I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 344 Remember to refuel when you borrow someone else's car, and remember to send over consumables when you borrow someone else's equipment.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Danzo walking towards them with a gloomy face. Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned. His bodyguard, Shikaku Nara, had taken leave today and temporarily borrowed a member of Root.

Now it seems that the temporary guard revealed Danzo's conversation with Minato in the Hokage's office.

In fact, Hiruzen Sarutobi could have foreseen this situation, but what he couldn't have foreseen was the sudden outburst of the Nine-Tails within Kushina today, which caused the entire situation to slip out of his control.

Danzo took a few steps closer, scrutinizing Kushina, and said, "Since Kushina Uzumaki cannot control the Nine-Tails on her own, then hand her over to my Root. I will definitely cultivate her into a weapon of war beneficial to the village!"

The moment the words "weapons of war" were uttered, everyone's expression changed to varying degrees. Minato stood up and stood protectively in front of Kushina, while Tsunade and Jiraiya also moved closer to Kushina, seemingly trying to separate her from Danzo.

Orochimaru and Tatsuma didn't move, but their eyes showed dissatisfaction. After all, it was really annoying that someone wanted to overturn the result they had finally come up with.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, his face grim, said to Danzo, "Danzo! Stop fooling around. You don't even know what happened, so don't make assumptions!"

"Making hasty conclusions? The facts are clear: it was the Jinchuriki, Kushina Uzumaki, who was unable to control the Nine-Tails, causing its rampage. Are there any other reasons?!"

"Kushina was attacked by the enemy."

"Where is the enemy?"

Minato was about to explain when Danzo rudely interrupted him. Faced with Danzo's question, none of them could answer. Danzo became increasingly self-righteous, spreading his hands towards Hiruzen Sarutobi and saying:

"I will say it again: hand over Kushina to my Root."

"This is not a matter for you to decide."

Hiruzen Sarutobi observed the reactions of Jiraiya and the others, knowing that he absolutely could not go along with Danzo's wishes. If he agreed to Danzo's request now, it would mean becoming estranged from his own disciple and the younger generation.

Kushina had not made any major mistakes at this point, so there was no need for her to disappoint her disciples and juniors. As for offending Danzo, had Danzo ever been satisfied with her since she became Hokage?

"Sarutobi! You're too soft-hearted! You know perfectly well what a Jinchuriki's outburst means, yet you're still protecting her?! An out-of-control Jinchuriki is no different from a criminal or a rogue ninja!"

"Enough! Danzo! Don't forget, I am the Hokage!"

"You'll regret this!"

Danzo instinctively wanted to slam the door and leave, but then realized the surroundings weren't quite right; the door wasn't in his hand. He glared angrily at the seemingly neutral Orochimaru and Tatsuma, saying, "You two, are you really so soft-hearted?"

Jiraiya's gaze fell on Orochimaru, while Minato looked hopefully at Tatsuma. As for Orochimaru and Tatsuma, they exchanged a glance, and Tatsuma said, "I believe that one has no right to speak without investigation."

I don't know where Lord Danzo learned about what happened here, but I can assure you that everyone who knows the truth is here. Lord Danzo, please don't be deceived by these villains and harm your fellow villagers.

Before Danzo could respond, Orochimaru naturally picked up the conversation, saying, "Or is it that Lord Danzo was merely using this as an excuse to make a fuss, or even..."

"You orchestrated all of this to achieve your goals. After all, I'm certain there was no way the information could have been leaked, teacher. What do you think?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi raised his eyelids slightly and said, "I'm wondering the same thing. Why did you, Danzo, install listening devices in my office? Or are you having someone spy on me?"

The three men, one old, one middle-aged, and one young, exuded a strange, seemingly inherited aura, which made Danzo's face turn green with anger. He refused to believe that these three men couldn't guess why he knew about this matter.

However, knowing is one thing, and Danzo could not admit it. After all, when Nara Shikaku and the others were the Hokage's guards, they could not even tell their families about anything discussed in the Hokage's office without Hiruzen Sarutobi's permission.

This time, his Root members were only temporarily serving as guards for half a day, and information was leaked in the Hokage's office. If this were to be brought to light, both the Root ninja who transmitted the information and Danzo who obtained it would be punished.

These three are trying to make a big deal out of him!

Danzo's face darkened, but he couldn't refute it, since he was the one who attacked Kushina first and was the one who made a big deal out of it.

Seeing that his old friend was refuted by the three of them and had no way to retaliate, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally couldn't bear it and said, "Kushina's arrangements remain unchanged. As for what happens next, I will hold a meeting to discuss it."

Danzo, you must be there too. Tatsuma was right just now; without investigation, there is no right to speak. I will inform those who should know about today's events, including you.

I don't want you to say anything more nonsense, understand?

"snort!"

Danzo turned and left without responding. Hiruzen Sarutobi, used to this scene, shook his head as he watched Danzo's retreating figure and said, "I'll go back to work first. As for you, protect Kushina."

