From undercover in Konoha, to I am the Hokage!

Chapter 87 The Wind in Orochimaru's Heart (5k)

"mission failed?"

As if he had heard some incredible words, Orochimaru, who was working at the desk, raised his head and looked at the young man in front of him.

"Yes! I'm so sorry, Lord Orochimaru."

Sawara Kiri stood in front of him, her still somewhat childish face showing a hint of guilt from the bottom of her heart, even her eyes were a little red.

Just a very loud volume, and it sounds very spirited.

If it weren't for Orochimaru's keen sense of smell that allowed him to quickly detect the garlic hidden in his palm, he might have been fooled by him.

but why?
If there were only a very few people in the village who understood the strength of the young man in front of him, then Orochimaru believed that he must be one of the 'very few'.

As early as when Kiri-kun just revealed his strength in the Hokage Building, he was sitting next to Sarutobi Sensei as one of the witnesses. He knew very well that this seemingly immature young man at least had the strength to crush a strong jonin-level warrior.

After the incident with Shimura Danzo, he was even more certain that the other party had firmly established himself at the level of 'shadow'.

Even Minato Namikaze, who was accepted as a disciple by Jiraiya, could not compare to him.

Because of this, Orochimaru deployed Sawara Kiri as the final trump card of the search team to conduct a search in the hinterland.

Can this all fail?
Could it be that the long-hidden Third Kazekage took action personally?

"We really encountered an enemy that we could not resist."

Upon hearing this, Sawara Kiri let out a long sigh as if helpless, and gestured towards the report in Orochimaru's hand: "Just being able to escape back is already lucky."

Noticing his gesture, Orochimaru remembered that the mission report was still in his hand, and immediately lowered his head to read it quickly.

The content of the report was also very simple. It described in great detail how cruel the Sand Village ninjas were, how numerous they were, and how barbaric their actions were.

The three powerful men Monzaemon, Rasa and Yekura joined forces and led a hundred fierce and powerful Sand Village ninjas to chase them to the point where they had no way out. It took a lot of effort to finally inflict heavy damage on them through a sneak attack.

It’s a pity that the sealed monster has been released.

Judging from the appearance alone, it was not a monster, but just a silly-looking little girl who later disappeared.

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Orochimaru stared at the report for at least three minutes before he raised his head and spoke to Sawara Kiri in a gloomy voice:

"Mr. Wu, you can't falsify military reports."

Sawara Kiri's expression was still confident and righteous: "Lord Orochimaru, every word I say is from the bottom of my heart. There is absolutely no falsehood."

Then, Orochimaru's fingertips first touched the middle paragraph "being hunted to the point where there is no way up to the sky, no way down to the earth", and then slowly pointed to the last line of the report's conclusion -

"Rosa is confirmed dead, Monzaemon's situation is unknown, and Hakura escaped."

This mission report is equivalent to: 'The three ninjas led a large force to hunt down the enemy team. The scene changed and Jiraiya died on the spot. Orochimaru's life and death were uncertain, and the remaining Tsunade escaped with difficulty.'

This was even worse than his famous battle as the 'Three Ninjas'.

"Do you think this makes sense?"

Upon hearing this, Sahara Kiri looked at him with an expression of 'I don't understand': "Of course this is because of the 'sneak attack'!"

His answer was firm.

Are you kidding? Who is this person named Sawara?

The night before they came back, they had already collude in their testimony.

Looking at his self-righteous and arrogant look, Orochimaru knew that he probably wouldn't be able to get anything out of him - this young man was very tight-lipped.

Anyway, it's a good thing to severely damage the enemy's combat power, right?

Orochimaru had no intention of finding out the little secrets that the boy had downplayed in his report. He was even happy to cooperate with the young man and actively accompany him in "deceiving his superiors and concealing the truth" - he also wanted to see what this boy was planning.

As for the woman who was released from the seal.
Orochimaru thought about it and decided not to waste the precious manpower on the front line. He casually issued an S-level search warrant and put it in the file without managing it anymore.

"Then Lord Orochimaru, I will be leaving first?"

