From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 42 What Happens First

"so"

Tsunade sat on the tatami in the living room. She poured a cup of tea for Sahara Kiri and Hatake Sakumo who were sitting opposite the wooden table with one hand, pushed it over to them, and looked up at the two of them.

"Now, there is no need for us to continue talking to them?"

Not only Tsunade, but also Hatake Sakumo on the other side turned his head to look at the young man on the other side.

The tea leaves floating in the teacup swayed and created ripples as the hot steam rose.

Sawara Kiri picked up the teacup and smiled gently:

"exactly."

"Pong!"

Tsunade's fair and slender palm slapped the table, making a very dull sound, and the solid wood table top sank. She stared at the young man in front of her.

"Mr. Wu, you should be able to guess how determined I am to do this, right?"

"Do you know what you are saying now?"

"If no one can stop those termites, do you know what will happen to the village?"

"Corruption, espionage, military funds, intelligence."

"This is war time!"

It was probably because he was unable to vent his anger on Konoha F3 and was forced to interrupt.

Tsunade was now staring at Sahara Kiri's face, her expression tense, her voice rising higher and higher, and she was gritting her teeth.

She is very angry now.

However, Sawara Kiri seemed unaware of her emotions as she picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Tsunade-sama."

"You don't really care about these things, do you?"

“It’s not their first day.”

"Do not."

Looking up, Sawara Kiri met her eyes.

"To be precise, compared with the matter of 'revenge for Kato Dan', these details are not that important to you, right?"

When he said these words, his expression was indifferent and calm. He rationally analyzed the real reasons with a stable attitude and tore off the superficial high-sounding words, which made Tsunade unable to adapt for a while.

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"Yeah, so what!"

After a pause, she slapped the table again, and looked at him with red eyes.

"I just want to take revenge on those dirty-hearted bastards. Do you have any objection?"

"No, why would I have any objection?"

When Sahara Kiri saw her irritable look, the smile on his face softened even more.

He pointed at Hatake Sakumo beside him, and then pointed at himself:
"It's not just you, Lady Tsunade. Sakumo-sensei and I are here for selfish reasons as well - we both want to protect ourselves from this storm."

"For this reason, it will be easier to communicate only if we are open and honest with each other first, isn't it?"

Tsunade was startled when she heard this and turned to look at Hatake Sakumo who was drinking tea beside her.

"Just listen to him." Hatake Sakumo waved his hand at her. "Although he is young, this kid is very bad and powerful."

On the way here, he had deeply experienced the lesson from Sawara Kiri's seemingly casual words.

Sawara Kiri smiled somewhat embarrassedly:

"Thank you for your praise, Mr. Shumao."

Tsunade's eye twitched when she saw this.

Who praised you?

However, thinking of the magical powers that Sawara Kiri had shown in front of her before, Tsunade couldn't help but feel a little hopeful.

"Since we are not going to talk about it anymore, what are we going to do next?"

"Could it be possible to just break into the Root and the Hokage building to check the accounts?"

Sahara Kiri put down his teacup and looked at the two of them seriously: "That kind of outrageous thing is of course impossible to happen."

"To be frank, Lady Tsunade, your original goal of 'forcing the Council of Advisors to resign by questioning them about corruption' is unrealistic in itself - how are you going to get the referee on the field to send you off with a red card?"

Hearing this, Tsunade was stunned.

Hatake Sakumo had a thoughtful look on his face, his brows furrowed.

Sawara Kiri continued, "It has been three days since you returned to the village and formally proposed the motion of 'conducting corruption investigation and espionage investigation on the Konoha Advisory Elders' at the meeting of all jonin."

"At the same time, the rumor in the village that 'Tsunade-sama requested an investigation into corruption among all Konoha's high-ranking officials' has also been spreading for three days. During this process, you failed to make any counterattacks and even failed to notice that public opinion was beginning to ferment in the streets."

"As one of the established families, and the head of the Senju clan who shoulders the glory of two generations of Hokage, Lady Tsunade, if I just add your name to the rumor I just said, which sounds so righteous, the villagers of Konoha will not have any objections."

"Do you know what this means?"

Tsunade gritted her teeth and widened her eyes, retorting: "I was clearly questioning the 'Advisory Elders', when did I question all the senior management?"

"I know that, and you know that, but it doesn't matter."

Sawara Kiri interrupted her and continued, "The important thing is that they have prepared public opinion."

Tsunade's voice paused, and her slender hands on the wooden table suddenly clenched, her skin tense and pale.

"Next, I will tell you what will happen in the village after all the public opinion is prepared." Sawara Kiri's voice was calm and indifferent, with a mechanical sense of indifference, and he raised a finger at her: "First, they will use a lot of 'punishing corruption'-style speeches to cover up the ongoing actions."

"Then, take this opportunity to choose a suitable breakthrough point."

"They first used a trivial matter that sounded insignificant but could affect everyone as a fulcrum for public opinion, artificially magnified its harmfulness, and added a bunch of trumped-up charges."

