I just want to be lazy, I was forced to become Hokage

In a blink of an eye, several days passed.

Danzo Shimura's sudden death did not cause the slightest ripple in the Leaf Village.

Although this ninja's dark status is very high in the village, he is really unpopular and can even be said to be hated by everyone.

Those ninjas who didn't know about Shimura Danzo's death were fine.

Most of the ninjas who knew that the old black root was dead were happy to hear about it.

There are very few ninjas who would feel sad or even angry about Shimura Danzo's death. I am afraid that there are only two other elders in the village - Mito Monobu and Koharu Koharu.

However, even Sarutobi Hiruzen did not take any action for the death of Shimura Danzo.

No matter how anxious, angry and fearful Mito Kadoyan and Koharu were, they could only suppress these emotions in their hearts.

Even though these two elders already knew who the murderer of Shimura Danzo was.

But they didn't want to accompany Danzo Shimura to the Pure Land to kowtow and confess to the previous Hokage.

Shimura Danzo's death was like a rotten leaf falling from a big tree, easily turned over.

As for the root he created, under the personal control of Sarutobi Hiruzen, it was quietly integrated into the ANBU - or, in other words, returned to the ANBU.

Sarutobi Hiruzen has not yet considered the specific method of dealing with the ninjas at the root.

The darkness of Konoha and the darkness of ninjas ultimately need someone to support them.

Thinking of the upcoming fourth generation election, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt that he would not be able to sit on the position of Hokage for long.

Simply leave the problem of root treatment to the next Hokage.

Whether it's to abolish the roots, or to send new ninjas to rule the darkness of Konoha...

It's all up to the Yondaime to handle it!

After experiencing what happened in the past few days, especially after being defeated head-on by Nara Langui, Sarutobi Hiruzen's spirit also became aging.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's biggest hope now is to be able to select a suitable successor for the village.

"Namikaze Minato, Nara Langui...and, alas, Orochimaru..."

…

Just when Sarutobi Hiruzen in Konoha Village was secretly chanting the name of his disciple.

In a secret base somewhere in the Kingdom of Fire.

Orochimaru is reviewing the latest intelligence information coming out of Konoha Village.

As a very famous Sannin, Orochimaru still has many followers in Konoha Village.

It is a very simple thing for Orochimaru to obtain the latest trends in Konoha through these followers.

"Danzo Shimura is dead, and his roots have been merged into ANBU..."

Orochimaru held a roll of information in his pale palm, with a cold light shining in his narrow snake eyes.

"We really have you, Nara Langui, and Tsunade!"

Even Orochimaru didn't expect that after Nara Langui and Tsunade took action against him, they would take action against Shimura Danzo!

He even killed Danzo Shimura directly!

Orochimaru licked the corner of his mouth, threw the information scroll aside, raised his new hands, and turned them back and forth several times.

Many days ago, Nara Langui cut off Orochimaru's hands, giving the Sannin a very painful lesson.

But in the end, Nara Langui only cut off Orochimaru's body, but did not cut off Orochimaru's soul.

After a period of self-repair.

Orochimaru successfully repaired his hands - of course, not by reattaching the two original burned and carbonized palms, but by using his superb biological and genetic methods to clone two arms and transplant them. come over.

"Haha, speaking of which, I would also like to thank Nara Langui for finding such excellent materials for me!"

Orochimaru stared closely at his two newbies, their extremely pale skin the color of a corpse that had lost blood.

“Without those Bai Zetsu corpses, I wouldn’t have been able to find the special material ‘White Zetsu Cells’ so quickly.

"Compared to Hashirama cells, White Zetsu cells are like some kind of inferior clone.

"The closeness to the wood chakra, the affinity to natural energy, and the activity and corrosiveness that are far lower than those of Hashirama's cells...

"At least at this stage, White Zetsu Cells are more suitable for me than Hashirama Cells!"

Orochimaru's new arm is a biological prosthetic made using white Zetsu cells.

This "White Jue Arm" is definitely much weaker than the genuine version, but at least it's better than nothing.

"My original cells, White Zetsu cells, Hashirama cells, Sage cells...this is my path to ninja!"

Orochimaru put down his hands and looked at the strange special research materials in the secret base.

"The next stage of the plan is to completely transform my own cell tissue based on Bai Jue cells!"

The death of Danzo Shimura had a big impact on Orochimaru's heart.

He originally planned to secretly return to Konoha after his hands were "repaired" successfully.

Let’s not mention Nara Langui and Tsunade’s wood escape and cell tissue for the time being.

Many of Orochimaru's experiments still need to be carried out in Konoha Village!

Especially those research projects with Danzo Shimura.

What about "Hashirama Cells", "Eight-Tailed Jinchuuriki", "White Zetsu Cells", "Tailed Beast Chakra" and the like.

But now Danzo Shimura is dead!

Orochimaru's plan was disrupted a lot because of this.

Without the help of Shimura Danzo and his roots, many of Orochimaru's research projects will be seriously affected, and may even be shut down completely.

If this is the case, Orochimaru simply cuts off his wrist and abandons related research in Konoha.

Anyway, he had already backed up the main research materials in advance.

Why risk your life and return to Konoha for something less important?

Orochimaru made up his mind and entered a deep state of dormancy.

…

In the blink of an eye, nearly a week has passed.

The long-prepared Five Shadows Conference has finally arrived.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took Namikaze Minato and another ANBU ninja team on their journey to the Land of Iron.

In the root battle half a month ago, Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Namikaze Minato to rescue Shimura Danzo, but unfortunately there was no response from Namikaze Minato.

Affected by this incident, Sarutobi Hiruzen also considered whether to replace the entourage who participated in the Five Kage Conference.

In a sense, "the attendant of the Five Shadows Conference" can almost be equated with "the successor favored by the Third Hokage".

But after some thinking, Sarutobi Hiruzen gave up the idea of ​​changing his followers.

Going back on one's word is secondary.

The key is that apart from Namikaze Minato, Sarutobi Hiruzen could not find a more suitable negotiating follower than him.

There are several "Hokage successors" in Konoha Village.

But there are actually only three people who are truly qualified to access this position.

Namikaze Minato.

Orochimaru.

Nara takes the laurel.

In fact, Jiraiya and Tsunade are also very good Hokage reserves.

But the former made up his mind to support his apprentice.

The latter was unswervingly determined and cheered for Nara to win the championship.

Under the premise that he was not optimistic about Orochimaru's succession, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only choose a suitable follower between Namikaze Minato and Nara Langui.

He couldn't bring some ordinary ninjas who lacked strength and reputation to participate in the Five Kage Conference, right?

In that case, Konoha's face and pride will be lost!

Namikaze Minato and Nara Langui.

In the end, Sarutobi Hiruzen chose the former.

A long journey.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and his party finally arrived in the Land of Iron.

The Five Shadows Talk is about to begin.