Konoha: Sage Body

"Sandaime-sama, you might as well give me the Spirit Transformation Jutsu, I have my plans, please."

Kirito was still determined to have the Spirit Transformation Jutsu, but Sandaime refused to do so, so he had to soften his words to Sandaime and begged bitterly.

"No, if I really give it to you and put you in harm's way, how can I stand up to Mito-sama, change it, if you don't want to learn the Flying Thunder God's Art, then the Darkness Walking Art, it's an S-ranked Illusionary Art that has relatively low requirements for practicing, and it has an excellent restraining effect on pupil arts."

For the sake of Kirito and Konoha's future, Sandaime still wasn't going to let up.

Seeing that Sandaime was dead set on not letting up, Kirito decisively unleashed his favorite stance that children use when fighting adults.

He sucked in his nose hard and instantly looked at Sandaime with tearful eyes.

Sandaime's greatest weakness is undoubtedly a soft heart, treating his own people, or his own Konoha's precious genius, he is really hard to harden his heart.

At this time, Kirito's tactic of tears was incredibly effective, Sandaime was finally a bit unable to hold on, hesitantly said, "This way, if you are able to get Mito-sama's consent, I will give you the Spirit Transformation Jutsu."

"Really?"

Kirito immediately lit up with surprise, breaking into a smile.

"Ahem, not bad, as long as Lord Mito agrees, I'll agree to hand over the Spirit Transformation Jutsu to you, but if Lord Mito doesn't agree, you'll honestly exchange it for something else right away."

Sandaime's face twitched slightly when he saw Kirito's face change super fast, and he coughed.

Then, with a slightly stern face, he forcefully said, "But if Lord Mito doesn't agree, you'll honestly redeem something else right away and give up learning the Spirit Transformation Jutsu."

Hearing this additional condition from Sandaime, Kirito nodded his head obediently, having no opinion about it.

He then bowed to Sandaime and hurriedly took his leave.

Sandaime watched Kirito fly away and sighed, "I'm sorry, Mito-sama, I really can't persuade this little guy, I'm afraid you're the only one who can persuade this little guy, please, let him give up."

Waiting for Kirito's footsteps to fade away, one of the shelves against the wall in Hokage's office suddenly slowly shifted sideways to the left, revealing a secret door, and then a middle-aged man with a grim aura stepped out.

If Kirito was here, he would definitely be able to recognize the identity of this man, it was none other than Shimura Danzo who was known as the Darkness of Konoha.

Sandaime was not surprised by Danzo's appearance, the smile on his face had disappeared and was replaced by indifference.

He looked at Danzo with wary eyes and said skeptically, "Danzo, your information should be reliable."

"Hmph, if you don't believe me, you can just leave this alone and let me handle it alone."

Danzo said nonchalantly.

"But your information is too appalling, those people have been dying for Konoha for more than a decade, how could there be spies in there."

Sandaime was still a little disbelieving when he saw how adamant Tuzo was.

"My intelligence is definitely not wrong, and several secret operations against the Sand Ninja have failed recently. It is impossible for the operatives to know the specific combat plan before the mission begins. The problem can only be at the upper level. So, if you say that there is no traitor among those who participated in the tactical meeting, I will never believe it. Hiruzen, this traitor must be found as soon as possible. It cannot be delayed any longer."

Danzo was stubborn and would never give in.

"So, you're just going to use that child."

Sandaime said in a cold voice.

"That's right, the Magnet Release is the strongest bloodline limit of the Sand Ninja Village, that third Kazekage will definitely not allow the Magnet Release to flourish in Kiba, much less allow Kiba to have a powerful Magnet Release ninja in the future, and he will definitely eliminate Konoha as a threat at all costs."

Danzo replied without a change of color, not feeling the slightest bit of shame for putting Kirito in a dangerous situation because he would use Kirito, an eight year old, to draw out the mole.

"Lord Mito is still alive."

Sandaime was silent for a moment as he stared dead into the eyes of Danzo and blurted out

Danzo's expression stiffened when he heard Sandaime say that, but in his heart he laughed coldly.

He understood that Sandaime had once again given in before him, bringing up Mito to pressure him, but he was just trying to pull him down to take the blame together.

For the sake of Konoha, so what if he took the blame?

Besides, had he taken less pots for Sandaime?

"Hiruzen, your capacity is nothing more than that, Konoha will indeed be better off with me leading it."

Without any further hesitation, Danzo said indifferently, "Lord Mito is old, so don't bother her to worry about this matter, you and I can just get it done together."

Sandaime's fists hardened when he saw that Danzo still wasn't going to give up on using Kirito to fish out the spies hidden within Konoha, and was going to continue down one path despite his objections.

Only, thinking that the battle between Konoha and the Sand Ninja was not optimistic right now, his fists eventually unclenched and he spoke with difficulty, "The mission can fail, but Kirito must be protected."

"Really too weak, you are doing is putting the cart before the horse, Hiruzen, you will regret it."

Danzo didn't expect Sandaime to say such such weak words as to prioritize the protection of Kirito, and immediately objected.

This kind of thing like uncovering the mole must be done once and for all, otherwise, once the snakes are startled, if you want to find out the mole again, it will only be even more difficult.

This reasoning, he did not believe that Sandaime did not understand.

"Shut up, I'm the Hokage."

Sandaime slammed the table and said angrily.

No matter what, Kirito is the village's super genius and the future pillar of the village. He is also the direct disciple of Lord Mito and has inherited all of Lord Mito's sealing techniques. If anything goes wrong because of this incident, how would he have the face to see Lord Mito?

Letting Kirito be the bait to fish out the traitor is already his biggest concession, and he absolutely cannot let Kirito make a mistake.

When Danzo heard Sandaime say these familiar yet incomparably harsh words, he immediately realized that there was no room for further negotiation, so he could only stare coldly at Sandaime for a few seconds before turning away with a stinky face, slamming the door and walking away.

Once again, the two of them parted on bad terms.

Waiting for Danzo to leave, Sandaime immediately opened his mouth and said, "Someone come."

In the next moment, an ANBU appeared in front of Sandaime on one knee.

"Keep an eye on Danzo for me."

Sandaime ordered.

"Ha."

The ANBU immediately obeyed, and then used his Body Flicker Jutsu to leave.

On the other side, Danzo, who had already walked out of the Hokage building, still had his usual grim expression on his face, causing the people passing by in the surroundings to subconsciously move away from him.

At this time, there are two more masked ninjas beside him, they are root ninjas who are under the orders of Danzo.

Soon enough, Danzo realized that someone was following and watching him along the way.

He didn't have to guess to know that it was an ANBU sent by Sandaime to keep an eye on him, of course, so that he wouldn't be able to make any transgressions.

"Hmph, stupid Hiruzen, you think you can be alright just by keeping an eye on me, the leader of the Root? You will never know how powerful the darkness of the Root is. Just wait, whether it is a spy or Kirito, they will all be mine."

The corners of Danzo's mouth curved up in a confident smile.