Chapter 115: Hiruzen, you don't want Biwako to see the complete photo, do you?
Chapter 115: Hiruzen, you don't want Biwako to see the complete photo.
"dong dong dong~~"
At dusk, Utane Koharu's sedan chair stopped at Sarutobi Hiruzen's residence.
Then she knocked on the door herself.
The servant who opened the door naturally knew the elders of Konoha. He didn't say much and led the way to find the Hokage.
"Eh? Koharu, you're still here to see Hiruzen at this late hour?"
Passing by a yard, Biwako was playing with his youngest son Asuma Sarutobi.
"Well, there are some things we need to discuss."
Utatane Koharu stopped and looked at the two-year-old Asuma Sarutobi. As the son of the Hokage, he could naturally become a ninja. Therefore, with the help of chakra, he would grow faster than an ordinary two-year-old child. His pair of eyes that were rolling around proved that he already had his own thinking.
"Asuma, say hello to Auntie Koharu."
"Auntie. OK."
"okay."
Utane Koharu nodded, and then felt a little emotional.
"Time flies by so fast. I'm already an aunt."
"Yes, I remember you were born five years ago in Konoha. You will be forty-three after your birthday this year."
Sarutobi Biwako felt a little emotional.
"Look at my temples, I have some white hair. I heard there is a hair dye in the Snow Country that is very useful. If there is a chance, I will ask Hiruzen to buy some for me, and then I will give you one too."
"Haha, thank you very much."
"So, Xiaochun, you really don't plan to get married?"
"Well, no."
Utane Koharu pondered for a moment and shook her head.
"I'm used to being alone."
"Go find Hiruzen. He's been very busy these past few days and doesn't go to bed until midnight every day."
"Ah."
"Squeak~"
The wooden door was slowly opened.
Utane Koharu walked into Sarutobi Hiruzen's study. He was dealing with official documents. After all, the war had just ended, and there were still a lot of troublesome things to deal with, such as post-war negotiations, redistribution of interests, time and place of negotiations, and so on.
"Xiaochun, why are you here?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen raised his head and was stunned when he saw Utane Koharu.
"Can't I come?"
The 43-year-old Utane Koharu smiled slightly, and one could still see the shadow of the former beauty of Konoha Village.
"Sure. So, what's up?"
"How are the post-war negotiations going?"
"It's OK. The preliminary negotiation location is Iron Country, which is an old neutral country. Those samurai don't have much money and are not easy to mess with. However, it's just a matter of wrangling. The Rain Village has the so-called Samsara Eye, so they have the confidence to challenge us."
"So, have these four years of war been fought in vain?"
"It can't be said that the fight was in vain. Externally, we also gained some radiation range and established connections with us. Internally, with the help of this war, we basically weakened the ninja family and released a large amount of population space. So what's the matter with you coming to see me?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Utane Koharu who was walking towards him, so close that he could almost feel the air she exhaled.
He knew that this time, this woman did not come as an elder.
"Why did you let that boy be the leader of the Root?"
When mentioning this matter, Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression became somewhat gloomy.
"It's all because of that bastard Danzo. If he hadn't acted on his own, he wouldn't have done this. Making him the leader of the Root is the best way to contain him. Anyway, the real elite of the Root have been transferred away by me in advance. The Root he got can't be said to be an empty shell, it's just a regular special forces unit."
"So, you know, he's checking the accounts?"
"Are you afraid?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen raised his head and looked at Utane Koharu.
"I told you not to get involved in his affairs. You are no match for that kid, but did you listen?"
"So, you're going to give up on me?"
"Then what can I do?"
"Sarutobi Hiruzen."
Utane Koharu took a deep breath and took out a photo, no, it should be half a photo from her arms.
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"You don't want Lake Biwa to see the other half of the photo, do you?"
As she spoke, she gently placed the photo on the table.
"Xiaochun, I can only promise."
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed.
"He can't use tricks outside the board. He can only use Konoha's laws to judge you and these two ninjas who once belonged to the Root. They are the elite among the elites. I transferred them out when Danzo made a mistake last time. You can use them. This is what I fought for you before. Otherwise, you might not be able to see me alive."
