Naruto Puppet Master

"Damn it, that's enough for you two! If you don't practice, I won't waste my time and life with you." Inuzuka Hana, who was watching the conversation between the two, said impatiently.

"Yes, let's start right away." Shiranui said nervously.

You must know that Shiranui Gui took the initiative to call out Akimichi Hōcho and Inuzuka Hana to practice today, just to make him feel at ease by staying together.

Moreover, the three of them can practice together openly, saying that they were stimulated by Aburame Shison's strength. If they have to practice wholeheartedly, it is much better than a sudden transformation of one person.

Therefore, Inuzuka Hana cannot suddenly leave for no reason. Although her departure will not immediately arouse others' suspicion, it will still attract attention.

And for Shiranui, who is now as timid as a frightened bird, to attract more attention means the danger of exposure.

Therefore, he immediately gave Inuzuka Hana a few flattering smiles to appease Inuzuka Hana's temper.At the same time, he also sent a lot of snacks to Akimichi Bingding.

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.On the other side, after about 5 minutes of statistical arrangements in the grand arena, the challenge quotas for all participating candidates have been completely arranged.

After excluding most of those who failed due to duplication, there were three pairs of candidates standing on the central stage, namely, No. [-] and No. [-], No. [-] and No. [-], No. [-] and No. [-], and the single candidate. Number four.

Jonin Mike Kai and Hatake Kakashi stood on the stage and said: "Okay, now everyone else will go to another examination room for internal assessment, and then the top ones they decide will have the opportunity to challenge the last one among you. With the qualifications of one person, the winner of the same will be promoted. If the challenge is successful, then the winner will naturally be qualified to challenge all the way up."

"Then let's start with No. [-] and No. [-]. The winner will be eligible to challenge No. [-]."

"Then there will be a battle between No. [-] and No. [-], and the winner will be eligible to challenge No. [-]."

"After that, there will be No. [-] and No. [-]. The same winner will be qualified to challenge No. [-]."

"And the two parties that have challenged each other cannot fight against each other for a second time."

"Do you understand?" Jounin Kakashi said loudly.

"Yes, I understand." Seven people said in unison.

"Then No. [-] and No. [-] will stay, and the others will go down," Kakashi said.

"Yes." The other five people responded.

Then he turned around and jumped off the ring.

After seeing the others go down, Kakashi said to the two people in front of him with a serious expression: "Those who voluntarily admit defeat or lose the ability to resist are considered losers."

"And you are allowed to kill each other during the war, but Examiner Mike and I will rescue you at any time depending on the situation. However, I advise you to deal with it early if you have a way, otherwise if Examiner Mike and I think any of you is resisting, If you fail to save someone from being killed, then the person being rescued will naturally lose."

"The moment the barrier below is completely raised is the moment the assessment begins."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kakashi formed a seal with his hands, and then slapped his palm on the stone platform on the ground. A transparent barrier light curtain rose from the edge of the huge ring, slowly trapping the examiner like an inverted air bowl. Cassie, Mike Kay and two candidates wrapped up.

"Oh! Has it started? Do you want to play against the first team first?" A fat man with a round body on the high platform saw the barrier light curtain rising below and said to the Third Hokage beside him: "The following seven remain Are they all the most outstanding geniuses in this assessment?"

The person who can be with the Third Hokage, or even be accompanied by the Third Hokage on his own initiative, is naturally not an ordinary person. This guy who looks like a big meatball is named "Ichiro Kazama" and is one of the wealthy businessmen who traveled far and wide and is famous throughout the continent.

The Far Traveling Chamber of Commerce is a new business organization that has emerged in recent years with the spread of demonic disasters.

You must know that in today's sinister world where mutated demonic creatures and mutated plants are everywhere due to the influence of demonic disasters, communication between humans has naturally become difficult.

If there are several Ninja Village bases that are close to each other, they may be able to rely on the joint efforts of several of them to open up communication channels with each other and barely achieve a certain degree of communication.

