socalfunplaces Chapter 36 The Butterfly Effect
Chapter 36 The Butterfly Effect
Chapter 36 The Butterfly Effect
At the Jonin meeting, Danzo looked utterly incredulous and questioning his existence, which was quite comical.
He had thought Kakashi would be alright, but he hadn't expected it to be in this way.
He had assumed that the final outcome would be that Minato Namikaze would pay a huge price to save his disciple.
He had already planned to use the righteous cause and the village's name to severely exploit Minato Namikaze today, and ideally, to completely expel him from the race for the next Hokage!
But to his utter surprise, before Minato Namikaze could even say anything, the Jonin all voiced their support for Kakashi's innocence.
Immediately following, a Jonin who had long harbored resentment towards Danzo scoffed, "Elder Danzo, what's wrong? Are you disappointed that Kakashi wasn't utterly destroyed?"
Danzo immediately stood up in anger.
"Insolence! Everything I've done is for Konoha! What do you take me for?!"
Danzo's years of experience in internal strife quickly made him realize that he had been tricked.
He frantically masked his panic and loss of composure with anger, finally uttering, "You'll regret this!"
So he left the table a step ahead of time.
Upon returning to his base of operations, Danzo immediately summoned his subordinates and demanded a thorough investigation into the recent events that had occurred in the village!
Obito Uchiha and Might Guy were just two kids after all. They didn't plan their actions well, let alone think about secrecy. As a result, the Root ninjas found out the source of the information in less than an hour.
Upon receiving the information compiled by his subordinates, Danzo angrily crushed the record scroll on the spot.
"Uchiha! It's these inherently evil Uchiha who are spreading my rumors!! I've said it before, this inherently evil clan is a menace if left in the village!"
This result drove him even more infuriated than when everyone tacitly agreed to let Minato Namikaze call himself the next Hokage not long ago.
Because Danzo's two most persistent goals in the first half of his life were to become Hokage and to suppress the Uchiha clan!
He had schemed against the Uchiha clan his whole life, but who would have thought that in his later years he would be tricked by a mere ten-year-old Uchiha brat!
How could he possibly eat lychees?
He was absolutely furious!
I was originally thinking of enduring it for a few more years and trying not to take action against Uchiha during the war, but now it seems that I can't tolerate it anymore!
Uchiha, Minato Namikaze!
Danzo kept repeating those two names in his mind, and the madness in his eyes grew deeper and deeper!
Perhaps even Shiba Kiyokawa himself never imagined that his casual remark, intended as amusement, would inadvertently ignite a spark in Kakashi's heart and add fuel to the fire of internal strife in Konoha!
However, this time Shiba Kiyokawa was ultimately unable to completely stay out of it.
Danzo quickly regained his composure and questioned his subordinates in detail, "Also, what exactly is this Shimura clan member from the Land of Rain they mentioned? Why would that evil Uchiha brat think of framing me in this way?"
The subordinate looked back at Danzo with surprise, his eyes seeming to ask: "Sir, you're asking me about this?"
Danzo was furious. "How could I possibly have clansmen in the Land of Rain?! Do you bunch of idiots really believe the Uchiha's slander?"
Danzo's subordinates all lowered their heads, not daring to meet his gaze.
This matter is indeed in line with Danzo's usual insidious tactics, so it's no wonder that even members of Root believed the rumors.
After venting his anger, Danzo finally ordered, "Go investigate! I need all the information on the Akatsuki organization within a week!"
His subordinate asked tremblingly, "Lord Danzo, who should we assign this task to?"
There is also a severe shortage of people at the root.
When war broke out, the Roots expanded several times and gained enormous power, but at the same time, the burdens on their shoulders also became heavier.
It is characterized by intermittent bursts of high spirits and persistent manpower shortages.
Both battlefields that have already erupted require spies and intelligence personnel, and Iwagakure and Kirigakure, which have not yet entered the fray, also need a large number of people to monitor them.
They even had to leave some ninjas in the village, on standby at all times, to satisfy Danzo's occasional whims.
There's no one idle at the base either!
Danzo soon realized this as well, pacing irritably around the base before finally slapping his forehead and saying, "Then let Ryoma the Oil-Maid take charge of this matter and get it done as soon as possible!"
"But how do we explain this to Lord Orochimaru?"
"I will personally write to him to explain!"
Ryoma Aburame is a key commander in Root, second only to Danzo. At this moment, he is cooperating with Orochimaru in the Sunagakure war zone, responsible for intelligence infiltration there.
Orochimaru and Danzo have always cooperated, and Orochimaru even briefly joined the Root organization. Therefore, Root has been very supportive of Orochimaru's work most of the time.
Both were frontline commanders, but Orochimaru, who was fighting against Sunagakure, had the full support of Root. However, Minato Namikaze, who was fighting against Kumogakure in the north, was not so lucky.
On this day, a scroll was suddenly delivered to the front lines, requesting that Ryoma Aburame, who had been in the Sunagakure war zone for several months, could go to the Land of Rain!
At this moment, even Ryoma Aburame, a staunch supporter of Danzo and the second-in-command of Root, couldn't help but want to curse.
"Damn it! What is Lord Danzo doing?! Didn't he receive my message from a few days ago?"
We've suffered heavy losses in the Sunagakure war zone lately! For some reason, that crazy woman, Yekura, keeps targeting our intelligence agents!
I asked him for reinforcements, and he told me to go to the Land of Rain to investigate his people?!
Am I the one who's gone mad, or is he?!
Even Ryoma Aburame couldn't imagine how furious Orochimaru, the supreme commander on the front lines, would be if he abandoned the mess at this crucial moment.
Oh, well, that venomous snake won't wear his intense emotions on his sleeve, but he'll definitely hold a grudge against the Root because of it, Aburame Ryoma is absolutely certain of that.
As one of the few legitimate intelligence agents in the organization, Aburame Ryoma sighed wearily and asked the Root ninja who was delivering the message.
"Did Lord Danzo instruct us on how to explain this to Orochimaru?"
The Root ninja lowered his head and said, "Lord Danzo only said that he would write a letter to Orochimaru himself."
What's the point of writing a letter?
Does the missing intelligence support your supply to Orochimaru? What will you use to replenish it?
Even if Sunagakure was useless, they still sent out their entire force, but Konoha only had less than a third of its ninjas available to Orochimaru for this war zone.
There may be even fewer in the future.
In this situation, without intelligence support, are we really just relying on Orochimaru to unleash his full power?
It can only be said that every victory Konoha achieved in the Third Shinobi World War in the original work lived up to its reputation as a miracle.
But Ryoma Aburame had no choice but to obey.
At the same time, in the temporary command post, Orochimaru's face was ashen. He had a snake open its mouth and swallow Danzo's letter. Then, a slow smile appeared on his face, a smile that was both cold and eerie.
His connection with Danzo has likely come to an end.
All of this stemmed from Shiba Kiyokawa, a tiny butterfly that came from outside of fate.
The gentle breezes he stirred up by flapping his wings several times are now almost converging into a hurricane that will awaken Konoha!
(End of this chapter)