This Mizukage Is Very Strong, But Overly Cautious

So, on the surface, Hatake's victory over Sand Shinobi is a good thing.

But in fact, because Hatake Sakumo moves too fast, it is not good news for Sarutobi Hiruzen and Sannin.

Especially for Sarutobi Hiruzen, the "threat" posed by Hatake seems to be imminent.

Without him, the reason is very straightforward, because at this time Hatake Sakumo is already faintly threatening the status of Sarutobi Hiruzen Hokage!

At first glance, such a statement seems absurd, because Hatake Sakumo himself was sent by Sarutobi Hiruzen to lead the army, and also holds the position of Anbu chief, Hokage's confidant.

No matter how you look at it, Hatake Sakumo should be Sarutobi Hiruzen's confidant, how could he compete with Sarutobi Hiruzen for Hokage's position.

In any case, Sarutobi Hiruzen should not be afraid of Hatake Sakumo.

But the doorway is far from as simple as imagined.

Inside Konoha, it is faintly divided into several factions.

The largest faction, of course, is the "Hokage Department" that has been inherited from Senju Hashirama.

Hatake Sakumo, the current patriarch of the Hatake family, a small ninja, was favored and promoted by Sarutobi Hiruzen because of his outstanding ability, and took the position of Anbu chief.

From this point of view, Hatake Sakumo, who was born in the small ninja clan and was promoted by Sarutobi Hiruzen, is also a member of the "Hokage family".

But the truth is actually very simple, even people who belong to the "Hokage family" are divided into distant relatives.

Undoubtedly, compared with Sannin, Hatake 940 is just a very marginal pawn in the hands of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Madara can be seen from the position of Konoha Anbu chief on her body.

After all, Konoha's Anbu head is not Mist Shinobi's Anbu head, who holds the authority second only to Mizukage.

On the contrary, Konoha Anbu grows up among the high-level people in the village, and is regarded as an extremely marginalized existence.

Konoha's Anbu is actually very awkwardly positioned, with Danzo's root organization on top and the Uchiha clan's garrison troops on the bottom, which seems to be stuck in the middle.

Because both Danzo's root and Uchiha's garrison have heavy lips with Anbu in function.

Anbu, in essence, is an organization that exists to deal with some shady things.

Do some work such as: assassination, aftermath, guarding the village, and orders passed down by some shadows.

Right now, the relationship between Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō is obviously far from being as tense as later generations, and the small group of the Hokage four is generally relatively harmonious.

Therefore, Sarutobi Hiruzen still trusts Danzo relatively.

He will hand over some "dirty work" to Danzo without any scruples.

This is tantamount to directly stripping away a major function of Anbu, and the establishment of Root is tantamount to using resources that belonged to Anbu to start a new stove to grab Anbu's work.

As for some "tiring tasks", such as patrolling, village defense, and public security, they are all performed by the security forces dominated by the Uchiha clan.

The garrison force was the idea that Second Hokage came up with in order to divide and win over the Uchiha clan.

In the grand scheme of things, the establishment of the garrison did divide the Uchiha clan and succeeded in isolating Uchiha from other departments and institutions in the village.

But some people are happy and some are sad. The ones who are happy are naturally the top management of Hokage, and the ones who are happy are naturally Konoha's Anbu.

Because the authority of the security forces to be in charge of public security and guarding the village was also taken from Anbu.

Therefore, after the division of the two generations of Hokage, Anbu's rights were completely divided into three.

"Dirty work" goes to the root.

"Tired work" belongs to the security forces.

It is Anbu's turn to do the rest of the odd jobs.

And if you think about it with your brain, you know that the "Darkness" Department, a department named after Darkness, does dirty and tiring work in itself. The work in this hand is neither dirty nor tiring. What is it doing? What kind of Anbu .

From this, one can imagine the embarrassment of Konoha Anbu, and the status of Hatake Sakumo, who is in charge of Anbu, in Sarutobi Hiruzen's heart.

