Naruto Online: Hyuga Branch Family? Let's go all out!

Chapter 176 Shimura Tadakatsu - Ultimate Goal

Having read "The Primordial Era," Danzo clearly understands that even the most brilliant and talented people in history are only mentioned briefly in historical records.

Those who can write their own biography are the chosen ones of their time and role models of history.

For example, Zhuge Liang.

Since there was no hope of turning the tide, and besides, Hyuga Ningyuan was not a rogue ninja like Sasuke; he was still one of Konoha's own.

Moreover, after learning about Hiruzen Sarutobi's intentions, he developed a desire for revenge.

Perhaps lured by the prospect of a personal biography, Danzo decided to abandon his secrecy and began to tell his story in its entirety.

Even if it's a joint biography with someone else, like a "Bad Guys" story or something, it doesn't matter, as long as it gets remembered.

Perhaps in the future, the surname Shimura will suffer the same fate as Sima, bringing misfortune to future generations.

If that's really the case, then it's absolutely amazing!

However, before doing so, Danzo pointed to the numerous Akatsuki ninjas watching him and said, "Let them move aside!"

Although it's writing his own biography, it's practically his last words. Only those who defeated him are qualified to hear this. Why should these lowly soldiers?

"Yahiko and Nagato, you two split up and flank the remaining Amegakure from two directions. Konan, you lead a group to collect the corpses!" Ning Yuan said, turning his head.

Those killed by the exploding tags were Konoha ninjas and Amegakure elites who could walk on water, mainly the stronger ones among the elite Jonin and Chunin.

These people were either die-hard Hanzo's loyalists or leaders of organizations loyal to Hanzo. Killing them all would make it easier for the Akatsuki to clean up the mess and unify the Land of Rain.

After giving the instructions, Ning Yuan conjured several sheets of paper out of thin air, with a pen standing on each sheet.

Ning Yuan extended his hand: "Please tell me your story!"

Danzo raised an eyebrow at this move, recalling the sea of ​​explosive tags Ning Yuan had just used.

He wanted to ask, but then he remembered that he was nearing death, and the thought immediately faded away.

After a long sigh, the dark side of the ninja world began its ordinary yet extraordinary life.

Most people with difficult personalities have an unfortunate childhood.

Danzo was the same. Although his clan, the Shimura clan, was not as powerful as the Senju Uchiha clan, it was still a famous clan during the Warring States period. The Shimura clan's Wind Release was even said to be comparable to a bloodline limit.

Since they were born in the Warring States period, the Shimura clan could not avoid fighting with other ninja clans.

In this environment, the entire family had only one task: to serve the war.

Under this system, the value of an individual will be infinitely diminished, while the value of geniuses and top-tier combatants will be infinitely increased.

In short: the law of the jungle prevails, and the strong are respected.

Unfortunately, Danzo Shimura was less than a month old when his father died in battle.

Without the pillar of support, Shimura Danzo and his mother suddenly became a burden to the Shimura clan. Not only were their means of survival greatly deprived, but most of the few acres of land they owned were also taken away and given to others who had made contributions.

Danzo Shimura's mother barely managed to raise him to the age of four with the meager work and food given to her by her family, before passing away.

According to the Shimura clan's policy towards young children, Danzo would undergo several months of intensive training before being thrown onto the battlefield.

Is it cruel?

It's not really cruel, because other ninja clans do the same thing.

But just then, things took a turn for the better.

The Senju and Uchiha clans made peace and jointly established Konoha Village.

World peace!

Hashirama Senju invited the Shimura clan to join Konoha, but the Shimura clan, having been regional leaders for so long, were unwilling to become someone else's underlings!

However, the Shimura clan was eventually persuaded by Hashirama and joined Konoha.

With the God of Shinobi and the Asura of the Shinobi World in charge, the Shimura clan was immediately spared the troubles of war.

However, although the war was over, the internal conflicts did not diminish at all.

For example, Hashirama Senju hoped that other ninja clans would give up their surnames and integrate into the village.

Many ninja clans followed suit, but even more refused.

Tobirama Senju, as a compromise, suggested that we contribute all the ninjutsu of our respective clans so that we can learn, research, and improve together. He proposed that our Senju clan go first.

The various ninja clans have already refused the Senju clan once, so it won't be easy to refuse them this time. Besides, if you don't teach them ninjutsu, it won't be easy for you to learn the Senju clan's ninjutsu!

