43 Chapter 43: Danzo, Go Help Build Some House

In Konoha Village,

In Hiruzen Sarutobi's courtyard,

The Konoha F4 gathered silently, watching as Hiruzen Sarutobi tinkered with his tea set.

There was almost a hole in the tea pet on the table, but Hiruzen's teapot showed no sign of stopping.

Until all the tea had disappeared, Hiruzen came back to his senses and frowned, asking Danzo:

"Has the investigation on the Uchiha clan's land not been completed yet?"

Danzo's expression darkened slightly too,

Shaking his head with a serious look, he replied:

"The original clan territory is now easily accessible, but there are guards within a few miles of the newly built Uchiha clan land. With the observation skills of the Uchiha clan, even the Anbu cannot approach."

"We have sent ninjas familiar with the Uchiha clan to investigate. Besides some ninjas training in the training grounds, the rest are building houses. However, it seems that they are mainly building public facilities, and we have not yet discovered any residents relocating."

Homura Mitokado raised an eyebrow:

"Are they planning to have it both ways? Using the newly allocated land specifically as communal property for the clan? But the clan members aren't moving there?"

Hiruzen fell into thought at this,

Slowly, he spoke up:

"This was decided earlier and cannot be changed. But their construction progress is too slow. How about this, Danzo, you send someone to help with construction. Building houses should be within your expertise."

Danzo's pupils contracted, and he looked at Hiruzen, noticing him lowering his head to pour tea into the frog-shaped tray again.

Danzo's expression shifted slightly,

Does this guy already know about Kinoe?

In theory, he hasn't exposed the only Wood Release ninja, so why does it seem like he already knows?

Koharu Utatane, who was standing beside them, glanced at Danzo curiously and asked:

"When did you become skilled at building houses?"

Danzo snorted coldly,

"The village's reputation for the Uchiha clan is growing, and the resentment towards the Urban Management Brigade is deepening. If you can't go back soon, you're inviting trouble."

Hiruzen raised his head confidently and smiled:

"That's a war between nations. Even if the Uchiha clan's ninjas are invincible at the same level, the gap in numbers is not so easy to overcome. Otherwise, we wouldn't have recruited thousands of ninjas in recent years."

During the First Shinobi World War, there were only a few ninjas, at most a few thousand.

In the twenty years after the war,

All ninja villages realized that the current wars were not like the previous wars between clans where a few ninjas could penetrate the enemy.

The battles between villages could produce qualitative changes through quantitative changes. The power of ten genin releasing C-rank ninjutsu was equivalent to that of a chuunin releasing B-rank ninjutsu.

Not enough chuunin-level strength? No problem, make up for it with numbers!

So in these twenty years, the five major ninja villages have been expanding their ninja reserves like crazy.

Until the outbreak of the Second and Third Shinobi World Wars.

At this time, each village had over ten thousand active-duty ninjas, and many freshly graduated genin were brought to the battlefield.

For example, Shisui, Maetake, and Genma were all sent to the battlefield immediately after graduation.

So when Hiruzen learned that the front line of Kumogakure had dispatched 3,000 ninjas, the first thing that came to mind was to pit them against the Uchiha clan.

They can fight? What's the use of being able to fight?

Do they think they're safe just by wiping out a 50-man squad?

Wait until they see what it's really like on the front lines.

However, Hiruzen's expression was somewhat unsightly because according to intelligence, those fifty definitely had the strength of the Anbu.

They were just so easily taken down by the Uchiha clan working with Shisui.

At this point, he regretted sending Shisui back to the clan. How could his Sharingan be so powerful? Is this considered letting the tiger back into the mountains?

As Hiruzen pondered how to bring back his valuable asset, a member of the Anbu appeared abruptly in front of them.

"Third Hokage!"

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes slightly and asked:

"How is it? Is the situation not looking good?"

However, the Anbu below was excitedly saying:

"Chief Toki discovered a new summoning creature and successfully made a contract with them."

"The adult summoning creature resembles a Western dragon found in a bookstore, can fly, spits fire, and has the strength of elite jounin. Chief Toki sent out just one to burn down the enemy's camp!"

Hiruzen stared wide-eyed in astonishment,

Western dragon? Summoning creature?!

The strength of elite jounin?!

Are you kidding me?!

After being the Hokage for so many years, it took great effort to find a contract with the Saru clan.

How did Uchiha Toki easily find a new summoning creature?!

Hiruzen's expression subtly darkened, and he forced a smile, saying:

"Is this matter verified? If not..."

"Breaking news! Breaking news! The Uchiha clan burned down the enemy's camp, breaking through Kumogakure's base in the Land of Soup!!"

Hiruzen: (╯‵□)╯︵┻━┻!"

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