Chapter 214: Jonin Squad Power Division
Early in the morning, before the Jonin Meeting.
Yoru had his four squads mobilize together and arrive near the Hokage Building.
Yoru said: “Today! Within two hundred meters of the Jonin Meeting Room, break the legs of any dog that passes by, tie up the mouth of any bird that flies over!
We absolutely cannot let any unexpected incident affect this Jonin Meeting!
If a bird call sounds while the Third Lord is speaking, it will be the Fox Squad’s failure!”
This Jonin Meeting was the first full Jonin Meeting after the Second Ninja War.
All Konoha Jonin who could make it had arrived.
The Jonin Meeting should have been held at the end of Konoha Year 39 last year, but the Hokage Building’s excuse was to let everyone have a peaceful New Year.
After the New Year, it was now February, and the Jonin Meeting had to be held.
Yoru said: “During the meeting, I will sit at the very edge of the second row. In case of any unexpected event, notify me first with hand signals.
Yak Squad inside the meeting room, occupy the four corners.
The other three squads set up defenses outside the meeting room.
Purple Cat outside the door, ready to relay orders at any time.
There must be absolutely no mistakes!”
Yoru was not the protagonist of this Jonin Meeting; he could just watch a good show.
This was the benefit of hiding in the shadows—whether the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, it posed no danger to him.
Soon, the Jonin entered the meeting room one after another.
Yoru recalled intelligence on the Konoha Jonin Class.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, the village’s highest leader.
Danzo Shimura, Mito Mon’en, Koharu Utatane, Nara Shikaku—these four were not in the Jonin sequence; they were high-level advisors or Jonin Squad Leaders.
After the Second Ninja War, Konoha now had 187 Jonin.
Sarutobi Clan 21, Ino-Shika-Cho Clan 22, Shimura Clan 13; the Five Great Clans had a total of 56 Jonin.
Anbu had 7 Jonin.
Mito Mon’en’s son and daughter, Koharu Utatane’s daughter—these 3 were also Jonin.
In other words, there were 66 Jonin who completely obeyed the Third Hokage.
Uchiha Clan 11, Senju Clan 7; the two major ninja clans that founded the village had a total of 18 Jonin.
Hyuga Clan 9, Inuzuka Clan 5, Aburame Clan 4; these three neutral ninja clans had a total of 18 Jonin.
Hyuga, Inuzuka, Aburame—their abilities were extremely functional and they did not take sides easily.
Ninja Clan Ninjas who entered Anbu, if promoted to Jonin, were considered Anbu Jonin and completely obeyed the Third Hokage; unless retired, they would not publicly support their clan.
The remaining 85 Jonin were those who rose from commoners.
Commoner Jonin did not naturally form a group due to their identity.
Among the 85 commoner Jonin, at least 25 were die-hard loyalists of the Third Hokage, including Orochimaru and Jiraiya.
Danzo Shimura, Mito Mon’en, Koharu Utatane, and others each had their own commoner Jonin subordinates.
Like how Yoru openly sided with Kiiroinu on the surface, now that he was not short on ninjutsu and thriving. Commoner Jonin also needed to survive; everyone had their own wisdom for getting by.
The Jonin who clearly and absolutely supported Sakumo Hatake were only River Tiger, Yamashiro Aoba, and Gekko Shizuma—three people.
River Tiger Jonin was the resident Jonin at the Stronghold Fortress and did not attend the meeting.
Beneath these cold numbers, the current Konoha Village was Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Konoha Village—this statement might have some exaggeration, but not much.
If there were occasional dissenters, Hiruzen Sarutobi had plenty of ways to deal with them.
Anbu was best at leaking intelligence to enemy villages; once intelligence was fully exposed and movements were crystal clear, enemy villages could easily kill a certain Jonin.
Ninjas’ loyalty to the Third sometimes stemmed not from loyalty, but from fear.
One of the Third’s powers: granting ninjutsu, controlling ninjas’ strength.
Genin needed basic elemental ninjutsu, Jonin needed A-rank or even S-rank ninjutsu.
Second of the Third’s powers: position promotions, controlling discourse power in the Jonin Class.
