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Chapter 214 The Arguing Hokage, Kagura Trying to Mediate, and Danzo Taking the Blame

On the open land.

Two white Zetsu bodies that had just been transplanted with Hashirama cells lay there.

To prevent any problems from arising in her relationship with White Zetsu Awei, Akihara Kagura sent White Zetsu Awei to see Nagato early on, so that White Zetsu Awei wouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing this scene.

"Ninja Art: Impure World Reincarnation Technique!"

Using materials obtained from Orochimaru, Akihara Kagura directly employed the Impure World Reincarnation technique to revive the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, and the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

The white Zetsu on the ground was suddenly covered in ashes and scraps of paper!

A silver-haired man and a blond man emerged from the ashes and scraps of paper!

The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju…

And the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze!

[System Notification]: [You have a new superior (Minato Namikaze). You are rewarded with a Newcomer Welcome Pack and will unlock new traits.]

[Golden Flash (Can transform into a golden light, using Flying Thunder God Technique and Body Flicker Technique at extremely high speeds, like the speed of light, leaving enemies no time to react!)]

This feature…

Akihara Kagura felt a bit strange.

While the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, did indeed possess the Yellow Flash ability, is the effect of this ability something that should belong to this world?

"Hmm? Is it that Orochimaru guy again?"

The moment his former superior, Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, was resurrected, his gaze fell upon the group of people present: "Monkey, you're here too? I remember you used the Reaper Death Seal to seal us and that guy named Orochimaru before you died..."

"The Second Hokage."

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, looked somewhat helpless as he explained in a deep voice, "That happened in the afternoon. It's already evening, and our Reaper Death Seal has been released..."

This speed was so fast that it caught me off guard.

In the afternoon, Hiruzen Sarutobi sacrificed himself to seal everyone away. That evening, everyone was unsealed and revived, and even learned some incredible truths.

This time, they also got involved with the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

"Huh? That sealing technique can actually be broken?"

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was clearly different from his new superior, staring at them in shock: "How did you manage that?"

Theoretically speaking, the most powerful sealing technique of the Uzumaki clan is the Reaper Death Seal, which utilizes the elusive Grim Reaper of this world and should be impossible to break.

It was actually solved?

"Hmph, I'm curious too."

Orochimaru glanced at all four resurrected Hokage, a hint of resentment creeping into his heart. These were some of the most powerful of the Edo Tensei resurrected!

"Kagura-kun".

Orochimaru, not one to hold back his barbs, seized the opportunity to sow discord: "When exactly did you figure out a way to undo the Reaper Death Seal?"

"even…"

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes and continued slowly, "You prepared a way to undo the Reaper Death Seal before the old man even used it. Did you already foresee that the old man would use the Reaper Death Seal during our fight?"

"This is…"

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, looked at Kagura Akihara with some surprise and asked curiously, "A newcomer to the village? I've never seen you before. Did you undo the Reaper Death Seal?"

"That was also the Impure World Reincarnation technique he used on you!"

Orochimaru chuckled, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "Because you were worried I'd use the Impure World Reincarnation technique to revive you, you preemptively resurrected the past Hokage and took control of them. The strongest fighting force of Konoha in this era, Akihara Kagura..."

"Let me say it..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi interrupted Orochimaru.

The old man understood Orochimaru's thoughts very well and didn't want to see Orochimaru provoke the previous Hokage and Akihara Kagura into a conflict, so he wanted to take the initiative to explain the background of the matter.

"I'll do it myself."

Kagura Akihara looked at the four Hokage present and continued, "All the actions during the Chunin Exams were planned in secret by me. I used Orochimaru and Lord Danzo to launch the operation, with the goal of capturing all four former Hokage present at this moment and making them my pawns for controlling Konoha's power in the future..."

"..."

Orochimaru's expression was rather intriguing.

He had wanted to use words to incite conflict between Akihara Kagura and the four Hokage, but now it seemed that his words were far milder than what Akihara Kagura actually said…

This brat…

They even dared to say such extreme things as manipulating Konoha's power!

"Kid! The Hokage carries more than just power..."

The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, stated his opinion clearly, but then suddenly realized, "Wait, it was all a conspiracy you orchestrated, so..."

"You wicked brat! How dare you harbor such rebellious thoughts!"

The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, interrupted his elder brother, but continued rationally, "However, you actually want to use our reputation to manipulate power in Konoha because there are people in the village who won't obey your orders and won't submit to you becoming Hokage, right?"

"Kagura".

