Konoha Tatsuno

In the Hokage Building, Nara Shikaku had just walked out of the office after completing his official duties for the day when he was stopped by a voice coming from the corridor.

"Shikaku-sama, Hokage-sama invites you!"

Nara Shikaku turned around and saw that the person who spoke was a young ninja with long brown hair and a blue hat.

It is the newly recruited member of the escort team of the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato, Konoha Special Jounin, Shiranui Genma.

"Ok"

Nara Shikaku nodded and followed Shiranui Genma towards the Hokage's office.

"Hokage-sama, do you have any orders?"

Pushing open the door, Nara Shikaku slowly walked into the Hokage's office and found the fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato holding a stack of documents in his hand and looking through it carefully.

"Shikaku, I'm afraid this exam to select Chunin will have to be postponed for a while."

Namikaze Minato raised his head and looked at Nara Shikakudou.

In Konoha, the Nara clan has always been famous for its shadow secret arts and high IQ. With their extraordinary intelligence, the heads of the Nara clan usually hold important positions in the village. Nara Shikaku began to enter the Hokage Tower when the Third Hokage was in power. It's office time.

After Namikaze Minato came to power, he began to entrust Nara Shikakuzai, who was born at the same time, to help handle many things.

After the Third Ninja War, all levels of Konoha suffered heavy losses in strength and were in urgent need of recruiting new blood to replenish them.

Among them, the chunin, as the backbone of the village, have the most and most complex tasks to share, and have the most urgent need for manpower.

For this reason, two days ago, Konoha's top management had discussed and decided to organize a Chunin Selection Examination in January. Nara Shikaku was the chief examiner of this Chunin Selection Examination.

Normally, it would not be the turn of a newcomer like Nara Shikaku to serve as the chief examiner in the Chunin Selection Examination.

But this time the Chuunin Selection Examination is different from the previous ones. It is necessary to select enough talents for the village to be promoted to Chunin, but also to achieve the real purpose of the assessment, and not to give people the feeling of being too unrestrained. The scale is difficult to grasp. .

The Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato has just taken office, and if anything goes wrong in this Chuunin Selection Examination, it will definitely have a huge blow to his prestige.

To be on the safe side, Namikaze Minato boldly appointed Nara Shikaku as the chief examiner.

Out of consideration for the transition of old and new forces, Sandai and others did not object to this matter.

However, compared to his son's age when he served as a chuunin examiner, Nara Shikaku was still too old.

"Hokage-sama, what happened?"

Nara Shikaku frowned.

"Something happened in the Death Forest. A ninja snake ate many large animals in the forest. The ecological balance inside was destroyed, and it is no longer suitable as a combat venue for actual combat exercises."

Namikaze Minato rubbed his brows and said he also had a headache.

"How could such an ecologically destructive ninja snake appear in the environment of the Death Forest? Didn't the barrier team responsible for maintenance handle it and report it in time?"

Nara Shikaku looked puzzled.

Namikaze Minato smiled bitterly and said: "It was a psychic beast from a genin in the village that ran into the forest of death. The barrier class had reported this matter a few months ago, but at that time the Third Generation and I were busy dealing with the handover. , did not pay too much attention to this matter.

When I sent Minazuki and Chishimamatsu to deal with the matter yesterday, I realized that the strength of this ninja snake far exceeded our expectations."

Shikaku's face looked slightly strange: "A psychic beast from a genin? Can't you deal with it even with the strength of Minazuki and Chishimamatsu?"

Namikaze Minato said: "Yes Shikaku, that is not an ordinary ninja snake. The huge snake summoned by Orochimaru-sama cannot suppress it. The two of them were caught off guard when the situation was insufficient. Understandable.

Moreover, I felt the breath of natural energy on that ninja snake."

"Oh? Even Orochimaru's giant snake can't suppress it. His strength should not be underestimated. So how did you solve it in the end?"

After hearing Namikaze Minato's words, Nara Shikaku's expression was a little moved.

In Konoha, Orochimaru, one of the three ninjas, is a master at playing with snakes. The huge snake he summoned is already a powerful psychic beast in the second echelon after all snakes and Gamabunta. Its strength is that of an average jounin. Not easy to deal with.

And Banana is the psychic beast that stands at the top of the entire ninja world, and its strength is almost comparable to that of tailed beasts.

Namikaze Minato nodded and said, "The genin felt the movement of the psychic beast nearby and summoned it directly."

"After hearing what you said, Hokage-sama, I'm a little curious about this genin." Nara Shikaku showed a hint of curiosity on his face.

"This is his information, you should also take a look."

Namikaze Minato smiled when he heard this and handed the information in his hand to Nara Shikaku.

Nara Shikaku took the information and immediately lowered his head to check it, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He didn't expect that this genin with a powerful psychic beast would be from the Akimichi family.

Inokacho is one of the ace forces of Konoha Village. The "Inogadie" combinations in the past are usually composed of the current or next clan leaders of the three clans. The three clans are in an alliance to advance and retreat together.

This alliance allows the three companies to know each other very well.

According to what Nara Shikaku knows, among the ninjas of the Akimichi clan in the past, there has never been a ninja with a powerful ninja snake as a psychic beast like Tatsuno.

This also means that the ninja snake psychic beast should have been conquered or trained by this junior named Akimichi Tatsuno himself.

A Ninja snake psychic beast that is comparable to a Jonin. It seems that the younger generation of the Akimichi clan has another talent!

This is good news for the Nara clan who are also in the alliance.

However, when Nara Shikaku saw the records of the missions completed by Tatsuno, Shisui and Itachi, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Shikaku, the village is in urgent need of all kinds of manpower right now, and the chuunin selection exam needs to be postponed for a while, so I would like to ask you to organize a promotion assessment for Akimichi Tatsuno alone. Based on his strength and mission achievements, he can serve as a Chuunin is enough."

Seeing Nara Shikaku finish reading the information in his hand, Namikaze Minato said.

"Hokage-sama, please rest assured, I will order someone to handle this matter as soon as possible."

Hearing this, Nara Shikaku nodded in understanding and responded.

Although the number of commissioned tasks Tatsuno has completed is not large, he has already completed three A-level tasks and two B-level tasks. With his strength and achievements, conducting an assessment on him alone will not cause criticism from other ninjas. .

Moreover, a 15-year-old chuunin is nothing in Konoha Village.

Among the major ninja families, there are many geniuses who have been promoted to chunin at this age.

After deciding that Tatsuno would conduct the Chuunin promotion exam alone, Nara Shikaku discussed the postponed Chunin selection exam with Namikaze Minato in the Hokage's office before leaving.

After walking out of the Hokage Building, Nara Shikaku hesitated briefly on the street and then walked towards the Akimichi clan's clan.