If he wanted to survive better in this troubled world, he had to consider many things. After returning home, Asahi immediately sorted out the situation in the ninja world in his mind.
As the situation gradually became clear, Asahi's next plan also became clearer and clearer.
He must firmly stay attached to Konoha. Orochimaru's human experiments were expected to be exposed, and so, Asahi must completely break away from Orochimaru before that. Otherwise, once Asahi was implicated, he would probably have no choice but to betray the village.
In the original work, Orochimaru, who lacked experimental materials, had to extend his evil hands to the ninjas and villagers of Konoha, which led to the exposure of his forbidden jutsu experiments. Hiruzen would never tolerate Orochimaru attacking the ninjas of Konoha.
But in this life, with the help of Asahi, many of Orochimaru's experimental materials could be used repeatedly. 'Will Orochimaru, who has no shortage of experimental materials, be discovered by the Third Hokage?'
After he restied all night at home, early the next morning, a ninja from the Anbu finally came to inform Asahi.
"Chunin Senmei Asahi, you are summoned by Hokage-sama. Please report to the Hokage's office immediately!" After saying this, the Anbu ninja immediately left with the [Body Flicker Jutsu] without saying another word to Asahi.
This was how the Anbu behaves.
The Anbu was a force only subordinate to the Hokage, and being notified by the Anbu personally meant that Hiruzen now attached importance to Asahi and was preparing to train him as one of his confidants.
In the Hokage's office, the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Hokage advisors Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and even the leader of the Root, Shimura Danzo, were there.
This was the first time that Asahi had seen such a strong lineup, especially Danzo. It was also the first time that Asahi had seen the ninja known as the 'Darkness of Shinobi'.
Danzo, who was already entering old age, looked very gloomy. There was a hint of hostility in his eyes as he looked at Asahi, and there was an unhappy look on his face.
Although Danzo was very patient and treacherous, he's not very cunning. He often expresses his thoughts directly, and his tactics seemed petty.
At the Five Kage Summit in the original work, he actually tried to use illusion to control Mifune, and even directly expressed his desire to annex the other four major ninja villages at the same Five Kage Summit.
Danzo's ambition was good, but unfortunately his talent and prowess did not match his ambition. Compared to Hiruzen, Danzo is nothing.
Just like now, Danzo's dissatisfaction with Asahi was written directly on his face.
The current situation was extremely unfavorable to Danzo. The Sannin were already famous in the ninja world, Minato was also shining on the battlefield of the Third Great Ninja War, and Asahi now, made great contributions in this war against Sunagakure. Kakashi had also shown talent that is not inferior to Asahi, and it is said that he had now even begun to develop his own ninjutsu.
And these people were all from the Hokage lineage.
In comparison, Danzo had too few talents under his command, and they could not even be compared with those of the Hokage lineage.
Hiruzen was gradually honored as "The Professor" because he had trained so many powerful people. In addition to expressing the fact that Hiruzen himself, was proficient in a wide range of ninjutsu, this title also reflected his talent in teaching and educating ninjas, which was of great significance.
Because of these things, Danzo was getting further and further away from the position of Hokage.
After Asahi greeted them, Hiruzen said, "Asahi, I called you here this time mainly to understand how you found out that Sasori was the murderer who assassinated the Third Kazekage."
"I had already noticed some things as early as the last war against Sunagakure." said Asahi.
Asahi asked so many ninjas to find Sasori's whereabouts, and he believed that someone had definitely reported about it to Hiruzen. So how to explain the fact that Asahi knew that Sasori was the murderer of the Third Kazekage was directly related to whether Asahi would gain Hiruzen's trust in the future, and thus, would have a huge impact on Asahi's future.
"Oh? Then why didn't you report to the village at that time?" Danzo immediately attacked upon hearing this.
Asahi explained, "At that time, I only had some suspicion, but I couldn't prove that this suspicion was correct. Until the end of the previous war, my investigation did not make any progress."
"Then how did you come to that conclusion at that time?" Danzo continued to ask.
Asahi answered calmly, "At that time, I went to the Land of Wind with Minato-senpai. On the way, I secretly overheard a conversation between several sand ninjas. They mentioned that Sasori had not appeared in the village for a long time and was not participating in the war. Afterwards, I investigated the time when Sasori last appeared in the village, and found that the time when Sasori disappeared basically coincided with the time when the Third Kazekage disappeared."
Looking at Danzo who looked unhappy, Asahi continued: "So I guessed at that time that if Sasori was not dead, it was very likely that he was related to the assassination of the Third Kazekage in some way. We had already reached a truce with Sunagakure at that time, but who would have thought that Sunagakure would start a war against us again, so I asked someone to investigate his whereabouts, and prepared to investigate whether Sasori was the one who had killed the Third Kazekage or not."
"Well, Asahi, you are very thoughtful, but you were too impulsive to go find the Sasori this time." Hiruzen said with concern, "Next time if something like this happens again, you should report to the village immediately instead of acting alone."
Upon hearing this, Asahi said, "In fact, I was not sure whether it was really Sasori who assassinated the Third Kazekage. I just wanted to find some intelligence about it at that time, and report to the village after confirmation. But I didn't expect Sasori to attack me directly and expose the Third Kazekage's human puppet."
"I heard that you are acting with Uchiha Chizuru of the Uchiha clan in that battle?" asked Danzo.
"Yes." He nodded to Asahi and said, "On my way to find Sasori, I happened to meet Chizuru-senpai. After listening to my speculation, Chizuru-senpai decided to go with me to investigate Sasori."
Asahi didn't think that Orochimaru would betray him in the matter of Chizuru's mission. Just as Asahi was afraid of being killed by Orochimaru and dared not betray him, Asahi also now knew a lot of Orochimaru's darkness, so Orochimaru didn't dare to betray Asahi easily.
If Orochimaru finds out that Asahi had betrayed him in the future, the way to deal with him would not be to betray him back, but to kill him directly.
"Why would Uchiha Chizuru help you?" asked Danzo in a deep voice.
"As a ninja of Konoha, isn't it natural to help in such important case. You are asking why a ninja of Konoha helped another fellow of Konoha. I don't quite understand what you mean." Asahi looked directly at Danzo and counterattacked with a confused face.
When Danzo heard what Asahi said, his face turned dark on the spot.
The fact that the Uchiha clan was at odds with the village higher-ups was not something that a mere Chunin like Asahi could know, so he could only play dumb at this time.
Hearing this, Hiruzen looked at Koharu and Homura, who had been silent the whole time. After the two looked at each other, Koharu said, "Yeah, it checks out. I don't think there's any problem with it."
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