At noon that day.
Shimura Danzo walked into the office where Sandai was located, his expression a little uncertain.
"Danzo, what's wrong with your face?"
The third generation raised his eyes and looked at his old friend. He was very satisfied with his current retirement life, and the designated successor also had a good expression during the Iwagakure meeting.
"The Fourth Generation is too much. He is not suitable for the position of Hokage at all!"
Danzo's face was a little gloomy. Unless the Yondaime was deliberately targeting him, he didn't want to humble himself in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The third generation looked at Danzo expressionlessly. Danzo's complaints were excessive.
Minato passed the Jonin vote of confidence and was recognized as Hokage by the daimyo. Moreover, the treaty Minato signed in Iwagakure was extremely in line with the interests of the village.
Being looked at by the Third Generation like this, Danzo restrained his emotions a bit, sat down in front of the Third Generation, and then said slowly:
"The fourth generation asked me for the roster of root ninjas before. This is directly asking me to hand over the power of the root..."
"This is a matter of course. Ohnoki is not easy to deal with. Minato's performance in Iwagakure Village has shown enough ability. It's time for us old guys to hand over our power..."
The third generation frowned and persuaded his old friend. In fact, he also planned to hand over his Shadow Guards in a few years.
After hesitating for a while, Danzo said slowly: "Hiruzhan, my root suffered a huge loss, almost half of the root ninja was lost..."
"What?!" Sandai was shocked and looked at Danzo with disbelief in his eyes, "Duanzo, what did you let the roots do?"
A ninja who can become ANBU must at least have the strength of a chuunin elite, and there is no shortage of jounin among them.
It’s hard to imagine what Danzo had done to the roots to cause the loss of so many root elites.
After a pause, Danzo continued: "I sent them to the Land of Rain to assist Hanzo in suppressing the rebellious ninja within the Rain Gakure, in order to win over Hanzo, but they met a ninja comparable to a tailed beast!"
As he said that, Danzo's eyes showed fear. At that time, he was staying in the Amegakure Village, waiting for the news that all his men had been wiped out.
According to Hanzo's words, there are ninjas who are comparable to tailed beasts among the Amegakure ninjas.
"The Land of Rain...a ninja comparable to a tailed beast..."
The third generation's expression changed. Although the Country of Rain is a small shinobi village, it is a country that the three surrounding countries are not willing to mention easily.
In the Second Ninja War, Hanzo relied on his own efforts to prevent the Three Kingdoms' plan to open up the Land of Rain as a battlefield. He was revered as the demigod of the Ninja World. This directly led to the fact that in the third Ninja War, they gave up the idea of turning the Land of Rain into a battlefield.
The country was dragged into the battlefield.
He originally thought that the appearance of Hanzo in Yu Ninja Village was a flash in the pan, but he did not expect that a latecomer would appear again.
In the small Yuyin Village, there are two such ninjas appearing one after another. The only good thing is that they don't seem to be in harmony with each other.
After pondering for a moment, Sandai looked at Danzo, sighed in his heart, and said:
"In that case, I'll deal with Minato, but you can add new members to your base. By the way, what's going on with Orochimaru? He failed in the Hokage campaign, and I haven't had time to go over and say a few words of relief..."
"Orochimaru is still the same as before, addicted to experiments, but Hiruzen, you have to be wary of the fourth generation. In addition to taking away the power of us advisory elders, he has been too close to Uchiha recently..."
After taking a deep look at the third generation, Danzo left the consultant's office. He had other things to deal with.
"I still can't completely relax..."
The third generation sighed heavily. Danzo had just given him another mess, as well as all kinds of other troubles.
However, some of what Danzo said was right. Some of Minato's methods were too radical. Not long after he took office, he went to win over the big and small ninja clans in the village, and also proposed various reforms in high-level meetings to deal with the current situation of the village.
He did not deliberately target Minato, but he also dismissed many of Minato's opinions. Although those reform suggestions were good, they also touched the interests of too many people. If they were forcibly implemented, they would probably be opposed by many ninjas.
Even his Sarutobi clan is no exception. As one of the largest ships in the ninja world, the helmsman must be thoughtful enough to prevent Konoha's ship from falling apart.
Deep in the forest outside the village, Danzo appeared here after leaving the consultant's office.
This is a laboratory affiliated with Genbu, and it is also the laboratory of his collaborator, Orochimaru.
"Danzo-sama." The ninja guard at the door saluted one after another.
Danzo ignored them and pushed the door open. After walking in the passage for a few minutes, Danzo came to the underground laboratory and looked at Orochimaru below through the guardrail.
Orochimaru, dressed in white, was conducting an experiment. After noticing the footsteps, he glanced back.
"It's Danzo-sama, why are you willing to come to my place today?" Orochimaru said coldly with a sinister smile.
Danzo looked at his partner, once a strong competitor of the Fourth Hokage, and snorted in his heart.
In the previous Hokage election, he recommended Orochimaru, but he was defeated by Minato Namikaze. As a candidate, Orochimaru's merits were sufficient, but he lacked popularity in the village and missed the position of Hokage.
Otherwise, if Orochimaru was successfully elected as Hokage, his situation would not be as embarrassing as it is now.
Although Namikaze Minato didn't say it clearly, he almost completely denied the actions of the Ninja ninja. How could that yellow-haired kid face the relationship between Ye and Nana?!
Pulling back his divergent thoughts, Danzo did not forget the purpose of coming to find Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru, how is the research on Wood Release going?"
Danzo asked directly, asking about the progress of Mu Dun was the purpose of his trip.
Although Sarutobi Hiruzen had previously stopped the Wood Release experiment due to the high death rate in the experiment, he and Orochimaru did not stop the experiment and were still conducting the experiment in secret.
Without him, Mu Dun was too powerful. He had seen the power of the first generation, a power that was enough to change the structure of the ninja world.
More importantly, Orochimaru also discovered during the experiment that the first-generation cells, which are the material for awakening Wood Release, in addition to Wood Release, also have the effect of restoring youth and maintaining people at their peak.
"The wood escape experiment went very poorly..."
Orochimaru shook his head slightly. After losing volunteers as human experiment materials, he set his sights on prisoner spies, and recently found several age-appropriate test subjects from nearby villages.
But the results were unexpectedly consistent. Most of them failed, and only a few experimental subjects were soaked in the culture tank.
"Huh, failed again..." Danzo expressed his dissatisfaction. A considerable part of Orochimaru's experimental funds were misappropriated from the roots.
Orochimaru disapproved, glanced at Danzo and said: "However, the experiment of transplanting the first-generation cells can be carried out... The success rate is 11%, which is already worth a try. However, if there is no Sharingan suppression, you will suffer the consequences of the first-generation cells.
Backlash."
"If you can find a three-magatama-level Sharingan, I can perform a transplant for you..."
This chapter has been completed!