Originally, prisoners were not required to do these kinds of work in prison.

But after Haneda took office, he felt that since the prisoners were idle anyway, they might as well do something for the village and atone for their sins.

Danzo was once the leader of Root, second only to the emperor, so he naturally despised Haneda's behavior.

However, Hiruzen wants a red scarf...

He eventually succumbed to Haneda's tyranny.

Da da da……

Familiar footsteps echoed down the corridor, and Danzo knew immediately that Hiruzen had come to visit him with dinner.

He put the threaded needle into the basket where the yarn was, and dragged his half-buried body to move a stool for Hiruzen.

"Sit down, Hiruzen."

Danzo greeted him as usual and opened the lunchbox.

Because Haneda's visiting time was limited to only half an hour, he had to eat his meal while asking questions:

"The village must be in a terrible state right now, right?"

"The Daimyo will definitely cut off Konoha's funding, and might even encourage Kumogakure to continue fighting against Konoha, or even secretly support Kumogakure!"

"Konoha is destined to decline under the leadership of that inherently evil Uchiha brat!"

"I knew you'd regret this, Hiruzen!"

"If you had entrusted that inherently evil Uchiha brat to me to raise twelve years ago, Konoha wouldn't be in this state!"

Hiruzen lowered his head awkwardly; he had thought the same thing before.

But to everyone's surprise, Haneda directly used force to threaten the officials of the daimyo's prefecture into taking sides, effectively sidelining the daimyo.

He also confiscated the officials who opposed him and took 5 billion taels of silver back to the village.

Which ninja could have imagined that Haneda would dare to openly retaliate against a daimyo?

"actually……"

Danzo waved his hand, interrupting Hiruzen:

"Stop talking, Hiruzen, I already guessed it."

"That old bastard Daming will definitely cancel all the funding for this year!"

"Even if that brat begs, even if he grovels and begs, he'll only end up like the Fourth Kazekage!"

Hiruzen reluctantly stated the truth:

"You're wrong, Danzo."

"Haneda has effectively sidelined the daimyo and brought back 5 billion ryo to the village. I heard that the daimyo's funds will double this year."

Danzo thought he had misheard, but upon hearing that the Daimyo Prefecture would provide double the funds, he slammed his fist on the table, stood up, and demanded:

"Fifty billion? Fifty billion!"

"Hiruzen, are you kidding me? That much money would take the entire Hidden Leaf Village five or six years to earn, not even counting expenses!!"

Hiruzen explained, "Haneda confiscated the property of many ministers and also undermined the power of the daimyo."

Upon hearing this, Danzo was stunned.

Haneda did what he had wanted to do when he was young, but he eventually stopped due to pressure from public opinion in the ninja world.

Suddenly, Danzo sneered:

"The Uchiha brat, born evil, has yet to be beaten down by reality."

"His behavior offended not only the daimyo and the nobles in the daimyo's mansion."

"Generals and officials in other parts of the Land of Fire cannot stand a ninja riding on their heads."

"The daimyo of other countries are afraid of the leaders of their own ninja villages, and they are repeating the behavior of that brat Haneda."

"These people will definitely take action!"

Hiruzen was well aware of the consequences Haneda had faced for doing this, and he kindly offered a reminder:

"Danzo, Tsunade has returned to the village and is on her way to invite Jiraiya back."

Danzo scoffed, "Tsunade suffers from hemophobia, so she's only at half her full strength. Jiraiya is only good for the front line at best."

"Don't even mention how strong Haneda kid is. Even if he were the Sage of Six Paths in the world, he couldn't handle four fronts by himself!"

Hiruzen coughed a few times and said in a low voice:

"The Uchiha clan now possesses four pairs of Mangekyou Sharingan."

Four pairs? Four pairs!!!

Danzo stared wide-eyed at Hiruzen in disbelief.

Hiruzen explained, "Uchiha Haneda, Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi."

"Itachi awakened his powers the night you attacked Shisui. I don't know when Fugaku awakened his powers, but he definitely did."

Danzo knew Hiruzen had no reason to lie to him, so he slumped back down and silently began eating his rice ball.

Let alone fighting on four fronts, with Konoha's current strength, they could even unify the world.

That was an unrealistic idea he had when he was young.

But the Konoha village, led by the inherently evil Uchiha brat, has this possibility.

Absurd yet real.

…………

While Tsunade was on her mission to bring Jiraiya back, Haneda ordered Kakashi to return to the village.

Haneda disregarded the Hidden Cloud Village and didn't bother dealing with it, as he had been busy with the Daimyo Prefecture and practicing Dust Escape recently.

Recently, Haneda has not had any immediate plans to deal with Kumogakure.

Besides writing books and taking care of Naruto, he also wanted to stay in Kumogakure for a while to completely settle things with the Daimyo.

The Hokage's dispatch order was issued in the morning, and by dusk Kakashi had used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the village.

Knowing that Haneda was unlikely to stay in the office, he teleported to the third training ground.

At this point in time, Haneda is either training here or at the Uchiha clan training grounds.

In the past, Haneda would often go to the Hatake family training ground.

But after his father passed away, Haneda almost never went there to train.

As expected, Kakashi spotted Haneda at the third training ground.

He looked curiously in Haneda's direction. He had originally thought Haneda was going to develop Dust Release, but he didn't expect him to be writing a book.

"Hey~ you cultivation maniac, how do you have time to write books? This isn't like you, you don't even do your homework."

"Don't disturb my inspiration, Kakashi!"

Kakashi hesitated for half a second, smiled helplessly, and stood aside to wait.

When Haneda put down his pen and closed the book, Kakashi noticed the four large characters on the cover—"My Struggle."

Kakashi asked with a smile:

"Oh, you're actually planning to write an autobiography? Have you already forgotten about those things?"

Haneda said, "How could I forget? This kind of thing is reminded of me every time I activate my Sharingan."

"Asma's textbook is finished. You should know what it is, right?"

“I read it, but I wasn’t very satisfied. I didn’t want to bother Asuma to rewrite it, so I decided to write it myself.”

"The book is titled 'My Struggle.' What do you think of this title? Doesn't it sound inspiring?"

Kakashi thought the title sounded good.

But autobiographies involve not only Haneda's little secrets, but also those of his close friends and family.

As one of Haneda's best friends and partners, Kakashi certainly didn't want his fetishes to be exposed.

He warned:

"I just hope you don't portray me too badly, and please don't write those kinds of things... You know what I mean."

Haneda joked:

"Isn't it just because you were curious about what Uncle Sakumo meant by 'Intimate Paradise' when you were little, and you secretly bought a copy to read?"

"But you showed it to me later, and I burned it."

Kakashi blushed slightly, still harboring some resentment.

However, he quickly regained his composure and solemnly warned, "This is just one of them."

Haneda roughly knew what Kakashi was warning him about, and he agreed:

"Okay, okay, I won't write that much."

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