Chapter 219: Opportunity

Shikamaru took a sip of flower tea, and the warm liquid slid into his mouth, with a faint aroma, making him breathe a little relieved.

He was in a good mood.

Tayuya's matter has come to an end, he got what he wanted, and he will not be responsible for the rest of the matter.

From the moment Tayuya decided to provide the first information to Konoha Village, it had already been decided that her fate would transition from one organization to another, the difference was that Konoha Village was far more human than Orochimaru.

Shikamaru's guarantee at that time was not groundless, it was indicated by the fifth generation Hokage Tsunade.

Tayuya also provided Konoha Village with information about Orochimaru, and Konoha Village provided her with protection of her identity, sealing the spell seal, and arranging fake death, which was the condition prescribed by Tsunade.

Tsunade, who is suspicious of the group because of the Tsunade incident, doesn't even want more people to know about the process of Tayuya's identity arrangement, which can be regarded as a letter to his word and take responsibility for Tayuya's life.

That's why Shikamaru was able to get what he wanted—the secret of Tayuya's secret technique "Finale Section 9: Demon Rebellion".

No matter how Tsunade reduces the number of ninjas who know Tayuya to protect his identity, Shikamaru who is the first to ask Tayuya and successfully rebel cannot be ruled out, in other words, if Shikamaru has a heart, he can completely spread the matter of Tayuya faking his death and changing his face, not to mention that he is also Tsunade's student.

Shikamaru doesn't find it difficult to threaten a female ninja in shackles, and Tayu, who lives again with a different identity, is unlikely to use ninja skills anymore - unless she wants to return to her old life and face Orochimaru's hunt, she will eventually live in obscurity and live as simple as an ordinary person.

The occult technique is no longer so important to Tayuya, and Shikamaru has promised her that he will protect her if she has the opportunity in the future.

There is no need to lie and betray, and there is no need to inflict corporal punishment to abolish Tayuya, what Konoha did was just to help Tayuya provide a secret channel and arrange the identity of an ordinary person.

If you are a strong organization, but you can't even make basic promises, you can really fail, but you don't have confidence in your own strength.

Tayuya neither had access to the information of Konoha Village, but also betrayed Orochimaru to isolate herself from Otoshi Village, and was not arranged to live in Konoha Village, even if she regretted it after being arranged, it would not hurt Konoha Village, in the final analysis, she would not hurt the interests of Konoha Village by doing so, but also face Orochimaru's pursuit and killing, and she would just ask for hardship, and Konoha Village had fulfilled her responsibility.

Now that things have developed to this point, Shikamaru doesn't need to bother with this matter anymore, because he has more important things to do today.

The afternoon sun shone warmly on the person, and Shikamaru put down the teacup in his hand and came to the bed.

A kimono is neatly laid out on the bed, black and white, simple and grand, next to it is a neatly stacked gray belt with faint patterns.

Shikamaru took off his coat and wore his lean upper body naked, and his muscles stretched out with the movement of his dressing, as if there were strange pythons lurking under his skin.

After changing into clothes, I tied up my long hair that had been scattered because I was resting at home, and took a picture of the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the room to tidy it up.

Today is indeed an important day for the Nara clan, or the Nara Shikamaru family, after Tsunade returned to the village to succeed the Hokage, the head of the Nara clan, Nara Heisuke, has repeatedly expressed his ill health, and finally announced three days ago that he would step down from the position of head of the family, and elected Nara Shikahisa to take over the management of the affairs of the clan.

At this time, it was the day when the Nara clan officially held the succession ceremony, and the Nara clansmen in Konoha Village, no matter what department they were in or what position they held, had to come to the ancestral house where the Nara clan had lived for generations outside Konoha Village, located on the edge of the forest, to participate in the ceremony.

This is the status of the ninja clan, and the ninja village has made a concession to the families who are bound by secret arts and blood!

The head of the clan is not passed down from father to son, but the virtuous live there, so even if he is the eldest son of Nara Shikaku, Shikamaru has nothing to take special care of, Nara Shikaku and Nara Yoshino have been taken to the ancestral house early in the morning, and now only Shikamaru is left in the family, but it seems very quiet.

Seeing that it was not too early, Shikamaru left the house and went in the direction of the ancestral house of the Nara clan.

The Nara clan has raised deer for generations, and is better at cultivating medicinal herbs, and these things are obviously not something that can be done in the city, and the large medicinal herb cultivation site is in the wild environment, supplemented by manpower, and the Nara clan even has a separate forest of their own, in which the growers of various medicinal herbs, raising deer, and the successive generations of heads and elders usually have to live in the ancestral house on the edge of the dense forest, and bear the responsibility of protecting the property of the group, because it is only at the edge of the forest, not too far from Konoha Village, but it is not inconvenient to go back and forth.

It's just that it's an ancestral home, but it's actually more like a stronghold.

In other words, many ninjas in Konoha Village have their own strongholds more or less, after all, ninja clans such as Nara and Akido have their own skills and needs, and they may not be able to evolve into a country within a country like the Uchiha clan, but there is no shortage of places to store and make medicinal materials, and the strongholds are also semi-closed, rarely open to people outside the clan, where the Nara clan's long-term technology and wisdom crystallization are stored, and whoever dares to enter without permission is a result of endless death.

