Chapter 16 Konoha Cemetery

He had always regarded himself as a eloquent ninja, but now Uchiha Fugaku frightened him.

  Compared with the other party, he is simply a clumsy-tongued waste.

  Sarutobi Hiruzen was already deeply affected.

  In order to prevent the ANBU from being incited and brainwashed, he began to strictly control the ANBU members, prohibiting them from going out privately, and gave them an emergency special training with no deadline.

  During this period, they were not allowed to leave the ANBU base, and a large number of people were deployed to monitor them.

  Especially Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi.

  The two of them are the trump cards in Hiruzen Sarutobi's hand and cannot be missed.

  In order to prevent them from contacting Uchiha Fugaku again, he urgently ordered Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui to go out of the village to carry out the mission.

"We can't continue like this!"

  Uchiha Fugaku must be dealt with.

  Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the "Ninja God Senju Hashirama - The Senju Family Always Worth Remembering" on the ground and muttered something.

  He admitted that he was not as good as Uchiha Fugaku in brainwashing ability.

  But Uchiha Fugaku's weaknesses are also obvious.

  Weak.

  No strength.

  Although the elite Jonin's strength is pretty good, he is not considered a master in the entire ninja world.

  There are many people who can kill him.

  It seemed that he needed to think carefully about issuing an assassination mission against Uchiha Fugaku.

No matter how much money you pay, it is worth it.

  His people can't attack, but there are many powerful rebel ninjas in the outside world.

  As long as it was done correctly, Uchiha Fugaku would be dead.

  Since I can't defeat you openly, then I'll use some other methods to get rid of you!

  No matter what, I will win!

  Keep winning until the end!

  Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped on the cover of "Ninja God Senju Hashirama—The Senju Family Forever Memorable" and walked out.

  "Since you are dead, you should leave me forever. Konoha is my Konoha!"

  No one can take it away.

  His eyes were firm and his steps were steady. He didn't look like an old man at all.

  But now he has changed his mind.

  No matter what Uchiha Fugaku did today, he would not be angry.

  There is no need for a living person to be angry with a dead person.

  He has experience with this.

  It would be nice to go meet Uchiha Fugaku.

  He is indeed a talent.

  If he was not from the Uchiha family, he would definitely make him his best helper.

  ...

  There is a woodland behind the Konoha Ninja Village, and at the edge of the woodland is the Konoha Cemetery.

Looking around the Konoha Cemetery, there are countless stone tablets. Each of these stone tablets belongs to the heroes of Konoha who died in the battle.

  Ordinary ninjas and villagers are not qualified to be buried here. Those who can be buried here are important figures who have made outstanding contributions to Konoha.

  Even the Senju family and the Uchiha family have many ancestors buried here, including the two Hokage Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama.

  Konoha White Fang Hatake Sagumo is also buried here, not far from the grave of the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato.

  Sagumo Hatake, known as the Konoha White Fang, Kakashi's father, is a legendary ninja of Konoha Village, just like the yellow flash Namikaze Minato.

  He held a chakra short sword that emitted white light, and it was easy to cut gold and jade wherever the sword flashed. When he was at his most prosperous, other ninja villages had regulations that they could automatically abandon their missions if they saw him on the battlefield.

His name is resounding throughout the world, and even the "legendary Sannin" have to respect him a bit.

  He has always been a favorite to become the Fourth Hokage.

  During his lifetime, he was blamed by the villagers for giving up his mission and choosing to save his companions. In the end, even the rescued companions blamed him in turn. In the end, Hatake Sakumo suffered a mental breakdown and chose to commit suicide.

  Completed 256 D-level missions, 384 C-level missions, 266 B-level missions, 123 A-level missions, and 27 S-level missions in his lifetime.

  The Mystery of Konoha's Secret Teleportation Technique, the Thousand-Year Kill, which Hatake Sagumo once developed, has changed people's minds after hearing about it. It is called the Thousand-Year Kill and has almost no solution.

  But even such a strong man fell under the rumors carefully planned by Sarutobi Hiruzen.

This is enough to prove the terror of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

  It was precisely because of his death that Hiruzen Sarutobi was able to retain the position of the Third Hokage and continued to serve for a few more years.

  It's just that Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't expect that as his disciple, the yellow flash Minato Namikaze would emerge in the Third Ninja War and establish unparalleled achievements.

  Due to public pressure, he had to temporarily hand over the position of Hokage to Namikaze Minato. It was not until a few years ago that he found the opportunity to officially take back the position of Hokage.

  It seems that upon entering this cemetery, an invisible sadness spreads in my heart. Even the sounds from the outside world become much quieter when they come here.

  When building the cemetery, a lot of thought was spent on both the location and layout.

  There are not many people who usually come to Konoha Cemetery, and there are often only a few people who come to pay their respects to their ancestors.

But the cemetery was crowded with people today. Thanks to the propaganda of the Hatake family, the entire Konoha village knew that Sarutobi Yoshito was coming to Sagumo Hatake's grave today to apologize to the Hatake family.

  Because of Sarutobi Hiruzen's guidance, many people don't know much about Hatake Sakumo.

  Compared with when Hatake Sagumo was alive, the size of Ninja Village has expanded a lot, and many Konoha villagers have only moved to Konoha from the outside world in recent years.

  There is a saying that although Sarutobi Hiruzen is a hypocrite and careerist, his ability to manage the village is quite good.

  Under his control, Konoha Ninja Village has even begun to escape the control of the Fire Nation daimyo, becoming a country within a country in the true sense.

  The taxes on the land around Konoha Ninja Village were also collected by Konoha ninjas.

In theory, the daimyo is the leader of the country in the fullest sense, and Konoha is the village under it.

  Many years ago, the first Hokage Senju Hashirama signed a contract with the Daimyo lineage of the Fire Country, making the ninja completely dependent on the Fire Country and becoming a part of the country, thus ending the ninja's simple employment-employer relationship at the beginning.

  The ninjas of Konoha did not need to pay taxes to the daimyo, and they also accepted donations from the daimyo.

  But as a price, the ninjas of Konoha must be loyal to the daimyo and become a military force in the hands of the daimyo.

  To put it bluntly, Konoha is an important military institution of the Fire Country.

  But in the hands of Hiruzen Sarutobi, the relationship between the two changed.

Sarutobi Hiruzen began to develop Konoha Village without any scruples and forcibly expanded the size of Ninja Village.

  In the beginning, Konoha was just a village of tens of thousands of people, and the residents in the village were all ninjas.

  But now the permanent population of Konoha Village is in the millions, and except for tens of thousands of ninjas, the others are ordinary people.

  These people do not need to pay taxes to the daimyo. Their allegiance is only to the Konoha Ninja Village and to the Hokage.

  Even the villages in the area around Konoha Ninja Village have become the sphere of influence of Konoha Ninja Village.

  Of course, the Daimyo of the Fire Country was furious about this, but he was helpless in the face of the powerful military strength of the Konoha Ninja Village.

  He could only sit back and watch the expansion of Konoha Ninja Village.

He could only sit back and watch the expansion of Konoha Ninja Village.

  For many residents of the Fire Nation, the Daimyo is more of a mascot.

  The power of the country is constantly shifting towards the Konoha Ninja Village.

  Under the inspiration and guidance of Sarutobi Hiruzen, several other ninja villages also began to learn from Konoha's massive development, absorbing civilians and wandering ninjas to strengthen their own strength.

  The atmosphere in the entire ninja world is becoming increasingly tense.

  In a sense, Hiruzen Sarutobi was the culprit who brought the ninja world to the brink of war.

  It's just that Uchiha Itachi and the others can't understand this at all.