Chapter 43 : Shady Hokage (Rewrite)

Konohakagure No Sato.

Hokage Office.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was sitting in his Hokage place and was thinking about many things which had happened in the past 6 months.

Hiruzen already knew that he was running on thin Ice as most of the clan heads were not happy with him and also were demanding to choose a new Hokage.

Possibly from their clan. This was a big issue for Hiruzen. His rule was not as strong as it used to be in his early years.

Many controversies have happened in the time he has been a Hokage and this was coming back to bite him back.

The destruction of Senju and Uchiha happened when he was Hokage and now the other Clan heads are targeting him.

They are not fools who do not understand what is going on in the shadows.

It was Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo and the entire F4 which was responsible for this.

They wanted to secure their power and to do that, in their younger years they worked together to eradicate the Senju clan.

The Uchiha controversy was not something which Hiruzen had designed in the first place but he could have easily stopped the problem when it was arising. But he did not because he wanted to use this to control the Uchiha clan.

Later on, when he could not control the clan he ended up destroying the clan by manipulating Itachi through Danzo.

Then there is also the matter of the death of the Hizashi Hayuga. He was the brother of the current clan leader of the Hyuga clan. Hyaga clan did not make a lot of fuss about his sacrifice because he was from the branch family.

Over the years Hiruzen and Danzo were also responsible for a lot of more shady work in Konoha and Deads of the prominent figures who could have challenged their power.

The reason why Hiruzen made Minato the Hokage was that he could have controlled him. After all, he was getting pressure from the village and the clan heads back then.

Minato himself was a very easy-to-control person if we once gained his trust.

"That child never did see darkness in his life, he always stayed happy without understanding the exact situation of the village" Mutter Hiruzen.

Hiruzen did have a way to save Minato and took his place to cast the Shiki Fuijin technique to summon the dead god but he did not do it.

The only thing he saw was the opportunity to again sit in the Hokage position once and gain his lost power and position.

He also saw another opportunity to control the Uchiha clan and make them his pawn, well that did not work out that well but still it was a good plan.

Although he came to rise to the position of the Hokage again now he is facing the same issue which he was facing back then.

Clans are starting to force him to appoint a new Hokage. He can't even refuse them directly either because he knows that he has become old and is not as strong as he used to be in his youth.

This when compared with the recent destruction of the Uchiha Clan and his not giving face to the Clans, was making the situation even worse.

Then there was also the pawn he was trying to raise for himself.

Minato's two brats. He wanted to control Naruto and make him his weapon.

Of Course, he won't do it like his idiot friend Danzo does. He always used subtle manipulation, unlike Danzo who goes entirely on the dark path.

Anyway, the real problem was that Naruto was too attached to his brother and from a very young age Hiruzen did not give Kirito that much concern. After knowing that Naruto is much easier to manipulate, that was a normal thing to do.

This was a regret he had because Kirito ended up just like his father Minato, a genius.

"That brat was hiding his real power," said Hiruzen.

Kirito never showcased his power and that is why Neither he nor Danzo gave too much attention to him, but now that is not the case.

Not only he was able to defeat Sasuke but also was able to beat his own son Asuma in the Genin test. Although he was able to do it thanks to Asuma not taking them seriously he still worked with his team but still. Genin even thinking about beating a Jonin. 

On the contrary, It was Naruto who was an idiot. Maybe it was the result of exploiting the kid too much but he was not that much bright.

Right now, Kirito is an appealing tool for Hiruzen just like how Minato was in the past and that is why he started to favour him and even went as far as putting the Yamanaka girl with him.

The InoShikaCho formation is a very famous team in Konoha and he had to break that formation just to please Kirito.

He already has received much backlash from all three clans. Especially Ino's father.

"That man is too protective of his daughter," thought Hiruzen with a sweat drop and a sigh.

All of this trouble so that Danzo don't get his hands on Kirito, and what happens in the end? Danzo send his Anbu behind Kirito.

He was already suspected of this but was not anticipating that Danzo would do something like this.

It's a good thing that Kirito was stronger than everyone expected and with the help of his team, he even killed all the Danzo's root ninjas.

He then surely has to reprimand Danzo later but even he knows that it means nothing in Danzo's eyes.

But this explains the importance of Kirito more than ever to him, he might have the same potential as Minato and if that is the case then Hiruzen must have him.

That is why he let him in his son's team and let Asuma be his sensei. Same reason Asuma is teaching both Ino and Shikamaru. And he had to do this for Kirito to make more bonds with the village so he could later manipulate and emotionally blackmail him.

And there he offended the the Akimichi clan by removing Choji from the InoShiCho formation.

He did not want to accept Kiri Kunoichi but he did just because he wanted to bring Kirito to his function.

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