"Lady Mito called me over today, is there something that needs to be arranged?", Hiruzen looked at Uzumaki Mito who stopped speaking, and asked.
"It's about that child, Raizen," Uzumaki Mito smiled, "This child, the most important thing is, he hasn't undergone any training for seven years, he's basically wasted."
"But you've seen this child's medical talent, I've never seen anyone with such high aptitude in medicine and medical ninjutsu."
"So I plan to make this child a medical ninja, to contribute to the village. What do you think?"
"This…", Hiruzen fell into deep thought.
He understood Uzumaki Mito.
This lady seemed to be asking, but in fact, she had already made up her mind. How was he supposed to refuse?
"I don't intend to make things difficult for you," Uzumaki Mito saw through Hiruzen's thoughts and continued speaking.
"After all, you're the Hokage, the decision is yours. I'm just making a small suggestion, that's all."
"Do you know the reason why Tobirama targeted Raizen back then?", Uzumaki Mito continued asking.
"I know," Hiruzen nodded and answered somewhat helplessly.
Regarding Raizen, Senju Tobirama never gave an explanation even until death, he just issued an order.
As a meticulous man, Senju Tobirama didn't like lying. He liked to clarify things thoroughly. Even his dissatisfaction with the Uchiha clan was never hidden.
So even if it was just suspicion from a look in the eyes, he truly couldn't give an explanation.
However, Hiruzen's judgment was the same as Uzumaki Mito's.
"This matter was too rash," Uzumaki Mito said discontentedly, "Tobirama is no longer here, I can't say he was wrong."
"If he were here, I would definitely give him a good scolding."
"As Hokage, how could he destroy a child's future just because the child smiled?"
"Is it just because he's from the Uchiha clan, he's not even allowed to smile?"
"Uhh…", Hiruzen had an awkward expression, not knowing what to say.
"If you have something to say, just say it," Uzumaki Mito asked.
Sighing, Hiruzen explained, "This child Raizen has been suppressed by us for so many years, he will inevitably hold resentment in his heart. It doesn't matter if he's weak, but I worry that once he becomes strong, he might be a threat to the village."
"Your concern is very reasonable," Uzumaki Mito nodded, acknowledging Hiruzen's point.
"My thoughts are, Tobirama's words still need to be heeded," Uzumaki Mito went in a big circle and finally gave her suggestion, "This child missed the best time to grow, so there's no need for him to enter regular ninja training in the future."
"But this child's medical talent shouldn't be wasted, so simply only allow him to extract chakra, and become an excellent medical ninja to contribute to the village."
"Of course, surveillance should continue. After all, I know you're the one who listens to Tobirama the most."
"It's just that gaining one more genius medical ninja for the village is a good thing, there's no reason to refuse."
"After all, this child has not done anything harmful to the village so far, nor shown any tendency in that direction."
"If someone opposes, you can push it onto me. It's not that Hiruzen is disobeying Tobirama's orders, it's me who asked you to do this."
At this point in time, Hiruzen had not yet shown signs of muddle-headedness, so Uzumaki Mito gave him full respect.
Having spoken to this extent, Hiruzen truly could not refuse. He nodded and said, "I agree to this matter."
With Hiruzen's assurance, Uzumaki Mito felt much better.
'Tsunade, Grandma can only help you this far.'
'The rest is up to you.'
Having lived long, naturally Mito's experience is richer than most.
Although every time Tsunade mentioned Raizen, she always looked like she gritted her teeth and wished she could swallow him alive.
But for a girl at that age to bring up a boy's name every day, do you even need to guess what it means?
In Uzumaki Mito's view, Tsunade had already placed Raizen in her heart.
Only Tsunade herself didn't think so.
Of course, that foolish child Raizen also seemed completely unaware of this, and even found Tsunade annoying.
Towards the Uchiha clan, Uzumaki Mito, like Senju Hashirama, had no bias.
But the matters between children, she was too lazy to interfere, just let the kids mess around themselves.
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Namikaze family residence.
"Uncle, I'm back!", After getting off work and arriving home, Raizen saw Namikaze Sharito and shouted loudly.
"Brat, did you lose today?", Namikaze Sharito patted Raizen's head in comfort and asked.
What happened in Konoha Hospital quickly spread, and of course Namikaze Sharito knew.
"Hehe, don't worry, uncle, I didn't take it to heart at all," Raizen really didn't care.
What he did that day was just to provoke Tsunade, to see if he could slowly make the village lift its restrictions on him through Tsunade, making it easier for him to find a chance to escape.
"Where's Minato?", He looked around and saw Namikaze Minato wasn't there, so Raizen asked.
"Probably still training," Namikaze Sharito said with some relief but also worry, "That child is good in everything, just trains too hard."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Namikaze Minato pushed open the door and ran in.
"Dad, brother, I'm back."
"Brat, wash your hands, we're eating."
As for why Raizen came to Namikaze Minato's home and even became his older brother, we have to go back seven years.
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Namikaze Sharito and his wife were not ninjas, but commoners of Konoha.
Although Raizen, after years of observation, believed Namikaze Sharito's bloodline was definitely extraordinary and probably the descendant of some great figure, but by Namikaze Sharito's generation, the entire Konoha only had him left with the Namikaze surname, so there was no way to trace his ancestry.
Namikaze Sharito and his wife had been married for nearly twenty years without children, which made the couple very distressed.
The Namikaze clan was about to die out.
At that time, under Uchiha Kagami's arrangements, Raizen was sent out of the Uchiha clan and had no ties with them anymore.
Anxious Namikaze Sharito felt great affinity for the child who had just moved next door, and immediately applied for adoption.
No biological son? A foster son isn't bad either.
Especially since Raizen, after coming into their home, was extremely respectful and filial to the couple, which made Namikaze Sharito and his wife very satisfied.
Then just two months after Raizen entered the home, Namikaze Sharito's wife was found to be pregnant.
Fortunately, the Namikaze couple were very kind people. Not only did they not resent Raizen, they were afraid he'd be upset, so they treated him even better.
Since then, the family lived together happily to this day.
"Brother," At the dinner table, Namikaze Minato glanced at the door and whispered, "Can you spend more time with me tomorrow?"
"Haha, of course no problem," Raizen patted Namikaze Minato's small golden head without hesitation and agreed.
This was a secret code between the two brothers.
Namikaze Minato had shown great talent since he was young and officially entered the ninja academy a year ago, beginning his studies.
But most of his knowledge of ninjutsu actually came from Raizen.
Even Namikaze Sharito didn't know this.
When Namikaze Minato said "spend more time with me," outsiders thought it was because of the deep bond between brothers.
But in reality, what this sentence meant was, 'I have a lot of ninjutsu problems I want to ask you, can you skip work tomorrow?'
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