Shikaku Nara, the chief elite jonin squad leader of Konoha, used the excuse of hosting a dinner to gather all the clan heads and elite jonins of Konoha together, hoping to reach a consensus among them.
What a pity!
A severe divergence emerged over the matter of who should become the Hokage.
Konoha could basically be divided into three ideological factions at this moment.
The Senju faction, the Sarutobi faction, and the Uchiha faction.
The people they each supported were also different, and each camp had a closed-loop logic that left everyone unable to persuade the others.
The Senju faction.
Naturally, they supported Tsunade. The Senju brothers founded Konoha, and back then Tsunade was young, so she let Hiruzen Sarutobi manage things in her stead. For her to succeed to the position once again nowadays was merely returning power to the Senju, which was both logical and reasonable.
They felt that the Uchiha Great Elder publicly killing the Third Hokage had already broken the rules of loyalty to authority. If an Uchiha were to become the Hokage, would it imply that as long as a subordinate killed a superior, they could successfully advance?
Moreover, they felt extremely uneasy about the mental state of the Uchiha clan, terrified that some Uchiha would suddenly go crazy and, following the example of Itachi Uchiha, sacrifice the entire Konoha Village for the peace of the world.
Only with Tsunade stepping up could they ensure the Uchiha would not riot.
The Sarutobi faction.
This consisted of the Sarutobi, Shimura, Mitokado, Utatane, Root, and a portion of other ninjas.
Had it not been for the Kage-level battle at the village gates, this group of people would have resolutely pushed Kakashi Hatake forward by now. However, after witnessing a true Five Kage-level battle, they understood that what