Two weeks later, Team Kakashi and Team Asuma returned successfully, along with Zabuza and Haku.

Zabuza is actually not weak, and his strength is quite high among the elite jounin. And elite jounin like them, that is, jounin who are particularly outstanding in a certain aspect, once they break through, it is possible to sneak up to the shadow level.

of that line.

For example, Konoha Village currently has about 100,000 ninjas, among which the number of jounin is about 2%, which is about 2,000 people.

And among the two thousand or so jounin, 60% are actually specially promoted special jounin, and special jounin are just chuunin who are particularly outstanding in a certain aspect, and there is still a gap between their strength and real jounin.

In addition, elite jounin only account for about 7% of the jounin community. There are two thousand jonin, more than 1,200 special jounin, and more than 140 elite jounin.

, the rest are normal jounin.

Among them, jounin is divided into a series of departments such as action team, dark department, and root department due to work issues.

There are even special elements like Jiraiya and Tsunade who hold the badge of elite jonin, but are actually not in the village at all.

In addition, the root is still under the direct control of Danzo for the time being, so there are probably only a few dozen elite jounin under the direct control of the Hokage.

Among the dozens of elite Jonin, Kakashi and Asuma are the best. Together, they lead the Ino Shiga Butterfly special battle team and the Uchiha descendants, as well as the Nine-Tails Jinchuuriki and Sakura who is holding back.

.

With this kind of lineup, although it is not easy to capture Zabuza and Haku, it is not particularly difficult either.

Just like that, in the Hokage's office, Kakashi and Asuma dragged Zabuza and Haku, who were tightly bound and sealed, and reported the results of the mission to Gawain, who was sitting in the Hokage's office chair.

On the side, seeing that the Third Hokage was just standing by and listening, and the person sitting on the chair handling things was actually an unknown person, Zabuza looked at Gawain in surprise.

Carefully examining Gawain's image, Zabuza was very suspicious that Konoha was planning to do something big!

Because Konoha is currently the largest country in the ninja world, its internal supreme power has actually been changed without other villages knowing about it.

There is definitely a conspiracy here.

And Gawain, whom he regarded as a conspiracy.

Gawain looked at Zabuza and Haku with a smile and said softly.

"It's really hard for you, Zabuza. Back then, in order to change the ecology of Kirigakure's blood mist, you did the feat of assassinating the Mizukage.

Now, the Mizukage has changed, but you can still only wander around the ninja world as a ronin.

What a pity you are carrying the decapitating sword..."

"snort!"

Opposite him, Zabuza shook his head disdainfully.

"If you want to kill or behead me, I'll do whatever you want, so don't waste your breath on me.

Just send me to the ANBU directly, so that I can see how the judgment methods of Konoha ANBU are better than Kirigakure.

You wouldn’t think that a ghost like me, who was killed out of the blood mist, would take refuge in an inexplicable guy like you just because of a few inexplicable words!”

Zabuza acted extraordinarily arrogant, and this was also his true thought. If elite Jonin like them rebelled easily, then they would really be looking down upon them.

Unless the genius is too powerful and becomes an elite jounin.

If other ninjas want to advance all the way to the level of elite jounin, they have to go through hardships that ordinary people cannot imagine.

Trial by district?

snort.

It would be easier to kill them and read their brains directly.

On the side, Kakashi nodded in agreement.

"Hokage Assistant-sama, Zabuza is not someone who can be easily persuaded. We still..."

"When am I going to convince Zabuza to surrender?"

Gawain raised his hand to interrupt Kakashi's words, and then waved to the shadow guards guarding in the distance.

"Take Zabuza down, Haku will stay for now."

"What are you going to do, what are you going to..." Zabuza yelled with his eyes widened, why did you leave Shiro alone?!!

Snapped!

Gawain gently pumped the air, and the strong air flow made Zabuza close his mouth.

While watching Zabuza being escorted away by the Shadow Guards, Gawain continued his dialogue and extended his right hand.

