Chapter 41: The Anbu Recruitmen (2/2)

Naito got no place to go.

Even if he guessed what happened, and knew we abandoned him, he will also understand that being on our side is the only choice he got.

“However…”

But Sarutobi was still slightly hesitating.

“But I am afraid that after this incident, he will…”

“It doesn’t matter.” Sakumo calmly responded.

He sounded very confident.

“I will be there, he’s a Ninja of Konoha, nothing gonna change that.”

“Moreover…” Sakumo smiled then continued: “Tsunade established a good relationship with Naito didn’t she?”

“It seems so.”

Sarutobi nodded and finally smiled.

Sakumo was the current leader of the Anbu!

With Sakumo being his leader, he can keep an eye on him, even if Naito grew up more, as long as there’s Tsunade, they can always control him.

Moreover, he’s now Tsunade disciple.

And with considering the good relationship he has with Tsunade.

With this connection, even if Naito is dissatisfied with what happened in this incident, these emotions should fade over time.

“Well, then you can start the paperwork on graduating him from the school, then… join him to the Anbu as an alternate member.”

Sarutobi finally decided after a little bit of thinking.

“Only as an alternate member?”

“Well, although he won against Samui, it doesn’t change the fact that he’s still so young it’s better if we wait for him to grow up more.”

“Indeed it’s true.”

Sakumo nodded.

Sarutobi stood up then reached the window of his office, it was overlooking the entire village.

A peaceful one.

On his face, there was a slight sense of complexed feelings.

He is the Hokage.

What he is carrying on his shoulders is the entire village.

Therefore, he needed to always consider the overall situation.

As long as the result was in the favor of Konoha to always move in a better direction, he would do anything!

This is the will of fire.

for Konoha, everything can be sacrificed!

Sarutobi was always thinking how he can control the other function in Konoha, he closed his eyes slowly while he was thinking about that.

Even in the original story, this is what he was always thinking about, making Konoha a better place.

……

At the corner of the street.

A place that was known as the home of Naito.

Naito won the life and death duel against Uchiha Samui, but this news didn’t reach the village.

The only people who knew the outcome was the high-level people in Konoha.

Even the Uchiha didn’t spread the word out because it was simply a shame to the extreme where they felt like it’s not too late to hide the matter.

At this time Naito was sitting at home, looking at some items on his table, having a troubled expression on his face.

On his table, there was the Konoha forehead protector, a document, and a scroll.

The scroll was the one Tsunade gave him.

And Konoha forehead protector receiving it means that he officially has graduated from the Ninja School.

It wasn’t sent to him by the Hokage nor his class teacher, it was sent by the Anbu department.

Of course, it’s not that hard to guess the reason behind this early graduation, it was because he won against Samui and this graduation should be the instruction of the Hokage himself.

Of course, if you win against a Chunin you can’t stay as an ungraduated student from the school of ninja, that will be strange!

Early graduation and becoming a Shinobi.

But this is doesn’t matter for Naito, and the Shinobi status as Genin doesn’t have much effect at all.

The one thing he really cared about was the document that was sent along with the forehead.

This document was from the Anbu department, a letter of recruiting him to The Special Assassination and Tactical Squad.