Children shouted about becoming Hokage; the ultimate goal of adult ninjas was to become Konoha Jonin.
Like advanced titles in hospitals in his previous life—if you didn’t have a senior chief physician title, no matter how good your medical skills, you felt you couldn’t hold your head up.
Third of the Third’s powers: mission assignments, directly holding every ninja’s life in his hands.
After you died, the village would say dying for a mission was honorable.
As for how you actually died, that was unclear.
In such a system, wanting to oppose the Hokage was simply suicidal.
The Uchiha Clan was arrogant, but even they had to lower their eyes before the Hokage.
The Hyuga Clan called themselves Konoha’s number one clan; when the Hokage named him, even the main family young clan head Hyuga Hiashi had to be handed over to the Hidden Cloud Village.
The Senju Clan, the village-founding number one ninja clan, was now weakened to the point of relying on Konoha Hospital for protection.
Sakumo Hatake—not exaggerating—could kill three of the five high-ranking officials on a one-on-one combat stage in ten seconds.
However, combat strength was useless in certain matters; even Sakumo Hatake had to be cautious facing Konoha Village’s high-ranking officials.
Yoru was still excited last night about the alliance of Tsunade, Sakumo Hatake, and the Uchiha Clan, but now thinking about the Jonin Class’s power distribution, he wondered if Tsunade was being a bit impulsive?
187 Jonin, 152 in attendance.
12 Stronghold Fortress Jonin, 4 Land of Fire Daimyo guardian ninjas, Land of Rivers Daimyo, Land of Whirlpools Daimyo, Land of Hot Water Daimyo, Land of Grass Daimyo each with 2 Jonin guardian ninjas—a total of 24 Jonin unable to return to the village.
The only one who could have attended but didn’t was Jiraiya, stuck in the Land of Rain.
Yoru sat in the second row near the door, surrounded by Anbu’s seven Jonin.
Kiiroinu was Anbu’s only Jonin sitting in the first row.
Clan heads from various ninja clans entered one after another and sat in the first row.
After that came Tsunade and Sakumo Hatake, who also sat in the first row.
The last to enter was Orochimaru; he nodded to Tsunade and sat beside Kiiroinu.
Orochimaru was now considered an Anbu Jonin.
In the large tiered meeting room, there were 250 seats; the number of Konoha Jonin had never exceeded
The last to enter were the Hokage and the 4 high-ranking officials.
Nara Shikaku did not take a seat and went straight to the podium, saying:
“Under the Hokage’s command, with all you Jonin’s desperate battles, and with the efforts of all Konoha ninjas, the Second Ninja War ended in our Konoha’s great victory.
We fought Cloud Ninjas in the Land of Hot Water, warred with Stone Ninjas in the Land of Grass, battled Rain Ninjas in the Land of Rain, fought Sand Ninjas in the Land of Rivers, and warred with Mist Ninjas in the Land of Whirlpools.
No ninja village fought on all four fronts like our Konoha—attacking on all four fronts and winning on all four.
Now, we hold the first Jonin Meeting after the war.
This Jonin Meeting has several agenda items.
First item: Konoha Village’s three-year Jonin mentor plan.
Excluding Anbu Jonin, every Jonin must serve as the Jonin mentor for at least one Ninja Academy graduating student within three years.
We lost many excellent ninjas in the war; genin quality has declined severely. We must quickly cultivate outstanding talent for the village.”
Hearing that Anbu Jonin were exempt, Yoru thought it was pretty good; he didn’t want to teach kids right now.
A thought suddenly occurred to him, and his eyes lit up.
Konoha’s most dazzling genius in the next decade was undoubtedly Minato Namikaze.
Minato Namikaze would graduate next year.
For such a genius—not exaggerating—even tying a dog to him could produce an elite Jonin or even Kage level ninja.
Shorthand: Minato Namikaze dog-tied Kage.
Better to think of a way to have Minato Namikaze apprentice under Sakumo Hatake.
That way, the Hokage faction would lose a very powerful asset.
This matter needed to be put on the agenda; Yoru would summon Pakkun that evening and have Pakkun remind Sakumo Hatake.
No, not remind— it must be done this way.
