Orochimaru was an absolute model worker, busy from start to finish without ever stopping to rest.
Noticing that the Nine-Tails seal had a leak, he didn't even think about seizing the chance to let Naruto unleash the Nine-Tails to slaughter the village. Instead, he used the Five Elements Seal to reinforce the lock that the Nine-Tails had spent ages tinkering with.
Then he made off with Sasuke Uchiha, that thorn in the throat of the Konoha higher-ups, whilst outwardly having Itachi Uchiha constantly use Konoha's secrets as blackmail, meaning if Sasuke suffered even the slightest mishap, every secret would be spilled completely.
He also relentlessly sabotaged the restless Sunagakure, conveniently getting rid of Hiruzen Sarutobi who was blocking his path, and most skillfully of all, terrified that Konoha's prestige would suffer, he cast illusions beforehand to plunge celebrities everywhere into a deep slumber.
After this combined flurry of moves, even capitalists would be moved to wipe away tears of emotion upon seeing it.
Following this ordeal by Orochimaru, Konoha had only lost a few buildings and a Hokage, while its core shinobi remained completely unharmed, and even the previous generation of Ino-Shika-Cho who had stepped down years ago came back out to work.
The cohesion of the entire Konoha was strengthened to an unprecedented degree, and even Danzo didn't dare to pop out at this moment and clamor about wanting to become the Fifth Hokage, choosing instead to keep shrinking back.
Far from being the Konoha Crush Plan, it was much more fitting to call it the Konoha Rebirth Plan.
From the inside out, he cleared out the accumulated ailments that had plagued Konoha, taking the blame entirely upon himself for abducting Sasuke Uchiha, sabotaging Sunagakure, and murdering the Hokage.
For this matter, he even paid with a pair of