[Uchiha Commercial Street]
After the operation, Karin woke up as an ancient voracious eater.
Because Rengoku still had more surgery to do, she had come over here to fill her stomach first.
Crunch! Crunch!
The golden, crispy fried rice cakes squeaked as Karin bit them.
Coated with crushed peanuts and soybean flour and soaked in thick brown sugar syrup, Karin's hunger quickly subsided.
"I'll bring some back to Shishou later," Karin chomped away and wondered if Rengoku might be hungry.
"You don't need to. Right now you don't need to eat," A familiar voice sounded beside her.
Karin looked up in surprise, her mouth still full and puffed out, looking very much like a goldfish.
"Mm… (munch munch), Shishou… (munch munch)… (swallow…) you're already done so fast!"
"This is my clone. My true body is still in the lab."
Rengoku picked up a napkin from the table and wiped the oil off Karin's mouth, "You eat like a child."
Karin shook her head playfully, "Shishou, you said I am a child."
Rengoku tapped Karin on the head with a wry smile, "Don't move, you rascal."
Karin giggled and let Rengoku wipe her mouth clean.
Seeing Karin's hands were oily too, Rengoku wiped her hands as well.
"Are you full?"
Rengoku saw the stack of boxes around Karin and figured she had eaten a lot.
Karin patted her belly with both hands, making a pat-pat sound.
"I'm full now."
Rengoku stroked Karin's hair, eyes full of doting affection.
"All right, don't pat your belly like that. What does that look like?"
After this operation, he felt closer to Karin, 'Is it because Karin's blood is in my body?'
'Can my clone also share that feeling?'
He did not yet know that part of his liver had already been given to Karin.
But he clearly sensed he felt instinctively closer to Karin.
Still, that did not affect him much.
"Hehe!"
Karin tilted her head, her eyes squinting into a smile.
"Why have I never seen Shishou work?", In Karin's fixed impression, the Hokage should be very busy, sitting in the Hokage office every day handling paperwork.
But Rengoku only went occasionally and never handled those documents.
Rengoku laughed, "I'm clan head so I can pass things to subordinates to handle."
"If I'm Hokage, it's for the same reason."
"In the ninja world, strength is always the most important thing."
"Let other people handle other tasks."
Karin nodded as if she understood, then asked puzzled:
"But I've never seen Shishou train either."
"That's because you don't know when I train," Rengoku told a small, half-lie.
At his current level, grueling training was less effective than finding another way.
The Bond Star, biological science. With the early-stage groundwork done, Rengoku could free his hands to check on the elite class kids.
Except for Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata, most others were out on missions.
After all, many people were lost from Konoha and missions had piled up.
"I plan to take Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata out on a mission. Do you want to come?"
"Yes, yes," Karin's team was special and its members were not fixed.
Karin had not been on a mission for some time.
Hearing she could go on a mission with Shishou, she was overjoyed.
Especially since there was a "junior brother" Sasuke.
"I'll go pick a mission. Go notify them to get ready. Meet at the training ground later."
"Got it, Shishou."
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Konoha was busy rebuilding, but only personnel needed to be reassigned.
The new people from the Land of Demons needed settling.
As for buildings, only the Hokage building needed to be rebuilt.
And the Hokage Rock of Hiruzen needed removal.
Both tasks were underway simultaneously.
Rengoku went to the Akimichi clan house, which served as a temporary office for Konoha's high command.
When he arrived, he saw Shikai sitting alone reviewing documents.
"Hokage, what brings you here?"
Shikai asked without sarcasm, because he knew Rengoku had gone to the front to handle Kumogakure's people.
"You don't need to worry about Kumogakure. I've driven them back for now."
"I also killed the Two Tails jinchuriki Yugito."
When Rengoku said that, Shikai was stunned.
Although he had said Rengoku went to handle Kumogakure's people, he had not expected it to be handled like that.
The Hyuga had reported back: Kumogakure had two thousand people and two jinchuriki.
In that situation, one person drove them back and killed a jinchuriki?
Shikai recalculated Rengoku's strength, "Hokage, what level is your strength at now?"
Rengoku rubbed his chin, "It's hard to measure for now. We'll only know after fighting."
"There should be few rivals left in the ninja world."
"But Konoha is too weak now and needs time to recover."
"No matter how strong I am, I can only protect Konoha."
What Rengoku actually meant was that Konoha needed time to restore order.
Shikai understood, "What about the Akatsuki and Pain's relationship with us?"
Rengoku waved a hand, "You don't need to worry about him. He will not make war on us."
"That's a relief."
Shikai had guesses about the Akatsuki's stance but wasn't certain.
"The Demon Legion is still on the way. Keep the village stable and I'll stop the enemy at the border."
"Yes, Hokage," Although Shikai was much older than Rengoku, he kept protocol.
"Government affairs are busy. Put Shikaku in the office to help you. For civilian matters don't report to me; make decisions yourself."
"Just summarize for me each month."
Color rose on Shikai's face. Although he was already a Hokage aide, he was not young and would retire someday.
Rengoku assigning Shikaku to help was itself a recognition of the Nara family.
"I understand, Hokage."
"The Hokage Rock of Hiruzen has been fully removed. How do you plan to design your Hokage rock?"
Actually the Third Hokage's rock image had been revised several times; he was in office a long time.
Rengoku's hairstyle was similar to Izuna's: mid-length front hair with the back tied simply.
Itachi basically had this look too, but Itachi's hair was smoother and parted, without bangs.
"Just make it look like me now," Rengoku did not fuss much over his image.
He was young and his face still a little soft, but the image was fine.
After all, he was the youngest Hokage of Konoha. Uchiha Rengoku.
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