"Orochimaru has appeared, huh."
In the Hidden Leaf Village, inside one of the Senju Clan's residences, Tsunade had just finished a day of training and started reading the diary.
Ever since she had learned about the terrifying battles of the future, she had not touched alcohol again. Every day, she threw herself into training.
Drinking and gambling had dragged her down this far. From today on, she was quitting alcohol! She was going to train hard!
Her fists clenched tight. She wished she could blow Orochimaru apart with one punch.
Every day, she had to restrain her killing intent toward Orochimaru and remind herself that the time had not come yet. She could not just hammer him to death right now.
It was just that when she saw how Kaede Kitahara described the Sannin in his diary, one dead and one old, the dead one was probably Jiraiya, and the old one was probably her, right? By then, she would be in her seventies no matter how you looked at it. She would not be much better than the Old Man was now.
Even with the Yin Seal supporting her condition, how good could she possibly be? At best, she would probably be a little stronger than an ordinary old woman.
But by that time, Orochimaru could still maintain his youth and a considerable level of combat strength. He had probably changed bodies again.
Still, the contents recorded in Kaede Kitahara's diary made her brow lift slightly. From the cautious Chunin he had been at the beginning to someone who could force Orochimaru to flee with a single sword strike, he had taken less than a year.
Although Tsunade had not seen it with her own eyes, Kaede Kitahara's diary had recorded everything in detail.
From an ordinary Chunin to Jonin Level combat strength, then to Kage Level, he had practically broken through in one breath.
"Is the Uchiha Clan's bloodline really that ridiculous?"
Of course, Tsunade did not know about the System. In her eyes, the only possible explanation for Kaede Kitahara's sudden strength was the bloodline of the Uchiha Clan.
But according to the Senju Clan's records over the years, even among the Uchiha Clan, no one had ever improved this quickly after awakening the Sharingan.
Especially since she knew very well that Kaede Kitahara had not awakened the Mangekyo yet. Without awakening the Mangekyo, where had such absurd strength come from?
But she really could not find any other possibility.
How much time and effort had she spent back then breaking through to Kage Level? And how much time had Kaede Kitahara spent?
That was exactly why she always felt like grinding her teeth whenever Kaede Kitahara was brought up. Although there were not many Uchiha members left, every single one of them was astonishing. Uchiha Sasuke, who was the strongest Uchiha right now, would have the most astonishing future achievements.
The others all had Kage Level strength too.
"Orochimaru, Orochimaru. You still got involved in this after all."
Jiraiya spoke coldly.
He had already confirmed that Orochimaru had appeared, but he had probably been forced back by Kaede Kitahara. After something like this happened, Orochimaru should not dare show himself casually again in the short term.
Under the current circumstances, Jiraiya probably would not see him again until the Konoha Crush Plan began.
"A single sword strike could force Orochimaru, one of the Sannin, to flee immediately. Just how far has Kaede Kitahara's strength reached now?"
Inside a resting room in the Central Tower, Hatake Kakashi looked at the records appearing in the diary, deeply shaken.
There was no doubt that what happened today had shocked him greatly. Even though he had now stepped into Kage Level, he knew that if it had been him, there was no way he could have handled it as cleanly and decisively as Kaede Kitahara had.
Right now, Kaede Kitahara was a ninja of Konoha. The stronger he was, the better it naturally was for Konoha.
Among Konoha's higher-ups, the only one truly wary of Kaede Kitahara was Shimura Danzo!
[Auntie Snake's reputation for being hard to kill should be famous throughout the entire Shinobi World. Even those Otsutsuki are not as troublesome as he is. Because he's afraid of dying, whenever he adds points, he only puts them into survival skills.
Just look at Otsutsuki Isshiki. He could still live after half his body was cut off, which seems pretty impressive, but for Auntie Snake, staying alive after losing half his body is basically an everyday occurrence.
His body has undergone special treatment. Although it isn't some Kekkei Genkai, I'd estimate it's stronger than plenty of Kekkei Genkai.
But Auntie Snake's strongest point is still his research ability. Relying on Jugo's existence, he actually managed to develop an inferior version of Senjutsu. Though it's called an inferior version, in terms of power, it might not be much worse than ordinary Senjutsu.
And the Cursed Seal doesn't have the petrification risk ordinary Senjutsu does, because it only has a ten percent survival rate.
Of course, if the target is Uchiha Sasuke, who has the protagonist halo, then it's not much of a problem. After all, he has Otsutsuki Indra following him. Could Indra let him die?
Absolutely impossible!]
Because he was afraid of dying, he only put his Add points into survival?
Tsunade could not help laughing when she thought of Kaede Kitahara's comment. Although she did not quite understand what Add points meant, after connecting it with the context, it was not hard to imagine.
It meant all of Orochimaru's skills were in running away.
"This kid is as vicious-tongued as ever!"
Tsunade could not help laughing as she spoke.
Kaede Kitahara's sharp tongue had long since become routine.
