Tsunade stretched lazily.
Her magnificent bust trembled accordingly.
The thick curtains were only half-drawn, but the bright summer sunlight still illuminated half of the office.
She glanced at the information on the desktop and couldn't help but feel a bit exhausted.
The Executive Department had handled most of the matters. However, the remaining ones were numerous, extremely important, and required her personal decisions.
After that, they would be sent to the Policy Department for reporting. Once approved by the department, they would be distributed to various departments.
However, compared to the workload of Hiruzen Sarutobi and Hashirama Senju, what Tsunade did was very little.
Especially the Third Hokage. He had to review everything.
Therefore, in her impression, he almost stayed in the office every day without any rest.
There was a knock on the door.
Tsunade immediately sat up straight and regained the majestic aura of the Hokage.
"Come in."
"Good morning, my queen."
Without even looking, Tsunade knew who was speaking with such a teasing tone.
Haruki closed the door and walked up to her.
"Don't call me queen. You should call me Hokage."
Tsunade rolled her eyes at him.
Having known him so well, she understood why Haruki called her queen.
It's nothing more than his perverse sense of fun.
Conquering the queen seemed to give him a great sense of accomplishment.
It even made him more intense at night.
So Tsunade couldn't stand these four words.
They easily reminded her of her pleading screams.
"Well, it's true that it doesn't fit the situation now."
Haruki picked up the glass in front of her and took a sip of water casually. "When the Land of Fire finally comes under your rule in the future, then you'll be the real queen."
"Get serious! Stop blabbering. What do you mean by 'under your rule'?"
Tsunade increasingly felt that Haruki was being reckless in front of her.
Why did she seem to have less authority after becoming the Hokage?
"It was a slip of the tongue." Haruki held her face and said, "You should only have me under your rule."
"..."
Tsunade thought this guy was going to change his ways, but he revealed his true nature with the next sentence. So she changed the topic.
"How was your trip to the Land of Water?"
"I've captured Shinno. The Anbu are interrogating him. There should be news soon. If he is really stubborn and won't talk, I'll send Mikoto to handle it."
From the time Haruki captured Shinno to defeating Madara Uchiha and returning to Konoha, it took less than half an hour. So Tsunade didn't know that Shinno was in the Anbu.
As for Madara Uchiha, he hadn't told Tsunade yet.
After all, this news was too shocking.
"What do you take Mikoto for?"
Tsunade couldn't help but pat his hands.
"Can't help it. The Mangekyo Sharingan is just that useful."
Hearing her question, Haruki realized that he did often ask Mikoto to do Anbu's work.
It was quite unique that the Clan Leader of the Uchiha Clan was at his beck and call.
"Is the Cloud Ninja's air fortress really that amazing? Was it worth your trip?"
Before Haruki left, he told her the reason.
But Tsunade didn't think much of it. If it were really that powerful, the Land of Cloud wouldn't have been destroyed in the Second Great Ninja War.
"It is really amazing, but the important thing is how to use it."
Haruki shook his head and said, "In the original story, the way Shinno utilized things was really stupid. I plan to assign the ninja army specializing in Wind Release to the task and use the Nine - Tailed Fox as the power source. Relying on the air fortress, we can have a fortress that's easy to defend and hard to attack."
Tsunade couldn't help but laugh. "If it's the Nine - Tailed Fox, it seems there's no difference whether there's an air fortress or not, right?"
"But there's only one Nine - Tailed Fox, while there can be many air fortresses."
Haruki naturally knew the strength of the Nine - Tailed Fox, but using only one seemed like a waste of its potential. Moreover, when combined with exoskeletons, there would be even more different ways to use it.
"Then I'll look forward to your performance," Tsunade said, blinking her eyes. She couldn't quite picture it, but she trusted Haruki.
The two chatted for a while longer. Then Shinji Hira knocked on the door and entered.
"Hokage - sama, Lord Haruki, Shinno has revealed information about the air fortress. The specific location is in the southwest of the ruins of the Land of Sky."
"Let's go," Haruki said.
Haruki took Shinji Hira directly to the Land of Sky.
Shinji Hira looked around and took out a map he'd obtained from Shinno.
After a few minutes, the two found the location of the Sky Hidden Village.
At this time, the Sky Hidden Village was already in ruins and unrecognizable. And further away was an ordinary village.
Haruki immediately remembered the power source of the air fortress, the so - called Zero - Tails, which was formed by the aggregation of people's inner darkness.
His sensing ability spread out, and beneath the ground, a huge and cold Chakra was coiled.
"Bring it up," Haruki said.
"Okay," Shinji Hira replied.
Shinji Hira landed on the ground, searched carefully, found the node Shinno had mentioned, and formed Hand Seals.