So the various families handed over their family-inherited ninjutsu. But who would have thought that after Tobirama Senju took these ninjutsu, he didn't use them for research. Instead, he planned to screen and classify them, assign them levels, and then teach them to all the villagers.

The various ninja clans immediately became restless. They said, "We can give you ninjutsu, but it's wrong of you to pass it on to others!"

Helpless, Tobirama Senju decided to settle for second best: "I'll set up a ninja academy, recruit some commoners and children from small clans, and teach them some basic ninjutsu. That should work, right?"

The major ninja clans actually don't even want to see ninja academies, but if you refuse again this time, Tobirama Senju will have to pass on your family's ninjutsu to the common people.

Left with no other choice, the various ninja clans began to cooperate with Tobirama Senju in establishing ninja academies.

However, some ninja clans value ninja schools, while others do not, and still others are testing the waters.

For example, the Pig-Deer-Butterfly clan sent two ordinary clansmen and one direct descendant into the school; this was a test.

For example, the Utatane clan and the Mito clan were small clans with few members and no decent ninjutsu. Since the clan chief's son and daughter were of marriageable age, they simply sent them all to the ninja academy. This was a firm support.

The Sarutobi clan, who had long been adept at political maneuvering, recognized the special significance of the Ninja Academy and thus offered their full support, sending their clan leader's son, Sarutobi Hiruzen, directly to the academy.

The Shimura family, on the other hand, is politically slow-witted and has low emotional intelligence.

Instead of sending their best disciples to the Shimura clan, they sent Danzo, an orphan who hadn't even had a chance to do basic training, to the ninja academy.

Although young, Danzo Shimura was intelligent, wise, and hardworking.

He clearly realized that this might be the only chance in his life to change his destiny, so he studied hard and trained diligently at the Ninja Academy, graduating second in his grade.

To show his respect for the Ninja Academy, Tobirama Senju selected the top five students from the academy to become his disciples.

The five are: Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo Shimura, Torifu Akimichi, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane.

After becoming disciples of Tobirama Senju, Tobirama Senju was too busy with other matters to teach them much.

But as a disciple of the Hokage after all, Shimura Danzo finally gained the clan's attention and began to learn the clan's ninjutsu, and his strength began to grow rapidly.

However, the Shimura clan only specialized in one style, and their strength could never catch up with Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was proficient in all five styles of ninjutsu.

The two became good friends who were both competitors and friends, practicing, training, and growing together.

Until Hashirama's death and the outbreak of the First Shinobi World War, Tobirama Senju stayed behind to cover the rear. After some questioning, Hiruzen Sarutobi was established as the Third Hokage.

A pen beside Ning Yuan recorded all of Danzo's words, and another pen was constantly making annotations.

Although Danzo is telling his own story, because his life spans the entirety of Konoha, his life can also be described as the founding envoy of Konoha.

Ning Yuan saw the Senju brothers' sense of righteousness and confusion, as well as Tobirama Senju's skillful application of the broken windows theory.

He always managed to force the various ninja clans to support his policies through a combination of maneuvering and manipulation.

Unfortunately, no matter how clever Tobirama Senju was, he was just a ninja, not a mature politician.

With no history to draw upon, he barely managed to lay a foundation for Konoha Village after starting from scratch, and then could not continue.

If he had lived a few more years, perhaps he could have further refined and improved the policies he formulated back then, reducing the number of problems.

Unfortunately, he died too young.

"Wait!" Ning Yuan suddenly interrupted Danzo: "You mean, Konoha is too busy to support the Uzumaki clan?"

"Yes!" Danzo nodded. "Is there a problem?"

"Is it because they are too busy, or because they don't want to provide support?" Ning Yuan asked.

"It was flawless!" Danzo said. "At that time, Hiruzen Sarutobi had just taken office when the Second Shinobi World War broke out. On one hand, the Amegakure ninja were invading the Land of Fire, and on the other hand, the Sky Village attacked. Konoha's elite suffered heavy casualties in the war, and the Sannin had not yet matured. Even our master's wife had to go to the battlefield. How could she possibly care about the Land of Whirlpools, which was far away overseas?"

Danzo recounted the situation in detail.

The original work did not describe how brutal the First Shinobi World War was, and many people simply ignored it.

However, in reality, Konoha suffered extremely heavy losses in the First Shinobi World War.

