Chapter 80: The Team-Leading Teacher

Although he held a pessimistic attitude toward the front-line battlefield, Uchiha Feiyu did not intend to evade it this time.

Konoha is Konoha, and he is himself; now, Uchiha Feiyu already had sufficient confidence in his own strength, and even if Konoha suffered a crushing defeat with heavy casualties, as long as he was determined to slip away, he would absolutely be able to return.

Moreover, Konoha might suffer losses, but it would absolutely not be annihilated; if truly pushed to a desperate situation, those Forbidden Techniques left behind by the Second Hokage would be more than enough to make any Ninja Village suffer.

Not to mention that Uchiha Feiyu had just obtained the Blood Pool and was precisely in need of a large number of ninja lives to fill it in order to develop his bloodline; if he didn't take advantage of the chaos to loot and collect a few more corpses from the battlefield now, then when would he wait for?

With this mindset, Uchiha Feiyu waited a few more days after speaking with Orochimaru, and finally waited for the Anbu who was delivering the Hokage's order.

This time, the Anbu finally didn't jump through the window, but instead knocked on the door very honestly; after Uchiha Feiyu walked out, this Anbu immediately relayed the Hokage's verbal order and led him toward the Hokage Office.

Pushing open the door to the Hokage Office once again, the room was filled with swirling smoke; the Third Hokage, with his aged face, looked up and saw Uchiha Feiyu, and a smile finally squeezed out onto his worried face.

"Feiyu, you've come! Come, come over and sit."

The Third Hokage put down the pipe in his hand, looking amiable and approachable; Uchiha Feiyu didn't say much and sat directly on the chair to the side:

"Lord Hokage, if there is a mission, just give the order! Is it time to go to the battlefield?"

"It seems you already know the news... That's right, there is indeed a battlefield mission this time."

"Root is not a good place after all; it is difficult for ordinary ninja to have any future prospects there. It just so happens that since you are coming out of Root this time, you can directly become a mission-based ninja; it is both safe, and your future prospects will be greater."

Uchiha Feiyu was slightly stunned; the Third Hokage's words did make a lot of sense. In terms of personal development, Root ninja were certainly inferior to those free mission-based ninja.

It was just that he didn't think the Third Hokage was really doing it just for his own good; after his brain turned slightly, Uchiha Feiyu understood a few things.

Clearly, the Third Hokage was still guarding against Danzō; after all, they were old teammates, so how could the Third Hokage be completely ignorant of what the other party was thinking?

Even if Uchiha Feiyu didn't work loyally for Danzō, just joining Root was enough to make Root's strength surge and affect the internal balance of Konoha, which naturally caused the Third Hokage quite a bit of worry.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Feiyu only felt it was somewhat laughable; what time was it now, and this Lord Hokage still had the heart to consider the internal power balance of Konoha?

"Transfer out of Root? Let's talk about that kind of thing later; the most important thing now should be dealing with the Cloud Ninja Village, right!"

Uchiha Feiyu spoke softly; in fact, he didn't really want to leave Root in his heart.

After all, those rules of Root were all for cannon fodder; with his strength, he was an honored guest of Danzō in Root, and it was actually much more convenient to do things and scrape up resources.

However, there was no need to go against this old man, the Third Hokage; if he couldn't join Root openly, couldn't he collude with Danzō in secret?

Orochimaru could conduct dirty, secret transactions with Danzō, and he could certainly do the same; anyway, he didn't want to be any Hokage.

As for the bad relationship between Shimura Danzo and the Uchiha, as for this jerk Danzō, as long as there was profit to be made, he wouldn't care about that at all—and it just so happened that Uchiha Feiyu was the same.

"That is also true, then let's talk about the war issue. This time, you are being transferred to the front line to provide support, and you will be assigned three subordinates; it just so happens that you can also lead these new recruits this time."

Uchiha Feiyu was stunned upon hearing this and opened his mouth:

"You want me to lead new recruits? Lord Hokage, you aren't joking, are you! I myself can probably only be considered a new recruit; I only graduated from the Ninja Academy a little over a year ago! Aren't you misleading the youth?"

"But you are already a Jonin now, and an Elite Jonin with a reputation at that... As for the new recruits I'm asking you to lead, it's actually just asking you to look after them a little on the battlefield."

"They are all good children and are very familiar with you; their growth speed should be very fast, and I estimate they will adapt to the battlefield in a very short time."

"Very familiar with me? Lord Hokage, who are you planning to have me lead?"

"Hehe, it's Kakashi, Obito, and Nohara Rin, those three. With Kakashi's help, I believe it will be quite easy for you to be a team-leading Jonin."

The corners of Uchiha Feiyu's mouth twitched; he looked at the old man in front of him—this old man really knew how to make the best use of everything!

Even if he thought with his toes, Uchiha Feiyu was very clear that the Third Hokage wanted to artificially create bonds to tie him to Konoha and turn him into a "qualified" Leaf Ninja.

Unfortunately, Uchiha Feiyu didn't think he would fall for this, and among the three people under his command, Kakashi probably didn't have any good feelings toward Konoha either.

As for Uchiha Obito, this potential Uchiha psychopath, heaven knows when he would suddenly have an episode and deal a heavy blow to Konoha.

Calculating it all, in the entire squad, it was estimated that only the little girl Nohara Rin could still believe in the Will of Fire.

It was just that Nohara Rin, as a bond for Uchiha Obito, was quite suitable. As a bond for Kakashi, it could also be considered effective, but for him, she could only be considered an acquaintance with a decent relationship.

The key wasn't the calculations of this old geezer in front of him, but... if he became the teacher of Uchiha Obito, Kakashi, and the others, would he be valued by that Uchiha Madara who was stuck in the underground with tubes?

But thinking about it again, if he was valued, then so be it; the Uchiha were already a bit psychotically obsessive-compulsive, and after Uchiha Madara opened the Mangekyo and faked his death to hide underground for so many years, for the sake of his "perfect" grand plan, it was impossible for him to jump out and take action against him.

Even if he wanted to pit Obito, what did that have to do with him? He didn't really want to save Obito from fire and water; if he wanted to pit him, let him!

"Fine, since it's those three, then I'll lead them for a bit, but I definitely won't have much time to lead them on the battlefield; after all, the gap in strength is too large."

Namikaze Minato, who had the Flying Thunder God, could lead children while participating in top-tier battles, and even then, he still ended up getting Obito and Nohara Rin killed; if it were Uchiha Feiyu, he estimated that as long as they participated in a battle of his level once, apart from Kakashi, the other two would have to become names on the Memorial Stone.

"Of course... you only need to lead them at the beginning; by the time you actually go on missions, they will be ready to graduate."

(End of chapter)