Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

boom! !

Hinata Hizashi slapped the white monster away with one palm, raised his head and looked around. The entire coastline was already occupied by densely packed white monsters, even some reincarnated ninjas mixed in.

"Hizashi, don't be distracted!" With a scolding, White Zetsu, who had just emerged from the ground and was about to launch a sneak attack on Hyuga Hizashi, was instantly kicked away by Hiashi who arrived.

He clung to his brother's back, swept the entire place with sharp eyes, and warned, "This is a battlefield, and being distracted can kill you!!"

Hiashi's heart tightened, and he immediately stopped saving chakra and opened his Byakugan to observe those white monsters. He frowned and said, "To be honest, I can't find the acupuncture points of these people."

"They are not human!"

Hiashi replied, and then slapped the White Zetsu who was rushing towards him and continued, "Don't be so rigid. For this kind of humanoid creature, just hit its head directly."

Eight Trigrams Empty Wall Palm!!

After Hiashi finished speaking, he aimed directly at White Zetsu's head, and chakra suddenly burst out from his palm. This force hit the air and instantly formed a huge shock wave, like bursting a fragile balloon, smashing White Zetsu's head into pieces.

He had a clear understanding of this white monster.

Their attack methods and appearance methods are very strange. They can merge with the earth and isolate themselves from the earth's aura, but their own strength is not strong. The strongest one is probably only at the Chunin level.

Just this amount.

"This is too many, there must be at least 2, right? After this battle, our ninjas must have lost at least one third of their number." After staring at the group of dark white creatures for a while, Rizu couldn't help but sweat on his forehead.

While their troops were on their way, they suddenly received an emergency notice that a large number of ninjas appeared near the coastline at the border between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Iron.

When they arrived here, they found that enemies emerged from the bottom of the sea one after another, as if they had been waiting for them here for a long time.

"Hiashi?"

At this moment, a doubtful voice was heard, instantly bringing Rizu's thoughts back to reality.

He turned his head suddenly and saw a little boy standing not far away. Rizu was stunned at first, then the other party's identity flashed through his mind, and he couldn't help but shout out.

"Rope Tree??"

Hizashi followed his brother's gaze and was stunned by the scene before him.

"It really is the Thousand Hands Rope Tree," he muttered to himself, his eyes full of disbelief, "Are the enemies idiots? What do they want to do by resurrecting the Thousand Hands Rope Tree?"

The brothers Hiashi and Hizashi were born in the 22nd year of Konoha, and Nawaki is 3 years younger than them.

As direct descendants of Hashirama Senju, the three of them had a very harmonious relationship during their childhood. They often went to school together and often went out to play ninja games.

However, this pure friendship came to an abrupt end in the smoke of World War II.

The reason why friendship disappears is very simple.

Senju Rope Tree is dead!!

"Are you Hiashi?"

Seeing that the other party was standing there without saying anything, Qianju Shengshu couldn't help but ask again, while also secretly looking at the other party's face.

He has extremely pure white eyes, no trace of a caged bird on his forehead, and the same long black hair as when he was a child. Although he looks a little older, his appearance is still somewhat similar to that of Hiashi when he was a child.

Swish!

At this time, a Jonin wearing a Kirigakure vest appeared next to Hiashi.

He saw the solemn expressions of the brothers Hiashi and Hizashi, his eyes stern, then turned his head and stared at the little boy wearing the Konoha forehead protector, and asked vigilantly, "Senju Nawaki, is he a member of the clan of the Shodaime, Nidaime, and Godaime Hokage?"

Since the Fourth Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village has a baby face, the ninjas of the Hidden Mist Village never dare to look down on those ninjas who look young and immature.

After all, no one knows what kind of terrifying strength lies beneath that baby face.

Besides, Senju is a sensitive surname.

When the Jonin from the Hidden Mist Village thought of those famous ninjas in the Senju of the Forest, his heart instantly rose. He glanced at the solemn expression of the Hyuga clan leader and asked in a low voice.

"Is the enemy strong? If we want to escape, I'll use the Mist Hidden Jutsu first!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the two brothers Hiashi and Hizashi fell silent for a moment.

He is strong, indeed. When he was in the ninja school, he often got first place.

Weak, indeed weak. He just graduated and went to the battlefield. Before he even saw the enemy, he accidentally stepped into an explosive trap and was killed.

After thinking for a while, Hyuga Hiashi suddenly raised his head and said to the Mist Ninja beside him, "Don't be so nervous. He is probably only at the level of a Genin, and he is a Genin who just graduated from the Ninja School and has failed in cultural subjects."

at the same time.

The bay behind the Allied Forces Headquarters.

Because of its proximity to the sea, the Hidden Cloud Village has been raising a giant sea turtle for generations since the village was founded.

This turtle is as big as an island. It carries the Jinchūriki's method of practicing perfect control over the tailed beasts and an independent ecological environment. It drifts on the sea all year round, and its whereabouts are unknown.

