20demayo Chapter 75 Deputy Captain of the Dark Division
Chapter 75 Deputy Captain of the Dark Division
Chapter 75 Deputy Captain of the Dark Division
At this moment, Gen Takuno was also reflecting on whether he had overreacted during the Nine-Tails' rampage.
But no matter how he thought about it, he felt that his actions were all within his calculations. Going to the location of the Nine-Tails in front of the Anbu was just to let them know about this matter.
He was able to seal the Nine-Tails only because Minato Namikaze had completely exhausted it.
The only excessive act was using a sealing technique to split the Nine-Tails in two.
Yuan Tuoye thought and thought that there was nothing wrong with his performance, so where did the problem lie?
He soon got the answer: it wasn't that he was very strong, but that his peers were all too weak!
Only four people performed the best during the Nine-Tails' rampage.
First, Minato Namikaze. Without him, the Nine-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball would have directly destroyed the Hokage Rock, and those fragments would have caused a lot of damage to Konoha.
And the second time, he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport the Nine-Tails, which was about to condense a Tailed Beast Ball, to a distant place, thus saving Konoha.
Not only that, he also held off the masked man and caused considerable damage to the Nine-Tails.
It can be said that Minato Namikaze was absolutely the hero of this Nine-Tails attack. If he had died like in the original story, he would have been the one set as an example.
The second one is Kushina Uzumaki. She is even more formidable. After the Nine-Tails was extracted, she was still able to use the Adamantine Lock to lock it up, which is a bit outrageous. No wonder she was carefully selected by the Uzumaki clan to become the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki.
However, Kushina Uzumaki's identity is generally not easy to expose, so it's impossible for her to be selected for such an event.
The third one, naturally, is the Third Hokage.
Don't be fooled by the fact that he didn't seem to do much; the mere act of using the Monkey King's Staff to shove the Nine-Tails out of Konoha was enough.
If the Nine-Tails had been allowed to continue wreaking havoc in Konoha, the entire village might have been destroyed.
The fourth one, which is quite outstanding, is naturally Takuno Minamoto.
The others all seemed to be cannon fodder, and didn't show anything special.
Therefore, the Third Hokage did not need this title, Kushina Uzumaki needed to conceal her identity, and although Minato Namikaze needed it, it was only natural for him to do so given his status.
Therefore, the best role model fell to him. He not only performed outstandingly in the Nine-Tails' rampage, but he was also just a commoner ninja.
Yuan Tuoye clicked his tongue, thinking that perhaps he would have chosen someone like this if he were Hokage.
"Is it that I can't refuse?" Gen Takuno asked somewhat helplessly.
"Senior, please help me out. You know the current situation in the village. Someone has to step forward." Minato Namikaze knew that Takuno Minamoto didn't like crowds, but he had no choice. He couldn't think of anyone else suitable besides him.
"Alright then." Yuan Tuoye sighed and agreed.
"That's great, senpai. I'll have someone write a speech for you later." Minato Namikaze laughed. He knew that Takuno Minamoto would eventually agree.
Yuan Tuoye shrugged and didn't reply.
"Also, after this, I'd like to make some changes to your position, senior," Minato Namikaze suddenly said.
"Hmm?" Gen Takuno looked at Minato Namikaze with some surprise. This was a bit sudden. He originally thought it would be a while before the rewards were given.
"Vice Captain of the Anbu, isn't that a high enough position?" Minato Namikaze asked with a smile.
"Are you sure it's not because there's no one else available that you made me fill in?" Gen Takuno was actually satisfied with the position.
With the chief of the secret service handling the major matters and the squad leaders taking care of the minor ones, he should have a relatively relaxed schedule.
Minato Namikaze smiled awkwardly. This Nine-Tails attack had also caused heavy losses to the Anbu. The vice-captain he had brought to Kushina Uzumaki's birthplace had also died at the hands of that man in black.
Moreover, Konoha has suffered severe losses of talent, and since he needs to place someone he can trust in this position, the options are even fewer.
Kakashi Hatake hasn't fully matured yet and still needs to continue training in the Anbu.
So after thinking it over, he could only ask Yuan Tuoye for help once again.
"Senior, please help me out," Minato Namikaze pleaded.
Although Minato Namikaze was satisfied with the position, he did not accept it directly, as that would not be in line with his character.
"If I become the vice-captain of the Dark Guard, what will I be required to do?"
Minato Namikaze breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Since the other party was willing to learn about these things, it meant that the other party was likely to agree.
He also knew Gen Takuno's personality, so he had already made arrangements from the beginning.
"Senior, the duties of the Anbu include protecting the Hokage, gathering intelligence, and carrying out highly classified missions such as assassinations. Your responsibility is to be in charge of intelligence gathering."
As Minato Namikaze spoke, he raised an eyebrow at Takuno Gen, as if to say that this was a spot he had specially chosen for him.
