To be honest, Kirabi’s disappearance doesn’t mean anything at all. In the original work, didn’t he also “constantly slip away” and sneak out to play alone?

The Five Kage Summit is more important.

Because of the problem of the tailed beast, in order to prevent someone from taking this opportunity to attack Konoha again, Naruto was also among the people on this trip. Only in this way, when someone wants to get the Nine-Tails, they will come back to attack their team instead of Konoha.

I just learned that the standard configuration for this Five Kage Summit is two personal guards and four attendant guards. This team is flexible and can be added as needed, but for the sake of travel safety, it generally does not reduce the number of people.

But the description in the anime makes it seem like each figure is only followed by two people. Is it because old man Kishimoto was too lazy to draw more characters?

Or the levels of the two talks were different. I heard that the attack on the Hidden Cloud Village was also quite large this time. It seems that Kisame and Sasuke adopted different strategies, and it was a very eye-catching farce.

In fact, due to some political factors outside of the ninja society, the Iron Kingdom has been in a tense situation recently. It is said that the sudden death of the previous daimyo has led to a greater accumulation of power.

So the specs will be higher?

Let’s talk about the casual situation of the talks.

It goes without saying that the fifth generation Tsunayuki is the core. Kakashi and Shikamaru are the personal attendants. The former is the guarantee of strength, and the latter is the guarantee of brain power. When they finally attend the formal meeting, their opinions will greatly affect Tsunayuki's decision.

Naruto and Ningji were also included in the plan, and as an emergency plan to prevent any problems with the Kurama in Naruto's body, Yamato was also included in the entourage.

I paid attention to Sakura-kun. In order to ensure the safety of Konoha's headquarters, there must be someone in the village who can calm the situation. All matters were naturally handed over to Shikamaru's father to handle, but Konoha, which is still recovering, really needs a medical ninja with both high rank and ability.

Sakura couldn't get away at this time.

Originally, Tsuna wanted to arrange for Sasuke to join the team. On the one hand, she needed Sasuke's Sharingan as a weapon against the tailed beast and to defend against the sudden attack of "Akatsuki". On the other hand, she could also take this opportunity to establish the concept of "Sasuke is a member of Konoha Village" in front of several more important "Kage".

However, before Tsunayoshi could make the arrangements, Itachi had already made an appointment with Sasuke - to be precise, Itachi had something to do, and Sasuke was not at ease with him doing it alone.

Both of them had just undergone transplants, especially Sasuke, who still had a bandage on his eyes when he left. According to Tsuna's estimate, he would need at least two more days to recuperate. However, because of Sasuke's insistence and their distance calculations, the two of them eventually left Konoha together.

Itachi is one of the few people who knows that "Akira" has multiple bases. In particular, there are not many places that can secretly accommodate the Outer Path Demon Statue, which is a huge creature in terms of size, chakra amount and other aspects. If the Eight-Tails is really caught, Obito and the others will naturally be eager to extract the tailed beast.

There was no time to find a good place to extract the Tailed Beasts in such a short time - so they had to go somewhere that was either safe or convenient. After all, the Tailed Beasts were Tailed Beasts, especially those like Killer Bee that had a good relationship with the Ushiki. It would take a lot of effort to really extract the Tailed Beasts.

It would take several days without being disturbed. It was already troublesome to draw with so many members of "Akatsuki" at the same time. Now Obito is the only one left, and at most one more Kisame could be added. The time required would only be longer.

So Itachi plans to go to those places to investigate the specific situation, at least to get accurate information on whether the Eight-Tails has fallen into Obito's hands.

I am not worried about Itachi. With his and Sasuke's abilities, even if they encounter any accidents, it should not be a problem for them to escape unscathed.

I don't belong to Konoha, so Tsunayoshi can't arrange anything for me. But I have nothing to do, so should I go out and look for a black zetsu by myself?

It would be easier to just wait for him to come to me.

So I decisively joined Tsuna's Hokage team, filling Sasuke's vacancy. It was also because the remaining members of "Xiao" had basically confirmed the identity of Uchiha, and Tsuna had promised me that as long as it was Uchiha's business, whether it involved Konoha or not, I would be able to intervene.

The journey to the Land of Iron was a little rushed, perhaps because the agreed time was earlier. It was obvious that the Raikage was indeed quite anxious, after all, he was his younger brother.

Regardless of the importance of the tail beast, we must also consider the safety of our brother's life.

If you think about it this way, compared to the Raikage's reaction, why didn't other ninja villages react when the other few tails were captured by "Akatsuki"?

If the fourth generation was still alive...

My eyes couldn't help but look at Naruto's belly. I remember that there was the last insurance of the fourth generation, which was supposed to be triggered when Pain attacked the village, but I think I dropped it.

Later, the consciousness of Naruto's mother will appear.

If we can extract this consciousness——

I shook my head to get rid of the thought. The dead cannot be resurrected, so what on earth was I thinking?

From a geographical point of view, the Land of Fire is the only one that borders the Land of Iron. Among the locations of several villages, only Konoha is the closest to the Land of Iron. So when we arrived, except for the Raikage who left several days in advance due to anxiety, no one else had arrived yet.

But the Hokage meant the most to the Raikage, so they had a secret talk that night. The spy brought Kakashi and Shikamaru with him. I was happy to be free, and Itachi sent Ninja Hawk to pass on the message to me.