He spoke eloquently as if he had witnessed similar events countless times, as if he had transcended time and witnessed them with his own eyes, and even had chosen the process and roles.

"The best place to make this breakthrough would be a ninja clan that is neither high nor low among the top leaders of Konoha, but has no backing, or even has a population and economic scale that is around the middle level."

"After searching all of Konoha, the only candidates are the Inuzuka, Aburame, Kurama and other families."

"In terms of size, the most suitable one is most likely Inuzuka."

"Did you hear that?"

"A psychic dog raised by the Inuzuka family suddenly lost control while delivering information on the battlefield."

"It's fake, right? They are professional dog trainers. A psychic dog that can command and understand human language costs hundreds of thousands of taels."

"Really! That was my third uncle's daughter-in-law's cousin's sister. When she was fighting a psychic dog, she was suddenly bitten on the leg. The dog couldn't even tell friend from foe."

"Oh! If there wasn't a camp behind us, I would have almost died at the hands of the Sand Village ninja."

"I heard it, too! I heard it, too!"

"The veterinarians at the front said that dead dog meat and brains were added to the pet feed, and all the psychic dogs that ate that feed became sick."

"He looks fine normally, but goes crazy when he sees blood."

"real or fake?"

One passes to two, two pass to three, three people make a tiger.

The rumors, which were obviously nonsense at first, quickly became the "truth" circulated only underground and among the people due to the accumulation of numbers.

At first, those who spread these words were just ordinary people, and the Inuzuka clan did not take it seriously.

However, ordinary people have to live around ninjas, and communication between people will naturally bring these invisible rumors into the ninja group.

At this point, there is no trace of the source of the rumor.

not only.

After receiving a report from the Inuzuka clan, the Uchiha Guard chose to launch a large-scale rumor blockade and source investigation. This actually caused those who originally didn't pay much attention to these rumors to begin to have some curiosity about these "truths".

In just less than a week, more and more people began to "guess" the truth behind the rumor that "the Inuzuka clan has a psychic dog that has gone crazy."

From the psychic dog eating sick dog meat to the grain feed money being withheld;

Then some people said that the Inuzuka clan used to feed low-quality grains, and some people heard that in order to save money on feed, the Inuzuka clan made an underground deal with the Konoha Grain Company;

After that, everyone started to spread rumors that the Inuzuka clan used their clan members to manipulate Konoha's food department, and that it was not just the food that was problematic, the sick dogs had also died from drug abuse;
Until the end, everyone knew that the Inuzuka clan leader was extremely powerful and had committed widespread corruption in the food and medicine fields of Konoha.
More and more "truths" continue to come out, and an endless stream of "facts" are spread by everyone. People who are worried about problems in their lives are launching reports one after another.

All this happened in a short period of time that many ninjas were unaware of.

“Oh.”

The greyhound Heiyuwan, who was lying on the side of the shop door with his paws crossed, basked in the sun and yawned loudly.

It looked at the empty street in front of its store and tilted its head in confusion.

Although not many people come here on weekdays, the ninja dog food they sell is still quite popular. Occasionally, three or two ninja dogs will drag their owners back to buy some to try.

But I don’t know what’s going on. There’s not a single person on the street these two days. The store’s revenue is not good, and the food is not good.

Last night, it couldn't even eat the braised pork at home.

"It's annoying."

Heiyuwan lay on the ground and muttered softly.

As I was thinking about it, my ears suddenly pricked up and caught the sound of footsteps coming from a distance.

After sniffing carefully with his sensitive nose, his eyes suddenly lit up.

There must be at least a dozen people, right?

What a big deal.

Thinking of this, it immediately stood up and trotted to the door to try to attract customers:

"Guest! Guest!"

"The Black Ninja Dog Food Store is offering a 20% discount today! White meat, red meat, and Kumogakure beef are all available in various flavors. Bring your dog to try it."

However, before it could finish its advertising slogan, a team of fully armed ANBU figures kicked open the door at the end of the street and shouted:
"Chief Motoyasu Inuzuka!"

"Wait! Who are you?" The poor clan leader obviously hadn't reacted yet. "I haven't received any investigation order from the Anbu directly under the Hokage."

However, the ninja dressed as an Anbu in the lead obviously didn't intend to pay attention to him, and instead said loudly:

"According to the temporary proposal for the Special Wartime Investigation Regulations put forward by Lady Tsunade last week, as well as reports from many Konoha ninjas and residents, your clan is suspected of large-scale food smuggling, illegal medical smuggling, vicious competition, and illegal summoning of spirit beasts!"

"Please come with us immediately!"

"Wait a minute! I have shed blood for Konoha, and I have made contributions to Konoha."

“You, you guys——!”

Heiyuwan stood at the door, leaning half of his body out cleverly, and watched the old clan leader, who seemed to be a pretty good person, being dragged out of the door by a group of people dressed as Anbu.

The eggs and tail were immediately shrunken.

That’s it. I guess there’s no meat to eat tonight.

　This chapter is 3k long, a little too long, and I just finished it.

　　Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)