In the blink of an eye, two years flew by.

In the past two years, the entire ninja world seems to be very peaceful.

All the hidden villages are silently licking their wounds after the Third Ninja War and developing their own lives.

Because of the relationship between Toneri, the three hidden villages of Konoha, Sunagakure and Kirigakure are closely related, and they are constantly conducting trade with each other.

Sand Hidden Village lacks water, and Kirigakure Village lacks commonly used ores, such as iron, copper, etc.

Konoha serves as a transit station to help the two hidden villages adjust their schedules.

It can be said that the three hidden villages have recovered the fastest after the Third Ninja War. Even Konoha has completely repaired the wounds after the Third Ninja War and entered a period of rapid development.

Toneri, who is the Hokage, has repeatedly emphasized that the main direction of Konoha's development during this period is still focused on strength.

The number of ninjas, the strength of ninjas, the combat capabilities of ninjas, etc.

To put it bluntly, now that Konoha wants to claim to be the number one in the entire ninja world, even the Kumogakure Village, which has always been unconvinced, dare not say anything.

Even if you don't count the number of ordinary ninjas in Konoha, just looking at the top ninjas, they cannot be underestimated.

The three of them gathered together, Tsunade, Orochimaru and Jiraiya, as well as their teacher, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was old but still had a certain fighting ability.

There are also the new generation of Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, Ino Shikacho, the two Hyuga brothers, and Fugaku Uchiha.

Coupled with the Hokage Toneri, his strength is unprecedentedly powerful.

But even so, Shiren was still not satisfied.

While ensuring that the older generation and their current generation have sufficient combat power, they are also constantly motivating the younger generation.

For example, Kakashi Hatake, who has been known as a genius in Konoha for a long time, although the incident between Obito and Harano Rin made him depressed for a long time, there was no accident with Namikaze Minato and Kushina this time.

With the company of my teacher and my wife, I got out of the pain faster.

And because of Toneri's seal restrictions, his Sharingan did not shadow him all the time, and his sword skills did not decline because of this.

Nowadays, his strength is still quite impressive. Although his strength is still at the elite Jonin level, he has barely touched the threshold of the Kage level.

In addition to Kakashi, there are several disciples.

The most famous among them is Shunshen Shisui, who beat everyone in the previous Chunin Exam and got his own name.

He also became a Jonin in the past two years, and also emerged in the entire ninja world, gaining quite a reputation.

As for his other three disciples, although Sarutobi Asuma does not have the huge bounty of 35 million like the original work, but with the training of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Toneri, his strength is not inferior to the original work at all.

At its peak, it is even stronger.

There are also Metkai and Yuhi Kurenai. Although they were in serious trouble for a while, they also successfully became jounin.

After becoming a Jonin, Metkai opened the Eight Gates of Dungeon. As long as the seventh gate is opened, he can have the strength of the shadow level. Once the fourth gate of the eighth gate is opened, it is said that he can explode with ordinary shadow level and ten times or even more.

It is dozens of times more powerful.

Of course, this is also because at this time, Metkai's strength has not yet reached its strongest level, and there is still a little gap between the time when he was almost kicked out of the finale in the original work.

After all, the strength of a physical ninja requires continuous hard training day after day, year after year to improve little by little. At this time, he has not yet reached the limit of his body, so after the Eight Gate Dunjia is activated, his natural strength will also increase.

will not reach his peak.

In addition, ninjas of the same generation as them have also begun to rise to prominence.

For example, the new generation of Ino Shikacho, Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, and Yamanaka Kaiichi, as well as ninjas like Yamashiro Aoba, Moonlight Hayate, etc. have also gained some considerable fame.

The younger one is Uchiha Itachi, the youngest disciple of Toneri so far.

Nowadays, he has quite a reputation in Konoha.

Generally speaking, in Konoha, the inheritance relationship between the old, middle and young people from generation to generation is very good. If there are no special circumstances, just relying on this kind of stable development can completely surpass the hidden villages in the entire ninja world.

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Even if Toneri is willing, ten or twenty years later, when he is still at his peak and the younger generation has grown up, Konoha will have the opportunity and ability to unify the entire ninja world.

It's just that the entire ninja world seems to be calm now, but underneath the calm, an undercurrent is surging.

The actions of the Akatsuki organization are becoming more and more bold, and their appearances are becoming more and more frequent.

At the same time, the Akatsuki organization has gradually changed from the peace that Yahiko, Nagato and Konan originally aspired to. Today, under the influence of Obito and Zetsu, the Akatsuki organization has become a thoroughly rebellious ninja organization.

Although Konoha targeted them everywhere, because they were small in number and difficult to hunt down, and had excellent detection capabilities and Obito's space capabilities, they still developed.

While provoking wars among small countries, they seek benefits from them.

Toneri knows that as the time for the Three-Tails' resurrection approaches, the actions of the Akatsuki organization will become more and more bold. A period of time before and after the Three-Tails' complete resurrection is definitely the time when they will really start taking action.

