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

Chapter 198 Hiruzen Sarutobi - The Lonely One

From entering the Hokage's office building to leaving, it was only an hour.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi felt as if he were in another world, to the point that he couldn't even open his eyes when he looked at the blazing sun in the sky.

Yes, I've never seen the sun at this time and from this angle before.

He lifted his foot and moved forward, then a sharp pain came from his right foot, and then Hiruzen Sarutobi felt his vision blur for a moment.

"Third Hokage, watch out!" The two young men quickly helped Hiruzen Sarutobi up.

Only then did he realize that he had missed a step on the stairs and almost fell!

How could that be? I am Ren Xiong!

Koharu and Mitokado, who were a little slow to react, quickly came over.

"Monkey, are you alright?" Koharu asked with a worried expression.

Actually, no one knows that Koharu Utatane never married because she loved Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"I'm fine, I was just a little distracted!" Hiruzen Sarutobi waved his hand.

"But, I was just daydreaming!" Mitomon Homura muttered to himself as he stood to the side.

He and Koharu Tsurugi only lost their financial power; nothing else.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi has nothing left.

Even the entire Hokage office building had been replaced; the new hires were either from middle school or elementary school, and no one recognized him, the former Hokage.

What does it mean for things to be different from what they used to be? This is it.

This is what it means for people to become distant and unresponsive when they leave.

When Hiruzen Sarutobi read "The Great Wilderness," he noticed that some emperors, even when lying on their deathbeds and on the verge of death, still clung to power and refused to let go.

At that time, Hiruzen Sarutobi even mocked them.

Now, he has suddenly become a character in the book.

Was his lust for power truly just for the sake of leaving it to his son?

I'm afraid not. Perhaps leaving the Hokage position to his son is just an excuse for him to be greedy for power!

"Grandmaster?" A gentle child's voice rang out from the side.

Hiruzen Sarutobi turned his head in surprise. If he remembered correctly, there was only one person in the entire Hidden Leaf Village who called him "Grandmaster".

"It's you, Hyuga Neon." Upon seeing the person who had arrived, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face instinctively broke into a gentle smile.

This has been an act for a lifetime; it's become second nature.

"You should be on a mission right now, oh, I forgot, there are no more missions available!" Hiruzen Sarutobi laughed. "It's strange, even though the Fourth Hokage said yesterday that he wouldn't be accepting missions anymore, it should have taken some time for the merchants who posted missions to receive the notification, right? How come they've all suddenly disappeared?"

"I don't know!" Ning Yuan shook his head.

"That's true, what could a genin like you know?" Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head and asked, "By the way, didn't you become the director of Konoha Hospital? Why aren't you at work? Why are you here instead?"

"I'm here to watch the show!" Ning Yuan said with a smile.

"Watching a show? What show?" Hiruzen Sarutobi was taken aback, subconsciously recalling the fall he had just taken. Surely it wasn't this show?

Then, over Ning Yuan's shoulder, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly saw a group of people dressed in black police uniforms, wearing helmets, masks, sunglasses, and trench coats, holding black long guns in one hand and glass shields in the other, standing in neat rows on the street.

This is?

Armed ninja police?

Why did they send them out?

Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly had a bad feeling. He immediately turned his head and saw that there was another armed ninja police on the other side of the street!

"Go back!" Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately turned around, only to see a white figure slip into the closing door.

No one knows when, but the residents and staff near the Hokage's office building have all vanished without a trace!

"How is this possible!" Hiruzen Sarutobi was shocked. I am the Third Hokage, the Professor of Ninjutsu. Who could interfere with my senses and make me not detect anything?

The next second, he noticed several people peeking out from the railing on the second floor of the Hokage's office building.

Orochimaru, Hyuga Ningen, and Mitarashi Anko.

At that moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi understood the meaning of watching the show.

Turning back, a person dressed similarly appeared in front of the armed ninja army on the right, but without sunglasses or a mask, revealing their face.

"Uchiha Shichito! Uchiha Fugaku!" Hiruzen Sarutobi gritted his teeth, turned his head, and shouted again, "Uchiha Misaka, Uchiha Mikoto!"

