Becoming the Tsuchikage in the Naruto World

Chapter 260: Danzō's Moves

After a brief but intense peak, the Fourth War once again quieted down. Although the armies of the various nations, except for the Mist, had not disbanded, the previous fierce conflicts had ended.

In this war, the Third Hokage, who had been sitting in Konoha's main camp for over a decade without much movement, changed his usual style and defeated the Mist with thunderous methods.

The Fourth Hokage, the Yellow Flash, used the Flying Thunder God Technique to fight on two major battlefields, single-handedly holding back the Kage of two villages.

An incredible Konoha Genin's father defeated the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist with his own strength, scaring off the main Mist army. And as time went on, a piece of news slowly spread: among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, besides the four killed by Might Duy, Jūzō Biwa had actually defected.

The Sand ninjas were again easily repelled by the Parasitic Destruction Insects of Konoha's Aburame clan. The Sand didn't even see a trace of the enemy until they retreated back into the deserts of the Land of Wind, a deeply frustrating defeat.

This series of changes made the onlookers of the ninja world sigh with emotion. Konoha was truly a village blessed by the heavens. Every time it encountered a crisis, a genius would be born to save it.

However, although Konoha had won a moment of respite, Danzō, as one of Konoha's higher-ups, was not very happy.

Originally, Danzō was the Hokage's Advisor, the number two figure in Konoha. But with the Fourth taking the stage, the Third naturally replaced Danzō as the Hokage's Advisor, and Danzō's status, instead of rising, had fallen. Now, Danzō was just one of five high-level officials. If not for the Root he controlled, he would be no different from Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane.

How could Danzō be content with this?

What was even more infuriating was that after Hiruzen returned to the front line, through a series of operations, he had attributed the credit for repelling the Sand to the Aburame clan. This was why the outside world only knew that the Aburame's insects had repelled the Sand, but didn't know that Danzō was the one pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Danzō naturally knew that Hiruzen's purpose was to appease the Aburame clan. After all, this time Danzō had semi-forcibly made five Aburame ninjas migrate their parasitic insects at the cost of their lives. The Aburame clan was dissatisfied with this, and there were considerable whispers among the other ninja clans as well.

But knowing was one thing; having his own merits erased just like that was something Danzō could not tolerate under any circumstances. After the situation eased, Danzō had a quarrel with Hiruzen and then left the main Konoha camp in a huff.

As for why he didn't argue with Minato, Danzō expressed that the Fourth Hokage, a puppet pulled out by Hiruzen, was not yet worthy of his attention.

Danzō, after leaving the Konoha camp, took his subordinates directly across the border of the Land of Fire and into the Land of Rain.

That's right, Danzō's target this time was again Hanzō. A few days ago, when Danzō passed through the Land of Rain with a large number of poison insects, he had given Hanzō quite a scare.

Also being a master of poison, Hanzō knew better than anyone the damage a large-scale poison attack could inflict on a ninja army.

So Danzō believed that this trip to the Village Hidden in the Rain would not be in vain.

Returning the view to Iwagakure, Ishiro, who had gone out and returned to the village, received a letter. The letter had no signature and was brought by a merchant caravan from another country.

Ishiro recognized the handwriting on the envelope at a glance; it was a letter from Konan. After such a long time, Konan had finally written back to him.

"I wonder what Nagato and the others' attitude towards me is now." Thinking this, Ishiro opened the envelope.

As expected, the main content of the letter was about the training methods for Konan's Paper Release. This was what Kanako was currently most in need of.

Besides this content, Konan also briefly described Nagato's and Yahiko's attitudes towards Ishiro in the letter.

"I didn't expect Nagato to see me so clearly. Could it be that the Rinnegan also has the ability to see through people's hearts?" Ishiro shook his head. "Probably not. In the original story, Nagato was just a puppet. If the Rinnegan had this effect, his ending shouldn't have been so bleak."

Ishiro guessed that it was probably because he had learned ninjutsu from Nagato. The two had had more contact, allowing Nagato to see his ambition.

"Yahiko is really a fool." Ishiro felt a bit helpless. Even now, Yahiko still primarily trusted him. Yahiko still insisted on that set of beliefs: he trusted others, and he also believed that others would trust him.

However, Konan did not mention her own opinion of Ishiro. But her willingness to write to him and help his disciple train in Paper Release led Ishiro to estimate that Konan still rather agreed with Yahiko.

Ishiro had the Anbu send Konan's letter to Kanako at the front line. Of course, Ishiro directly removed the parts of the letter concerning Nagato and Yahiko.

At this moment, Ishiro really wanted to go to the Land of Rivers to have a look, but he was also afraid that Nagato would really make a move against him. Right now, Ishiro didn't have a good grasp of Nagato's mentality and was not sure what Nagato was thinking, so he didn't dare to take the risk.

Sighing, Ishiro turned his energy back to his Light Release. Before leaving the village last time, Ishiro had barely found some tricks to Light Release. Now was the time to spend a lot of time improving his proficiency. At this moment, Ishiro couldn't afford any distractions.

However, Ishiro had originally thought that with Konoha's incredible victory, the ninja world would have a relatively long period of peace, but the result was different from what he had imagined.

Not long after, another change occurred in the ninja world.

This change seemed incredible to others in the ninja world, but Ishiro, who had seen the original story, was extremely expectant of this day.

Just as the four great nations were reluctantly withdrawing their troops, just as the Konoha ninjas thought they could welcome another brief period of peace, the Mist ninjas, who should have been the last to act, caused trouble again.

The only female disciple of Konoha's newly appointed Fourth Hokage was abducted by Mist ninjas during a mission. Sparks flew once again between Konoha and Kirigakure.

