Konoha: Sage Body

"You're admitting it?"

When Sandaime heard Sarutobi Takashi's mockery, which contained hatred, the anger in his heart instead disappeared, leaving him with a deep disappointment and a lament.

For Sarutobi Takashi's hatred, of course he was clear about it, this hatred had to do with him as well as the Senju clan, but he didn't expect it to be this deep, and the son he once had high hopes for was affected by this hatred to the point that he lost his mind, and couldn't distinguish between public and private.

Sure enough, his son wasn't the type to become Hokage.

Sarutobi Takashi targeting the Senju clan was fine with him personally, after all, the Senju clan was his political enemy now, and it was only natural to trip and lay hands on the Senju clan behind their backs.

But to use the matter of the protest letter to spread rumors about Kirito, the hero of Konoha, that would be too much, greatly too much.

Because Kirito represents not only Senju clan, put aside his identity as Uzumaki Mito's personal disciple, he personally himself is still a civilian ninja, and now he has created a great reputation on the battlefield, showing amazing strength, itself naturally represents the majority of civilian ninja.

Moreover, the contribution he made on the battlefield is obvious to all, because of his relationship, countless Konoha ninjas were spared the suffering of the battlefield, many Konoha ninjas who might have died on the battlefield have had their destiny drastically changed as a result of this, and all of these are not to be faked.

Kirito may not care about this, but there are always people who will miss him.

In the end, Kirito's potential is boundless, now he is a Kage-Level powerhouse, then in the future, not to say that he may become a ninja like Hashirama-sama who is invincible in the ninja world, but it is not a problem at all for him to become the number one powerhouse of Konoha.

Right now alone, he personally wouldn't be able to defeat Kirito.

Therefore, in Sandaime's opinion, offending the Senju clan was fine, but offending Kirito was a real loss of wisdom.

For his son to so blatantly offend Kirito, a Kage-Level powerhouse with prestige and strength with backing in Konoha right now, was simply a death wish, a big death.

"I don't know anything?"

Sarutobi Takashi still refused to admit it, the mockery on his face deepening.

He knew what Sandaime was thinking in his heart, was it just that he thought he had lost his mind, and was ungrateful enough to offend Kirito, a Kage-Level powerhouse with unlimited potential.

He was offended, so what?

Father merely saw that Kirito was not to be messed with, but did he see what this little brute of a man, Kirito, would do in Konoha in the future?

He definitely saw it, but in his heart he was choosing to turn a blind eye again for the sake of Konoha's so-called stability.

A framer who became muddled for the sake of Konoha.

That was a comment someone made about his father, and he thought it was right.

If his father had so once again refrained from going after Kirito Tosaka for the sake of Konoha's stability, the result would have been a new Konoha born at the expense of the fall of a host of old powers, led by the Sarutobi clan.

He admitted that he was a selfish man, unable to do what his father did and really give up everything for Konoha. In his eyes, the family was more important than Konoha, and if the Sarutobi clan would not be able to continue to lead Konoha in the future, what would be the point of a new Konoha?

Kirito Tosaka, a genius ninja who had already reached Kage-Level powerhouse at the age of 11, how strong his potential was, how terrifying this person was.

Doesn't he, Sarutobi Takashi, know that?

Jokes aside, of course he knew, but for the sake of the future of the Sarutobi clan, he had to be greatly offended for once.

If such a person doesn't stumble early on, he will no longer be able to contain him in the future.

Creating rumors and ruining his reputation was just the surface stuff, the deeper stuff was to alienate him from Konoha and make him disappointed in those stupid villagers at the bottom of Konoha.

There was such a thing as the Will of Fire, and while he didn't recognize it, he knew exactly what it meant.

His father was a man who inherited the Will of Fire, and although he was old and sometimes confused, he was indeed capable of sacrificing everything for Konoha, with the true purpose of simply guarding those stupid people at the bottom of Konoha.

Thus, in his mind, Hokage is just such a thing that exists to guard the majority of Konoha.

If Kirito Tosaka is disappointed with those selfish and blindly obedient villagers at the bottom, then odds are he won't be some bullshit Hokage in the future.

Protecting a group of people who didn't trust him, whoever did it was a fool.