A rumbling sound rang out. The ground beneath their feet began to shake. Shinji Hira immediately jumped up. He couldn't fly.
After retreating a certain distance, the ground nearly a thousand meters wide split open and then rose into the air. Stones and soil rolled down continuously.
Haruki looked up at the huge fortress in the sky. From the outside, it looked like a top. There was a pointed part at the bottom, and the top resembled a castle. But the shape was ordinary. One broad - faced statue after another was erected.
Haruki found it hard to comment on Shinno's taste.
He and Shinji Hira landed inside the fortress and started to inspect it. The main body was made of stone, and the degree of mechanization was low, but there were many flying machines powered by Wind Release. In addition, there was a super energy heavy cannon.
Oh! Haruki remembered that in the original story, its power was comparable to that of a Tailed Beast Ball.
At the same time, in the core area of the fortress, he saw the Zero - Tails. Inside a giant cylindrical room, the Zero - Tails, which resembled a Python, was locked up. The walls were covered with patterns that resembled a Sealing Formula.
There should originally have been a Jinchuriki of the Zero - Tails named Amaru. But she hadn't been born yet.
When the Zero - Tails saw them, its masked face showed no expression, but from its continuous ramming against the wall, it seemed very agitated.
Haruki ignored it. He took a deep breath and planned to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to transport the air fortress back. But such a huge object required a massive amount of Chakra.
The Kurama Ecological Base. It was swimming in the river.
Waterfalls cascaded from the sky, washing over its body and making it show a blissful expression.
Kurama was living a pretty good life.
Haruki seemed to have forgotten about it, and hadn't come to see it for a long time.
Of course, it wasn't that it missed Haruki. It would rather he never remembered it.
The only thing that annoyed it was that people from Konoha would come and disturb its sleep from time to time.
What puzzled Kurama the most was that these people didn't seem to be afraid of it. They even held tickets to the Kurama Ecological Base.
However, every time they came, they would always bring some food to feed it.
Thinking about Haruki, it decided to turn a blind eye. Anyway, it wasn't at a loss and it was free.
"Who?!"
Kurama suddenly sensed a very huge object. It quickly raised its head and roared angrily, "Which bastard is throwing things around? Ah! Don't you know this is old man's territory?!"
"When did it become your territory?"
Haruki suddenly appeared in front of it. "Kurama."
"Ah... Of course it's your territory. I thought someone was invading. As a guard, I definitely have to overwhelm the other side with my aura."
Kurama quickly came up with an excuse to explain.
"Alright, it's time for you to work. Protect this air fortress and tame this Zero-Tails."
Haruki couldn't help but laugh.
Kurama glanced at the Zero-Tails, and its eyes lit up terrifyingly.
Hehe.
After being suppressed for so long, it was finally its turn to suppress others!
The next day, nearly a hundred people from the Ninja Tools and Technology Research Department came and started to transform the air fortress.
And Kurama happily played with the Zero-Tails.
But its happiness didn't last long.
Haruki came again.
Kurama slapped the Zero-Tails hard and said, "Call him sir!"
The Zero-Tails was dizzy for a moment. After vigorously shaking its head, when it saw Haruki, it remembered its previous actions and couldn't help but feel a bit scared.
It thought it had a chance to escape yesterday.
But since Kurama was here as a subordinate, it had even less of a chance.
"Sir!"
The Zero-Tails' voice was so loud that it was like a hurricane passing by.
"Quiet down!"
Kurama noticed Haruki frowning and quickly slapped the Zero-Tails again.
If this guy made Haruki unhappy and dragged it into trouble, it'd really have no place to cry about it.
As for a sense of dignity.
Sorry, there was none.
"Kurama, you're the Yin Nine-Tailed Fox and are more focused on spiritual force. Do you have any spiritual ninjutsu that can be used to contact you?"
"No."
Kurama replied instinctively.
How could there be ninjutsu to contact it?
It was the mighty Nine-Tailed Fox... It suddenly remembered that it wasn't what it used to be.
Kurama quickly added, "I can create one."
"Okay, try to make it as simple as possible, so that everyone can learn it."
Haruki put forward his request.
He regarded Kurama as a logistics transfer station. If it was too difficult, it would be unnecessary.
"Sure, sure."
Kurama readily agreed.
The Sage of Six Paths had taught the Tailed Beasts ninjutsu before.
But unfortunately, it hadn't listened carefully at all.
In the end, only the One-Tailed Shukaku had learned the ninjutsu.
Kurama thought for a while and told Haruki a very simple way to use it.
That is, it split its Chakra into countless strands and distributed them to every resident of Konoha.
