Chapter 106: A Complicated World
After Naruto finished speaking what he wanted to express, the air in the Hokage room suddenly became quiet. The imaginary tension did not appear. The scene of 'Third-Kage old fogey immediately commanding people to do things' did not appear.
Sarutobi Hiruzen brows sit tightly, frowning.
Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu stood aside.
Shimura Danzo ignored all this coldly.
Naruto widened his eyes, looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen, and then looked at a few old fellows beside him. He was so anxious, and his hands slapped on the desktop in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen: "Old fogey! What are you waiting for?! Quickly send someone to stop—"
Naruto can't figure out what these old fellows are waiting for.
'I have already said so clearly. Why not act?'
'Doesn't everyone know that if there is a conflict between the two sides, there will be many casualties?!'
Silence for a long time.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, and it was up to him to answer this doubt for Naruto after all: "Naruto... and not to mention where you heard this news from and how accurate it is. But even as you said, if the Suna Village really wants to destroy our Konoha, it's impossible to stop the Chunin Exams this time."
Naruto, hearing this, was stunned, and then anger rose again, facing Sarutobi Hiruzen and inquiring: "Why?!"
"Naruto, you are still young and have not been exposed to the village. It is very meddlesome, not as simple as you think. This time, we Konoha actively invited all parties to come here. It's time for us to show our Konoha's strength to the outside world. Today, representatives of various Ninja Villages of Land-of-Fire, and Daimyo have also arrived at Konoha. If we stop the Chunin Exams just by some hearsays, how will the outside world view us? This will lead to our Konoha's placement being greatly damaged. When the time comes, not many will entrust us with any more missions. If any of what you said is not right, it will cause a big war, Naruto."
That's right.
This is why in the original work, even if Sarutobi Hiruzen knew that Orochimaru would cause trouble, he still continued the Chunin Exams.
At the same time, for this reason.
Sarutobi Hiruzen of this life, even if he understood Suna Village is going to be a trouble, he will not stop the Chunin Exams until circumstances spell it.
Everyone present understood this truth, including Li Yaoxiang.
But Li Yaoxiang will not agree with their approach.
It is because of their practice for a long time that it has caused this situation so far.
Blindly relying on the resources of the Land-of-Fire's, not to produce, they will always be led by the nose. Blindly relying on the mission to live on, so their future path will be so narrow.
It can be said that any transmigrator that becomes a Hokage will do better than them. They would not bring so many tragedies. Then there won't be so many people living in Konoha who want revenge.
It can only be said that these old guys are not very capable, but they have a lot of conspiracy and tricks, and they are purely self-inflicted! It doesn't matter if you are self-inflicted; you have to pay for the younger generation to have enough to vomit blood!
Now that Naruto has not yet entered the world of adults, of course, it is impossible to understand the various things of the adult world. After listening to Sarutobi Hiruzen's explanation, he not only did not understand, but he was even angrier!
Naruto's view is very simple. He doesn't understand so many reasons, and he only knows that anything, as long as it works with a common purpose, there should be a solution!
No need to sacrifice anyone!
This is Will of Fire in his cognition!
'I tried my best to get back! I don't want a tragedy to happen.'
'Is this the answer you gave me?!'
Naruto was so angry that he slapped the desk again: "Without a mission, wouldn't we find a way to find the mission?! Fear of war, should we sacrifice the people in the village first?! Is the reputation damaged?! Can't these things be solved afterward?! You know that there is danger! But let everyone use their lives to take this risk! Are there not enough people you sacrifice?!"
Naruto scolded Sarutobi Hiruzen for not knowing what to say.
In his view, Naruto is just childish, ignorant, and doesn't analyze the pros and cons of things.
However, Sarutobi Hiruzen realized that he never reviewed himself. He even forgot the origin of Will of Fire!
Was the reason why they and the Great Clan united together to form a village not to want to live a stable life?
He forgot all this!
It is useless to say anything now.
Both parties are impossible to have a common language.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, standing aside, the silent Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu seized the opportunity and wanted to come out to make around.
But in their mouth, this is the word that came out 'Naruto-'.
Naruto turned his head and stared fiercely at them: "Shut up!"
They were scolded.
Naruto looked towards Sarutobi Hiruzen again: "Old fogey, you tell me, will you terminate this exam?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned; he did not speak.
At this time, Naruto, who doesn't know Sarutobi Hiruzen's choice, also stopped talking. He turned around and left the Hokage room.
But as soon as he turned around, just a few steps before, Sarutobi Hiruzen called to stop him: "Naruto, where are you going?"
Naruto turned his back to Sarutobi Hiruzen and responded coldly: "Where I go, why do you care?!"
Darkening degree...
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After Naruto left, the four old fellows in the Hokage room glanced at each other. Their expressions were grave, and they did not know what to think.
....
Quickly, Naruto put on the mask again and returned to Kankuro's room.
As soon as Gaara saw Naruto, he immediately asked: "How, Naruto? Can the matter be resolved? Did they do anything to you?"
Naruto removed the mask, and he shook his head.
Seeing this, the loss of expression also appeared on the faces of three people.
But soon, Gaara got up and patted Naruto's shoulder and said: "Naruto, don't be too discouraged. Since it doesn't work for you, then I will persuade my father! I'll tell him that Konoha had learned of our plan, and maybe he would stop this operation."
Hearing this, Naruto seemed to rekindle hope again.
But his hope was destined to be disappointed.
After all, the current Kazekage is no longer Rasa, and even if Rasa is not dead, even if he knows that the matter has been revealed, Rasa will not give up such a good opportunity!
All battle strength has invaded Konoha; other Hidden Villages, and with Orochimaru joined.
How could anyone spare a battlefield with such a huge advantage?
