Chapter 238 Complete Breakup
In the original world line, Sarutobi Shinnosuke should not have died so early. After all, in the original work, he was going to give birth to Konohamaru in the future and leave the last incense for the Sarutobi family.

It’s just a pity that as fate deviates more and more, the changed trajectory has become like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins and can never be pulled back.

Sarutobi Shinnosuke disappeared as early as the day the Battle of Kikyoyama broke out, but he was not declared dead because his body was never found.

During this period, Sarutobi Hiruzen also tried to write a letter to Orochimaru, asking this disciple to help find his son.

But Orochimaru’s attitude was as cold as ever. He didn’t refuse, but he didn’t show any concern either.

But today, the ending was finally revealed – the person is still dead.

At that moment, Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed to have aged five years. His lips were trembling and he was unable to speak for a while.

The ANBU ninja who reported then asked, “Captain Shinnosuke died at a location some distance from the front line. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed. Do we need to conduct further investigation?”

Sarutobi Hiruzen picked up the pipe with trembling hands and said nothing for a long time. After a while, he spoke righteously.

“No need for that. Anbu resources are extremely valuable during a war, so there’s no need to waste them on something like this.”

The Anbu ninja who was reporting was hesitant to speak, and wanted to ask, isn’t the war over now?

But in the end, he still didn’t dare to refute the opinions of the top management.

Even though Sarutobi Hiruzen has abdicated, the new Hokage has not yet been selected, so the Konoha Anbu is still under the control of these elders.

“Yes.” The Anbu ninja responded and retreated.

But he didn’t know that Sarutobi Hiruzen was destined to suffer from insomnia after returning home that night.

How could it be possible that he didn’t allow the Anbu to continue the investigation because of such a righteous reason?
The real reason is of course because: Sarutobi Shinnosuke went to the front line under his orders!
I killed my own son with my own hands – this realization made Sarutobi Hiruzen feel more devastated and heartbroken than any revenge or torture!
But in front of outsiders, he has to pretend to be calm.

That night, Sarutobi Hiruzen did not even go home, but sat alone in a data room in the Hokage Building all night.

The next day, Mitomon En and Utane Koharu came to visit him, and they tacitly agreed not to mention the matter again.

As a result, around noon, Danzo came and he revealed the scar without any hesitation.

“Huruzen, Shinnosuke is dead. Do you know about this?”

Mitomon En kept winking at Danzo.

Unfortunately, the latter turned a deaf ear and continued talking to himself.

“I think we can take advantage of this.”

Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at him coldly, and there was rarely any friendship in his eyes as in the past.

“What do you want to say?” Sarutobi Hiruzen asked coldly.

“We can completely blame the Akatsuki for Shinnosuke’s death! We can use this as an opportunity to order Orochimaru to attack northwards and cooperate with Jiraiya to attack the Rain Country!

This way, Orochimaru won’t be able to return to the village in a short period of time, the war will continue, and we can also arrange for others to negotiate with the Sand Village!”

This action is still in line with Danzo’s sinister style as always.

Just like what they did during the Kirigakure peace talks, they wanted to take credit again this time.

Even if the battle was commanded by Orochimaru, as long as the final peace treaty was signed by people arranged by them, they would be able to take a lot of the credit when promoting it in the village in the future.

Just like they had arranged for Minato Namikaze to sign an alliance with Kirigakure not long ago, this time, Danzo even considered whether he could be the representative for the peace talks.

Last night, Danzo spent the entire night planning this matter in the Root base!

Sarutobi Hiruzen guessed some of Danzo’s thoughts after hearing this, but he was just puzzled and asked, “Why did you choose Akatsuki?”

At this point, they didn’t know the role that Shiba Kiyokawa played in this battle, and Danzo only speculated based on the existing intelligence.

“Because the intelligence sent back from the front line said that the leader of Akatsuki appeared near Mount Kikyo. In this case, we can even pin the disappearance of Ichibi on Akatsuki.”

Sarutobi Hiruzen was still smoking, frowning as he said, “Orochimaru has reported in his reply that the One-Tail is now under his control.”

Danzo snorted, “So what? Hand over that Jinchuriki to the Root, I will hide her well, and in the future I will train her to be the sharpest sword in Konoha!”

As for the Sand Village, we will lie to them and tell them that their tailed beasts are in the Akatsuki organization, and ask them to cooperate with us in attacking the Rain Country after the truce, so that we can kill two birds with one stone!”

Danzo’s calculations were very detailed.

This time, he not only wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge on the Akatsuki organization that hurt him, but also planned to use the opportunity to blackmail the Jinchūriki.

His roots really need to be strengthened now!

As for the reaction of Akatsuki, he didn’t care at all.

Perhaps it was because the village ended two battlefields in succession in a short period of time, which made Danzo’s idea of ​​Konoha’s supremacy firmly prevail again.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but begin to despise all forces outside of Konoha equally!

For a moment, he even imagined the scene where the Akatsuki organization was so frightened after hearing the news that they could not sleep or eat, and begged for mercy in a panic!

Now Konoha has defeated two major ninja villages. In Danzo’s opinion, Konoha is now extremely strong!
Although Sarutobi Hiruzen hesitated several times, he finally nodded and agreed.

Just as he had indulged Danzo countless times in the past.

When explaining to others, Sarutobi Hiruzen always reflected on his indecisiveness and his inability to let go of his former comrades.

But in fact, he just wanted the result promised by Danzo, but didn’t want to dirty his own hands.

Not long afterward, the ninja world was in turmoil again.

Konoha publicly accused the Akatsuki organization of interfering in the war, killing the son of the former Hokage, and shamelessly stealing the tailed beast that originally belonged to the Sand Village!
At this time, Sand Village has already openly asked for peace, so Konoha simply wants to drag Sand Village together to ask for an explanation from the Akatsuki organization.

As soon as this news came out, it caused a huge uproar!

The Ninja World War, which had been gradually cooling down, seemed to be about to set off a new round of heat!

All major ninja villages are closely watching the development of events.

However, in the dark, there was a young man who had gone astray. He was once again furious because of Konoha’s actions!
The young man was Uchiha Obito!
Because he knew clearly that

“I was the one who killed that guy called Sarutobi Shinnosuke! The One-Tailed Shukaku is now beside Orochimaru, inside the body of the newborn ‘Rin’!
“Muye, is there a single word of truth in your mouth? So how many lies are contained in the deeds you have promoted in the past! Hehe, hahahaha!”

Danzo would never have thought that his actions would cause a young boy, who was already drifting away from Konoha, to completely embark on a path of revenge by breaking with the village.

(End of this chapter)