Konoha.
The weather was gradually warming, and a few more flies buzzed around the conference room. No one paid them any mind.
This Konoha meeting did not last long.
Yet when the elders filed out of the conference room, each of them felt as though the sky itself had changed.
Once it became known that Orochimaru intended to move against the Sarutobi Clan,
the various ninja clans began impeaching the Sarutobi Clan elders. Orochimaru directly stripped Sarutobi Ko and Sarutobi Takamasa of their elder positions.
Both of them were removed from every post they held.
Sarutobi Takamasa was also kicked out of the Military Police Force.
Hizashi had originally been the Captain of the Konoha Security Team; he simply had not involved himself much in its affairs.
Now that Sarutobi Takamasa had been kicked out, all that was needed was for Hizashi to take charge again.
However, Orochimaru did not allow the Hyuga Clan to immediately return to the Military Police Force.
Instead, he ordered Hizashi to thoroughly investigate which Sarutobi Clan members in the Military Police Force had violated regulations.
The meeting did not cover much.
But not a single matter discussed was minor.
First, the Anbu were to go to Five Streets and drive out every Sarutobi Clan member.
The houses would be repossessed and handed over to Kushina.
Kushina was not short on money. In fact, some of those properties had been acquired through assets she brought from the Land of Whirlpools, while others had been gifted to her by Mito Uzumaki before her death.
Although the ownership of the properties had been transferred to Kushina, it made no difference to the previous tenants.
Their landlord had merely changed.
As for the Sarutobi Clan members who had purchased homes for themselves, they simply had to be thrown