The air in the Hokage office was thick enough to choke on. Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shikaku stood before the desk where Hana Uchiha sat, the Fifth Hokage's hat casting a shadow over her calm features. The ANBU and ROOT along with Kakashi were present as well.
Hana's voice was flat, devoid of triumph or guilt. It was a recitation of facts.
**( only you three and the anbu and the root ninjas shall know this informations but everyone already knew just you three remaining didn't know the information yet , )**
The three seasoned shinobi stiffened. They were being let in on a secret that was already an open secret among the shadows of the village. It was a move to establish parity, but it felt like a trap.
**( the one who killed the four is me as for why kakashi will tell you after i finish, )**
Tsunade's breath hitched. Jiraiya's eyes narrowed to slits. Shikaku's face remained a mask, but his mind was racing, connecting a hundred disparate pieces. She had just confessed to regicide. Casually.
**( now nawaki enter , )**
The name was a physical blow. Tsunade swayed on her feet, her face draining of all color. Jiraiya's hand shot out to steady her.
**( i saved him from the assassination that danzo did and faked nawaki death , )**
The door to a side chamber slid open. A young man with familiar ash-blond hair and Senju features walked in. He was older, his face etched with a maturity that came from living in secrecy, but there was no mistaking him. It was Nawaki. Tsunade made a sound like a wounded animal, her hand flying to her mouth. Her little brother, dead and buried for decades, was alive.
**( oh i been teaching him all this time while he recorded death or do you believe your senju clan only has you two currently alive was by fate sorry it was the doing of the four yeah if you check the entire 5 lands only you two are the remaining living senju the rest is dead killed or experiments on wood release human experiments by the four , )**
The horror escalated from personal to genocidal. The near-extinction of the Senju wasn't a tragic accident of war; it was a targeted campaign of murder and experimentation orchestrated by their own village's leadership. Tsunade's shock began to curdle into a boiling, incandescent rage. Jiraiya looked sick. Shikaku closed his eyes for a brief second, the final, horrific piece of the puzzle snapping into place.
**( kakashi will tell you the rest , you can explain why i killed the four and the informations after i said i know too much , after all i don't want two of my advisor and the seal master digging around aimlessly ruining things thinking they fixing things because i didn't tell them information on advance) **
She finished, effectively handing the conversation to Kakashi. She had dropped bombshells and now expected him to clean up the debris.
All eyes turned to Kakashi. He stepped forward, his visible eye grim.
**( the fifth hokage hana told me and the anbu and root ninjas exactly this when the anbu and root recommended me for hokage position... )**
He began to recite her words from the previous night, his voice a monotone echo of her chilling confession.
*Reactions as Kakashi spoke:*
**("but still i refuse to let you be hokage because your father and the fourth hokage clearly didn't wish you to suffer such responsibility at such young age...")**
Jiraiya flinched at the mention of Minato's wishes. It was a low blow, but it felt true.
**("...also the other reason why i refuse you being a hokage you don't have brain to lead a village because you didn't study for it...")**
Kakashi didn't even blink at the insult. The others winced at its brutal accuracy.
**("...i can be a hokage but the reason that stop me from it is i know too much after all i am the one who killed the four corpses without using chakra or poison but no one can prove i did it...")**
The confession, repeated, lost none of its impact. Tsunade's fists were clenched, her nails digging into her palms.
**("...they planned to massacre the uchiha clan then move to the rest of the clans they planned to dismantle all the clans on the village...")**
Shikaku's blood ran cold. The scale of the conspiracy was monstrous. His own clan would have been a target.
**("...so they dead mysteriously will be better than them judged destroying everything they built...")**
A terrible, dark logic that was hard to refute. A trial would have shattered Konoha.
**("...I think told you i know too much which includes the one behind the nine tails and the one puppeteer who manipulated all the three ninja wars plus making sure all second kages of all the five villages death...")**
This was the grand revelation. The wars, the Kyuubi attack, the deaths of the Kage—all part of a single, hidden enemy's design. The world suddenly felt much smaller and infinitely more dangerous.
**("...you see if i become a hokage we will be playing the entire five lands as a board against that puppeteer...")**
She wasn't just a Hokage. She was a wartime general against a shadow enemy.
**("...so what your decision because your fate is on the hands of the upcoming hokage")**
Kakashi finished the recitation. **(" so we chose her because she necessarily till a suitable hokage emerges ")**
Silence.
Tsunade was trembling, a maelstrom of emotions—shock at Nawaki's survival, rage at the Senju's fate, horror at the global conspiracy. The justification for the killings was now horrifically, undeniably clear.
Jiraiya looked pale. The weight of the hidden enemy, the truth about the Senju, the cold calculation of Hana's actions—it was almost too much to process. Protecting Naruto was no longer just about a seal; it was about guarding him from a predator that had orchestrated his parents' death.
Shikaku simply nodded slowly. Every piece fit. Every brutal action had a logical, if monstrous, reason. There were no more questions. Only a terrible, necessary truth.
Hana had not just presented them with a confession. She had presented them with a war. And she had made it abundantly clear that she was the only one who knew how to fight it. Their choices had vanished the moment Nawaki walked through the door. They were all soldiers in her war now.