Noon the next day.

"We already understand what happened, Hiruzen."

In the conference room of the Hokage Building, after reading the contents on the scroll, the consultant elders Mito Kadoen and Koharu Koharu exhaled slightly and frowned, as if they were also troubled by something.

This scroll is information passed back by Orochimaru, the commander-in-chief of Konoha's front line.

Regarding the mission of attacking Sunagakure's supply point, it was inconsistent with the actual situation. As a result, Sakumo's team's combat power was severely dispersed, and they even almost died in the encirclement of Sunagakure.

Although not many words about the root were mentioned, as consultants, they didn't understand the hidden meaning.

All the fingers point to Shimura Danzo, another senior Konoha elder.

The root ninja used deception to frame Sakumo's team, and even planted nails in the ANBU directly under the Hokage, which became the source of this incident.

"Then what do you think of this?"

As the Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the two of them expressionlessly.

Men Yan and Koharu wanted to excuse Danzo and blame Sunagakure for this matter, but the others were not fools. Doing so would only make the already bad situation worse.

"This time Danzo went a little too far..."

"Is it just a little too much?"

Hiruzen's face suddenly darkened, and he could endure it by planting a nail in the ANBU directly under the Hokage.

But he can only represent himself, not the views of the Uchiha clan.

This is the real difficulty of this incident.

Putting Uchiha Ruri into Sakumo's team for training was a deal between himself and the Uchiha senior management.

Now this team has just been getting along, and this kind of accident happened. How does this make the top management of Uchiha view themselves as Hokage?

"Then what are you going to do, Hiruzen? After all, he is a high-level official in the village, and he has made countless contributions to the village over the years and dealt with many enemies who harmed the village..."

Hearing Men Yan plead for Danzo, Hiruzen waved his hand irritably, signaling him to stop talking.

"Where is Danzo right now?"

"In the land of grass."

"No reply?"

"He said everything was normal, but..."

"Just what?"

"Four of his men were performing a secret mission in the Kingdom of Sichuan. They suddenly lost their traces for some unknown reason and were probably killed."

After hearing this, Hiruzen nodded and said: "I probably know the matter. I will negotiate with Uchiha. You go and contact Danzo and ask him to be honest and stop doing these unnecessary things. Uchiha

How to deal with it is my responsibility as the Hokage, and this matter is not something I can interfere with at the root."

The reason why Danzo is so unscrupulous must be because he, the Hokage, has adopted a gentle policy towards Uchiha not long ago.

This is indeed a dangerous signal for the radical roots.

Uchiha have mixed reputations in Konoha. Although it cannot be said that they have completely integrated into the village, it would be too absolute to devalue their interpersonal interactions as worthless.

Just like the top management of Konoha, they are divided into conservatives and radicals.

Uchiha also has radicals and conservatives.

But whether the Uchiha are radicals or conservatives, their ultimate goal is clear to Hiruzen.

He just wanted to gain greater power in Konoha, be able to influence the general direction of the village, and even wanted to get the position of Hokage and defeat the Senju clan.

As long as you know what their purpose is, Hiruzen feels that the rest of the things will be very easy to deal with.

If things like Danzo hadn't happened, he could have slightly improved the relationship between Uchiha and the village before the next Hokage took over, so that it would not be as rigid as before.

"I hope that with the lessons learned this time, that guy Danzo can calm down a little bit..."

Sometimes, Hiruzen didn't know how to deal with Danzo, his close friend, and could only sigh with a headache, hoping that the other person's character would be restrained from now on.

Neither Men Yan nor Koharu said anything. If Danzo was such an honest and responsible person, he would not have become the leader of the Roots.

"Hinata, let's go explain. Since you want to handle the Uchiha alone, let's leave it to Hiruzen. But there is one thing. No matter how you plan to appease the Uchiha, remember one thing. You can't deal with this clan.

He has complete trust in me. In this clan, there are many ninjas who have inherited that man’s dangerous ideas.”

After taking a deep look at Hiruzen, Men Yan said this and left the conference room with Koharu.

"Uchiha Madara...does he still have the Mangekyou Sharingan..."

Hiruzen sat in his seat and muttered.

Uchiha Madara's battle with the First Hokage at the Valley of the End had a great impact on Konoha.

Although the loser was Madara Uchiha, the first Hokage who returned to the village died of injuries not long after, which led to an era when no one could suppress it. A few years later, the tragic First Ninja War broke out.

The power that Uchiha relies on to become famous is the ultimate form of the Sharingan - the Mangekyo Sharingan.

That is the most mysterious and darkest mysterious power recorded in the Uchiha classics.

His teacher Senju Tobirama said more than once that the Uchiha ninjas who have awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan have already fallen into the darkness of the abyss, and they can no longer be treated as normal people.

Arrogant, extreme, insane, and will do many things that go against common sense and are intolerable to ordinary people.

It must be dealt with promptly to avoid causing catastrophe to Konoha.

But for now, Hiruzen is not worried about this.

Since the death of Uchiha Madara, there has never been an example of the Uchiha clan opening the Mangekyō Sharingan.

No matter how talented an Uchiha ninja is, the three-magatama state Sharingan is the ultimate limit they can reach.

The three magatama's Sharingan is not enough to scare him as the Hokage.

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Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Shiraishi and the other two followed the team back to the village of Konoha, where they had been away for several days.

The peaceful and tranquil scene is completely different from the solemn and depressing front line.

And this peace is what countless ninjas on the front line paid for with their lives.

"Then let's separate here."

At a fork in the road, Ayane was the first to say goodbye.

Neither Shiraishi nor Liuli objected. Now is indeed not the time to talk about family affairs.

The Uchiha clan's clan is still as usual, neither lively nor deserted, but there are also some children wearing clothes embroidered with the Uchiha logo, playing on the streets of the Uchiha territory.

They are all the new generation of the Uchiha clan.

They all seemed to know Liuli, the leading genius in the clan, and they all came up to say hello, "Sister Liuli", "Sister Liuli" sweetly.

Liuli also took out some candies from her body and gave them to the children, asking them to be careful when playing.

"Next, I will go to the elders to learn about the situation in the village. You can go back first."

Liuli watched the children leave, then turned to Baishi and said something.

"I know, anyway, guys like me just need to be quiet and transparent."

In this regard, Shiraishi has nothing to complain about.

Liuli nodded. In this regard, Shiraishi's mentality was indeed good.

It has been like this since I was a child. Whether I was looked down upon or ignored, I always showed a nonchalant attitude.

"Although I personally feel that the handling of the matter will not satisfy you personally."

Before leaving, Shiraishi said this again.

After Liuli heard this, she couldn't help but frown.

Just as he was about to say something, Shiraishi had already walked away, and he could only be seen waving his back to her, saying "see you later" as he walked away.

After bidding farewell to Shiraishi, Liuli went to Nanga Shrine alone.

When he got there, sure enough, an Uchiha elder was already waiting for him there.

It was Uchiha Shifang.

Next to him, there was a young man sitting on his knees, it was Uchiha Fugaku.

Fugaku smiled at Liuli and nodded as a greeting.

Liuli also nodded and said hello to him.

To be honest, although she and Fugaku are both candidates for the Uchiha clan leader, Ruri doesn't like to be in contact with Fugaku.

It's not because Fugaku is weak. As one of the candidates for the clan leader, Fugaku must be a very strong jounin, and his Sharingan has also been tempered to the state of three magatama.

But Fugaku's way of dealing with things was too conservative and gentle, and this was precisely the way of doing things that Liuli disliked the most.

Liuli respects his great strength, but is skeptical about whether his character can shoulder the important responsibility of the clan leader.
To be continued...