Chapter 718 Begins

Before the sky has brightened. Danzo, who is over 60 years old, has already gotten up full of energy, and then he brushes his teeth, washes, poops, and eats breakfast, all with one hand!

After that, Danzo sat on the sofa with his eye closed for ten minutes in concentration. After digesting his food, he got up and opened the door.

At the door of his house, two Root's Shinobi stood silently on both sides like sculptures: "Danzo-sama!"

Danzo nodded solemnly and said: "Let's go!"

With his two subordinates, Danzo came all the way to Hokage Rock.

Looking at the four huge rock heads in front of him, Danzo unceremoniously chose his old partner, the Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Stepping on Hiruzen's head and feeling the rustling autumn wind on his body, Danzo held his staff in one hand and clasped the other behind his back, as quiet as a seventy-years-old man.

He looked down at the Hokage Tower below, and at the Konoha Hospital, Anbu's Headquarters, Military Police Force's Headquarters, and the Academy in the distance, and he felt extremely emotional: 'This! This is my village!'

"Is everyone ready?" Danzo asked without looking back.

"Yes!"

The two subordinates responded decisively from behind.

Danzo nodded slightly and waited quietly.

Not long after, a figure slowly walked out of the jungle behind Hokage Rock. It was Danzo's 'ally', Uchiha Clan's Clan Head, Uchiha Fugaku!

"Here we are," Danzo said.

Fugaku jumped next to Danzo, crossed his arms and said coldly: "Danzo, asking my people to evacuate from the Military Police Force's Headquarters, you are not trying to blow up the Military Police Force's Headquarters with Explosive Tag, right?"

Danzo smiled without saying anything.

"Even if this inferior method can cause temporary chaos, it is impossible to cause great chaos to Konoha. What is your plan?" Although Fugaku sent a lot of information to Minato, he himself could not see through Danzo's plan from these information.

Danzo said: "You will be understood soon, hehehehe..."

...

Anbu's Headquarters, the sixth team's locker room on the third floor.

Before five o'clock, Tenzo, Itachi and the other members of the sixth team have all gathered together. After a while, Kanpū also came.

"Brother Kanpū, last night you…" When Tenzo saw Kanpū, he immediately stepped forward to complain about the other party's bad behavior of not paying for the treat last night, but midway through his words, Kanpū in front of him suddenly turned into Kakashi's appearance with a bang.

Kakashi rubbed the white hair on his head and said: "It's me."

In order to avoid being blocked by the cats, Kakashi randomly chose someone to transform into. The effect is not bad, as the wild cats that used to block him ran away when they met him in a new look.

But he felt that there's something weird after thinking about it this way.

He shook his head to get rid of this feeling, looked around and said: "Since everyone is here, then…"

"Captain Kakashi, Brother Kanpū hasn't come yet." Tenzo hurriedly said.

"He has other missions, don't worry about him."

Kakashi shrugged and said, "Our mission today is to cooperate with other teams and protect the headquarters, so we can't go anywhere today, understand?"

"Protect the headquarters together? Captain Kakashi, is there an enemy coming to attack the headquarters?" A member asked.

"There's no way, right?"

"This is Anbu's Headquarters!"

"But speaking of which, we haven't gone out on missions in the past few months."

"Yeah, there are a lot of people in the headquarters everyday."

"Okay, shut up."

Kakashi took on the captain's posture and said, "Everyone, stay here with peace of mind, don't worry about the others."

"Yes!"

...

Academy.

Today is the annual school day. Parents who have received the admission notices for new students have gathered from all over with their children and happily exchanged their parenting experiences on the Academy's training grounds.

In addition to the freshmen and their parents, the second, third, to sixth graders also arrived one after another, rushing towards their respective teaching buildings in twos and threes.

"Big brother is too much. He knew that we are starting the school today, but he ran away so early in the morning without leaving a trace!" Karin and Hinata came together, and Karin kept talking and complaining about someone.

"Maybe Brother Kanpū has a mission." The good girl Hinata smiled and made an excuse for someone.

"I don't believe it." Karin raised her head proudly.

"Sigh, your eldest brother is not here, but your second brother is still here."

Hayate followed Karin and Hinata, and spoke out enviously to increase his presence, "I'm with you all the way, don't ignore me."

Karin pouted and said: "Wasn't second brother accompanying us to school just because Sister Yugao was not free?"

Hayate's face twitched when he heard this: "Don't expose me."

Yugao has also joined Anbu a few years ago. And on this important day today, she naturally has no time to accompany Hayate to show off their affection on public.

"Will Hokage-sama come here to speak to the new students today?"

"Yondaime Hokage-sama is so handsome!"

"Yellow Flash is my most admired hero!"

In addition to the exchanges between parents, many freshmen who have just met are also chattering continuously, discussing on the training grounds.

Hearing these juniors' comments, Karin couldn't help but complain to Hinata: "The Yondaime Hokage-sama is such an outstanding person, so why is his son so bad?"

"Actually, it's not like that. Naruto is actually… quite outstanding." Hinata said with a shy smile on her face.

"Hinata, do you like him? You speak for him every time." Karin stared at her in shock.

"No, don't talk nonsense." Hinata is unhappy and started stomping her feet.

"I'm kidding."

Karin laughed, quickly changed the subject, and turned to Hayate, "Second brother, we… second brother? What are you looking at?"

"I always feel that there is something weird around here." Hayate faintly noticed the abnormality of the Academy.

"Weird? It's probably because Naruto's father is coming to speak, so there are Anbu hiding around."

Karin casually said, "Okay, second brother, Hinata and I are going in, goodbye."

"Oh, goodbye." Hayate shrugged, glanced around suspiciously, and then turned and left.

It didn't take long for Minato, wearing the Hokage's robe, to come under the gaze of everyone with a smile and began the annual opening speech.

At the same time.

In a ramen shop not far from the Anbu's Headquarters, the disguised Orochimaru, Taki and Mei are eating noodles in silence with their heads down.

"Orochimaru, how long do we have to wait?" Taki finished drinking the ramen soup base and gave this ramen shop a bad review in his heart.

Orochimaru looked at Taki playfully and said: "Can't wait or are you feeling uneasy?"

"I don't know why, but I always feel like you are about to change side."

Taki shrugged and said, "I think it's better for us to evacuate from Konoha as soon as possible."

Mei, who is next to them, listened to them while analyzing their identities: 'At present, the two of them are most likely to be members of the Akatsuki, but as far as their relationship is concerned, they don't seem to be harmonious.'

'But it might be true, Akatsuki is a Missing-nin organization after all.'

Mei ate the noodles slowly when suddenly, a series of violent explosions accompanied by surging air waves suddenly roared from the direction of the Anbu's Headquarters!

"It has begun!" Orochimaru suddenly opened his golden vertical pupils.