Not to mention, there is another important reason why Sarutobi Hiruzen has been deliberately alienating Hatake.

That is Hatake Sakumo, who joined Sarutobi Hiruzen as a "half-way monk".

Unlike Mitokado Homura and other four, Hatake Sakumo and Sarutobi Hiruzen have such a close relationship as "Second Generation disciple".

It's not like Sannin, the gold-lettered signboard that Sarutobi Hiruzen has been painstakingly managing, has a mentor-student relationship with Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Hatake Sakumo joined Sarutobi Hiruzen halfway.

And the reason why he joined Sarutobi Hiruzen's command was also because Sarutobi Hiruzen valued his strength and wanted to take it for a few uses.

In this case, Sarutobi naturally cannot feel completely at ease with Hagi (cifi) Sakumo Ki.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sent Hatake Sakumo to lead the army to fight Sand Shinobi, but there was no other way.

Otherwise, you can't send Danzo or Uchiha Hyuga, right?

Compared to the "internal threat" Danzo, and the "external threat" Hyuga Uchiha, Hatake Sakumo, who is only a little hidden danger at most, is naturally nothing.

And in Sarutobi Hiruzen's plan, it should be the Land of Rain, which has a large supply of supplies and many elite men, to end the war first.

If Hatake Sakumo's Song can hold Sand Shinobi, it is already a victory.

And what Sarutobi Hiruzen never expected was that Hatake Sakumo turned out to be so awesome!

Three or two hits defeated Sand Shinobi first.

Now, the taste changes instantly!

Sarutobi Hiruzen also had to follow this angle and continue to think backwards.

Hatake returned to Konoha, and with his achievements in defeating Sand Shinobi, his reputation in the village must reach a peak.

Even if Sannin defeated Hanzō of the Salamander in the follow-up, he couldn't compare with Hatake Sakumo.

Weak step by step, weak step by step.

Sarutobi Hiruzen understands this truth perfectly.

And Sannin is three people, Hatake Sakumo is only one person.

Such a Sannin, how can I fight Hatake Sakumo?

And Hatake Sakumo will inevitably grow from an unknown and transparent Anbu to the front of the stage in one step.

In this way, will Hatake want to "go further" at that time?

Because you must know that Hatake Sakumo, who has Kage-level strength, has the strength to succeed Hokage!

And through the battle with Sand Shinobi, he also gained enough fame.

Which Konoha Shinobi person would not want to be Hokage?

In the short term, Sarutobi Hiruzen can still stabilize the situation, but as time goes on, Hatake's reputation will grow stronger and stronger, while Sarutobi Hiruzen will become more and more waning.

At that time, what else will he use to stop Hatake Sakumo from taking the top position?

It's not over yet, maybe he can't wait for that time.

Now that Hatake Sakumo is on the stage, will some fringe forces who have been excluded by Sarutobi Hiruzen come to Hatake Sakumo for a long time, and then Hatake Sakumo, who is in the limelight, will directly push him to the top?

Like Uchiha, or Hyuga, or even.... Danzo?!!!

No one expected the situation to turn out like this, not even Sarutobi Hiruzen himself.

But since things have already happened, Sarutobi Hiruzen had to plan ahead and choose to act first.

Thinking of this, Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes turned slightly cold.

Ordering the Kingdom of the Rain battlefield to speed up the process and deal with Hanzō of the Salamander as soon as possible is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

If you want to deal with everything thoroughly, you need to "eradicate" it directly at the root.

Where the kite flies, the key still depends on the person who flies the kite.

And if the kite flies too high and cannot be retracted, the kite flyer can only choose to cut the rope directly.

Because continuing to try to control the uncontrollable kite is just a waste of time.

It's better to cut the rope and go find a new kite.

A trace of deepness flashed in Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes, and he once again smoked the pipe in his hand.

Soon after, smoke filled Hokage's office. .