Naruto: I am Ninja World Ghost Story, who are you?

If they only vaguely recognized the face, the two Chunin might not have recognized him. After all, the only photos of Tobirama Senju were taken outside of textbooks when he was in school were his appearances on the Hokage Rock.

However, for Konoha Village, Tobirama Senju's name is one of the four Hokage, so naturally no one will forget him.

Kazuya flew into a rage upon hearing this, pulling a kunai from his ninja tool pouch with his right hand and saying to Tobirama Senju, "Who are you! How dare you come to Konoha Village impersonating the Second Hokage! You're asking for death!"

Tobirama Senju crossed his arms. As the Hokage, he naturally wouldn't lay a hand on his subordinates. "Summon the Third Hokage, and you'll find out."

Kazuya hesitated for a moment. Seeing how calm Tobirama Senju was in the face of his threat, he dared not make any rash moves. If it really was the Second Hokage who had been resurrected, then he, a mere Chunin, might have to go to the border to eat purple eggs.

"Yoshiya, I'll go to the Hokage Building first. You stay here and watch over him."

"Ok!"

Tobirama Senju was speechless. One Chunin thought he could keep an eye on him? Putting aside how much stronger Chunin were now compared to the Chunin of the past, even if they were still at the same level, with his current strength, he could easily take on seven or eight Chunin at once.

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Inside the Hokage's office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had just finished dealing with the Root ninja and hadn't even had a chance to catch his breath before continuing to process the village's permits when he heard a Chunin rushing into his office, saying that the Second Hokage had been resurrected and was now at the front door.

"Absurd! Utterly absurd!"

"Back then, I personally went to the Land of Lightning after World War I to retrieve the Second Hokage's body, and then it was buried with all of us disciples and even the village's ninjas as witnesses. How could this be..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi stopped mid-sentence, his voice abruptly halting as he recalled the events that had transpired within the Uchiha clan, and the sight of Tobirama-sensei that this Chunin had witnessed...

He decisively summoned his secret service and together they went to the village entrance to see what was going on.

About three minutes later, one by one, the Anbu appeared at the gates of Konoha. Hiruzen Sarutobi was wearing the Hokage hat and the Hokage robe.

Beneath the straw hat, the old man's wrinkled face instantly turned into one of disbelief upon seeing Tobirama Senju.

"Teacher...how could this happen..."

"Monkey, you're getting old."

At this moment, Tobirama Senju was about thirty years old. Logically speaking, his strength should be at its peak at this age, but he inexplicably had lost several times his strength. The most obvious thing was the total amount of chakra.

Are you really a teacher?

"Teacher, do you remember where you last appeared?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi did not sense any transformation fluctuations from Tobirama Senju, and every detail was exactly as he remembered.

However, given the precedent set by the Uchiha, he couldn't help but ask a few more probing questions.

After thinking for a moment, Tobirama Senju said directly:

"Is that even a question? You must be referring to the internal strife in Kumogakure that I experienced during the negotiations of World War I, right?"

"It really was you, teacher!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes gleamed, tears welling up in them.

But he quickly wiped away his tears, because the villagers and their secret agents were watching from all around.

"Teacher, let's go inside and talk."

"Ah."

After responding, Tobirama Senju walked side by side with Hiruzen Sarutobi on the village street. Looking at the village that had become so prosperous, he couldn't help but sigh that the old monkey had some talent after all.

However, when Tobirama Senju saw the face of the young Fourth Hokage on the Hokage Rock, his pupils contracted. Coupled with the relaxed attitude of the village ninjas just now, he seemed to understand something. He sighed inwardly and decided to question the monkey in detail when they arrived at the Hokage Building.

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root base.

After learning of the Root squad's report, Danzo began to think further.

As for the Root ninja imprisoned, he didn't care; instead, he was thinking about how to successfully capture Uchiha Bufan.

"Wait a minute!"

"Ao, are you sure there's no one in the Uchiha clan compound at night, and that only Sasuke's family has lights on?"

The squad leader, named Hound, nodded. "Yes, Lord Danzo!"

"Did you confirm the existence of Uchiha Bufan?"

"Well... because there is no light anywhere, and I don't know the exact location of Uchiha Bufan's residence, I don't have it."

