Chapter 271 The Third Generation Also Wants to Retire
Konoha secretly sent a secret letter to the Iwagakure Village, intending to secretly join forces with the other party.

Although Nawaki felt that there was no need to do so, since it was a suggestion made by Minato, he would still listen to it.

After all, he was the man she recognized!

At the same time, the Wind Country declared war on Konoha, and Zhang Shan returned to the battlefield after a long absence.

At this time, at Zhang Shan’s home.

Mikoto, who just broke up with her boyfriend, has been staying at Zhang Shan’s house recently. Because there are many empty houses in Zhang Shan’s house, Mikoto plans to stay here for a few more days.

But, she really didn’t want to kick Zhang Shan out…

At this time, Mikoto looked at Xiaoguang awkwardly and said, “Sorry, Xiaoguang, I disturbed you…”

Xiaoguang stopped his tut-tut behavior, turned to look at Mikoto, and said, “Don’t take it to heart. That guy was planning to go to the front line anyway.”

“Ah?” Mikoto was surprised: “I remember that guy was very resistant to doing missions?”

“There are beauties on the front line,” Hikaru said simply.

“…Well, this is very Zhang Shan.” Mikoto didn’t know what to say.

Zhang Shan is good in every way except that he is too fickle. Having two at home is not enough, and now he wants to find another one…

After a moment’s silence, Xiaonan came out of the bedroom and saw Xiaoguang watching a TV series and Mikoto playing a puzzle.

Konan took off the headphones on her head and asked the two, “We’ll go find Kushina later, are you guys going?”

“No~” Xiaoguang refused. She is a stay-at-home girl now and will never leave her home.

“Where’s Mikoto?”

“I… I won’t go either.” Mikoto refused. After she broke up with Fugaku, her relationship with the clan became strained. Fugaku was the young clan leader after all, and now not only was she dumped, but Mikoto also hung out with outsiders all day long, which was a serious violation of the Uchiha’s pride. The reason they didn’t kick her out of the family was because of her pair of three-magatama.

Xiaonan nodded and didn’t force it.

In the afternoon, Xiaonan found Kushina, but found that she was in a low mood, so she asked: “What’s wrong, Kushina? You haven’t been here for the past few days, have you?”

Kushina shook her head and said, “It’s Grandma Mito.”

“Grandma Mito? What happened to her?” Xiaonan recalled the kind old woman in his mind, but felt even more puzzled.

Kushina sighed and said, “Grandma said that she may not live for many years. She hopes that before she leaves, I can have a child with Minato and become the next Jinchūriki of Konoha.”

“…” Konan hesitated several times. She really wanted to tell Kushina that the tailed beasts were just toys. Even she, with the help of Zhang Shan, could now defeat a tailed beast.

Therefore, Konan really feels that there is no need to have any Jinchūriki. The current Konoha is fully capable of crushing the whole world!
However, looking at the sad Kushina, Xiaonan spoke to comfort her: “Kushina, I remember when I first came here a few years ago, Grandma Mito used this reason to urge you and Minato to get married, right?”

Ding~!

Kushina suddenly realized!
“I see!” Kushina took Konan’s hand and said cheerfully, “Konan is really smart! I knew it, grandma’s health was so good, how could she suddenly say she couldn’t do it anymore!”

Although she was urged to give birth by the elders in her family, Kushina didn’t care too much.

He has been thinking recently, should he and Minato have a child?

But, they are only 18 years old. Having a baby now…

Kushina looked at Xiaonan beside her. She was a few months younger than herself, but her experience far exceeded hers. So Kushina asked slyly, “Xiaonan, let me ask you, when does your family plan to have a child?”

“We don’t plan to have children.” Xiaonan replied.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and a big question mark appeared above Kushina’s head.

“Don’t look at me like that. Zhang Shan said that he doesn’t plan to have children before he is 10 million years old.” Xiaonan said honestly.

“…” Kushina didn’t know what to say.

“Ten million years old… hehe…”

Xiaonan didn’t think it was a big deal at all. Although this amount of time was an astronomical figure that they could not imagine, Xiaonan was about to be promoted to the third generation of divine body, and time could no longer leave any trace on her.

Konan held her chin with one hand and said to Kushina, “How many years can Minato be the Hokage?”

Kushina was slightly stunned, shocked by Konan’s ability to change the subject.

So stiff…

However, speaking of this matter, Kushina also became interested. She said with a smile on her face: “Of course our Minato will be the leader longer than that old man of the Third Generation!”