If not for Ishiro having instructed the intelligence department to pay special attention to the three disciples of the Yellow Flash, Iwagakure probably wouldn't have been able to get this news in time either.

In the Tsuchikage's office, Ishiro flipped through the intelligence reports on the conflict between Konoha and the Mist, his heart stirring restlessly.

Obito was about to awaken his Mangekyo. Madara Uchiha was about to die. This should be an opportunity, an opportunity to explore Madara's underground world.

In that mysterious underground world, there was the Gedo Statue, Hashirama Cells, Sharingan, the Uchiha Gunbai, and the Uchiha clan's ninjutsu inheritance, including a forbidden jutsu like Izanagi.

Not to mention these forbidden-level things, even if he could just get one or two of Madara's leftover ninjutsu notes, Ishiro felt it could greatly enhance Iwagakure's strength.

Even if he couldn't get the ninjutsu notes, capturing one or two White Zetsu clones for research, Ishiro felt it would not be a loss.

As long as Madara died and Black Zetsu didn't make a move, facing only Obito, who had just awakened his Mangekyo, Ishiro was actually not very worried. Obito's combat instinct was trash. Although his Mangekyo was unbeatable, an awakened but not yet proficiently used Mangekyo, Ishiro expressed, was nothing to panic about.

Not to mention, Ishiro knew the abilities of this Mangekyo even better than Obito himself.

It was just, where on earth was that underground world?

If relying solely on the original story, Ishiro might guess that the underground world was right near Kannabi Bridge. But in this life, the place where Obito faked his death was a world away from Kannabi Bridge. So, guessing based on the original story was not going to yield an accurate location.

Obito had space-time ninjutsu, making it almost impossible to track him. White Zetsu had the Mayfly Technique; if he could be tracked, Ishiro would have already been reverse-monitoring him. So, how to track Obito?

Just as Ishiro was spacing out, the discussion among the others in the Tsuchikage's office about this matter ended. The group reached a consensus: no matter what madness the Mist was up to this time, Iwagakure would not participate.

The four great nations had already missed the best opportunity to besiege Konoha. No one believed the Mist could stir up any more storms.

After all, even a whole flanking force's sneak attack was stopped by a Konoha Genin. How much strength could the heavily damaged Mist still have?

Ishiro came back to his senses, and then, under the astonished gazes of Ōnoki and the others, he slowly said, "I'm making a trip to the Land of Waves."

Ōnoki frowned and was about to object, but seeing Ishiro's grave expression, he swallowed the words that were about to come out.

The contributions Ishiro had made to Iwagakure and the Land of Earth over the years were too great. And many times, Ishiro seemed to have intelligence that others didn't, so Ōnoki was now slowly getting used to Ishiro's abnormal behavior.

After pondering for a moment, Ōnoki said, "If you want to go, then go. Just don't think of solving everything by yourself. You have the entire village of Iwagakure behind you."

Ōnoki's words surprised Ishiro somewhat. He hadn't expected the old man to be so open-minded this time.

However, the latter half of Ōnoki's sentence still moved Ishiro. Perhaps the village could help him with problems he couldn't solve himself.

After getting Ōnoki's permission, Ishiro could no longer sit still. Ignoring the baffled looks of the others, he directly got up and left the Tsuchikage's office.

After leaving the Tsuchikage Building, Ishiro did not leave the village directly as usual but first went to the Barrier Team.

The Barrier Team was very special to Ishiro. It was the first place he had worked after coming to this world. It could be said that the Barrier Team was the starting point of Ishiro's rise.

Here, Ishiro, a civilian ninja, had achieved an unconventional overtaking. Many of Ishiro's early advantages came from here. Without the free materials from the Barrier Team, Ishiro's early ninja career would not have been so smooth. If the Barrier Team hadn't been giving him a second salary, Ishiro's growth would not have been so rapid.

It was just that as Ishiro's strength and status grew higher and higher, the help the Barrier Team could provide him became smaller and smaller. In addition, Ishiro had already seen almost all the sealing jutsu in the Barrier Team, so he had rarely come here in recent years.

Walking into the Barrier Team again, Ishiro felt some emotion in his heart.

The senior Akisha, whom Ishiro was most familiar with in the Barrier Team, had completely retired. However, Ishiro was still relatively familiar with the current head of the Barrier Team, who was Bunji, the one who had led Ishiro into the Barrier Team back then.

While greeting some familiar people, Ishiro walked straight to the office of the Barrier Team head.

Bunji was somewhat surprised by Ishiro's arrival. Ishiro had rarely come to the Barrier Team since becoming an advisor.

Bunji had watched Ishiro grow up. The first A-rank sealing jutsu Bunji had learned back then was the Five Elements Seal developed by Ishiro. Bunji had originally thought that after becoming an advisor, Ishiro would choose to take charge of the Barrier Team, but instead, it was Ikura who came.

At that time, Bunji really didn't understand. Ishiro's greatest strength was clearly sealing jutsu, yet he didn't choose the Barrier Team. It wasn't until later, when Ishiro caused a big stir in the Medical Team, that Bunji understood that perhaps Ishiro felt that everything that could be changed in the Barrier Team had already been changed. Other departments needed Ishiro more.

"Senior Bunji, there's something I need to trouble the Barrier Team with," Ishiro said directly, unaware of the drama playing out in Bunji's mind. Now, Ishiro's status was far above that of Bunji, the head of the Barrier Team, so Ishiro didn't beat around the bush much.

Bunji nodded, and asked with some curiosity, "Advisor Ishiro, I wonder what you need the Barrier Team for?"

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