"There's risk?"
Inside one of the Akatsuki Organization's bases, Uchiha Itachi frowned tightly.
Although Kaede Kitahara immediately said afterward that because Uchiha Sasuke had Otsutsuki Indra with him, there would definitely be no problem, in Uchiha Itachi's heart, that Otsutsuki Indra, who had yet to show his face but had already been mentioned by Kaede Kitahara many times, was far more threatening than Orochimaru's little Cursed Seal.
The two sides were not even on the same level.
Because this hid one important point. Uchiha Sasuke might be taken over by Otsutsuki Indra through Karma. If that was really the case, then it would be no different from falling into Orochimaru's hands.
So the so-called protagonist halo Kaede Kitahara mentioned for Uzumaki Naruto and Sasuke was actually Otsutsuki Indra and Otsutsuki Asura?
Because those two still needed to take over their bodies to complete their reincarnation, they would not let anything happen to them?
So that was how it was?
Uchiha Itachi felt as if a door to an entirely new world had opened before him.
[Everyone says Uzumaki Naruto is the protagonist of a hot-blooded manga, that he has no brains and only knows how to charge straight ahead, but what they don't know is that Uchiha Sasuke isn't much better. Naruto's intelligence level is ninety, and his is only one hundred.
He just has a smart-looking face, plus he usually doesn't show much expression and looks very cold, so he seems intelligent.
In reality, he isn't that smart.
Naruto: "I have a terrible idea!"
Sakura Haruno: "What kind of awful idea is that?"
Sasuke: "I'm in!"
His fight against Deidara showed this to the fullest. If he had said he was going to cut down Uchiha Itachi, Deidara might have personally led the way for him, but instead, he just had to fail at explaining himself.
When the Sharingan was on, it was a provocation against Deidara. When the Sharingan was off, well damn, you won't even turn on the Sharingan? Are you looking down on me that much?
Uchiha Sasuke was probably confused back then too. This Deidara guy was way too hard to please. Turning the Sharingan on was wrong, but turning it off was wrong too.
Hahahahaha!]
"Ahahahaha, is Naruto really that brainless? I think he's pretty smart."
Namikaze Minato looked at Kaede Kitahara's roast in the diary and wanted to argue a little. His son's IQ could not be only ninety.
Another drop from ninety would be intellectual disability. It could only be said that he was already hovering around the lower edge of ordinary intelligence.
He really wanted to prove it for his son, but he had no way to prove it, because he had no way to contact Kaede Kitahara. Besides, Kaede Kitahara's roasts about things like this were often extremely accurate and cutting.
"What do you mean I'm the protagonist of a hot-blooded manga with no brains?" Seventh Hokage Naruto said, deeply dissatisfied. "My IQ is definitely not only ninety, okay?"
Seventh Hokage Naruto was unhappy when he saw the diary say he was not smart, but his voice gradually weakened, because he remembered that he had once been famous in the Ninja Academy as the idiot Dead Last.
It was just that after becoming the hero who saved the Shinobi World, very few people used the word idiot to describe him anymore.
But then he suddenly thought of something funny. Although Kaede Kitahara said his intelligence was not high, Uchiha Sasuke's was not high either.
"Hahahahaha, Sasuke's IQ is only one hundred? Hahahahaha!" Seventh Hokage Naruto burst into laughter. Uchiha Sasuke had always played the role of the smart one in front of him, and he had never imagined that Uchiha Sasuke might actually be an idiot. It was way too counterintuitive.
"What are you laughing at? Your IQ is ten points lower than his. He's mocking both of you idiots. What's there to be happy about?"
Inside Uzumaki Naruto's stomach, the Nine-Tails could not help roasting him.
"Ah, hahahaha." Uzumaki Naruto scratched the back of his head, a little embarrassed.
"Does Deidara hate me that much?" The corner of Uchiha Itachi's mouth twitched slightly as he said, "Looks like I'm hated."
He remembered that he had indeed been the one to recruit Deidara, and the whole process could not exactly be called pleasant. He had not expected Deidara to remember it for so long.
[Although Sasuke's intelligence isn't high, his battle instinct is still top-tier. Then again, maybe all the past Indras had fairly limited intelligence. Though I don't think the Asuras were much smarter either. Hahahahaha!
This battle between Sasuke and Deidara was also incredibly exciting. He brought the tactical routines he learned from Orochimaru to their fullest.]
All of a sudden, right then, everyone saw a new video appear in the diary. They hurriedly opened it.
In the scene, it was Uchiha Sasuke three years later. He was clearly much more mature, wearing a gray-black cloak, and at this moment, he had already been targeted by two members of the Akatsuki Organization.
Everyone was very familiar with those two. One was Deidara of the Akatsuki Organization, who had shown off his strength in the previous video of the capture of the One-Tail Shukaku of the Sand. The other made everyone's expressions turn incomparably grave.
That Uchiha Kenji who called himself Uchiha Madara.