"You've deployed armed ninja police to surround the Hokage in the street—are you trying to rebel?"

"Just a heads-up, he was the previous Hokage!" Uchiha Shichito chuckled. "Right now, you're not only not the Hokage, you're not even an elder. You're just a commoner from Konoha!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi quietly handed a rocket to Koharu Utatane, then said sternly, "Orochimaru, you were involved in this too?"

"No, I wasn't involved at all!" Orochimaru shook his head. "I couldn't be involved either. Konoha is governed by law. When the police want to arrest criminals, even I, as the Kage and mayor, have no right to interfere!"

"Whoosh!" The rocket was launched by Koharu Tsunematsu and flew hundreds of meters into the air in the blink of an eye.

"Boom!" A burst of purple fireworks exploded, but it didn't explode into the shape of the Sarutobi clan crest.

Shaping fireworks requires a high level of technical skill.

"Are you calling for reinforcements?" Uchiha Shichito laughed. "You probably don't know, but while you were in the Hokage's office, your entire clansmen were captured by us!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes instantly turned bloodshot: "What did you do to them?"

"Don't worry!" Uchiha Shichito quickly waved his hands, "We didn't do anything, we just moved them to a different place. Your Sarutobi clan's food, clothing, and daily necessities all come from embezzling Konoha's assets. Of course, we have to take those things back. But we're not demons, so we still provided them with housing. The conditions are a bit poor, but it's enough to keep them from the wind and rain!"

"You!" Hiruzen Sarutobi roared.

Unexpectedly, Uchiha Shichito's voice was even louder: "Sarutobi Hiruzen, your secret is out! After an all-night interrogation, we've learned that the embezzlement by those five members of the Mission Management Department wasn't voluntary at all, but rather carried out on your orders. The more than 30 billion yen they embezzled has also been pocketed by the Sarutobi clan!"

"The head of a clan, the Kage of a village, has dared to break the law, engaging in corruption and embezzlement! Hiruzen Sarutobi, how can you face the support of our ninja clan? How can you face the trust of the 100,000 villagers of Konoha?!"

Uchiha Shichito spoke with a stern voice and righteous indignation, but he couldn't suppress the smirk that was about to appear on his lips.

Since Hiruzen Sarutobi took over, the two clans have been engaged in a full-scale struggle, and Hiruzen Sarutobi, relying on his status as Hokage, has often been the victor.

I never expected this, but fortunes change, and today it's my turn!

Seeing Hiruzen Sarutobi's face contorted in pain, as if he were about to cry, Uchiha Shichito felt an overwhelming sense of satisfaction, almost like he was flying to heaven!

Even the three tomoe in his eyes spun rapidly, and after a moment, they merged together to form a pitch-black, rogue-like star pattern!

He was taken aback at first, then burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha, hahahaha! Our ancestors were wrong, the Second Hokage was wrong, the ancient traditions of the Uchiha clan were all wrong. I only thought that the Uchiha clan could awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan when they were extremely sad, but I never thought that they could also do it when they were extremely happy?"

That's right, Uchiha Shichito awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan due to extreme pleasure!

Orochimaru and Ning Yuan exchanged a glance, both looking astonished.

"Is that so?"

Ning Yuan nodded: "That is indeed possible. We speculate that the condition for activating the Kaleidoscope is a sudden surge in mental power. Extreme sadness can meet the condition, and perhaps extreme happiness can as well."

"However, in the ninja world, there are always too many sad things and very few things that bring joy."

Orochimaru nodded.

The two chatted quite casually, showing no sign of taking this newly minted kaleidoscope seriously.

Only Hiruzen Sarutobi looked horrified, and was about to say something when he heard Shichito Uchiha laugh, "Hiruzen Sarutobi, do you know how you fell from grace?"

"Huh?" Hinata Neon was taken aback, and immediately realized that it was time for me to show off!

Well, it looks like we can't keep it a secret any longer!

Hiruzen Sarutobi also looked bewildered. He really didn't know how he had lost; it was as if everything had suddenly changed.