As long as they infused their Chakra into the Nine - Tailed Fox's Chakra, they could contact the Nine - Tailed Fox.
After saying that, Haruki recalled the original purpose of Chakra: communication.
Especially when fists met fists, hearts connected.
After Haruki obtained the Nine - Tailed Fox's Chakra, he asked Tomomi Koki to conduct an experiment.
A moment later, Kurama said, "I've received Tomomi Koki's request. He needs a copy of Lord Haruki's book, [Investigation Report on the Land of Fire], which was published six months ago."
Haruki handed a book to Kurama.
With its almost massive Chakra manipulation, the book almost instantly reached the New Konoha Bookstore and landed in front of Tomomi Koki.
Haruki nodded in satisfaction.
This was the real Express delivery, arriving in an instant.
"From now on, you'll work for Konoha's postal department during the day. The job is what you just did. I'll have them gather all kinds of goods at the ecological base."
Kurama let out a sigh. The carefree days were gone forever.
But fortunately, it could still move freely at night.
The establishment of the postal department once again shocked the residents of Konoha.
After just one week of implementation, Kurama's workload soared from a few hundred on the first day to tens of thousands.
It felt that if this went on, it would suffer a nervous breakdown.
There was no rest for a full twelve hours.
Every second, someone was contacting it.
Although it wasn't tired, it was so annoying!
After much reflection, Kurama set its sights on the Zero - Tails.
It infused its own Chakra into the Zero - Tails' body and let it take over its work.
Oh, right! I'm so smart!
Kurama regained its freedom once again.
It even thought about asking Haruki to capture all the other eight Tailed Beasts. With them sharing the work, it should be completely saved, right?
Haruki didn't pay much attention to it.
He had been chatting with Minato Namikaze about the Land of Fire recently.
According to his original plan, in a few years, Minato would lead the new army and directly attack the Daimyo's mansion.
But later, he thought this plan was not very appropriate.
The logic in the original story indicated that killing the Daimyo would cause a huge stir.
Who knew if the other Daimyos would go crazy.
So he assigned tasks to Minato.
The current Daimyo had a bunch of children. Minato was to select one and assist them.
Under the guise of fighting for power, they would carry out rebellious acts.
"Success!"
After Haruki finished talking with Minato, he saw Kushina rush in happily.
"What's the success?"
Before Haruki could say anything, Minato stepped forward and asked with a smile.
"Ding ding ding!"
Kushina imitated the moves of Sailor Moon in the recently popular TV show. She spread her feet apart, put her left hand on her hip, and made a peace sign with her right hand in front of her forehead. Then she shouted, "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"
With a puff of smoke.
A beautiful girl about her age appeared in front of her.
She was wearing a blue kimono, with two furry fox ears on her head, black pupils, and reddish hair, giving an air of unreality.
She raised her face and blinked her big, shiny eyes at Haruki.
After hesitating for a moment and not knowing what to call her, he followed Kushina and called out "Teacher".
"Are you Tamamo - no - Mae?"
Haruki was a bit surprised. He didn't expect that the duties assigned to Kurama had been overfulfilled.
"Yeah."
Tamamo - no - Mae nodded. She was a quiet - tempered person. Being noticed by Haruki and Minato made her feel a bit shy, so she ran behind Kushina again.
"How about it?"
Kushina hugged Tamamo - no - Mae and rubbed against her chest.
Minato immediately showed an envious look.
It wasn't Kushina he envied, but Tamamo - no - Mae.
"Since she can take on a human form, let her learn Ninjutsu from you."
Haruki thought for a moment. Although he was quite surprised, he had no improper thoughts.
He glanced at Minato, hoping he could control himself.
Haruki gave the time to the two of them.
Minato was about to leave soon again.
Naturally, he wasn't insensible to the atmosphere.
Haruki opened the door. The streets of Akihabara were as lively as ever.
But it was also a bit different from before.
The large - screen advertisements outside the building were becoming increasingly diverse.
Besides movies, there were also various TV programs.
Naturally, Haruki wouldn't waste the TVs that already existed in the original story.
All kinds of programs were quickly organized.
The numerous anime and TV shows he watched in his past life were being produced in a rush.
It had to be said that the productivity of Ninjas was really high.
There was no lack of manpower.
As long as there was enough Chakra, the Shadow Clone Jutsu was like a cheat code.
Of course, Haruki was even more looking forward to the games from the network department.
Konoha had already achieved the coverage of the local area network monitoring system, and the network technology was mature enough to develop games.
But developing games was quite troublesome.
It might take a long while.
Another year passed.
Six - year - old Obito Uchiha suddenly rushed over to tell Haruki that he had met a strange guy.