Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

Aoba's words "I know" made Sarutobi Hien stunned. What do you mean by you know?

I sent people to kidnap your woman and your disciples. You told me that you knew, but if you knew, why would you appear here?

Could it be?

"Is there an ambush in your house?"

"No, I don't have any outsiders in my house. Because... there's no need."

In the yard of the Aoba family, six ninjas were being tied up by countless vines, which were sucking all their chakra, but it was not over yet.

They were still squirming, and more roots penetrated their skin and penetrated deep into their flesh, then tore them apart completely and devoured them.

That's right, they were eaten by a group of vines. This is Yumi's special Wood Release. Yumi has not been doing nothing for such a long time.

She was also constantly practicing and had developed some wood escape techniques of her own. The wood escape technique that could devour flesh and blood was one of them.

In actual combat, the effect of this move is not obvious, but it is very suitable for destroying corpses and covering up traces.

As we all know, it is easy to kill someone but difficult to dispose of the body. Yumi's move directly skipped the step of disposing of the body.

On the other side, Tsunade was walking on the road when she suddenly stopped and turned to look behind her.

There, the two figures briefly confronted each other, and then returned to peace. At the same time, similar scenes appeared almost simultaneously in more than a dozen different locations around.

But everything happened silently and the battle ended in secret.

Back to Sarutobi Hien's yard. Looking at Aoba who didn't care at all, Sarutobi Hien finally realized that there might be something wrong with his plan.

"Kamikawa Aoba, that's the position of Hokage, don't you really want to consider it?"

"Haha, believe it or not, if I wanted to be the Hokage, I could have taken the position a long time ago. In fact, I had anticipated everything that happened tonight.

I just didn't expect that your methods were so... crude. You sent people to assassinate the Hokage and kidnap my people. You have been thinking about it for so many days, and in the end you came up with something like this?

To put it bluntly, do you call this a plan? If you are not happy with the Hokage, you just kill him? If you are not happy with me, you send people to kidnap my people. Is this Konoha?"

"......." Sarutobi Hien was speechless for a moment after being mocked by Aoba.

In fact, Aoba never really let this group of diehards go. Again, these people's identities are too special. The descendants of the previous Hokage.

This identity is not important, because after all, they are the survivors, and no one will say anything if they are all killed. But it is also important.

Look at what Sarutobi Hiruzen did. Uzumaki, Uchiha, White Fang, even Hyuga Hizashi, all disappeared. But he himself was not in any trouble. At least on the surface.

But later, when Konoha collapsed, everyone was waiting for him to die...

The situation that Aoba and Tsunade are facing now seems different from that of Hiruzen back then, but they are actually similar in nature.

Is the Uchiha problem difficult to solve? What's the difficulty? If we give Uchiha a Hokage, there will be no problem. At the very least, we can give them the status of Hokage advisor and let them participate in the high-level politics of Konoha. At least we can appease them for more than a generation.

There is a funny thing here. All the high-ranking officials of Konoha are on high alert against the Uchiha, as if Konoha will collapse if they take power.

But in fact, in Aoba's opinion, the most suitable person to be Hokage in Konoha is the Uchiha clan. Why? Because this clan is the one that values ​​honor the most.

Back then, the Uchiha were sent to fight the Kirigakure, who were the most restrained. They never complained, because they were the Uchiha, the founders of the village. They regarded Konoha as their home.

These people were the ones who stayed with Konoha even when its leader Madara left. They could be said to be the ones who recognized Konoha the most.

To them, shedding blood for Konoha was a matter of course.

It's a pity that this concept became distorted due to the constant suppression of the later Hokage lineage.

To put it bluntly, if Uchiha Madara was stronger than Senju Hashirama, and he became Hokage, the ninja world would have been unified by now, and all those messy things that happened later would basically not exist.

But unfortunately, the Six Paths Sage prefers Asuras, so the Asuras of all generations have been able to suppress Indra.

Why did the Uchiha clan have a bad reputation? Because they enforced the law harshly and were inhumane.

But don't forget, they are doing the work of the Konoha Guard. Strict law enforcement is their basic requirement.

I don't know why, but some idiots always try to associate themselves with those who are subject to harsh laws.

But in reality, most people are just ordinary people, hooligans, gangsters, drunkards, harassers and hurtful people.

Imagine that in real life, you are walking on the street and you are beaten up by a drunk. The police come and ask him to say sorry and let it go. Would you be willing to do that?

What will Uchiha do when he comes? According to the Public Security Administration Punishment Regulations, check one by one. Detain you first, then examine your injuries, everything is done according to the procedure.

So, do you like the first one or the second one? Of course, if you like to bring in the drunkard who beats people, that's another matter.

The Uchiha Guard is just such a group of people. They are a violent organization. If a violent organization leaves the impression of being kind to the public, it will be doomed.

In fact, the reason why Sarutobi Hiruzen's group was wary of Uchiha was not because of the funny reason that Uchiha was an evil clan.

The most fundamental reason is interest.

Think about the huge assets of the Sarutobi clan. Think about Shimura Danzo's roots and those shameful experiments.

Apart from anything else, if you let an Uchiha be the Hokage's advisor and he noticed these things, what would those Uchiha do according to their temper?

There is at least an 80% chance that they will investigate thoroughly. The most important thing is that the Uchiha Guard has the responsibility and authority to do so.

But can the previous Hokage lineage withstand the investigation? They can't, so Uchiha must not enter the upper echelons of Konoha. Because everyone's interests are inconsistent.

Aoba believed that the second generation could understand these things. But unfortunately, he died in a hurry and failed to arrange everything. He chose a relatively honest Sarutobi. But unfortunately, people change.

After all, Sarutobi Hiruzen went from being a former ninja hero to a Hokage whose death everyone hoped would come true.

Aoba didn't want Tsunade to go through this. He wanted to put an end to this corrupt and decadent inheritance. Therefore, everything had to be justified.

The purpose of splitting up the Sarutobi clan was to preserve Konoha's vitality to the greatest extent possible. If they did nothing and accepted everything, Konoha would have retained this part of its combat power.

And if they choose to take action, it would be equivalent to giving Qingye a legitimate reason.