Konoha: I'm an Uchiha, and I started by proposing to Rin Nohara.

Chapter 133 Your Regret, My Shadow: Danzo's Speculation

Chapter 133 Your Regret, My Shadow: Danzo's Speculation

After receiving enough promises.

Tsunade left the Hokage's office satisfied.

Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived at the Hokage's desk and slowly sat back down on the dark red wooden chair.

Looking at the contract he had drafted with Tsunade on the table, the Hokage couldn't help but rub his temples.

Increase training funding for Class 5, raise the salaries of instructors, and compensate for losses incurred due to errors in task assessment....

All things considered, the total amount is probably several million taels.

In that case, the Dark Division's budget for this quarter will be cut in half again.

Turning the wooden chair's wheels, gazing at the face on the shadowy rock outside the window, Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed helplessly.

"Teacher, it was so much easier when you were here..."

'

He habitually put the pipe to his lips, about to take a puff, when a strange noise came from his side.

Bang! !

The hidden door to the Hokage's office was pushed open.

Danzo emerged from behind the door, gazed at Hiruzen Sarutobi, and said earnestly, "Hiruzen, if you really feel very tired, then take a few days to rest. Leave the village to me; you don't need to worry."

Feeling the intense gaze of his old friend, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face twitched; he simply couldn't feel moved.

"You're handing the village over to me?" He glanced at Danzo with annoyance. "The ninja children are too afraid to go out at night."

Let alone two days, even if Danzo were only given one day, by the time he, as Hokage, returned to the Hokage's office, the Konoha map hanging by the window would probably no longer show the location of the Uchiha clan's territory.

"It's not as exaggerated as you think." Danzo stood to the side, arms crossed, a hint of displeasure on his face. "Over the years, I've done all the dirty and hard work. What's wrong with leaving the village to me for a couple of days?"

"Hmm..." Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't deny it, so he could only vaguely change the subject: "Then tell me, what should we do with this Jinchūriki from Kumogakure?"

Without hesitation, Danzo replied, "Detain them, threaten them, demand a price!"

"Danzo, you're too extreme," Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed and shook his head. "That's why you can't be Hokage."

"The importance of Jinchuriki is no joke. The Hidden Cloud Village has been so flamboyant in recent years, they're just looking for an excuse to start a war."

"Hmph, Konoha isn't afraid of these brainless brutes!"

Danzo snorted, glaring defiantly at Hiruzen Sarutobi, and asked, "Then what do you suggest we do?"

"Harmony brings wealth; I hope to sit down and talk things out with them..."

'

"Talk? Talk my ass!" Danzo shouted. "All you know is how to negotiate, that's where you'll always fall short of Tobirama-sensei!"

"Danzo, you..." Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't expect the other party to use their teacher to intimidate him, and for a moment he didn't know how to refute.

"What do you mean, 'I'? You always wait for others to make a move before you act. I inherited Tobirama-sensei's strategies, and I just can't stand your timidity!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression darkened slightly. "Danzo, I am the Hokage. It's not your place, as his assistant, to interfere."

'

Danzo snorted coldly, too lazy to listen to such nonsense, and turned to leave.

Watching my old friend's hurried back.

Remembering something, Hiruzen Sarutobi narrowed his eyes and spoke again: "I'm warning you, don't lay a hand on Tsuna's people, or you won't be able to bear the consequences!"

As if his thoughts had been read, Danzo paused in his departure, then turned around and returned to the Hokage's office.

Seeing Danzo return, Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression softened slightly: "You finally understand what I meant..."

""

"Pooh!"

Danzo spat and gripped the wooden door.

"Hiruzen, you'll regret this sooner or later!"

boom! !

The hidden door was slammed shut with such force that even the desk in the Hokage's room trembled a few times.

Seeing the tightly closed secret door, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face turned completely dark.

Danzo Shimura disappeared into the dark corridor and returned to the Root.

In front of the members with blank and indifferent expressions.

Danzo unhesitatingly removed the bandages from his face.

Round and round, as the bandages slipped to the ground, a faint crimson light flickered, revealing a double-tomoe Sharingan that slowly flowed from its socket.

"Sharingan..."

Danzo Shimura covered his eyes, feeling the suddenly clear world, his voice low and ecstatic.

"It's the Sharingan... Uchiha Ike, he's awakened the Sharingan."

The Sharingan of the Uchiha clan is the natural enemy of the Tailed Beasts.

Back then, Madara Uchiha easily enslaved and controlled the Nine-Tails with his Sharingan, causing widespread destruction in Konoha.

That same night, having just been promoted to Jonin, he directly experienced the power of the Nine-Tails and was shocked to discover that the Sharingan could control such a being.

From that moment on, he inevitably developed a strong desire for those powerful eyes.

Danzo Shimura speculated that Ike Uchiha must have awakened the Sharingan.

Only in this way will Tsunade have a chance to defeat the Jinchuriki.

Yes, as a descendant of the Senju clan and a close relative of the Uzumaki clan, Tsunade could very well have a trump card to fight against the Tailed Beasts.

But Danzo Shimura didn't believe that Tsunade could overcome her hemophobia, which had plagued her for many years, and use those trump cards against the tailed beasts simply because of her so-called bond with her students.

Otherwise, what was she doing all those years ago?

Therefore, something must have happened.

Danzo Shimura reasonably speculated that it was Uchiha Ike's Sharingan that played a role.

Perhaps this caused Tsunade to lose her sense of blood.

To take it even further, it might have interfered with the tailed beasts' movements...

But regardless of the type, this is something that is difficult for someone who has just awakened their Sharingan to do, especially someone like Uchiha Ike who doesn't have much talent to begin with.

In other words...

"This Uchiha brat seems to have quite a few good things on him."

A sinister smile crept across his lips as Danzo Shimura narrowed his eyes, pondering, "Since the monkey warned me, it means he's thought of this too."

But he pretended not to know...

"What a coward!"

Recalling his cowardly old friend, Danzo couldn't help but sneer.

"What he dares not do, I will do!"

If the people he sent simply vanished after the mission was over, wouldn't Shimura Danzo be completely innocent?

What they have no shortage of are these kinds of suicide soldiers!

After officially concluding the first mission outside the village.

Uchiha Ike naturally patronized Ichiraku Ramen.

"Please enjoy your tonkotsu ramen."

Ayame walked over carrying a ramen bowl bigger than her face and stood on tiptoe to place it on Uchiha Ike's table.

Uchiha Ike nodded and smiled as he watched Ayame hurriedly return to the kitchen.

The ramen shop is doing as well as ever.

Uchiha Ike sighed slightly before looking at the azure blue text in front of him—the system's notification interface.

[A sense of presence from Hiruzen Sarutobi has been detected. The system has automatically reduced the host's aura!]

[Current aura level corresponds to Chunin strength (does not affect actual strength)]

[Surprise detected from Hiruzen Sarutobi!]

[Gain 15 points and increase defense by 3%!]