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had believed the situation had already sunk to rock bottom, now felt it was gradually rebounding: "So you've finally realized that power alone can't earn people's approval? Only those who are recognized by everyone can become Hokage. You need to change that..."

"that…"

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, scratched the back of his head, feeling utterly bewildered: "Excuse me, what exactly happened?"

The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had never experienced any of this and was completely bewildered, like an outsider. Why did the other three Hokage know what had happened?

How come I, the Hokage, know nothing about anything?

Aren't we all Hokage? Didn't the First Hokage and the Second Hokage die even earlier than him? Why do they also know something?

"Where is Danzo?"

Tobirama Senju brought up Danzo Shimura and said coldly, "Danzo conspired with you, brat, and Orochimaru to deceive my brother and me. Are you too scared to come out now?"

"that…"

Hiruzen Sarutobi hesitated for a moment, then explained with a complicated expression, "Second Hokage, the sacrifice I was offered to be resurrected by Kagura using the Impure World Reincarnation technique was Danzo..."

"That brat..."

"You were resurrected using Danzo?"

When Tobirama Senju heard this, he fell silent.

This little guy named Akihara Kagura... is playing a bit too fancy!

The fact that Shimura Danzo died so tragically made Tobirama Senju almost imagine the feelings Shimura Danzo had in his dying moments, making him hesitant to cause him any trouble...

"Tobirama!"

Hashirama Senju immediately blamed his younger brother: "If you hadn't invented the Impure World Reincarnation technique, none of this would have happened... I warned you long ago not to research these strange and bizarre techniques!"

"Big brother!"

Tobirama Senju glanced coldly at his elder brother and explained in a deep voice, "This matter has nothing to do with the technique. The real evil is not the technique, but the evil in people's hearts..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi, true to his word, offered an explanation: "Second Hokage, Kagura may have been too influenced by Danzo, leading her to act ruthlessly..."

"Monkey, I almost forgot!"

The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, immediately looked at the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and brought up the question they hadn't finished discussing that afternoon: "Monkey, what exactly is the situation with the Uchiha clan? The Uchiha are comrades in the village, and you are the Hokage of the village..."

"That's because the Uchiha clan is inherently evil..."

Tobirama Senju coldly offered a defense for Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Was the Uchiha clan wiped out?"

Minato Namikaze's face showed even greater astonishment; the news he had heard today was more shocking than the last: "When I was alive, I hadn't even had time to deal with the Uchiha matter..."

Orochimaru looked at Minato Namikaze, the man who had usurped the Fourth Hokage's position, and chuckled, "Minato, you died too young; you certainly bear a great deal of responsibility! And you should be quite familiar with the people who wiped out the Uchiha clan..."

"This…"

Minato Namikaze immediately felt a little embarrassed and continued, "I promised before that I would protect Kushina wholeheartedly, and without the Reaper Death Seal, I wouldn't be able to separate the Nine-Tails' chakra, nor would my power be sufficient to seal the complete Nine-Tails..."

"The Nine-Tails is indeed very strong."

Hashirama Senju nodded seriously.

"this…"

Minato Namikaze was even more embarrassed and quickly changed the subject: "Speaking of which, who was the person who wiped out the Uchiha? Was it someone I know well? Kakashi? Jiraiya-sensei? They don't seem like the type to do something like that..."

"It's Uchiha Obito."

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed and decided to bring up the matter that Minato Namikaze would inevitably find out sooner or later: "Minato, one of the people who destroyed the Uchiha clan was your former student, Obito Uchiha..."

"Obito..."

Minato Namikaze's expression immediately darkened. He thought of the student who had died: "He's still alive?"

"more than…"

Hiruzen Sarutobi glanced at Minato Namikaze and continued, "He was the one who stirred up the Nine-Tails' rampage in the village, causing the deaths of Biwako and Kushina Uzumaki..."

During the Nine-Tails' rampage, not only Minato Namikaze and his wife died, but also Hiruzen Sarutobi's wife, Biwako Sarutobi.

"Obito Uchiha almost killed your child, Naruto Uzumaki, but luckily Kagura and Kakashi arrived in time to save Naruto..."

At this point, Hiruzen Sarutobi acknowledged Kagura's contribution: "If Kagura hadn't happened to encounter Obito Uchiha trying to kill Naruto, we wouldn't even know that Obito Uchiha, the person buried at the memorial stone, was still alive in this world..."

Thank you.

Minato Namikaze earnestly thanked Kagura Akihara.

"..."

Akihara Kagura paused for a second, then said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter. That guy even killed Aburame Ryoma to frame me for defecting from Konoha. Lord Danzo was affected by this incident; otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten to this point of life and death with him..."

