Konoha: I, Ninja War Sakura, rely entirely on skills!

Chapter 239 Poisoned Wine
Dark, damp...

A dull but orderly sound of footsteps was heard in the dark tunnel.

As the footsteps got closer, the one-eyed, one-armed old man with a seal engraved on his body and bound by heavy shackles raised his head.

Even with the dim and flickering candlelight on the wall, one could see the darkness and paranoia hidden in the only remaining eye.

"Ah……"

"Ah……"

Danzo Shimura raised his head with difficulty and looked at the person who came, with a crazy and excited sneer on the corner of his mouth.

"The Fifth Hokage, your presence here truly brings honor to our humble home!"

It was just a few words, but this old man in his seventies seemed to have used up all his strength to speak it out.

This is because when facing powerful serious criminals, the jailers will only provide extremely limited food while imprisoning their chakra and bodies.

Just make sure the other party doesn't die, that's enough.

It is not only to prevent criminals from escaping, but also to prevent them from committing suicide.

"Shimura Danzo, long time no see."

In the light of the torches on the wall, Sakura's face emerged.

"hehe……"

"Hokage-sama, have you come here specifically to taunt a loser like me?"

"If that's all..."

"Then... the Hokage's pattern... is too..."

The old man gasped, using all his strength to make his voice sound less weak.

However, no matter how much the other party's appearance at the moment showed that he was a tough disciple, in the eyes of this Hokage, he was no different from a clown.

"Do you think everyone is you?"

The Hokage calmly stared at the panting old man in front of him.

"I came here just to tell you something."

"The old man is dead."

The Hokage's words fell, and the dim space fell into a brief silence.

"Hiruzen... he's dead?"

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"

"Hahahahahaha!"

Shimura Danzo was confused at first, as if he was questioning the words of the person in front of him.

But when he thought that the person in front of him was the closed disciple of his lifelong best friend and enemy, he would never joke about Sarutobi Hiruzen's life or death.

Thinking of this, Shimura Danzo couldn't help but laugh.

From the light laughter at the beginning, it became more and more crazy.

Like a madman.

Danzo Shimura laughed crazily, he was out of breath, and tears came out of his eyes.

Danzo Shimura wanted to wipe away the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, but his only remaining arm was bound by chains, so he was unable to wipe away the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes.

The Hokage calmly looked at the mad old man in front of him.

"Hiruzen!"

"Hiruzen!"

"I didn't expect that I beat you this time!"

"On the matter of being able to survive!"

"Hahahahahaha!"

"Cough cough cough... cough cough!"

Perhaps because he laughed too crazily, Danzo Shimura couldn't help coughing.

Like an asthma patient, his chest heaved violently and his cough was heavy and long.

After an unknown amount of time, Danzo Shimura finally recovered.

"So, you came here just to tell me this?"

Danzo Shimura raised his head, looking with gloomy and sharp eyes at the girl in front of him who had pushed him from the lofty throne of Hokage to his current situation.

"The old man has been Hokage his whole life, but he doesn't have many friends."

“Although Old Man Yan is steady in his work, he gets along well with the old man.”

“But he’s a pretty nice guy.”

"Although that old woman Utane Koharu is a bit annoying to me, she is still somewhat useful."

"After thinking about it, it seems that you are the only one who can treat the old man as an equal, and you are lifelong rivals and old friends."

"If I had you by my side, I probably wouldn't be alone on my way to the underworld."

The Hokage spoke softly, and Danzo Shimura naturally understood the meaning.

"Haha, Sarutobi Hiruzen has found a good disciple."

"We've even thought of a way to hell for him."

Danzo Shimura looked at the calm expression of Haruno Sakura in front of him and sneered.

"As a disciple, I naturally have to be considerate of my master."

Facing Shimura Danzo's ridicule, Haruno Sakura remained calm.

"Ah……"

Danzo Shimura lowered his head slightly so that the girl in front of him could not see his eyes.

At this moment, the purple-haired Anbu had already appeared in the dark tunnel and stood silently behind the Hokage.

Mao Yue Yugao held a tray in both hands, on which there was a pot of sake.

"Wine..."

"it is good."

Looking up, Shimura Danzo's eyes fell on the pot of wine.

