Regarding Danzo's attempt to mock him, Sarutobi was full of displeasure.
Danzo sneered, "Stop pretending. It's just the two of us here. Who is cleaner than whom?"
"Make your choice!"
"One: Intelligence on Lucian."
"Two: The families of Kushina Uzumaki, Tsunade, Mikoto Uchiha, and all the others, and the entire Hatake clan."
"As long as one of them is lured and willing to leak intelligence, I will have succeeded. Which one do you choose?"
Sarutobi: "I..."
Danzo said cruelly, "To tell you the truth, I have captured Nanako Uzumaki!"
"..."
Kushina's cousin?
Hiruzen Sarutobi opened his mouth, and finally, his expression dimmed.
He felt that Danzo was a devil, step by step luring him towards depravity.
Of course, he was the Hokage, after all.
As long as he was unwilling, no matter how awesome Danzo was, there was nothing he could do.
In the final analysis, it was his indulgence of Danzo, as well as his own selfish motives.
Seeing Sarutobi's changing expression, Danzo sneered in his heart, "Sarutobi, although I am grateful for your care, you are really old."
"Hehehe, ruthless enough. I like it."
At the same time, another cold voice sounded in Danzo's heart, which immediately made his face look ugly.
A guy with a White Zetsu vessel and powerful cells was attached to his body. Danzo felt uncomfortable all over.
But he had compromised before, to coexist peacefully.
"I said, don't disturb me at will, Black Zetsu!"
"Hehehe, I'm just reminding you not to play these boring conspiracies. The Reanimation Jutsu is the main point."
"Hmph, do you understand what it means to be prepared? Shut up!"
As Black Zetsu fell silent, Danzo looked at Sarutobi and said in a low voice.
"Everything is for Konoha!"
This sentence suddenly woke Hiruzen Sarutobi up.
That's right. I'm not depraved, nor am I being deluded by Danzo's words.
We are all for Konoha.
With Lucian's strength and ambition, if they couldn't find out specific intelligence, Konoha would be finished.
As long as it was beneficial to Konoha, it was right.
At this, Sarutobi said in a condensed voice, "Your plan is full of loopholes. It might provoke retaliation from the Wandenreich. It needs to be re-planned. And..."
"Why do you want to snatch Fugaku's eyes? He's the clan head now!"
He didn't know what basis Danzo had to guess that Fugaku had the Mangekyo.
But Sarutobi had always been wary of the Uchiha. It could cause a great chaos.
"I..."
"Lord Hokage, I request to see Lord Hokage! Please let me in!"
Just as Danzo was about to speak, he was suddenly interrupted by the urgent shouts of a child outside the office.
This made Danzo very unhappy.
"Whose child is this? Drive him away!"
An Anbu ninja flashed over and said, "Lord Hokage, Lord Danzo, it's the Genin who just passed the graduation exam the day before yesterday, Minato Namikaze."
"Minato Namikaze?"
Sarutobi was surprised. He had just summoned him the day before yesterday.
After all, he had always been first in his grade. Although he was from a commoner background, his talent was very good.
He had originally planned to make him his disciple after he graduated.
For example, to have Jiraiya teach him. But plans can't keep up with changes.
With the rise of the empire, he could only give that mission to Minato.
Noticing Danzo's cold gaze, Sarutobi said, "Let's calm down first. We'll discuss it after I've dealt with Minato Namikaze. Let him in."
Danzo snorted coldly and didn't leave in a hurry.
"Lord Hokage, Lord Danzo."
As soon as Minato Namikaze came in, he first bowed politely, and then his face was filled with urgency and worry.
"Lord Hokage, Nanako Uzumaki hasn't been to class for two days. I went to her house and couldn't find her. Can you help me find her? I can issue a mission."
"I'm sorry. I really have no other way."
Minato Namikaze was full of worry.
For the past few months, Nanako Uzumaki had been in low spirits. He was really afraid that she would do something stupid.
Danzo's expression turned cold, "Skipping class for two days, and you want to trouble the Hokage with such a trivial matter? Did you buy your Genin rank with money?!"
"I..."
Minato Namikaze clenched his hands and couldn't help but feel bitter.
Sarutobi's expression changed slightly. He comforted him, "I know Nanako Uzumaki. She is a good child. Konoha is safe, so nothing will happen to her."