He didn't think Kirito Tosaka would do that.

In this way, he managed to drive away Kirito Tosaka, the lackey of the Senju clan who would most likely become Hokage in the future.

The price for driving away this lackey was only the destruction of a small ninja clan and the Senju clan's increased hatred of the Sarutobi clan.

Compared to the gain, this price was insignificant.

"It seems you've really gone mad, men, take him down."

Seeing that Sarutobi Takashi was unrepentant, Sandaime finally put away that last bit of father-son love in his heart and said in a cold voice.

But a few seconds passed, the ANBU ninjas outside surprisingly did not appear in time as usual and then acted on orders.

This unusual thing caused Sandaime's heart to gradually sink to the bottom, he finally realized that he had really lost control of ANBU, and in his heart he couldn't help but regret his excessive nepotism.

The ANBU head and deputy head should not have been all Sarutobi clan members.

Although this would allow him to easily control the ANBU, the consequences would only make the ANBU become the Sarutobi clan's dictatorship.

All of the ninja that disobeyed the Sarutobi clan have been removed from the ANBU, and now all that remains are the Sarutobi clan's lackeys.

However, from the current point of view, the real object of allegiance of these lackeys is not him as Hokage, but Sarutobi Takashi and the Sarutobi clan behind him.

Once Sarutobi Takashi, the head of ANBU, chose to betray, then even if he, Hokage, wanted to take control of ANBU again in a short period of time, it would be impossible.

He was sure that all the hidden ANBU ninjas in the Hokage Building had been replaced with people who only took orders from Sarutobi Takashi, something that could easily be done by a ANBU Chief who had fully gained his trust as Hokage.

It's really quite ridiculous that there's no way for him to have full control over the power of the Sarutobi clan when he's clearly the clan leader and the biggest backer of the Sarutobi clan.

When did he start losing control of the Sarutobi clan?

For a while, Sandaime's mind flashed back to the growing number of Sarutobi clan lands, the large number of luxurious buildings in the clan lands, the clansmen holding positions in several important departments, and the scenes of himself dealing with paperwork day and night.

Ambition and greed are really not good things, they expand wildly when not paying attention and are hard to contain.

The Sarutobi clan was no longer the Sarutobi clan he once knew.

If he continued to defend its interests, he could naturally continue to obtain its help and it would obediently follow his orders, but once he stopped defending its interests, he was immediately met with a backlash.

Just like now.

Come to think of it, this son of his was ambitious and talented, so how could he alone succeed in concealing such a wonderful rumor from him and planning such a wonderful rumor? There must be someone behind him.

At that thought, Sandaime's face darkened, revealing deep frustration.

"Sandaime-sama, what did I do wrong? If I haven't done anything wrong, even if you are Hokage-sama, you don't have the right to take me down, right Sandaime-sama, there are still many papers to be dealt with on your desk, if there's nothing else, I'll retire first, I'm still in a hurry to catch those who are spreading rumors in the village."

Sarutobi Takashi saw Sandaime in this dejected state, his mood inexplicably ached, and said in a feigned manner, the mockery in his eyes no longer hidden.

He Sarutobi Takashi after becoming the ANBU squad leader is not always in a dry rice, relying on the strength and various means, he has long ago will be in the dark part of the ninja one by one gathered around, those who do not know what to do and do not listen to the guy has long been transferred by him to the outside of the Konoha in a variety of ways.

"Did you think I wouldn't make a move to touch you?"

Sandaime looked at Sarutobi Takashi at this moment with this look of a villain, and the anger in his heart instantly blazed up, uttering an icy cold to the core voice.

In order to stabilize Konoha, he would not be merciful to a white-eyed wolf that he could not raise, even if it was his own flesh and blood.

He admitted that he had neglected to control the Sarutobi clan, allowing the behemoth to become wild in nature, but in the end, the Sarutobi clan still relied on him to continue to live well in Konoha as they did now.

He was the master.

If the dogs around him didn't listen and dared to show their teeth to him, he would just beat them up.

Because he had the strength.

As soon as the words fell, a layer of red light covered Sandaime's body, and a powerful chakra fluctuation erupted out with it, the floor underneath him cracking instantly.

