Chapter 1466: The Root of the Dark Side

The silvery white moonlight shines on the tall Hokage building.

The Hokage's office.

Moonlight Gale and another Anbu member half-knelt on the floor of the office, having just finished reporting to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Did he say that..." Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep puff of his pipe, his wrinkled face under the Hokage's bamboo hat was full of worries.

A six-year-old child...

"It seems that we guessed wrong." Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled heavily.

Originally, they thought that this magical primary blood and flesh repair pill was a secret of the Hyuga family, and they were all planning how to get this prescription from Hyuga Hiashi. At the very least, they had to reach a cooperation with the Hyuga family and get a batch of primary blood and flesh repair pills to use as military reserves.

They ignored what Might Guy said that they could buy it from Hyuga Neji for 500,000, because they guessed that Hyuga Neji only had one or two at most, which was far from what they wanted, and there was no need to bully a child and snatch food from the child.

As the top leaders of the Hokage Village, even if they didn't get the recipe of the Hyuga family, they could reach cooperation with the Hyuga family in many ways.

But they never expected that a six-year-old child was very likely to be the maker of this pill, and asked themselves, the Hokage, to talk to him.

Does this look like a six-year-old child?

Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes in the smoke, and kept wondering if it was a trigger thrown by other forces, or if Hyuga Neji secretly betrayed the Hyuga clan because of his father's affairs?

Eighteen Hyuga clan branches are headed by a six-year-old child. This matter is a bit weird no matter how you look at it.

Especially among the eighteen Hyuga clan branches, there are members of the Hyuga clan branches who are older than themselves.

"One wave has not settled, another wave has risen, is the Hyuga clan also unstable..." Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed secretly in his heart.

The Uchiha clan was already difficult for Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to find a way to make the Uchiha clan truly integrate into Konoha, but he has not been able to do so after ruling for so long.

And as the hawks in the Uchiha clan became increasingly powerful, the patriarch of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Fugaku, also found it difficult to support and control the situation of the Uchiha clan, which made Sarutobi Hiruzen distressed.

But in fact, both Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo knew that they wanted the Uchiha clan to give up the rights they thought they should fight for, but they were unwilling to really negotiate with the Uchiha clan. They just talked nonsense and kept suppressing and fearing the Uchiha clan.

They never really recognized the Uchiha clan as a member of their own camp, and in the end they could only drag it on, dragging it on without any help.

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked himself that he could not solve the Uchiha problem even if he was exhausted.

The Uchiha clan wanted to fight for the right to become Hokage legitimately, and whoever was stronger would take the position!

If they lose in the fight, the Uchiha clan will accept it. If they can't win, they can't win. The Uchiha clan didn't say anything.

But there is no place to fight for, and because the Sharingan appeared in the pupil of the Nine-Tails a few years ago, the Uchiha clan's clan land was allocated to the edge of Konoha Village, which really provokes the nerves of the Uchiha clan.

In this case, even the Hyuga clan will split within the clan?

How dare the branch of the Hyuga clan?

"Unless..." Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart skipped a beat.

Unless Hyuga Neji solves the problem of the Hyuga clan's caged bird, otherwise, why would the branch of the Hyuga clan dare to split secretly?

Do you really think the main family of the Hyuga clan is kind?

As long as the main family of the Hyuga clan cannot control the death of the branch of the Hyuga clan, then under the long-term oppression of the caged bird, what kind of fight will break out in the Hyuga clan? Sarutobi Hiruzen feels scared just by imagining it.

Without the life-and-death threat of the bird in the cage, the branch of the Hyuga clan did not eat the main family, and Sarutobi Hiruzen thought that the branch of the Hyuga clan was kind.

If the main family and the branch of the Hyuga clan split and a war broke out, the Uchiha clan coveted the position of Hokage and fought with Konoha Village.

Sarutobi Hiruzen could not imagine how absurd it was that the two major families in Konoha Village had problems at the same time, and how incompetent he was.

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought of the serious consequences, and his face gradually became ugly. Finally, he choked on the cigarette and realized that in front of him, Gekko Gale and another Anbu were still waiting for him to speak, and his face slowly calmed down.

"Thank you for your hard work, go back and have a good rest." Sarutobi Hiruzen took down his pipe and said to Gekko Gale and another Anbu with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Hokage." Moonlight Gale and another Anbu didn't say much, although they were also very curious about what happened to the Hyuga clan that made the 18 members of the Hyuga branch surrender to Hyuga Neji.

You know, Hyuga Neji is only six years old.

A six-year-old child conquered an old man of the Hyuga clan who was over 70 years old, how ridiculous.

But as Anbu, there are some things they don't need to know.

Putting away their curiosity, Moonlight Gale and another Anbu member left the Hokage's office and returned to the Anbu base without saying a word. After putting away their respective combat items and closing their own cabinets, they said hello to the on-duty squad leader and left work.

Moonlight Gale went home directly.

Another ordinary-looking Anbu, after seeing Moonlight Gale return home, turned around and entered another secret passage of the Anbu, came to the base of the Root, and came to meet the leader of the Root, Shimura Danzo.

"Danzo-sama." The Anbu ninja who came to the Root went into the office of the Root leader Shimura Danzo, which was decorated very similar to the Hokage's office, and reported to the half-kneeling man sitting in the office chair.

The Root is simply understood as a private army selected from the Anbu loyal to the Hokage to obey Danzo's orders. They are small in number and have eyes and ears in the Anbu. Danzo's control over them is also strong enough. This Anbu member is Shimura Danzo's eyes and ears.

It's just that Shimura Danzo doesn't need to use these eyes and ears at ordinary times, and his arrival at the base of the Root also surprised Shimura Danzo, and felt that something big seemed to be going on.

"Speak." Shimura Danzo sat in his office with half of his body in the shadows, looking down from above, and said coldly, as if he was also the Hokage.

"Danzo-sama, Hokage-sama sent me and Gekko Hayate to monitor Hyuga Neji, and found that Hyuga Neji had privately gathered 18 members of the Hyuga clan branch to train a new type of ninjutsu.

Hyuga Neji found us and two members of the Root, and the two members of the Root were killed by Hyuga Neji's men, so I and Gekko Hayate from the Anbu went back to tell Hokage-sama: Go back and tell Sarutobi Hiruzen to come and discuss with me!"