"Kid, what's your name?"
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. Also, unless something unexpected happens, Jiraiya will be the Fifth Hokage."
Naruto watched Tsunade turn back and flashed a victorious smile.
"The Third has already stepped down. Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura were ordered to retire by the Second Hokage, too, and Shimura Danzō ran away. The village has changed completely."
When he used the Great Spiraling Ring, he had also flattened Root's base with Earth Terrain Shift.
In the end, Jiraiya officially declared Shimura Danzō a missing-nin.
The Third was deeply reluctant, but he couldn't find the man either.
Besides, someone had to take the blame for Konoha's defeat this time, right?
The Third didn't want to take the fall, Jiraiya was about to become Hokage, and no one dared bring up Naruto, who had actually destroyed Konoha.
Well, that made the missing Shimura Danzō very important.
Orochimaru confessed readily, saying he had been working with Danzo all along: Danzo would become Hokage, and he would receive a huge sum of research funding.
He even shifted the blame for his earlier defection onto Shimura Danzō.
Why had Orochimaru performed human experiments?
Because village elder Shimura Danzō had ordered him to. Shimura Danzō had not only implanted hashirama cells into himself, but also transplanted an entire armful of Sharingan.
His right eye was Shisui Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, no less.
He had even funded Orochimaru's research into the relevant techniques.
The Third broke into a cold sweat as he listened. Shisui's eye possessed Kotoamatsukami, which could alter people's wills!
How could that possibly be allowed?
What did Shimura Danzō want Kotoamatsukami for?
Did anyone really need to guess who he would have to eliminate to rise any higher?
Clearly, Shimura Danzō had been planning to defect for a long time. He had