Kushina was very happy to see Third reprimanding Danzo. At least for now, for the sake of herself and Minato, Third should not treat her child badly.
However, she was very dissatisfied with this guy Shimura Danzō. Obviously her child was the son of a hero, but this guy wanted to train his son into a weapon. It was really abominable. When she was resurrected in the future, she would definitely teach this guy a lesson.
But soon Kushina sighed again.
Hey, my poor child, your parents are sorry for you and can't take care of you, but fortunately, Mr. Third Hokage is here.
Now Kushina has placed all his hopes on Hiruzen Sarutobi, hoping that he can take good care of Naruto and raise him up.
But what Kushina doesn't know is that there are many things that Hiruzen Sarutobi cannot decide by himself.
The influence of Nine-Tails' Attack was forcibly suppressed when Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi returned to power.
But some fundamental problems have not been solved. Sooner or later, when he Hiruzen Sarutobi can no longer suppress it, it will completely explode.
Time passed, and another year passed.
The progress of Orochimaru's experiment was stuck. In order to break through the experimental bottleneck as soon as possible, Orochimaru increased the number of experimental subjects. However, no matter how many experimental subjects were added, there was only one result for these people, and that was death.
As the experimental subjects continued to die, the prisoners in Root Prison were quickly cleared out.
In order to ensure that the experiment could continue, Danzo had to let the people of Root arrest people from outside, but it was not that easy to arrest people from other villages. In the end, they targeted the people of Konoha.
Among Hokage Office, several Konoha Ninja took documents and materials and kept reporting.
"Stop."
Hiruzen Sarutobi put down Smoking Pipe and looked at the other Ninja who had not reported yet and asked.
"Are you guys all reporting on the missing people in the village?"
Several people looked at each other in surprise, as if to say, are you guys too?
Finally they nodded together.
"Yes Lord Hokage, this is the missing persons file from the west side of the village."
"I'm from the south of the village."
"I'm from the entrance of the village."
"I am..."
Listening to the reports from several people, Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned so hard that he could pinch a mosquito to death.
"I understand, let's do this. Issue a task and ask all the Ninjas in the village to investigate. At the same time, I will give orders to strengthen patrols within the village."
"It's Lord Hokage!"
After putting down the materials, Hiruzen Sarutobi took a long puff of cigarette.
"Danzo, Orochimaru, it must not be you."
He had a vague feeling that all this was caused by his good friend Danzo and his good disciple Orochimaru.
He also knew that they did not stop after he ordered them to stop their research, and he did not try too hard to stop them. After all, letting them continue their research might bring unexpected gains to Konoha.
But now it seems that the harm has come first before the harvest has appeared.
After thinking about it, Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to go find Danzo and have a good chat.
However, this trip was destined to be fruitless. When Hiruzen Sarutobi asked, Danzo's answer was that he didn't know, it was not clear, it was none of my business, don't ask me, it was all for Konoha.
Faced with Danzo's attitude, Hiruzen Sarutobi could only sigh, and then turned around to find his disciple Orochimaru.
After Hiruzen Sarutobi met his disciple, he clearly felt a sense of alienation from Orochimaru.
But at least on the surface, Orochimaru does not show any problems.
However, you cannot just look at the surface of everything. The most serious problems are hidden in the dark.
Land of Grass, Under the plan of Konoha, the entire country began to develop towards a business empire, and various industries began to be built and put into use.
At the same time, Yahiko strengthened the cooperation between Land of Rain and Land of Grass in the name of Hanzo of the Salamander. The two countries began to jointly build a prosperous scene.
This makes Land of Birds and Land of Rivers, who are also among the big countries, envious.
Finally, after much hesitation, Daimyo of Land of Birds and Land of Rivers took the initiative to go to Land of Grass and Tetsuya to talk and do things.
After the two Daimyo came to Land of Grass, Tetsuya did not discuss cooperation with them directly. He first took them to visit Capital of the Land of Grass, witnessed the current prosperity of Land of Grass, and then took them to experience the one-stop service launched by Tetsuya.
The two Daimyo and the accompanying officials experienced all the various food, drink and fun activities. They almost became Shinobi World Liu Chan and couldn't bear to miss Shu.
After seeing that the desired effect was achieved, Tetsuya led the two Daimyo back to his Daimyo's Mansion.
Among Garden, this one led the two of them to sit down among the Pavilion.
"Come on, come on, you two, try our Land of Grass tea."
The two nodded, took the tea, took a sip, and nodded in praise.
"Yes, yes, this tea tastes quite good."
"It's really good. It's no worse than the tea produced by Land of Tea."
"Haha, if you two like it, you can take some with you when you go back."
"Then thank you Daimyo Chiba."
As he spoke, Land of Rivers Daimyo cleared his throat and said.
"Daimyo Chiba, actually I am here this time because I want to talk about cooperation with you."
"That's right, it's the same below."
"Oh, cooperation? What do you want to cooperate with?"
Although Tetsuya knew the other party's purpose, he still pretended to be surprised.
Land of Birds Daimyo said.
"The broken place Land of Rain has experienced earth-shaking changes after reaching a cooperation with Land of Grass managed by Daimyo Chiba. The whole country is developing very rapidly, so I also want to cooperate with Daimyo Chiba.
It's not right, I just hope it can be similar to Land of Rain."
"Me too."
Land of Rivers Daimyo quickly agreed.
You know, Small Nation who are also living in the cracks of big powers, the former Land of Rain can be said to be the worst among them Small Nation.
Although Land of Rain released Hanzo of the Salamander and it took a while to get better, but that period of improvement was not achieved by relying on Chiba Tetsuya and Trading Company.
Later, Chiba Tetsuya shifted its focus to Land of Grass, and after neglecting Land of Rain, Land of Rain's decline was not visible to the naked eye.
There was even an organization called Akatsuki that emerged with the intention of subverting Land of Rain. Although it was suppressed, the impact was still too great.
Recently, I heard that Akatsuki has not been wiped out, and is still wandering around Shinobi World, recruiting troops everywhere, recruiting Rogue Ninja from all major Shinobi Villages.
However, even this Land of Rain is not getting better after cooperating with Land of Grass.
So they also came to Tetsuya to discuss cooperation.