"What are you still standing there for? Untie me now!"

At this moment, Danzo Shimura looked at the Hokage in front of him and shook the chains on his body.

"Can you still feed me some wine?"

Facing Shimura Danzo's ridicule, the Hokage sneered. He did not make any move, but it seemed that a golden light flashed in the Hokage's green eyes, and the heavy chain nailed to the wall broke directly with a slight sound.

When Danzo Shimura saw this scene, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Even though there is a seal on his body at this moment, his vision of several decades cannot be sealed.

Such powerful chakra, such powerful chakra control technique.

He used his extremely powerful chakra and exquisite chakra control to instantly destroy the heavy lock.

Although this chain is just a dead object, you have to know that the opponent is using it from a distance...

At this moment, even if Danzo Shimura was unwilling to accept it, he could only admit defeat in the face of this move.

"Bring up the wine!"

Danzo Shimura just glanced at the broken chain, then sat down on the ground and looked at Uzuki Yuhi who was holding a wine jug and scolded him.

Uzuki Yuhi didn't say much, just walked to Shimura Danzo, placed the tray in his hand in front of Shimura Danzo, and then stood silently behind the Hokage again.

Danzo Shimura picked up the wine jug in front of him with his only remaining arm, then bit off the cork with his mouth and spat it out to the side.

Looking silently at the wine jug in his hand, as the cork was removed, Shimura Danzo could already smell the aroma of wine coming from the jug.

"Before I die, I beg you to do me a favor."

Haruno Sakura looked at the old man in front of her calmly.

"explain."

"No matter where you bury me, I have only one request."

"cremation."

"Then take out a strand of my ashes and place it in front of Hiruzen's monument so that I can see the monkey for the last time. As for the rest, you can throw it wherever you want."

Xiaoying looked at the old man in front of her with some surprise, then nodded slightly and said:

"Okay, I'll bury you next to the old man."

Obviously, the Konoha collapse plan three years ago and Orochimaru's improved Impure World Reincarnation gave this guy a wake-up call.

If one does not want his soul to be disturbed by the living, then the only way to achieve eternal sleep is to completely destroy his body.

"in this way……"

"Then this old man can also be considered as..."

Shimura Danzo listened to the words of the person in front of him and wanted to say "no regrets", but when he thought that the person in front of him was the culprit who created his current situation with his own hands, he closed his mouth again.

Shaking his head with a smile, Danzo Shimura said no more. He just raised his head and drank the full pot of wine in his hand.

Feeling the clear wine in his mouth turning into a warm current entering his body, Shimura Danzo gently placed the empty wine jug on the tray. In this last moment of his life, Shimura Danzo couldn't help but recall the past.

His thoughts drifted back to decades ago.

At that time, facing the pursuit of the Kinhoru and Silver Horn troops, Senju Tobirama asked his six disciples.

Who is willing to sacrifice his life to provide a chance for others?
Faced with life and death, he hesitated.

But it was precisely because of this moment of hesitation that he missed the opportunity to become Hokage.

Ever since the day that he, Shimura Danzo, met Sarutobi Hiruzen, it seemed as if he had never been able to defeat that idiot.

Naive, naive, too naive.

How can the position of Hokage be given to such a naive person?

Later, Danzo Shimura found out that he was wrong.

It was not Sarutobi Hiruzen who was naive, but himself.

The Hokage who was missed has been missed. Will there be a day when he will take the position?

No more.

Those eyes that should have been filled with gloom and ferocity gradually possessed a hint of gentleness and calmness that did not belong to Shimura Danzo at this last moment.

monkey……

You are a leaf basking in the sun.

And I am the root buried deep underground...

"Haruno...Sakura..."

Blood flowed from Shimura Danzo's mouth, and he used up his last bit of strength to look at the disciple of his best friend in front of him.

"Be careful……"

"Little...heart...big snake..."

Before the last word fell, Shimura Danzo's breath had already stopped.

He lowered his head slightly, and blood dripped from the corner of his lips.

Sakura looked at the old man in front of her calmly.

Be careful of Orochimaru?

Could it be that Orochimaru did something in the past three years?

Even though Sakura doesn't take Shimura Danzo's last words to heart, she still keeps them in mind.

What's more, she still has a score to settle with Orochimaru.

