Naruto, starting with immortality, I'm going to buy up the ninja world!

Chapter 248: Is there an explosive tag hidden in the red envelope?

Seeing Neji accept the red envelope, Tetsuya smiled and reminded him.

"Neji, I suggest you open it now to avoid any unpleasant accidents."

"What do you take me for? Just because I like using explosive tags in combat doesn't mean I'd slip them into a red envelope."

As soon as Konan finished speaking, Neji opened the red envelope and pulled out a stack of explosive tags.

"Pfft, hahahahaha!"

Zhe couldn't help but slap his thigh and burst into laughter, and Lin, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but laugh as well.

Only Yahiko, sitting there, was stiff all over, and cold sweat poured down his face.

Xiao Nan's face immediately darkened.

"Yahiko, I need an explanation! Why did you switch the red envelope I prepared?"

"Haha, it was just an accident, I can explain it!"

Yahiko quickly raised his hands and explained.

"I think that when we meet our junior brother for the first time, we should give him a gift that can represent us and leave a deep impression on him. It would be so tacky to just give him a regular red envelope."

"So, you replaced the money in the red envelope with explosive tags?"

"Yeah, look, these are the explosive tags you made using ninjutsu. Doesn't that perfectly represent you?"

After Tetsuya had finished laughing, he tried to smooth things over.

"Alright, alright, I think this gift is pretty good. Explosive tags aren't cheap, and they're practical too. Neji, just accept it."

Neji nodded and accepted the red envelope.

"Thank you, senior brothers and sisters."

He was indeed very happy to receive the red envelope, but his positive feelings towards his senior, Yahiko, have shattered a bit.

I thought he was a sunny, cheerful, and positive senior student, but I didn't expect him to be so unreliable. Sure enough, an unreliable master can produce an unserious disciple.

Oh no, I wonder if I'll end up like this someday.

"Alright, everyone, please sit down. The dishes in the kitchen are almost ready. Let's eat first."

It was a rare reunion between master and disciple, and Tetsuya had prepared a meal in advance.

At the dining table, the group chatted casually.

Neji asked with some curiosity.

"Senior Yahiko, what brings you to Konoha? I heard from Master that you were all very busy."

"Oh, it is indeed quite busy. We came to Konoha this time to handle official business. I am the person in charge sent by the Land of Rain, mainly to handle the affairs of the ninjas from the Land of Rain who are participating in the Chunin Exams."

"Hey, Yahiko-senpai, are you the Jonin leading the team?"

"No, I am the actual person in charge of the Rain Kingdom."

"Oh! Really?!"

"But isn't the leader of the Land of Rain the demigod of the ninja world, Hanzo the Salamander?"

Rin and Neji were both somewhat surprised. They hadn't expected their senior brothers and sisters to be so powerful, already controlling a country.

Yahiko replied.

"Hanzo the Salamander is a thing of the past."

Lin asked, as if she had just thought of something.

"So, was the news that Hanzo the Salamander quelled the rebellion false?"

"Actually, it's not exactly fake."

Xiao Nan poured herself a cup of tea and said.

"The process is basically true, but the result is reversed. Yahiko did not betray Akatsuki. Instead, it was Hanzo's confidant, Jinta of the Salamander, who betrayed him."

"It wasn't Yahiko and Nagato's best friend, that is, me, who died in the war; it was Hanzo of the Salamander who died."

Neji and Rin had expressions of realization that everything made sense, and they felt that this world was truly amazing.

Yahiko asked, somewhat puzzled.

"No, didn't Master tell you anything about us?"

They both shook their heads.

Lin replied.

"All I know is that there is a master and three disciples ahead of me. My master said that we will meet again if there is a chance in the future."

Neji nodded and said.

"Me too, but I'm a little better off. I've met Senior Sister Lin."

Yahiko looked at Tetsuya with some dissatisfaction.

"Master, this is really unfair of you! You didn't even tell our junior brothers and sisters any news about us?"

"Hehe, I'm just afraid that your secret will be exposed. It would be bad if it affected your plans. Besides, it's not too late to find out now."

Tetsuya gave a vague answer and then immediately changed the subject.

"By the way, the reason I called you all here is to tell you something. Orochimaru will launch the Konoha Crush Plan during this Chunin Exams, so you all need to be careful."

Neji, be careful and don't put yourself in danger.

"Yahiko, Konan, go back and tell your Amegakure ninjas to be careful. Training a few excellent ninjas isn't easy; don't let them die in this Chunin Exams."

"Understood." *3

The three responded, but Lin asked with some curiosity.

"Then, Master, what about me? What should I do?"

"you?"

Tetsuya looked at Rin, thought for a moment, and then said.

"Do as you please. Orochimaru might cause quite a stir this time. Why don't you go and keep an eye on Naruto?"

Lin thought Zheye made sense.

“That makes sense. Then I’ll go and keep an eye on Naruto. Kakashi is sometimes too unreliable.”

He also knew about the battle in the Land of Waves, where Naruto and Haku fought, and Rin was somewhat dissatisfied with that.

She felt that Naruto and his friends were not much different from when they were in the Ninja Academy; their strength had not improved at all.

Neji asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Does Senior Sister Lin know Naruto and Kakashi?"

"Sigh, didn't I tell you? I used to be in the same ninja class as Kakashi. Back then, Kakashi, another Uchiha clan member, and I were in the same class. Our Jonin teacher was Minato Namikaze, who later became the Fourth Hokage of Konoha."

Naruto is Minato's child.

"Ugh!"

Neji, who was always calm, immediately stood up.

"That blond loser who's been getting so close to Hinata is the Fourth Hokage's kid?!"

Clearly, Naruto's identity is more surprising than the fact that he was once teammates with his senior sister and the white-haired ninja Kakashi.

"Naruto, it's Uzumaki Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of Konoha."

Yahiko said, somewhat surprised.

"So the Jinchuriki of Konoha is actually the child of the Fourth Hokage. The Fourth Hokage really put Konoha first, to make his own child a Jinchuriki."

Because of their connection with the Akatsuki organization, and because Tetsuya had told them about the Rinnegan, Black Zetsu, Infinite Tsukuyomi, and the Tailed Beasts, Yahiko and the others had a certain understanding of the Jinchuriki of each village.

They also knew that the child in Konoha whom the villagers called the Demon Fox was a Jinchūriki, but they never expected that such a child, who was disliked and discriminated against by the villagers of Konoha, would actually be the child of the Fourth Hokage.

Lin also sighed, her eyes filled with complex emotions, as if she had returned to the night of the Nine-Tailed Fox's rampage.

"The situation at the time was actually quite complicated. Naruto could have had a happy family and a joyful childhood. It was all that rogue ninja from the Uchiha clan's fault..."