Chapter 593: Konoha's Tradition
Sora had been a monk since he was a child. His mind was relatively simple, but he was not a fool. He could understand Asuma's evasive meaning.
He didn't care how many people would die after Konoha and the Feudal Lord turned against each other. The Fire Temple's Buddhism was about self-realization, with the focus on oneself. Whether the common people lived or died, his faction didn't care.
Sora kept asking about the truth of his father's death. Was it really a Konoha ninja who had done it?
Let alone Asuma, even Shikamaru at the side couldn't guarantee it.
To say "it didn't happen"? Unlikely.
From Konoha's perspective, Kazuma had encouraged the Feudal Lord to "strive to govern well" from time to time, either by reducing Konoha's military funds or by training ninja loyal to the Feudal Lord. This was one hundred percent an enemy, and a class enemy at that!
It was perfectly normal for Konoha to send someone to kill him.
Asuma calculated the time. Kazuma's death should have happened during Jiraiya's time as Hokage. He thought this method of handling it was not a big problem. If it were his own father, the Third Hokage, who had done it, hehe, let alone Kazuma, even Sora's grave would probably be overgrown with grass by now.
Asuma highly suspected that Konoha had been secretly involved in the infighting between the two factions of the Twelve Guardian Ninja back then.
Of course, everyone in the Twelve Guardian Ninja believed that he was the pawn sent by Konoha to sow discord. In reality, he really wasn't...
Sora didn't get the accurate answer he wanted. He swung his sleeve and left the Sarutobi house in anger.
"Teacher?" Shikamaru asked tentatively.
It wasn't that Shikamaru was ruthless, but that was just the nature of the ninja profession.
Asuma thought for a moment. "I'll inform Chiriku and let him handle it."
The Fire Temple was undoubtedly pro-Feudal Lord, but the ninja villages had an overwhelming combat advantage, so the two sides could maintain a relatively harmonious relationship. Sora was from the Fire Temple. If Konoha killed him silently, it would destroy the tacit understanding between the two sides.
Konoha had definitely done a lot of shady things, and quite a few of them. But for a seemingly ordinary fifteen-year-old ninja monk, it wasn't worth breaking the bottom line again.
Sora left Konoha Village alone. Not long after he left the village, Zetsu emerged from the shadows.
The two had met once before. It was this troublemaker, Zetsu, who had told him that Kazuma was Sora's father and had died at the hands of a Konoha ninja.
"You were right. Konoha is indeed the murderer of my father. I will never let them go!" The Nine-Tails' chakra in Sora's body began to boil with his anger.
Zetsu laughed sinisterly. A fifteen-year-old boy like this was so easy to fool. It didn't take much talking. As long as he was shown a "truth" that he himself believed, he would fill in the rest of the details. Obito was like that, and so was this boy now.
After Tonton dragged its toy cart out of Deidara's sight, it ran quickly to find Tsunade.
It turned out that Tsunade's alcohol tolerance was really average.
Even without the two bottles of sake that Tonton had just bought, she was already drunk.
"Oink oink!" Tonton squealed for a long time and even gently bit Tsunade's calf, but it couldn't wake up its unreliable master.
What to do? I'm clearly a pig, yet I have to bear the heavy responsibility of protecting Konoha. This is so hard for me! Tonton sighed in a very human-like way.
If you have a problem, find the Hokage?
That's true, but as a pig, should it also go to the Hokage?
Tonton was worried that the Hokage wouldn't understand its words!
Tsunade was drunk, Shizune was out of the village on a mission, and Ino was not in the village either.
It ran around in a panic, and finally even climbed onto the roof, shielding its eyes with its trotters, looking around for any acquaintances.
And what do you know, it soon saw an acquaintance: Hinata!
Hinata was considered a family member of their Team Tsunade and could understand a part of Tonton's words.
The pet pig galloped on all fours to find Hinata.
At this time, Hinata was having a late-night snack with Sakura in a shop.
Sakura couldn't sleep because of the huge ransom of one hundred and twenty million ryo and had developed anxiety. She wanted to work on Hinata. I'll treat you to a meal, you persuade your Ino-pig!
Hinata was very easy-going. She smiled and said she would help persuade her, but as for how effective it would be, she couldn't say.
After the serious business was done, Sakura started to chat with Hinata.
As a civilian ninja, she had few channels to get information, but Sakura was a bit of a gossip.
"After the Fourth, will Naruto become the Hokage?" she asked a question that had been circulating in the village recently.
"I don't know either."
"Let's talk privately. I will never tell a third person," Sakura said with a solemn oath.
Hinata herself was from the noble Hyuga clan. Ino and Koharu were both high-ups in the village. If either of them revealed a little information to her, it would be more than what a commoner like Sakura could get.
Faced with Sakura's pleading eyes, Hinata shook her head lightly. "...I don't think so. Naruto-kun is very hardworking, but his father is the current Hokage. Not to mention the First and Second, starting from the Third, Konoha has always had a master-student succession. There has never been a father-son succession. Even if Kakashi-sensei becomes the Sixth, Naruto-kun is unlikely to become the Hokage. He and Kakashi-sensei are not strictly speaking master and student. Sasuke-kun's chances are actually greater than his."
Sakura was counting the relationship between the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth on her fingers. At this moment, she suddenly heard Sasuke's name and was instantly excited. "Really? Sasuke has a chance too?!"
In a daze, she seemed to see herself becoming the Hokage's wife and then embezzling public funds on a large scale!
Sakura shook her head hard. I don't like money at all. It's all because of that Ino-pig!
Hinata smiled. In reality, Sasuke was also impossible... as long as her teacher, Koharu, was still alive, she would never let an Uchiha become the Hokage. She wouldn't even give Sasuke the qualification to be a candidate.
But Konoha had indeed had a master-student succession for many years. If the future Sixth, Kakashi, only had Sasuke as his official student, and Sasuke could not become the Hokage, then the right of succession would have to be calculated backward.
The Sixth's student is not an option. Does the Fifth have a student? In this timeline, Jiraiya had not officially taken Naruto as his student, so Naruto could not be considered his student. Does Jiraiya have other students? Yes, Konan and Yahiko? They are from another village! Are all the Konoha ninja dead, to let someone from another village be the Hokage? Jiraiya is out.
Going further back, who else was the Fourth's student? Obito? No way, out.
Who else was the Third's student? Tsunade and Orochimaru. Will these two take the position? If they don't, their students will have a great chance to succeed the Hokage after Kakashi.
Going even further back, the Second Hokage's students also have the right of succession. Similarly, the students of the Second's students, like Hinata, also have the right of succession.
This was Konoha's order of succession, an established tradition.
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