Naruto: Kurotsuchi Mayuri

"Is the Hokage preparing for the future war?"

After seeing off Kagetsu, Minato didn't head home immediately but instead asked Kagetsu.

As an advisor, he was currently mainly responsible for protecting the Nine-Tails, as well as some matters related to the Land of Wind and external affairs.

To put it simply, with ROOT under control, he had now taken over some of ROOT's previous duties.

The village's affairs were now managed by Uchiha Fugaku, who represented Tsunade.

In short, it was about security, and this was a field the Uchiha clan, with their background in the Police Force, was highly skilled in.

Minato, who had a good relationship with Fugaku, recently noticed that every time he saw Fugaku, he could sense a strong and energetic aura from him, which was quite different from his previous, somewhat gloomy and silent personality.

However, Minato could understand this change.

With Orochimaru becoming the new Hokage, the Third Hokage had stepped down and, in cooperation with Orochimaru, gradually handed over powers while also actively taking away the two old advisors, creating space for others.

The crisis that the Uchiha clan had once faced had been reversed through all these changes.

Fugaku no longer needed to suppress his ambitions and didn't have to worry about the future of the Uchiha clan.

What was even better was that his eldest son, Itachi, had already qualified to compete for the position of the next Hokage!

His wife, Mikoto, was also about to give birth to their second child, and according to Tsunade's examination at the hospital, it was confirmed to be a boy.

With that, the future of the Uchiha clan now had a successor! He had even already chosen a name for him.

It was a name from the future: Sasuke!

When Itachi becomes Hokage, if Sasuke's strength is enough, he can inherit the Uchiha clan.

The two brothers, working together, was a scene that Fugaku could hardly wait to see! Just thinking about it filled him with excitement!

After completing his recent heavy duties, he even managed to find time to regularly evaluate Itachi's strength.

Especially after the authority of the Police Force was handed over, allowing other clans and ninjas to participate, the Uchiha clan, who were focused on competing with Danzo, became less noticeable to the villagers.

Strangely, the reputation of the Uchiha Police Force also improved significantly.

After the gathering and drinking, Fugaku even patiently shared his experiences with Minato on how to be a qualified and authoritative father.

In the past, such a thing would have never happened with Fugaku.

The village, having experienced pain, was indeed slowly recovering its vitality.

But Minato knew very well that while the Third Ninja World War seemed to be nearing its end, the war had not truly finished.

This was due to intelligence from the Anbu about unusual movements from the Hidden Cloud Village.

Although Hidden Cloud was the first to pull out of the war after the start of the Ninja World War, because of the Third Raikage's desperate efforts, Hidden Cloud's strength and vitality, by the end of the war, had somehow become the most formidable on paper.

Minato, who had clashed many times with A, the successor to the Raikage title, was worried about A.

Despite appearing rough and impulsive, A hid a meticulous mind beneath his boisterous nature.

Given A's character, he might really take advantage of the fact that the major ninja villages were severely weakened and choose to attack one of them.

Whether it was Hidden Stone, Hidden Sand, or even Hidden Leaf or Hidden Mist, any of them could be a target.

Training ninjas takes time, and the so-called scientific ninja tools proposed by Kagetsu opened a new world for Minato.

If these tools could be created, they would be an evolved version of the explosive tags.

Even though they may be useless against strong opponents, if they could quickly arm the Genin-ranked ninjas with combat abilities, that would already be enough.

Hidden Leaf didn't lack high-level combat power right now.

As for whether this would cause the overall strength of ninjas to decline, Minato didn't worry much.

He saw it as an evolved version of explosive tags and didn't think too deeply about it.

For him, being able to make good use of both his own and external resources to achieve victory is what made a ninja strong and excellent.

This external force could be ninja tools or weapons, or explosive tags and traps, among others.

The only concern was the cost of production after these tools were made.

If it turned out to be more expensive than explosive tags, then it wouldn't be feasible for widespread use.

Research and training personnel require a significant amount of investment before results can be seen.

Although the Daimyo of the Land of Fire generously allocated some funds, it was only enough to maintain the village's operations. Konoha still had to take on external missions and earn money.

"No, my teacher and I are more focused on finding more possibilities for ninjas."

"More possibilities for ninjas?"

Minato was a bit curious about this unexpected answer from Kakashi. The profession of a ninja, born for killing and battle, could there really be other possibilities?

"Ninjutsu, aside from being used for killing and waging war, can also be used to help the villagers. What ninjas have always pursued are destructive ninjutsu for combat.

But many of these can be altered slightly to become civilian-use ninjutsu.

There may be no killing power, but they could help villagers obtain more food, or do more tasks that aren't related to combat.

Even if these ninjutsu have various flaws, such as many hand signs, slow hand seals, or being ineffective for harming others.

As long as there is enough food and goods, with Konoha's strength in the ninja world, there will be more money and population."

Kagetsu didn't elaborate, just casually giving an example.

But his words clearly made Minato's usual understanding of things seem uncertain.

Was this to make ninjas leave the battlefield?

Beyond medical ninjas and other types, would there be a new category for civilian-use ninjas?

Could this really work?

Minato immediately thought to shake his head.

Because there were too many difficulties involved.

First, the release of chakra and ninjutsu was hard to guarantee.

Although chakra was something everyone supposedly had, only a few people had actually managed to refine and use it skillfully.

In other words, there was a threshold!

Under the same training and instruction, a large portion of these people might not even meet the standards to become a Genin.

Even if they do become Genin, most will only be able to wield kunai in close combat.

Aside from the basic, universally recognized ninjutsu that have a low entry threshold, very few Genin can successfully perform techniques like the Fireball Jutsu, which is a C-rank technique.

For most ninjas, C-rank ninjutsu is already considered a difficult technique.

Even among Chunin, those who can proficiently use a few C-rank ninjutsu are not considered weak.

This is based on the standards of the five great ninja villages, and in smaller villages, it's not unusual for someone to become a Jonin with even this level of skill.

What limits them, aside from the source of their ninjutsu, is the amount of chakra they can refine and use.

If there's not enough chakra, no matter how powerful an A-rank or even an S-rank jutsu you have, what good will it do?

If you use a powerful technique once, you might deplete your chakra completely.

What's worse, you may have no strength left to even defend yourself afterward.

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