Chapter 289
Senju Tobirama, wearing a white coat, came out of his laboratory, looking a little tired.
At this moment, he no longer had that kind of sharp aura and majesty. His entire temperament was as if he had become a different person. Even to those who were most familiar with him, it would be hard to believe that this was the former Second Generation Hokage.
Compared to the stern demeanor before his resurrection, Senju Tobirama's temperament is still calm and serious, but he does not have that coldness that keeps people away, or that suffocating feeling of oppression.
Instead, he now seems like a very normal researcher, and has a similar temperament and style to most of the researchers in the Technology Development Department. So although some researchers in the Technology Development Department knew about the existence of Senju Tobirama, after Senju Tobirama denied it, no one would really connect him to the dead second generation.
At most, they just regarded him as a member of the Senju tribe who looked similar to the second generation.
"Master Senju!"
A call that seemed somewhat familiar to Senju Tobirama came from behind him. Turning around, Senju Tobirama saw an admiring look in his eyes.
"Is it Kabuto?" Senju Tobirama responded.
Senju Tobirama had seen all three of Lu Nie's disciples and naturally had his own opinions about them.
In terms of ninja fighting talent, there is no doubt that the boy named Uchiha Itachi is the best. Lu Nie and Orochimaru have never concealed the agreement they made with Uchiha.
So when he first met Uchiha Itachi, Tobirama Senju observed him the most. He needed to understand whether this young man, who had a high possibility of becoming the seventh Hokage in the future and the first Hokage of Uchiha, had the qualities to be a Hokage.
As of now, Itachi's performance is impeccable. He has excellent talent and strength at his age. The Uchiha bloodline Sharingan is mastered by him to perfection. It can be seen that the Uchiha clan has invested a lot of effort in him.
But if that was all, Tobirama Senju would not agree. What really changed Tobirama Senju's opinion of Itachi was that he did not have the concept of a clan being superior to a village, or in other words, he did not have the emotional defects of the Uchiha in his cognition.
It can also be said that there was, but Senju Tobirama did not see it.
But the generosity, kindness, gentleness, vision, control over his own emotions, and understanding of the ninja world shown by Itachi are far beyond those of his peers.
If there are no major changes and he is allowed to continue growing, he will indeed be qualified to become a qualified Hokage.
Senju Tobirama saw the shadow of his former subordinate Uchiha Kagami in him. After knowing that the person Itachi was closest to since childhood was Uchiha Shisui, the Uchiha who inherited Kagami's bloodline and ideas, he had already discarded all extra factors and looked at Itachi correctly.
Among Shikagawa's three disciples, apart from Itachi, the one he values the most is Kabuto Yakushi. He is not from the so-called ninja clan, and his life experience is also an orphan, which is common in the ninja world. At the end of the Third Ninja World War, he was picked up from the battlefield by Nono Yakushi, a capable subordinate of his granddaughter Tsunade, and then recommended to Shikagawa by Tsunade, and became his disciple.
In terms of ninja's direct combat talent, although Kabuto is excellent, he is not as outstanding as Itachi. But on the other hand, his research talent is exceptionally outstanding.
In many cases, in order to train Kabuto, Lu Nie would use him as an assistant and let him participate in some research. At the beginning, Kabuto was assigned by Lu Nie to assist Senju Tobirama in building his own laboratory and conducting research.
Therefore, Tobirama Senju has a deep understanding of his talent and ability in research. At least in human anatomy, bloodline cloning, and even the improvement and creation of forbidden techniques, Kabuto has shown extraordinary talent. The other party is smart, studious, and his brain can keep up with Tobirama Senju. This kind of civilian ninja with excellent talent and clean background will always be favored and loved by any Kage.
Senju Tobirama has also been training Kabuto, and has been teaching him a lot of his knowledge about chakra, ninjutsu, the human body, etc. without reservation. Although some of the knowledge is a bit outdated for Kabuto now, it does not mean that it is useless, and Kabuto does not recognize Senju Tobirama's training.
With Lunie's tacit consent, the old and the young naturally had a tacit understanding of getting along with each other.
Instead, it was Asuma Sarutobi, the son of the Third Hokage and the one with whom he had the closest relationship among the three, who left Senju Tobirama speechless.
Is Asma good?
Of course he is excellent! As the son of the third generation, although the third generation did not teach him well, the intensity of his training was no less than that of the sons of all the ninja clan leaders.
At least his foundation is quite solid at this age, and he has already started to walk his own path of ninjutsu. Judging from his growth potential, he will at least be an elite jonin in the future.
How many elite jonin are there in the entire Konoha?
This is already a high-level person who can participate in the Hokage election!
But with Itachi and Kabuto as two gems in front of him, Asuma's excellence seems mediocre and insignificant compared to his two friends.
Senju Tobirama even gave birth to Asuma, who was able to become Shikagawa's disciple, perhaps all thanks to the relationship with the Third Generation.
After all, the current Fourth Hokage is a disciple of the Third Hokage. It is normal in the entire ninja world for Shikagawa, who is a disciple of Orochimaru, to accept the Third Hokage's son as his disciple.
"For the next period of time, I will go out of the village with my teacher to carry out a mission. If you still need an assistant, you can ask my teacher." Dou bowed respectfully.
"A mission out of the village?" Senju Tobirama was stunned. In his impression, as the director of the technical development department, Lu Nie seldom went out of the village to carry out missions, especially with disciples.
"The Cloud Ninja negotiations have entered the next stage. According to the cooperation agreement made by the four villages during the negotiations, the Cloud Ninja has put forward the perfect Jinchūriki as a bargaining chip.
For those of us who don't need this bargaining chip, the Fourth Raikage revealed the existence of the real waterfall. Hokage-sama and the teacher are both very interested in that waterfall. "Kabuto explained seriously.
The negotiations with the Cloud Ninja lasted for nearly three years and were a long and arduous process. The number of times the two sides had fought during the negotiations alone could not be counted on ten fingers.
Later, with the addition of the Rock Ninja and the Sand Ninja, it became even more difficult to balance the interests of all parties. At least when Jiraiya, the main negotiator, returned to the village, he had become a vicissitudes of life like a dead fish.
Even when Minato Namikaze wanted to see Naruto, he had to arrange for his shadow clone to fly all the way to Thunder God and then return hurriedly at a certain moment.
After Konoha put forward many conditions and the four villages' Kages made concessions, they finally reached a final cooperation agreement.
(End of this chapter)