The two talked about their plans for the future, and as they talked, Kushina’s opinion of the Hokage changed.

“What’s so good about being a Hokage? Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, it also wastes our youth! It’s simply a waste of time!”

“Yeah, if we have this much time, we might as well travel around the world. After we’re done with this planet, we can fly to the next planet and see completely new things.”

“It’s decided! Minato only needs to be the Hokage for a few years. Don’t waste too much time on things like this!”

At this time, Minato didn’t know that his wife had been led astray by Konan, and he didn’t plan to stay in Konoha for too long.

Minato was thrown into the battlefield of the Hidden Cloud Village. As soon as he arrived, Minato was the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, with full responsibility for the entire battlefield situation.

He looked at the information handed over by his men, nodded slightly and said: “I will deal with the AB combination, you don’t have to worry about them posing any threat.”

Hearing Minato’s calm and confident voice, everyone present felt extremely relieved.

“It’s great to have you here Minato, we will be able to end the battle easily!”

“Yes, Minato’s current strength has surpassed the three ninjas. He is truly the best in Konoha. He is the rightful fourth Hokage!”

Faced with everyone’s flattery, Minato smiled and nodded, without saying much.

I don’t know when it started, but everyone has assumed that Minato will become the fourth Hokage.

But now, Minato didn’t have the mind to think about things related to the Hokage. He just wanted to end this farce war as soon as possible.

After everyone left, Minato murmured, “Zhang Shan’s strength is completely hidden. Except for a few of us who are familiar with him, no one else knows how powerful he is. Rope Tree and I…”

Whenever he thought of this, Minato felt helpless.

He felt that he could conquer the whole world, but the third generation did not believe him.

The arguments given by the other party were also very convincing.

“Even the first Hokage didn’t dare to say that he could dominate the entire ninja world, let alone you. Minato, don’t think that you are very strong now. I have witnessed the strength of Hashirama-sama in the past, and it has already surpassed the scope of humans.”

Hearing this, Minato really didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. Hashirama was very powerful, Minato knew it since he was a child, because Mito liked to tell about Hashirama’s heroic deeds when he had nothing to do, so they all knew how powerful Hashirama was.

However, the Sandaime actually thought that Hashirama didn’t destroy other countries because he felt that he couldn’t defeat them…

It’s amazing.

“I always feel like the Sandai is lying to me…” Minato muttered in his heart.

At this time, the Hokage Building.

The third generation calmly read the secret reports, his face expressionless.

“That kid, Rope Tree, is thinking about destroying the Sand Village again. Fortunately, I asked him to stay with Zhang Shan. Only he can suppress Rope Tree.”

“Is Minato also urging them? Well, never mind. The Hidden Cloud Village is always causing trouble. Let Minato give them a beating. The credit for destroying the Hidden Cloud Village is enough for Minato to become Hokage at the age of 20.”

“As for the Hidden Mist Village… Jiraiya is very conservative, which is in line with his personality. But this kid actually wants to look for the child of prophecy? Really, can’t you see that Minato is the child of prophecy?”

After reading the intelligence transmitted back from various battlefields, the Third Hokage took a puff of cigarette and said, “No, the ninja world cannot be unified in my hands. I have to leave some things for Minato to do.”

Konoha now has the strength to sweep across the ninja world. Whether it is the Three Ninjas or White Fang, Konoha has the confidence to crush other ninja villages.

With the addition of new generation monsters like Rope Tree, the Third Generation has a very clear understanding of Konoha’s current strength.

Minato had asked him this before, but he was fooled by his psychological victory.

They said that the moment the other ninja villages joined forces, we had already won.
But the real thought in the Third Hokage’s heart was that he was almost sixty years old. If the ninja world was unified under his leadership, let alone the trivial matters after the unification, just the issue of succession would be enough to give him a headache.

You know, the third generation planned to retire after this war, and his successor had already been made clear, and that was Minato.

In fact, Orochimaru was considered before, but he has no interest in politics since he joined Zhang Shan’s research institute. Not to mention Jiraiya and Tsunade, White Fang also lost interest in politics after that incident and recently submitted his retirement application.

So, he turned his attention to Minato’s generation.

In this generation, he has three candidates, namely Zhang Shan, Nawaki, and Mizumon.

