Hokage Building, office by the window.
The Third Hokage seemed to have given up the habit of smoking. After picking up the mission report, he narrowed his eyes slightly.
In the mission report, Yin's Fire Team traveled throughout the Fire Country in these days. Although they did not find a new base of the Akatsuki organization, it was confirmed that a major internal strife had indeed occurred in the Akatsuki organization.
The internal strife within the Akatsuki organization is undoubtedly good news for Konoha.
Nagato of the Akatsuki organization dispatched most of the Akatsuki organization's manpower to attack the village, but failed. After this internal strife, the threat to the village will be further reduced, and there is no need to maintain a wartime state.
But a new problem also arises immediately. What should a Jonin who is out on a mission do if he is attacked by Akatsuki?
Will the alliance's ninja villages in the Five Kage Conference become more self-respecting because of the reduced threat from the Akatsuki organization?
It doesn't matter if it doesn't appear for half a year or a year. After a few years, the pain caused by the Akatsuki Organization will be forgotten, and countries may gradually get used to a life without tailed beasts and jinchūriki.
Then, Konoha and Kumogakure, who have tailed beasts, become extremely conspicuous.
Moreover, Kumogakure's group of reckless men may also use the power of the jinchūriki to launch a war of annexation of the surrounding Xiaonin villages.
Thinking of this, the third generation began to have a headache. He looked at the jounin in front of him and asked: "Tell me, what should the village do next with Fang Xiao's organization? Should they take the initiative or stick to the village?"
Hyugazo stepped forward and said, "Sandaime-sama, you are the Hokage, you can make your own decision."
The Third Hokage smiled and said: "This is not a conference room. Just talk about your inner thoughts. In addition to the matters of the Akatsuki organization, I also want to ask you, who in the village is more suitable to be the Hokage?"
Sandai's joke made the atmosphere in the office suddenly quiet. Yamato, who had originally planned to offer his opinion, fell into silence and did not dare to speak rashly.
The Akatsuki organization and the others could still express some opinions, but they did not dare to discuss the Hokage candidate at will.
Moreover, in the previous attack by the Akatsuki organization, the fourth generation briefly appeared, which already involved the dispute between the third generation and the fourth generation.
"The Yondaime..." The third generation fell into deep thought, then waved his hand and said, "You can leave first,"
"Yes." After the members of the Fire Team nodded, they used the teleportation technique and left the Hokage's office.
After they left, the third generation sighed and looked at the fourth generation in the portrait of Hokage. The fourth generation's smile in the portrait reminded him of the time when he personally passed the position of Hokage to Minato more than ten years ago.
Minato, why don't you want to come back? Is it because of the village or because of Naruto?
Compared to what happened in the original time and space, Naruto in this time and space is doing pretty well, at least he is not called a demon fox, and many ninjas come to visit him. Compared to ordinary war orphans, he is not that much better.
After staring for a long time, Sandai withdrew his gaze and resumed his official duties.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the office. After the third generation responded, a ninja in root clothing appeared in front of him.
"What's the matter?" Sandai asked with a frown.
The root ninja half-knelt in front of the third generation and said in a trembling tone: "Sandai-sama, Danzo-sama has lost his vitality and has been completely assimilated into a big tree."
"Duanzo is dead...is the news true?"
"It's absolutely true! The root has been messed up, waiting for you to go over and deal with the mess!"
Sandai couldn't hold the pen and quickly stood up. Although he had long known that Danzo's hope of survival was slim, this news was still like a bolt from the blue to him.
"Come with me to the root base!"
The third generation shouted to the ANBU standing next to him, and immediately led the ANBU towards the root base.
The Hokage Building is not far away.
Hinata Zou and Yin, who had just disbanded their team, looked towards the direction of the Hokage building. They had noticed the actions of the third generation and ANBU.
"What is the third generation going to do? I remember that is the direction of the roots?"
Hyugazo opened his eyes, and then said casually: "Nothing, something seems to have happened to Danzo. The third generation should take the ANBU to receive Danzo's inheritance."
"Heritage." Mr. Yin thought this word was strange, so he looked over there again and said, "By the way, you probably didn't forget to take the good stuff over there at the root."
"Of course, how could I let go of the wealth accumulated by so many of Danzo's leaders?"
"That's good..." Yin breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest, which was not rich. Although they were no longer short of money, it had become their habit to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
At this time, Hinata smiled mysteriously and said: "Not only that, I also left a gift for the third generation."
"Small gift." Yin also started to smile evilly, she guessed what it was.
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Within the root base.
Even though it was not his first time here, the Third Hokage still hated this dark environment, which made him feel slightly uncomfortable after living in the sun for a long time.
In such an environment, even an upright person will inevitably have dark thoughts in his heart.
Going all the way down the stairs, the laboratories along the way made the third generation feel a little numb, and he couldn't wait to dismantle these laboratories established by Danzo.
But there are extraordinary methods in extraordinary times, and many of Danzo's experiments are very important to the current situation.
Not long after, Sandai was taken to the depths of the root base and saw the conspicuous dense tree, which must be Danzo. Some of the branches looked like Danzo.
Arriving next to Danzo, Sandai looked around and found that the number of root members had decreased a lot compared to last time.
The Root ninja next to him quickly said, "After Danzo-sama's death, all our tongue-killing root-killing techniques were lifted. Many Root organization ninjas chose to leave or flee."
After hearing this, Sandai nodded.
The root organization is the dark side of the village, and Danzo is always doing small things secretly. There must be many people among them who have been planted with curses and hold grudges.
Just make a list of names and give the ANBU the task of hunting down the traitorous ninja.
At this time, out of the corner of his eye, the third generation caught sight of an experiment log not far away. He walked over and took it in his hand. He looked at the root ninja and asked, "What is this?"
The root ninja said: "It seems to be a diary written by Danzo-sama himself, and he also arranged the sealing technique, but judging from Danzo's previous behavior, this seems to be very important."
"Very important?"
The third generation became interested and took a closer look at the seal on the log. It was a sealing technique recorded in the Book of Sealings. As the inner Hokage, he naturally knew how to unlock it and easily cracked the seal.
After flipping through the diary a few times, Sandai's expression gradually became serious. He looked at Danzo and said, "Duanzo, you really left me something amazing..."
This chapter has been completed!