Now this giant island turtle has been summoned here by the ninjas of the Hidden Cloud Village.

Standing on the top of the Raikage Building and looking into the distance, you can clearly see the guards busy walking on the back of the island turtle. At the same time, on the coast, there is a team of ninjas stationed neatly, ready to support the island turtle at any time.

The two are only a thousand meters apart, but they seem like two solid lines of defense. A solemn and murderous atmosphere slowly permeates the surrounding air.

"Huruzen!!" Danzo stood on the top of the tree. He looked at the Raikage Building in the distance and shouted to the people below, "How long have we not seen the Raikage Building?"

"More than 30 years, I guess!" Sarutobi Hiruzen took a puff of his cigarette and replied vaguely.

The last time they came to the Hidden Cloud Village was when the First World War was about to end, when they came here with Teacher Tobirama to conduct peace talks.

"Yes, more than 30 years."

There was a hint of complexity in Danzo's tone, but there was a hint of ferocity in his eyes as he looked towards the Raikage Building.

After the negotiation, they were ambushed by the Hidden Cloud Village. In order to protect them, Tobirama chose to lead the enemy away alone, and unfortunately died in the end.

It was also after that negotiation that he lost the position of Sandaime Hokage, lost the position of Fourth Hokage, lost the position of Fifth Hokage, lost the position of Sixth Hokage.

pat!

After observing for a while on the top of the tree, Danzo jumped down directly, then came to Sarutobi Hiruzen, waved his hand to clear the smoke in the air, and said lightly.

"When I think about handing over the position of the General of the Shinobi Alliance to those barbarians in Kumogakure, I feel very unhappy."

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at him without saying anything, but continued to smoke his pipe.

He has heard a lot of complaints about this recently, and his ears are getting calluses.

"Huruzen, your smoking frequency scares me!" Seeing that the other party ignored him, Danzo turned his head and changed the subject.

Hearing this, Sarutobi Hiruzen slowly put down his pipe, blew a puff of smoke into the air, and said with a smile, "It's already this time, let's not worry about these insignificant things."

Danzo's face darkened, and he couldn't help but look up towards the center of the island.

The Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails Jinchuriki live there, and their mission is to protect the Jinchuriki and to resist the enemy's attack when the enemy attacks, so as to buy time for the several "Kages" who are stationed at the headquarters.

Taking a deep breath of the second-hand smoke that had not yet dissipated, Danzo found a place to sit down and said gloomily.

"Actually, I've always wanted to be Hokage!!"

"I know!" Sarutobi Hiruzen took a puff of cigarette and replied slowly.

He had known about Shimura Danzo's obsession for a long time, even dating back to when the two had just met.

"If the ninja world is destroyed, there will be no hope!" Danzo leaned against the tree, saying expressionlessly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at him and poured a bucket of cold water on him on the spot, "You have no hope unless the Ninja World is destroyed. You know that your personality and style are not suitable for becoming a Hokage."

"but."

Noticing that Shimura Danzo looked a little lost, Sarutobi Hiruzen took a puff of his cigarette and suddenly said, "I can let you experience the feeling of being a Hokage."

Hearing this, Danzo's pupils shrank, and he immediately stood up and said excitedly.

How to experience

Before he could finish his words, he saw Sarutobi Hiruzen clapping his hands together, and five white smoke suddenly appeared around them.

The moment the smoke dissipated, five shadow clones appeared before his eyes.

Seeing this scene, Danzo narrowed his eyes and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

next second.

The five clones used the transformation technique to transform into five different appearances, and shouted in unison towards the direction where Danzo was, "Hokage-sama, good afternoon!!"

Danzo: "."

He sat down on the ground, and the excitement in his eyes was instantly replaced by silence.

"Huruzen, when did you become so boring?" Danzo looked up at the azure sky, his face full of doubts about life.

In his memory, although Sarutobi Hiruzen liked to look at beautiful women, he was still a normal person and would never make such a ridiculous joke.

Hiruzen was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled and replied.

"When people are bored, they always have to think of something to pass the time. When I retired, I thought of this idea to entertain my grandchildren in the future."

Although this sounded a bit like an insult, Danzo was too lazy to care about it.

He looked up at Konoha, and after a long silence, he suddenly said, "Hiruzen, the teacher said I was wrong. Do you think I was wrong?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen paused, he knew what Danzo wanted to say.

When Teacher Tobirama returned to Konoha, the first person he met was Tsunade, and the second people he met were him, Danzo, Koharu, and Menen, and he chatted with them for the whole night.

"Danzo, we all know we did wrong in those matters, there's no need to ask!"

Hiruzen slowly closed his eyes, "I did not inherit Tobirama's master's construction of the ninja village system well, and because of this incident, you bore the dark side of the village for me.