Among them, Zhang Shan has long shown that he is indifferent to politics. Sheng Shu is stubborn and not smart enough. If there is no choice, he is also a candidate, but there is an almost perfect Mizumon next to Sheng Shu, so he was eliminated~
To put it bluntly, the purpose of this war was to help Minato gain military merits, let everyone know about Minato’s strength, and thus push Minato to the throne with full legitimacy.

But if the ninja world were unified under his own hands, the matter of succession would not be so simple.

First of all, it would be impossible for him to abdicate in at least ten years after the unification of the ninja world. No one wanted to see him abdicate. In fact, because he was the number one in the ninja world, he might work until his death before passing the throne to his descendants.

And to whom should the throne be passed?

Watergate?

That was just an idea from a long time ago. When that time really comes, a group of new people will emerge, or the old people will have new ideas. These are all variables!

The third generation hates variables!

Therefore, in order to prevent these troublesome things from happening, the simplest solution is to wait for Minato to come to power and then change the world with his ideas!

By then, even if Minato poked a hole in the sky, it would have nothing to do with him.

The smoking Sanda suddenly looked at the door with wide eyes. The next moment, Danzo pushed the door open and said, “Huruzen, you actually let that kid Minato take charge of a battlefield. This is really immature!”

“Tuan! My! Shadow!”

“You! Regret!”

The conversation ended unpleasantly, and the Third Generation sometimes wondered when exactly he and Danzo began to drift apart.

“Hmm~ It seems like it was when I said I wanted Minato to be the next Hokage? Or when I said Orochimaru didn’t want to be Hokage?”

~
At this time, on the battlefield of the Wind Kingdom.

boom!
boom!
Red chakra balls kept falling around, creating huge pits.

“You bastard! You took the opportunity to touch my butt just now! I felt it!” Ye Cang threw one Scorch Fireball after another at Zhang Shan. Although he was very angry, every fireball he threw would perfectly pass by Zhang Shan’s body. It was more like a young couple having a conflict than being angry.

“I didn’t! I just touched your smooth, white skin!”

“What! You put your hand in there! You bastard! Idiot!”

Apart from the two of them, there was no outsider here. Zhang Shan had specially invited Ye Cang to come here.

Originally, I wanted to come here to reminisce and flirt, and then tie the person up and take him back.

But I didn’t expect that I couldn’t help but extend my evil hand.

But, he really couldn’t help himself from seeing Ye Cang’s backless dress!
“Don’t be angry, baby! You know me, I have no resistance to you at all!”

Ye Cang’s face turned red, but it was covered up in less than a second. Holding a red high-temperature burning ball in his hand, he sneered, “You said the same thing to your two wives at home, right?”

Zhang Shan coughed shyly and said, “You know, I’m weak and have poor resistance~”

“Xinei!”

boom! !

The bombing started again, until Ye Cang exhausted all her chakra, and she fell to the ground in front of her with her whole body powerless.

Zhang Shan quickly dodged and hugged him in his arms, and whispered, “You actually used up all your chakra, are you stupid?”

“That’s better than you. You let the enemy go again and again. This is treason.” Ye Cang said stubbornly.

At this time, Zhang Shan also understood the other party’s thoughts, so he said: “Do you remember what I said to you when we parted in Loulan?”

Ye Cang’s body suddenly stiffened, then relaxed, lowered his head and said: “It’s up to you, I don’t have chakra now anyway, I can’t resist…”

Zhang Shan picked up Ye Cang in a princess hug and said, “Yes, you are my prisoner now. You will never escape my clutches in this life!”

As he spoke, Zhang Shan used Flying Thunder God to take Ye Cang back to his camp, put the girl on the bed, took out some special bread and said, “Eat, have a good rest, I will introduce you to everyone in two days.”

“No!” Ye Cang grabbed Zhang Shan’s hand, blushing and saying, “I’m quite famous in the Sand Village. If I’m captured like this… it’s very embarrassing!”

Zhang Shan helplessly stroked the other person’s forehead and said with a smile: “Okay, okay, I won’t tell them. After we return to Konoha, we will slowly announce it.”

After saying that, Ye Cang still didn’t let go. She asked with some concern: “If I follow you, I will be a traitor. You must never let me down! I don’t care how many more you plan to find, but if you make me unhappy in the future, I don’t care how strong you are. Even if it costs me my life, I will let you, a philandering man, know how powerful I am!”

Looking at the corner of Ye Cang’s eyes, Zhang Shan said seriously: “Don’t worry, although I am a little fickle, I am definitely not that kind of bastard!”

(End of this chapter)