"Poof~"

Under the impact of this powerful chakra fluctuation, Sarutobi Takashi was instantly knocked back a few hard steps, his face flushed red and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Your strength ..."

Sarutobi Takashi said with a surprised face pointing at Sandaime, huge waves rising in his heart.

Regarding Sandaime's strength, he, his son, was of course clear, it was strong, but it was already going downhill, it was absolutely impossible to be as powerful as what he was showing now.

He at least has the strength of an elite jōnin, in the former Sandaime, it is absolutely impossible to let him suffer some internal injuries from the impact of chakra fluctuations alone like just now.

Sandaime had gotten stronger.

This was Sarutobi Takashi's most profound feeling at this moment.

"Hmph, ungrateful fellow, do you really think I'm old?"

Sandaime was satisfied with this shocked expression on his son's face right now and sneered.

Knowing shame and courage, this was something that every strong person would do after being struck.

Sandaime had been brutally beaten by Kirito's White Zetsu clone in Sage Mode before, and had lost a great deal of face in front of the entire village. As Hokage, he certainly couldn't afford to be complacent about his own little bit of strength any longer, and afterward, he began to rack his brain to improve his strength.

To this end, he had pushed some of the unimportant things he needed to deal with on a daily basis to his subordinates, and dedicated more time each day to training.

Unfortunately, he was already over 50 years old, his physical functions had begun to go downhill, and his own potential had been tapped almost to the limit, so it was difficult for him to go further, and he was lucky if he was able to continue to maintain his peak state.

Therefore, at first, he wanted to improve his strength, but he was unable to do so.

Until one night, he accidentally merged the Fire Release and Earth Release chakra, which allowed his strength, which had been regressing, to begin to rise again.

Bloodline Limit.

This is something Sandaime has been tinkering with since he was young, but also something he used to raise the upper limit of his own strength when he was young, just tinkering for more than ten years has not been able to succeed, and later on relying on other means of raising his strength to the Kage level as well as when Hokage was too busy, he gave up to continue to tinker with it.

He did not realize that after many years of not tinkering and being defeated by a strong enemy, he picked up this thing again and tinkered with it, and the result was an unexpected success.

The Molten Release Bloodline Limit, this was the new power that Sandaime had now gained, and this new power injected new life and powerful possibilities into Sandaime's body.

Ever since Sandaime accidentally fused Fire Release and Earth Release chakra together, giving birth to the Molten Bloodline Limit within his body, his strength had begun to rise again, and the rate of increase was still very fast, giving him the feeling of returning to his younger days when his strength was growing rapidly.

Even his bodily functions that had been regressing were revitalized, advancing instead of regressing.

Sandaime knew that these Bloodline Limits were transforming and strengthening his body from the inside out as a result, which was a normal phenomenon that occurred after every Bloodline Limit ninja awakened the Bloodline Limit.

His strength would receive a considerable increase in a short period of time, but if he wanted to continue to improve in the future, he would need to rely on himself to develop new Molten Transportation Ninjutsu before he could do so.

As The Professor, Sandaime certainly had no trouble developing new ninjutsu, and he now had several ideas for developing Molten Ninjutsu, just needing to put them into practice.

"Father, it's really commendable that your strength can continue to rise, you should have awakened some kind of Bloodline Limit, this is a blessing for our Sarutobi clan, unfortunately, it's too late, you can't stop me and the Sarutobi clan now."

Sarutobi Takashi quickly regained his composure as he sighed without picking up on Sandaime.

He had thought that Sandaime, who was over fifty years old, had inexorably begun to rapidly regress in strength and was no longer useful, but he did not expect the results to peak, and now it seemed to be working again.

Unfortunately, he found out too late.

If he knew that Sandaime awakened the Bloodline Limit and his strength could continue to rise again, he would have continued to be a good son, but it was too late for that.

Both he and the Sarutobi clan had gained new power to support them, and Sandaime was no longer needed much.

"Late or not I will decide."

Sandaime said in a cold voice.

As soon as the words fell, he rushed towards Sarutobi Takashi, ready to take down this rebellious son and pack a hard punch before cleaning out the clan's gang of disobedient old farts.

