DC New Krypton.

Chapter 1466: The Root of the Dark Department

The silvery-white moonlight shines on the tall Hokage Building.

Hokage's office.

Gekko Hayate and another ANBU member were half-kneeling on the floor of the office, having just finished reporting to Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Did he say that..." Sarutobi Hiruzen took a long puff of his pipe, his wrinkled face beneath the Hokage's hat showing a lot of worries.

  A six-year-old child...

"It seems that we guessed wrong." Sarutobi Hiruzen exhaled heavily.

Originally, they thought that this magical primary blood and flesh repair pill was a secret of the Hyuga family, and they were all planning how to get the prescription from Hyuga Hiashi. At the very least, they had to reach a cooperation with the Hyuga family and get a batch of primary blood and flesh repair pills to use as military reserves.

They ignored what Might Guy said that they could buy it from Neji Hyuga for 50, because they guessed that Neji Hyuga would only have one or two at most, which was far from what they wanted, and there was no need to bully a child and snatch food from him.

As the top leaders of the Hokage Village, even if they don't have the Hyuga family's prescription for making medicine, they can reach cooperation with the Hyuga family in many ways.

But he never expected that a six-year-old child was most likely the maker of this pill and asked himself, the Hokage, to talk to him.

  Does this look like a six year old?

Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes in the smoke, wondering in his heart whether it could be a fuse thrown out by other forces, or whether Hyuga Neji secretly betrayed the Hyuga clan because of his father's affairs?

The eighteen branches of the Hyuga clan are led by a six-year-old child. This matter is a bit weird no matter how you look at it.

Especially among the 18 Hyuga clan branches, there are members of the Hyuga clan who are older than himself.

"Before one crisis is over, another one arises. Is the Hyuga clan also unstable internally..." Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed secretly in his heart.

The Uchiha clan had already made it difficult for Sarutobi Hiruzen to deal with it.

Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to find a way to truly integrate the Uchiha clan into Konoha, but he has not been able to do so after being in power for so long.

And as the hawkish faction within the Uchiha clan became increasingly powerful, the clan leader, Uchiha Fugaku, found it difficult to support and control the situation of the Uchiha clan, causing Sarutobi Hiruzen to fall into distress.

But in fact, both Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo knew very well that they wanted the Uchiha clan to give up the rights they thought they should fight for, but they were unwilling to truly negotiate with the Uchiha clan. They were just empty talkers and had been suppressing and fearing the Uchiha clan.

He never truly acknowledged the Uchiha as being on his side, and in the end he could only drag it out, helplessly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked himself if he could solve the Uchiha problem even if he used all his strength.

The Uchiha clan wants to fight for the right to become Hokage, and whoever is stronger will take the position!

If they lost the fight, the Uchiha clan would just accept it. If they couldn't win, then they couldn't win. The Uchiha clan didn't say anything.

But there was not a single position to fight for, and because the Sharingan appeared in the Nine-Tails' pupil a few years ago, the Uchiha clan's land was allocated to the edge of Konoha Village, which really kept provoking the Uchiha clan.

  Under such circumstances, even the Hyuga clan is splitting up?

How dare the branch of the Hyuga clan?

"Unless..." Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart skipped a beat. Unless Hyuga Neji solved the problem of the Hyuga clan being a bird in a cage, otherwise, how could the branch of the Hyuga clan dare to secretly split?

  Do you really think the head of the Hyuga clan is kind?

As long as the main family of the Hyuga clan cannot control the death of the branch families of the Hyuga clan, what kind of fighting will break out among the Hyuga clan under the long-term oppression of being a bird in a cage? Sarutobi Hiruzen felt terrified just imagining it.

Without the life-and-death threat of a bird in a cage, the branch family of the Hyuga clan did not eat the main family, and Sarutobi Hiruzen even thought that the branch family of the Hyuga clan was kind.

If the main and branch Hyuga clans split and a war broke out, the Uchiha clan would covet the position of Hokage and fight with Konoha Village.

Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't imagine how absurd it was that the two largest families in Konoha Village were in trouble at the same time. It was a reflection of his own incompetence.

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought of the serious consequences and his expression gradually became ugly. Finally, he choked on the cigarette and realized that Gekkou Gale and another Anbu were still waiting for him to speak. His expression slowly calmed down.

"Thank you for your hard work. Go back and have a good rest." Sarutobi Hiruzen took down his pipe and said to Gekkou Hayate and another Anbu with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Hokage." Gekko Hayate and another Anbu did not say much, although they were also very curious about what had happened to the Hyuga clan that would cause the eighteen members of the Hyuga branch to surrender to Hyuga Neji.

You know, Hyuga Neji is only six years old.

How ridiculous it is that a six-year-old child conquered an elder of the Hyuga clan who was over seventy years old.

But as ANBU, there are some things they don't need to know.

Putting aside his curiosity, Gekko Hayate and another ANBU member left the Hokage's office and returned to the ANBU base in silence. After putting away their respective combat equipment and closing their own lockers, they said hello to the squad leader on duty and went off work.

Moonlight Gale went straight home.

Another ordinary-looking ANBU, after seeing Gekko Gale return home, turned around and disappeared into another secret passage of the ANBU, came to the base of the Root, and came to meet the leader of the Root, Danzo Shimura.

"Lord Danzo." The Anbu ninja who came to the Root went into the office of the Root leader Danzo Shimura, which was decorated very similar to the Hokage's office, and reported to the half-kneeling man sitting in the office chair.

To put it simply, the Root is a private army selected from the Anbu who are loyal to the Hokage and are specifically responsible for Danzo's orders. They are small in number and have spies in the Anbu, and Danzo's control over them is strong enough. This Anbu member is Danzo Shimura's eyes and ears.

However, Shimura Danzo usually had no need to use these ears and senses. When he arrived at the Root base, Shimura Danzo was surprised and felt that something big seemed to be happening.

"Speak." Shimura Danzo, half of his body hidden in the shadow, sat condescendingly in his office seat, feeling as if he were also the Hokage, and said coldly.

"Danzo-sama, the Hokage sent me and Gekkou Hayate to monitor Hyuga Neji, and we discovered that Hyuga Neji had secretly gathered 18 members of the Hyuga clan to train a new type of ninjutsu.

Hyuga Neji discovered us and two members of the Root. The two members of the Root were killed by Hyuga Neji's men. He asked me and Gekkou Hayate from the Anbu to go back and tell the Hokage: Go back and tell Sarutobi Hiruzen to come and discuss this with me! "