Chapter 77: Danzo's Schemes
"Is Hiruzen trying to clear the way for Asuma?"
"But, hasn't he given up on Asuma?"
Danzo thought about it, and began to recall some of Hiruzen's words and deeds in the past few years.
Finally, he thought of a possibility.
"Konohamaru? Hiruzen intends to help that brat sit on the position of Hokage?"
Danzo's eyes widened, never expecting that Hiruzen would have such a long-term plan.
How old is Konohamaru?
He's just an 8 year old kid.
There are still ten years left until he reaches adulthood.
Unexpectedly, Hiruzen had started planning for his grandson so early.
Thinking of this, many things that Danzo couldn't understand before also had reasonable explanations.
"No wonder Hiruzen has been recruiting those young civilian ninjas for the past two years. I thought he was simply getting old and soft-hearted. I didn't expect that he was building a team for his grandson." Danzo gritted his teeth.
He doesn't look down on those so-called civilian geniuses at all.
His root had recruited quite a few of these so-called geniuses before as well, but most of them had limited achievements.
Training them was far less cost-effective than training those clan ninjas.
But if Hiruzen was doing all this to build a team for his grandson to use in the future, then Danzo would not be happy.
"Damn Hiruzen! If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous. You are forcing me to do all of this." Danzo cursed viciously.
He had already decided in his heart to agree to Orochimaru's previous request for cooperation.
This time, he wanted to finish off Hiruzen completely.
"Hiruzen, you can rest assured, Konoha will be guarded by me, Shimura Danzō from now on." Danzo couldn't help laughing out loud as he spoke.
He seemed to have seen the picture of himself wearing a Hokage hat and sitting on the Hokage seat with the support of the whole village.
After imagining such a bright future, Danzo returned to reality.
"I have to get rid of this nasty brat first, and teach Hiruzen a lesson."
Danzo clapped his hands and summoned his ninjas.
"Master Danzo!"
A root ninja appeared, knelt in front of Danzo and waited for instructions.
"Take some root ninjas, I have a task for you" Danzo said in a cold tone.
"Master Danzo please order!" Aburame Torune bowed his head and said.
Root's ninjas are absolutely obedient to Danzo, and in their minds, Danzo's orders always comes first.
And the village and companions are second.
Therefore, they strictly implement all of Danzo's orders, and they never take advantage of the situation or become lazy.
On this point, Anbu was much better.
Anbu's management was much looser than Root's, and they even had rest days, but Root never had rest days, and they didn't even have wages.
Typical slavery management.
The point was, these root ninjas were still loyal to Danzo.
Konoha's top executives were all masters of brainwashing.
"In two days, you find an excuse to assign Anbu's seventh class a mission out of the village. Remember! Your target is a little kid named Yagami Ryosuke. His code name in Anbu is [YueYue]. Kill this little kid, and bring his body back, it is useful to me."
Danzo's idea at the beginning was to get Ryosuke from Hiruzen, and then use his usual brainwashing methods to make Ryosuke devoted to himself and work for him.
But!
Things had changed now.
Hiruzen didn't agree with him, and he also completely angered Danzo.
Danzo knew that he had no chance to brainwash Ryosuke and make him an obedient tool now.
Therefore, Danzo didn't want the living Ryosuke now.
As long as he could have Ryosuke's body, he could ask his men to study Ryosuke's bloodline succession limit.
Maybe something could be researched, and it was not impossible to use Ryosuke's cells to create a clone that would be highly compatible with Hashirama's cells.
"Yagami Ryosuke? Understood, Danzo-sama!"
Aburame Torune took some root ninjas and nodded, then disappeared from this place.
"Hiruzen, do you want Ryosuke to be your grandson's right-hand man? Hmph! I won't let you do that!"
Danzo stood where he was, smiling coldly.
Evening.
Under the waterfall deep in the No. 4 training ground.
Ryosuke was holding a boulder weighing 20 to 30 tons with both hands, squatting on the spot.
The ground under his feet was also paved with a stone.
More than half of the stone had sunk deep into the ground, and only a quarter of the top was exposed above the ground.
Otherwise, with his hands holding such a heavy object, his feet would have already sunk into the ground.
Although Chakra could be used to assist, what Ryosuke intended to train now was his pure flesh/body.
In this process, he decided to not use a single bit of Chakra to strengthen his body.
"4997!"
"4998!"
"5000!"
Five thousand squats were done.
Ryosuke pushed with both hands. There was a loud bang, and the boulder in his hand fell directly on the ground next to him, hitting a sunken place.
Perfect fit!
This set of actions had obviously been performed countless times by Ryosuke.
So, he practiced very proficiently.
"Phew! That's it for today, it's time to go home."
He looked at the sky, and then made a seal with his hands, and instantly those Shadow Clones around the No. 4 training ground all dissipated at the same time.
Hiss!
The huge amount of information pouring in in an instant made Ryosuke shake uncontrollably.
He felt as if his head had been hit by a heavy hammer.
After about half a minute, he didn't feel so dizzy anymore.
'Fortunately, I had the foresight to not directly allocate thousands of Shadow Clone to practice.' Ryosuke thought.
With his Chakra, it was not a problem at all to make hundreds or even thousands of Shadow Clone to practice.
But Ryosuke considered that with Naruto's physique, plus the Nine Tails, Naruto still fell asleep the moment he took back the Shadow Clones.
So if it was him, he guessed that he wouldn't fare much better.