Naruto: Konoha’s Kanpu

Chapter 278: Minato's Choice

Chapter 278: Minato's Choice

Konohas great victory in the Battle of Kiky Pass not only drove Sunagakures Shinobi completely out of the Land of Fire, but also captured many prisoners on the mountain, including a small part of Sunagakures Shinobi and a large number of Land of Winds civilians.

And Sunagakures Shinobis withdrawal from the Land of Fire also means that the war between the two countries will end with Konohas victory, and it was Orochimaru who brought all this!

So naturally, Orochimarus fame reached its peak in an instant. When he returned to the village with the captives, countless civilians in Konoha cheered at his return.

Hiruzen is standing on the rooftop of Hokage Tower. When looking at this scene, there was a bit of solemnity and hesitation in his eyes.

The war with Sunagakure has come to an end for now, so the Anbu he sent to assist Orochimaru has also returned a little earlier.

From Anbus mouth, Hiruzen noticed some dark figures on the ground.

Root!

Hiruzens thoughts gradually drifted to the past.

More than 40 years ago, not long after Konoha was established, Shodaime Hokage, Senju Hashirama, who was known as the God of Shinobi, passed away. After his death, Konoha lost the Wood Release and its position in the Shinobi World plummeted. Not long after, a war broke out, Nidaime Hokage also died, and then Hiruzen inherited the Sandaime Hokages position.

In order to improve the villages strength as quickly as possible, Hiruzen agreed to Danzs request and allowed him to establish the Root under the name of Anbu Training Department. Later, in order to prevent the threat of Kybi rampaging, Hiruzen and Danz used Hashiramas cells to do human experiment together in an attempt to breed a new Wood Release Shinobi!

Yes, in addition to Danz, Hiruzen also used Hashiramas cells to do human experiments!

Unfortunately, all their human experiments failed, and all the volunteers, who were experimental subjects, died without exception.

Hiruzen had no choice but to stop the experiment, and then sealed the experimental data and records as a black history.

After the Second Shinobi World War broke out, Hiruzens three disciples, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade obtained the title of Sannin.

At the same time, Danzs Root also became active, collecting corpses and captives everywhere. When Hiruzen saw this, he thought to himself, Old friend, are you secretly conducting human experiments behind my back?

Because of that, Hiruzen sent Orochimaru to Danz as his personal follower. The first is to show his trust and respect for Danz, and the second is to monitor Danz and whether his Root were continuing to do human experiments!

Through Orochimaru, Hiruzen confirmed that Danz did not continue his research, perhaps because of guilt. Later, Hiruzen put more trust on Danz and the scale of power decentralization became larger and larger. It didnt take long for Hiruzen to find a reason for Orochimaru to leave Root.

Hiruzen thought it was over, until now.

From the Anbus report, he found that in addition to Anbus Shinobi, Danzs Roots Shinobi also followed Orochimaru to the Sunagakure Battlefield.

Moreover, after arriving at the battlefield, Orochimaru even broke up all the Anbus Shinobi and transferred them to various units, but Roots Shinobi were all left by him to act as his guards!

In other words, Orochimaru trusts Danzs Root more than Hiruzen, his own teachers Anbu!

After confirming the close relationship between Orochimaru and Danz, the hurt Hiruzen cant help but doubting the credibility of the information that Orochimaru sent back when he was monitoring Danz at Root.

Has Danz really stopped the human experiments?

Then, Hiruzen immediately checked the number of corpses recorded in the logistic records of the Konohas main camp after Orochimaru arrived at the frontline, and found that there were a lot of Konohas Shinobis corpses, but none of Sunagakures Shinobi!

It must be known that before Orochimaru arrived there, they captured a lot of Sunagakures Shinobis corpses, and even living Sunagakures Shinobi captives, but after Orochimaru arrived at the frontline, no corpse was seen, let alone living captives!

It was clear that they were all taken by Orochimaru.

Thinking about these things is extremely terrifying, and Hiruzen did not dare to imagine it.

Of course, all this may also be due to his own carelessness.

Hiruzens heart felt heavy, but just in case, he still had to investigate, but unfortunately, at this time, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Lightning declared war on Konoha one after another, instantly diverting all Hiruzens attention.

As early as when Konohas wars against Sunagakure and Kirigakure broke out, Hiruzen had already dispatched a large number of Shinobi to guard the border, but when the war really broke out, the problems that should be exposed were still exposed.

For example the lack of high-level combat power of Konohas elite Shinobi!

The two giant clans of Konoha, Hyga Clan and Uchiha Clan, are still dragged along the coast of the Land of Fire by Kirigakure, and cannot be taken away.

Although the war with Sunagakure is over, several years of war has also consumed a lot of high-level combat power in the village, coupled with Tsunades fear of blood, Jiraiyas laziness, and Orochimarus suspiciousness, Konohas high-level combat power can almost can be counted on ones fingers!

Hiruzen thought for a while, and finally thought of a hot man.

Hokage-sama!

Minato still has his short golden hair that covers his ears, and his blue eyes are as deep as the sky.

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Minato, how is your development of Flying Thunder God Technique? Hiruzen cut straight to the point.

Its done! Minato said with a smile.

Hiruzens eyes gradually lit up: Very good, Minato, its so timely!

As the villages Jnin, Minato naturally knew about the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightnings declaration of war, so when he heard something from Hiruzens tone, he immediately said seriously: Hokage-sama, please allow me to serve on the front line!

Hiruzen nodded in relief, and said: The Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning, which side do you plan to choose?

Minato squinted his eyes slightly: The Land of Earth!

Minatos Flying Thunder God Technique speed is unparalleled in the world, whether it is the Land of Lightnings Kumogakures Shinobi or the Land of Earths Iwagakures Shinobi, there is no difference, but in comparison, the Land of Lightnings Kumogakures Shinobi are mostly good at Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, and their reflex is very fast, while the Land of Earths Iwagakures Shinobi appears to be a lot of clumsier. Comparing the two, it is natural for Minato that Iwagakures Shinobi is easier to kill.

Hiruzen immediately agreed, and he also assigned all the Anbus Shinobi, who had followed Orochimaru to the Sunagakure Battlefield, to be under Minatos command!

After Minato left Hokage Tower, he immediately went to say goodbye to Kushina, and then headed towards the Land of Rain with the Anbu.

A few days later, Danz returned from the Land of Rain and immediately took Hiruzen, Koharu and the others to a meeting. The first thing was to recommend Orochimaru, who had won the Battle of Kiky Pass as the Commander-in-Chief, to command Konohas army in the war against Kumogakure!

If it was before, Hiruzen might have agreed directly, but now, he has already suspected that Orochimaru and Danz were still carrying out human experiments behind his back. If Orochimaru is put on the frontline, God knows what he will do in order to collect the experimental subjects.

Of course, the most terrifying thing is not this, but that Orochimaru is the heir recognized by the outside world. Once Orochimaru makes great achievements on the battlefield again, then Orochimarus obtaining Yondaime Hokages position will be a sure thing!

When Orochimaru becomes Hokage, those human experiments sealed by Hiruzen are likely to reappear in Konoha in an upright manner!

Hiruzen smoked from his pipe calmly, refused Danz with a faint expression, and said with stern righteousness that Orochimaru has just returned from the Sunagakure Battlefield and should rest for a while, and then, he took advantage of the situation to send InoShikaCh.