World War. Senior White Fang was much stronger than you when he was your age."

"Do you also want to persuade me to take off this Sharingan?" Kakashi asked, touching his right eye.

"That's not the case," Uchiha Douhuan shook his head. "This is the agreement between you and my brother. Uchiha always respects the will of heroes. However, regarding your strength, I do have some suggestions."

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Chapter 89 A Certain Scientific Railgun (2 in 1)

Kakashi looked at Uchiha Dohuan. To be honest, their situations were very similar to some extent. Both of them possessed the Sharingan, used Lightning Release as their main means of attack, and had some knowledge of swordsmanship.

Therefore, Uchiha Douhuan should have a way to help him improve his strength.

"Although you have used the Sharingan left to you by my clan brother very well, you are too obsessed with the ordinary Uchiha fighting style." Uchiha Douhuan said, "Using the Sharingan to copy ninjutsu is certainly useful, but your chakra capacity cannot support the huge consumption of temporarily copied ninjutsu. You must know that even the real Uchiha clan, when facing a strong enemy, only use a few ninjutsu that they have honed over the years." Uchiha Douhuan said.

"So, what you should improve now is your control over chakra." After saying that, Uchiha Douhuan formed a seal.

Sticky lightning appeared beside Uchiha Dohuan, and then condensed into a human figure. Then, the details of the person transformed by the deep blue lightning gradually became clear. Kakashi was surprised to find that the lightning man in front of him was exactly the same as him, and then he showed a surprised expression.

At this moment, the expression on the face of the lightning man in front of him also changed, exactly the same as his.

"This..." Kakashi was so shocked by Uchiha Dohuan's move that he couldn't help but pull up his forehead protector and open his Sharingan wide.

What Uchiha Dohuan used was not a lightning clone, nor even a ninjutsu. It was simply the precise control of the form and nature of chakra. Although this method was useless in battle, this kind of precise control over every detail was something that even Tsunade, who was famous for her control over chakra, was probably far inferior to him, right?