News that Danzo has fallen in battle reached your ears as well.
Now, let us hold the election for the new Hokage!
Since the Raikage's threat is imminent, we will skip the Jonin Meeting.
I nominate Yashiro Uchiha, Hiashi Hyuga, Shikaku Nara, and Kakashi Hatake as candidates for the new Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a solemn expression, wearing the Hokage conical hat and the Godly Garment Robe.
Hearing this, the heads of the major clans felt their eyelids twitch and their hearts skip a beat.
Shikaku, you have a chance to become Hokage! Inoichi Yamanaka immediately linked his mind with Shikaku Nara.
The Ino-Shika-Cho clans were bound together. If Shikaku truly became the new Hokage, he and the Akimichi and Yamanaka clans could ride the coattails to glory, just like the Mitokado and Koharu families.
Among the four nominated individuals, aside from Kakashi and Yashiro Uchiha who were absent, Hiashi Hyuga and Shikaku Nara were also experiencing inner turbulence.
A glimmer of light appeared in the eyes of the lazy Shikaku Nara, while Hiashi Hyuga kept his emotions concealed, bound by strict clan rules and doctrines that always prevented him from showing his feelings.
Hokage!
Anyone who grew up in the Hidden Leaf Village, no matter who they were, inevitably had a dream of becoming Hokage, or at least had one at some point.
Even someone as ambitious as Orochimaru had once aspired to become Hokage, let alone Shikaku Nara and Hiashi Hyuga?
Yet,
after a brief moment of excitement, Shikaku Nara immediately calmed down and hastily spoke, Lord Hokage, what kind of man am I, Shikaku Nara, to deserve to become the new Hokage?
The Hokage should be someone with formidable strength. As everyone knows, I am not even an elite jonin; I am just a plain, ordinary