Having put away his zanpakuto, Naoki quickly headed towards the Hokage's residence. And ten minutes later, he was already there. At the door stood the Third's guard, who personally escorted him inside.
"Naoki," a slightly indifferent voice rang out, and Naoki saw a tall, thin young man walking towards him. He had a black mask on his face, and one eye was covered with a forehead protector. It was Hatake Kakashi.
"Huh? Kakashi, you're not in ANBU today? Why did you come here today?" Naoki extended his hand to greet him.
Kakashi weakly opened his eyes and said, "I have the day off today, so I'm just a jonin for now."
"Ahh, so that's how it is," Naoki nodded, and then they entered the residence together.
On the way, Kakashi suddenly asked, "I heard that you successfully completed the mission yesterday, and the Hokage wanted to promote you to ANBU captain. Why did you refuse?"
Kakashi is also an ANBU captain now. If Naoki joins, they will become colleagues. Because of their friendship, if any emergency happens in the future, they can back each other up.
Naoki shrugged, "You know, I was seriously injured during the war, and it took me a lot of effort to recover. Moreover, I just became a jonin, and I don't want to dive into the hard work of the Anbu so quickly. ...I want to settle down a bit and rest."
"Well, it's not a bad idea to take a rest either," Kakashi nodded, then remained silent for a while and suddenly said, "Naoki, the Hokage decided to hold an urgent meeting for a reason, you might get into trouble, so be careful."
"Yeah? It must be caused by the incident yesterday." Naoki thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "Thank you for reminding me, I'll be careful."
He knew in his heart that, as expected, Hidden Cloud had bared its fangs. The men in black who had kidnapped Hinata yesterday were from Kumo, and killing them would definitely bring trouble upon himself.
But he wasn't too worried about it, he wasn't weak. He was already a jonin, and he had been strengthened by the system. And just yesterday he had received Senbonzakura, and his strength had already reached the level of an elite jonin. It wasn't that easy to deal with him now.
Moreover, this is Konoha, and the Third has high hopes for him, no matter how arrogant the Kumovtsy are, they definitely won't dare to brazenly kill him. Moreover, Naoki is not weak, unless of course the Raikage himself or the Eight-Tails jinchuriki attacks him.
But obviously, that's impossible. Otherwise, a war might immediately break out between Konoha and Kumo. In any case, no matter what, as long as his identity as a Konoha jonin doesn't change, he's not afraid of anything.
They walked down the corridor and finally reached the hall.
There were already many people sitting there, most of them were clan heads, such as Hyuga, Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, and there were also simple jonin of the village, some of the most famous ones.
The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, also arrived, with two advisors sitting next to him, but Danzo did not come.
In addition, there was a group of people on the other side of the conference room. This group was wearing Hidden Cloud Village's protectors. The leader was a middle-aged man who was aggressively negotiating with Third at this moment.
"Hokage-san, you killed our delegation leader, and you want us to let it go? If you don't compensate for this, the Land of Lightning won't let it go! And my request is very simple! Since you accused us of kidnapping a Hyuga clan member, then hand over the body of the Hyuga clan leader and the person who killed the delegation leader last night! Then we will consider the case closed! If not, then our Hidden Cloud Village is not afraid of war!" This shinobi shouted in all seriousness.
The clan heads, the jonin, as well as the Third Hokage and the two advisors present had ugly expressions on their faces. Just then, Naoki's arrival caught everyone's attention.
The Kumo shinobi's gaze suddenly fell on Naoki.
He was stunned for a moment, and then a sinister smile flashed across his lips and he shouted loudly, "It must be that famous Naoki, the Konoha jonin, right? They say he's good at ninjutsu, especially lightning techniques. The man who killed our leader yesterday was especially good at raiton jutsu. According to our investigation, it must be that Naoki's doing, right?! He came just in time!"
The Kumo ninja looked at Naoki again and smirked, "You have to explain this to me properly! How did this happen