Chapter 74 Heartbroken Jiraiya
Hokage Building, Hokage Office.
Anbu members led Uchiha Xia Yu into the door.
"Hokage, you're looking for me..."
"Yes." Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded slightly and winked at the Anbu: "You go down first."
"Yes!"
After the Anbu left, Sarutobi Hiruzen handed the map in his hand to Xia Yu:
"There are three places marked on the map of Tianguo. These three places are the secret bases of Orochimaru found by Jiraiya after years of investigation. I want you to lead the Root to explore separately. Let's go now..."
"When you determine the location of Orochimaru, you can take action immediately if you have the chance. Jiraiya and Tsunade will hide in the dark to support you..."
"?" Xia Yu was a little puzzled: "Hide in the dark?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen: "Well, Orochimaru is very cunning. If he sees Tsunade and Jiraiya, he will definitely not fight and will find ways to escape. If he really lets him escape, we will fail..."
Hearing this, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows: "So... I am the bait?"
"No, you Not a bait..." Sarutobi Hiruzen said seriously: "I don't want to arrange it this way, but this is the best tactic I can think of! According to my understanding of Orochimaru, he seems to like Sharingan very much. You will lead him first and you will definitely be able to lure him out..." "Xia Yu, I know you have emotions, but this is all for the stability of the village... Imagine, if Orochimaru does something to the women in the village again in the future, and it happens to make all your wives and concubines pregnant, is that really good...?" "This is not what I want to see, and I believe you don't want to..." "The arduous task of getting rid of Orochimaru is imminent! Xia Yu, I believe you will not care about your sacrifice..." "Remember, you are not a bait, you will always be a part of Konoha, and my apprentice Jiraiya and Tsunade will definitely protect you..." Looking at Sarutobi Hiruzen's sanctimonious and emotional appearance, Xia Yu sneered at it. "This old man is really good at talking..."
"If he knew that Orochimaru was pregnant with my child, I wonder what kind of expression he would have?"
"If he knew that those women were pregnant by me... hehe..."
"That expression would be very exciting..."
Xia Yu thought to himself: "It's almost time, it's almost time... Sarutobi Hiruzen, before I kill you, I will definitely let you feel the feeling of being abandoned by everyone..."
After a short silence...
"Got it! Thank you for your concern, Lord Hokage. This is a serious matter. I will prepare it now."
"Well! Very good..." Sarutobi Hiruzen was very satisfied, and his eyes narrowed into a slit when he smiled. He stood up and gently patted Xia Yu on the shoulder:
"Xia Yu, the future of the village depends on you! If the plan to eliminate Orochimaru's forces can be successfully completed this time, I will inform the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and let you be my successor! I am old and I don't have many years left. I really think highly of you..."
He started to paint a big picture again...
Xia Yu couldn't help but sneer in his heart:
Wait for you to die?
Hehe, who doesn't know that you are the best at saving your life?
In the First Ninja World War, you relied on the cover of the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama to return to the village and save your life... In this war, four Kages died from the five major countries.
In the Second Ninja World War, the Kages of other villages took their ninjas to fight, but you sent three disciples to the Rain Country to deal with Hanzo, and sent Hatake Sakumo to the Wind Country to deal with the Sand Country, while you stayed in the village...
In the Third Ninja World War, the Third Raikage fought alone with the 10,000 ninjas of the Rock Country for three days and three nights to protect the younger generation and died of exhaustion...
However, you sent a large number of young ninjas to the battlefield under the pretext of insufficient manpower. Obito "died" in the Battle of Kannabi Bridge, and Might Guy fought against the Seven Ninja Swordsmen alone in the Mist Country to protect the young Might Guy, and finally died...
In these vigorous Ninja World Wars, each ninja made his own name, and even if his life was lost, it was talked about as a good story by later generations, but only you... did not leave any highlights.
I haven't even seen you on the battlefield...
You just stay in the village...
How ridiculous!
You can stay in the village!
But you can't catch up with what's happening in the village!