Hiruzen Sarutobi emphasized his words at the end, because Danzo was indeed capable of acting first and informing later; he could very well kidnap Kushina directly. And if Kushina were taken to Root, then even he...

Bringing Kushina back intact would be extremely difficult, unless he could truly bring himself to punish Danzo, but Danzo was spoiled and arrogant.

Tsunade nodded and replied, "I understand. But old man, you should warn certain people when you get back, otherwise, even if they are fellow Konoha ninjas, I won't show them any mercy."

"Um."

This time, Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't mince words. It was clear that Danzo was watching him and blatantly disregarding the rules, which greatly angered him.

Minato originally wanted to send Hiruzen Sarutobi back to the Hokage Building, but Hiruzen refused. He had to go to the Nara clan territory to interrogate that brat Shikaku properly about why he didn't go back to work after delivering the gift!

After Hiruzen Sarutobi left, Tatsuma also planned to leave, since he didn't want to stay there, and he could also sense that Kushina didn't want him to stay either.

Or rather, apart from Minato, Kushina didn't want anyone else to stay here, but what happened today made her unable to say it.

After all, tomorrow is Valentine's Day, her first Valentine's Day since moving into her new home, and she only wants to spend it with Minato!

The astute Tatsuma didn't bother staying. Orochimaru shared the same thought; he needed to analyze Tatsuma's performance today and revise his pre-set model.

The two exchanged a glance and were about to leave when Tsunade suddenly said, "Tatsuma, hehe, my good disciple."

Tatsuma instinctively sensed something was wrong and tried to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave, but Tsunade had already reached out and grabbed his sleeve. Tatsuma was helpless; now, even if he used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave, he would take Tsunade with him.

He looked at Tsunade and asked, "Sensei, is there anything else?"

"Tatsuma, you see, I'll stay here to protect Kushina. As for the classes, I'll leave them to you! You don't have any missions to take recently, right?"

Upon hearing this, Tatsuma's face fell. He felt that the most wasteful thing was to substitute for Tsunade's classes. Tsunade's lesson plans were revised and modified, but there were no major changes.

When teaching the same knowledge for the first time, Chenma felt a sense of honor as a teacher, but after the second time, he lost patience because he discovered that the vast majority of people lacked the ability to learn and think independently.

To think that knowledge can be stuffed into their brains and a skill can be acquired simply by listening to the teacher's explanation in class is utterly foolish!

Tatsuma's lips twitched several times before he said, "Substituting for someone is fine, but if another student drops out, don't blame me."

"Alright, alright, I misunderstood you last year. Someone who can't even handle the slightest setback is not qualified to become a medical ninja."

Tsunade assured that she had been telling the same content for three or four years and was tired of it herself. Fortunately, she had Nonou to share the burden with her for the past two years. Tsunade's current hope is to find more excellent medical ninjas and then trick them into staying to teach.

If this training system can become self-sufficient and self-sufficient, then she can sit back and collect task rewards without having to work. Although she will receive less tuition fees, it's still better than having to beat up students every day.

After Tatsuma agreed, Tsunade let him go. Tatsuma then followed Orochimaru to the research lab to collect samples. The research lab was still as rudimentary as ever. Although a lot of new equipment had been added, they were all minor repairs.

After taking the sample, Orochimaru said, half-hintingly, "The equipment in the lab is about to become obsolete again. The amount of Divine Tree cells in your body has increased significantly, and there are more and more samples and directions that need to be analyzed."

"Didn't Konoha Hospital customize several pieces of equipment based on our proposed plan? If there are any experimental needs, we can bring our own samples to conduct the experiments, and they won't refuse."

Tatsuma rolled up his sleeves again, looking somewhat helpless. Orochimaru shook his head and said, "Lady Biwako is willing to give you face, but the problem is she doesn't give me face."

Orochimaru looked distressed. He felt that he was becoming more and more like the scientific research "laborer" that Tatsuma had described, having to depend on others' opinions to do any experiments.

Last time, he was kicked out of Biwa Lake and blacklisted because he accidentally used a tiny bit too many of the Konoha Hospital's test kits. Now, if he wants to repeat the experiment, he has to mix the reagents himself, which is really frustrating.

"Lord Orochimaru, please organize the samples. I'll take them over for people to experiment on tomorrow. As for the technique for extracting the minor ailments, I'll also check on the progress when I have time. That's all for now."

Chenma didn't have any good ideas either. In the past year or so, he had to balance his cultivation and clan expenses, and he didn't have much spare money. It was just a drop in the bucket for the laboratory, and he was too lazy to bring up the matter of funding again.

Orochimaru nodded and said, "That's the only way. By the way, if you're in the mood, you could also look for a few promising researchers. If we open a new lab, the two of us alone definitely won't be enough."

"Then you'll have to go to the obstetrics and gynecology department of Konoha Hospital. Every single one of those who participated in the training is a piece of trash, it's just a matter of low-scoring trash versus high-scoring trash."

Orochimaru didn't realize Tatsuma was joking, and said seriously, "I can't go to Konoha Hospital. Looks like I'll have to visit Konoha Ninja Academy instead."

(End of this chapter)