"Useless!" Danzo cursed, but he also knew that this was the most appropriate way to handle the situation.

The Uchiha matter cannot be rushed, because all sorts of strange things have already told him that he cannot act recklessly.

Moreover, all the surveillance equipment within the Uchiha clan's territory is now out of service, making it impossible to see any information about the territory. The only way to explore is through manpower, which makes every Root ninja especially important.

"Tonight, send a small team to the clan's territory to gather intelligence. They must search every residential area except for Sasuke's. If they don't find Uchiha Bufan, they should search the shops in the Uchiha commercial district one by one. If all else fails, they should search the training grounds, the trees, and the fields. You must find him for me!"

"Yes!"

At that moment, a Root ninja hurriedly walked in from outside.

"Lord Danzo has encountered a major incident. Just now, the village's Anbu and many Konoha ninja witnessed the return of the Second Hokage."

"What!" Danzo stood up abruptly, his eyes wide with disbelief that such an absurd thing could come from the mouth of his own subordinate.

He couldn't help pacing back and forth as he thought about what he had done, with a premonition that something terrible was about to happen.

"This is bad... Quick... Quickly pack up our belongings at each base, we need to leave Konoha!"

Although the Root ninjas were puzzled, they still obeyed Danzo's orders and went outside.

When Tobirama Senju arrived at the office, his first question was to Hiruzen Sarutobi:

"The Uchiha clan was wiped out, right?"

His senses were not wrong; at this moment, there was not a trace of the chakra that the Uchiha group had been so attached to in the past. It must be that Hiruzen Sarutobi had wiped them out.

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi broke out in a cold sweat and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, teacher. The village had no choice but to take action because the Uchiha clan was planning a coup."

He dared not say that Danzo had asked Itachi to do this without his permission, otherwise his teacher would surely punish Danzo.

"What about the Senju clan?"

"Don't tell me they've all moved."

Instantly, Hiruzen Sarutobi's body went limp, his knees bent slightly, and he began to tremble. His mind started to think about how to explain himself.

"What, can't you explain it?"

Tobirama Senju couldn't help but sigh, and then said, "Then tell me, what happened after I died? Report the truth."

"If you're going to lay a hand on the teacher, do it now, as if the teacher never came back to life."

In fact, the Flying Thunder God's mark can be found in almost every place in the village, but most of them have been destroyed. The reason for this is most likely due to the Nine-Tails' rampage.

Therefore, Tobirama Senju was merely testing the monkey to see if he was really that bold.

"Teacher...I'm sorry."

"Not long after your death, the Second Shinobi World War broke out. At that time, almost all of the Senju clan's elite fighters perished on the battlefield, and the village, lacking sufficient fighting strength, began research into the bloodstains of the First Hokage..."

"So, they died on the battlefield and in experiments, right?"

"What about Nawaki and Tsunade? Don't tell me they died on the battlefield or at the lab table too!"

Tobirama Senju was furious. These were his elder brother's grandchildren. He never expected that the Senju clan would be wiped out during the monkey's reign.

"I'm sorry, teacher, it's my fault. If I hadn't agreed to let Nawaki go to the battlefield, perhaps he wouldn't have died..."

"What about Tsunade?"

"She's still here, but... she left the village voluntarily because of health issues... I don't know where she is right now."

"Hmph! It's a physical problem." Although Tobirama Senju was still angry, he was relieved, at least Tsunade was safe.

"Don't answer every question the teacher asks. Now that the teacher has been resurrected, he will naturally investigate. There's no point in lying now."

Or, you can just do as the teacher said before.

"I dare not...I dare not..." Hiruzen Sarutobi knew he couldn't hide it anymore, so he stopped trying to conceal it.

"Tsunade's situation stems from the fact that after Nawaki's death, his lover also died in a mission during World War II, and ultimately developed hemophobia... As a medical ninja, contracting this disease meant she could no longer perform medical work..."

"She's even lost her identity as a ninja." Upon hearing this symptom, Tobirama Senju knew that Tsunade was no longer a ninja.

After all, no ninja can survive without shedding blood.

"Go on."

"Yes!"

"Actually, a lot happened during World War II, and the Land of Whirlpools was also destroyed during the war..."

