Dark Naruto's acting life

The meeting place fell silent again.

Nara Shikaku looked around at everyone and spoke again: "Kakashi's idea is the same as mine. But let's get back to the point. No matter what Uzumaki Naruto wants to do, we don't have time to care about him now. The most urgent task is to solve the village's problems. Morale and people's hearts. Without these two things, Konoha will be finished. You are all clan leaders or powerful ninjas holding important positions. I hope that you can set an example, boost morale after you go back, and prepare to face the next Iwagakure, and even Kumogakure and other ninja villages. They will never miss the opportunity to kick someone when they are down."

Everyone was silent again.

Nara Shikaku was right, the five major countries had been harboring grievances for a long time, and now that Konoha was in trouble, they would definitely not miss this opportunity.

Even if it is not a full-scale invasion, they will still extort money from the country. By then, the Fire Nation will lose a huge amount of money, and no one here can afford the consequences.

Hinata Hiashi put his hands in his sleeves and said in a deep voice: "It is easy to appease the ninjas. After all, they are all professionally trained and have good psychological quality. But it is difficult to deal with the villagers. After three attacks, although there were not many casualties among the civilians, their trust in the village has dropped to the bottom. I am afraid..."

Hinata's words hit the nail on the head.

It was easy to mobilize the ninjas, but the villagers were not so easy to deal with.

The wealth accumulated over decades was completely destroyed in just a few short periods of time, and people's hearts are almost falling apart.

At the earliest tomorrow, or at the latest within three days, the villagers will definitely find a way out and stay away from Konoha, this dangerous place.

Without the support of these people and logistical supplies, Konoha would probably pay an extremely heavy price in the upcoming war.

No one has a solution to this problem.

The key to rallying people’s hearts is to let them see hope.

Most of the people present had the ability to bring hope to the people of Konoha.

The second generation and the first generation looked at each other.

They were very disappointed with these younger generations; not even one of them was capable of taking on the leading role.

Therefore, the two of them decided not to remain silent.

The first generation sighed and said, "Everyone, please go and gather the people to the open space in the center of the village. Leave the task of rallying the people's hearts to me."

There was a flash of light in everyone's eyes. In fact, everyone was waiting for the first generation to speak.

With his prestige and ability, it would be easy for him to re-establish the prestige of Konoha's top leaders.

But he hadn't said a word since the beginning of the meeting, and these younger generations didn't dare to speak easily, because that would make them, the leaders, appear incompetent. They couldn't even handle their own affairs, and had to rely on an old guy who had been dead for decades to save the situation. It was too cowardly.

However, if the other person takes the initiative to speak up, then there will be no problem. At least, on the surface, everyone can get along.

Afterwards, the meeting adjourned.

More than an hour later, a large number of Konoha citizens and ninjas gathered in the big pit at the original site of Konoha Village.

Looking at the barren land, everyone felt discouraged.

The once powerful Konoha has fallen to this point. They were once proud residents of a large country and a large village, but now they feel extremely lost and bewildered.

Many people have already lost faith in Konoha and are preparing to go to live with their relatives or somewhere else as soon as tomorrow morning comes.

The civilians had mixed feelings, and the ninjas were not much better.

They had lost the battle and looked dejected. They had no mood to talk when they got together.

Then, a strange scene appeared.

Tens of thousands of people gathered together in Konoha, but it was surprisingly quiet and the atmosphere was suffocating.

On the Hokage Rock, the first and second generations stood together.

Behind them, a square-faced, dull-looking Konoha ninja said respectfully, "My lords, the villagers have gathered."

“Yeah.” The first generation nodded. “Yamato, right? I’ll need your help later. It may make you a little tired. Sorry.”

Yamato: "No, it is only right that I lose my life if I am able to help the village. Please do not apologize, sir."

Second Generation: "Let's go. We can't keep the people waiting any longer. Otherwise, there's a possibility of riots."