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of him, Sawara smiled in a flattering manner and prepared to run away.

But who is Orochimaru?

"Mist-kun."

Orochimaru said, patting another tall pile of war documents on his desk and giving him a 'gentle' smile.

"Minato Namikaze of your team is currently on leave due to injury, so you probably don't have any missions to go out."

"Right?"

To put things one thing at a time, it was Orochimaru's own idea that he was willing to cooperate with this young man.

But Orochimaru still remembered the hatred that Sahara-kun had used to treat him as a fool in this report.

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"Lord Orochimaru, this is not good, right?" Sahara Kiri gave a forced smile.

Orochimaru's smile was sincere instead: "You are already a 'mature' jonin, Kiri-kun."

"It is only right to share more of the burden with superiors. This is also a kind of progress."

"But I don't want to improve, Lord Orochimaru."

"No, you want to."

Snakes are quite vengeful.

So, for most of the next morning, Sawara Kiritsu was busy with paperwork, as if he had returned to the days when he was an undercover agent in the Intelligence Department of the Hokage Building.

However, the reluctant look on his face was, of course, also a self-disguise he had developed during his time as an undercover agent.

Orochimaru is interested in him, so why shouldn't Sawara Kiri also be interested in the number one scientist in the ninja world?
After learning that his wish was to "explore all the ninjutsu in the world", Sawara Kiri was determined to try to get rid of the knot in him.

However, it was different from the innuendos that Sawara Kiri had imagined might occur during their time together.

During the entire morning, Orochimaru was always bent over his desk, busy with various war arrangements. A large number of documents were issued, adjusted, and returned, and occasionally he had to call a few people to arrange tasks.

According to the impression that Sawara Kiri had based on the original work, in his mind, Orochimaru was actually no different from the "mad scientists" that often appeared in various film and television works. They were both people who would do anything for research.

However, during this short morning of interaction today, Sawara Kiri saw another side of Orochimaru.

Orochimaru, now thirty years old, is a genius since childhood. He rose to prominence with the War of Three Ninjas. In the eyes of his colleagues and subordinates, he is a very trustworthy, rational, and intelligent ninja who occasionally appears a little indifferent.

An excellent leader.

In fact, judging from the power and popularity he currently displayed in Kikyo Castle, if someone said, "Sir Orochimaru is probably the next Hokage, right?", it would be difficult to get any objection.

It's incredible.

What exactly did he go through to become a psychopath beyond human ability?

Sawara Kiri thought so in her heart.

"Did you observe anything?"

When it was lunch time, the two of them walked out of the military tent and on the road, Orochimaru suddenly asked him a question.

Sawara Kiri's expression remained unchanged: "Orochimaru is very trusted by everyone and is an excellent commander."

"Other than that?"

Orochimaru asked with interest.

Sahara Kiri suddenly smiled: "You have no interest in power. Instead, you are like me when I was in the Hokage Building, forced to get up early to work."

"How perceptive."

Orochimaru shook his head slightly, and while standing in line in the crowd, he just handed the metal lunch box in his hand to the front, and watched the cook in front of him straighten his upper body, sit upright and fill him with the same meat and vegetable paste and rice as the other combatants.

Many people around him looked at him with respect, and occasionally someone would greet him in a friendly manner.

Orochimaru responded to all of them one by one.

However, there was obviously no emotional ups and downs.

Just as Sawara Kiri said, he used power as a tool to achieve his wishes and had no interest in this power itself - because it was meaningless.

The two men randomly found an open space with a pergola, and without paying attention to the bloodstains left under the pergola after the wounded had lay there, they broke off two branches and started eating.

"It's not just that I have no interest in power." Sawara Kiri continued the previous topic, "If I must say..."

He seemed to 'just' remember something, rummaged in his pocket, took out a thumb-sized capsule, pressed the buckle, and threw it on the ground.

"boom."

A large box of wild apples picked from somewhere appeared in front of the two people, with a few water bottles placed on the box.