"Oh, I see..."

Hashirama Senju's face immediately lit up with understanding, and he concluded to himself, "So, in that case, all the problems stem from that rogue ninja named Obito Uchiha, right?"

"..."

The others, who were not unintelligent, looked at Akihara Kagura with mixed feelings.

"no…"

Tobirama Senju rubbed his forehead, worried about his older brother's intelligence and emotional intelligence: "Although everything stemmed from Obito Uchiha, the mistakes made by others cannot be easily forgiven. We are still under someone else's control. This kid wants to use us to manipulate Konoha's politics!"

"Wasn't the Second Hokage the one who made the most mistakes?"

Orochimaru showed no mercy to his idol, smilingly pointing out his mistake: "If the Second Hokage hadn't separated the Uchiha clan from Konoha, making them independent of the village, the Uchiha clan wouldn't have perished..."

"If it weren't for the Second Hokage inventing so many forbidden techniques and even leaving us with the cells of the First Hokage, things wouldn't have turned out this way. It's all the Second Hokage's fault."

"What did you say?!"

Tobirama Senju immediately flew into a rage!

Tonight's discussion has clearly taken the form of a blame-shifting session.

Every Hokage present made mistakes in their discussion, not to mention Orochimaru and Akihara Kagura standing nearby; as the conversation went on, everyone started to seem like some kind of bad person…

"Lord Orochimaru is right..."

Akihara Kagura nodded, having some knowledge of the Uchiha clan, and said, "Out of ten Uchiha, nine and a half would criticize the Second Hokage for the mistakes he left behind. Of all the Uchiha in Konoha, only a few mentally unstable individuals believe that the Second Hokage made no mistakes..."

"Tobirama, the policies you left behind..."

Hashirama Senju couldn't help but criticize his younger brother.

"That's because the Uchiha clan is inherently evil!"

Tobirama Senju once again presented his arguments, continuing in a deep voice, "Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha, all Uchiha clan ninjas who awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan are potential traitors who could threaten Konoha..."

"Stop arguing!"

Kagura Akihara rubbed her forehead, feeling a bit of a headache from their noise, and decided to take the initiative to assign blame: "The first one to make a mistake was the First Hokage..."

"If the First Hokage hadn't chosen to abandon the unification of the ninja world, and even distributed the Tailed Beasts to other ninja villages, allowing them to possess the power of the Tailed Beasts, those villages wouldn't have harbored any other ambitions, and there wouldn't have been so many wars in the ninja world..."

"I did it for peace..."

You're right.

Kagura Akihara didn't bother to refute, and casually pointed at Tobirama Senju: "But your peace sparked a war, killed the Second Hokage, and forced him to appoint the Third Hokage during the war, preventing Danzo from becoming Hokage through normal channels. This fueled Danzo's jealousy, causing him to harm others and even try to harm me, leading to the situation we have today..."

"..."

The foreheads of a group of Edo Tensei users and Orochimaru all twitched.

At this point, there's no need to shift the blame onto Danzo, right?

"As for the Second Hokage's mistake..."

Kagura Akihara looked at Orochimaru: "As Lord Orochimaru just mentioned, the most important mistake was handing over the Hokage position to the Third Hokage, which caused Lord Danzo to become jealous and create a series of internal strife for his own power..."

"..."

The group of people looked at each other in bewilderment.

Hiruzen Sarutobi hesitated for a second before taking the initiative to speak: "My mistake was that I was too indecisive and too lenient with Danzo's darkness, which led to the destruction of the Uchiha clan and brought the situation to where it is today..."

"..."

All eyes immediately turned to Minato Namikaze.

"My mistake was dying too young..."

Minato Namikaze cautiously surveyed the group present, then added, "You couldn't stop Lord Danzo from operating in the shadows, could you?"

"..."

The others simply nodded silently.

"Alright, let's get down to business, stop with the nonsense!"

Tobirama Senju coldly glanced at Kagura Akihara. He had long understood the current situation and clearly realized that the solution lay with Kagura. He decided to use Kagura first: "Kid, you want to use our identities and power to control Konoha, which means we are at least on the same side in some way. First, we must eliminate the threat to Konoha, right?"

"Well said."

Akihara Kagura nodded.

Tobirama Senju's lips curled into a dangerous, triumphant smile as he abruptly turned to Orochimaru: "Then how about we eliminate this guy named Orochimaru first? You should acknowledge that he poses a threat to Konoha, right?"

"..."

Orochimaru's expression suddenly changed!

That bastard Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, actually tried to sow discord!

