Chapter 564: The Ino-Shika-Cho trio reached a consensus, and Nara Shikaku wanted to slack off!

Akimichi Torifu was stunned.

He could barely accept Shikaku's explanations in other areas, but he couldn't accept this matter about Namikaze Minato.

What a joke!

Perhaps others didn't understand, but as the old friend who knew Sarutobi Hiruzen best, how could he not know his old friend's thoughts?

There was absolutely no surprise; Minato was the Fourth Hokage.

There was no other possibility!

Even if he was unwilling, even if he had bad intentions, he had no other choice.

Under these circumstances.

How could Sarutobi Hiruzen possibly offend Namikaze Minato?

Once Namikaze Minato took power in the future, even if he could hold onto the village's authority, if he didn't have Minato's cooperation, the entire Leaf would be completely torn apart.

After all, by that time.

Namikaze Minato would be the true Hokage; if the two of them had a falling out, even if Sarutobi Hiruzen could force his way, the reputation he had spent a lifetime accumulating would be destroyed in an instant.

This was also the part he didn't understand.

However, on the other side.

Nara Shikaku's expression was calm, and he simply explained upon hearing this.

"Because of Nohara Rin!"

"Perhaps you haven't received the news, but in fact, on this battlefield, Nohara Rin was once captured by the enemy, and then the enemy stuffed the Three-Tails into her body, hoping that she would go on a rampage after returning to the Leaf."

"But, unfortunately."

"Nohara Rin was saved by Namikaze Minato, who then had Kushina, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, teach Nohara Rin how to control the Nine-Tails."

"The real trouble lies right here."

"Nohara Rin is Namikaze Minato's student, so he is bound to protect her at all costs."

"But Sarutobi Hiruzen, as Hokage, must consider the Mist Village; what if the Mist comes to demand the Three-Tails after the war ends?"

"This is the contradiction between the two, it cannot be reconciled!"

"Even if Sarutobi Hiruzen abdicates, it won't work!"

"Given Minato's temper, he would never hand over his student, even if it meant fighting the Mist."

"But Sarutobi Hiruzen won't agree to that kind of thinking."

The others were dumbfounded.

Yes.

This matter was currently top secret; the number of people in the Leaf qualified to know this didn't exceed the count of one hand.

The three people present were naturally stunned upon learning this!

The Three-Tails, fine.

If it were other matters, there might be a way to solve them.

But this was a Tailed Beast!

As a Jinchuriki, once the Tailed Beast is extracted, the outcome is inevitably death.

And this time, Nohara Rin was Namikaze Minato's student.

It would be strange if he agreed to it!

Standing from Sarutobi Hiruzen's perspective, his actions couldn't really be called wrong.

To rashly start a war with the Mist for the sake of a mere Chunin?

And that was while the Cloud and Sand situations hadn't been resolved yet.

Therefore.

There were valid points on both sides of this argument!