Chapter 507 Return

Without looking at Tsunade, Toshiro looked towards the door of the office.

"Oh, so many people came together, it's really lively today!"

I had just arrived at the office, and these people couldn't wait to find me. Toshiro knew that they all came to plead with Jiraiya.

"Lord Hokage..."

Scanned by Toshiro's sharp gaze, the people following Tsunade lowered their heads guiltily, not daring to look at Toshiro.

After saying hello, everyone stood obediently behind the leader, Tsunade.

"What, are you here to put pressure on me?"

Kushina, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mimura Hamaki, Hinata Hizashi, etc., all the prominent figures in Konoha appeared in Toshiro's office at this time.

The huge crowd filled the office, which usually doesn't have many people, to the brim.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to plead with Jiraiya, or are you going to demonstrate to me, the Hokage?"

"I see that you are not here to plead with Jiraiya, but to force me to kill him."

As he spoke, Toshiro's eyes glowed with a cold light as he scanned the people present one by one.

Before he could do anything to Jiraiya, these people jumped out impatiently. Do they still have the Hokage in their eyes?

"not good…"

After being glanced at by Toshiro's cold gaze, the people present were not stupid, and they immediately reacted.

This is a big taboo for me and others.

Not to mention rescuing Jiraiya this time, it was possible that he would be killed because of this.

"Hokage-sama, you misunderstood, we just came here to discuss with you..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen, as a former Hokage, knew all too well what the consequences of this situation would be, so he quickly intervened and planned to get over it.

At the same time, he sighed in his heart. Recently, he had been a little out of his depth due to Orochimaru's incident. Otherwise, he would not have been able to notice such a major mistake.

"Let's discuss it..."

After racking his brains, Sarutobi Hiruzen could not think of what excuse he should use to explain that so many of them came together to find the Hokage.

Because he was so anxious, sweat was already visible on his forehead.

He understands the thoughts of a leader very well.

Just like what the Hokage said, if so many of them came to plead for mercy, not only would they not be able to help Jiraiya, they would also kill him.

"Everyone, please go down. I will consider Jiraiya's matter carefully."

With one sentence, everyone including Tsunade was sent away, and Toshiro began to think about how he should deal with Jiraiya's matter.

"This guy really got himself into trouble!"

Jiraiya was very popular. He knew it, but he didn't expect that just after he was put in prison, so many people would come to plead for mercy.

Look at these people, the Nine-Tailed Jinchuuriki, the previous Hokage, the Hokage's assistant, and the clan leaders of various clans. These people include families, civilians, and wealthy families.

If he hadn't made a decisive decision and sent all these people away, he would have been in a lot of trouble.

"Tsunade, what do you want to do now?"

Outside the Hokage Building, the Sandaime looked at the disciples in front of him, already a little confused.

Orochimaru's matter was enough to give him a headache. Unexpectedly, something like this happened again to Jiraiya. This time so many people put pressure on Naruto.

If one of them is bad, it will really trick Jiraiya to death.

"…have no idea!"

Rolling her eyes, Tsunade didn't expect that things would turn out like this.

She just asked Shizune to inform the teacher, and then came over to find the Hokage.

How did you know that the news would spread so quickly?

And these people would unexpectedly come to the Hokage to plead for mercy. This suddenly backfired, and she couldn't do anything about it.

"Things...can't really be what Hokage-sama said!"

Seeing the silence around her, Kushina asked weakly, not at all in her usual turbulent mood.

"It shouldn't be a big problem." Tsunade frowned and thought for a while, then replied: "Since the Hokage can speak out the problem openly, it means that he has no intention of killing Jiraiya."

If Toshiro was forced to agree to them reluctantly, things might really be in trouble.

Now that they haven't even been given a chance to plead, it shouldn't be a big problem.

And after being in contact with him for such a long time, she also had a general understanding of Naruto's character.

It's not the kind of character that can't tolerate others.

"Everyone, please disperse!"

After waving her hand, Tsunade grabbed the Dolphin from Shizune's hand and took the lead in the direction of the gambling house. She wanted to verify her guess.

Everyone present looked at me one by one, and then they all dispersed, and no one mentioned Jiraiya's matter again.

Half a month later, at the gate of Konoha.

A group of Konoha villagers looked eagerly in the direction of the gate, whispering among themselves.

