Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

Unlike Sunagakure Village and Iwagakure Village, which suddenly became tense, Konoha Village of Fire Country, which is also bordering the Country of Rain, did not show much fuss when it received the information sent back from the Country of Rain.

First of all, it is because Konoha has just ended the war with Kirigakure. Among the middle and high-level people, there is no shortage of ninjas who have seen Kaguya Rei fight with all his strength. For this person after Senju Hashirama and Uchi With the strength and talent of the third legendary ninja who appeared after Haubara, they have always been prepared for the worst-case scenario.

Secondly...

"Minato, why do you look like you can't laugh or cry again?"

In the living room of the Namikaze family, Uzumaki Kushina, who had many bandages on her hands, arms and legs, came out of the kitchen with food and looked at Namikaze, who was sitting on the sofa and had a strange expression while reading the letter. door, asked curiously.

"It's a letter from Jiraiya-sensei. He complained to me in the letter that he has been avoiding the responsibility of becoming Hokage, but now he is solving all kinds of troubles for Amegakure Village and his three apprentices, and is busy all day long. Like Yuying in Yuyin Village, I can’t get away. I don’t even have time to go and have a drink with my beautiful sister..."

Minato waved the letter in his hand towards Kushina, who was setting out dinner, and said half speechless and half gratified:

"But that's okay. If you are busy outside, Teacher Jiraiya won't have time or need to face Orochimaru's defection, and the mess he left for the village after his defection."

"Don't you blame Jiraiya-sama for not staying in Konoha to help you stabilize the situation, but instead running to help the Akatsuki organization in the Land of Rain, Minato?"

Kushina put down the food in her hands and asked while taking off her apron.

"As for Konoha, it is more than enough to have the Third Generation Master and advisors to help me deal with various matters. It is also good to let Mr. Jiraiya go out to relax. After all, Orochimaru is one of his best friends, and he always If he stayed in the village and watched us interrogate those ninjas who once belonged to Orochimaru's faction, it would be easy for him to get emotional, right?

What's more, the three leaders of the Akatsuki organization are themselves disciples of Lord Jiraiya. With his help, they can reduce the influence of Rei Kaguya on them as much as possible, right? "

"That's right... Alas, the war finally ended with great difficulty, and I thought that Konoha could become peaceful under your rule, Minato, but it turned out that this kind of internal division happened again if we were not careful. Things..."

Kushina shook her head, and while quietly lamenting Konoha's recent bad luck, she returned to the kitchen, preparing to bring the last bowl of hot soup to the table——

"Wow!!!"

Almost at the moment Kushina let out a scream, Namikaze Minato's figure disappeared from the sofa in the living room. This man with the fastest speed in the ninja world first caught what fell from Kushina's hand. After putting the bowl of hot soup down smoothly, he immediately held Kushina's bandaged hands with concern and asked softly:

"Are you hurt, Kushina?"

"No, no, it was just burned, and then it was not lifted, it was just held firmly."

Kushina took her hand away from Namikaze Minato with a blushing face and said sheepishly.

"Don't force yourself too hard. Although the physique and chakra of the Uzumaki clan can restrain the tailed beasts, the Nine-Tails is the strongest among the nine tailed beasts after all. We are too eager to master its power. You will only be hurt by its power in turn..."

Seeing the increasing number of bandages on his wife's body due to her Jinchūriki training, Namikaze Minato's sunny and handsome brows couldn't help but have a look of remorse and guilt. He reached out and hugged Kushina's waist. He looked at his wife's red hair, which was specially tied into a ponytail for the convenience of practice, and said softly:

"Why don't you postpone your Jinchūriki-related training for a while, Kushina? You don't need to push yourself so hard..."

"If you give up your training, the burden will all fall on you, Minato."

Kushina did not try to break away from Minato's embrace, she just leaned against Minato's chest, listening to Minato's young and powerful heartbeat, and refused:

"I am the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki of Konoha. As a combat force, I protect the village. It is my responsibility to protect the Hokage. What's more, Minato, you are still my husband. You did not choose to alienate me even if you knew that I was a Jinchuuriki. In the end, A gentle person...

I am not cowardly enough to throw the responsibilities that should be shouldered by me onto you who are working so hard for the village when the village needs me, right? "

"Kushina..."

