143 143

"Is Sunagakure ready to go to war against us?"

Hiashi asked.

However, Fugaku focused on something else.

"Hokage-sama, who is the mysterious person with the Mangekyo Sharingan, have you found out his identity?"

Jiraiya also shook his head as he looked at Fugaku: "I originally wanted to ask you for any clues, but now it seems that you don't know about him either."

When Fugaku saw that Jiraiya was suspicious of him, he responded immediately:

"I can guarantee that the Uchiha clan has absolutely nothing to do with this matter. However, since that person has a Mangekyo Sharingan, there is a high probability that he was a Uchiha ninja. I will send someone to investigate."

"I feel relieved if that is the case."

Jiraiya nodded, showing a smile. Based on his understanding, Fugaku is a person who cares about the overall situation and peace. So he will not collude with the enemy country.

Even if he did, it wouldn't be so obvious.

Minato Namikaze then asked Jiraiya:

"Hokage-sama, you mentioned to me before that after the Second Ninja War, you stayed in the Land of Rain to take in three orphans, and spent years teaching them ninjutsu. Are you saying that your three disciples are working with Danzo and others now?"

"That's right."

Jiraiya sighed, as his expression became more solemn.

He originally thought that the three of them had died in the war, and he was sad for a long time, but now it seems that they are all alive and well.

Hearing this news, Jiraiya should have been very happy, but according to the current information, through some unknown means Rasa had tied them together to Sunagakure.

Nagato has the Rennigan which was only seen once in the past with The Sage of Six Paths, and is also the son of prophecy that Jiraiya recognised. He once believed that Nagato would bring true peace to the ninja world according to the prophecy of the great toad sage.

But now, Nagato is on the opposite side of Konoha.

For Konoha, this is undoubtedly extremely bad news.

So, after some deliberation, Jiraiya ordered the establishment of an elite reconnaissance team, with Minato Namikaze serving as the captain, and the team members including Hiashi Hyuga, Shisui Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, and other jonins.

Their task is to sneak into the Land of rain and investigate what is happening there.

"There's one more thing."

Jiraiya tapped the table with his hand and announced, "Mount Myoboku has decided to teach ten Konohagakure ninjas to train in Senjutsu. If you have suitable candidates, you can recommend them to me."

After hearing the news, Uchiha Fugaku's and Hyuga Hiashi's eyes lit up.

The two had already heard about the sage mode.

Especially not long ago, Jiraya used the Mount Myoboku's senjutsu to stop Kisame, saving Konoha a lot of face.

How can they not be envious of such a powerful force.

The first person Fugaku thought of was his son Uchiha Itachi. Itachi is a genius He showed amazing ninjutsu talent at a young age. If he has the opportunity to go to Mount Myoboku in the future, he will definitely learn the sage mode there.

Hiashi also wanted to try to get as many places as possible for the Hyuga family.

After all, in the third ninja war, the Hyuga clan did not perform well, especially when compared with Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan.

The Hyuga clan has an unprecedented thirst for power now.

In contrast, Namikaze Minato is the calmest of the three.

He came from a commoner background and had no family members, so he naturally didn't need to break his head to grab a spot. Moreover, he himself has been to Mount Myoboku long ago, and he has also learned the half-baked senjutsu.

However, Minato still thought of his disciple Kakashi, and decided to let the latter go to Mount Myoboku to try his luck.

Jiraiya took in the changes in the expressions of the three people one by one.

In short, he decided to use the power of Mount Myoboku to form an sage army in the next few years and make it the ace of Konoha.

With this strength, Jiraiya has the confidence to fight against the Demi-God of the ninja world, Hoshigaki Kisame, and a potentially powerful enemy, Nagato.

The Land of Water, Kirigakure.

After Kisame became the fifth Mizukage, he became the owner and has been absent from work for more than half a month.

Originally, there would be no problem with this as Elder Genji, a respected elder, can handle the affairs of the village. But three days ago, the messenger of the Land of Water Daimyo suddenly came to Kirigakure.

And it's an emergency.

It stands to reason that as Kirigakure defeated the powerful Konoha and won the third ninja war, the Land of Water should be a happy and rejoice the occasion.

If nothing else, Kirigakure can get more missions and military expenses from Daimyo.

However, when the Daimyo of the Land of Water heard that after Kisame defeated Konoha, he negotiated privately with Konoha without asking him, the Daimyo, for any instructions, he felt angry.

What made the Daimyo even more angry was that Kisame neither asked Konoha to give a part of the land land nor asked for any compensation, but asked for a lot of ninjutsu scrolls, Hashirama cells, and a woman.

By the way, there is also his statue on Hokage Rock.

That is to say, the benefits that this war should have brought to the Daimyo in the Land of Water were all swallowed up by Fifth Mizukage alone.

The most intolerable thing for the Daimyo is that it has been a month since the end of the war, the newly appointed Mizukage, didn't even give an explanation to the Daimyo, Kisame didn't even visit him.

It's means that Kisame doesn't put the Daimyo in his eyes.

The Daimyo of the Land of Water couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered Kisame to come to see him, but Kisame is training at Shikkotsu Forest, and it was inconvenient for him to come see him.

The furious Daimyo immediately sent hiz messenger to Kirigakure to question Elder Genji.

"Within three days, if Hoshigaki Kisame doesn't show up, the Daimyo will not only suspend all economic assistance to Kirigakure, but will also send a large army to come to attack!"

In front of the Mizukage Building, the Daimyo messenger fanned his fan and scolded Elder Genji and others in a arrogant manner.

When everyone heard him, they couldn't help but look at each other, worried.

