After a brief shock, Hiruzen took the letter of resignation from Sakumo's hand, at the same time revealing a warm smile.
"It's good to resign, you can just teach Kakashi well, adding bricks and tiles to Konoha's new generation. Speaking of which, I'm a little envious of you."
Sakumo nodded slightly, but there was no expression in his heart regarding Hiruzen's goodwill.
After all, years of working together had long since made Sakumo know Hiruzen's nature.
Moreover, this incident might not have happened without Hiruzen adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes.
So, after nodding slightly towards Kenji, Sakumo left the Hokage's office in a carefree manner.
Hiruzen picked up his pipe and took a deep puff, then exhaled a large cloud of smoke.
Sakumo's sudden resignation interrupted his plan. In the current Konoha, regardless of identity or status, no one could take over the position of head of the Anbu from Sakumo.
Hiruzen had originally planned to have his eldest son, Shinnosuke Sarutobi, take over Sakumo Hatake's position in a few years.
The current Shinnosuke was still somewhat lacking in strength.
At this time, Hiruzen suddenly looked at Kenji, who was frowning on the opposite side, and a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.
In terms of identity, as Tsunade's disciple, Kenji was undoubtedly from his faction.
And in terms of strength, being able to intervene in the battle with Hanzo, Kenji's strength was also sufficient.
Looking at the sudden gleam in Hiruzen's eyes, Kenji, who was slightly frowning because of the smell of smoke, quietly took a step back.
This old man, wouldn't he have some shocking wisdom again?
"Kenji, are you interested in the Anbu?"
Facing Hiruzen's probing, Kenji directly chose to refuse.
Although the power of the head of the Anbu was quite large in Konoha, taking over Sakumo's position at this juncture could only make him a puppet of Hiruzen Sarutobi, just like Minato, who took over the position of Fourth Hokage in the original story.
He had the obligations of the Hokage, but the power was divided by the former Hokage and the two advisors.
That said, Orochimaru's defection might have been under Hiruzen's control.
After all, if Orochimaru became the Hokage instead of Minato, the power in Hiruzen's hands would be greatly reduced.
Seeing that Kenji directly rejected this proposal, Hiruzen didn't entangle him too much. Instead, he continued to start showing concern for Kenji's life.
If people who didn't know saw it, Hiruzen would really be a kind old man who cared about his juniors at this time.
After Kenji perfunctorily said a few words, he said goodbye.
After returning home, Kenji began his degenerate life of going back and forth between his own house and Tsunade's house.
However, for some reason, he hadn't seen Mikoto for a long time. He didn't know what Mikoto was busy with now.
...
On a peaceful afternoon, Kenji was enjoying this quiet afternoon in bed.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the living room.
The "bang" sound directly called Kenji back to reality from his dream.
Kenji reached out and rubbed his eyes, wanting to see what had happened.
Pushing open the door and walking into the living room, Kenji saw Kushina with an angry face and Mikoto with slightly red eyes, and the table, which had been divided into two in the middle.
It wasn't hard to see from Kushina's angry expression that the table must have suffered her "poisonous hand."
It had to be said that Kushina, as a student, had learned Tsunade's skill of destroying the table at the slightest disagreement to the fullest.
After silently complaining in his heart for a while, Kenji walked to Kushina's side, massaging her hand, which had just heavily struck the table, while asking:
"Who made our Kushina-sama angry?"
Kushina turned her head to look at Kenji, then couldn't wait to tell the whole story.
"Kenji, let me tell you, it's really infuriating..."
While Kenji was rubbing Kushina's small hand, he nodded, and soon understood the whole story.
This matter had nothing to do with Kushina. The protagonist was Mikoto, who was sitting opposite her.
In short, Mikoto had reached the age where she should get married, so her family had been asking her to go on blind dates with the young talents of the Uchiha clan.
With such a "gem" like Kenji in front, Mikoto naturally couldn't stand those guys who looked at people with their noses after comparing them.
However, recently, Mikoto's father had been forcing Mikoto to try to be with Fugaku Uchiha, otherwise he wouldn't recognize her as his daughter.
So, Mikoto came to Kushina to complain.
Hearing these things, how could Kushina, as Mikoto's best friend, endure it?
So, the poor table in the living room became a sacrifice.
Kenji soothingly stroked Kushina's head, then looked at Mikoto opposite him.
"Mikoto, what's your intention now? Are you going to listen to your father's opinion?"
Hearing this, Mikoto shook her head firmly.
"Even if I break with my father, I will never succumb to others. I can't accept entering the halls of marriage with someone I don't like."
Hearing these words, Kushina stood up with a "whoosh" sound, waving her fist and shouting excitedly:
"Well said, Mikoto, don't worry, Kenji and I are your strongest support. We'll go beat that old man up later, making him kneel down and apologize to you, and by the way, kill that guy who is a toad trying to eat swan meat."
Judging from the murderous look on Kushina's face, she wasn't joking with her words just now.
However, with her current identity, even if she killed Fugaku, nothing would happen.
Not to mention the increasingly awkward position of the Uchiha in Konoha, just with Kushina's identity as the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki, she could basically walk sideways in Konoha, and there was Tsunade, the head of the Senju clan, as her backer.
Originally, the position of this clan head was reserved for Nawaki, but Nawaki refused, saying that he wanted to live a plain life in the future.
Moreover, according to rumors, many collections of the Senju clan had appeared at auction houses, and it was unknown whether it was true or false.
Tsunade wouldn't do something like selling ancestral property and then using it to gamble, right...
"Kushina, calm down first. That's my father after all. It would be a bit too much to beat him up. He should listen if we communicate well."
Mikoto couldn't help but dissuade her, after all, Kushina's proposal was too extreme.
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