According to Danzo, Hiruzen Sarutobi did not only take on one class of students, but rather he would take on any child with good talent from the ninja academy as a sign of his respect.

One piece of evidence is that although Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kagami Uchiha appeared in the same frame, they were not actually the same age. Kagami Uchiha was only 25 years old when he died, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura were already over 40 years old at the same time!

Those who lived in the same era as Uchiha Kagami were Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade!

The fact that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Kagami Uchiha were separated by so many generations means that Tobirama Senju could have taken in at least a dozen disciples.

So here's the question: Of all the disciples Tobirama Senju took in, how come only a few became famous?

The answer is obvious: some died in the war, some, like Uchiha Kagami, died in the Second Shinobi World War, and some didn't live as long as these old men and died young.

During the Second Shinobi World War, Konoha was attacked by the Sky Village, and even Mito Uzumaki was forced to join the war.

The death of elites leads to a generational gap, the rise of a new generation leads to political instability, and foreign invasion leads to a tightening of power.

These three factors came together so well that Konoha Village had no time to spare for anything else.

In this situation, if a village were to attempt to raid the Land of Whirlpools, Konoha might genuinely be unable to provide adequate support.

Ning Yuan wouldn't blindly believe Danzo's words, so he wrote down the words "doubtful" next to this description.

Danzo's intelligence was ultimately limited; he couldn't outmaneuver Hiruzen Sarutobi.

If Hiruzen Sarutobi deliberately created a tense situation in Konoha and then didn't go to rescue Uzushiogakure, Danzo wouldn't have noticed.

"Continue!" Ning Yuan said.

Danzo nodded: "After the Second Shinobi World War, both Hiruzen Sarutobi and I noticed a problem: the number of ninjas directly under the Hokage was too small!"

"The war has already broken out, and the enemy is right in our faces, yet we still have to hold a meeting on short notice to ask the major families to send troops, and in the meantime, we have to keep ceding benefits to them."

"So we came up with the idea of ​​expanding the Anbu, but this idea was rejected by all the major ninja clans. So we settled for second best and created the Anbu training organization, namely Root, and I served as the leader of Root."

"So that's how it is?" Ning Yuan suddenly realized.

Ning Yuan had no doubt that the Ninja Clan would take advantage of the chaos during wartime; wasn't that what all the powerful clans in Chinese history did?

In order to consolidate their position and rule, they even created a nine-rank system.

Could the ninja clans of Konoha Village be pure white lotuses, completely untainted by any filth?

impossible!

There is no class that betrays its own class. The ninja clan is a class that exists, and they will inevitably do what belongs to this class.

For example, seeking benefits for one's own class.

"I knew it!" Ning Yuan had always wondered why the Hyuga clan didn't have any major industries, and many of the Hyuga branch families weren't part of Konoha's official organization, so they couldn't earn money by carrying out missions.

So how does such a large clan maintain itself?

We're not doing business, and we're not doing tasks, so we can't just eat air!

Ning Yuan now understood: they were living off Konoha Village's finances!

So Hiruzen Sarutobi's corruption and the training of Sarutobi clan ninjas were all for the purpose of creating an army directly under the Hokage?

So, Hiruzen Sarutobi's order for Danzo to establish the Root was actually like how the Ming Dynasty emperors heavily relied on eunuchs, making Danzo fight against the village's ninja clans.

Ning Yuan looked at Danzo, who was still talking, and probably didn't even know that he was a pawn that Hiruzen Sarutobi had put out to fight against the ninja clan.

Danzo Shimura?

Tadakatsu Shimura!

Unfortunately, just like the eunuchs promoted by the emperor always do bad things, Danzo, this pawn, also had his own selfish motives, which led him to do all sorts of wrong things.

"Tell me about how you framed Kato Dan and Nawaki!" Seeing that the story had progressed to the Second Shinobi World War, Ning Yuan revised the story's direction.

Danzo wasn't surprised; he assumed Ningyuan wanted to listen to similar stories together, so he simply changed the subject.

"Kato Dan and Nawaki's deaths are indeed related to me, but I don't think it was murder!!" Danzo said calmly.

"Oh?" Ning Yuan blinked. "I'd like to hear more!"

