"Hmm..."
Uchiha Minamoto knew that the other man had only served as Hokage for a year or so, but that did not affect his question.
"Yondaime, do you think the village is ready for some deeper reforms?"
"Deeper? Reforms?"
Minato Namikaze was momentarily at a loss.
"Fifth Hokage, do you mean..."
When Tsunade heard the topic, she headed for the door of the Hokage's Office of her own accord.
She was just a bored gambler. What did she know about reforms?
Uchiha Minamoto glanced at the Big Fat Sheep's retreating back without asking her to stay. He simply looked at Minato Namikaze and said,
"Do you think... the plan to abolish the Anbu is feasible?"
Chapter 203: No one said the Anbu had to be the Hokage's only direct unit!
"Abolish the Anbu?"
Minato Namikaze understood every individual word Uchiha Minamoto said, but not the sentence as a whole.
"Which Anbu? The Anbu I know?"
"What other Anbu does our village have?"
Looking at the somewhat rattled Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Minamoto answered directly.
"Of course I mean the Anbu founded by the Second!"
The Anbu.
Their full name was the Assassination Tactical Special Forces.
They had been founded single-handedly by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and the other nations' hidden villages had subsequently followed suit.
Setting aside clan prejudices,
Tobirama Senju really was a genius.
Not only had his Ninjutsu earned widespread recognition from other villages, but those villages had also kept learning from his institutional designs.
The Anbu were one example.
Ever since Tobirama Senju established the Anbu, not only the great nations' hidden villages but even those of smaller nations had established Anbu of their own.
The Hannya Corps of the Land of Woods from before, for instance, had been the Land of Woods' Anbu.
The names differed