Danzo walked into the Hokage's office without knocking.
When Danzo entered, Sarutobi Hiruzen was standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the Hokage's office, overlooking Konoha.
The Hokage Building is very tall, so tall that you can stand on it and have a panoramic view of the main city area of Konoha.
"Huruzen, is there anything you want to discuss?" Danzo asked.
Sarutobi Hiruzen turned around, nodded and said, "Take a look at the information on my desk."
Danzo walked to the desk, picked up the documents on it and began to look through them. The words "Hanyu Muyue" immediately caught his eye.
When Danzo saw Mu Yue's name, his eyes narrowed slightly and a guess immediately flashed through his mind.
"I just reminded him not to reveal his identity and he was discovered. How incompetent." Danzo thought to himself.
However, as an old actor, Danzo's expression did not change at all. He quickly finished reading the information. There was nothing else on it, only some information about Mu Yue.
"Isn't it just that a special jonin with outstanding teaching ability has been newly promoted? Do we need you and me to confirm it together?" Danzo said calmly.
Since Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't say it clearly, he pretended to know nothing.
Hearing Danzo's words, Sarutobi Hiruzen laughed out loud.
"Haha, Danzo, are you sure this is just an ordinary special jonin?" Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at Danzo with a smile.
"Could it be that he has other special qualities besides his strong teaching ability as recorded in the information?" Danzo was still playing dumb.
There was no way he would voluntarily admit to sending people to the ninja school.
Sarutobi Hiruzen put the pipe into his mouth, puffed out a cloud of smoke and said, "Danzo, you don't have to play dumb with me here. I know he is a Root member that you illegally cultivated."
Then Sarutobi Hiruzen threw some more information to Danzo.
Danzo's face changed instantly after reading it. Not only did it contain information about his secret training of Mu Yue, but also information about the training of some other secret agents.
"How could he know?" Danzo was a little confused. He didn't expect that his so-called hidden players were actually invisible in front of the Third Generation.
Although Danzo established another ANBU, namely Root, under the pretext of training ANBU, Sarutobi Hiruzen was not stupid. He would not watch Danzo's power expand indefinitely, so he limited the number of Root members.
This is exactly the reason why Danzo cultivated secret agents like Mu Yue. If he couldn't give them any help openly, he could only cultivate additional members secretly.
"I do all this to protect Konoha. The number of Root members you set is not enough to protect Konoha's safety." Danzo not only did not admit his mistake, but tried to get Sarutobi Hiruzen to relax the restrictions on the Root.
"Now that the war is about to begin, Konoha needs more Root personnel to protect Konoha. Hiruzen, don't tell me you think Konoha can stay out of it."
Danzo wanted to change the topic from illegal training to whether Konoha would be involved in the war and how to protect Konoha.
But Danzo was an expert. Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had been the Hokage for decades, was even more expert than Danzo. He knew Danzo's thoughts and was not confused by Danzo's words. He knocked on the table and said,
"Let's not talk about other things for now. Let's discuss your violation of the rules in training additional members."
"There are five people here, three of whom are descendants of war heroes. How dare you attack them, Danzo, do you want to destroy Konoha's Will of Fire?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes became sharp, and he stared at Danzo with an extremely oppressive look.
The so-called war heroes are ninjas who died in the war. For example, Mu Yue's parents who died in battle are considered war heroes.
Danzo didn't say anything. It's not that easy to fool or attack a normal child. The offspring of ninjas like Mu Yue usually wouldn't have bad talents.
"I am also training talents for Konoha." Danzo thought about it and made an excuse.
"Didn't you promote Hanyu Muyue to a special jonin? Isn't that considered a talent?"
"Maybe he will be even better if you don't interfere." Sarutobi Hiruzen said bluntly.
In his opinion, Mu Yue was indeed a talented person with outstanding teaching ability and a good talent in sealing techniques. He was also good at using water and fire escape techniques and was also very good at dealing with people.
"Mu Yue is not suitable to stay in the Root. You come to the Hokage Building tomorrow to remove the curse on him." Sarutobi Hiruzen stated his ultimate goal.
His goal today was to get Mu Yue, and beating up Danzo was just a side job.
"Huruzen, what do you mean? I spent a lot of effort to cultivate him. I am the leader of the Root." Danzo said with clenched fists.
Although Mu Yue was not a member of the Root he valued, being asked to leave like this was like having the fruits of the hard-earned trees picked by others. It was aggrieved!
"If you reject me, you will regret it." Sarutobi Hiruzen said lightly.
Danzo's face was uncertain and he did not answer Sarutobi Hiruzen's words for the time being.
"Then what should I do with the resources I spent on him?" Danzo spoke up.
Sarutobi puffed out a puff of smoke and pointed at the documents on the table.
Danzo instantly understood what Sarutobi Hiruzen meant. If he trained him in violation of the rules, he would forget about getting compensation.
Danzo took a deep breath and said coldly: "I will come tomorrow."
After saying that, Danzo turned and left. When he reached the door, he spoke again: "Hiruzen, you will regret this."
"I am the Hokage." Sarutobi Hiruzen reminded him while sitting on a chair.
Bang!
The wooden door of the office was slammed shut.
As soon as he walked out of the office, Danzo's expression instantly returned to normal.
It was just that a special jonin was taken away. He might be unhappy, but he would definitely not be particularly angry. The reason why he acted extremely angry in the office was just to express his anger and let Sarutobi Hiruzen give him compensation.
Sarutobi Hiruzen did not want to compensate, but in return, except for Mu Yue, Sarutobi Hiruzen could pretend not to see the other four people who were trained in violation of the regulations.
This was exactly the subtext of Sarutobi Hiruzen pointing to the information on the table, so the two of them didn't talk about anyone else except Mu Yue.
Except for Mu Yue's four people, they will basically be assumed to be members of the root organization in the future, but they will not be included in the official list of members of the root organization.
"Luckily, Jia wasn't discovered," Danzo thought to himself.
When he saw the list of hidden agents, Danzo's heart skipped a beat, thinking that the Wood Release ninja he was hiding had been discovered.
As long as his Wood Release ninja was not discovered and the other hidden players were exposed, Danzo felt that the loss would not be too great. He believed in the power of Wood Release.
As long as we can train Wood Release ninjas, it is not certain who will have the final say in Konoha in the future.
However, on the way back to the Root, Danzo still felt a little angry. Yesterday, he was still thinking that after Mu Yue became a high-ranking official in the ninja school, he would have one more person he could leverage in Konoha, but today, Mu Yue was taken away directly.
"Go and tell Ye to come over." After returning to the Root base, Danzo instructed his men.
(End of this chapter)
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