Chapter 345: Skinning

Imagine.

A madman, a madman who was almost collapsed by the sense of mission imposed on himself.

After finally doing all this, he comforted himself like this.

"I succeeded! I successfully stopped the civil war in the village, I stopped the war!"

"I completed my friend's request! I bear this bloody sin."

"I am an unknown hero! I am a real ninja!"

"Shisui, I didn't let you down?"

"Sasuke, you will understand me too, right?"

This is Itachi at the age of 13, a hysterical madman.

As for a few years after leaving Konoha, Itachi began to know himself again, and finally recognized himself at the moment of his death in the battle.

After being reborn again with the Impure World Reincarnation, he finally dared to face his incompetent and failed self bravely.

It was at this time that he finally understood the true meaning of Shisui entrusting everything to him.

Unfortunately, even if he repented, the Uchiha clan had already disappeared.

No matter how strong the remaining Sasuke was, he could not support the glory of the Uchiha clan.

This is why Itachi warned Sasuke in the end.

Itachi's thoughts will also grow. There should be a difference between Itachi when he was young and Itachi when he grew up.

When Itachi was young and entered the Anbu, what he faced most every day was the teachings of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Even earlier, he had already begun to praise Itachi to death.

And the most amazing thing about Sarutobi Hiruzen was that he was the one who manipulated the extermination of the Uchiha clan.

But he cleared himself completely.

In the end, Sasuke only thought that Danzo was the real murderer.

Sarutobi Hiruzen did something similar in the White Fang incident, the Wood Release Replica incident, and even Orochimaru's defection.

It seems that all of them were done by Danzo, and the third generation was at most guilty of negligence.

But judging from the results.

In the Itachi incident, Konoha lost the Uchiha, an uncontrollable family.

In the White Fang incident, Konoha lost the White Fang, an uncontrollable candidate for the fourth generation of Hokage.

In the Wood Release Replica incident, the young and middle-aged people of the Senju clan were almost extinct, and the Senju clan had no successors.

Pretending not to know, let Danzo continue to study Wood Release.

Wait until Danzo has the results, and then pick the peaches.

Maybe there are omissions.

Maybe the White Fang incident was just to suppress it, but White Fang committed suicide.

The Senju clan incident made Tsunade discover the clues and leave Konoha.

Danzo kidnapped a large number of babies and then put the blame on Orochimaru.

Orochimaru disdained to explain and defected directly.

Danzo concealed the fact that some people survived the experiment.

But these are minor problems, and they have been solved now.

In terms of political direction, Sarutobi Hiruzen is the biggest beneficiary.

Here is Konoha's ultimate weapon, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Sarutobi Hiruzen has put in much more effort than anywhere else.

Blocked Naruto's identity as the son of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.

But deliberately released the information that Naruto is the son of the demon fox to those ordinary villagers who know nothing.

Let Naruto be isolated, hated, hungry, cold, and helpless since childhood.

At this vulnerable time, give some insignificant care, let Naruto be grateful.

As the last orphan of the Uzumaki clan, the son of the Fourth Hokage, but there is no inheritance from his parents to control.

Ordinary villagers may not know who Naruto is, so what about Minato's old subordinates and friends?

Are they all dead?

Of course not, but all of them are forbidden by Sarutobi Hiruzen to contact Naruto.

He needs to be the only light on Naruto's growth path.

He needed to use the will of fire to brainwash Naruto and ensure that Naruto grew up to be what he wanted.

In the end, he succeeded and failed.

His success was that Naruto became a saint.

And when Konoha was in a period of transition, he became the biggest pillar of Konoha Village and even saved the ninja world in the end.

His failure was that Orochimaru didn't want to see him continue to decay and chose to kill him.

And no matter how many Sarutobi people he left behind, they couldn't compare to Naruto who saved the ninja world.

Konoha Village did get a continuation, but it was not the continuation that Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was a standard clannist who spared no effort to develop the Sarutobi clan.

When Sarutobi Asuma was young, he gave Asuma a lot of resources for training.

But Asuma chose to be a rebellious teenager.

It was not until the death of the third generation of Hokage that Asuma really matured.

Unfortunately, Asuma soon had an accident.

Konohamaru was still young and had no one to guide him.

There is no one in the Sarutobi clan who stands up like Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Otherwise, the fact that there are so many ninjas in the Sarutobi clan would never be exposed during the Fourth War.

After Xia Mu kidnapped Orochimaru, no one launched the plan to destroy Konoha.

The Third Hokage still has a high reputation among civilians.

If he retires peacefully under this situation, he can still be the same as he was in the fourth generation.

Keep holding on to some power.

His old partner is still a consultant elder and still holds powerful authority in his hands.

Instead of letting the Third Hokage and these elders do things behind their backs.

It's better to peel off the skin of the third generation and send all these complicit elders away.

He had to give up all his power to Orochimaru.

As far as Natsuki knew about Orochimaru, this method was, at best, just stripping the "face" of these elders.

If Orochimaru were to come, it would probably not be as simple as being "shameless".

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Although Orochimaru didn't look good when he left, after returning to his laboratory.

He completely recovered. After all, this was what Xia Mu had discussed with him.

Not long after he arrived, Hongdou followed Xianglin.

"Lord Orochimaru, Senior Sister Anko has arrived."

Xianglin said happily.

Orochimaru turned around and looked up and down Anko's fat body.

Anko's eyes dodge, not daring to look at Orochimaru.

She felt that she was so fat and not good-looking at all.

"I understand, Xianglin, please go down first. If the Third Hokage comes, come and notify me."

"I know Orochimaru-sama!"

Xianglin jumped down.

Kagura's Heart Eye is very useful for Orochimaru.

With this, there is no need for other guards.

"Hongdou, it seems you have thought about it."

Orochimaru didn't seem to care that Anko was fat.

Anko saw that Orochimaru didn't look disgusted, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said at the same time:

"Teacher, I was too naive before."

Orochimaru nodded with satisfaction:

"I happen to be short of people, please come to me and help me from now on."

Anko said happily: "Okay, Orochimaru-sama!"

Orochimaru walked to the nearby laboratory and waved to Anko:

"Let me check your body first."

"Let's see if it's because of the missing curse seal that you've gained weight."

Anko was confused one second, and shocked the next.

He ran up quickly:

"Teacher, is it because I lost weight that I lost weight?"

Orochimaru said naturally:

"That's natural. The curse seal must have energy to survive, otherwise you think you're drinking too much every day."

"What's the reason for overeating and eating so many desserts without gaining weight?"

Anko didn't notice at all why Orochimaru knew her living habits so well.

After she gained weight, anxiety about her figure and appearance almost destroyed her.

She couldn't wait to change back to her original appearance.

"Teacher, is there any way? I don't want to be like this now." Hongdou said with a sad face.

Orochimaru chuckled twice: "Don't worry, let's check first."

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