Chapter 229: The Hidden Grass Village Attack

After visiting the Ninja School, Jiraiya, led by Yahiko, went to visit other areas of the Hidden Rain Village. Basically, except for the Akatsuki base, the entire Hidden Rain Village was visited.

After returning to the Rain Hidden Building, Jiraiya felt very complicated.

He was very happy that Yahiko, Nagato and others had developed the Hidden Rain Village so well and realized his dream, but the Hidden Rain Village was not Konoha after all, and no one's status in his heart could compare to that of the Konoha Ninja Village.

The development of the Hidden Rain Village is likely to threaten the village in the future, unless Konoha can follow the example of the Hidden Rain Village and carry out drastic reforms.

However, reform is never that easy.

Given his personality, even if he were to run for the Fifth Hokage, he would probably be powerless to fight against the opposition in the village. Even though he had been the Third Hokage for decades, he still had to compromise when it was time to compromise.

At this time, Jiraiya suddenly remembered something and asked Yahiko, "By the way, Yahiko, how is the demigod recently? Why haven't I seen him in the village?"

"Hanzo-sama..." Yahiko and Konan looked at each other and then said, "Hanzo-sama has retired a long time ago and has not been involved in the affairs of the village for a long time."

"I see. I wanted to meet Hanzo-sama."

Hearing this, Jiraiya's expression changed slightly, and his eyes were full of suspicion.

Jiraiya wondered if Yahiko and Konan were hiding something from him; their path to power was definitely not as simple as they said.

Without knowing that Yahiko and others were his disciples, Hanzo of the Salamander might have carefully trained them, but after Yahiko visited Konoha, Hanzo of the Salamander could more or less guess the identities of Yahiko and others.

After learning of this situation, Hanzo of the Salamander had no reason to give up the position of leader and let Yahiko and others take over the power of the Hidden Rain Village.

Unless the real person in power in the Hidden Rain Village is Byakuya, the heir that Hanzo really chooses is also Byakuya. However, he has been in the Hidden Rain Village for two days but has not met Byakuya yet, which makes him feel very strange.

However, this is not the first day that Bai Ye has been elusive. Maybe he has gone to some other place again.

Jiraiya retracted his gradually scattered thoughts and stopped worrying about these unimportant things. Now he just wanted to leave the Hidden Rain Village as soon as possible and continue his journey to travel around the countries.

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After staying in the Hidden Rain Village for another night, Jiraiya bid farewell to Yahiko and others and left the Land of Rain.

Standing at the entrance of the village, looking at Jiraiya's departing back, Yahiko sighed softly, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

As the leader of a village, Yahiko had long since developed the ability to read people's expressions.

He could read Jiraiya's inner thoughts and knew that his mentor was in a very complicated mood. He didn't know if it was because he mentioned Minato or for other reasons.

At this time, a figure appeared beside Yahiko, looking at the direction where Jiraiya left, and said lightly: "Boss Yahiko, how have you been getting along with brother Jiraiya these days?"

Hearing this, Yahiko looked at Bai Ye and said in surprise: "Bai Ye, why are you here? I haven't seen you in the past few days. I thought you were out again."

Bai Ye shook his head and said, "I didn't leave the village. I didn't show up just to avoid disturbing your master-disciple gathering."

"However, you have taken Jiraiya to visit many places these days..."

"You treat Jiraiya with such openness, have you ever thought that Jiraiya might also take the opportunity to collect information about the Hidden Rain Village and report it to the Third Hokage?"

"Teacher Jiraiya is not that kind of person..." Yahiko was about to explain, and then asked with a strange look on his face: "Bai Ye, you didn't stop us from taking Teacher Jiraiya to visit these days, are you planning something?"

Bai Ye's expression changed, and he quickly denied it: "How can a plot be considered a conspiracy?"

After a pause, Bai Ye continued: "But I don't object to you teaching Jiraiya your successful experience. If Jiraiya is willing to follow our example, then let him do as he pleases."

"But the Land of Fire is different from the Land of Rain. I don't think Jiraiya can do anything."

Hearing this, Yahiko fell into a brief silence.

Bai Ye's words were very straightforward, but they made a lot of sense. It would be difficult for Jiraiya to achieve anything in Konohagakure, even if he and Nagato shared their experiences.

The reforms they carried out in the Hidden Rain Village had a prerequisite, which was the use of force.

They came to power through force, were able to suppress all dissenting voices, and forced the Hidden Rain Village to develop.

But it is impossible for Jiraiya to launch a rebellion to seize power, and he doesn't even have the idea of ​​becoming Hokage, otherwise he wouldn't be traveling around the Ninja World doing nothing.

Thinking of this, Yahiko sighed a few times and looked into the distance.

In his sight, Jiraiya's originally majestic figure now looks a bit ordinary. Although his teacher Jiraiya proposed the concept of mutual understanding between people, it is just a concept.

Sensei Jiraiya always talks about these things, but he rarely puts them into practice.

After removing the filter of childhood, Teacher Jiraiya is just a mortal living in the ninja world, just like himself.

Recovering his gradually scattered thoughts, Yahiko said to Bai Ye: "I believe that Jiraiya-sensei can do it. Sooner or later, he will become our like-minded companion."

"Then I am also looking forward to that day..." Bai Ye followed Yahiko's words.

At this time, an Anbu ninja suddenly appeared in front of Bai Ye. After seeing Yahiko, he quickly squatted down and said, "Master Bai Ye, Master Yahiko, there is something important to report in the border area."

"Is there a problem at the border?" Yahiko looked extremely solemn.

The Anbu ninja didn't waste any words and spoke directly: "Just a few hours ago, the ninjas from the Kusagakure Village attacked the Rain Country and hurt the people of the Rain Country."

"The Kusagakure? How dare they?"

Bai Ye's mood was uncertain, and his face was cold as he said, "Did we not pay enough to the Kusagakure Village back then? They actually dared to make a comeback! This time we must completely eliminate their top leaders."

"Bai Ye, you are too extreme..."

Yahiko spoke habitually. Facing the provocation of the Land of Grass, he also couldn't stand it. He could only add: "We need to think about this matter carefully."

As Bai Ye's expression changed, he was also very confused in his heart. Why did the Hidden Grass Village dare to attack the Hidden Rain Village? Could it be that the Box of Paradise in the Kizuna Castle in the Land of Grass appeared ahead of time?

The ninjas of Kusagakure Village want to use the power of the Box of Paradise to expand their territory.

If this is true, he will have to leave the village temporarily and join forces with others to deal with the Box of Paradise. The Box of Paradise is a treasure from the Six Paths period, and the monsters inside it have power that is no less than that of the tailed beasts.

(End of this chapter)