Sweating Bullets

Konoha.

After Kushina and Dan Katō were resurrected.

Orochimaru prepared to make a move against the bloated, unwieldy Sarutobi Clan.

The Hyuga Clan's ninjas who were out on missions began to be recalled one by one. Other ninja clans, led by Ino-Shika-Cho, also gradually began calling their people back.

Under normal circumstances, this would have made people realize something was wrong.

But after someone discovered that Konoha's cemetery had been robbed, everything suddenly made sense.

At first, it was just a member of a minor clan who had risen in status and wanted to relocate his grandfather's grave away from the graves of ordinary people.

But he discovered an extremely small tunnel in the grave, and part of his grandfather's corpse was missing.

Since the cemetery was guarded, and the guards happened to be Sarutobi Clan Members—who had a particularly large number of ninjas—a dispute immediately broke out.

The guards could not evade responsibility for the cemetery being robbed, but seeing that the other party was merely a civilian chunin, the Sarutobi Clan Members tried to smooth things over.

Then the matter blew up, and the Fourth Hokage intervened.

Only then did they discover that it was not just one grave that had been robbed of its corpse. Most graves had tunnel holes.

There were countless bizarre ninjutsu in the Ninja World. What ninja clan could tolerate something like this?

At that point, the Sarutobi Clan Members hurriedly checked the Third Hokage's grave.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi's grave was perfectly intact. No one had touched it.

At first, the Sarutobi Clan secretly rejoiced and even laughed at the misfortune of the other ninja clans.

But after investigating, they discovered that the graves surrounding the Third Hokage's had all been dug up. Even the First and Second Hokage's memorial graves had tunnel