Chapter 310 Sarutobi Hiruzen's Fear

the next day.

The Uchiha clan and their base were destroyed, and the news of the corpses of the clan members spread throughout Konoha.

This news cannot be concealed, after all, it is obvious there.

How could the Uchiha clan, known as the number one family in the ninja world, be wiped out in just one night?

Before people could recover from their shock, they received a notice from the Third Hokage that he was going to convene a Konoha Conference.

Jonin, chunin, genin, young, old, children, all the people in the village gathered in the Konoha Square. It was even more complete than the memorial service after the end of World War II. Because there were so many people, the square was so crowded that there was no room for everyone. Most civilians had to listen to the loudspeakers on the street.

This time, the one-armed hero Sarutobi Hiruzen did not give his long and boring speech on the will of fire. Instead, he went straight to the point, which is the rebellion of the Uchiha clan!

According to Sarutobi Hiruzen's narration, Orochimaru and the Uchiha clan attempted to launch a coup, but his wise and brave self saw through it in advance.

In order to implement love and justice and to prevent the village from being destroyed, the great Sarutobi Hiruzen resolutely led the Anbu and the Root to fight against the Uchiha clan and Orochimaru. After the Third Hokage lost his arm and sacrificed a group of elite soldiers including Shimura Danzo and Kato Dan, the Uchiha clan was pacified, Orochimaru was defeated and fled, becoming an S-level rebel ninja.

This is the countermeasure that all those in the know came up with in a secret meeting overnight.

In the end, Sarutobi Hiruzen successfully fooled the villagers, and he was forgiven by people because of his broken arm.

As for the subsequent settlement, it is not something that civilians should know about.

...

The following week.

On the surface, Konoha is peaceful, but undercurrents are turbulent. The Root has been completely closed down, and the remaining members and ninjas involved with it have all been secretly executed. The Anbu has also been strictly investigated. All ninjas who have close relations with Kato Dan and Orochimaru have been tried for various reasons, and some have been imprisoned, disappeared, or marginalized.

Orochimaru's early defection implicated many people, but also saved some people in disguise. For example, Anko Mitarashi, who was planted with the Curse of the Zanjitian by him in the original time and space, was still in school in this time and space and had no chance to become Orochimaru's disciple.

One night a week later, in the Hokage's office.

Sarutobi Hiruzen temporarily retained his position as Hokage because he successfully suppressed the so-called Uchiha rebellion.

After dealing with all the follow-up events of Orochimaru's defection, Sarutobi Hiruzen temporarily breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason why it is half a mouth is because this incident caused great damage to Konoha's combat power, with thousands of people implicated, and the number of Konoha ninjas dropped back to 30,000.

The most important thing is that among the more than one thousand casualties, there were more than six hundred Uchiha ninjas. They were the backbone of the battlefield, but they were all wiped out by Xuanwu. Only five survivors were left, and two were missing.

After returning to Konoha that night, when Sarutobi Hiruzen learned from Xuanwu that the Uchiha clan was exterminated by him, he was so hit hard that he almost fainted on the spot. Fortunately, Jiraiya, who was standing next to him, was quick to pull him up.

After forcing himself to listen to Xuanwu's statement, although Sarutobi Hiruzen was extremely dissatisfied, he didn't know what to say because Xuanwu showed him the video of the Uchiha clan luring him to the base and intending to kill him. Even if Xuanwu went a little too far, he could definitely claim self-defense.

Besides, he was already busy enough with the affairs of Danzo and Orochimaru, so it would be unwise to blame Xuanwu now.

Moreover, it was Xuanwu who proposed the suggestion of portraying the Uchiha clan as joining forces with Orochimaru to launch a coup. So, by this calculation, Sarutobi Hiruzen still owed him a big favor.

With things having developed to this point, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only accept it with a pinch of his nose. If he really told the truth, it was hard to say what would happen to Akimichi Genbu. He would definitely have a hard time. What Danzo and Orochimaru had done could directly pull him down from the position of Hokage.

The upset Sarutobi Hiruzen walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, puffing out thick smoke. He looked into the distance, saying that he was overlooking Konoha, but in fact he was only looking in the direction where the Genbu family was.

Somehow, the Third Hokage felt that the tobacco leaves produced in the capital were not so good to smoke. He extinguished the fireworks, sat back in his office chair, looked at the now empty office, and sighed heavily, "Ah~, Akimichi Genbu, did he really kill the entire Uchiha clan by himself?

The Uchiha clan has nearly thirty elite jonin, and they have specially prepared a triple barrier against him. Most importantly, according to the information found from the Root, Uchiha Setsuna has already opened the Mangekyō Sharingan. Even so, Akimichi Genbu still killed every last one of the Uchiha clan, and dug out all the eyes that could be dug out, leaving only a single pair unturned. To appease me, he even burned all of them to charred corpses, under the pretext that their eyes were burned together. Do you take me for an idiot?

He just happened to wipe out the entire Uchiha clan when Danzo and Orochimaru rebelled, as if it was planned in advance.

There are not so many coincidences in the world!

If there is no ghost, I have lived in vain for decades!

With Akimichi Xuanwu's strength, ruthlessness, and extreme emotions, he is definitely the second Shura no matter how you look at it!

I should have expected it. How could that man's grandson be such a coward? How could he only know how to compromise and fawn on others?

He pretended to be a pig so well that even I thought he was really a pig, a strong pig who was willing to sacrifice his life for Konoha.

It's too late to say anything now. He has fully grown up, not to mention his own strength.

Tsunade is his girlfriend.

Shengshu is his brother-in-law.

The Fire Country Daimyo regarded him as his savior.

Minato Namikaze, the only one who mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, recognized him as his elder brother.

The Jinchūriki of the Calamity Nine-Tails, Uzumaki Kushina, is his godsister and has lived in his house since she was a child. He also brought another member of the Uzumaki clan back to the village.

Jiraiya considered him his best friend, because the matter of Nadeshiko Village was even more ironclad, and he was just short of letting him be his father.

Hatake Sakumo was his close friend, even more so after that incident, and his son became his disciple.

The successor of the Eight Gates of Ninjutsu was also very close to him, and his son was also his apprentice.

He was from the Akimichi clan, and was naturally close to the Ino, Shika, and Chou families. The previous heads of the three families had long since passed away, and the older generation of elders had almost died out because of the Second Ninja World War. The current heads of the three families all regarded him as an idol, and the newly appointed elders did the same. The most prestigious person within the three families, Sanae Akimichi, was his aunt and godmother, and treated him better than her own son.

As for Konoha, because of his impressive record, he has a large number of die-hard fans. As long as he raises his hand, he will definitely have countless followers.

As for me, Mito Kado En, Utane Koharu, and Shimura Danzo passed away one after another, my most proud disciple defected from the village, and I broke an arm, so my strength was greatly reduced.

The Root has been disbanded, and the Anbu's strength has been greatly reduced because of the shameless Kato Dan, and it will take a long time to recover.

Although the four families currently obey me, if we really touch them, Ino-Shika-Cho will probably tear up the alliance of the four families. By then, the Sarutobi clan will be unable to stand alone!

The Uchiha clan's strongest means to contain Akimichi Genbu has disappeared. My only support is the Four-Tails. Speaking of the Four-Tails, it was he who caught it. In other words, the Sarutobi clan still has to be grateful to him!

As one strengthened while the other weakened, I was actually weakened to such an extent without even realizing it!"

"Boom!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen smashed the mahogany desk in front of him. This was the first desk he had destroyed with his own hands since he became Hokage.

Four ANBU members appeared in the Hokage's office.

"Hokage-sama, what may I ask?"

"roll!"