"Kato Dan comes from the small Kato clan, which only has two branches: Kato Dan and his brother Kato Mine. They inherited a secret technique called the Spirit Transformation Technique, but only Kato Dan mastered it; Kato Mine didn't. Therefore, Kato Dan is the one in charge of the Kato family!" Danzo said. "Just like I wanted to become Hokage, and Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted his son to continue as Hokage, other clans also have their own ambitions. Large clans want to surpass the Uchiha Hyuga, and small clans want to become large clans!"

"Kato Dan is the same. He mastered the Spirit Transformation Technique and was no longer satisfied with being the head of a small clan. After all, that's a position where you don't even have the right to speak at Konoha meetings. So he set his sights on the Hokage position, and the person closest to that position is Tsunade."

Ning Yuan felt the temperature around him rise, so he quickly reached out and pressed it down. Then he asked with a smile, "So you mean, Kato Dan only got close to Tsunade because of the Hokage position?"

"What else!" Danzo said coldly, "Even I have to admit that Tsunade is a rare beauty in Konoha, and even in the entire ninja world. Doesn't anyone in the village like such a beauty? Aren't there any girls her age who want to pursue her?"

"Is it because she's so outstanding that the men around her feel inferior?" Ning Yuan asked.

"I don't deny that this is possible, but more likely it's because Tsunade spends so much time with Jiraiya and Orochimaru that people might misjudge their relationship and think that Tsunade is in a romantic relationship with one of them."

"So Kato Dan realized that Tsunade had nothing to do with these two, and then took the initiative to attack?" Ning Yuan asked.

"I don't know anything about their love story!" Danzo said. "Actually, even what I just heard was told to me by Hiruzen Sarutobi!"

Ning Yuan nodded; he believed him.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's method of eliminating dissidents was simple: he told Danzo that so-and-so wanted to become Hokage.

Danzo will take care of the rest himself.

"Now we know that Tsunade has no connection with Jiraiya or Orochimaru, but back then nobody knew that attacking Tsunade risked being killed by Jiraiya and Orochimaru, yet he still did it!!" Danzo said, "What could be worth taking such a huge risk for him, besides the Hokage position?"

"Could it be that he really likes Tsunade?" Ning Yuan asked.

"Heh, don't joke around!" Danzo squinted at Ning Yuan. "If you were from the Hyuga main family, you wouldn't ask such a stupid question!"

"Please tell me in detail, so I can learn something. Otherwise, if you don't tell me today, I'll never understand," Ning Yuan asked.

"No matter how small Kato Dan's clan is, it's still a ninja clan. Countless women are willing to marry him. Even if Tsunade is beautiful, it wouldn't be difficult to find someone more beautiful than Tsunade among them!"

Ning Yuan agreed, saying that if you remove the filters of Tsunade's backstory, personality, and identity and only look at her appearance, there are definitely people who can go toe-to-toe with Tsunade.

Among the Konoha Twelve alone, there are Hinata Hyuga, Ino Yamanaka, and Tenten.

It just lacks the charm of a mature woman.

"You mean, the ninja clan doesn't have anything like love?" Ning Yuan understood Danzo's meaning.

"Yes!" Danzo nodded. "If you see a ninja from a certain clan, especially the clan leader or heir, pursuing someone, there must be a political motive involved!"

Ning Yuan nodded and said, "You seem to have raised a paradox!"

"What paradox?" Danzo asked.

"Kato Dan gained Tsunade's favor by supporting her medical ninja reforms. According to your logic, his pursuit of Tsunade must have had political motives. If he genuinely cared about medical ninja reforms, then he wouldn't love Tsunade. If he loved Tsunade, then his goal was indeed medical ninja reforms, but he wasn't a medical ninja. Therefore, he neither loved Tsunade nor was he working for medical ninja reforms; he just wanted to become Hokage, and Tsunade was merely a tool for him to achieve his goals!"

It sounds complicated, but the principle is very simple.

Let's assume for now that the ninja clan leader doesn't experience love. Then, whether he's getting close to Tsunade or supporting the medical ninja reforms, he's serving his political purposes.

Ning Yuan felt the fat on his waist making him feel the effects of the experiment, but this was a scientific exploration, so how could he give up halfway through!

"That's right, that's exactly it!" Danzo nodded without hesitation, acknowledging Ning Yuan's final conclusion!

"Is it possible that you're projecting your own feelings onto others? You want to become Hokage and are willing to do anything to achieve it, so you assume others are the same?" Ning Yuan asked. "Or do you have evidence that Kato Dan doesn't love Tsunade?"

