Naruto: The Strongest Sage

The old man was very angry, but the old man was very angry.

Aoba's words "I know" stunned Sarutobi Hien. What do you mean you know?

I sent people to kidnap your woman and your disciple. You told me you knew, but if you knew, why would you appear here?

Could it be?

"Is there an ambush in your house?"

"No, there is no outsider in my house. Because... there is no need."

In the yard of Aoba's house, six ninjas were tied up by countless vines, which sucked away their chakra, but it was not over yet.

They were still wriggling, and more roots penetrated their skin and penetrated into their flesh and blood. After that, they were completely torn apart and devoured.

That's right, they were eaten by a group of vines. This is Yumi's special wood escape. Yumi has not been doing nothing for such a long time.

She is also constantly practicing. And she has developed some wood escape ninjutsu of her own. The wood escape that can devour flesh and blood is one of them.

In actual combat, the effect of this move is not obvious. But it is very suitable for destroying corpses.

As we all know, it is easy to kill people but difficult to dispose of corpses. Yumi's move directly skips the step of disposing corpses.

On the other side, Tsunade suddenly stopped while walking on the road and turned to look behind her.

There, the two figures briefly confronted each other and then returned to calm. At the same time, similar scenes appeared almost at the same time in more than a dozen different locations around.

But they all happened quietly, and the battle ended in secret.

Back to Sarutobi Hien's yard. Looking at Aoba who didn't care in front of him, Sarutobi Hien finally realized that there might be something wrong with his plan.

"Kamikawa Aoba, that's the position of Hokage, don't you really want to consider it?"

"Hehe, whether you believe it or not, if I wanted to sit in the position of Hokage, I could have sat in it a long time ago. In fact, I had anticipated everything that happened tonight.

I just didn't expect that your methods were so... crude. Sending people to assassinate the Hokage and kidnapping my people. You have been thinking about it for so many days, and finally came up with such a thing?

To be more direct, do you call this a plan? Just kill the Hokage when you are dissatisfied with him? Send people to kidnap my people when you are dissatisfied with me. Is this Konoha?"

"......." Sarutobi Hiruzen was speechless for a while because of Aoba's complaints.

In fact, Aoba never really let go of this group of diehards. Again, these people's identities are too special. The descendants of the previous Hokage.

This identity is not important, because after all, they are the descendants, and no one will say anything if they are all killed. But it is also important to say that it is important.

Look at what Sarutobi Hiruzen did back then. Uzumaki, Uchiha, White Fang, and even Hyuga Hiashi, all disappeared. But he himself was fine. At least on the surface.

But later, when Konoha collapsed, everyone was waiting for him to die...

The situation that Aoba and Tsunade are facing now seems different from that of Hiruzen, but the nature is actually similar.

Is the Uchiha problem difficult to solve? What's the difficulty? Let Uchiha become a Hokage and there will be no problem. At the very least, give them the status of Hokage advisor and let them participate in Konoha's high-level politics. At least it can appease them for more than a generation.

There is a very funny problem in this. All the high-level officials of Konoha are on guard against Uchiha, as if Konoha will collapse after they take power.

But in fact, in Aoba's view, the most suitable person to be Hokage in Konoha is the Uchiha clan. Why? Because this clan is the most honor-oriented clan.

Back then, the Uchiha was sent to fight a bloody battle with the most restrained Kirigakure. They never complained. Because they are Uchiha, the founders of the village. They regard Konoha as their home.

These people are the ones who did not leave when the clan leader Madara left. They can be said to be the ones who recognize Konoha the most.

It is natural for them to bleed for Konoha.

Unfortunately, this concept became distorted under the continuous suppression of the later Hokage lineage.

To put it bluntly. If Uchiha Madara was stronger than Senju Hashirama. If he became Hokage, the ninja world would have been unified long ago. Those messy things that happened later basically did not exist.

But unfortunately, the Six Paths Sage prefers Ashura, so Ashuras of all generations can suppress Indra.

The reputation of the Uchiha clan

Why is it bad? Because they enforce the law harshly and are inhumane.

But don't forget that they are doing the work of the Konoha Guard. Strict law enforcement itself is their basic requirement.

I don't know why, some idiots always put themselves in the shoes of those who are subject to harsh law enforcement.

But in fact, most people are just ordinary people. They are those hooligans, gangsters, drunkards, harassers and hurt people.

Think about it in reality, you are walking on the street and being beaten by a drunkard. The police come and say that they want him to say sorry to you and let it go. Are you willing?

What will Uchiha do when they come? According to the Public Security Administration Punishment Regulations, check one by one. Detain first, then examine your injuries, everything is done according to the procedure.

What do you like the first or the second? Of course, if you like to bring in the drunkard who beat people, that's another matter.

The Uchiha Guard is such a group of people. They are a violent organization in themselves. If a violent organization leaves the public with the impression of being kind, it will be doomed.

In fact, the reason why Sarutobi Hiruzen's group was wary of Uchiha was never because the Uchiha was an evil clan or something funny.

The most fundamental reason was interest.

Think about the huge assets of the Sarutobi clan. Think about the roots of Shimura Danzo and those shameful experiments.

Apart from anything else, if you let an Uchiha be the Hokage consultant, he would notice these things. What would those Uchiha do according to their temper?

There is at least an 80% chance that they will investigate thoroughly. The most important thing is that the Uchiha Guard itself has the responsibility and rights in this regard.

But can the previous Hokage lineage withstand the investigation? They can't, so the Uchiha must not enter the upper echelons of Konoha. Because everyone's interests are inconsistent.

Aoba believes that the second generation at the time could understand these things. But unfortunately, he died in a hurry and failed to arrange everything. He chose a relatively honest Sarutobi. But unfortunately, people change.

Sarutobi Hiruzen eventually changed from a former ninja hero to a Hokage who everyone hoped would die.

Aoba didn't want Tsunade to go through this. He wanted to completely put an end to this corrupt and decadent inheritance. So, everything had to be legitimate.

Splitting the Sarutobi clan was to maintain Konoha's vitality to the greatest extent. If they did nothing and accepted all this. Then Konoha would have kept this part of the fighting force.

And if they chose to take action, it would be equivalent to giving Aoba a legitimate reason.