"Orochimaru, are you insane?"
Nara Shikaku's eyes widened. He glared warily at the Konoha rogue ninja and said in a deep voice, "You harmed fellow Konoha Ninja and stole First Hokage's cells for inhumane human experiments. You are unforgivable. What right do you have to impeach Third Hokage?"
A ninja who betrayed Konoha years ago, returning to impeach Third Hokage?
It had a touch of dark humor to it.
Orochimaru, who was being accused, still smiled, as if he had prepared everything. He said unhurriedly, "You, Ino-Shika-Cho, have always been accomplices in protecting Hiruzen!"
"I made it very clear that the ones truly conducting human experiments and stealing First Hokage's cells were Shimura Danzo and Third Hokage. I was deceived by them into doing their probes. After learning the truth, I wanted to expose them but was framed and driven out of Konoha by their combined efforts!"
"The ones truly eroding Konoha and destroying Konoha are not me; they are the Kage bathed in sunlight!"
Nonsense, twisting black and white!
Sarutobi Hiruzen opened his mouth, his lips trembling. This baseless accusation filled him with a mix of anger and amusement.
Danzo and Orochimaru had collaborated on human experiments, and he only found out when they were exposed. The accusation that he stole First Hokage's cells was utterly baseless.
Just as he was organizing his thoughts to refute, he suddenly realized...
Earlier, Sasuke Uchiha caused a huge commotion, and Shimura Danzo's Sharingan on his right arm and the First Hokage's face were already exposed to everyone.
This confirmed that Shimura Danzo had conducted human experiments and that Orochimaru was involved.
In this way, his past soft-hearted decision to let Orochimaru go, and his failure to expose and punish Danzo, would appear to everyone as...
Orochimaru was jointly forced out of the village by Third Hokage and Shimura Danzo!
Sarutobi Hiruzen's words caught in his throat.
He looked angrily at Orochimaru, his most favored disciple. It had always been others who bore some of the infamy and blame for him; this was the first time he experienced the suffocating feeling of being made a scapegoat.
Seeing Orochimaru's unfulfilled expression, Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned, feeling he couldn't let him continue speaking.
He threw out shuriken, forming hand seals. Several shuriken transformed into a sky full of dark shadows.
Orochimaru's Substitution Jutsu.
Orochimaru, riddled with holes, crawled out perfectly fine, licking the mucus from his face, his smile undiminished.
His voice suddenly became shrill.
"Sarutobi-sensei, do you want to silence me?"
"I'm impeaching you for the sake of Konoha. Your crimes are numerous. Besides the human experiments, to consolidate your power, you sat by and allowed Danzo to spread rumors that killed the Hokage candidate Hatake Sakumo!"
"During the Nine-Tails' attack, the Uchiha Clan wanted to provide aid, but you instructed Danzo to block them, leading to Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze's death!"
"You let rumors about Fourth Hokage's orphan, Naruto Uzumaki, being a demon fox spread unchecked, while you played the good guy, wanting to keep the Jinchuriki under your sole control!"
"Cloud Hidden ninja brazenly kidnapped the Hyūga Clan Head's daughter in Konoha. You were weak and incompetent, even allowing a ninja protecting the village to sacrifice himself to appease the Cloud Hidden, causing Konoha Ninja Clan to feel insecure and alienated from the village!"
"Sarutobi-sensei, you're too old. Your heart has become numb, your flesh has begun to decay. You've embezzled Konoha's resources for personal gain, and you've raised Sarutobi's private army. You're no longer qualified to sit in the Hokage's position!"
One accusation after another, half-truths and half-lies, the impeachment created a prolonged silence.
Naruto Uzumaki had clenched his fists, intending to attack Orochimaru, the rogue ninja who attacked the village, but when he heard about the Fourth Hokage's orphan, he froze on the spot.
"My father is Fourth Hokage?"
"I'm not... a demon fox!"
Naruto Uzumaki looked up blankly, his eyes, pure as a blue lake, showing a complex emotion as they fell on Third Hokage.