"You truly don't know, and you couldn't possibly have imagined it!" Uchiha Shichito pointed at Hyuga Ningen on the second floor: "All your failures are because you arranged for this child to be led by a Jonin from the Uchiha clan, and this Jonin happens to be the daughter of the Uchiha Security Force captain!"

"What do you mean?" Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned. Was this related to Nene Hyuga?

"If Mikoto hadn't led the team, she wouldn't have discussed the security force with Hinata Neiyuan. If they hadn't been chatting casually, Hinata Neiyuan wouldn't have proposed reform strategies for the security force. If the security force hadn't been reformed, there wouldn't be a profession called Economic Crime Investigation. And without Economic Crime Investigation, your clan's corruption wouldn't have been exposed!"

Uchiha Shichito has the Mangekyou Sharingan, so as long as he doesn't use his eye techniques, he doesn't need to worry about his eyesight deteriorating.

Besides, I'm already this age, so it doesn't matter whether I use it sooner or later.

He laughed wildly, "It's all because of you, Hiruzen Sarutobi! It's because of your brilliant plans that your Sarutobi clan has fallen!"

"It's you?" Hiruzen Sarutobi was taken aback, then finally understood!

I knew it! The Uchiha clan wouldn't have the brains to carry out reforms!

He raised his head and glared fiercely at Hinata Ningyuan: "Ningyuan, why did you do this?"

If the Sarutobi clan still existed, and if there was still hope of turning things around, Hiruzen Sarutobi wouldn't mind acting a little gentler and not taking Ning Yuan's actions seriously.

But now, he's at his wit's end!

At this point, who cares about manners or the Hokage's reputation!

He couldn't even face his death calmly, because the current Uchiha and Orochimaru were not rogue ninjas, but he was a criminal!

Hinata Neon rested his chin on one hand and said, "I couldn't help it. Mikoto-neechan is so beautiful, and she was standing so close to me, her breath practically brushing against my ear. Who could stand that? And then, without realizing it, I ended up saying so much!"

"You!" Hiruzen Sarutobi gritted his teeth in anger. I've failed so badly because of a brat's lecherousness?

"Just because of this? You, a dignified ninja, don't you know the principles of the Three Forbidden Rules of Ninjas?"

"No smoking, no drinking, no gambling?" Ning Yuan asked curiously, "And what about sex?"

"No, no, absolutely not!" Uchiha Shichito laughed heartily, "Hyuga clan brat, you're quite something, it's a pity my Mikoto can't marry you!"

After saying that, Uchiha Shichito suddenly stopped smiling and said sternly, "Now that things have come to this, Hiruzen Sarutobi, what else do you have to say?"

Before Hiruzen Sarutobi could even speak, Koharu Utatane, standing behind him, interjected, "Wait, Hiruzen Sarutobi's embezzlement has nothing to do with us, right?"

"Yes, yes!" Mitokado Homura immediately nodded in agreement. "Although we also received money, it was all the wages that the elders were entitled to!"

Although the salary is a bit higher, there are no problems with the procedures.

Even if Hiruzen Sarutobi diverted funds from the Land of Fire's budget to the Sarutobi family, it would still be legal in terms of procedure.

It's all because Hiruzen Sarutobi was insatiable and actually set his sights on the mission rewards.

The moment these two spoke, it was like a sharp blade piercing deep into Hiruzen Sarutobi's heart.

We've been brothers and partners for decades, how could you betray me like this?

Koharu and Homura glanced apologetically at Hiruzen Sarutobi before quickly retreating.

"Better to die than to die myself. They're clearly after you, why should we get involved?"

I haven't lived enough yet!

Especially Koharu Utatane, although I love you, didn't you marry Biwako Sarutobi?

So we've already severed all ties, haven't we?

Seeing his two old comrades retreating, Hiruzen Sarutobi finally couldn't hold back and spat out a mouthful of blood.

He sat down on the ground in a daze. At this moment, he felt more than just like he was in another world, like the tea had gone cold after the person was gone!

Now there's one more: a lonely man!

"Looks like you have nothing more to say!" Uchiha Shichito said loudly, "Take him away!"

"etc!"

(End of this chapter)