On the night of the Nine-Tails, when you were dawdling to put on your uniform, your disciple, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, had already beaten Obito and then the Nine-Tails.
After finally arriving, you were a spectator who didn't shout "Come on" for a long time.
At the end, everything was over before you said, "Don't worry, Minato, Kushina, I will take good care of your children..."
Pah!
Fortunately, Orochimaru came up with the Konoha collapse plan in the later period, so you had a highlight.
The only one...
A person who survived from the First World War to the later period, and was the shadow of the strongest ninja village, actually only left one memorable battle.
How ridiculous...
Huh...
Xia Yu became more and more angry as he thought about it. These past memories made him hate the Third Hokage more and more.
It's really not enough to kill him ten thousand times.
It is hard to relieve hatred without destroying the heart!
"Hokage, I will go down and prepare first..."
"Well, go ahead, and be sure to return safely. I'll wait for your good news, Xia Yu~"
"I will..."
Xia Yu turned around and walked out the door.
"Hehe..." Sarutobi Hiruzen picked up the pipe and took a deep puff:
"My plan is perfect... After this battle, I will no longer be a threat!"
...
At the same time, at the Ninja School.
It's time to go home.
The 8-year-old Naruto ran out of the school gate excitedly and shouted to his friends in front of him: "Hey! Let's go together, it's just on the way."
When the friends saw that it was Naruto, they quickly hid aside and cursed: "Stay away from me, my mother won't let me play with you..."
"..."Hearing this, Naruto stopped where he was, feeling a little disappointed.
But it was only for a moment, and a smile appeared on his face again.
Naruto has gotten used to the attitude of others towards him.
He knows how to deal with such cold eyes and disgust.
That is to make himself very happy, at least on the surface...
"Hehe! You bunch of idiots, I wanted to treat you to ramen, since you don't seize the opportunity, don't blame me~"
Naruto's cheerfulness is always the same.
A man with white hair is behind Naruto, smiling at him.
"This kid has really grown up..."
All the way, Jiraiya has been following Naruto.
People around him treated little Naruto as if he were a plague god, and they even spoke ill of him from time to time. Jiraiya saw all these "scenes".
Although he was very angry, he was more helpless.
Because the villagers really couldn't be blamed for this.
After all, they didn't understand and didn't know the truth.
They only knew that Naruto was a natural disaster demon fox, and that countless families were destroyed on the night of the Nine-tailed Fox, but they didn't know that the father of this monster was actually a hero of the village.
The third generation didn't intend to let others know about this to prevent people from other villages from coveting the Nine-tailed Jinchuriki.
Jiraiya also approved of this decision.
He understood that this was to protect Naruto.
"Little boy, I'm really happy to see that you can be so strong!"
Jiraiya was very grateful in his heart. It seemed that as the master said, he really took good care of Naruto.
But until he saw what happened later, Jiraiya's heart was shaken...
Little Naruto returned home alone with a smile. As soon as he entered the house, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, and the atmosphere of sadness enveloped the whole house.
Looking at the empty house, little Naruto couldn't control himself anymore. He didn't even change his shoes, and fell on the bed and cried with his pillow in his arms.
Jiraiya, who was hiding outside the window, realized that everything just now was just a disguise.
Looking at little Naruto crying alone but no one to comfort him, Jiraiya felt very sad.
Such a young child has to bear so much alone, and pretend to be happy in front of outsiders...
"Ah..."
Jiraiya sighed deeply...
Perhaps he was tired of crying, little Naruto wiped his eyes and got up from the bed, took out a box of ramen, and waited quietly for the water in the pot to boil...
Jiraiya then noticed that on the dining table, there were boxes of empty instant ramen...
"Does this kid always eat this on weekdays?"
Jiraiya couldn't stand it anymore.
"Sizzle~"
The window was opened by Jiraiya from the outside.
"Hey! Kid, come with me, I'll treat you to real ramen! Very nutritious, with barbecued pork~"
Perhaps because he was used to being lonely, the sudden voice of a stranger in the house scared little Naruto and he almost fell off the chair.
"Who are you?"
……