"There's no need for that."

Akihara Kagura calmed Orochimaru down with a single sentence, completely ignoring Tobirama Senju's words: "Although Lord Orochimaru didn't send a suitable birthday present this year, he used to send me a present every year on my birthday, and he was even someone who truly raised me..."

"If we disregard the fact that Orochimaru-sama wanted to take over my body and that he once used me as experimental material, I actually still have great respect for Orochimaru-sama..."

"..."

Orochimaru felt uneasy thinking about how Kagura Akihara always talked about respecting Shimura Danzo.

Orochimaru took a deep breath, forcing a smile onto his cold face: "Kagura-kun, you just used me to undo the Reaper Death Seal. Our past grievances should be completely settled now, right?"

"sure."

Kagura Akihara nodded immediately and continued, "So, all the grudges I had in the past—secretly guiding Jiraiya to destroy Orochimaru's experimental base, using Nagato to persecute Orochimaru, colluding with Sasori to expel Orochimaru from Akatsuki, and leaking information about Orochimaru to Akatsuki—are all wiped clean today..."

"..."

Orochimaru was starting to have second thoughts about settling their feud.

During my time in the Akatsuki organization, I always encountered various troubles. Even after escaping the Akatsuki, I was still being hunted down by them. I never expected that it was Akihara Kagura who leaked the information. All those painful experiences were actually orchestrated by Akihara Kagura in secret!

This grudge...

Wouldn't it be too unfair to just wipe the slate clean?

"The Akatsuki?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned, recalling the organization Itachi Uchiha had mentioned before. "I remember this organization was Obito Uchiha's, and it was full of dangerous S-rank rogue ninja..."

"That's right."

"It's the organization founded by Obito Uchiha."

Kagura Akihara nodded and continued, "But it doesn't matter. Obito Uchiha introduced me to the Akatsuki organization long ago. As long as you Hokage are willing to cooperate, we can eliminate Obito Uchiha and the higher-ups of the Akatsuki organization, making that organization full of S-rank rogue ninjas a pawn of Konoha and a tool to secretly threaten other enemy countries..."

"..."

Those present all turned to look.

Wow, you have a pretty wide range of business interests!

Tobirama Senju looked at Kagura Akihara with an extremely complicated expression.

It must be said that this little guy named Akihara Kagura is a master of political maneuvering.

If Akihara Kagura were truly willing to protect Konoha by any means necessary, even if it was just to seize power within Konoha, it would be more beneficial than harmful to the village.

"Kid, tell me."

Tobirama Senju sighed inwardly and looked at Kagura Akihara: "How do you plan to use us to help you seize power in Konoha? Just getting us to appear in Konoha isn't an easy task, is it?"

"I don't think Jiraiya would agree either."

Hiruzen Sarutobi also voiced his opinion, saying, "Even if my body disappears at the funeral and Orochimaru resurrects the dead using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, Jiraiya, given his personality, would not agree to you doing that..."

After finishing his speech, Hiruzen Sarutobi introduced Jiraiya to the First and Second Hokage, saying, "Jiraiya is my disciple and also the teacher of Minato and Kagura. I had a premonition that I might die during the Chunin Exams, so I specifically ordered him to return to Konoha. Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado will support him in becoming Hokage..."

"What if Jiraiya-sensei didn't want to become Hokage?"

Akihara Kagura chuckled and offered, "Besides Jiraiya-sensei, there's another person in Konoha who could potentially become Hokage—the other one of the Legendary Sannin who's always been away from the outside world. He might support the Impure World Reincarnation technique..."

"Tsunade?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi still held a different opinion: "Tsunade is a medical ninja, she would never agree with the idea of ​​reviving the dead, nor would she want Konoha to play with the dead. I know my disciple very well..."

"Xiao Gang?"

Hashirama Senju thought of his most beloved little girl and shook his head repeatedly, saying, "Wait, Tsuna can't become Hokage. If she becomes Hokage, she'll ruin Konoha..."

Akihara Kagura's words left everyone speechless: "How can a Hokage without any real power, constantly under the surveillance of others, have the right to annihilate Konoha?"

"..."

Hashirama Senju's forehead twitched.

"I think she would definitely support Edo Tensei."

Akihara Kagura looked up in one direction and continued to herself, "If someone were to resurrect the person she most wants to see using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, making her realize that the crisis of the Impure World Reincarnation technique is imminent, would she still object?"

"As far as I know..."

"She's not one to stick to rules and regulations..."

First update!

A little earlier today!

Here comes a long chapter of 6,000 words!

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