"What!" Tobirama Senju couldn't help but turn around and look at Hiruzen Sarutobi. He hadn't expected that the monkey couldn't even protect his sister-in-law's clan.

"How exactly did you become Hokage?! Explain it to me in detail!"

"Yes... The Second Shinobi World War was started by a ninja from the Land of Rain who called himself a 'demigod' named Hanzo... Konoha won with great difficulty... But the war didn't end until an alliance or armistice agreement was signed... So during the period of easing tensions, Konoha was also short of manpower, and thus couldn't send ninjas to rescue them in time, and was captured by the Hidden Cloud Village..."

"So, the entire Uzumaki clan is dead, is that right?" Tobirama Senju's expression grew increasingly cold. For such words to come from the monkey's mouth showed that he had seen through the monkey's true nature.

"No... Konoha Village did send a small team to provide support, but they only found one survivor."

"what is it call."

"Kushina Uzumaki."

"Does your sister-in-law know?"

"Lord Mito knows."

"I don't want to know what happened after that. Just tell me roughly what outstanding ninjas have emerged in the village over the years."

Tobirama Senju had already realized that Hiruzen Sarutobi had mastered the art of politics.

You ask him if he told the truth? He did.

You tell me, how much of the truth did you not tell completely? Tobirama Senju felt that at least half of it was not clearly stated.

At the very least, he didn't believe that the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed so easily. He thought that the current monkey (referring to a certain type of ninja) rarely spoke the truth. He suggested that they find a suitable ninja to take over the position of Hokage and clean up this corrupt village.

"Yes!" Hiruzen Sarutobi was also unsure of exactly who Tobirama Senju needed to know, so he decided to name everyone, both the living and the dead.

"After World War II, many capable ninjas emerged in the village."

For example, Hatake Sagumo of the Hatake clan, known in the ninja world as the White Fang of Konoha, was also the successor to the next Hokage... However, due to a failed mission during the Third Shinobi World War, which resulted in heavy losses for the village, the news spread throughout the village, ultimately leading to the White Fang's suicide at home...

Tobirama Senju: ?

He originally asked about the current ninjas, but the monkey revealed an example that he couldn't believe.

"You bastard! Tell me! Did you really commit suicide out of guilt?!"

Tobirama Senju was furious. He even stopped calling himself a monkey. This made Hiruzen Sarutobi realize that he had no way to protect Danzo and had to throw Danzo out as a scapegoat.

"This matter... was actually done by Danzo."

"At the time, White Fang had already been chosen as the next Hokage, but for some reason, he made a mistake during an important mission because of saving his comrades... Afterwards, rumors about White Fang's mission failure suddenly began to circulate in the village for no apparent reason..."

"Are you unaware, or are you pretending not to know?" Tobirama Senju's tone was almost certain that Hiruzen Sarutobi knew perfectly well, but was just pretending not to know, or rather, he didn't want to hand over the Hokage position to Sasuke Hatake.

"I'm sorry, teacher. I tried to stop it at the time... but it was too late." Hiruzen Sarutobi still gritted his teeth and explained that it was just an oversight, not intentional.

Tobirama Senju was no longer interested in hearing anything good. He hadn't heard a single piece of good news. The Uchiha clan could only be considered half a clan; that was just something he kept thinking about, not a real desire to exterminate the Uchiha clan.

"I don't want to hear what you're saying anymore. I want to find a serious criminal and ask this Hatake Sagumo myself."

Hiruzen Sarutobi dared not say anything more. His most respected teacher was now in such a state that he had no face left.

At that moment, an ANBU member appeared in the Hokage's office.

"Fire... Third Hokage, Second Hokage! Village ninjas have discovered that Root seems to be making a big move."

Chapter 12 Tobirama's Resolve

The sounds from the Anbu silenced the entire Hokage's office.

"Upon learning of the teacher's news, instead of coming over immediately, they packed their things and prepared to flee."

"You two monkeys really do a good job of serving your teacher."

Tobirama Senju's tone was filled with gritted teeth.

"Master, I'll have someone stop Danzo right away. We absolutely won't let him leave the village." Hiruzen Sarutobi understood that if Danzo escaped, he would be in trouble.