Chapter 148 Price Increase

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The two elders of Konoha told Jiraiya about the current stakes between villages.

"If you are serious about investigating, you should know this."

"The Country of Fire held an emergency meeting yesterday. In order to deal with the war that may occur at any time in the future, it is not only worried about Orochimaru who may appear again."

"Our purpose is clear."

"Kiya needs the Fifth Hokage!"

"At yesterday's meeting, we already discussed and decided that you would be the one to take over."

This kind of responsibility that was suddenly imposed on me was annoying to hear. Jiraiya had a straight face, waved his big hand and refused without any hesitation of power.

"Sorry, this position is not suitable for me."

"This matter is already the result of our discussion. If you, as a Sannin, are not suitable, then who else can be?"

Now that he hears the word "Sannin", Jiraiya becomes angry...

"You are right. The Sannin are qualified. Why don't you go to Tsunade? She is the granddaughter of the first generation. In terms of qualifications, she is definitely better than me who has no motivation."

Mito Monobu looked like he had expected it.

"You think we didn't expect that?"

"After Konoha was attacked by a large-scale detonating charm a few years ago, we sent people many times to invite Tsunade to return to the village, but she gave them all..."

"She sternly refused, and we don't think it will be any different if we go to her again this time."

"I'll go find her. I'm sure I can convince her."

As he turned to sleep, Xiaochun's bamboo-like eyes flashed with a glimmer of light,

"If you fail to persuade her..."

Of course Jiraiya also knew that if one of them didn't stand up, Konoha might fall into someone's hands.

That's right, that old boy Danzo. No one came out at the beginning of this wave of attacks. He was sitting on the mountain watching the fight between tigers and tigers. There is no guarantee that the attack would not have happened without his secret contribution.

"There's no way I'm going to fail!"

“How do you want to solve it if it fails?”

The two elders won the bet.

Faced with the pressure from his two elders, Jiraiya had feelings for Konoha.

"If it fails, it's on me."

"You said you have looked for Tsunade. You must have Tsunade's whereabouts on your hands, right?"

Mito Kadoyu and Koharu, who was transferred to another dormitory, fell silent when asked.

...If the ANBU who was following was caught by Tsunade, it would be a slap in the face. No matter how many people there were, it wouldn't be enough.

"The two apprentices she recently accepted are in the village. You should go find them and ask them yourself."

After the two consultants finished speaking, they turned around and ran away.

Tsunade's apprentice? Sasuke? where is he? His shadow clone wasn't at home.

Jiraiya didn't have the habit of showing his clones running around the village. He didn't even have time to stare at the bathhouse, let alone the men.

The medical resettlement tent did not inquire about Sasuke, but they inquired about Tsunade's other apprentice-Hyuga Neji.

Good guy, why are these blood step families throwing people at Tsunade? What do they want to do? Hinata wouldn't think that a branch family would have a chance to rise to power.

Neji has been squeezed a lot in the past few days. As soon as he woke up from the hospital bed, he was dragged to provide medical logistics support for Hinata. It was okay at first, since they were separated from each other, so he helped.

And then heard about the chaos during his coma? Missed something.

Then he was asked to help by Konoha Hospital, and there was a steady stream of injured people. Before he could fully recover, he began to be flattered and morally kidnapped, and his labor was squeezed, and his chakra was not enough. It was all thanks to Teacher Kai's help that I was forced to take a few breaks.

"Hello Jiraiya-sama, I don't know much about Master's whereabouts. Sasuke is responsible for leading the way every time. He has a psychic beast to contact Tsunade-sama."

Jiraiya Wenyan was shocked,

"Psychic beast? Did Tsunade pass the contract of the living dragon to him? I didn't hear from the medical class that he summoned the living dragon during rescue."

Passing it to an Uchiha, this is too...somewhat...

"No, it's a little ninja cat named Fish Cake."

Jiraiya immediately breathed a sigh of relief and just said so.

Then of course when he couldn't find Sasuke, he looked for his teacher, his little crush Kakashi.

"Sasuke,"

"He left after attending Sandai's funeral."

"It is said that during the power vacuum period in Konoha, he is not very safe as an Uchiha. He should go out of the village and seek shelter from his master."

"Although he is very brave when fighting, he always worries about these things. The last Uchiha is inevitably a little sensitive to these things."

"You asked me for leave, and I agreed."

Okay, what should I do now? There is obviously a clue. If I really want to find Tsunade, it will be a bit time-consuming.

"Konoha is looking for someone to be the Hokage. We need Tsunade. Do you have a way to find her?"

"Jiraiya-sama...did you refuse? Why? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be..."

Jiraiya felt a little uncomfortable. Don't play with people's wishes. He really didn't want to be Hokage.

In the past two days, I was temporarily coordinating various places, and I was only responsible for the first moment. I immediately handed over the work to Shikaku and the two elders. Seeing that they were as tired as ninja dogs, no, the ninja dogs of the Inuzuka family had passed. It has to be more moisturizing than anyone else.

Jiraiya didn't know that Kakashi followed Naruto and Sasuke to Tsunade for a while, but that person really didn't look like a Hokage. In addition, Jiraiya was the author of eroge novels, so he was a writer, right?

"Don't worry about it. Anyway, we need to find Tsunade first."

"Well, go and ask Naruto. Maybe he can find Sasuke?"

Jiraiya knew Naruto's location, and he had been wandering around Sasuke's house, Shikamaru's house, and his own cabin in the past two days.

Although Naruto's hut was almost cleaned out, he still stayed at Sasuke's house for the time being, for no other reason than Sasuke asked Naruto to look after the house before leaving.

"Grandpa Toad, what's going on?"

"It's Toad Sage! My name is Jiraiya, please remember!"

The young Naruto had no idea about Jiraiya's identity and background.

"What are you doing? Are you here to eat the chocolate ice cream cake at this time? Did you listen to Kakashi-sensei or Shikamaru?"

"Really, before Sasuke left, he didn't leave much cake for me. I didn't have to eat it even if you came several times."

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"Did Sasuke leave a message saying when he planned to come back?"

"It seems that the Hokage selected him, or Tsunade drove him back."

"Really, if there is no one to choose Hokage, just let me do it."

"You don't even have all your hair! You're still far from it."

"Hmph, I will become Hokage one day!"

"Um, do you have a way to contact Sasuke?"