Even if Rasa is not dead, he will not stop the plan, nor will Orochimaru stop. Orochimaru came to Konoha with purpose. After hearing Gaara's report, Orochimaru just responded to it nonchalantly. Then he yelled at Gaara to go back and act as planned.
After receiving the bad news brought by Gaara again, the four people present can only comfort each other and pray that they can minimize unnecessary casualties in this incident.
Next, Gaara and Temari first said goodbye to Naruto and immediately went back to their respective rooms.
Seeing this, Naruto also chose to leave Kankuro's room. Instead of staying in Sand Ninja's accommodation building, he decided to go back to his' home'.
....
This time he walked on the road.
Even if he walked out of a certain range, no one stopped him. Obviously, the news that Uzumaki Naruto returned to Konoha has been known to Anbu.
Naruto's mood has calmed down a lot by walking on familiar streets and looking at familiar plants and trees. He didn't feel unhappy about the matter of several old fellows anyway. Anyway, as long as he tried his best, it was enough to reduce the number of casualties.
Naruto soon returned home.
Standing in front of the door, he hesitated for a while.
Eventually, he opened the door.
At a glance, everything in the house has not been touched—just a lot of dust on the surface.
The air in the room is a little dirty. Obviously, it has been a long time since no one has entered this house. However, Naruto didn't care about these things. He saw the familiar pictures in the house, and he couldn't help but think of the past memories.
He said with emotion, "Big brother, I didn't think after we went around and we'd come back here...."
Naruto's mind was very quiet.
"Big brother...?"
Seeing that he never got a response, Naruto couldn't help but bitterly laugh.
In fact, he understood many truths. He also knew that it was impossible to prevent the conflict of 2 Great Ninja Village easily.
But he still didn't want to give up. He wanted to try his best to stop.
'But these must be stupid in big brother's eyes, right?'
'If I don't care about the consequences, I will do some silly things.'
'Big brother must be annoyed at me again, so he doesn't want to take care of me anymore.'
Recently during this period of time, the big brother has been talking to him less and less. Naruto didn't know what had happened.
Thinking about it, Naruto casually asked: "Hey, big fox. Do you think... Am I making the big brother angry again? Why hasn't he responded to me lately?"
Kyuubi was lying in the seal space: "Hmph! You're asking the old man?"
That's all he had to say.
Since Naruto started to communicate with Kyuubi, after several years of getting along, the relationship between the two parties has also improved a lot. Even if Li Yaoxiang rarely accompanied Naruto, Naruto would not feel too lonely.
Hearing Kyuubi's answer, Naruto was not surprised either.
After all, the big fox is not the big brother who can solve many problems and know everything...
Immediately, Naruto seemed to be talking to himself, but in fact, he wanted to express to the big brother: "Don't worry, big brother. I will never do stupid things again. I won't worry you again, and I Won't let you down."
After secretly making this oath for himself, Naruto rekindled again.
'Don't let the big brother down!'
'Start by cleaning the room by myself!'
...
A few days later.
To avoid letting the people of Suna Village find ing out about his identity, in the past few days, Naruto has been wearing masks for the past few days and only within a certain range of his home.
Because of this, in the past few days, Naruto rarely contacts people.
Fortunately.
During this period, Sarutobi Hiruzen also sent someone to let him get a definite message that his thoughts were not in vain. Although he could not terminate the Chunin Exams, he could make Konoha increase his vigilance and strengthen their alertness.
Good thing.
However, what Naruto didn't know was, this made him secretly complacent.
In fact, even without his intervention. As long as things follow the development of the original work plot, Konoha will still be vigilant. After all, with 'Orochimaru''s intentional presence, Sarutobi Hiruzen will, of course, make the same decision.
The difference is that sooner or later.
But it doesn't matter. In Naruto's heart, he finally got a little comfort and felt that he hadn't worked in vain.
Then, Naruto asked the Third-Kage to give him an identity to participate in Chunin exams so that he could work with Gaara to reduce casualties on both sides.
Sarutobi Hiruzen was not informed of the reason, but Sarutobi Hiruzen still agreed.
Immediately, someone soon came to give Naruto a corresponding pair of identities to come to this Chunin Exams.
It's just that he is different from others… He has no team.
He participated in the exam alone.
Next is to wait for the start of the Chunin Exams.
...
Early in the next morning, it's bright.
In a blink of an eye, it was Chunin Exams' day.
Naruto cleared up his mood. He just finished taking a bath and put on new clothes.
He stepped out the door… But as soon as he closed the door, he disappeared with a 'shoo'.
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Naruto appeared in vain in one of the places five meters away.
He was clutching an Anbu ninja by the collar. He punched Anbu in the abdomen and said viciously: "Go back and tell the old man! Don't send any more people to watch me! Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!"
This Anbu ninja, who endured the abdominal pain, nodded.
Naruto loosened his collar, and he immediately disappeared in front of Naruto.
At the same time, Naruto's cold eyes swept in the other direction.
In those directions, several black shadows flew out immediately and flew towards the Hokage Residence.
Naruto then turned around and set off for the exam site this time.
......
Not much time, Naruto arrived at the familiar Academy.
It is exactly similar to the original work; this is the first meeting place for the exam. But Naruto did not immediately enter the Academy. He stood in the shade of a tree and waited silently.
Waiting.
There are more and more people coming to the Academy.
Gradually, Naruto also began to see many faces, both familiar and unfamiliar. Although he left Konoha for several years, Naruto still recognized that these people were the same people he used to know.
He saw Haruno Sakura, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Choji and so on.
But Naruto was not at all moved by seeing them.
It wasn't until two figures that he couldn't be more familiar with came not far away, the face hidden under the mask, that he couldn't help showing the color of ecstasy!