"Okay, okay, it's time to eat. You and the Sandaime will have to worry about those ninjas who have left their roots without permission. If you don't eat well, you won't have the energy to deal with such troublesome things, right?"

Kushina patted Minato's back gently, looked out the window at the quiet Konoha Village, and sighed slightly.

Originally, I wanted to have a child with Minato after the Third Ninja War ended...

Now it seems that we have to wait a while longer.

Alas, I envy Mikoto very much at this time. Fugaku seems to be planning to have a second child with her, right?

I hope that after her own child is born, Mikoto’s second child can be a good brother/sister to him/her...

…

At the same time, Uchiha Obito, who had just finished practicing medical ninjutsu, was panting slightly and sitting on a cliff where the moonlight could only be vaguely seen, discussing with the real Fei how to deal with the situation they had left from the Land of Rain. The root members of the gang who were kidnapped.

"Are you serious, Obito?"

"Are you really going to use the identity assigned to you by Zetsu's clone to become the new leader of this group of 'root' ninjas?"

"Why not, Fei? Now that Akatsuki is out of control, we need a new organization that can accumulate strength for the Eye of the Moon plan. Isn't it just right to take over the leaderless 'Root'?"

Uchiha Obito looked at Fei with his one eye and threw the question back.

"It's obvious that Madara's name can be borrowed, but he still wants to use the name of an organization founded by trash who is much weaker than him? Maybe Madara will be angry because of your unsatisfactory behavior?"

Ah Fei gave this answer bluntly without much thought.

"Heh, then Ah Fei, go and ask Madara if he dares to hold on to that thing when he is old and unable to exert his fighting power, and then loses control of the backhand used for resurrection. The pressure Kaguya Rei has attracted, use Madara Uchiha’s name to recruit his subordinates.”

Uchiha Obito sneered, looking down at Fei with disdain, who was being questioned by him. He waited until the other party shook his head reluctantly, indicating that he understood his thoughts, and then said in a cold tone:

"Since there is no way to use the name Uchiha Madara to summon his subordinates, then it is a natural choice to use the 'root' who has ready manpower and organizational structure and can legitimately be hostile to Kirigakure... Shimura Danzo's The title is 'Darkness of Ninja', and the newly born 'root' operates with the purpose of absorbing all the darkness in the ninja world."

"What Kaguya Rei wants to do is not much smaller than Madara's plan, so during the execution process, the actions of him and his subordinates will inevitably arouse opposition and hatred from countless people. Taking advantage of this opportunity, let's become those The flag of the opponents, to provide those who oppose Kaguya Rei's actions but are afraid of his power with an opportunity to resist..."

"People from the four major ninja villages, no, the five major ninja villages, will be willing to help us."

Listening to Obito's unexpectedly feasible and far-sighted plan, Fei jumped up in surprise, put his face in front of Uchiha Obito, and stared at him carefully with his unknown visual organ. After looking at the ground for a while, he whispered softly:

"It's strange, why did you suddenly start using your brain... When we were in the Kingdom of Rain, we needed Zetsu's clone to tell you all the plans before you could figure out what he wanted to do?"

Uchiha Obito's face couldn't help but darken, but he still remained calm and calm and said:

"People will grow, Fei...especially when you realize that there are difficulties in front of you that you must go all out to overcome."

"Are you referring to the fact that you have basically made little progress in learning medical ninjutsu, and you don't know when you will be able to go to Konoha to retrieve your other eye, or are you referring to the matter of dealing with the monster Rei Kaguya? earth?"

A Fei asked curiously.

Uchiha Obito took a deep breath, then stretched out his hand to Ah Fei, with a rare and scary smile on his face, and said to Ah Fei through gritted teeth, word by word:

"A Fei, I have something to say. Let's go back to the Shenwei space and talk slowly... okay?"

"don't want!"

A Fei took a few steps back alertly, covering his buttocks and shaking his head desperately at Uchiha Obito.

"Obey, come in with me!"

"No, I'm going to poop!"

"You have such a shit! Come here!"

Under the sparse moonlight, the furious Obito Uchiha chased the snarky Ah Fei, step by step towards the darker and deeper shadow area.

This month’s goal: perfect attendance