Naruto: I'm Not a Pokémon

Chapter 473 Perfect Ending

With Uchiha Shisui's failure, the biggest suspense of this Joint Chunin Exam has been resolved.

After all, the last two remaining Genin in the finals were both from the Kirigakure Village.

Konohagakure and Sunagakure, two of the five major ninja villages, were both runners-up.

This also made the various ninja villages and noble daimyo who came to watch the game once again have a higher opinion of the rising Kirigakure.

Of course, although the outcome has been decided, the final will still proceed as normal.

However, Hozuki Mangetsu, who had just fought a fierce battle, could only sigh helplessly to himself as he looked at Ringo Ameyuri, who was well-rested and smiling.

"Genin has no human rights!"

After all, this is just a Chunin Exam.

It is impossible for the Kirigakure Village to organize a crossover show or a cheerleading team to warm up the audience.

With so many distinguished audiences waiting, giving him a dozen minutes to rest was already quite a privilege.

Hozuki Mangetsu, who had originally thought that he could avenge his previous defeat against his teammates in the final battle, now had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out to fight.

The final result was not too surprising to most people.

Although the two did not let this final battle end hastily for the purpose of performance.

The two of them basically demonstrated ninja tools, ninjutsu, physical skills, and swordsmanship one by one, and the scene looked very fancy.

All the spectators who watched the game had a great time and felt that the ticket price was worth it.

But afterwards, after getting the signal and really starting the fight, Hozuki Mangetsu's decline was clearly evident.

After only a few rounds of fighting, Ringo Ameyuri suddenly rushed in front of him, stabbed his body with both swords at the same time, and shocked him on the spot.

In the end, he was stabbed to the ground by the evil Ringo Ameyuri and was electrocuted so hard that he couldn't get up, so he had to accept the defeat.

"The final winner is Ringo Ayuuri of Kirigakure!!"

As the chief examiner Harusame announced the final result.

The Mizukage Kaito also stepped forward symbolically and said a few polite words according to the script that had been prepared long ago.

This time's joint Chunin Exam finally came to a perfect end amid the warm cheers of the audience.

He glanced at Kazekaze Rasa, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time and finally got up and left with a gloomy face without even saying bye.

Kaito just had a smile on his face and didn't take the other party's unreasonable behavior to heart.

'This is only the beginning. You'll have a headache when you get back.'

However, as soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Kaito immediately remembered it.

Didn't his own Kirigakure Village just get attacked as well?

Suddenly, even the feeling of gloating disappeared.

'This thing called the Joint Chunin Exam seems to have a bit of a weird flavor.'

Thinking about the several joint Chunin exams shown in the original work.

First there was the "Konoha Collapse Plan", then there was the "Sunagakure Village Civil War", and the most outrageous thing was even the "Otsutsuki Invasion".

Anyway, there is always something that makes him want to watch the Chunin Exam proceed normally, and it feels like he is getting the same treatment as Wang Feng when he made the headlines.

'Fortunately, the exam was not held in the Kirigakure Village this time, otherwise it would be hard to say whether it could have ended safely.'

Looking down at Ringo Ameyuri, who was jumping up and down with excitement while holding the little Yoshi who had just followed Blue.

Kaito felt that his little disciple might have some lucky attributes.

Just when Kaito was thinking about all this nonsense, Namikaze Minato on the side took the lead and broke the silence.

"Mizukage-sama, you're not only extremely powerful, but also have amazing disciples. I believe that the Kirigakure Village will surely reach a higher level under your leadership."

Upon hearing this, Kaito withdrew his gaze downwards and turned to meet Namikaze Minato's sincere gaze that didn't seem fake.

Looking at Minato who had a gentle smile in the sunlight, and his golden hair dancing in the breeze.

Then he thought about how the other party had personally intervened in the game to save Uchiha Shisui.

Kaito couldn't help but curl his lips secretly.

'This guy has some succubus attributes, but his luck is still a little bad.'

Although he thought so, Kaito remained calm on the surface and replied politely.

"Hokage-sama, you are too kind. Konoha Village has a profound foundation and talented ninjas are everywhere. My disciples are nothing compared to them."

When Kaito said this, he didn't have any other meaning.

But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Minato didn't know what he was thinking of, but instead he smiled awkwardly and stopped talking.

After a long silence, Minato finally took the initiative to speak again.

After all, he had taken the initiative to come up and talk not just for the sake of exchanging pleasantries with Kaito, and it would be bad to just watch the conversation between the two of them end in such a dull silence.

"Mizukage-sama, I mentioned to you before the exam that we should find an opportunity to discuss the future development of the two villages. When do you think the time would be appropriate?"

In fact, this is also one of the important purposes of Minato's visit to Sea Mist City this time.

The booming development momentum of the Kirigakure Village is now obvious to the whole ninja world.

There is a very clear division into two factions within Konoha.

The more mainstream idea is to allow Kirigakure to develop freely, although Konoha is in a weak stage now.

But its strong foundation is unmatched by any other ninja village. It only needs to recover its vitality steadily, and it will still be the invincible and strongest ninja village.

There were other challengers who wanted to shake Konoha's position as the number one Ninja Village in the past, but they were eventually dragged down by Konoha one by one.

In contrast to this idea of resting and recuperating, there is naturally another radical thinking.

The radical faction thinks that, precisely because Konoha is currently in a weak period, it is even more necessary to use all its strength to slow down the development of Kirigakure.

Espionage, assassination, provocation, and suppression should be used at all costs to weaken the power of the Kirigakure Village.

This will prevent them from being completely suppressed by the rapidly developing Kirigakure Village one day in the future.

Of course, the possibility of a counterattack and the next Great Ninja War that might result from this series of actions was clearly not considered by the radicals.

Everyone should know that this is not an unfounded worry.

The interval between the Third Great Ninja War and the Second Great Ninja War was actually only five years.

This series of differences of opinion within Konoha Village is precisely the real reason why Namikaze Minato now wants to have a face-to-face talk with Kaito.

Although the two had fought on the battlefield more than once before, and even almost died at the hands of each other.

It's just that their current positions are different after all, and the two villages also have the most basic peace treaty.

Therefore, Minato still hopes to get to know this overly young Mizukage face to face and know what kind of person he is.

Instead of blindly jumping to conclusions based on just a few words of textual information.

Although Kaito didn't know the twists and turns in Minato's heart at this time.

However, he was still quite interested in having a direct conversation with the legendary Hokage. Besides, this was something he had promised the other party before, so he simply extended his hand to invite him.

"With great pleasure. I am free right now. Minato-sama, please come this way."

(End of this chapter)