"Go back and wait for now. If you still can't find her, it's not too late to issue a mission."
At this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression was extremely serious:
"Minato, I believe you are the inheritor of the Will of Fire. You will definitely be able to complete that mission, right?"
"Yes! I guarantee I will complete the mission!"
Minato Namikaze said subconsciously.
After he graduated the day before yesterday, Sarutobi had sent someone to find him.
His mission was the same as Pakura's from the Village Hidden in the Sand.
They were all to find a reason to wander as rogue ninja and enter the Wandenreich.
They were to find an opportunity to display their talent and join the Wandenreich's internal ranks, becoming an elite of the empire like Nagato and the others, and passing on intelligence.
Similarly, Minato Namikaze was only one of Konoha's undercover agents.
As for the other undercover agents, Minato didn't know either.
Danzo said indifferently, "Since you're an undercover agent, you can't be easily exposed. Go back and kill your parents to add to the fun!"
Minato Namikaze: "...My parents have passed away."
Danzo continued to sneer, "Then you must have friends. Go and kill them!"
"..."
Minato clenched his fists.
Is there something wrong with this Hokage's advisor's brain?
Itachi: What a familiar plan!
Sarutobi coughed lightly, "I am preparing the plan. Danzo, don't cause any more trouble."
"Lord Hokage, Nanako..."
Just as Minato Namikaze was about to speak, he saw Sarutobi's strange look and Danzo's cold expression. His heart suddenly jumped, and he immediately changed his words:
"Lord Hokage, I will take my leave."
Minato Namikaze quickly left.
Only when he was far from the Hokage's building did he lean against a corner wall, his heart suppressed.
"For the sake of Konoha, it's no problem to accept a mission like being an undercover agent, which has a one in a hundred chance of survival."
"But why did Lord Hokage's expression change when I mentioned Nanako? And Lord Danzo was too ruthless to me, right?"
Minato Namikaze couldn't help but let his thoughts run wild.
He had been a keen observer since he was young. The attitude of the two towards Nanako Uzumaki felt wrong somewhere.
Most importantly, as Sarutobi had said, Konoha was currently safe.
Where could Nanako Uzumaki have run off to?
But in the past two days, apart from some forbidden areas and the areas of the great clans, he had run all over Konoha and couldn't find her.
"Only a few strands of hair..."
Minato Namikaze held a few strands of red hair that he had found near Nanako's house.
He had indeed found a few strands along the way. They should have been deliberately left by Nanako.
But that was a forbidden area of Konoha!
The new base of Root!
"No, nothing will happen to Nanako. She's just an ordinary girl..."
Minato Namikaze quickly cut off his wild thoughts, his heart heavy as he began to search again.
What Minato didn't know was that after he left, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Danzo seriously:
"See? Just by capturing an unimportant student, it has caused some problems. If it were Nawaki Senju, Konoha would be in chaos."
Danzo sneered with disdain, "If there's a problem, solve it. You've been unhappy with the Senju clan's strong prestige and power for a long time, right?"
"Danzo Shimura!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi stood up abruptly, his eyes extremely sharp.
"I can tolerate other things, but that is the Senju clan, the family of the First Hokage and my sensei, the most outstanding inheritors of the Will of Fire!"
"Sensei has already made a balance plan for the Senju clan. I don't want to hear about any accidents happening to the Senju clan!"
Danzo sneered.
Who knows who it was.
At the beginning of the Second Shinobi World War, he had constantly sent the elites of the Senju clan to the battlefield.
In the name of: letting the glory of the Senju clan once again resound through the ninja world, and producing another Hokage to lead Konoha to prosperity.
This one sentence had made the Senju clan go crazy.
Not a single drop of blood was shed. What a good method!
If not for the abrupt end of the Second Shinobi World War, who knew how many of the Senju clan would have survived?
"The specific plan needs to be perfected. Lucian is not... hm?"
Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was speaking, he suddenly felt a sense of unease and couldn't help but frown:
"I probably haven't been resting well these past few days..."
RUMBLE!!
Before he could finish, a terrifying explosion was suddenly heard from outside.
The entire Hokage's building shook.
Even the windows were shattered, and a cloud of dust blew in.
Konoha was shaken
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