Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

"I'm sorry Minato, you have just taken office, but the people in the clan are already eager to cause you trouble..."

"No, if anything, I am not able to take a strong enough attitude during the negotiations and exchange Shisui and Makoto from the Hyuga family. I also have to take some responsibility for this situation..."

Looking at Namikaze Minato, whose expression was serious and not fake, Uchiha Fugaku shook his head with a wry smile and said self-deprecatingly:

"If you say that, I, the clan leader who watched Shisui being taken away, am the one who needs to be most responsible. Minato... everyone has fought against that Kaguya Rei and lost, so there is no need to do it again. Are you so polite?"

"After all, you still have to pay attention..." Minato Namikaze shook his head, thanked Uchiha Mikoto who brought tea next to him, and then said: "After all, this problem cannot be solved in a short time. Well, if we can't appease the emotions of all parties in the village, it will be bad if we are targeted by enemies outside."

"Yes, but some people just don't understand this."

Uchiha Fugaku stared at the green tea in front of him and said with a low expression:

"The people of the hawks actually know that we can't take back Shisui on our own, but they have to take a tough stance to maintain their status in the clan, and they even don't hesitate to use the police force for this. We have the privilege to arrest those members of the Hyuga clan whose opinions are contrary to those of the Hawks."

"Obviously the current situation is not good to begin with, but I still don't want to close the relationship with the Hyuga clan who have the same troubles. Instead, I push the Hyuga people in the direction of deeper conflicts..."

"What about the clan members who are not so tough? Can't we rely on their voices?" Minato Namikaze looked at Uchiha Fugaku and asked in a deep voice.

"It's impossible. Although the tribesmen outside the Hawk Faction are not as tough as the Hawk Faction on the surface, in fact they are absolutely unwilling to accept the Sharingan falling into the hands of other villages. Uchiha is proud. , they would say nothing at most, but they would never express any approval for giving up Shisui."

"Then I can only ask Fugaku to pay more attention to the police force and don't let them continue to do this kind of abuse of power."

Namikaze Minato sighed and stood up, saying with a heavy face:

"There are many people in the village who are dissatisfied and have opinions about the fact that the Konoha Police Force has become the private territory of the Uchiha clan. If they are allowed to abuse their power in order to express their position, Fugaku, even if we are We have a good relationship with each other, and I can make up my mind to abolish the police force."

"I will try my best."

Uchiha Fugaku, whose own position was not so firm, sat on the sofa and responded with a complicated expression.

"Sorry to bother you, Fugaku, Mikoto."

Namikaze Minato nodded to Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto, turned around and walked out of the house.

But before he walked out of the living room of Fugaku's house, he was stunned on the spot with Uchiha Fugaku sitting on the sofa.

The reason is simple, because at this moment, the Anbu of the Yamanaka clan next to Sarutobi Hiruzen was using the telekinesis technique to pass the news of Orochimaru's defection to all the ninjas in the village who were special jounin and above.

"Orochimaru...defected???"

Namikaze Minato couldn't help but feel dazed.

Before he came to visit Fugaku in the Uchiha clan, he thought of Orochimaru, who was closest to Shimura Danzo in the village, because of Nara Shikaku's speech involving a troublesome person, but he didn't care. No one expected that when the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen personally took action to solve the problem, Orochimaru would be forced to defect.

That is one of the three ninjas of Konoha, a direct disciple of the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, and the jounin who has completed the most difficult tasks in the village, Orochimaru...

Something like this happened at such a sensitive and troublesome time. Konoha, which had finally settled down a little, was about to fall into an undercurrent, right?

After looking at Uchiha Fugaku and confirming that the voice that just sounded in his heart was not his auditory hallucination, Namikaze Minato said decisively:

"I leave it to you to defend and mobilize the Uchiha clan, Fugaku, I must go back immediately."

"When formulating a specific pursuit plan, be sure to include the power of our Uchiha clan."

"That's natural."

Namikaze Minato instantly disappeared from the sight of Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto using the Flying Thunder God Technique. Uchiha Fugaku also changed his previous dejected and depressed expression and replaced his jounin with three strokes. After being uniformed, they began to gather capable jounin within the Uchiha clan's territory.

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When the whole of Konoha was agitated by the earth-shattering news of Orochimaru's defection, Orochimaru himself uncharacteristically quietly returned to another of his less public laboratories and methodically organized all the things he had accumulated over the years. Various research materials are available below.

