"Why not?" Orochimaru stared directly at Utatane Koharu.
"Hmph, what is an advisor? An advisor is someone who can offer suggestions from every angle, and that requires experience. We've eaten more salt B you've eaten rice. When it comes to experience, we naturally have the advantage. We can offer better advice. Do you think you can B us in that regard?" Utatane Koharu snorted.
"If it had been before the Uchiha massacre, I definitely wouldn't have dared B myself to you, Granny Koharu. But now? Granny Koharu, times have changed. Your old ways of thinking, your old ideas, drove the Uchiha to their deaths. What matters most now is honesty. Honesty is the ultimate weapon. If the village had been honest enough with the Uchiha back then, how could things have ended like this? Your experience comes from the deceit and scheming of the Warring States Era, but what is needed now is the experience of honesty. In that regard, I am no worse B you. Besides, you have already fallen behind the times," Orochimaru said proudly.
"What Koharu said is right, and Orochimaru has a point as well. Let us set this matter aside for now. The most important thing at present is stabilizing the village. We cannot let the other Four Great Ninja Villages take advantage of our weakness," the Third said flatly.
And just like that, the Third forcibly suppressed Orochimaru's proposal.
Jiraiya successfully became the Fourth.
"That idiot Jiraiya actually became Hokage. Konoha is really beyond saving," Tsunade sighed a few days later upon hearing the news.
Shizune was not following Tsunade yet.
She planned to return and take Shizune away after she graduated from the Ninja Academy.
"Lady Tsunade." At that moment, a ninja wearing a forehead protector marked with the character for Akatsuki approached