Anko Mitarashi

Kenichi Amamiya sympathized with the Uchiha Clan's plight, but he would not choose to help them. He even wanted to get involved and take a larger share of the money. After all, experiments were truly expensive.

Kenichi Amamiya was only a Genin. The missions he could take were limited. Making a living was not a problem, but setting up a laboratory was far too difficult.

One of the elective missions triggered yesterday was to establish a laboratory of his own, and it would not be easy to complete.

His teacher had a laboratory partly because of his reputation and strength, and partly because Root provided funding behind the scenes.

"Making money... I never thought I'd still have to make money after coming to this world." Kenichi Amamiya rubbed his face. He needed to think carefully about how to make money.

Kenichi Amamiya had calculated it yesterday. The money he had saved recently was probably enough to build the basic framework of a laboratory, but he could not afford the equipment. What kind of laboratory was a laboratory without equipment?

There was no way he could complete the mission like that.

"The major events in the Hidden Leaf Village that could make money right now... seem to be only the Nine-Tails Attack and my teacher's defection?" Kenichi Amamiya felt rather troubled.

Naturally, the best way to make money was to get it directly from someone else. The Uchiha Clan's extermination would have been the best opportunity, but unfortunately, that was still a long way off.

If his teacher defected, his greatest opportunity would be to inherit his teacher's laboratory directly. But then he would still have to face an investigation. Even if he avoided it, without sufficient strength, he could only become Danzo's puppet.

That would not do.

Lost in thought, Kenichi Amamiya walked to a ramen shop. It was not Ichiraku Ramen, but another ramen shop. He liked the ramen here, and it was cheap too.

Kenichi Amamiya planned to eat something, then go home to refine his Chakra and practice the ninjutsu his teacher had taught him.

However, before Kenichi Amamiya could sit down, he spotted someone who looked somewhat familiar.

"Senior Brother Amamiya!" A girl ran excitedly to Kenichi Amamiya's side. Looking at the little girl, Kenichi Amamiya took a deep breath.

He somewhat regretted having let little Anko call him Senior Brother back then. He had only wanted to tease the girl, but he had not expected her to take it seriously.

"It's Anko. What brings you here?" Kenichi Amamiya smiled warmly.

The girl before him was Orochimaru's other disciple, Anko Mitarashi. However, Anko Mitarashi knew nothing about the experiments.

Only Kenichi Amamiya understood his teacher's darkness best. That made him somewhat worried about what would happen to him when his teacher decided to defect in the future.

Still, Anko Mitarashi had not died and appeared again later, so his teacher probably would not be too ruthless, right?

But Kenichi Amamiya had no intention of entrusting his safety to someone else. It was better to hold such matters firmly in his own hands.

"I just finished a Genin mission. Senior Brother, I'm going to become a Chunin!" Anko Mitarashi's eyes narrowed into crescents as she stood there.

Kenichi Amamiya's mouth twitched. His Junior Disciple Sister was quite talented, unlike himself, who had absolutely no talent for becoming a ninja.

Fortunately, all that was in the past now.

"That's pretty good. You need to train hard." Kenichi Amamiya smiled, then casually ordered a bowl of Tonkotsu Ramen. Seeing Anko staring longingly from beside him, he also ordered her some glutinous rice dumplings and red bean paste.

"Long live Senior Brother!" Watching the delighted Anko Mitarashi, Kenichi Amamiya shook his head helplessly. This little girl was good in every way except that she loved sweets, especially glutinous rice dumplings mixed with red bean paste, an even sweeter way of eating them.

"Hiruzen, you're old. It's time for you to step down." The Hokage Tower was not peaceful at the moment either. Danzo stared at his old friend Hiruzen Sarutobi and spoke without the slightest politeness.

Although Konoha had emerged victorious from the Third Great Ninja War, it had paid too great a price for that victory. For the situation to stabilize somewhat, the Third, who bore responsibility for signing off on everything, needed to step down.

"...I will step down. Prepare the election for the Fourth Hokage." Hiruzen Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe, then glanced at the excited Danzo.

After all these years, had his old friend finally become unable to suppress the ambition in his heart?

"I think Orochimaru would be a good choice." Shimura Danzō unexpectedly recommended someone else, making Hiruzen Sarutobi glance at him again.

"Orochimaru... he does seem like a good choice." Hiruzen Sarutobi took another puff of his pipe and spoke blandly.

Seeing the trace of smugness on his old friend's face, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt no stir in his heart.

As the teacher of the Sannin, Hiruzen Sarutobi knew this disciple of his well enough. Orochimaru in particular had become obsessive and dangerous, and someone like that could not become Hokage.

Otherwise, the Hidden Leaf Village would certainly fall into even greater danger. Therefore, Hiruzen Sarutobi intended to support another ninja who had performed outstandingly in this war.

Moreover, Orochimaru and Danzo seemed to have grown somewhat close lately. Root's operations might be under Danzo's control, but Konoha's Anbu were not useless.

Come to think of it, according to Anbu intelligence, Orochimaru's disciple Kenichi Amamiya seems to leave the village often.

Hiruzen Sarutobi pondered.

Wherever people walked, they always left traces.

Although Orochimaru and Kenichi Amamiya were especially cautious and paid close attention to such matters, the Anbu had still detected a few clues in the end.

Kenichi Amamiya had no idea that the Third had already set his sights on him. At that moment, he had returned home.

Kenichi Amamiya could not go to the laboratory alone. According to his teacher, if he went by himself, the Anbu would easily discover him, and that would be troublesome.

"Then I may have to clean house, Kenichi." When Orochimaru said this, his voice was gentle, but his eyes were dangerous. Kenichi Amamiya felt that his teacher had meant every word.

So unless Orochimaru took him there, Kenichi Amamiya acted as if he knew absolutely nothing about any laboratory.

"I really want to go to the laboratory." Kenichi Amamiya lay on his bed, feeling somewhat irritated.

He wanted to go to the laboratory and research his idea, to see whether it was feasible. If it was, perhaps he could create a dangerous forbidden technique.

Unfortunately, he could not go there alone.

But then he sat up. Even if he could not go to the laboratory, he should still be able to go to the hospital. Besides, the chances of finding that kind of patient in a hospital were actually higher.