One country and one village is a popular system in all countries in the ninja world, but in fact, the relationship between major countries and various ninja villages is not an interdependent system, but more of an employee employer relationship.

In the anime, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind once despised Sunagakure, and planned to hand over more missions to Konoha, which resulted in Sunagakure's strength being weakened again and again, and it almost couldn't survive.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire, because of his dissatisfaction with Konoha, threatened that he would dispatch an army to destroy Konoha.

For the Daimyo of the Land of Water, Kirigakure is also a dispensable existence. Even if Kirigakure is destroyed by Konoha in the Third Ninja War, the Land of Water will not perish.

Whether it is the former samurai, or the current ninja, they are just dogs raised by the Daimyo. If this dog is disobedient, kill it and replace it with another.

At least, that's what the Daimyo of the Land of Water thinks.

Facing the imminent threat of extermination of the village, the entire Kirigakure was tense up. In addition to some ninjas, the large army controlled by the Daimyo has hundreds of thousands of ordinary troops, which is also a very powerful force.

In Kirigakure, the number of ordinary villagers is only a few thousand people, how can they compete with the Daimyo army?

Only the invincible Mizukage Hoshigaki Kisame can save Kirigakure again.

In the small house next to the Mizukage Building.

In the room, Pakura found Shizune and explained to the latter the severe situation Kirigakure was facing, and asked her to find a way to contact Kisame immediately.

It has been half a month since Kisame and Tsunade went to the Shikkotsu Forest, and no news came back from them, which made Pakura worry that something bad happened.

Shizune did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly called out a small slug the size of a palm from her sleeve.

"Katsuyu, I am sorry to trouble you." Shizune relayed the matter to the little slug, begging it to bring the news back to the Shikkotsu Forest.

The little slug's tentacles swayed, and with a bang, it turned into a cloud of white smoke and disappeared.

Next, they have to wait.

…

Shikkotsu Forest.

More than a dozen Kisame clones formed a circle, sitting cross-legged in the open space, while closing their eyes and trained Senjutsu.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

The shadow clones disappeared continuously, turning into memories and experiences which flowed into Kisame. And he will continue to add new clones to maintain the efficiency of training at more than ten times.

A few days of this training is equivalent to a few months of training.

After a lot of attempts and a lot of energy, Kisame is about to be successful in reaching stage two.

The degree of cell activation in his body was controlled within an acceptable range and gradually stabilized.

This process was much smoother than what Kisame expected.

But after thinking about it, it may be difficult for most people to train in Senjutsu, but for those who are truly qualified, it will be a matter of time.

In the anime, Naruto Uzumaki only took half a month to master Mount Myoboku's senjutsu. Kisame thinks that his aptitude is no worse than Naruto, and there is no reason to be slower than the other party.

A moment later.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

More than a dozen shadow clones of disappeared in an instant, leaving only his main body.

He slowly opened his eyes and stood up.

After a person enters the sage mode, there will be a certain degree of mutation. The most typical one is Jiraiya, which has the characteristics of toads.

This is the so-called sage mask.

The more obvious the characteristics of these animals, the lower the degree of Sage mode. Taking Jiraiya as an example, it took him more than ten years to complete the sage mode training, and he had to rely on the two-life technique to enter the sage mode with the help of Fukasaku and Shima.

Kisame's sage mode is obviously more advanced than Jiraiya, and that too by many levels.

Because at this moment, there is no slug feature on his body, just some black eye shadow on his eyes, and a circular pattern on his forehead, like a black sun.

It is exactly the same as Senju Hashirama's sage mode.

"Kisame-sama, congratulations!"

A Katsuyu clone crawled over and congratulated Kisame in a very happy tone.

Tsunade also came over and looked at Kisame with a shocked expression, her eyes contained very complicated emotions.

Although she hates this guy very much, she has to admit that his talent is great, far surpassing hers. It seems that only her grandfather can compare with Kisame.

"Please get out of the way, I want to try the power of Sage mode."

Kisame warned them, and specifically assured Katsuyu that he would try his best to control his strength and not cause damage to the Shikkotsu forest.

After they retreated for a distance, Kisame took a deep breath and joined his hands together.

"Haaaa!"

With a low shout, a sapling burst out of the ground and grew into a ten-meter tall tree.

'Mokuton?'

Seeing this scene, Tsunade looked surprised and puzzled - if it was just this level of Mokuton, even she could easily do it, and there was no need to use the sage mode with great fanfare.

But she soon discovered that she was wrong.

Because, the big tree did not stop growing, but climbed to the sky again, growing to fifty meters, eighty meters, and finally more than one hundred meters in a very short period of time.

'Rumble.'

This 100-meter-high giant tree deformed with a loud noise, and in the blink of an eye, it became a huge wooden Buddha.

This Buddha is 100 meters tall, his muscles are knotted, his face is like a vajra with angry eyes, and a lifelike wooden dragon with a length of tens of meters is coiled on his arms.

Mokuton: Laughing Buddha jutsu.

This is one of the strongest techniques of Senju Hashirama. It uses the huge senjutsu Chakra to create a wooden golem with a volume comparable to the complete body of Susanoo. This golem can catch the tailed beast bomb with one hand, and is able to fight with the nine tails.

'Whoosh.'

Kisame jumped, along the huge body of the wooden golem, all the way up, and soon reached a triangular space above the wooden golem's head.

This is like the driving space of this wooden Buddha, and Kisame has become a Gundam driver at this moment.

"Is this the power of Hashirama Senju?"

He stood on the top of the wooden Buddha's head, overlooking the Shikkotsu forest below, and he felt a sense of superiority deep in his heart, like a God looking down at all beings.

From today onwards, he is Sage Hoshigaki Kisame.