Naruto: Assistant to the Hokage

How important is this establishment thing?

In his previous life, Akihara Kagura didn't even have the chance to get a staffing!

According to the human affairs of his previous life, if Orochimaru offered to help Akihara arrange an establishment, Akihara would have to pay a visit to his home to send him a gift for the New Year's festivals...

For Akihara in this life, the establishment of Konoha is still of great use, and Akihara Kagura can use it to integrate into the most powerful ninja village in this world!

The Konoha Village was the center of this world.

As long as Akihara Kagura entered Konoha, he could always know the direction of this world and even influence the future of this world!

Not to mention...

The system also refreshed the new superior request.

[System prompt]: [New job task, travel to Kiba to find Orochimaru's ally, Shimura Danzo, to learn wood Ninjutsu, and to monitor the alliance between Orochimaru and Shimura Danzo].

This job task, there is no time limit.

The concept of a work assignment issued by the system originated from the higher-ups, and there was never a set time for completion, leaving one with the vague feeling that this job would not know when it would be completed...

However...

This was what alerted Akihara the most.

If he did what he was told, he would be stuck in a job for the rest of his life; only if he took the initiative to do something could he get out of a job that had an unknown deadline.

Rustle...

A sound of snakes crawling suddenly came out.

A small white snake suddenly burrowed out of the grass, intimately clinging to Orochimaru's calf in a very snuggly manner.

Orochimaru bent down and spread out his palm, and the little white snake opened its mouth and spat out a scroll that landed in Orochimaru's palm.

The scroll looked even larger than the little white snake's size, making it hard to imagine how on earth it managed to swallow it.

But...

This was the Shinobi world after all...

This kind of weirdness is still very common.

Orochimaru opened the scroll in his hand and looked at the writing on it, an evil smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, as if he had seen some interesting news on it.

Technically speaking...

It was a sternly worded question.

It was a questioning letter from Shimura Danzo.

Once when Orochimaru was still in Konoha, Danzo had been secretly funding and supporting his Kizuna human experimentation research program, and had even gone so far as to help find human experimentation materials;

Of course.

This kind of investment is sure to demand a return.

Orochimaru once also gave back to Shimura Danzo, will be a successful experimental wooden ninja given to Shimura Danzo, so that Shimura Danzo see the hope of the success of the project.

After all, it was important to let the investors see some results...

Even though the wood release was far from perfect, that little bit of hope made Shimura believe in the future of the wood release human experimentation research project...

wood experiments...

It's very promising. It's a sure thing!

Even now that Orochimaru had defected and left Konoha, Shimura had still funded Orochimaru's research without fear of the risk of being caught colluding with the renegade ninja...

But...

An investor always expects a return on his investment.

The messages Shimura Danzo sent were almost always full of questions from him.

Where's my money?

Where did you spend my money?

Have you had any new results from your experimental program in the past few years?

It wasn't until later in this scroll of correspondence that Shimura Danzo mentioned something about the previous, less successful wood experimental subject, who had been discovered by the Third Hokage and taken under Hokage's immediate shadowy wing, hoping that Orochimaru would help him breed another kitsune ninja out of his experiments.

Similarly.

Shimura Danzo also mentioned the request for a meeting.

After all, Orochimaru had defected from Konoha for a few years now, and had long since gotten out of Shimura Danzo's control, and this investor wanted to check on the progress of Orochimaru's project as well.

"Huh..."

Orochimaru ignored the questioning on this scroll and looked at the last request made on the scroll with a light smile on his face.

"This couldn't be more coincidental."

"It just so happens...it's also a way to account for him."

"What?"

Akihara looked at Orochimaru in surprise.

Was there something this boss would hide from him?

"Nothing."

Orochimaru looked at Akihara with a smile, reached out and stroked Akihara's hair, and spoke with a loving face, "Someone will be here to pick you up in a moment...until then, I'm going to teach you the way to undo a spell seal."

"What spell seal?"

"The Seal of Tongue Scourge and Root Extinction."

Orochimaru said it lightly.

The name of this spell seal sounded a little scary, and the spell seal was quite poorly executed, not really scary at all.

It was a sealing spell seal created by Danzo and was mainly used to inflict on his minions to avoid them from leaking information about him.

By planting the Seal of Tongue Scourge Root Extinction under a person's tongue, any attempt by the person who is planted with the spell to bring up news of Shimura Danzo triggers the spell and prevents them from speaking or even physically moving.

Orochimaru wants to let Akihara to go to Konoha to join Danzo's another purpose, is to act as his undercover, from time to time will need to Akihara to pass on information to him, of course, will not let Akihara by the tongue of the seal of bane of the root of extinction bondage.

In addition to the method of removing the Seal of Tongue Bane Root ninja, Orochimaru also reminisced about his hometown in front of Akihara, letting Akihara know a little bit about the story of Konoha.

"My teacher..."

"The third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen..."

"He has ruled Konoha for decades..."

"Perhaps because of his advanced age, that teacher has become a bit soft-hearted...even in the face of those who might destroy Konoha..."

"..."

Akihara raised his own eyebrows.

There were many anecdotes about the characters of Konoha Village, and the teenager knew a lot of secrets.

The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, made people think that he was soft-hearted and that he was an old man with a kind face, but that was because there were people who acted as ruthless characters.

Konoha is the most powerful organization in the Shinobi world, it can never all be under the sunlight, naturally, it also needs some unseen characters to deal with the dark and shady.

Without a doubt.

Danzo was this kind of character.

Akihara wanted to know more about the story of some of his future bosses.

After quietly listening to Orochimaru's recollections of Hiruzen, Akihara asked a timely and curious question, "What about Lord Danzo, the one Lord Orochimaru told me to defect to? What kind of person is he? Is there anything I should be aware of?"

"Danzo?"

The smile on Orochimaru's face suddenly thickened as he spoke grimly, "Danzo... is the shadow that hides behind the Third Naruto."

"The life of a ninja is dark."

"Hokage is the source of the ninja's darkness..."

"Humans, however, always like to glorify themselves...that sensei of mine likes to appear bright and approachable...he would need someone to help him deal with some of the dark troubles..."

"kekekeke..."

Orochimaru actually laughed a little smugly, as if because he had found something unpleasant about the Third Naruto, and continued to taunt, "That teacher of mine has always been so hypocritical, not wanting people to know that he was tainted with darkness... the wood human experiments with an almost one hundred percent mortality rate were first proposed by him... it's just that his will was too weak... ...couldn't bear the price of the experiment failing all the time..."

"..."

Junior Akihara kind of wanted to pull out her ears.

Why did Orochimaru have to mention his teacher when he mentioned Konoha?

It's been years since he defected from Konoha, why is Orochimaru still sneering at the Third Hokage? Wasn't it just that Orochimaru wasn't made Hokage of Konoha? Wasn't it just that you drove Orochimaru out of his hometown?

Wasn't Orochimaru your own fault in the first place?

Now... I just want to hear Lord Danzo's story! 

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