But if it is an isolated Ninja Village base that is a little further away, it will not be able to communicate with the outside world. Therefore, since the spread of the magic disaster, when the power of the temple distributed around the world discovered the severe situation caused by the closed isolation of countless Ninja Village bases, After that, the Far Traveling Chamber of Commerce organized by the Red Sand Empire began to appear frequently on the mainland.

The largest organization among them is naturally the official caravan formed by the empire, followed by the powerful merchants with a background in the Red Sand Empire.

The empire's caravans don't appear often. They usually travel once a year. Not only are their routes fixed, but most of the goods they transport are war supplies, and a small part are rare treasures of various races.

The purpose itself is to provide the Calvary Ninja Village bases scattered across the continent with a large number of necessities to survive, that is, necessities for war and survival.

The caravans formed by wealthy merchants are different. They are purely commercial and profit-seeking. Therefore, when war items and survival items are monopolized by the government, they focus on transporting higher-value luxury goods.

Luxury goods are not just purely for fun. In this era when everyone is pursuing power, various rare treasures or combat weapons that are helpful for cultivation and other treasures that can greatly help cultivators increase their strength are truly the most valuable. Luxury goods of value.

For example, a life elixir that can restore physical damage, a strange treasure or material that can assist in practicing a certain unique secret technique, a magic weapon made of a certain special material, or an authentic beast puppet from the Red Sand Empire, etc. None of these can be satisfied by just relying on a certain village base, and the empire's caravans are only a drop in the bucket and cannot meet the huge needs of various places.

What's more important is that the empire's official caravans have too many places to take care of, and they can't appear in the same place more than once or twice a year. However, the wealthy caravans that are purely for profit are different. They may only go to the same place. Driven by profit, it is not a problem to travel to several fixed places five or six times a year. Moreover, there is only one official caravan, but there are many wealthy merchant caravans.

Therefore, for all Ninja Village bases, the traveling caravan formed by the wealthy merchants is a real blood transfusion force.

Every caravan is a blood transfusion line. Without them, there would be no various materials and treasures to enhance one's strength, and there would be no various

Support such as treasures or magic weapons will definitely have a great impact on the solid strength of any Ninja Village base. I am afraid that any Ninja Village base will have a very difficult time just relying on the Red Sand Empire to transport troops only once a year.

Therefore, Ichiro Kazama could not help but the Third Hokage not to be polite to these wealthy businessmen.

Although they are seeking wealth, they also truly control the prosperity of the ninja villages along the way.

"Yes, these are all the geniuses who applied for this exam, and they are still relatively outstanding talents. President Kazama has been walking on the mainland for many years and he has met many big shots in the Ninja Village base. Look at the strength of the geniuses in our Konoha Village. how?"

"Yes, as expected of Konoha Village, there are so many outstanding candidates participating in this assessment, and I see that these young ninjas below seem to be very young! They must all be around ten years old! " Kazama Ichiro praised with a smile on his face.

"Oh, President Kazama has a good eye! I see that you are not practicing, but I didn't expect that you can actually see the approximate age and strength of the candidates in front of you." The Third Hokage said in surprise.

"Ah haha, that's just a trick. Although I, Kazama Ichiro, have seen a lot of things, it's really difficult for me to practice. Businessmen of our generation are not even people who practice samurai body-building techniques. I don’t even need a few, let alone cultivating chakra vitality.” Kazama Ichiro shook his head and said.

At the same time, Ichiro Kazama pointed to the ornament hanging on his forehead, which was a ruby-shaped forehead pendant.

"This is the latest product developed by a puppet master in the empire who is good at refining ninja tools. As long as you wear it, you can roughly feel the fluctuations in the vitality and vitality of the people around you."

"It's how I feel about the general strength of those exams." Ichiro Kazama said happily.

"Oh, is this a brand new detection ninja tool? Doesn't it need to consume chakra?" The third Hokage said with surprise as he looked at the beautiful gem on the other person's forehead.

