Beneath the Hokage Building, Konoha!
Whoosh!
A figure flashed past and appeared there. He was a young man with short red hair—Naraku.
Having arrived beneath the building, Naraku did not hesitate and headed straight upstairs.
Although he had not activated the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, he could still sense the presence of the Anbu personnel hiding around the Hokage Building. Not only was the outside heavily guarded, but the inside was as well. There were over a dozen presences surrounding Tsunade's Hokage Office alone.
As expected, handing the Anbu over to Shisui was a good decision!
Sensing this, Naraku silently remarked to himself. In his view, while the Anbu members around him were not particularly strong, their attitude was enough to make him very pleased.
He knew that this was all thanks to Shisui.
Naraku had heard about it long ago. After Shisui took over as Minister of the Anbu, he had constantly conveyed one message to his subordinates: they must remain loyal to the Hokage.
Although the Anbu in every shinobi village were originally directly under the authority of their respective Kage, the Kage had too many affairs to handle and needed the Minister of the Anbu to help issue orders.
From another perspective, the Minister of the Anbu wielded considerable authority.
There was something Naraku only learned later: during the Third Hokage's tenure, the Anbu under his command had never had a ministerial position. He managed them personally the entire time, issuing missions himself to Anbu members or Anbu captains.
The reason the Third Hokage had done so was not because there had been no suitable candidates in the village to become Minister of the Anbu. Rather, one incident had left him unable to trust anyone with that position again.
When the Third Hokage had first taken