Chapter 276

Among everyone present, the only one who disliked Minato Namikaze was Shimura Danzo, squinting his eyes with a gloomy gaze.

"This brat, this might be an opportunity!"

After sizing up the sincere Minato Namikaze, Shimura Danzo began to calculate.

His prestige, after repelling the Cloud ninja AB team, had peaked, and earlier on the Grass Country battlefield, he single-handedly took out 4、50 Rock ninja Jonin, successfully persuading the Rock ninja to sit at the negotiating table and sign a peace treaty with Leaf Village.

He brought peace to Leaf Village.

Furthermore, with Sarutobi having let Orochimaru and Jiraiya go, no one could stop him from becoming Hokage.

If we take advantage of this opportunity...

"No matter what, I hope to guarantee Yeyuan Lin's personal safety."

Without rising due to the comfort of the Third Hokage and the Elder of the Side Chamber, Minato Namikaze continued to plead.

He knew this matter was no small thing, involving the balance of the major ninja villages; although he was naive, he was not a fool, and his request was merely to guarantee the other party's safety.

The Third Hokage meant to hand over the Three-Tails to appease matters, while seeing if they could use this opportunity to sign a ceasefire agreement with the Mist Ninja.

But then Yeyuan Lin's safety would become a problem.

How would the Three-Tails be handed over to the Mist Ninja? If handed over, the Mist Ninja might break faith and again use the Three-Tails' power on the battlefield, causing casualties—who would be responsible?

If these problems aren't solved, Yeyuan Lin couldn't even hope to leave Leaf Village alive.

"Minato, rest assured I will properly..."

"The Three-Tails must absolutely not be given to the Mist Ninja!"

Before the Third Hokage could finish speaking, Shimura Danzo interrupted Hiruzen Sarutobi's remarks.

This made the Third Hokage's brows furrow.

However, he didn't say much more.

"We should keep the Three-Tails in the village; that way we'd have an extra trump card!"

Forcibly keeping the Three-Tails in Leaf Village's hands seems impossible, but he still wanted to try; if Leaf Village could withstand the pressure, he would have capital to oppose the Nine-Tails.

Moreover, he wanted to see if they could use the Three-Tails jinchuriki to cause trouble for the other side.

"Absolutely not!"

As soon as Danzo's words fell, the Third Hokage rejected his opinion.

"The balance of tailed beasts is a rule set by the First Hokage; it must not be broken!"

To strengthen his persuasion, the Third Hokage added: "Furthermore, the puppet control seal placed inside Yeyuan Lin by the Mist Ninja is extremely sophisticated; we cannot possibly bypass it!"

In the eyes of the Third Hokage and them, the puppet seal inside Yeyuan Lin was a means for the Mist Ninja to control her, with no thought of any other direction.

"Hmph... since Yeyuan Lin is unreliable, let's just switch jinchuriki."

A mere Chunin like Yeyuan Lin is insignificant compared to the Three-Tails; discarding her is just discarding her.

Coincidentally, Yeyuan Lin is Minato Namikaze's disciple; I've been wondering how to control him—replacing him would solve the problem, right?

"This..."

Not to mention the Third Hokage, even the several elders present exchanged glances, beginning to ponder whether Danzo's suggestion was feasible.

Frankly, if a Three-Tails fell from the sky, saying these Leaf Village high-ups wouldn't be moved is impossible; but the other party's situation truly doesn't allow them to do so.

As for Danzo's suggestion, it's not that they don't know about it; it's just that putting such a thing on the table is difficult—only someone like Danzo could say it openly.

After all, they still care about their reputation.

Boom!

A loud boom came, and immediately the doors of the conference room flung open.

Even the conference room trembled at that loud bang.

"Uzumaki Kushina, who let you in!"

Seeing the figure appear at the doorway, before the Third Hokage could even speak, Shimura Danzo began to scold, his tone quite impolite.

"Wait until you become Hokage before coming to talk to me!"

Kushina, who burst through the door, couldn't be bothered to deal with that gloomy old guy.

That old guy had brought her plenty of childhood shadows; seeing his awful tone, a single sentence from her left his face turning blue.

"Uzumaki Kushina, how dare you speak like that—are you still a Leaf Village ninja~"

With a grim face, regarding this Nine-Tails jinchuriki, he truly had no good solution; the opponent's strength was simply not comparable to those of his own Root subordinates.

Originally, according to his plan, after she came to Leaf Village, she should have been entrusted to him for training, so that she could become an excellent weapon.

But at that time, Uzumaki Mito was protecting her and even let her attend the ninja academy, which was simply laughable. After Uzumaki Mito passed away, Sarutobi Hiruzen took even greater care of her.

Now that he's old and his wings have hardened, he doesn't even take him seriously.

Even his boyfriend is trying to seize his Hokage position.

"I just heard someone say they want to abandon Lin—I disagree!"

As soon as she entered the conference room, Kushina made her intentions clear.

Moreover, at that time she wasn't alone; Yeyuan Lin's petite figure followed closely behind her, face pale and expression sorrowful.

Just moments ago she had been accompanying Yeyuan Lin, waiting outside in the hallway; Lin might not have known, but her extraordinarily keen perception made her fully aware of what was happening in the conference room.

Seeing Shimura Danzo, that bad old man, propose such an opinion, she could no longer control her explosive temper.

If the Three-Tails were taken away, what would Lin do? Without the Three-Tails, she couldn't survive.

"These aren't things a Jonin like you should be worrying about!"

"Shut up!!!"

Seeing that old guy still nagging, the infuriated Kushina could no longer hold back and unleashed a roar filled with anger at him.

Combined with the Nine-Tails chakra within her, a fierce gust of wind pressure surged toward him.

Shimura Danzo, unprepared, was blown straight back by that gust, staggering until his back hit the chair, only then stopping his retreat.

Not only him, everyone present was overwhelmed by Uzumaki Kushina's suddenly erupting chakra, unable to breathe.

Even the glass on the doors and windows, unable to withstand this pressure, emitted a cracking 'ka-ka-ka' sound.

Jiu Xinnai! No one wants to abandon Yeyuan Lin, calm down a bit~

As one of the few people present able to withstand the opponent's chakra, the Third Hokage adjusted his askew straw hat and spoke soothingly.

After saying that, he still didn't forget to flash a kind smile at Yeyuan Lin beside her.