“So, you shouldn’t.”
"You and Danzo broke the rules first!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen slammed the table suddenly, and that half of the photo danced in the wind, just like Utane Koharu in her twenties swaying her body.
"If you and him had listened to me, would you have come to this point today? Besides being a ninja, you are also an elder of Konoha. Ninjas are not just about fighting and killing. They don't just flip the table when they can't win a chess game. Who do you think you are? Lord Hashirama has kowtowed to the other four Kages."
"Then who am I doing this for?"
Koharu Utane looked at the man in front of her, and suddenly she felt that this man made her feel a little strange.
"Don't worry, I will take care of everything. If he really tracks me down, the matter will end with me."
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Konoha, handwritten family residence
The Shusha Clan is a small clan in Konoha. There are many ninjas in the clan, but most of them are Chunin, Genin, and Jonin. There is only one clan leader, Shusha Ryoki. Although their clan is small, they do a lot of business. They are good at forging various ninja tools and own a large weapon shop in Konoha. However, what they are most talked about is their unique dressing style that is different from traditional clothing, especially women, who like to wear a kind of clothing called cheongsam, which is very popular in Konoha. Many ninjas come to buy weapons, sometimes just to see the board lady, Shusha Ryoki's daughter.
"Oh!"
In the deep night, the door of Shouxi Tian's room was suddenly opened.
She quickly opened her eyes and saw her father standing at the door in a panic.
"Go! Daughter, leave Konoha now!"
"What's the matter, father?"
However, even though Shujitian asked this, her qualities as a ninja made her pack up everything as quickly as possible and follow her father out.
After a while, about fifty or sixty people from the clan came to the hall. They were her uncles and their families.
"Don't ask me why. Now, follow me and leave Konoha! Second brother, take the pass and tell them that we heard that the price of iron ore has increased, so we need to go outside the village to buy iron ore overnight!"
"Brother, what happened?"
With the pass and good reputation, the well-disguised Shuoshu family quickly left Konoha and rode in a number of psychic carriages, heading towards the outside of Konoha Village in a mighty procession.
Only then did Shouxi Liangqi breathe a sigh of relief.
"There are three steelmaking furnaces in the Konoha West Industrial Zone, and all of them are on fire."
"Did you light the fire, father?"
"Brother, you don't mean the three steelmaking furnaces No. 2, 3 and 4, do you?"
"Ah."
Handwritten Liangqi nodded.
"The Senju clan leader, Kotori Mitsuha, took over the Root because the former Root leader, Shimura Danzo, wanted to assassinate him, but he killed him instead. After taking over the Root, I heard that he was checking all the Root's intelligence. Of course, if it was just this, it wouldn't be a big deal, we did a pretty clean job, but that woman might not think so."
"Tetsune Koharu?"
"Father, is she the elder of Konoha? She is actually related to our family?"
"Because you were young, I didn't tell you. She used to be in charge of medical care. Later, medical care was managed by Biwako-sama, and the Sandaime handed over the more important logistics and weapons to her. As a result, she used our family's special ability to import weapons from Kirigakure. In particular, she closed three of Konoha's four steelmaking furnaces and weapon workshops. Especially in the past four years, almost all the standard weapons used by Konoha ninjas were imported from Kirigakure."
"Now, all three steelmaking furnaces have suddenly caught fire. I have a bad feeling. This person is probably afraid that the news will leak out, so he is going to start cleaning up everyone on this line."
"Is she really that scared of that Three Leaf Chief? He's only twelve years old."
"Well, twelve years old, daughter, have you forgotten that he killed four main families of the Hyuga clan when he was eleven?"
Handwriting Goodness sighed.
"Such a cruel person will surely not let us go, so my idea is that we go to the Hidden Mist Village."
"Father, we want to become rebel ninjas?"
Shou Xietian looked at her father in surprise. If her father hadn't told her uncle, she wouldn't even know that such a thing happened in the family.
