The Hokage's Office.
Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and Shikaku Nara all agreed that Konoha should send people to hunt down Orochimaru.
Tsunade, who had proposed the idea, naturally favored it as well.
Previously, Orochimaru had merely been a rogue ninja from Konoha, albeit one who had once held a very high position.
But after the Konoha Crush Plan ended, Orochimaru had become the sworn enemy of every ninja in Konoha. They all wanted him dead.
The reason they had not sent anyone to hunt him down before was that Konoha had faced too many incidents in succession and could not spare the manpower.
Now that Konoha was no longer so short-handed, they could assemble a ninja team to hunt down Orochimaru.
Shihōin Naraku thought for a moment before saying, "I agree with hunting down Orochimaru. It's what we should do. Even if only for the Konoha ninja who died back then, we can't let Orochimaru off."
"However, I have a suggestion regarding the pursuit squad's members."
"Then we should prioritize Sensor Ninja for the pursuit squad!"
"Sensor Ninja?"
Tsunade had some reservations. "Could Sensor Ninja alone possibly be a match for Orochimaru?"
The other three nodded as well. Although everyone was confident about hunting down Orochimaru, they still had to acknowledge that he was indeed powerful.
Only a handful of people in all of Konoha could guarantee victory over Orochimaru.
If the pursuit squad consisted entirely of Sensor Ninja, even finding Orochimaru would leave them with practically no way to take him down.
Orochimaru was one of the Sannin, after all!
He might often come off worse when fighting top-tier ninja, and those powerful opponents might defeat him, but he still lived as freely as ever in the end. That was what Orochimaru was capable of.
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