Orochimaru subconsciously raised his eyebrows, and the snake eyes in his golden pupils instinctively shrank.

Sawara Kiri's calm voice sounded beside him: "They seem to be the only ones who can make you curious."

Hearing this, Orochimaru suddenly realized that this young man, whom he had originally wanted to bring around to get to know better, seemed to have seen through him in just a short period of time.

This feeling is very subtle.

However, Orochimaru couldn't help but be curious and asked, "What was that capsule just now? It doesn't require a sealing technique and can be carried with you."

Obviously, this is the special item "Universal Capsule" that Sahara Kiri got from Uchiha Hikaru.

This capsule comes from the world of Dragon Ball and is a very common portable tool.

Sawara Kiri had a total of three boxes in her hand, each with twelve pills, and they were all labeled with Bulma's Capsule Company label.

If it is used as a means of transportation, it will obviously save a lot of manpower for Konoha.

However, when Orochimaru first saw this item, he did not think about how much it could be used on the battlefield, but wanted to know how it actually worked. "That's what I want to ask you."

Sawara Kiri stretched out his hand in front of Orochimaru and touched the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket changed back into the shape of a capsule with a 'bang'.

As he handed it to Orochimaru, he followed the excuse he had prepared: "This is an ancient item I found in the sealing barrier. I briefly checked it and found that there is also a sealing structure inside this metal capsule, but I can't analyze it by myself."

"If possible, I would like to form a deeper cooperation with you after the war."

"You know the truth. The economic base determines the superstructure. Whether doing research or anything else, money is necessary."

Orochimaru looked at him, and the interest in his golden snake eyes became more and more intense, as if he was becoming more and more curious about him.

As for the words like 'picked it up in the sealed barrier'.
Ah.

However, he did not show any such attitude. He put down his lunch box, took the capsule from Wu's hand and played with it. While carefully sensing the inside with his chakra, he said:

"The economic base determines the superstructure. This is a very interesting statement."

“There should be more later, right?”

Sawara Kiri smiled upon hearing this: "The superstructure reacts on the economic base."

Orochimaru stopped playing with it and looked at him quietly, as if he was a little surprised, and as if he had some inexplicable emotion:

"Mr. Wu, you really can show your excellence beyond my imagination from time to time."

"Your Excellency, you have given me a reward."

Sahara Kiri shook his head and said calmly: "This is not a rule that a young man like me can summarize."

Orochimaru still looked at him with an interested expression, paused for a moment, and then sighed slowly:

"Superstructure"

"Mist-kun."

"So, you want Tsunade to be Hokage?"

Sawara Kiri did not answer, but asked: "Doesn't Lord Orochimaru want to become Hokage?"

Orochimaru was silent for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking about. He shook his head helplessly, as if sighing:
"That's not a good place to sit."

"Even though he knew it was not a good place to sit, Lord Orochimaru still moved forward in that direction."

Sawara Kiri was eating a box lunch while looking at the wounded camp not far ahead: "That means that compared to the unimportant matter of 'becoming Hokage', what you care more about is 'after becoming Hokage', right?"

"You want to change it, too? This village."

Orochimaru's expression paused slightly, and he turned his head to look at this young man who was a little too young.

Becoming a Hokage is an extremely honorable thing for all the young people in Konoha, and even for all the ninjas. Countless people have risked their lives on the battlefield for this goal.

However, in the mouth of this young man, the position of Hokage seems so light, and similarly.
Meaningless?

Unconsciously, a barely perceptible smile appeared on his face, and he sighed in a low voice:
"I find moving things interesting, and I find stationary things boring. I have been like this for a long time."

"Seeing life like this, seeing the village is like this - Konoha is now like a huge and gradually decaying windmill, which has been turning from the beginning to gradually stopping."

Orochimaru looked at the young man beside him and smiled gently, "Before today, I wanted to be the wind and push the windmill - or rather, I thought I couldn't find anyone else who could do this except myself."

"But today, I suddenly felt that it would not be bad to wait quietly for the wind to come."

"."

Sawara Kiri did not answer.

