This is how it is in Konoha. The ninja adults just have to complete their missions, but we, the students of the ninja school, have a lot more to consider.
"Is that a bit too strong? Mitsuki?" Rin's voice came from my ear.
"No, this is just the right amount."
The morning class had not started yet, and Mitsuki sat in his seat enjoying Rin's shoulder massage.
I played ninja games all day yesterday, and now I have to go to this boring school today.
Kurenai Yuhi and Anko walked into the classroom while chatting and laughing. After seeing Rin, Anko walked up to Rin with a string of dumplings as if he was holding a handful of kunai, and said with a sharp look in his eyes.
"Don't spoil Mitsuki too much. If you get married, Rin, you will be suppressed by him for the rest of your life."
"Marriage? (〃°ω°〃) Me and Mitsuki?"
"Yeah, didn't you tell me that when you introduced yourself on the first day? My name is Shimizu... woooo~"
Rin blushed and quickly covered Anko's mouth, but ended up getting meatball sauce all over her hands.
"You two should behave like ladies." Hong moved closer and separated the two.
"Really, Mitsuki, didn't you say that life doesn't have many audiences? By the way, Anko, didn't you say that you didn't hear my self-introduction when I entered school?"
"Huh? If I didn't hear it clearly, how could I tell you that I didn't hear it clearly?"
"..."
Ignoring the daily noise of the girls around him, Mitsuki, figuring that the time was about up, opened his six eyes and turned his attention to the Hokage building.
Since obtaining the six eyes, Konoha now has no privacy in Mitsuki's eyes.
Mitsuki even knew how many times Danzo went to the toilet at the root every day.
Unfortunately, most of the Root's intelligence was transmitted in encrypted form. Before he saw the Root's code book, he had no idea what the Root had been busy with recently.
Fortunately, I asked Hatake Sakumo yesterday when he would submit his retirement letter to the Third Hokage.
For example, he naturally couldn't miss the opportunity when Hatake Sakumo decided to resign from being a ninja.
Present it quickly!
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The other side.
Hatake Sakumo was a man of action, and the next day he went to the Hokage building with his ninja retirement letter.
In Konoha, ninjas usually choose to retire when they are injured while performing a mission, or due to various unavoidable reasons that make it impossible for them to continue to work in the ninja industry.
There are very few people who voluntarily retire. Basically, only low-level ninjas who are afraid of war will do so.
Inside the Hokage's office.
An Anbu appeared in an instant, "Hokage-sama, Hatake Sakumo wishes to see you."
During the war, anyone who wanted to see the Hokage had to be notified by the Anbu.
Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was reviewing the mission scroll, heard Anbu's words and said, "Let him in."
"yes."
With permission, Hatake Sakumo came to the Hokage's office and knocked on the door.
"Come in."
"It's Sakumo. There have been some bad comments about you in the village recently. I hope you don't take it too seriously."
In fact, Sarutobi Hiruzen had never really thought about doing anything about Sakumo's mission failure.
The war has already occupied his mind enough, so it would be crazy to start an internal struggle now.
As it turned out, there was really a person with a crazy brain. His dear old teammate Danzo actually told others about Hatake Sakumo's interruption of the mission behind his back.
After the news had spread, Sarutobi Hiruzen had no good way to save it. After all, it was a fact that Hatake Sakumo had failed in his mission, and it was also a fact that the village had suffered some losses.
Not punishing Hatake Sakumo was the best he could do.
If he forcibly blocked the news, maybe the next day he, Sarutobi Hiruzen, would be scolded by the villagers along with Hatake Sakumo.
As the Hokage, he still had some image anxiety.
On the other hand, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who has been deeply involved in politics for many years, can naturally see who the biggest beneficiary of Danzo's actions is.
Orochimaru was originally his choice for Hokage, but recently Orochimaru and Danzo have been getting closer.
He was a little worried that it might not be a good thing for Orochimaru to take over the position of Hokage.
Hatake Sakumo had no idea that Sarutobi Hiruzen had thought so much. He came here today for only one thing.
Resign! Resign! Resign again!
"Hokage-sama, I know that the failure of this mission has caused great losses to the village, and I need to bear the greatest responsibility."
"No one can succeed all the time. I also have some responsibility as the Hokage."
"Hokage, you don't need to comfort me. After this lesson, I found that I am not suitable to continue being a ninja. Here is my retirement letter." Hatake Sakumo handed the document that he had prepared long ago to Sarutobi Hiruzen with both hands.
"Well, there happens to be a...something (๑•̌.•̑๑)ˀ̣ˀ̣retirement here?!" Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up from his chair with a confused look on his face.
I won't go into the details of the process, but Mitsuki on the other side enjoyed it very much.
Especially after Hatake Sakumo left, Sarutobi Hiruzen yelled, "Call Danzo over to me!"
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Sarutobi Hiruzen is very angry now, the war situation on the front line is already bad, and there are also stupid teammates in the village who are holding him back.
He now misses the time when his teacher was around more and more. Why didn't he realize that Danzo had such a stupid side back then?
"Danzo isn't here yet?"
"Hiruzen, what do you want from me?"
Danzo walked into the Hokage's office on crutches. As the Hokage's assistant, he naturally didn't need to inform the Hokage when he came to see him, not to mention that it was Sarutobi Hiruzen who took the initiative to find him.
"See for yourself." Sarutobi Hiruzen threw Hatake Sakumo's retirement letter to Danzo.
Danzo's eyes narrowed slightly, and after taking the scroll and reading it, he seemed to know that he was in the wrong, but he certainly would not admit his mistake, especially to Hiruzen.
He didn't say anything, and Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't say anything either, the two of them just stared at each other in silence.
But this made Mitsuki on the other side anxious. Are you two performing pantomime across from each other?
Finally, Danzo spoke first: "Hiruzen, do you agree?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen smoked his pipe and said, "Otherwise, you were the one who leaked the mission information first. In what position should I refuse Sakumo's request?"
"You're too soft-hearted, Hiruzen." Danzo opened his mouth to blame.
"You've gone too far, Danzo." Sarutobi Hiruzen became even angrier when he saw that Danzo had no intention of admitting his fault.
"Everything I do is for the village!" Danzo retorted unyieldingly.
"I think it's for Orochimaru."
"Hiruzen are you serious?"
After a few quarrels, Sarutobi Hiruzen calmed down instead. Now that things have come to this, instead of blaming each other, they might as well think carefully about what to do next.
Outside the door, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura pushed the door open and walked in. As the elders of Konoha, they naturally did not need to be informed by Anbu.
Sarutobi Hiruzen took a quick glance and knew that these two must be the helpers Danzo called on the road.
"Hiruzen, Danzo did make a mistake this time, but we still have to focus on the front line."
"Yes, Hiruzen. Without Danzo's roots, the front line will only be more disadvantageous. No matter what happens, let's wait until the war is over."
Sarutobi and Hiruzen were speechless, you two don't even know what happened, and you come here to make excuses for Danzo?
He slowly sat back in his chair, with only one thought in his mind: "Tobirama Sensei, help."
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