Chapter 174: The Woman in Konoha's Forbidden Jutsu Room
Konoha Village.
Recently, many things had happened in Konoha.
The aftershocks of the Konoha Crush had just passed when the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, hastily took office. Before she could even secure her position as Hokage, she was caught off guard by a rogue Anbu codenamed Orphan. It was only with the passage of time that things gradually calmed down.
However, not long ago, news of Kusagakure's destruction arrived again. Tsunade had to urgently dispatch Anbu to the Land of Grass to investigate, and also deployed another batch of ninjas to the Land of Grass to confront the Iwa ninjas, while also trying to reach a partition agreement with Iwagakure.
Due to the Land of Grass's terrain being somewhat overlooking towards the Land of Fire, the negotiations between Konoha and Iwagakure over the control of some strategic points, bridges, etc., remained unresolved, looking as if a ninja world war could break out at any moment.
Tsunade had been overwhelmed with work recently. Even her new disciple, Sakura Haruno, was pulled in to help her.
Compared to these matters, the news of Sasuke Uchiha's defection was like a single wave in the ocean, dissipating as soon as it foamed up.
Besides the Konoha 12 and others who were still paying attention to news about Sasuke, the rest of the village had long since stopped caring about a rogue ninja.
However, due to Naruto Uzumaki's persistence, the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, did not issue a wanted notice for Sasuke. She also acknowledged Naruto Uzumaki's view, that they would bring Sasuke back to Konoha after Konoha had destroyed Orochimaru.
But they never expected that the next time Konoha accidentally received news of Sasuke, they would find that Sasuke had actually joined the Akatsuki organization and was with Itachi Uchiha.
This was a bit surreal.
Fortunately, Naruto Uzumaki had been taken away by Jiraiya to train outside the village and probably didn't know this news yet.
Konoha BBQ Restaurant.
Ino Yamanaka held her chopsticks in a daze, "Why would Sasuke be with his brother? They should be the greatest of enemies!"
"Who knows!"
Shikamaru Nara sighed and shook his head.
There had been too many changes in Konoha recently. Shikamaru Nara could only analyze from the few clues he knew that there might be something fishy about the Uchiha's destruction.
Unfortunately, this kind of darkness could not be told to Ino.
The conversation between Team 10 was not overly secretive. At a table near them, two people also heard this news.
They were Orochimaru and Naraku Uehara, who had infiltrated Konoha.
As a former high-ranking official of Konoha who had also planted some spies in the village, Orochimaru was naturally very familiar with Konoha's barrier. Therefore, the two of them entered Konoha silently.
After entering, the two had changed their faces.
After hearing the conversation between the two brats, Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka, Orochimaru's expression turned very unpleasant. He abruptly stopped his chopsticks and looked at Naraku Uehara with a fierce expression.
However, with many people and prying eyes in the Konoha BBQ restaurant, Orochimaru lowered his voice, "Naraku-kun! This matter with Sasuke has nothing to do with you, right?"
"Hehe, how could it be related to me?"
Naraku Uehara chuckled and shook his head, even raising his chopsticks to eagerly place a piece of grilled meat for Orochimaru, "Mr. Itachi was very firm in expressing that he wanted Sasuke Uchiha to join the Akatsuki organization, but everyone else looked down on Sasuke's strength, so Mr. Itachi took Sasuke with him, saying it was to hone his own genjutsu…"
Naraku Uehara was telling the truth.
Even if Itachi Uchiha were here, he couldn't find any fault with it.
Of course, if Sasuke Uchiha hadn't joined the Akatsuki, Naraku Uehara or Kisame Hoshigaki would have twisted Sasuke's head off and kicked it around like a ball.
This kind of thing was an organizational secret of Akatsuki; there was no need to tell Orochimaru too much.
What if he angered Orochimaru to sickness?
After the two had finished their meal, they went directly to Konoha's forbidden jutsu room. Orochimaru was somewhat surprised, "Naraku-kun, you already have a summoning beast as powerful as the White Snake Sage. Do you still need the Rashomon summoning contract?"
"Hehe, the more of this kind of thing, the better."
Naraku Uehara chuckled lightly, "Isn't Mr. Orochimaru also a master of many ninjutsu? Yet you are still learning new ninjutsu even now!"
"This is my ideal."
Orochimaru's expression was very serious.
Naraku Uehara smiled, his expression a bit frivolous, "Same here. My dream is also to collect some strange and peculiar summoning beasts…"
Due to the internal emptiness of Konoha's ninja forces.
There were no Anbu ninjas around the entire forbidden jutsu room, only a few ordinary ninjas guarding it. Naraku Uehara and Orochimaru easily infiltrated.
However, when Orochimaru opened the door to Konoha's forbidden jutsu room, he suddenly smelled the scent of alcohol wafting from inside, mixed with the fragrance of a woman.
This was the forbidden jutsu room!
How could there be the smell of alcohol and fragrance?
Could it be that woman Tsunade drank too much last night and slept in the forbidden jutsu room?
Orochimaru's expression changed. Just as he was slowly about to close the door again, a fair hand suddenly jammed the door crack and pulled the door of the forbidden jutsu room open!
A strong smell of alcohol rushed out!
