Naruto: The Strongest Sage

The three generations of the 18th-century lords of the Han Dynasty were in chaos.

Aoba originally thought that the Third Generation would let him and Kakashi investigate Danzo's affairs. Unexpectedly, the Third Generation gave them the task of controlling the situation in the Root.

Aoba thought for a moment and guessed whether Danzo had some kind of back-up plan. After his death in the outside world, the Root should know directly.

Therefore, the Third Generation confirmed that Danzo was dead. For him, the most important thing was naturally the stability of the Root.

You have to know that Danzo has been in the dark for many years, and I don't know how many resources he has misappropriated to build the Root. In addition to illegal experiments such as Hashirama's cell experiments.

The Root also has its own training base. The children collected from orphanages or the Land of Fire will receive rigorous training here.

Those who survived became members of the Root. It's just that these children without "talent" will generally only become cannon fodder and test subjects of the Root.

The Root has its own R&D department. The famous Tongue-Eradication Technique comes from here. Various human experiments and secret technique development go further than the Anbu.

In addition, the Root also brings together members of various major families. From Hyuga, to Ino-Shika-Chou, to Aburame, Inuzuka, everything is available.

Danzo has not been doing nothing in these years. The Root has a set of intelligence systems that overlap with the Anbu but are relatively independent. A large number of spies have been placed in the five major countries.

These spies will continuously send back various intelligence. Strictly speaking, this intelligence is the greatest value of the Root.

Danzo actually did a good job in his early years. It's a pity that he became crazy later and basically did nothing for the position of Hokage.

Such a huge resource was originally in the hands of Danzo alone. But now Danzo is dead, and the key is that his two assistants, Aburame Togen and Yamanaka Fuu, are gone. The Root was leaderless.

In order to prevent unrest in the Root, the Third Hokage immediately sent a team of Anbu to maintain the situation. But because of Danzo's matter, a large number of Anbu teams went out to investigate the matter.

The Root needed two high-end combat forces to stabilize the situation. After confirming that Kakashi and Aoba did not do what Danzo did, he immediately sent two people to the Root to take charge.

When Aoba and Kakashi arrived at the Root, there were already signs of chaos here.

Danzo's brainwashing skills are good. Although the Root acts cruelly, there are many of his diehards in it.

The root of the unrest is that some diehards believe that Danzo's death was caused by the Konoha high-level. This statement has a certain market in the Root. It has caused many people to be ready to move.

However, all this came to a standstill after Aoba and Kakashi entered the scene.

They both knew each other in the Root. Kakashi is an elite jonin who has been famous for many years.

Not to mention Aoba. When many Root ninjas followed Danzo to reinforce, they saw the duel between Aoba and Raikage. They knew that this was the top master of Konoha who "defeated" Raikage head-on.

Although the people of the Root are crazy, they are not fools. The deterrent power of Aoba and Kakashi is still enough. Seeing the two of them, the turmoil of the Root was immediately suppressed.

Aoba took out the task scroll of the Third Generation. I don't know why, it feels like taking out an imperial edict. And from the status, the words of the Hokage are really no different from the imperial edict in the village.

After the death of the old lover, Aoba initially thought that the Third Generation would find someone to take over the Root. But in fact, the first action of the Third Generation was to disband the Root and merge all the authority and resources of the Root into the Anbu.

In this way, the power of the Hokage can be said to have reached its peak in the hands of the Third Generation.

Of course, merging the two departments is not that simple.

There are too many shameful things in the Root over the years. Aoba and Kakashi can intervene in this matter as a deterrent weapon. But when the time came to actually recover all the resources.

The one who was really in power was Nara Shikaku.

From this, it can be seen that in Konoha Village, Sarutobi Hiruzen trusted the Ino, Shika and Chou families the most. As his think tank, Nara Shikaku was naturally adept at handling this matter.

But what Nara Shikaku didn't expect was that when he entered the secret laboratories of the Root, he found two people who shouldn't be there.

Aoba and Kakashi were packing and sealing some precious instruments and experimental materials in the laboratory as if nothing had happened.

He even greeted Nara Shikaku when he saw him.

Nara Shikaku stood there in silence for a while. He was confident that with his memory, he would never make a mistake. That is, the person in charge of this operation was

He, and definitely not Kamikawa Aoba and Hatake Kakashi.

But now the two of them have already stood in the place where they shouldn't stand. This made Nara Shikaku's head ache.

He directly asked his assistants to withdraw and walked into the laboratory.

"...... Can't you two do it secretly?" Nara Shikaku looked helpless. But his tone was not very surprised.

"How secret, like these experiments done by the root?"

As Aoba said, he threw a stack of information in front of Nara Shikaku. Nara Shikaku just flipped through it casually and knew that this was an illegal human experiment information.

The key is that the experimental subjects used are children from Konoha Orphanage.

"...... You killed Danzo." Although it was a question, the tone was certain. At this moment, Nara Shikaku was sure that Danzo was killed by these two people.

No, maybe more than these two. You know, according to his information. There are more than 30 elite members of the root who disappeared with Danzo. But all of them died without a sound less than a hundred miles north of Konoha without passing on any information.

Nara Shikaku was one of the few people in Konoha who knew Danzo. He knew that this root walking in the dark had many cards in his hands.

And it was precisely because of this that Aoba and Kakashi, who were able to prevent Danzo and his party from passing on any information, had such a huge power.

Nara Shikaku did not dare to think deeply.

Over the years, he has been paying attention to Kakashi. But the other party actually completely concealed it from him. No, the core should not be Kakashi, but Kamikawa Aoba.

Nara Shikaku looked at Kamikawa Aoba with a complicated look. This civilian ninja who has become famous is much more terrifying than he imagined.

"Why do you have to dwell on such a boring question as who killed Danzo? Shouldn't Lord Shikaku's problem now be how to explain these dark secrets of the Root to the people outside?

Look at these human experiments. And these, this is the record of cooperation with Orochimaru. That is Konoha's S-level rebel ninja. Lord Shikaku, I'm afraid you have to spend a little more energy to think about it carefully."

Shikaku wanted to say that the purpose of my coming here was to prevent all this from being exposed. As long as it is well covered up, the civilians outside will not know what happened here. He doesn't need to explain anything.

But... now it's not possible. Shikaku is a smart man, a very smart one. He has already understood the purpose of Kamikawa Aoba and Hatake Kakashi. The other party is waiting for him to make an offer.

Or, waiting for him to bribe them.