"This responsibility is not dangerous. Although your subordinates will be very busy, as the leader, you only need to handle the intelligence gathered from below and distribute tasks. It's not that busy."
"Are you sure?" Takuno seemed a little tempted.
Minato Namikaze nodded, confirming that it was indeed true.
"Alright then, so what about my current position as the leader of the sealing team?" Yuan Tuoye inquired.
"Please continue in this position, senior. This is your public identity. Your identity as an ANBU member is a secret within the village and cannot be revealed," Minato Namikaze said. "Besides, the Sealing Group doesn't really have much to do, right? You can go there when you need to research sealing techniques."
"Well—okay." After hearing such favorable terms, Gen Takuno finally agreed.
Minato Namikaze immediately smiled. Since his senior had agreed to become the captain of the ANBU, he could smoothly take over the position of captain if he made any more contributions in the future.
At that time, it would be perfect to let Kakashi Hatake take over as vice-commander-in-chief, and then hand over the position of commander-in-chief to Takuno Minamoto!
Previously, he had hesitated about how to reward Yuan Tuoye. He originally thought of giving him the Four Symbols Seal as a reward, but he had already given him the Eight Trigrams Seal, which was even more advanced, during the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage.
Moreover, he only taught the other party to help him perform the sealing technique, so Minato Namikaze would never have done this as a reward.
But apart from that, there doesn't seem to be much else to reward.
In the end, it seemed that all he could do was to help Yuan Tuoye with his position, and he even catered to the other's personality to help him find a relatively easy and safe position.
Most importantly, with Gen Takuno in this position, he can confidently entrust the affairs of the Anbu to him.
"Lord Hokage, is there anything else?" Takuno asked, staring at Minato Namikaze, as if he would quit if there was anything else to ask.
Seeing the other party's posture, Minato Namikaze smiled helplessly and said, "That's all for now."
Suddenly, he remembered something and asked, "Senior, have you decided on your code name and the style of your mask?"
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Yuan Tuoye paused for a moment, then thought of the style of the Anbu. He could not possibly choose the fox mask, as it would overlap with his identity as a collector.
The choice of the raven mask should be made carefully, and it's best not to reveal that his summoned beast is a raven.
"Let's call it Eagle." Soon, Gen Takuno made his decision.
"Alright, I'll let you know once the mask is finished," Minato Namikaze said.
Yuan Tuoye nodded. It was impossible for the other party to have the ANBU send the mask over, because his identity as Eagle was kept secret. How could the ANBU below know his specific identity?
"Then I won't bother the Hokage any longer." Genji Takuno glanced at the mountain of documents on Minato Namikaze's desk and couldn't help but smile.
Minato Namikaze shook his head helplessly and continued working after Takuno Minamoto left.
He looked at the intelligence report in his hand and sighed. This was what the sealing team had reported: on the night of the Nine-Tails' attack, five people invaded Konoha.
At the time, because of the Nine-Tails, there was simply no one available to search for them. After the Nine-Tails' rampage ended, they had vanished without a trace.
Four of them went unnoticed from beginning to end.
However, there is another important secret place that has entered Konoha, which is the location of the Book of Seals.
Fortunately, the other party seemed to only want ninjutsu and did not intend to kill, so the two ANBU guards on the other side only fainted and survived.
Moreover, the other party didn't even take the entire Book of Seals with them. Were they afraid that the Book of Seals contained tracking methods?
"They're really cautious," Minato Namikaze remarked, without considering issuing a warrant for his arrest.
After all, he knew nothing about the other party's identity except that the other party was wearing a fox mask. How could he assign tasks to such a person?
Moreover, he wasn't someone who valued ninjutsu that much. The fact that the other party didn't choose to kill the two guards from the ANBU meant that his dislike for them wasn't that deep.
He now only hopes that the ninjutsu on the Book of Seals that the other party stole will only be used for his own learning and will not be spread.
Minato Namikaze was aware of the difficulty of the ninjutsu in the Book of Seals; even if those ninjutsu were released, very few people would be able to learn them.
But there are always people who can't resist learning it.
Moreover, most of the ninjutsu mentioned above are forbidden techniques, and some are even more inhumane. If such ninjutsu were to spread, the entire ninja world would probably fall into chaos.
More than the person wearing the fox mask, Minato Namikaze was curious about the identities of the other four who had not shown themselves at all. He absolutely did not believe that they had no designs on Konoha.
But no one reported the damage they caused. Perhaps someone saw them but was killed to silence them?
Minato Namikaze narrowed his eyes, wanting to understand but helpless, as none of these four people had ever seen them before, so how could they possibly find each other?
Minato Namikaze sighed again. He had probably sighed more times in the past few days than in all his previous years combined. It wasn't just these opportunists; the Cloud Ninja and the Iwa Ninja were also competing with them for some resource-rich missions.
Konoha needs to recover and rebuild, and it can be said that it needs such a task.
This is really—a real headache!