When I walked to the gate, there were more Nara people wearing the same black and white and simple kimonos as Shikamaru, and some people who knew each other greeted them, and Shikamaru responded with a smile from time to time.

In fact, there are not many clansmen he is really familiar with, and he has been cultivating for so many years, not to mention that he himself does not have much expectation of the Nara clan, after all, external objects are only auxiliary, he trusts his own strength more, and after revealing his potential, it will naturally attract the attention of the clan, and Nara Heisuke's original support is proof, and he is not in the mood to avoid the void and grievances with others, wasting time.

The succession ceremony is in the usual ninja style, which can be solemn but not cumbersome.

The people of the Nara clan are uniformly dressed in black and white simple kimonos, with a family crest on the back, painted in yellow, and a gray belt tied around the waist, in which a pattern looms.

After the clansmen were seated, the four elders entered the hall, dressed in gray-green kimonos embroidered with checkered patterns, and their coats were orange-yellow sleeveless feathers, the hem was just above the waist, and the black bird's eye patterns were connected, and the family crest was also painted in yellow behind the feathers.

After the four elders entered the hall, they came to the back of the main seat and knelt on the four futons and waited for the arrival of the new masters, among which the former head of the house, Nara Heisuke, sat on the far left.

The so-called family elders mean the elders of the family, they all have rich administrative and management experience, and their main responsibility is to help the head of the family manage the affairs of the clan, and provide advice when coordinating with other ninja tribes and villages, in short, the role of staff and housekeepers.

These four old men are either rickety, or have yellow skin, and none of them are the so-called "family masters" who look like "town houses".

In his previous life, Shikamaru scoffed at the so-called "masters" hidden in the shadows in every ninja clan.

No whimsical master would think about cultivating a "family master".

Except for a very few ninjas, in this world, all masters have a shelf life, such as the three generations of Hokage apes flying in the sun, once they enter their old age, their combat effectiveness will also decline exponentially.

What's more, the gap in individual strength in this world is not something that can be simply made up by quantity, and it is expected that a few ordinary people will be picked and trained as "private soldiers" to fight against this kind of enemy as vulnerable as paper paste.

In order to cultivate, we can only select people with potential and value from an early age, which faces a difficult problem - how to confirm value and potential?

The appearance of the strong is not achieved overnight, for ninjas, only the genius who has experienced the test of the battlefield is valuable, and the rest is not worth mentioning, but no ninja has the ability to hide the children in the clan and secretly throw them into a certain battlefield, and they can be undetected.

They can only observe in hindsight, and when they pay attention to some potential teenagers, it also shows that they have achieved certain achievements.

Luckily, there was a super genius who showed extraordinary talent with just one battle, far beyond his peers, who was recognized by the discernment, and worked hard to hide it, not only to let him grow through battles, but also to be careful not to let him die, otherwise his hard work would ......be in vain, and then found that he was useless at all.

The invasion of foreign enemies naturally has Konoha Village to rely on, do you want to rely on a ninja clan to resist it yourself? And if Konoha Village is ready to purge a certain ethnic group, it is not something that one or two "private soldiers" can stop.

wasting manpower and material resources to let a talented ninja fall on his feet, this is no longer for the sake of the race, but to maliciously suppress a potential junior.

This is a world where the concept of "the strong are respected" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the potential of the clan is hidden in the snow, pushed to the surface, so that he can expand the influence of the clan by virtue of his personal strength and prestige on the battlefield, it is a better choice, there is a ninja in charge and strong strength, in order to make people pay attention, so as to look at it highly, seek greater power in the ninja village, and then strengthen the ninja clan, forming a virtuous circle.

After Shikamaru had a certain prestige at the beginning, Nara Heisuke and the elders of the family did not lose their minds and said that they wanted to "cultivate" Shikamaru into a family master, but helped him spread his deeds, build momentum for him, and increase his influence, because this is a matter of mutual benefit between individuals and families.

After the elder family is seated, the head of the family appears.

Nara Shikahisa wears a bright yellow kimono with a lilac sleeveless feather weave with intricate patterns on it, and it is vaguely visible that it is a stag, and the family crest behind it is quite large compared to the family elders and clansmen.

Nara Lujiu looked solemn, strode into the room with his head up, but after stepping into the door, he did not go directly to the seat, but stood in front of the door, slowly scanning the clansmen in the room, his body was straight, his eyes were as sharp as a sword, and even the identity and occasion at this time, there was really a breathtaking momentum enveloping his body!

The clansmen who came into contact with Nara's gaze, even a few family elders, were shocked in their hearts, lowered their heads to show respect, and were secretly surprised that this old ninja who had looked a little arrogant and had no momentum at all in the past had such a heart-wrenching time.

Seeing the corners of his mouth, Nara Shikahisa unabashedly showed a satisfied smile, walked to the main seat with steady steps, and slowly sat down.

Thirty-eight years of experience, more than ten years of hard waiting, the opportunity is at this time?