Naruto and Shadow

“The candidate for the Fourth Hokage?”

Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped smiling.

I don’t know when he started to understand his disciple’s thoughts less and less.

“Orochimaru, do you really want to be Hokage?”

Looking at his favorite and currently most troublesome disciple, Sarutobi Hiruzen’s eyes gradually deepened.

It’s not that he never thought about letting this disciple inherit his position as Hokage.

However, since Tsunade’s younger brother Naoki came to After Orochimaru died in front of him, in the past ten years, Orochimaru seemed to be undergoing changes that he could not control every day.

Therefore, there was always a voice in his heart telling him that

Orochimaru was not the right candidate for Hokage.

“It seems that many people want to be Hokage, and many people die with the dream of becoming Hokage.……”

One step at a time, Orochimaru slowly walked to Sarutobi Hiruzen’s desk, and then sat on the Hokage’s exclusive office chair.

But after sitting for a while, he stood up again and walked to the window, looking downstairs at the streets of Konoha Village.

“I want to live longer, learn more ninjutsu, and be the Hokage of the village like Sensei, and enjoy the feeling of being admired by everyone, can’t you, Sensei?”

“I didn’t say you can’t do it, it’s just that you can become Hokage only if you are recognized by most people, and now you, like Danzo, have drifted away from most people in the village.”

“Most people agree?”

Orochimaru couldn’t help but sneered.

“Ninjas have always been respected for their strength, and didn’t the teacher become Hokage just because of the second generation’s words?”

Why do we need to be recognized now?

Orochimaru doesn’t believe this.

“I had no choice at that time. The second generation of adults died, and the village needed someone to stand up!”

Sarutobi Hiruzen had a solemn look on his face. He planned to continue preaching to this troublesome disciple, but he remembered the serious situation that Konoha was about to fall into the quagmire of war.

“Orochimaru, if you really want to be Hokage, help Konoha win the alliance between Iwagakure and Kumogakure in the next war. When the time comes, not only will I recommend you, but everyone in the village will also recommend you. Make you Hokage”

“I see.”

Orochimaru nodded casually.

“I didn’t say I wouldn’t help you, teacher.”

War?

I didn’t know how many people were going to die at that time.

Orochimaru stretched his hand out of the window and happened to catch a yellow leaf blown by a gust of wind.

“Where is Danzo now?”

After hearing that Orochimaru was willing to participate in the war, the big stone in Sarutobi Hiruzen’s heart these days was mostly loosened. The tense atmosphere in the room also relaxed a lot.

“He hid in Yuyin Village. It was said that Hanzo, that poisonous old man, invited him for something.”

“Poisonous old man……”

Hearing this title, Sarutobi Hiruzen was slightly speechless.

Only Orochimaru, a Sannin, would have such a derogatory name to call Sansho Hanzo, who is called the demigod of the ninja world.

“The war is coming soon, and Danzo still has time to go to Amegakure Village.”

When thinking of Danzo’s operation today, Sarutobi Hiruzen still couldn’t help but want to be angry.

However, even so, he still had to be responsible for the aftermath. After all

, Konoha today still needs an organization like”Root” to deal with it. Something that is inconvenient for him to deal with

“It seems that Tsunade has returned to the village. If you have time, you can go find her, Orochimaru.”

“Tsunade? She is already a disabled person, what will happen if she returns to the village?”

Orochimaru shook his head coldly.

“In contrast, I am very curious about the genin who survived today. If you don’t mind, can you let me accompany you, Sarutobi-sensei? By the way, let me learn your way of Naruto’……”

——

“Does that pet pig still have the ability to stalk people?”

Without even looking back, Hino Hikaru knew that there was a little tail behind him.

“Is it through smell?”

Hmm…

Hino Hikaru sniffed his collar.

Only now did he realize that his body seemed to be mixed with a lot of Tsunade’s scent.

Body fragrance, sweat, and the smell of some unknown liquid.

Well, after all, I have been doing this for almost a whole night, and I haven’t taken a shower yet, so it’s normal for there to be a strong smell.

No wonder Kakashi was hesitant to speak at that time.

I’m afraid he smelled something.

“Ah, I almost forgot about eating.”

Not paying attention to the people following behind him, Hino Hikaru walked to the Ichiraku Ramen stall.

“Three bowls of ramen, packed, please put more fish paste (Naruto roll)”

“no problem!”

The young hand-beating uncle pulled up the ramen with great energy.

“I’m so hungry too… But why doesn’t he just eat here and pack it away?”

Shizune, who was hiding behind the corner and stalking secretly, touched her belly and looked curiously at Hino Hikari in front of the ramen stall.

“Puff~”

The pet piglet at her feet seemed to be telling that it was also hungry.

“After a while, when he leaves, we will buy something to eat.”

Shizune quickly held the little pig in her arms to comfort her.

“The little girl at the back will pay for the money.”

While taking the packaged ramen and preparing to pay, Hino Hikaru suddenly reached out and pointed behind him.

That’s where Shizune was hiding.

“Was, discovered? No, no, why should I pay?”

Shizune, who ran out from the corner, didn’t have time to ask for an explanation. She found that Hino Hikaru in front of her had already run away with the ramen.

She was left alone to face the ramen shop owner who was about to collect money.

“hateful……”

There was no other way, Shizune could only pay the money obediently.

She didn’t want to be regarded as an accomplice in eating the King’s meal by the people in the village.

——

Meanwhile, Tsunade was still in the room staring at a ball of crumpled sheets.

She had already said she didn’t care, but somehow, after she didn’t see the bloody sheets after getting up, she started to care again.

“If he throws away the sheets, kill him later when he comes back.”

With this idea in mind, Tsunade began to search for the sheets that meant a lot to her in the house.

Then luckily she found them in the closet. They were also kneaded into a ball very thoughtfully so that she could not see them. to those dazzling bloodstains

“Is it intentional or is it……”

No, he is just an ordinary kid from Konoha Village, how could he possibly know that I suffer from hemophobia.

Tsunade didn’t think much about it, but how to deal with the crumpled sheets became another problem.

“Burn it with fire, or leave it… stay?”

I heard from Grandma Mito that women of her time would generally collect the traces left by their first time as souvenirs… until they die of old age.

However, Tsunade felt that as a woman of the new era, she should not keep such ancient things. Thoughts from the Warring States Period.

But she was a little reluctant to really burn it.

But if she wanted to store it, she had a fear of hemophobia…

So, being extremely entangled, she actually stayed in a daze until noon.

Until this moment The door of the hut was pushed open again——

“I brought ramen, do you want to eat it?”

Outside the door, a sunny boy came in with fragrant ramen.