"Yuki, I heard that your husband is on the prisoner exchange list. Is it true?"

A middle-aged woman looked at the young woman next to her and asked, with a look of envy on her face.

"Um!"

Without saying anything, the young woman just held the three-year-old child tightly in her arms and looked dreamily in the direction of the gate.

Upon seeing this, the woman who asked didn't say much. Instead, she pricked up her ears and began to listen to the gossip around her.

"Have you heard? This prisoner exchange will be divided into three batches, and a total of nearly 500 prisoners will be exchanged."

"500 people? Will there be that many people?"

"What do you know? This is to say the least. After several ninja wars, many people who disappeared were captured by other villages.

This time it was not just one village, but all the villages releasing the prisoners together, so the number of people would naturally be larger. "

"Then why not release everyone at once? Wouldn't this allow these people to reunite with their families sooner?"

"Probably... it would be safer to go slower!"

"I heard that the village paid a lot of money to redeem them. Many of them betrayed the village's information in order to survive. I don't know why the Hokage wanted to rescue them."

With the agreement of Suna Ninja and Iwa Ninja, this time the prisoner exchange began to proceed in an orderly manner. Of course, for some reason, Konoha didn't have enough prisoners, so they bled violently.

After the village notified the family members of the list of prisoners who would be released, the village has been discussing this matter for a while.

Some people agree and think this is a good thing, allowing these people to go home and reunite with their families, while others object and think it is a sign of weakness.

Those who were released must have betrayed the village's intelligence, and were not worth saving at all. There were various opinions and endless debates.

"I'm coming!"

From a distance, you can see a group of ragged and thin people staggering towards the gate of Konoha.

When these people came closer, they saw the looming wounds on their bodies, and some of their former partners who could no longer walk alone and needed the support of their companions to walk.

All the villagers present stopped talking and just looked at them quietly.

"husband!"

Yuki, who was holding the child in his arms, saw a familiar figure among them. He could no longer control his emotions and burst into tears.

He rushed towards a young man in the crowd.

Not only her, but the surrounding Konoha villagers who had already received the news and were waiting for the return of their relatives also rushed out of the crowd and ran towards the relatives they had longed for.

"Welcome home!"

After venting his emotions, Yuki looked at his husband carefully, and his eyes filled with tears when he saw his shaky body.

"Is this...Cheng?"

Looking at the child in his wife's arms, the young man's already somewhat overwhelmed body straightened up again.

He was just an ordinary Konoha chuunin. After being captured, he experienced severe torture, but he was able to persevere in the end because there was a wife who was expecting child at home in Konoha, waiting for news about him.

Otherwise, he would have been like most of the captured people, or he would have confessed early and been mercilessly killed by those enemies.

Yes, the sooner someone confesses, the more likely he is to be killed by the enemy.

The only value of their lives is the information in their heads. If even these values ​​are lost, these people will not be far from death.

These people themselves know this, but in the face of endless torture, these people just want to end this suffering.

And he, for the hope that did not exist in the first place, has persisted until now. He did not expect that he would actually have the opportunity to return to Konoha again.

Seeing his wife and children.

Of course, while everyone is still immersed in the atmosphere of family reunion, there are not without some different voices.

"What did you say?"

"Qian Dushi, remarried with children?"

A prisoner who was also weak was stunned when he heard his old mother's words, his face full of disbelief.

"This is absolutely impossible. I love her so much, how could she remarry?"

After finally persevering until he regained his freedom, he originally thought it would be a day to reunite with his family, but what he got was the news that his wife had remarried.

For him, this was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue.

And this is not an isolated case.

Not only those who remarried, but also those who wanted to be fathers.

He had been held captive for three or four years, but somehow he gave birth to a child less than two years old. This kind of thing happened often.

There are even cases where an older man was captured and the property he had saved was divided between his two unsatisfactory sons, and then everything went smoothly.

From time to time, among the captive team of more than a hundred people, there would be someone who fell down directly because he could not bear the blow and was physically weak.

Fortunately, there were doctors on standby nearby who quickly carried these people onto stretchers and began emergency rescue.

"Thank you, Yuki!"

He tightened his grip on his wife, who didn't know his son at all. The young man was extremely lucky that his wife had not abandoned him.

He also has his own son, who also looks like him.