Looking at the already dead Shimura Danzo, Sakura spoke calmly:
"Go burn him and bury him in the cemetery next to the third generation lord."

"Yes."

Mao Yue Xi Yang spoke respectfully.

-

There is a new grave in Konoha's cemetery.

No one knows who is buried here. This grave is very special because there is nothing on the tombstone, it is just blank.

But at this moment, two old figures stood silently in front of the tomb.

Mitomon Yan, Utane Koharu.

The two elderly men, both in their seventies, looked silently at the blank tombstone in front of them.

Mizuto Menyan gently stroked the blank tombstone, and a hint of sadness flashed across his eyes behind his glasses.

He should have thought of it earlier...

I just didn't expect that not long after Hiruzen left, the current Hokage would be so decisive...

Did he not attack Danzo because he considered Hiruzen's bond with Danzo...

"Ugh……"

A sigh came from Utane Koharu's mouth.

"old."

“I’m really old…”

The old woman raised her hand, which contained a small wooden box.

In the box is a wisp of ashes that were scattered in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen's tombstone according to Danzo's last wishes.

Mizuto Menyan looked at his fellow disciples who had cooperated and fought together on the battlefield in the past, but now only had one teammate left.

I saw Utane Koharu silently come to Sarutobi Hiruzen's tombstone, open the small box in her hand, and scatter the ashes in front of the tombstone bit by bit.

"Huruzen, Danzo has come to look for you..."

Utane Koharu looked at the tombstone in front of her silently.

"...Xiaochun, I want to let go."

Mizuto Menyan's expression could not hide his fatigue.

"..."

Utane Koharu just looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen's tombstone silently without saying a word.

"The current Godaime has Kakashi and Asuma assisting him."

Seeing that his old friend did not respond, Mizuto Menyan continued to speak.

"We have Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Karin and other new generation people to help us."

"The heirs of the Pig, Deer and Butterfly tribes are good friends..."

"I heard that he was very close to the young lady of the Hyuga family before."

"now……"

Mitomon En's words speak for themselves.

The old ones are gone, it's time for the new ones to come forward.

"Remember the time when Hiruzen took over as Hokage?"

Mizuto Menyan stood up straight, looked up at the sky, and his thoughts seemed to drift back to decades ago.

"During that time, Tobirama-sensei had just died, and there were only a few of us who had just reached adulthood in the village."

"Huruzen, Danzo, Kagami, me, you, take the wind..."

"During those turbulent times, six young people supported each other and got through those days."

"Now, Hiruzen is gone, Danzo is gone, and Kagami and Tofu left even earlier."

"Now, it's just you and me..."

"and……"

Mitomon En looked at his silent teammates.

"The current Hokage is even better than I thought."

Yes……

Mito Kado En originally thought that Sakura would keep Danzo to do something, but she didn't expect that she would decisively kill him just after Hiruzen died.

"…So, you old man are forcing me to abdicate?"

Utane Koharu slowly stood up and looked at her friend of several decades.

She knew the other party's working style very well.

Not only himself, but the other party also holds great power in Konoha.

Although nominally he is just a Konoha elder who gives advice to the Hokage.

But over the past few decades, they have become popular.

If you don't want to be driven out by that pink-haired guy from the fifth generation, then quit while you're ahead and go home to enjoy your retirement.

It would be too embarrassing to be driven away.

Even now, they can be considered in a honeymoon period with this Fifth Hokage. After all, they had no objection to him becoming Hokage.

In matters like this, there is either opposition or support, and there is absolutely no such thing as neutrality.

"Haha, I still can't hide anything from you..."

Mizuto Menyan helplessly pushed the glasses on his nose.

Utatane Koharu responded by asking, "What if I say no?"

Mizuto Menen just looked at his old friend in front of him silently, and the atmosphere seemed to become silent with Utane Koharu's words.

"..."

"Oh, it's been decades. I know what you fart no matter how you stick your butt out."

Utane Koharu looked at Mito Kado En in front of her and seemed to suddenly feel bored. She waved her hand and then silently left the cemetery where her four teammates were buried.

Mizuto Menen did not stop the other party and force an answer.

He knew that the answer was already there when this old friend left here.

(End of this chapter)