"Hello, Minazuki Shiro, I am Gawain, Konoha's temporary assistant Hokage. Nice to meet you."

"I understand, sir, please leave me here. No matter what you ask of me, as long as you are willing to let Zabuza-sama continue to live, I will agree to your request.

Although I don’t know what a tool like mine can do for you, as long as you give me an order, I will try my best to do it.

I just ask you to be merciful, except for the matter of Wave Country, Zabuza-sama has no intention of becoming hostile to Konoha."

Having said this, Minazuki Shiro knelt down knowingly.

Gawain took Zabuza away and left Haku behind. This was obviously to use Zabuza to blackmail Haku.

And white.

As long as Zabuza-sama lives, no matter what, he is just a tool after being blackmailed.

Seeing Bai being so sensible, Gawain nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, you stay with me first and get familiar with the life inside Konoha.

As long as you do your job well, Zabuza will be treated as if he is on vacation in Konoha Prison. Not only will there be no torture, but you can even buy him a drink occasionally.

Zabuza depends on you for the rest of his life."

"As you command, my lord."

Shiro nodded with great understanding. This is how the ninja world is. The loser is the greatest luck if he survives.

As for doing things for Konoha, it is absolutely impossible for Zabuza. Although he is a rebel ninja of Kirigakure, in fact, his loyalty to Kirigakure is far beyond what ordinary Kirigakure ninjas can match.

He rebelled against the village out of disappointment with Kirigakure, and assassinated Mizukage to end the brutal blood mist policy.

But what if he is allowed to seek refuge in another village?

Haha, that would be as simple as letting him die.

But Shiro is different from him. Shiro has no feelings for Kirigakure Village.

The only thing Shiro cares about is his Zabuza-sama.

Seeing that Shiro agreed with his statement, Gawain turned to Hiruzen and nodded slightly.

"After becoming Hokage, I also need to create a shadow guard.

I have read your previous records. Things like the Shadow Guard are probably the Hokage's habit of selecting a few young people worthy of training and cultivating some talents for the village as non-disciples.

It’s just that in Konoha today, haha, among the group of people of the right age, I can’t pick out any suitable genius who stands out at a glance.

The young people in Konoha who are 16, 17 and 17 or 18 in the past two years look really ordinary.

Therefore, I recruited some members of the Shadow Guard myself. For example, this white one is good.

The descendant of Kirigakure's Mizuzuki Hyoudun blood successor family is still a beautiful boy. He can spread his influence in Konoha, giving Konoha one more blood successor family, and at the same time impacting the status of the established ninja families.

Find something for those ninjas to do.

In addition to Shiro, I also have my eye on a few people, such as Kimimaro under Orochimaru.

There is no need to worry about loyalty, I will put them by my side and teach them personally.

I was able to educate a Six Paths Sage like Hagoromo at least back then, let alone a few children today.

Hiruzen, what do you think?"

On the side, I heard Gawain's question, what can Hiruzen do.

He actually doesn't like Gawain's approach. Although Konoha is not in business now, it won't let rebellious ninjas from the ninja world become members of the Shadow Guard, right?

However, what Gawain did was a way to strengthen Konoha, so Hiruzen finally nodded.

"Senior, now that you have made a decision, I will definitely comply with it.

But compared with the inspection of the members of the Shadow Guard, what is more important now is to convene a Jonin class meeting as soon as possible to confirm you as the Jonin class leader, so as to lay the foundation for you to become Hokage.

In addition, it is time to start the preliminary preparations for the Chunin Examination.

This time, we will hold the Chunin Examination together with Suna Ninja Village, and we will also provide individual quotas and opportunities for a series of small ninja villages such as Sound Ninja Village and Rain Ninja Village.

There is still work to be done later, senior."

After finishing his words, Hiruzen exhaled and sat back down in his seat.

At this time, Kakashi and Asuma were still in the office...

Kakashi's expression was quite normal, and even if it was abnormal, he couldn't tell with the mask on.

As for Asma….

Asma frowned in displeasure.
To be continued...