Chapter 1668: The Root of Darkness

Chapter 1466 The Root of the Anbu

The silvery white moonlight shines on the tall Hokage Building.

The Hokage's office.

Moonlight Gale and another Anbu member half-knelt on the floor of the office, having just finished reporting to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Did he say that..." Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep puff of his pipe, his wrinkled face under the Hokage's bamboo hat was full of worries.

A six-year-old child...

"It seems we guessed wrong." Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled heavily.

Originally, they thought that this magical primary blood and flesh repair pill was a secret of the Hyuga family, and they were all planning how to get this prescription from Hyuga Hiashi. At the very least, they had to reach a cooperation with the Hyuga family and get a batch of primary blood and flesh repair pills to use as military reserves.

They ignored what Might Guy said that they could buy it from Hyuga Neji for 500,000, because they guessed that Hyuga Neji only had one or two pills at most, which was far from what they wanted, and there was no need to bully a child and snatch food from him.

As the top leaders of the Hokage Village, even if they did not get the Hyuga family's prescription for manufacturing, they could reach cooperation with the Hyuga family in many ways.

But they never expected that a six-year-old child was very likely to be the maker of this pill, and let themselves, the Hokage, talk to him.

Does this look like a six-year-old child?

Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes in the smoke, and kept guessing in his heart whether it could be a trigger thrown out by other forces, or whether Hyuga Neji secretly betrayed the Hyuga clan because of his father's affairs?

Eighteen Hyuga clan branches were headed by a six-year-old child. This matter was a bit weird no matter how you looked at it.

Especially among the eighteen Hyuga clan branches, there were members of the Hyuga clan branches who were older than themselves.

"One wave has not yet settled, another wave has risen. Is the Hyuga clan also unstable..." Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed secretly in his heart.

The Uchiha clan has always been difficult for Sarutobi Hiruzen to deal with.

Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to find a way to make the Uchiha clan truly integrate into Konoha, but he has not been able to do it after ruling for so long.

And as the hawks in the Uchiha clan became increasingly powerful, the patriarch of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Fugaku, was also somewhat difficult to support and control the situation of the Uchiha clan, which made Sarutobi Hiruzen fall into distress.

But in fact, both Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo knew that they wanted the Uchiha clan to give up the rights they thought they should fight for, but they were unwilling to really negotiate with the Uchiha clan. They just talked nonsense and kept suppressing and fearing the Uchiha.

They never really recognized the Uchiha as a member of their own camp, and in the end they could only drag it on, dragging it on without any help.

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked himself that he couldn't solve the Uchiha problem even if he tried his best.

The Uchiha clan wanted to fight for the right to become Hokage, and whoever was stronger would take the position!

If they lost in the fight, the Uchiha clan would just accept it. If they couldn't win, they couldn't win. The Uchiha clan didn't say anything.

But there was no position to fight for, and because the Sharingan appeared in the pupil of the Nine-Tails a few years ago, the Uchiha clan's clan land was allocated to the edge of Konoha Village, which really provoked the nerves of the Uchiha clan.

In this case, even the Hyuga clan split up?

How dare the branch of the Hyuga clan?

"Unless..." Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart skipped a beat.

Unless Hyuga Neji solved the problem of the Hyuga clan's caged bird, otherwise, why would the branch of the Hyuga clan dare to split up secretly?

Do you really think the main family of the Hyuga clan is kind?

As long as the main family of the Hyuga clan cannot control the death of the branch family of the Hyuga clan, what kind of splitting struggle will break out under the long-term oppression of the caged bird? Sarutobi Hiruzen felt frightened just by imagining it.

Without the life and death threat of the caged bird, the branch family of the Hyuga clan did not eat the main family, and Sarutobi Hiruzen felt that the branch family of the Hyuga clan was kind.

If the main family and the branch family of the Hyuga clan split and a war broke out, the Uchiha clan coveted the position of Hokage and fought with Konoha Village.

Sarutobi Hiruzen could not imagine how absurd it was that the two major families in Konoha Village had problems at the same time, and how incompetent he was.

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought of the serious consequences, and his face gradually became ugly. Finally, he choked on the cigarette and realized that in front of him, Moonlight Gale and another Anbu were still waiting for him to speak, and his face slowly calmed down.

"Thank you for your hard work. Go back and have a good rest." Sarutobi Hiruzen took down his pipe and said to Moonlight Gale and another Anbu with a smile.

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Moonlight Gale and another Anbu didn't say much, although they were also very curious about what happened to the Hyuga clan that made the 18 members of the Hyuga branch surrender to Hyuga Neji.

You know, Hyuga Neji is only six years old.

A six-year-old child conquered an old man of the Hyuga clan who was over 70 years old. How ridiculous.

But as Anbu, there are some things they don't need to know.

Putting away their curiosity, Moonlight Gale and another Anbu member left the Hokage's office and returned to the Anbu base without saying a word. After putting away their respective combat items and closing their own cabinets, they said hello to the on-duty squad leader and left work.

Moonlight Gale went home directly.

Another ordinary-looking Anbu, after seeing Moonlight Gale return home, turned around and entered another secret passage of the Anbu, came to the base of the Root, and came to meet the leader of the Root, Shimura Danzo.

"Danzo-sama." The Anbu ninja who came to the Root went into the office of the Root leader Shimura Danzo, which was decorated very similar to the Hokage's office, and reported to the half-kneeling man sitting in the office chair.

The Root is simply understood as a private army selected from the Anbu loyal to the Hokage to obey Danzo's orders. They are small in number and have eyes and ears in the Anbu. Danzo's control over them is also strong enough. This Anbu member is Shimura Danzo's eyes and ears.

It's just that Shimura Danzo doesn't need to use these eyes and ears at ordinary times, and his arrival at the base of the Root also surprised Shimura Danzo, and felt that something big seemed to be going on.

"Speak." Shimura Danzo sat in his office with half of his body in the shadows, looking down at the crowd. He felt like he was also the Hokage, and said coldly.

"Danzo-sama, Hokage-sama sent me and Gekko Hayate to monitor Hyuga Neji, and found that Hyuga Neji had privately gathered 18 members of the Hyuga clan to train a new type of ninjutsu.

Hyuga Neji found us and two members of the Root, and the two members of the Root were killed by Hyuga Neji's men. He asked me and Gekko Hayate from the Anbu to go back and tell Hokage-sama: Go back and tell Sarutobi Hiruzen to come and discuss with me!"