Starting the fourth generation Hokage

The Land of Fire.

In a remote mountain area far away from Konoha, there is a simple courtyard in a slightly flat area.

The wooden house is old, but it is enough to shelter from the wind and rain.

In the courtyard, a group of children aged between five and ten are playing and frolicking. Their clothes are worn out and their resources are scarce, but they can still feel satisfied and happy to live here.

After all, this is a privately built orphanage.

Those who can live here are all children who have been displaced by war. If there is no such place, it is hard to imagine whether they can survive alone.

In the corridor of the courtyard, a white-haired boy with big round-framed glasses is fiddling with some herbs with simple tools in his hands.

The boy with short white hair is about six or seven years old. He is skilled in processing herbs and obviously has some knowledge of pharmacology.

"Dou, what are you doing? Why don't you come and play with us?"

In the distance, a boy wearing a black hat suddenly ran over here and asked breathlessly.

"These are the herbs that the dean picked when he went out a few days ago. They can be processed into simple medicines, which should be able to exchange for some money..."

While busy with the tools in his hands, Dou continued to concentrate on processing the herbs and responded without raising his head.

The black hat boy looked at it curiously for a while, and then lost interest.

"You are really amazing. Only you have learned the skills taught by the dean..." After saying that, he joined the group of children playing in the courtyard again.

Although he was praised, Dou was not happy about it.

He did all this just to help the orphanage and help the dean share the financial pressure.

Compared to the group of children playing in the distance, only he knew that the dean and two managers in the courtyard had begun to worry about the operating funds of the orphanage not long ago.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the orphanage, the director who built this safe haven spontaneously often worked outside.

He used his own medical ninjutsu to help nearby villages. During the fierce war in the past few years, he went to the front line without fear of danger and treated wounded ninjas in the logistics and medical department to earn money.

Subsidize this orphanage.

It is worth mentioning that he was lucky enough to come here to live because he met the gentle director two or three years ago.

"Child... your name is Dou, right? I didn't expect that we would meet again here..." A low and hoarse voice came.

Dou looked up and saw a man wrapped in a black robe who had appeared in front of him at some point.

And he looked at him curiously with a creepy look.

"You are..." Kabuto pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and then he carefully saw the appearance of the man in the black robe. The pale skin, purple eye shadow, and golden pupils immediately reminded him of some memories. "Are you the Konoha ninja at that time?"

"It seems that you still remember me..." Orochimaru smiled evilly.

The two of them met in the war more than a year ago.

Kabuto, who had just learned medical ninjutsu, followed the dean to the logistics medical department on the front line. While treating the wounded, he met the gloomy man in front of him.

At that time, seeing that Kabuto, who had not learned the theoretical knowledge of ninjutsu, could use simple healing techniques well, Orochimaru was extremely surprised.

Because he only wanted to stay with the dean and live with everyone in the orphanage, Kabuto flatly rejected the man's opportunity to train him to become a ninja.

Just when Kabuto wanted to ask something else, two people dressed the same as Orochimaru came in from a distance.

Among them, the old man with a cane was already talking to the two managers who came out of the house to check.

"We are Konoha's ninjas. We have important matters to discuss with the director of this orphanage."

"Sorry, our director is not here at the moment." One of the managers, a short-haired old man, replied in a panic.

"It's okay, we'll just wait here..."

Shimura Danzo and another man wrapped in a black robe said this indifferently, then found a place to wait.

"Deputy director..., what should we do?" Another manager was a middle-aged woman with a bloated body.

She saw that Danzo and the other two seemed to be unfriendly, so she couldn't help but secretly pull the white-haired old man aside and asked worriedly.

"Let's wait for the director to come back..." The deputy director also looked worried. The orphanage was located here, of course, considering the security environment.

Under normal circumstances, there would be no bandits here at least.

And now these three people, since they claim to be Konoha ninjas, they should be right.

But, Konoha's ninjas suddenly came to the door, which might not be a good thing. Because this orphanage was built privately, during economic difficulties, they can occasionally go to Konoha to apply for aid from the village.

But this aid is not always available.

In most cases, it depends on Konoha's face, and there will be excuses for not disbursing it.

So all these situations show that it is probably not a good thing for Konoha ninjas to suddenly come to the door.

But now, no matter what, we can only wait until the dean comes back...

Kabuto silently collected the processed medicinal materials in his hand and carefully stored them.

Then, like all the children in the orphanage, they observed the three unkind people in the orphanage from a distance and talked quietly.

Most of the children in the courtyard are not interested in the identity of ninja, and some even resist this identity.

After all, most of the people who come here are orphans who were displaced because of the war, so few people have a good impression of the ninja profession that caused the war.

As for Kabuto, he was indifferent to it.

Ninja or not, it doesn't matter. He just wants to stay with the dean and everyone...

Danzo and others waited until late at night for the director of the orphanage, Yakushi Nonou, to return.

There is a prescribed schedule in the orphanage, and you must turn off the lights and go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening.

Lying in the dormitory of Datongpu, Kabuto listened to the even breathing of the children around him. He got up with a heavy heart and secretly glanced at the lights in the room on the other side through the window next to him.

I felt a little more uneasy in my heart.

He could foresee that the three Konoha ninjas who suddenly visited during the day might not bring any good things to the orphanage.

After some hesitation, he put on his clothes decisively and slipped out of bed.

After leaving the dormitory, he headed towards the brightly lit room in the courtyard, which should be the living room.

After arriving at the side of the window with ease, Kabuto carefully eavesdropped on the faint conversation coming from inside the house, and then heard the voice of the old man from Konoha.

"I didn't expect that you, known as the wandering witch, would now become a nanny."