No matter what, there was only one voice within the Sarutobi clan.

As it happened, he was too embarrassed to straighten out the Sarutobi clan because he was in the way before, but now that he dared to do such stupid things behind his back, he had to be severely punished.

It was time for the Sarutobi clan to change.

After Sandaime struck, when he was about to come in front of Sarutobi Takashi, a ANBU ninja with a Tengu mask suddenly appeared and blocked Sarutobi Takashi thing.

When Sandaime saw this ANBU ninja who suddenly appeared, a feeling of danger instantly appeared from within him, causing him to be on guard.

Then, he saw a pair of peculiar Sharingan eyes, in which the pupil pattern was a circle with a hollow in the center as well as three neatly distributed bars around it.

"Mangekyo Sharingan!"

When Sandaime saw the Sharingan with abnormal pupil clusters here, he was shocked and hurriedly closed his eyes.

But he was ultimately a step too slow, and when he locked eyes with Tengu Mask's Mangekyo Sharingan, the other party's illusions had already been unleashed.

In an instant, Sandaime realized that he appeared in a strange unknown space, and a pair of huge Mangekyo Sharingan appeared in front of his eyes, the very same pair of Kaleidoscope Sharingan that he had seen before.

He hurriedly performed a seal, trying to undo the illusion on his own, but realized that he was unable to undo the illusion for a short period of time.

"Worthy of being in the Mangekyo series, the pupil power is too much stronger than the ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan."

When Sandaime saw this, he wasn't much disappointed, he just marveled and felt deep scorn for the illusionary techniques of the Mangekyo Sharingan, and then decisively used other ways to undo the illusionary techniques.

He was actually just as wary of the Uchiha clan as Danzo was, and naturally, he had specialized in researching how to break the Sharingan's illusions.

The principle of the Illusion Technique was to deceive another person's five senses, which meant interfering with the human brain with chakra.

Under normal circumstances, by disrupting the flow of chakra in the body, the foreign chakra on top of the brain could be dispelled.

But Mangekyo Sharingan's illusions are obviously stronger than the normal Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and the normal way can't expel the fae chakra, so it has to be heavily medicated to do so.

For this reason, Sandaime decisively unlocked a sealing jutsu he had placed inside his body.

Sealing art - Yin Seal - Remnant!

Yin Seal, Sandaime had coveted this sealing technique for a long time.

However, because Uzumaki Mito had never taught it to him, and he was too embarrassed to beg Mito to teach him, he had to rely on his own ability to learn it.

Unfortunately, the Yin Seal was a very advanced sealing technique, and he was simply unable to learn the complete Yin Seal by simply collecting some information about sealing charms from the Uzumaki clan, and ended up only researching a mutilated version.

This defective version of the Yin Seal can store very little chakra, and there is no way to store it for a long time.

But it doesn't matter, it can store chakra this role alone let Sandaime feel very useful.

For example, like now, it is used to absorb the foreign chakra in the body, so as to smoothly break the current Mangekyo Sharingan's illusions.

It was only a second or two before and after Sandaime was hit by the illusion and he used the crippled version of the Yin Seal to break the illusion, but it was that second or two that he lost.

He looked at the Kunai around his neck, then looked at the mysterious Kaleidoscope Sharingan ninja in front of him, and finally looked at Sarutobi Takashi and said with an ironic face, "When did you engage in cooperation with the Uchiha clan?"

"Worthy of being father-sama, even the illusion of the Mangekyo Sharingan was able to complete cracking so quickly, but you guessed wrong, I have never cooperated with the Uchiha clan, and how could arrogant fellows there look at mere elite jōnin."

Sarutobi Takashi saw Sandaime regaining his senses so quickly and laughed with some surprise.

When Sandaime heard Sarutobi Takashi answer like that, he was confused about the relationship.

If Sarutobi Takashi had not cooperated with the Uchiha clan, then where did this Mangekyo Sharingan ninja in front of him come from.

And as Sarutobi Takashi just said, the Uchiha clan couldn't possibly be interested in him, so how did he get this Mangekyo Sharingan ninja to follow his orders?

For a while, Sandaime's mind was confused, but one thing was certain, the Sarutobi clan was out of control.