After receiving authorization from the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, Jiraiya officially became the Fifth Hokage.
The work assigned to him after becoming Hokage was even more than Jiraiya had imagined. Even after outsourcing internal affairs to Tsunade, the various high-level commissions and military intelligence made it difficult for him to leave the Hokage Building and relax.
Fortunately, with the help of the two elder advisors, Jiraiya was not completely chained to work inside the Hokage's Office.
After dealing with the mountain of accumulated official business, Jiraiya and Tsunade began discussing the village's future reforms. Their reference was the Land of Whirlpools across the sea, though each situation had to be analyzed on its own merits.
Because the Land of Fire was prosperous and Konoha had many ninja, there was no urgent need for reforms in the economy or education.
The only departments that urgently needed reform were the Anbu and Root. The former still needed to exist, while the latter, though nominally an Anbu training department, had long since become Danzo's private army.
Secretly gathering war orphans to train them into expendable loyalists, then making them slaughter one another, completely violated the Will of Fire.
After pondering for a moment, Tsunade said, "My opinion is that we can retain some of Root's teaching methods, but we must abandon training programs that force them to kill each other. Anbu ninja are not tools. They are comrades responsible for the dark side of the village."
Jiraiya nodded, agreeing with Tsunade's idea.
The Anbu had originally been a special force for carrying out covert operations, and they themselves were the village's dark side. But Root's existence had turned the Anbu into almost an open division, seriously lowering the ninja's moral limits.
After the two discussed it, they issued orders to