"Danzo, what exactly are you trying to do?" Mitokado Homura asked himself, holding a high position. Although he might have some personal interests, he would never do anything to betray the village's information.
"Of course, I'm doing it for Konoha." Even when caught red-handed, Danzo didn't change his tune at all.
Torifu Koharu also couldn't accept Danzo's actions, and said with a sarcastic expression, "Is colluding with rogue ninjas for Konoha? Is selling out the village's information also for Konoha?"
Danzo held his cane in one hand and placed the other behind his back, making a few obscure gestures. He said with a calm expression, "It seems I must give you a reasonable explanation today."
"That's for sure, I..." Mitokado Homura's words were cut short as his eyes suddenly widened, looking at the Kunai piercing his chest. He said in shock, "Koharu, you, why?"
Torifu Koharu didn't answer, only looking at him with cold eyes.
"This is my explanation." Danzo walked up to Mitokado Homura, looking into his eyes, and said:
"Homura, you and Hiruzen are too weak. You actually allowed the Fourth Hokage to do so many absurd things. If this continues, Konoha will surely be destroyed in your hands. Only by letting me become the Hokage can I truly inherit Tobirama-sensei's will."
"You actually..." Mitokado Homura didn't expect that Danzo's ambition was to replace Minato as Hokage, and that he would actually attack him.
Judging from Koharu's performance, is she under the Mind Body Switch Technique? Then she might also be...
"During the Chunin Exams, the village was invaded, the two advisors were assassinated, and even the Third Hokage was seriously injured. All of this is because of the Fourth Hokage's dereliction of duty!" Danzo said to himself, "If I were the Hokage, such a thing would never have happened!"
"You won't succeed." The light faded from Mitokado Homura's eyes, and he fell to the ground weakly. Finally, his lips moved, and his voice was barely audible, "I didn't expect that even in death, I would cause trouble for Konoha. I'm really an incompetent senior..."
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About 300 meters outside the Shimura Clan's gate, Naruto looked at the three red dots in Danzo's house on the mini-map, and the two green dots that had just disappeared, and fell into deep thought.
He originally just felt malice and thought there were enemies, so he ran over to catch them, but looking at it this way, Danzo and his subordinates probably just killed two people?
Naruto looked at the gate of Danzo's house, really wanting to give his house a Tailed Beast Ball, but if he really did that, he would become a rogue ninja. It would be too much of a loss to trade one for one with this guy.
As for sneaking in to investigate, Naruto really didn't have much confidence in his stealth skills. If he alerted Danzo, it would be bad if he prepared more thoroughly.
He should go back and tell his old man first. What was that saying again?
I'll just drive, and my old man will figure out the solution.
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Minato returned to the office after seeing that the situation on each battlefield had stabilized. This matter would keep him busy for a while. Hearing Naruto's information, he said seriously:
"Are you saying that Danzo may have killed two companions?"
"Yeah, but I don't have any evidence." Naruto suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Right, are Sai and the Sound Ninja Four still alive? We can interrogate them."
"Ibiki has already interrogated them. Sai has the Curse of the Root: Tongue Severing on him, which may be related to Danzo, so we can't get anything out of him for now." Minato had of course thought of this, and continued:
"As for the other four, they should be Orochimaru's loyal followers. They refuse to open their mouths no matter what, and even insist that Orochimaru is not dead."
The Curse of the Root: Tongue Severing is a method Danzo uses to control his subordinates. The curse mark is placed at the root of the tongue. When they try to say anything related to Danzo, their whole body will be paralyzed and unable to move.
Naruto gave a wild idea, "You can let Mom try to undo it, or just let the Yamanaka Clan open his skull."
Minato said, "Opening the skull doesn't mean that... Never mind, I've already thought of that too, and there should be results soon."
Naruto ignored his old man's complaints and continued, "There's one more thing, I actually also feel that Orochimaru isn't completely dead yet."
"Why do you say that?" Jiraiya and Tsunade personally confirmed Orochimaru's body, and it was indeed the main body that died, not a substitute.
Naruto pondered and said, "Because of intuition? That man... woman... cough, that guy has mastered core technology. I just feel that even if we beat him to death, beat him to dust, and even seal his soul, he might still pop out from some corner and continue to cause trouble. Right, don't the Sound Ninja Four and Anko have cursed seals on them? They might become his means of resurrection."
"I've studied Anko's cursed seal before. In the end, it's just an application of Sealing Technique and natural energy. I've already sealed it, ensuring that it can't absorb energy from Anko's body, nor can it absorb natural energy from the outside world. In other words, it can't play any role anymore.
As for the cursed seals on the Sound Ninja Four, I'll deal with them later. And if Inoichi can extract information about Orochimaru from their minds, then I'll send people to clear out Orochimaru's hideouts."
As the father and son were talking, the office door was suddenly pushed open, and Kushina walked in angrily, dragging a person behind her with chains.
Minato asked, "Kushina? What's this...?"
Kushina clenched her fist, her red hair behind her threatening to float up: "I don't recognize him, but he must have been sent by Danzo. I'm going to beat up that old geezer!"
Minato hurriedly comforted her: "Don't be impulsive, tell me what's going on first?"
Kushina temporarily suppressed her anger and explained, "I was originally trying to crack Sai's Curse of the Root: Tongue Severing, but Sai suddenly got poisoned, and then I sensed this guy sneaking around trying to run away. After punching him, I also had symptoms of poisoning on my hand.
Fortunately, I found Tsunade-sensei in time, and she helped me clear the poison bugs. It seems he's from the Aburame Clan. Danzo must have asked the Aburame Clan for him in the name of Root before. Now he has a guilty conscience and sent him to silence Sai!"
Naruto remembered this person, Aburame Torune, one of Danzo's loyal subordinates, who could use nano-level poison bugs to destroy the enemy's cells. Once you touched his body, you would be poisoned.
"How's your hand?" Minato immediately stood up and asked with concern.
"I'm completely fine, not even a scratch." Kushina opened her five fingers and showed Minato.
Minato grabbed her hand and looked at it over and over again, making sure she was okay before letting go.
Kushina withdrew her hand, a little blush on her face: "Naruto is still watching."
"Should I leave then?" Naruto looked at his parents showing affection and felt a little homesick for Hinata.
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