Sunny and cheerful Konoha Genin

Chapter 390 Plan Termination

"It seems that I am really old."

Sarutobi Hiruzen smiled bitterly, his eyes revealing a hint of fatigue and helplessness.

“Every time I hear the news of a close friend’s death, it’s like the bell of this era is constantly ringing.”

He sighed deeply, as if he could feel the passing of time and the fragility of life.

"Jiraiya, from now on it's your time."

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Jiraiya, with a hint of expectation and inexplicable worry in his eyes.

On the one hand, he hopes that his descendants can be better than himself.

But on the other hand, he also knew the cruelty and darkness of this ninja world.

Among his three disciples, Orochimaru was the one who had the best chance of breaking through the darkness. Unfortunately...

Whenever he thought of this, Sarutobi Hiruzen found it hard to let it go.

"Okay, okay, old man, don't make it sound like you're leaving your last words. It's unlucky."

Jiraiya's face darkened and he said with some displeasure.

"First of all, I would like to make it clear that I will never be the Hokage. I haven't had enough fun yet!"

He had a determined look on his face and his speech was deafening, as if he was speaking from a podium.

And this is indeed the case, Jiraiya has no interest in becoming Hokage.

It's just not his nature to be suited to it.

"Ha ha……"

Sarutobi Hiruzen chuckled, not surprised by Jiraiya's answer.

He knew that Jiraiya was a free and unrestrained person. Such a person might be able to become a top ninja, but he was definitely not suitable for the position of Hokage.

So he never considered it.

However, whenever he saw Jiraiya looking so cheerful and carefree, Sarutobi Hiruzen's mood would also improve.

"I heard you wrote a book recently?"

"Yes, the Biography of the Ninja with Perseverance." Jiraiya took out a small booklet from his arms like a magic trick: "Would you like to read a copy, teacher?"

As soon as he finished writing it, he couldn't wait to print 5000 copies and made a bold statement, "This is a book that can influence the future of the ninja world."

After much persuasion, a bookstore finally agreed to sell 100 copies.

A month passed, and the number of those 100 books did not decrease at all, but their position moved from the edge at the beginning to an even more edge, and finally went directly into the warehouse to collect dust.

It's not even worthy of being packaged and sold with other novels.

Jiraiya was devastated, but he felt that the novels he wrote were fine, so he carried a lot of them with him and went around looking for people to sell them to.

Because of his status as one of the three legendary ninjas, many people accepted it.

Jiraiya was still a little smug until one day when he went to a public restroom and found his book placed next to it as toilet paper.

Jiraiya was furious and immediately summoned Gama Boss to demolish the public toilet. At the same time, he secretly decided to sell his novel only to people with taste.

And my teacher must be a very tasteful person!

"Uh……"

Sarutobi Hiruzen took it and looked troubled after flipping through a few pages.

"Jiraiya, what are you writing?"

"Let's not talk about anything else. Why are there hundreds of words for the hand gestures of this ninjutsu? And there are several mistakes..."

"This, this is to get closer to the training life of us ninjas. The reason why I made a mistake is what if someone really learns the ninjutsu in it! That won't be easy to pass the review, so I made it wrong on purpose."

"Really."

Sarutobi Hiruzen flipped through a few more pages, then closed the book and put it quietly on the corner of the table.

"I'll look at it carefully later. Now let's talk about other things."

"For example...the Akatsuki organization you mentioned?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression became serious, which was why he met Jiraiya.

Recently, Akatsuki's presence has become increasingly stronger.

Especially after the Raikage was defeated, he began to spread the threat theory of Akatsuki, suggesting that all ninja villages stop fighting and give priority to dealing with Akatsuki.

However, his suggestion was ignored by many people, and many people even laughed at him in secret, thinking that the Raikage had dragged the matter out and was tricked into falling into trouble, so he wanted to save his face.

But Jiraiya didn't think so.

Hearing Sarutobi Hiruzen's question, his expression became serious.

"The Akatsuki organization was originally established by the three disciples I accepted in the Rain Country."

"One of them is... very special."

"special?"

"I can't tell you the details. Please forgive me for hiding it, teacher."

Jiraiya lowered his head.

The Rinnegan, an eye that only exists in legends, is very powerful, but it can also cause a lot of trouble.

If Sarutobi Hiruzen knew about this, it would only cause her more trouble.

"Okay, just say whatever you can."

Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't care either.

As the Hokage, he had long ago gotten rid of his unnecessary curiosity.

Except when using the telescope technique, I can't help myself...

"Cough cough..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen coughed twice.

"Since this is an organization founded by your disciples, then we should be friendly to our Konoha, right?"

"In this case..."

He thought of the Raikage who was badly beaten on the battlefield, and suddenly felt more kind towards the Akatsuki organization.

"Maybe we can try to make contact?"

"No, teacher."

Jiraiya looked serious.

“That’s exactly why I came here this time.”

"I feel that the Akatsuki organization has gradually slipped out of the control of my disciples, and an unknown force has joined it!"

"Oh?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes were solemn.

"What force?"

"I don't know this yet, but I strongly suspect that it was that force that used the Sharingan to control Orochimaru's summoning beast."

!!!

Sarutobi Hiruzen's pupils shrank.

……

Somewhere in a dark underground cave.

"What a mess, Black Zetsu." Ah Fei stood beside him with his hands on his hips, looking at Black Zetsu who was lying on the ground like a pile of mud.

"I was beaten like this by the Raikage."

"Can you please stop being so proud over there? If I hadn't used White Zetsu to help you escape, you would have been dead. Do you understand that?"

Black Zetsu lay on the ground, out of breath.

"Damn Raikage, he actually wants to call on all the ninja villages to fight us together."

If it really comes to that, I'm afraid I'll have to abandon Akatsuki."

"After all, these guys like Yahiko are not very obedient."

"It took so long to catch a three-tail."

"As for Orochimaru, I heard that he has captured the Two-Tails Jinchuriki."

"Maybe we can find an opportunity to start extracting the tailed beasts!"

Even Black Zetsu, who is a mess, is trying hard to plot and scheme.

The heavy breathing in the air stopped, and a pair of Sharingans opened.

"Plan to stop first."