He had visited several bases in the Land of Fire, and there was no trace of it yet. The next step would be to head straight to the Land of Lightning. After all, if the Eight-Tails was captured there, it would be most convenient to extract the Tailed Beast nearby.

They also mentioned their route in the letter, which was to go north from the Land of Fire and then east to enter the Land of Lightning. I thought about this route and it seemed that going north from the Land of Fire would first lead to the Land of Sound, so the route through the Land of Soup would obviously be closer.

Is there anything else going on there?

After reading it, I burned the note, drew a “:)” as a reply, and told them to be careful.

"Knock, knock, knock—" There was a sudden knock on the door. Who would come to my place so late?

I shouted, "Who's outside?"

"It's me." Naruto's voice and idiom were highly recognizable, so there was really no need to say his name.

I let Oshitaka fly away, then opened the door and let Naruto come into my room.

He was wearing a loose bathrobe, with water droplets still dripping from his damp hair. It was obvious that he had just come out of the hot spring and hadn't even had time to tidy himself up.

"It's so late, is there something wrong?" I noticed that his lips were a little chapped, which was always the case after taking a bath, so I poured him a glass of water.

He sat on my tatami and started—taking off his clothes?

Ah this...

In the dead of night, we were alone, he took a shower, and then came to my place to take off his clothes?!

I admit that I was distracted for a moment.

But when he took off his outer bathrobe, I knew why he came. Don't get me wrong, it was a serious reason.

There was something wrong with the seal in his abdomen.

The originally black ink began to turn red and seemed to be a little hot, because the skin near the seal was faintly red.

It's like a burn...

"Oh, you mean here? I rubbed it while taking a shower just now. It was a little itchy so I think I used too much force." Naruto said as he scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

...So, I was just thinking too much.

I held my forehead and asked helplessly, "Why did you think of looking for me? Wasn't that Yamato the one who was specifically responsible for watching over your seal?"

"It's not me who's looking for you, it's Kurama. He said he has something to talk to you about, and asked me to come to your place right away. I saw he was quite anxious, so I hurried over." Naruto said as he leaned closer to me, looking at me with his azure eyes, as if he was ready for me to enter him - his seal at any time.

I always feel like some of the words I say are ambiguous.

I sighed, adjusted my contact lenses, and placed one hand on the seal on Naruto's belly.

In an instant, the space twisted, and a rather damp smell penetrated into the nose.

In front of him was the familiar sealed cage, and the Nine-Tails lying inside looked much calmer than last time.

He raised one eyelid in a dozed state, and when he saw me coming in, he stretched and then sat up.

I made preparations before coming in this time. I prepared chakra on my feet and stepped directly on the water. I was ready to sleep. If I walk in such water again, although it is only in the spiritual world, it will still make me feel uncomfortable. I will have to wash again after I go back.

"Ming Ren said, you have something to talk to me about?" I asked.

Kurama's fox ears twitched, and he moved his head closer to the edge of the cage, looking at me with his huge vertical pupils. "Before this - have we met somewhere before?"

"...I guess so. I have seen you countless times." Who called me a reader? The Naruto figure I bought was the one with Kurama. I remember it cost me nine hundred dollars, which was more than a hundred dollars more expensive than Sasuke's figure.

I think the value lies in the model of Jiu Lama.

"Are you... a former member of the Ninja Clan?" Kurama looked at me, as if he wanted to get a definite answer.

Wait...wait, you're not going to start thinking about it too, are you?

Think about what Jiu Lama said. If a person has nothing to do in this seal every day, he will definitely have uncontrollable random thoughts!

Plus some of his own intelligence -

Oops, I have always overlooked the important character Jiu Lama, no, it’s the fox.

I've thought about it before. If I want to fit in with the current settings, I need to have the identity of Uchiha and also be someone that can make Hei Zetsu fearful. I'm sure it has to be Indra.

If I say that I am Indra, will there be any big problems? I feel that this character setting is quite difficult, but in the absence of a better choice, I will just vaguely lean towards this direction for the time being.

If things go wrong, I can always find a way to deal with it.

"Not really - I'm the part that has left the Ninja Clan." According to Indra's setting, I definitely cannot belong to the Ninja Clan.

Jiu Lama thought about it for a while and soon figured something out.

"I can feel that your chakra is very pure. I have never seen such pure spiritual power." Jiu Lama's eyes seemed to reveal a trace of nostalgia, "But I heard from that old man that he has a son who inherited his complete spiritual power."

I nodded slightly. Well done, Jiu Lama!

"So, you are the 'spiritual force'?"

ah?

What do you mean by "spiritual power"? I am a person, okay? Personality, personality, it is the setting of me as a person!

You don't think of me as some kind of energy entity, do you?

"Although it was a long time ago, I do seem to have some impression of 'Chakra Reincarnation'." Kurama arched the iron railing, as if he was trying hard to recall.

But memories of more than a thousand years are really too confusing. It must have taken him a long time to sort them out, right?

Otherwise he shouldn't have taken so long to let Naruto contact me.

...However, the so-called chakra reincarnation is a setting of your host, and has nothing to do with me.

"But last time we met, you were still trying to hide it, but now you are wearing a shell that has nothing to do with "human". Do you really think no one can tell?"

……ha?