Sarutobi Hiruzen lowered his head in shame, muttering, "This matter... I should have told you sooner, little Naruto."
"You all knew already?"
Faced with Naruto's confusion, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only remain silent.
Not just Konoha, but the other Four Great Ninja Villages also dealt with Jinchuriki in this way, but these words had lost their meaning now.
Naruto Uzumaki said nothing more. Clenching the remaining revival coins in his hand, he ran back to his small apartment building without looking back.
Sarutobi Hiruzen's face was grim. He retorted, "These are all baseless rumors! Rogue ninja Orochimaru, are you really going to use such reasons to frame the Hokage?"
In any case, these were not definitive proofs. While they could shake the Hokage's authority, to...
Clang.
Two large brown-spotted snakes coiled around two cold corpses, heads down, their Sound Ninja Village headbands repeatedly hitting the ground.
"Framing? These two ninja corpses have Wood Release cells, which is why the two Reanimation Jutsu Hokage were able to withstand the siege of the Three Kage. Sarutobi-sensei, do you need me to have the Anbu conduct an inspection?"
Orochimaru stuck out his tongue, laughing wildly. All his plans were now complete.
"No, I didn't see through your schemes. Anything I say now is too late... What do you want!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen finally understood the bad feeling the Sound Ninja corpses gave him.
He had been manipulated by Orochimaru from beginning to end, the goal being to completely cast him into the dust.
But what was the purpose of doing this?
"Sarutobi-sensei, stop saying such meaningless things. I have already reported to the Lord of Fire Country to remove you from your position as Third Hokage and to imprison you for a thorough investigation, to meticulously uncover your crimes against Konoha."
"During this period... I will serve as Interim Hokage!"
Orochimaru stated his pre-planned intentions without hesitation, his gaze cautiously fixed on Sarutobi Hiruzen.
He was afraid that upon hearing he was to be imprisoned, his former teacher would turn desperate and unleash his terrifying power.
"Is that so?"
Sarutobi Hiruzen was surprisingly calm.
Orochimaru dared to say such a thing, likely because he had already colluded with the Lord of Fire Country.
Normally, when Konoha wasn't under attack, these petty tricks wouldn't amount to anything. But now, with a battered Konoha, with most of its Konoha Ninja dead or injured, and with Orochimaru's layered schemes, he, the Hokage, had somehow found himself on the opposite side of most people.
The battle was lost.
Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed. Being imprisoned still offered hope for a comeback. As someone who had been a Konoha Ninja his entire life, he had no desire to resist. Would the once glorious Third Hokage become a rogue ninja?
That would be a colossal joke.
"Orochimaru, if I find you doing anything to harm Konoha, even if I fall into the abyss, I will personally kill you!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen gave Orochimaru a deep look before being shackled by the Lord of Fire Country's troops who followed Orochimaru.
Click.
This sound.
It completely marked the end of the Konoha Crush Plan.
The war continued. Nearly ten thousand Konoha Ninja at the border outposts were lost, yet they still couldn't prevent the loss of Land of Fire territory.
Half a month later, Interim Hokage Orochimaru convened the various Ninja Clan to make decisions. The position of Hokage was changed to National Master, with Lord of Fire Country Yan Zhaoxiong personally taking charge of the ninja village. The village was renamed the Capital of the Land of Fire, Konoha City, becoming the Ninja World's first military empire where a Daimyo held real power.
The long-standing, stable Hyuga Clan in Konoha split. Hyuga Neji and the branch families who broke the Caged Bird became new nobles of the empire. A portion of the Hyuga Clan, led by Hyuga Hiashi, left the Konoha Empire and were issued a warrant by National Lord Yan Zhaoxiong.
At the same time, Ino-Shika-Cho, along with a portion of the civilian ninja, broke into the prison and rescued the former Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was on the verge of death and had both legs broken from torture. After repelling the pursuers, they established New Konoha in the Land of Hot Water and declared eternal hostility towards the Land of Fire.
The once strongest village in the Ninja World, at this moment, completely fell apart!
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