Orochimaru continued while playing with the capsule:

"But I'm still curious."

"If it were you, Wu-kun, what changes would you bring to this village?"

Neither of them mentioned the Hokage again, and the topic seemed to have nothing to do with whether the person who might become Hokage was Tsunade or Orochimaru. Instead, it only existed between the two of them.

"First, let's build a school, right?"

Sawara Kiri was eating while casually saying, "The teaching work of the ninja school is too sloppy, and most of the ninjas trained are useless. If they were only working with civilians, it would be enough."

"But isn't that how the world works? If you don't move forward, you'll move backward."

"So we must first train talents and establish a ninja academy based on the ninja school, with differentiated disciplines. Combat, medical treatment, research and development, and production are all important. Self-sufficiency is the bottom line for a hidden village."

"A Technology Development Bureau is also necessary to share results, unify standards, and jointly develop ninjutsu."

"Once we have the people and the technology, and a one-sided crushing situation is formed, then we can start the next step of work."

He didn't say what the next step would be.

At this time, Sawara Kiri looked like a kid with no sense of confidentiality, saying things that would be a big deal if heard by others.

However, neither Orochimaru nor Sawara Kiri cared about this.

"It seems that Wu Jun is also very dissatisfied."

Orochimaru couldn't help but smile, then shook his head: "You don't like the Sandaime because of something that happened in your childhood?"

When Sawara Kiri was telling the story of his tragic childhood experiences in the Hokage Building, Orochimaru was also present and was deeply impressed.

"a part of it."

"But there is more to it than that."

The young man said calmly: "I don't mean to blame the Third-Hami. He is an outstanding ninja and a skilled politician, but he is not a qualified 'Hokage' who can continue to lead Konoha forward like the Second-Hami. "

"It's not his fault."

"But the idea that 'someone recognized by everyone' can become Hokage is ridiculous in itself."

“There is no grassroots work experience, no large-scale management responsibility progression, and no lifelong job responsibility system.”

"Even the so-called one country, one village system itself has problems."

"."

Orochimaru listened to him quietly, looked at him blankly, and remained silent for a long time.

"Hahaha"

He suddenly laughed out loud with great joy.

At this moment, Orochimaru suddenly understood how Sarutobi felt when he heard his immature opinions.

The feeling of headache, joy, but also worry about his future
"This is the young and fierce wind."

Orochimaru sighed slightly, picked up the empty lunch box, and patted his shoulder gently.

"Mist-kun, I'm looking forward to it."

"As for your cooperation, I have accepted it - but the matter of jointly establishing a commercial company will have to wait until after the war."

Orochimaru turned to look at him and imitated what he had just said: "After all, the superstructure reacts on the economic base, right?"

"Yes."

"Also, please give me this capsule."

“I want to go back and study it.”

"Yes."

After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the tent without looking back.

But after taking a few steps, Orochimaru seemed to remember something, suddenly stopped and turned around and said:

"Also, Mr. Wu."

"Remember to finish all your documents before you leave."

Orochimaru's golden snake eyes looked at him with a calm smile.

This guy had been plotting against him since the moment he took out the universal capsule. Although he was indeed very interested, it didn't mean that he didn't care about being plotted against.

Say it again.

Snakes are very vengeful.

Sawara Kiri's expression suddenly froze.

After a long while, he reluctantly responded:
"."

"Yes."

Looking at his back, Sawara Kiri, who was sitting under the arbour, also slowly smiled.

Talking about ideals with men and talking about the present with women are usually good strategies to bring people closer. The ancients were not deceiving me.

"Sawara Book of Friends: Character 'Orochimaru'"

"Bond level increased↑"

"Orochimaru's bond level: zero → one"

"As expected of you, you are really good at dealing with men!"

Only Sister Tongzi's noise was a little annoying.

　First update.

　　Next chapter at 22:00
　　Achu's results are not very ideal, but for a newcomer it seems he can still write well. I heard from the seniors that if he can earn 10,000 yuan a day, it should be a little more than my current salary, so I will try to earn 10,000 yuan a day for a month.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)