Chapter 128 : Chapter 128 Hiruko's Doubts
"Not bad."
The clan elders present expressed their agreement with this elder's words.
In their view, with the Hyuga Clan's strength, a mere Advisor position was nothing at all.
Within Konoha, even the Uzumaki Clan, who had just arrived, were granted an Advisor position by the Hokage.
Relatively speaking, their Hyuga strength was great, second only to the Uchiha and Senju Clans; asking for an Advisor position was the bare minimum.
If possible, they wanted even more.
For example, actual power.
"But how should we build a good relationship with Hokage-sama?"
The Hyuga Clan Head spoke, raising this question.
The Hyuga of the past had been too proud; they clearly had many opportunities to build a good relationship with Minamikawa Yuu, but they had missed them one by one.
To the point that now, Minamikawa Yuu had become the Hokage, and it was difficult for ordinary people to even see his face.
This also meant that the Hyuga Clan's desire to befriend the Hokage had become difficult.
"Actually, if we could form a marriage alliance with Hokage-sama, it should be a good choice."
Someone present spoke up: "Hokage-sama's strength is very high, even the Third Raikage was no match for him. Marrying a girl from the Hyuga Main House to Hokage-sama wouldn't be a disgrace to the Hyuga."
"Unfortunately, the Senju Clan has already beaten us to it."
He was naturally referring to Tsunade.
Following Minamikawa Yuu's return, news of his engagement to Tsunade gradually spread.
Even with the Hyuga's habitual isolation from news, they were now aware of this.
"The Senju Clan certainly moved fast. First, they produced two generations of Hokage, and now they're marrying their princess to the Third Hokage."
A clan elder spoke mockingly.
From their perspective, they didn't think Minamikawa Yuu was marrying for love; they only saw it as a political marriage.
Of the Three Hokage of Konoha, the first two were from the Senju Clan. Now that a Hokage with a different surname had finally appeared, he turned out to be the Senju Clan's son-in-law.
This left the others not knowing what to say.
"Since that's the case, let's start with Hokage-sama's engagement."
The Hyuga Clan Head spoke after a moment of thought: "Send people to prepare properly. At Hokage-sama's wedding, we must send a gift that is eye-catching enough."
"Only then can we show our sincerity."
"Yes."
The several clan elders in front of him nodded respectfully; they had no objections and went down to handle the matter.
"Long time no see."
Minamikawa Yuu smiled and greeted Tsunade.
Inside the laboratory, Tsunade, who had been handling experimental equipment, froze instantly.
...
She turned to look at Minamikawa Yuu behind her, and seeing him, she immediately became happy.
"Yuu, you're back!"
In front of everyone in the laboratory, she threw herself into a hug.
Watching this scene, the people in the laboratory couldn't help but shake their heads.
"Here they go again."
Hiruko looked at the two hugging, his mood hard to describe at this moment: "Can't she wait until I finish this experiment to hug?"
"The experiment is interrupted, and it's going to cost me a lot of time again."
He grumbled to himself while looking at Orochimaru beside him.
Orochimaru stood there, not complaining at this moment, but just staring eagerly at Minamikawa Yuu ahead, his eyes filled with fervor.
During Minamikawa Yuu's absence, many questions had arisen in his heart, and it was exactly the time he urgently needed to find Minamikawa Yuu to clear his doubts.
Unfortunately, Minamikawa Yuu's time was currently occupied by Tsunade, and even Orochimaru didn't dare go over.
After all, it wasn't the first day he had witnessed Tsunade's iron fist.
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
Looking at Tsunade, who was constantly fumbling over him in an attempt to check his injuries, Minamikawa Yuu felt somewhat helpless:
I'm not injured."
"That's good."
Tsunade let out a long sigh of relief: "I heard you had a big battle with the Third Raikage, and I've been afraid something would happen to you."
"Rest assured, nothing happened."
Minamikawa Yuu chuckled: "It's already settled."
He comforted Tsunade for a while before walking over to Orochimaru and Hiruko.
"Haven't seen you for a while. By the looks of it, you've been doing quite well."
He spoke while looking at Orochimaru and the other.
"Teacher."
Orochimaru and Hiruko stood up and greeted him respectfully.
Facing Minamikawa Yuu, they began to describe their experimental results from this period.
While Minamikawa Yuu was away, they hadn't been idle; following his instructions, they had been improving those Forbidden Techniques.
The projects under them were actually quite numerous.
Not only did the Reincarnation Jutsu and Chimera Technique need further refinement, but there was also the Edo Tensei.
Edo Tensei—the power of this technique was beyond doubt; it could summon the dead back to the living world, and at critical moments, it was enough to exert absolute power.
This technique was created by the Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, and currently, it was still only a basic version.
To exert such immense utility as it would in the future, it still required continuous refinement.
Minamikawa Yuu simply handed this task to Orochimaru and Hiruko.
In any case, in the original history, it was Orochimaru who had made this technique famous.
From the current perspective, the improvement of the Edo Tensei had encountered significant trouble.
This was not beyond Minamikawa Yuu's expectations.
The difficulty of improving this technique was great; after all, it involved the soul level, so high difficulty was normal.
"Continue to work hard on the improvements."
He spoke: "It doesn't matter if there are no results for a while, as long as there is progress."
"As long as we keep moving along the right path, I believe the day of success will come."
"Yes..."
The two nodded respectfully.
"Teacher..."
After a moment, Hiruko suddenly spoke, his expression appearing somewhat hesitant: "You have also obtained Wood Release?"
Clearly, he had heard news of Minamikawa Yuu using Wood Release from others.
Minamikawa Yuu hadn't intended to hide this news in the first place, and he nodded directly now.
"Having also devoured Wood Release, why is your Wood Release so much stronger than mine, Teacher?"
A look of doubt appeared on Hiruko's face.
Strictly speaking, he was the first person to use the Chimera Technique to devour Wood Release.
But after obtaining Wood Release through this method, although his own Wood Release power was decent, it was far from being as powerful as Minamikawa Yuu's.
A simple and clear point was that even now, he couldn't perform the Wood Dragon Jutsu, and almost none of the powerful Wood Release Ninjutsu could be executed.
Yet Minamikawa Yuu could use them freely.
There was clearly a huge difference here.
Listening to this question, Orochimaru also couldn't help but pay attention, being equally concerned.
After witnessing Hiruko's success in devouring Wood Release, he also had some thoughts about Wood Release in his heart.
It was just that Hiruko's Wood Release was far less powerful than he had imagined it would be; there had to be a reason for this.
He was very curious about the reason.
Their gazes fell on Minamikawa Yuu, waiting for his reply.