Chapter 22 Hiruzen, you will regret it
To be precise, the Shodaime Hokage's goal was for the people of the village to live in peace.

But this has a premise, which is the huge gap between the ninjas of the Ninja Clan and the civilian ninjas.

Ninja clan ninjas can easily control civilian ninjas, which is why the second generation Hokage had the policy of suppressing Ninja clan ninjas and reusing civilian ninjas.

Among the six disciples of the Second Hokage, Mitokado En and Utane Koharu were both civilian ninjas. Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, set an example by making his three disciples, except Tsunade, Orochimaru and Jiraiya, all civilian ninjas.

From this point alone, it can be seen that Sarutobi Hiruzen is carefully implementing and optimizing the policies of the second generation.

If it was for the sake of political stability, he could have followed the second generation's example and accepted more disciples.

But he didn't. Two of his three apprentices were civilian ninjas, which was undoubtedly one of the examples of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"So, what do you want to say?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help but frown as he looked at his old friend in front of him.

"There shouldn't be any Shinobi ninja around the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."

"Once we establish a relationship between the Shinobi clan ninja and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, we can easily influence the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki in the future."

Shimura Danzo spoke slowly.

"so what?"

"What's your suggestion?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked calmly.

The three people around Jiuxing are Nightingale, Qingluan, and Namikaze Kaoru. Except Nightingale who is a ninja from the Hyuga clan, the other two are civilian ninjas.

Namikaze Kaoru was born in Konoha, a native Konoha ninja, and now he is his own disciple's grandson. He has a good family background and there is no problem with that.

Qingluan is the Yuteshi Zixiao that he has always been optimistic about, and is almost one of the members of the team that he has personally brought up.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was very confident that he could do things.

The Hyuga clan has always been extremely obedient, and it can be said that they are the third ninja clan to join Konoha after the Senju and Uchiha clans. They have always been law-abiding and have never had any other intentions.

"Special personnel should be assigned to monitor the Kyuubi."

"Make sure that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki will always be our product and will not be affected by the outside world in the slightest."

Danzo Shimura stared at Hiruzen Sarutobi with his dark eyes.

"Oh?"

"Then do you have any good suggestions?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen took out his pipe, and with the sound of a match rubbing against each other, he took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled a puff of light blue smoke.

The smoke filled the office, making it difficult for Danzo Shimura to see Sarutobi Hiruzen's face clearly.

Shimura Danzo frowned slightly and then said:

"The roots."

"The newly formed Root will monitor the Nine-Tails. If the Root takes over the Nine-Tails, it will be able to stabilize the unstable situation of the Root in an instant, and then firmly control the Nine-Tails."

At this moment, Danzo Shimura revealed the purpose of his visit.

The Root of Konoha is a special force responsible for clearing out those who are not suitable for the Hokage to appear.

This organization was only recently established, but since it was just established, it is still a makeshift team. If it can accept such an important task, it will indeed be able to stabilize the morale of the people in the Root, and it will also be able to completely bring the Nine-Tailed Fox under its control.

Sarutobi Hiruzen silently thought about the feasibility of this matter.

Jiu Xing's infuriating look appeared in Sarutobi Hiruzen's mind, which made him sigh in his heart.

The root is indeed suitable, but Jiu Xing is not.

Currently, Namikaze Kaoru and Hinata Nao have just established a good relationship with Kyuyuki. If they were to suddenly replace them now, Kyuyuki would probably make a big fuss and tear down the roots.

"Forget it, this is not appropriate."

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head.

"Sarutobi, you are the Hokage, you have the final say."

"What about the roots?"

"Right now, the Root Startup urgently needs a significant mission to stabilize the situation."

Danzo Shimura's goal here was not to obtain the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, his goal was to obtain resources from Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Of course, it would be great if I could get the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. If I can't get it, I'll just settle for the next best thing.

Since he had no expectations from the beginning, he didn't show any disappointment at all.

"So you were waiting for me here?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen chuckled and looked at the old friend in front of him.

"If you want a mission, just tell me directly. Why make it so complicated?"

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's smiling face, Shimura Danzo couldn't help but chuckle:
"In case you get confused as the Hokage, I can just take over the Kyuubi to prevent you from making a mistake."

"I'm scared of you. How about this? You go back first, and I'll arrange for someone to take you there later."

Sarutobi Hiruzen waved his hand.

"Hiruzen, aren't you afraid that my roots will grow bigger and make it difficult for you to step down?"

Shimura Danzo looked at the man in front of him and joked.

"Haha, then you can try it."

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought about his experience since childhood, when he had been constantly competing with the man in front of him in all aspects.

But there is no doubt that I win more every time.

"Hiruzen, you will regret this."

Shimura Danzo couldn't help but feel emotional as he looked at the confident man in front of him.

"Danzo, I am the Hokage."

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"Why is Xun so absent-minded today?"

Hinata Nao, who came hurriedly, looked at Namikaze Kaoru who was practicing not far away and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

There is no doubt that Namikaze Kaoru's talent is very strong, stronger than anyone Hinata Nao has ever seen.

She had lamented more than once that if Namikaze Kaoru had been born five years earlier, she would probably have encountered an insurmountable mountain among her peers.

This made Hinata Nao admire Jiraiya's vision, as he plucked out Namikaze Kaoru from the ninja school when Namikaze Kaoru was six years old and had not yet shown his talent.

But today, Namikaze Kaoru's condition is really strange.

During previous training, Xun was already able to completely cut through the leaves with his chakra, and had already begun trying to cut off the waterfall.

But now her training results are not as good as before.

This made her feel a little confused.

"Hey, you little brat, are you bullying Xun again?!"

Glancing at Jiu Xing who seemed to be in a bad state, Hinata Nao couldn't help but pinch his face fiercely.

"Where is it?"

"How dare I bully her?"

"Not to mention whether I can beat her now is still a question. If I bully her, Grandpa Hokage will beat me up."

Jiu Xing broke free from Hinata Nao's clutches and said unhappily.

He was telling the truth. If he really fought with Namikaze Kaoru, it would be unknown who would win or lose.

Maybe when he was six years old he could defeat Namikaze Kaoru who had just entered the ninja school, but Namikaze Kaoru who had already received Jiraiya's teachings could probably pin him to the ground and beat him.

Namikaze Kaoru's reaction speed was so fast that Jiu Xing saw her dancing among countless fallen leaves with her own eyes, and not a single leaf could touch her.

Simply outrageous.

"Why do I feel like you two are acting weird?"

Nao looked at Jiu Xing with some distrust.

"Illusion, your illusion."

Jiu Xing said with a slightly blushing face.

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