"No, this is just an ordinary detection tool. It is not a brand-new detection ninja tool. It is not very helpful to ninjas because its detection range is not wide, and the detection range is also very vague. For us It’s just a mental value that can be estimated in advance.” Kazama Ichiro shook his head and said:

"Its only advantage is that it does not consume chakra vitality, or the consumption is very low. Even an ordinary person like me can rely on the life energy naturally emitted by my body to keep it running at all times."

"As long as you take it off at night, it is the most suitable detection device for ordinary people and has no side effects or adverse reactions at all."

"Really? That's such a pity." The Third Hokage said sadly.

"Ah! Hahaha, let's not talk about this anymore. If Hokage-sama is interested, I will send you a pair. The competition is still important now!" Ichiro Kazama said with a chuckle, changing the subject.

While he was talking, the following battle competition was already taking place under the auspices of the registered Jonin who was in charge of being the proctor.

"There are really a lot of talents in your village! And surprisingly, these are not the strongest!" Kazama Ichiro said with praise.

"Oh, hahaha, President Kazama is too complimentary, but the strength of these children is indeed good. President Kazama has seen more outstanding geniuses in other ninja villages.

"Oh, Hokage-sama, you are joking. There is no ninja village in this area that can match the heritage of Konoha Village!"

"In my opinion, their most outstanding ones are the few family ninjas who have bloodstained boundaries. Unlike here in Konoha, they truly and thoroughly implement the empire's policies."

Looking at the figures of Kabuto Yakushi, Ichiro Hyakudo, Oyama Kakata, Ichiro Kaneda, Kazuo Honda, Shizune, Iken Morino and others who have just exchanged names below, anyone can tell from the clothes and surnames of these people. It was obvious that none of them were members of Konoha's traditional ninja families.

"Although I haven't seen the information of the top three candidates who just left, no matter which of the following seven people belong to Konoha's wealthy families!" Kazama Ichiro said.

"Yes, these children below are either descendants of declining clans or geniuses from civilian ninja origins. As for the geniuses from other families, except for the top three, most of them did not participate in this assessment." The Third Hokage said.

"Oh, did you give up?" Ichiro Kazama said in surprise.

"Yes, because most of them have seen the strength of the top three geniuses. No. 3 Hyuga Neji is still a genius according to normal recognition, but the other two are not at the same level at all, and the others are not even I haven’t seen it with my own eyes, but I must have heard others talk about the last assessment, so the well-informed family geniuses have already gone back to study hard. After all, if they fight again, they will just take a peek at the No. 3 competition, and those families have no shame to earn." The Third Hokage said proudly.

"Konoha is really full of talents! I think the strength of these geniuses below has probably reached the level of chunin or intermediate warriors! Compared to those family geniuses, they are not that far behind them!" Ichiro Kazama admired. said.

"Hokage-sama, can you introduce these candidates?"

"Of course, President Kazama wants to know, and I am naturally willing." Seeing Ichiro Kazama's interested expression, the Third Hokage immediately said with a smile on his face.

"Then I will introduce them to President Kazama one by one according to the number plates!" The Third Hokage said after pondering for a while.

First of all, the child standing alone on the left side of the ring below is the number [-] who received a bye. His name is Yakushi Kabuto. He was an orphan brought back by our Konoha ninja team when they went out to hunt demons when the demonic disaster just broke out. Since he has no relatives, he has no relatives. He stayed in Konoha.

He grew up in a Konoha orphanage and has a very mature mind and IQ. Although he is young, he is proficient in many sideline and practical ninjutsu such as medical ninjutsu and puppet control. He has considerable tactical talent. If he can go to the empire to receive the inheritance and training of the puppet master in the future, he might achieve unimaginable achievements.

"Is that the white-haired kid with the eyes?" Ichiro Kazama said in surprise: "The real puppet master is not so easy to practice."

"Of course I know this, but this is an intelligent genius who can endure loneliness, has talent, and is not lacking in diligence." The Third Hokage said with certainty: "I believe he has this potential."

"Really? Then I'm really looking forward to his future!" Hearing the Third Hokage's affirmative answer, Kazama Ichiro glanced at Kabuto Yakushi who was observing other candidates below and said.