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Chapter 1472: Fox Mourns the Death of Rabbit

The members of the Hyuga branch family watched as the Hokage of Konoha Village, Sarutobi Hiruzen, entered the mansion of the Hyuga clan leader.

The members of the Hyuga branch family who defected to Hyuga Neji hurriedly informed Hyuga Takashi and Taiji. They suspected that Sarutobi Hiruzen was about to join forces with the patriarch of the Hyuga main family to sanction Hyuga Neji and perform the Caged Bird Strategy.

Because no matter how you look at it, these branch families with rebellious intentions, especially Hyuga Neji, are unforgivable existences in the main family.

It would be better if they didn't know. If they knew, I'm afraid they wouldn't hesitate to use a caged bird to kill Master Neji.

These people from the Zong family...they've already seen through it.

"It must be that Danzo Shimura and Hiruzen Sarutobi have colluded with each other and started to target Master Neji." Danzo Shimura took the blame on the spot.

But the fact is, Danzo Shimura was seriously injured last night and is now being treated at the Root base. He has not yet figured out how to deal with Neji Hyuga.

"Damn it, we shouldn't have let Danzo Shimura go back yesterday. We should have killed him directly in the forest." A member of the Hyuga branch said viciously.

"Don't say that, that was Master Neji's order." The rational branch family's eyes flashed with wisdom, "It is not certain now that Sarutobi Hiruzen came to see Hinata Hiashi in order to use the caged bird to deal with Master Neji."

"Everyone, contact your relatives to inquire. Remember, keep it secret and don't expose it." A member of the Hyuga branch family came up with the countermeasures that should be taken.

"I believe that a bird in a cage can't do anything to Master Neji. On the contrary, we should pay attention to protecting ourselves and avoid letting the main family know about us." Hinata Takashi said seriously.

"You're right. After watching Master Neji's fight last night, the bird in the cage should be unable to do anything to Master Neji. Master Neji is not yet able to free himself to deal with the caged bird on our foreheads. We should hide well in the Hyuga clan, not cause trouble for Master Neji, and wait for the day when Master Neji solves all problems." Master Tai Er took a puff of his cigarette and said with squinted eyes.

"Protecting yourself is the most important thing. Don't hold such a frightened gathering in the future. Dismiss!" Hyuga Xiao shouted in a low voice. Many members of the Hyuga branch family left in different directions as if nothing had happened. When they met the members of the Hyuga family, they talked about today's vegetable prices, family matters, and the weeds that had recently grown all over the fields and needed to be weeded.

The main house of the Hyuga clan, in the clan leader's residence.

Hinata Hiashi had a neither humble nor arrogant expression. He invited Sarutobi Hiruzen to take a seat according to the etiquette of a noble family. After performing a series of complicated tea ceremonies, he invited Sarutobi Hiruzen to drink tea and asked calmly:

"It is a great honor for the Hyuga clan to have the Hokage come to visit us. I wonder what is the purpose of the Hokage's visit?"

Hinata Hiashi asked calmly after performing impeccable etiquette.

The larger the family in Konoha, the more likely they are to have some opinions about the Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Young Sarutobi Hiruzen was lucky. Despite the disapproval of most families, he relied on his own strength to earn the titles of Ninja Hero and Ninjutsu Doctor, and secured the position of Hokage. Although he had the support of the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju's wife Mito Senju, he was undoubtedly qualified to be Hokage, and many families could be regarded as acknowledging that Sarutobi Hiruzen had secured his position as Hokage.

But as time went by, the longer he sat in the position of Hokage, the more stupid things Sarutobi Hiruzen did one after another. Whatever he did was not for the collective interests of all the family ninjas, but to secure his position as Hokage. He did many things that made the family ninjas more or less resentful.

For example, he allowed Shimura Danzo to slander Hatake Sakumo of the Hatake family and forced Hatake Sakumo to commit suicide. The matter was done very secretly, but everyone is not a fool.

When Hatake Sakumo was the captain of a team that infiltrated the enemy camp to carry out a secret mission, he was forced to make a dilemma: to carry out the mission or to save his companions.

According to the rules, abandoning the mission is strictly prohibited, but he abandoned the mission to save his companions' lives. His companions in the village blamed him for the losses suffered by the village, and finally even the companions he rescued began to blame him. Hatake Sakumo was hurt physically and mentally, and finally chose to stick to his will and commit suicide in the hope of letting Konoha see the true will of fire.

Of course, in the end, no one understood, and no one saw the real meaning of his suicide. He allowed rumors to spread, and allowed his rescued companions to blame Hatake Sakumo.

A reckless attack on Hatake Sakumo's reputation.

The rumor that Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen did not show up at the time and allowed Hatake Sakumo to give up and cause losses to the village has been circulating among the ninjas, and even made the rescued people blame the rescuers. Many people who saw through it did not believe that Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen did not know about it.

The most likely possibility is that the Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen pretended to be ignorant of everything Danzo Shimura did.

Because at that time, Hatake Sakumo's reputation was enough to become the new Hokage, and the current Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen did not want to abdicate, which resulted in this incident of suppressing Hatake Sakumo's reputation.

But they didn't expect that Hatake Sakumo was so strong and resolute that he died a martyr.

Even the three ninjas could not tolerate the many dirty deeds of their teacher Sarutobi Hiruzen. Orochimaru betrayed the village, Tsunade left the village, and Jiraiya traveled in the name of searching for the child of destiny and rarely returned to the village.

Just looking at how the Sarutobi family, the Mitomon family, and the Utane family have grown and accumulated funds over the years, as well as Shimura Danzo setting up a new base, nothing can withstand scrutiny.

In fact, after Namikaze Minato became Hokage, all the ninjas in Konoha breathed a sigh of relief. Sarutobi Hiruzen's abdication brought new vitality to Konoha Village.

But what all the ninja families did not expect was that in just one year, the Fourth Hokage died while sealing the Nine-Tails.

If the Fifth Hokage was chosen immediately because of the death of the Fourth Hokage, the family ninjas would not have such a big objection.

However, Sarutobi Hiruzen came to power again. Sarutobi Hiruzen's re-emergence to power is the worst case scenario. From now on, there will only be an old man who is only interested in power and influence to consolidate his own power.

In order to crack down on the Hyuga clan, he kept silent and made the Hyuga clan sacrifice the leader of the Hyuga branch family, Hinata Hizashi, the younger brother of the main clan patriarch Hinata Hiashi.

The surrender of the Cloud Ninja brought shame to Konoha. Not only did they not ask for compensation, but when signing the peace agreement, they also asked the Hyuga clan to pay the body of a Hyuga branch jonin.

Peace came under such circumstances, leaving all the clan ninjas silent.

Sarutobi Hiruzen returned to the throne after the death of the Fourth Hokage, which was the most decadent, silent period for Konoha Village, and the most tragic period for all the ninja families.

Because these family ninjas know that it might be their turn to be struck by this sword.

as predicted.

Then, Danzo Shimura of the Root asked some of the family's elite ninjas to join the Root to serve, which made all the family ninjas even more silent.

Facing such a Sarutobi Hiruzen, Hyuga Hiashi invited him to have tea, which was very polite.

"Hi, Hi..."