However, the resurrection time of the tailed beast is out of control after all. Even if he has been paying attention, he cannot completely determine the resurrection time of the three-tailed druid.

However, in the past two years, because of his repeated emphasis, there were no signs of Jinchūriki disappearing in the hidden villages.

Even though Nanao Shigeaki's Jinchuuriki, Nebu, Kasumi organization and the psychic cat's three major intelligence systems worked together, they still couldn't find it.

So Toneri had serious suspicions that the Nanao had been captured by the Akatsuki organization without their knowledge.

There is also the fourth-tailed Jinchuuriki Lao Zi. Ever since he left Iwagakure Village, no trace of him has been found.

In Ōnoki's words, Lao Zi was avoiding him, but in Toneri's view, Lao Zi most likely encountered something unexpected, but Ōnoki kept being stubborn and refused to admit it.

And because there have been no accidents in two years, all the hidden villages have begun to relax, and they are also skeptical about the so-called common enemy emphasized by Toneri.

Even gradually began to disapprove of it.

In this regard, Toneri was still a little helpless. When he felt that something was not right, it was already too late to try to unify the entire ninja world.

Two years was simply not enough time for him to capture all the other three hidden villages except Kirigakure.

Even if it can be successfully captured in two years, the overall strength of the entire ninja world will probably drop by more than half. If the Akatsuki organization breaks out again at that time, it will be in trouble.

Moreover, there is no guarantee that when he launches the action to unify the entire ninja world, the Akatsuki organization will not hinder him and give them more space to attack.

Therefore, unifying the entire ninja world is not feasible in such a short period of time.

Toneri can only ensure that Konoha develops as much as possible and allows the remaining hidden villages to develop at their fullest.

As for controlling other hidden villages like Gotachibana Yagura who controls Kirigakure Village, it is also unrealistic.

Not every Kage in the village has as good a chance of getting close to him as Goju Yagura, nor does he have such a relatively weak ability to resist illusions.

Even Rasa, who seems to have a good relationship with Toneri now, is always on guard against Toneri's Sharingan and never looks him in the face. If he forcibly performs genjutsu, it is likely to cause a huge backlash.

Not only that, Sunagakure Village is also different from Kirigakure Village. Sunagakure Village has Kazekage as its supreme leader, and is also assisted by the Council of Elders.

Even though Chiyo and Ebizo seem to be retiring now, as long as they stand up and raise their voices, they can still get a lot of support in Sunagakure Village.

Unlike Kirigakure Village, which experienced the cruel alternation between the third and fourth generation Mizukage, when a large number of ninjas fell, Gotachibana Yagura was regarded as a hero and became the fourth Mizukage. In Kirigakure Village

It almost has the status of being one of the best.

In short, to sum it up in one sentence, although the entire ninja world is developing at a high speed, it is not developing at a level that Toneri can fully control.

And in this case.

The Akatsuki organization, which had been operating secretly, finally began their upright operations.

Almost as promised, all countries started taking action at the same time.

On this day, Toneri was sitting in the Hokage's office.

"Lord Hokage, the third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure Village has received news that the Five-Tailed Jinchuriki Han of Iwagakure Village was suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization, and his whereabouts are now unknown."

"Lord Hokage, news came from the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure Village. Gaara, the first Jinchūriki of Sunagakure Village, was suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization. It was suspected that he was the S-class rebellious ninja Red Sand Scorpion of Sunagakure Village. Now Gaara

My whereabouts are unknown, I hope to get support from Konoha."

"Lord Hokage, the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure Village sent a message to the entire ninja world. A thief took advantage of him to go out and launched an attack on the eight-tailed jinchuriki of Kumogakure Village. As a result, Rabbi Kiri, the eight-tailed jinchuriki, was seriously injured and is still in a coma.

Not awake.

The Fourth Raikage Ai issued a statement that he will definitely give a considerable reward to anyone who can arrest members of this mysterious organization or provide information."

Suddenly, important information about other hidden villages reached Toneri's ears one after another.

Looking at the three root members kneeling on the ground, Toneri had no expression on his face.

"knew."

After the words fell, the three root members disappeared into the office.

Toneri stood up from his position and looked out the window, "I'm reminding you so clearly. Just because the Akatsuki organization has tolerated it for two years, you think it's because others don't take action. You are really a pig teammate..."

Also in the office was Nara Shikaku, who was helping Toneri handle affairs.

Those news just now were not deliberately avoided by him, so he heard them all.

As one of the top leaders of Konoha and one of the few worthy of Toneri's trust, he also knew about Konoha's affairs against the Akatsuki organization.

Originally, he didn't know why Konoha wanted to target this unknown Akatsuki organization. Although it could be seen from the lack of success in each attack that this Akatsuki organization was not simple, when he heard these three pieces of information, he was still frightened.

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This was a total of three tailed beasts and three Jinchuuriki, all attacked at the same time. It was absolutely impossible to say that there was no connection between them.

But he didn't speak.
To be continued...