"According to Konoha's laws, what we have done as writers is considered smuggling of a large amount of money. Even if we don't die, we will probably be imprisoned forever. And that woman is a ruthless person. Even if we plead guilty, she will not let us live. Steel Furnace No. 234 was burned down. I guess all the people who worked in Steel Furnace No. 234 and the attached weapons workshop will probably be cleared out."
"It's because your father kept an eye on the situation and gathered intelligence. Otherwise, we might not be able to leave Konoha now."
"But, father, if it's as you said, if she really wants to get rid of all the people who know about it, why doesn't she start with our family, where the target is bigger?"
"Maybe, I, your father, reacted too quickly?"
Hearing his daughter say this, Shouxi Liangqi's heart skipped a beat. Then, he could only use this excuse to comfort himself. However, when he looked out of the car window, the blood in his body turned cold.
The psychic carriages that were supposed to follow them had all disappeared, leaving only this one carriage, running alone in the wilderness.
“Whoosh! Bang!!”
At this moment, Shouxi Liangqi, without any hesitation, pulled out a scroll from her arms, cut her finger, and wrote something frantically on it. Her uncles on the side were also stunned for a moment and started doing the same thing.
She knew that this was their family's bloodline limit. The space scroll written with their blood would have a larger space than other scrolls. Perhaps her father and uncles used this method to smuggle weapons.
Then, her own bad words came true. She was not young anymore, almost twenty years old. Although she was only a Chunin, she had a lot of experience. She had figured it out. It was because the Handwriting Family had a big target that that woman Utane Koharu deliberately spread the word, allowing her father to run away with the entire family. So, if they died in the wild, who could blame her?
"So, my life, the life of our handwriting family, ends here?"
At that moment, Shouxietian could even feel the chilling murderous intent coming from outside the car window.
However, before that, his father grabbed his hand and pulled him into the scroll.
"Cough cough. Cough cough cough."
Shou Xietian coughed violently and wanted to retch. When she opened her eyes, she saw the sea and a lonely boat docked at the port. She actually crawled out of a scroll in the boat.
"This is the seashore, the Land of Water?"
Shouxitian stood up slowly and looked at everything around her. She had encountered such a disaster that she even forgot what expression to make. It was not until now that she realized that at the last moment, her father and uncles had almost lost all their blood to write something. That was the forbidden technique of the Shouxi family.
"Scroll: Double Piercing Technique."
In an instant, she crossed an unknown distance and arrived at a place in the Water Kingdom.
"Is this the intelligence scroll?"
Suddenly, Shouxietian saw another scroll, which was the one she had traveled through time with. She picked it up, opened it and took a look. It contained a lot of data about Konoha's weapons. It was obvious that this was the letter of allegiance her father had given her. Otherwise, why would Kirigakure protect a traitor from the Land of Fire?
"waste.."
Utane Koharu looked at the ninjas under her command and couldn't help but curse.
Because she already knew that a member of the Handwriting Family had successfully escaped through some secret technique, and according to her speculation, he was most likely near the Water Kingdom, because for so many years, their Handwriting Family had not been to any other place.
"Have the others been dealt with?"
"With the cooperation of those two adults, they were all cleaned up. The workers did not allow them to have families, so they had almost no families. All traces were removed."
Hearing this, Utane Koharu nodded.
The only person who ran to Kirigakure was a blessing in disguise. After all, the accusations from the neighboring country were meaningless. Now if Mitsuha Takanashi wanted to find evidence to try herself, she had to go to Kirigakure to ask for people, but the Kirigakure village would not give him face.
"So, there is only one person left who knows the truth."
Koharu Utane looked at the two silent ninjas not far away, they came from the Root, once belonged to Danzo, later to Hiruzen, and now belonged to her. One was a ninja from the Aburame clan, good at using poisonous insects, and the other was a ninja from the Yamanaka clan. Both were extremely loyal people, but not loyal to a certain person, but loyal to orders. Simply put, they were two deeply brainwashed tools.
Sure enough, after seeing his own eyes.
The Aburame clan ninja blew a breath, and not far away, the private ninjas she had raised to handle her affairs fell to the ground with a thud.
The third watch is over, and I take a nap.
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