Chapter 178 Confused Hongdou

Konoha Village, Hokage's office.

Jiraiya was talking to Orochimaru with the contact frog.

"Orochimaru, Danzo has been imprisoned in the dungeon by the old man, and the entire root has been uprooted."

"Your grievances have also been cleared by the old man. Now the villagers know that you were wronged."

"Tsunade has also returned to the village. Would you like to come back and have a look too?"

Jiraiya contacted Orochimaru again. This time the third generation did not speak. It was Jiraiya who was talking to Orochimaru.

Jiraiya told Orochimaru the actions of the last three generations.

Orochimaru replied: "Last time, I owed the old man a favor. I came back to take a look. Let's talk about it later."

Then the communication frog said that Orochimaru had left.

Jilai also sent back the communication frog here, and asked the third Hokage: "Old man, Orochimaru only said to come back and take a look. What should I do?"

The Third Hokage's expression was very calm: "It doesn't matter. If he can come back, he will find that the village can provide him with more conveniences."

Jiraiya shrugged, the recent third generation felt a bit strange to him. But it feels good to not have to use your own brain.

"Where did Naruto go?" Sandai asked.

"He went to the Uchiha."

Jiraiya scratched his head, and the third generation asked him to be optimistic about Naruto and strive to have a good relationship with Naruto so that he could better take care of the Kyuubi and pass on the will of fire to Naruto.

As a result, Naruto is now extremely repelled by Jiraiya. Let alone being a master and disciple, he cannot even be ordinary friends.

"Tsunade protects Naruto and doesn't let me go to find him. She also recognizes Naruto as her younger brother."

When the third generation heard that Tsunade actually recognized Naruto as her younger brother, he didn't know what he thought of, and a flash of fluctuation flashed in his eyes.

Sandai took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Let's do this for now. With Tsunade taking care of me, I'll feel relieved."

"As for Tsunade being able to get closer to Naruto, it wouldn't hurt."

"Knock knock knock..."

There was a knock on the door.

"Hokage-sama, Mitarashi Anko asks for an audience."

The Third Hokage thought for a moment and nodded: "Let her come in."

Anko opened the door and ran in, asking anxiously: "Sandaime-sama, I saw the village announcement just after I returned to the village."

"Teacher Orochimaru, are everything about Orochimaru...all true?"

Hongdou wore a khaki windbreaker, a short skirt lined with fishnets, and a pendant hanging around her neck.

His whole face turned red with excitement.

The Third Hokage nodded: "Yes, what happened with Orochimaru was indeed maliciously framed by Danzo. Danzo has now been captured and locked up in a dungeon."

"As for Orochimaru, when Uchiha Natsuki takes over as clan leader this time, Orochimaru will return to the village."

"Orochimaru...is going back to the village?..."

Hongdou staggered and walked outside in a distracted state.

The Third Hokage took a puff of his cigarette and didn't care about Anko's rudeness.

Anko has suffered a lot in recent years because of Orochimaru's rebellion against the village.

Orochimaru had made great achievements on the battlefield, so naturally he could not be alone.

Orochimaru has a large number of followers.

When Orochimaru rebelled against the village, some of these followers chose to leave Konoha with Orochimaru.

The other part chose to stay in the village.

The people who stayed in this group actually did not live a good life.

If you have strong abilities, you will be monitored by the ANBU every day. If you have average abilities, you will have to report to the ANBU regularly.

To these people, this is a personal insult.

But there is no way, who can let these people follow Orochimaru.

Anko is a special one among them. She followed Orochimaru for a long time and was Orochimaru's disciple.

But in the end, when Orochimaru defected, he didn't take Anko with him.

Anko even lost part of her memory, thinking that Orochimaru abandoned her.

As a result, he became entangled in love and hate for Orochimaru.

It's no wonder that after Orochimaru was rehabilitated, Anko came to the Third Hokage for verification as soon as she received the news.

It can be said that Anko is just a representative of Orochimaru's old department. What kind of feelings do other people who once followed Orochimaru have towards Orochimaru now?

After all, some of them were given up by Orochimaru, and some of them gave up and Orochimaru chose the village.

Now that Orochimaru has been rehabilitated, these people are no longer human inside and out.

Anko's thoughts were a little confused. She suddenly heard the news that Orochimaru had returned to the village. She didn't know how to face Orochimaru.

Miss your teacher? The resentment of being abandoned? Or something else?

She lost her memory and didn't even know that staying in Konoha Village was her own choice, not that Orochimaru abandoned her.

She didn't know how she should face Orochimaru, but she had a hunch that Orochimaru would definitely come to her.

She touched the curse mark on her neck.

"Most definitely."

……

late at night.

Hyuga clan.

In the mansion of Hyuga Kaito, the fourth elder of the clan.

Hyuga Kaito was sleeping soundly.

What he didn't know was that something was eroding into his body from his left leg after recovery from injury.

This erosion is very, very slow...

The progress is basically based on months, and deep assimilation is going on every moment.

So even though Kaito has the Byakugan, he still doesn't know the condition of his body.

In this silent night, Hinata Kaito's body, starting from his left leg, seemed to have earthworms stirring under the skin. The skin membrane undulated slightly, and then went up along the meridians.

Now these raised meridians have spread to the neck.

It's just that the higher you go, the slower the bulging meridians become.

One night passed, and the last position was still near the neck. If you didn't look carefully, you would think it was the same as yesterday, with no change.

At dawn, the abnormality in Kaito's body completely disappeared again.

After Kaito woke up, he found no physical discomfort and stayed in the sect as usual.

Although he has recovered physically, because of what he did before, Uchiha Natsuki did not come back.

Kaito has always been under house arrest.

Now Natsuki finally came back, picked it up heavily and put it down gently.

Just let the Hyuga clan do some small things.

This completely forgives Kaito's sins.

Let the entire Hinata clan be very grateful.

Although Kaito has been released from the ban, the situation in the village is strange. Kaito doesn't want to go out now, for fear of getting Hinata into trouble.

However, Kaito's habit of supporting his juniors is still the same, especially now that he has recovered.

He even put down his identity and conducted actual combat exercises with his nephews and sons in the training ground.

As a genius back then, Kaito's actual combat ability was pretty good.

Moreover, Kaito had retired from the battlefield. Compared to Hina, who drove stakes every day, someone like Kaito who had seen blood and experience in actual combat was even more crushing.

It's rare to have such a good training partner, Elder Haidou is very popular.

Regardless of whether it is a clan or a branch family, as long as Elder Kaito is around, there is always no shortage of opponents.

Kaito also accepted everyone who came, and originally thought that he could only wait for death slowly in a wheelchair.

He didn't expect that he would still have time to show off his skills, so Kaito felt extremely lucky.

Daisuke Kaizaki and others who are close to him have been his targets for a long time, and their strength has been rising steadily.

Gradually become the backbone of the family.

……