Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

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Two days later, public opinion in Konoha underwent a dramatic reversal.

The horrific evidence of Orochimaru's secret live dissections and the cruelty he inflicted on his fellow Konoha villagers was made public by the higher-ups with great distress.

The crowd was instantly outraged!

This heinous act of using fellow villagers for cruel experiments has crossed the line of humanity.

Even if this person is Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin and a disciple of the Third Hokage.

All eyes and all anger instantly shifted from the Hyuga incident and fixed themselves on Orochimaru.

Beneath the walls of Konoha lies an extremely well-hidden forbidden technique laboratory.

The formalin smelled pungent, and the huge culture tanks emitted a cold, eerie green light.

"boom!"

The laboratory door was violently blasted open.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, dressed in a black combat suit and wielding the Vajra Staff, was followed by dozens of elite ANBU members wearing animal masks. They stormed into the laboratory, exuding murderous intent.

In the center of the laboratory, Orochimaru, dressed in a white lab coat, held a test tube filled with an unknown liquid, his back to them.

Orochimaru!

Looking at the unrecognizable experimental subjects soaking in nutrient solution around him, Hiruzen roared in anguish, "You really...you really have stooped to this level! What do you take the villagers for?!"

Orochimaru slowly turned around, his golden vertical pupils revealing not panic, but rather a mocking indifference as if he had seen through everything.

Was it really necessary to sacrifice him for the sake of the village?

"Sarutobi-sensei..."

Orochimaru stuck out his long tongue and licked his pale lips. "Stop pretending to be so righteous. Did you really bring so many people to arrest me today for the sake of these so-called 'compatriots'?"

Orochimaru's gaze passed over Hiruzen and looked at the Anbu behind him, as well as the Root members' aura hidden within the Anbu.

"Hizashi Hyuga's blood hasn't dried yet, teacher."

"shut up!"

Enraged by being hit where it hurt, Hiruzen swung his Vajra Staff violently, shouting, "Orochimaru, you have committed an unforgivable crime! Today, in the name of the Third Hokage, I will execute you, this S-rank rogue ninja, on the spot!"

"Kill me?"

Orochimaru chuckled softly, the sound extremely eerie in the empty laboratory.

"Teacher, you've gotten old, so old that even the strength to swing your bat seems so pathetic."

Orochimaru casually tossed aside the test tube in his hand and began forming hand seals with an incredibly rapid and dazzling speed.

Yin-si-xu-chen!

He slammed both hands down on the ground covered with black runes!

"If you want to kill me, you should ask... the true founder of Konoha first!"

"Ninja Art: Impure World Reincarnation!!!"

Rumble—!!!

The entire underground laboratory trembled violently, and the runes on the ground burst forth with dazzling light.

Before Hiruzen and all the Anbu members’ horrified eyes, two enormous wooden coffins, each engraved with the characters “初” and “二”, slowly rose from the ground!

"That...that is?!" Hiruzen's pupils suddenly contracted, and his hand holding the Ruyi Jingu Bang began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Bang! Bang!"

The lids of the two wooden coffins collapsed with a loud crash.

Amidst the dust and scraps of paper, two imposing figures clad in ancient, layered armor from the Warring States period slowly emerged.

Hashirama Senju, and... Tobirama Senju!

Chapter 132 Monkey, is this your Will of Fire?

"You...you dare to desecrate the soul of the former Hokage! Orochimaru!!"

According to the usual practice of Impure World Reincarnation, the summoned dead will retain a certain degree of their former consciousness before being implanted with control spells.

Orochimaru took a step back with a cold smile, preparing to follow the "script" given to him by Yue and pretend to use talismans to forcibly control the two Hokage in order to buy time.

However, just as Orochimaru was about to take out his kunai...

Before the wooden coffin engraved with the character "two," Tobirama Senju slowly opened his eyes.

But those eyes lacked the emptiness and lifelessness characteristic of Edo Tensei (Impure World Reincarnation).

Those were a pair of clear, azure eyes, filled with absolute rationality!

This is not an unconscious remnant soul that was forcibly summoned back from the Pure Land!

This is Uchiha Yue, who, through the Flying Thunder God Technique, perfectly utilized Orochimaru's technique nodes to completely replace the body of Senju Tobirama from the "founding year of Konoha" with that Edo Tensei body.

"Monkey, it's been a long time."

Tobirama Senju ignored Orochimaru beside him, and also looked at the trembling Anbu members.

He slowly raised his head, his sharp, ruby-like eyes fixed on Hiruzen Sarutobi.

It was just a simple, unassuming call.

This made Hiruzen Sarutobi freeze, and his heart skipped a beat.

Those were not the eyes of a puppet being manipulated, but the genuine gaze of someone who had entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of Konoha.

Seeing this, Hiruzen felt a sliver of hope, hoping that his teacher could understand the precarious situation he had been living on for so many years.

"Teacher...?" Hiruzen's voice trembled uncontrollably.

Danzo Shimura, who was hiding in the shadows, suddenly widened his eyes and his grip on his cane tightened uncontrollably.