After saying that, the three of them leaped towards where the people were gathered.

The people had been worried all day and were exhausted both physically and mentally. After waiting for a while and seeing that no one from the Konoha high-level officials stood up and said anything, they started to get angry one by one.

"Oi! Senior executives! Come out and say something! Are you gathering us together just to leave us out in the cold?!"

"That's right! You shit-eating ninjas! If you have nothing to say, don't gather us together! It's late at night, and you guys are not sleeping. We need to sleep! After we get enough sleep, we will leave this damn place tomorrow morning!"

"Mom, I'm hungry! Wow wow wow!"

The first voice of dissatisfaction immediately set off a chain reaction.

The crowd, who had been silent, suddenly erupted.

The mixture of shouting and cursing to vent dissatisfaction, the crying of children after being frightened, etc., was extremely upsetting to listen to.

Nara Shikaku quickly came out with a loud speaker to take charge of the situation.

"Fellow villagers of Konoha, please be patient. We have brought everyone together this time just to give you an explanation."

Nara's words spread through the loudspeaker and everyone fell silent again.

The people closest to the scene were representatives of the village. After everyone fell silent, they immediately stood up.

An old man with a cane and reading glasses spoke first: "Chief Nara, we know that it is not easy for the ninjas. They have suffered heavy losses in several invasions. We don't need you to give us any explanation. Some of us villagers have already discussed it. We will leave Konoha tomorrow. We will pool our money together to entrust the village with the task. Please send ninjas to escort us out of Konoha. From now on, we will split up and pursue our own future. We can't bear the continuous attacks anymore."

Nara Shikaku frowned slightly, but soon returned to normal. He said to the old man with crutches: "President Makino Shang, the village has indeed suffered many disasters recently, but we have come through it together for so many years. Now the suffering is over, you can rest assured. I promise that from now on, such a situation will never happen again."

The old man with crutches is the president of the Konoha Business Association.

He was also an old man, and he could see that Konoha was now strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Several wars had already torn Konoha to pieces.

Originally, the permanent population of Konoha Village was more than 20,000. Including ninjas, traveling merchants, and tourists, there were 100,000 people living in Konoha at its peak.

At that time, Konoha was extremely glorious and its prosperity surpassed that of other countries.

But what now?

Let’s not mention the incident with Orochimaru. Although there were some casualties, they were just minor incidents and not a big problem.

Later, the big problem came when Uzumaki Naruto rebelled.

In that battle, the Third Hokage was killed, Danzo who started everything disappeared, the Root organization also disappeared overnight, and more than four thousand other ordinary ninjas were killed or injured. More than two thousand ordinary people committed suicide due to mental breakdown caused by Uzumaki Naruto's forced mind identification.

If Tsunade hadn't been so powerful that she developed a drug to suppress emotions, Konoha would have been destroyed long ago.

If it was an invasion by foreign enemies, it could be explained, but the key problem was that it was caused by Konoha’s top leaders themselves.

Naruto's telepathic body let everyone know the whole story, and the outrageous actions of the Third Hokage and Danzo made the people of Konoha heartbroken.

Since then, the morale of Konoha has actually been divided.

But in the end, Tsunade stabilized the situation.

In addition, Naruto did not destroy all the buildings in Konoha at that time, so most people's lives and property were saved. With Tsunade's strong comfort, everyone gradually stabilized.

But this time, Konoha was completely destroyed, and everyone's wealth was completely destroyed.

No one wants to stay in Konoha, a place of troubles, anymore.

This time, there's no way to stay.

"Chief Nara, it's not that we don't trust Konoha, but Konoha can't even protect itself, so how can we protect the people? If we really want to regain our confidence in Konoha, it will take the rebirth of Hashirama-sama. When I was a kid, I saw that sama fighting with the Uchiha legend. It was truly earth-shattering... With that sama's ability, I believe any enemy would not be a problem. Unfortunately, this is impossible."