Konoha's Ninja Successor

Seven years have passed since the Nine-Tails Rebellion, and Konoha's turbulent living environment has finally returned to calm.With the cooperative efforts of the Sandaime and the major ninja families, most of the civilians and ninjas in Konoha have escaped from the shadows, and Konoha Village seems to have returned to the powerful period when the country was at its peak.

However, all this is an illusion of prosperity. In fact, during the period just after the Nine-Tails Rebellion, Konoha's strength was the weakest in history, and there was a huge gap in ninja strength.

First, Konoha's two most valued genius ninjas fell. These two people were Namikaze Minato and Shimura Teru. In addition, the three ninjas who had previously represented Konoha's high-end power also had to leave. The traitors who rebelled against the village had to leave. village.

After the Nine-Tails Rebellion, the only remaining Kage-level combat power in Konoha was the elderly Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo and Hatake Sakumo to support the facade. This kind of strength is not enough for others who have long wanted to seize the number one shinobi village in the five major countries. The name of the rock is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the ninjas of Raiyin Village.

The geographical environment of Suna Ninja Village is destined to be very poor. They have been the weakest among the five ninja villages since ancient times. Even though Konoha is now in a period of sluggish strength, for Suna Ninja Village, it is still a skinny camel than a horse. !

Not to mention the Kirigakure Village. The leader of this ninja village is the Fourth Mizukage. He doesn't know what kind of nerve he has, and he madly slaughters the blood successor boundary ninjas in the village.It also introduced a blood mist system that was considered extremely idiotic by other countries, which caused great damage to Kirigakure Village's national power, which was originally on par with Lei Heyan, and caused a serious loss of talent.For Konoha, there is not much of a threat.

Although the Iwa Ninja Village and the Thunder Ninja Village experienced losses during the Third Ninja War, they are still strong.And it also has mature combat power that can be controlled. The jinchuriki, a nuclear-weapon-like existence, is slightly stronger than Konoha at this time.After all, Konoha's Jinchuriki Uzumaki Naruto is still a child at this time, and it is almost impossible to use him as a normal combat force.

It doesn't matter if Konoha loses the help of the jinchūriki. In the past, when the first generation and the second generation were in power, they could rely on the leader's strong enough strength to subdue other ninja villages.Even the third generation's combat power during the period when he was known as the Ninja Hero was barely able to maintain the status of Konoha's most powerful country under such circumstances.

It's a pity that Sarutobi Hiruzen is no longer as brave as he once was. There is always a feeling of being a hero in his twilight years. His physical strength, reaction and chakra volume have all declined significantly.This is also normal, this is the normal state of every ninja when they grow old.

Needless to say, Danzo, known as the Pot King of Konoha, was originally a Kage-level player whose strength was lower than Sarutobi Hiruzen. Naturally, he could not escape the butcher's knife of time.

Konoha's "hotpot" duo has grown old, and their strength can no longer suppress other ninja villages. Now, times have changed.

At this critical moment of internal and external troubles, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen once again shouldered the heavy position of Hokage on his shoulders.The aging Hiruzen Sarutobi was busy almost squeezing his lifespan, sleeping less than five hours a day, with more and more wrinkles on his face, and many physical problems.

The two ninja villages of Yan and Lei in the outer village put crazy pressure on Konoha. From time to time, they sent ninjas to harass Konoha's borders and test Konoha's attitude and reality.Sarutobi Hiruzen was also furious at first, and frequently sent Konoha jounin to attack those who crossed the border, forcefully suppressing the arrogance of other countries.

But as time went by, the third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen gradually discovered that Konoha's power deployment was somewhat stretched.Even with the help of Konoha White Fang Hatake Sakumo and Shinobi World Dark Shimura Danzo, this problem still could not be solved.

In desperation, Hiruzen Sarutobi slowed down his tough external attitude and turned a blind eye to some of the not-too-excessive actions of other countries.Since then, Konoha has tended to adopt a conservative political stance of appeasement and concession, and Shimura Danzo has criticized Sarutobi Hiruzen for this reason, and the relationship between the two has since become no longer as close as before.

Originally, Sarutobi Hiruzen's wish was that his concession could be exchanged for a period of peace, so that he could quickly cultivate a group of ninja rookies who could take over Konoha's empty power.But how could Iwa, who had a vicious eye, and the Kage of Raiji Ninja Village not know about Sarutobi Hiruzen's plan? Their actions gradually became unscrupulous. In their opinion, Konoha's weakness undoubtedly exposed their current situation. weak.

Iwa, Lei Er Village wants to provoke a war and take this opportunity to suppress Konoha. If they are lucky, they may even be able to destroy Konoha Village in one fell swoop.With this idea in mind, they frantically created reasons for war, but they were all destroyed by the mature and prudent Sandaime Hokage using clever political means.

But how long can this kind of political means delay?Finally one day, Raiyin Village sent an envoy pretending to be reconciled with Konoha, but secretly wanted to take away Hinata Hinata, the daughter of the head of the Hyuga clan.

But the ninja who took away Hinata Hinata was "cleverly" discovered by his father Hinata Hinata, who quickly killed the enemy Jonin who showed no resistance.The long-planned plan of Raiyin Village has officially begun. They accuse Konoha of maliciously trampling on their wishes for peace and killing representatives of their country, hoping to start a war.

The Iwagakure Village was also secretly spreading the news, and Konoha was suddenly caught in the turmoil of the impending war.

The night after the incident happened, in the mansion of the Hyuga clan.

The powerful people of the Hyuga clan, Shimura Danzo and Sarutobi Hiruzen, all gathered here to discuss how to deal with this attack on Leiyin Village.

The old patriarch of the Hyuga clan offered to sacrifice for the village and use the life of Hyuga Hizashi, who was separated from the Hyuga clan, as an apology to give an explanation to Leiyin Village.

After Danzo Shimura heard the proposal made by the old patriarch Hyuga, a look of obvious displeasure flashed in his eyes. Danzo snorted with great disdain, but didn't say much in the end.

The third generation Sarutobi Hiruzen had a tangled look on his face. He didn't know what to do. He looked at the brothers Hyuga Hizashi and Hyuga Hizashi below, and he also knew that all this was not the fault of the Hyuga clan.However, if Hyuga Hizashi is not sacrificed, Konoha is likely to face a war, and Konoha may face annihilation.

At this time, the Third Hokage hesitated.

When Shimura Danzo saw that Sarutobi Hiruzen was still considering whether to sell Hinata Hizashi, he suddenly smashed the wooden table in anger, stood up and looked at his former friend coldly and said: "What a shame, Hiruzen. As a Hokage, you actually You are so weak that the strong Konoha that was entrusted to you by your ancestors is now in a situation where you have to kneel down and beg for mercy from other countries?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was so humiliated by Shimura Danzo in front of everyone that he could not stand up. He was physically and mentally exhausted and did not have his usual good temper. He clenched his fists angrily and said: "Danzo, Konoha cannot withstand another war. Come on, do you want to see the destruction of Konoha, which was founded by teachers and the others?"

"Tobirama-sensei's only mistake in his life was to leave the position of Hokage in your hands!"

"Tuan-hide!!!"

Both Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo were really angry, and they started to fight tit-for-tat with each other.

The people of the Hyuga clan on the side began to be at a loss, and the two leading figures in Konoha began to fight among themselves. Is Konoha really going to perish?The thought crossed their minds.