"I don't have such a thing!" Danzo said irritably. "Besides, aren't you discussing how I killed Kato Dan right now? Why are you talking about this?"

"Writing history requires rigor, of course!" Ning Yuan said. "Otherwise, if you're vague here, future generations won't understand and might just make things up! Maybe they'll say you actually liked Kato Dan, but Kato Dan liked Tsunade, and then you hated him because of love."

Danzo's face darkened, and he instinctively wanted to retort, but then he remembered that there seemed to be a rumor circulating that Hashirama Senju actually liked Madara Uchiha.

If you don't explain things clearly, future generations might really start making things up.

"First of all, I was busy building my network at the time and didn't know or have ever met Kato Dan!"

"Secondly, all my knowledge of Kato Dan comes from Hiruzen Sarutobi!"

"Even if someone loves Kato Dan, it's Hiruzen Sarutobi, not me!"

"Alright!" Ning Yuan shrugged, noted down the passage, and showed it to Hiruzen Sarutobi later: "Please continue!"

"Anyway, once I found out that Kato Dan wanted to become Hokage, I had the idea of ​​killing him!" Danzo said matter-of-factly. "Something I've fought for my whole life, you think you can just get it by hooking up with Tsunade? How is that possible!"

"As for killing him, it's incredibly simple. He wants to become Hokage, so he has to act gentle and kind, and be kind and trusting to all his teammates. And when he uses the Spirit Transformation Technique, he needs his teammates to protect his body. I just need to send a Root ninja to replace his teammates, and then kill him when he uses the Spirit Transformation Technique!"

"That's really simple!" Ignoring the pain in his back, he said, "What about Nawaki? He's only eleven years old, and I've heard his talent isn't that great; he shouldn't be a threat to the Hokage position!"

"Who told him his teacher is Orochimaru!" Danzo said matter-of-factly. "Even if he's not talented enough, with a Sannin sister and a Sannin teacher, Jiraiya will definitely support him. Wouldn't he be able to hold onto the Hokage position securely? He's even more likely to become Hokage than Kato Dan!"

"So how did you do it?" Ning Yuan asked. "You know, Orochimaru was following Nawaki the whole time, and he thought it was an accident!"

"It's just as simple!" Danzo said casually. "Like most ninjas who have just graduated, Nawaki is only thinking about making a name for himself and has no sense of the dangers on the battlefield. Countless newly graduated ninjas have died because of this recklessness, so how could Nawaki be an exception!"

"I gave Orochimaru the order and set a trap along their route. All we had to do was wait for him to take the bait!" Danzo laughed. "I didn't expect that kid to be so stupid; he succeeded on his first try, leaving me no time to use many of my follow-up plans!"

"Hiss!" Ning Yuan gasped.

"You've killed so many people, you should be quite knowledgeable by now!" Danzo looked at Ning Yuan's reaction with some surprise: "It's just plotting against Nawaki, why are you so surprised?"

"I was just admiring your shrewdness!" Ning Yuan laughed. "There's still one question I don't understand."

"Ask away!" Danzo said nonchalantly. He had already said everything he should and shouldn't have said, so one more question wouldn't make a difference.

"Let the person involved ask this question!" Ning Yuan shook his head, then extended his right hand in a gesture of request.

"The party involved?" Danzo was taken aback and asked, "What party involved? Isn't Nawaki already dead?"

"Even though Rope Tree is dead, he still has an older sister!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of light appeared beside Ning Yuan, and then a beautiful woman appeared on the lake, wearing a white straight-hemmed robe, a blue horse-face skirt, a diamond-shaped mark on her forehead, shoulder-length short hair tied in two ponytails.

The woman's fists were clenched, her face was full of murderous intent, and her large eyes held nothing but anger.

"It really was you who killed Duan and Shengshu!"

"Tsunade, Tsunade, Tsunade?" Danzo's eyes widened. Wait, weren't we talking about biographies? Where did this woman come from?

He then looked at Ning Yuan, who had an expression that seemed to say "it has nothing to do with me," and instantly understood everything.

There's no biography, no history. It's just a trap set up by this person to find out the truth about my murder of Dan and Nawaki!

"How could there be such an opponent?" Danzo was completely bewildered.

After all that roundabout talk and acting so convincingly, what was the ultimate goal?

A thought inexplicably arose in his mind.

It's no wonder they lost to someone like that!

(End of this chapter)