Orochimaru was not worried about whether he could escape Konoha safely. Having been a ninja in Konoha for so many years with the title of Sannin, the escape route mastered by Orochimaru is definitely not something that can be blocked by simply sealing off the entire village, even if the Third Hokage and the possible self-insurgents are chasing behind him. Lai Ye, he is also fully confident that he can escape.

All he needs to think about is which escape route he should choose after escaping from the village.

"If you want to build your own ninja village, go north... If you want to stay anonymous for a while and observe the current situation, go south... If you want to usurp the power of a small country and act secretly, go west... If you want to pursue your dream, go east... Hey, hey, hey, which one should you choose? "

While sealing his cherished information into the scroll, Orochimaru analyzed the pros and cons of various escape routes in his mind, until he packed up all the valuable things in the laboratory and stuffed them into the psychic snake. In his stomach, he gently punched his palms and made the final decision.

"As expected, I'd better build my own village first... It would be too shameful to meet my collaborators like a bereaved dog. Although the head of a village cannot call himself a shadow, at least he won't become a complete loser as soon as they meet. A vassal."

After making the decision, Orochimaru used Wind Release and Great Breakthrough on his laboratory. After watching the raging wind ravage various equipment in the laboratory into prototypes, he opened the door of the laboratory. , preparing to leave this village that can no longer accommodate him.

Then, he temporarily stopped because of the crying girl standing in front of the laboratory door.

"Da, Lord Orochimaru..."

Mitarashi Anko raised her head with tears in her eyes, faced Orochimaru with cold eyes, and choked with unclear words:

"Outside, people outside say, you, you defected, you are a big bad guy who betrayed the village..."

"I, I don't believe it, I just came here, waiting for you, thinking that if you didn't betray me, you would always come back today or tomorrow to see your experiment..."

"I, I've been waiting...it's great..."

Looking at the only disciple he had accepted in Konoha, Orochimaru narrowed his golden vertical pupils that were colder and more ruthless than a snake, and said indifferently:

"Oh? Hongdou, did you come here to wait for me because you thought I didn't defect?"

"No, no, no..."

Mitarashi Anko shook her head vigorously, tears and snot flowing everywhere with this movement, but her voice was much firmer than before:

"I am here to see Lord Orochimaru... I just want to know if I still have value and meaning to you?"

"If there is still a little bit of value that can be used, can you please not leave me alone?"

"That's a smart statement, Anko."

Orochimaru leaned down, held the tearful Mitarashi Anko's chin with his hand, looked into her eyes and asked:

"You're still determined to be loyal to me, right?"

Mitarashi Anko stopped sobbing and nodded vigorously.

"Then I'll give you a task... Before anyone notices you, leave the village, walk east, until you reach the small country called the Country of Waves, and help me meet that person. A man who claims to be willing to give me a place to stay.”

"Use your fastest speed and go all out to rush over... If you can see that man, then you are still valuable to me, do you understand?"

"The Country of Waves...?"

Mitarashi Anko sniffed and nodded vigorously.

"I will definitely go to that place and help you meet that person, Lord Orochimaru."

"Very good...then let me pay you part of the reward for the mission first."

After saying that, Orochimaru's neck suddenly stretched out, and before Mitarashi Anko could react, a hot wound in the shape of a three-magatama was left on his neck.

"Big... Snake... Maru... Sir... it's so hot, it hurts..."

Mitarai Anko covered her wound and knelt down on the spot. While desperately enduring the pain caused by Orochimaru's gift, she spoke to him intermittently.

"Take my token and go see Kaguya Rei."

Orochimaru dropped Mitarashi Anko indifferently, leaving the girl rolling on the cold ground behind him, trembling, convulsing like a poor little animal whose venom had flowed into its arteries.

"Only when you see him alive will you have the right to stay by my side... If you die under the imperfect Heaven's Curse Seal, then you will be killed by Konoha as a hero who resisted the rebel Orochimaru. Just record it on the memorial tablet."

"No matter which side you are on, it is better than slowly rotting with the rotten old man amidst the prejudice and abuse of others."

Because the time of Orochimaru's defection is significantly advanced compared to the original work, I set Anko here to be in a state where he has not yet been marked with a curse.

Although compared to the time of the original work, it is somewhat of a bug, but... Naruto's own time bugs are quite a lot, and this extra one can be regarded as the need for plot adaptation (