"Didn't I tell you not to disturb me today?"
A woman's beautiful face and buxom figure appeared from behind the door. Her voice was faintly dissatisfied, mixed with a bit of drowsiness. Clearly, her attitude was meant to be firm, but because of her sleepiness, it sounded somewhat soft and whiny.
At first listen, it sounded a bit like a command.
On closer listening, it sounded a bit like coquetry.
Naraku Uehara and Orochimaru looked at each other, then both looked at the woman inside the door. They both recognized this woman.
Konoha's Fifth Hokage, Tsunade.
Why would Tsunade be in the forbidden jutsu room!
Based on Orochimaru's understanding of her, this woman should not be here no matter what. After all, Tsunade had always had no interest in the messy things in Konoha's forbidden jutsu room; she only liked to research medical ninjutsu.
However, this matter was actually all Orochimaru's fault.
If Orochimaru hadn't mastered Edo Tensei and revived the First and Second Hokage with it, Tsunade wouldn't be spending all her time soaked in the forbidden jutsu room looking for a way to break Edo Tensei.
And she had to find a technique other than the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. After all, Tsunade had just succeeded as the Fifth Hokage. If she were to sacrifice herself again to capture Orochimaru, Konoha might just collapse.
So every night or in her spare time, Tsunade would appear in Konoha's forbidden jutsu room with a bottle of sake, looking for a way left by Tobirama Senju to dispel Edo Tensei.
Now, suddenly seeing two strange ninjas, Tsunade's brow furrowed. The effect of the alcohol immediately subsided a bit, and she questioned coldly, "Which squad are you from!"
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"Lady Tsunade."
Orochimaru was truly a master of role-playing. The next moment, his face became stern. With his fake face, he responded in a deep voice, "The advisors have requested you for a meeting. We are here to inform you!"
The current appearance of Orochimaru and Naraku Uehara was no different from ordinary Konoha genin. At first glance, they looked quite like Konoha ninja subordinates.
Tsunade raised her eyebrows, looking at the two suspiciously, and suddenly curled her lips, "I see. You two clean this place up."
"Yes!"
Orochimaru lowered his head and agreed.
Naraku Uehara looked at Tsunade's playful expression and sighed faintly, "Lord Orochimaru, Lady Tsunade has already seen through our disguise."
The next moment, Naraku Uehara flew back, his face slowly changing into Kabuto Yakushi's appearance, making it clear to anyone watching that he was just a small follower of Orochimaru.
One was Orochimaru.
The other was a small follower.
Who would this woman Tsunade choose to attack first?
Even Might Guy would know that Tsunade would definitely prefer to entertain her old friend!
As expected, the moment Orochimaru lowered his head, Tsunade's knee fiercely slammed into Orochimaru's face, sending him flying. The mask on his face shattered upon impact!
After getting a clear look at Orochimaru's face, this woman Tsunade's expression instantly became fierce, "Orochimaru, you bastard, you still dare to come to Konoha!"
"Why wouldn't I dare?"
Orochimaru slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at Tsunade with a light laugh, "Still as hot-tempered as ever, Tsunade…"
Orochimaru slowly spread his palm, looked at his old friend's ugly expression, and continued with a smile, "Tsunade, we only infiltrated Konoha because we didn't want to cause trouble. Do you think I don't have the power to destroy Konoha a second time?"
Orochimaru's expression instantly became ferocious and cruel, full of confidence, "Since you've discovered me, then I'll just kill you and snatch the things from the forbidden jutsu room… What a pity, Konoha's prestige will be swept to the ground again!"
"What nonsense!"
Tsunade fiercely clenched her fists.
"Unfortunately, your opponent is not me."
Orochimaru smiled and shook his head, turning to look at Naraku Uehara, "This woman is yours. I'll go look for…"
Orochimaru's voice suddenly got stuck, and his entire figure froze!
Wait, where did he go?
In just the time it took to say a few sentences, Naraku Uehara was gone?
Why did this Naraku Uehara run away? Although they were in Konoha, with the strength of the two of them, the possibility of successfully snatching the scroll was very high!
Orochimaru's heart gradually sank.
On their way to Konoha, that little bastard had been talking about sincere cooperation. Orochimaru had even thought about whether to believe Naraku Uehara for a moment.
After all, Uehara's strength was great, and he could also help with many things in private, and could even save him from being hunted by Akatsuki.
Before stealing the Rashomon summoning contract, Orochimaru had even thought about whether to pull Naraku Uehara in for a sneak attack on Itachi Uchiha!
The facts proved that Orochimaru himself had thought too much and too far ahead.
Orochimaru had trusted the wrong person again. That little bastard Naraku Uehara had screwed him over again.
Tsunade didn't care about that much. She flew towards Orochimaru, shouting loudly for support, "Relay my order, have the elite teams hurry here to surround Orochimaru. He must absolutely not be allowed to escape!"
Tsunade's voice was very loud, and soon the Konoha ninjas from the periphery came to support.
After seeing the support, Tsunade added another sentence, "Arrange for other teams to search for Kabuto Yakushi's whereabouts. That spy must not be allowed to escape from Konoha!"
(End of Chapter)
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