He originally intended to take advantage of Orochimaru's battle with Hiruzen to destroy the evidence related to Root in Orochimaru's laboratory.

But to everyone's surprise, Orochimaru actually managed to pull off the Impure World Reincarnation.

The teacher he respected most was standing right in front of them in a state of clarity that was completely incomprehensible!

Tobirama stepped out of the wooden coffin, his cold gaze sweeping over the chaotic underground laboratory, then at the severed limbs preserved in formalin.

Although he already knew the direction of the script from Uchiha Tsukuyomi, at this moment, he had to play the role of a former Hokage who had just been awakened and was "completely ignorant" of everything.

"The forbidden technique I developed has actually been used by someone to do such a dirty thing."

Tobirama snorted coldly, then turned his sharp gaze back to Hiruzen. "Monkey, I entrusted the village to you, and this is the Konoha you've governed? Someone actually developed this kind of thing."

"Teacher, Orochimaru used the villagers' fellow villagers for human experiments, which is unforgivable! I'm here today to clean house!" Hiruzen cried out in anguish, trying to save face in front of his teacher and positioning himself on the moral high ground of "sacrificing family for the greater good."

"Clean house?"

Tobirama crossed his arms and squinted slightly.

"Now that I've been awakened, let's not rush into action. Monkey, tell me, what's the current situation in Konoha? Are you confident in your ability to manage the external situation and maintain internal stability?"

Hiruzen swallowed hard, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Faced with his teacher's gaze, which seemed to pierce his soul, he instinctively downplayed the issue: "Don't worry, teacher... Although we've experienced some setbacks, everything is fine in Konoha now. The Hidden Cloud Village has signed a peace treaty, and the village is recuperating. Everyone is working hard for Konoha's future..."

Orochimaru, who had been standing to the side, suddenly let out an extremely harsh, hoarse laugh.

"Hehehe... Sarutobi-sensei, you are as hypocritical as ever."

not good!

Hiruzen was shocked. He knew Orochimaru too well; he knew that Orochimaru was definitely not going to say anything nice!

Without the slightest hesitation, Hiruzen's Vajra Staff instantly extended, whistling through the air as it slammed into Orochimaru, attempting to silence him with violence.

"Shh!"

Orochimaru's body slid backward with incredible suppleness, easily dodging the powerful blow.

He licked his pale lips, his golden vertical pupils filled with mockery:

"Leaving aside the distant matter of the Fourth Hokage, the recent situation concerning the Hyuga clan has not been well-received by the teacher!"

Upon hearing the words "Fourth Hokage" and "Hyuga Clan," Tobirama's eyes instantly turned cold.

He had known about these pivotal moments of "fate" for a long time, but Hiruzen's furious and desperate attempt to silence him just now had greatly displeased him.

Tobirama narrowed his eyes, his oppressive gaze passing over Orochimaru and fixing fixed on Hiruzen: "Tell me the details of both of these matters. What exactly happened to the Fourth Hokage and the Hyuga clan? Monkey, you explain yourself to this old man!"

"Teacher! That...that's because..."

Hiruzen's palms were covered in cold sweat as he gripped the Ruyi Jingu Bang.

The teacher's repeated questioning made the fig leaf of "for the greater good" that he had been using to hypnotize himself seem so ridiculous and riddled with holes in front of the Second Hokage, who created the Anbu and Konoha system.

Under his teacher's all-seeing gaze, he dared not lie. He could only stammer and downplay the seriousness of the matter, revealing in detail how he had allowed rumors to fester after the Nine-Tails Night, how he had used the Hero's Son as a scapegoat for ordinary people, and how he had forced the Hyuga to hand over the branch family head, Hiashi, in order to quell the anger of the Cloud Village.

"Master! I was forced into this situation!" Hiruzen argued. "The village suffered too many losses on the night of the Nine-Tails! The villagers needed an outlet for their anger, and the Cloud Village army was pressing in. If we didn't hand over Hizashi, the village would be devastated... I did everything for Konoha... to stabilize the village's internal situation!"

"The bigger picture? An outlet for venting?"

Tobirama roared, feeling so angry he almost laughed.

He now truly regretted staying in this world to listen to Hiruzen's weak and incompetent sophistry!

"To so-called 'stabilize emotions,' they push an innocent baby out as a scapegoat?! To quell the war, they force a hero of their own village to his death?!"

Tobirama approached step by step, "If someone wants war, you'll just give them a corpse? If someone wants the gates of Konoha tomorrow, are you going to hand over the Hokage Building without a second thought?"

"Hiruzen, you have disappointed me greatly."

Tobirama's eyes were filled with deep anger. "The Will of Fire I taught you was to protect the leaves entrusted to you, not to cut them off and throw them into the fire when you encounter difficulties!"

Hiruzen was thoroughly reprimanded and knelt on the ground in agony.

These questions shattered Hiruzen's decades-long psychological defenses.

His proud identity as the "inheritor of the Will of Fire" was shattered by his own hand at this moment.

Tobirama gave him a cold glance, then turned his head, his ruby-like eyes piercing directly into the deep shadows behind the laboratory.