Our reputation is still pretty good now, simply because we retreated early enough and didn't cause too much damage to the village. And relying on Konoha's profound heritage and those outstanding ninjas, we won two consecutive Ninja World Wars.

Our merits temporarily outweigh our faults.”

Click! !

Danzo crushed the stone in his hand into powder with an expressionless face, then spread out his palm and let the sea breeze blow the powder into the sky.

"Whoo~"

Sarutobi Hiruzen blew a puff of smoke into the air, staring at the gray-white smoke for a while, and muttered to himself, "In the beginning, we were all ninjas who possessed the will of fire and practiced our own ninja way.

But later, as it aged, it gradually deteriorated and rotted.

Fortunately, in the very end, when everything was about to go wrong, the Uchiha clan resurrected Lord Hashirama, allowing us to step down from our high positions and remember our original intentions.

That’s all.”

Danzo stood up and sat down next to Hiruzen. He snatched the pipe from the other's hand, took a light puff, let the spicy smoke flow in his mouth, and finally swallowed it in one gulp.

Sarutobi Hiruzen widened his eyes slightly and wanted to tell him that this was not the way to smoke.

But next second.

Danzo took another puff, swallowed the smoke like eating, and spoke slowly.

"Konoha needs me but Konoha doesn't like me."

"Konoha does need darkness, but some of the things you've done have crossed the line. It's no wonder that the village doesn't like you." Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at him, and seeing that he was still about to smoke, he immediately snatched the pipe from him, wiped the mouthpiece with some disgust, and continued.

"After all, I am not capable enough to become a great ninja like my teacher, so I need you to shoulder those things for me."

"Huruzen, the world cannot be ruled by just nice words. There must be people who endure and sacrifice silently in the darkness." Shimura Danzo closed his eyes and retorted with a calm expression.

"For a door, if someone is responsible for the face, someone else must be responsible for the inside. The face cannot be stained with dust or blood. If the inside is covered, it must be covered. If it cannot be covered and the face is exposed, it will be a catastrophe that will cause the world to collapse."

Danzo paused and spoke slowly.

"So, you are the leaf basking in the sun, and I am the root buried deep in the soil."

"Hiruzen."

He raised his head to the sky and muttered to himself, "In fact, my biggest obsession is not the Hokage, but the day when the teacher asked who could cover the retreat. I felt timid, but you, Sarutobi Hiruzen, did not hesitate at all."

Hearing this, Hiruzen took another puff of his cigarette silently, and his eyes looking up at the sky became more melancholy.

"do you know?"

Danzo stretched out his hand to the side, motioning for the other party to hand over the pipe, and continued, "I brainwashed my subordinates, controlled them with curses, and erased their "self". In fact, in addition to preventing them from leaking information, I made those people become an extension of "me"! !

Whenever those “extensions of me” sacrifice, I actually get some satisfaction from the sacrifice.”

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's shocked look, Danzo's mouth curled up slightly, "I have seen a psychiatrist for a while, and my mental state is a little abnormal.

In the words of the medical ninja, his mental state was jumping back and forth between "I can sacrifice everything for Konoha" and "This little thing is not worth my sacrifice."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sarutobi Hiruzen fell into silence.

He could probably understand now why Danzo always liked to use the darkest means to do small things, because he wanted to show that "he could sacrifice everything for Konoha."

After a long silence, he suddenly narrowed his eyes and asked.

"What about Kyuubi Night?"

Danzo rolled his eyes and replied.

"If I die in that kind of event, what's the difference between me and ordinary people who die? If I have to die, I have to die in a big event, a big event with a sense of mission, destiny and inspiration."

"I find that your mental state is even more abnormal than that of the Uchiha!" Hiruzen's mouth twitched fiercely a few times, "Your ultimate pursuit in life is actually a great sacrifice.

I want to sacrifice myself. If I can't die, let my subordinates die. If it's my turn to die, I have to stay useful so that I can become a Hokage like Tobirama Sensei."

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked up at the sky with a helpless look on his face.

But he also understood why Danzo had such thoughts.

"When you were ambushed and shrouded in the shadow of death, you had a strong sense of morality to save the world and sacrifice yourself, but your fear of death prevented you from taking action.

This fear of death has instead generated a lifelong obsession with death.

You want to become a Hokage because the spirit of sacrifice that Hokage carries can fill your inner desire for the ultimate pursuit."

Danzo nodded slightly, and looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with a bit more emotion.

As expected, we are old friends who have worked together for many years. He only mentioned it briefly and the other party was able to understand his thoughts.

Is he afraid of death?

fear death!

Does he want to die?

wanna die!

It's contradictory, but that's how it is.

"So, when do you plan to die?" Hiruzen took a puff of his cigarette and said calmly.

"Wait for me to find an opportunity!!"

Danzo closed his eyes and continued, "Find a chance to save the world."