Chapter 110: Two Groups Who Won't Become Hokage

A few days later, Fugaku walked out of the Hokage Building with a gloomy face.

At the high-level meeting to nominate the Fourth Hokage, the Third Hokage recommended Minato Namikaze, his assistant Danzo recommended Orochimaru, and several other advisors also recommended their favorite ninjas.

Only Uchiha was not even nominated, which made Uchiha Fugaku very unhappy.

He knew that Uchiha's hope of running for the Fourth Hokage was very slim, but wasn't it a bit too much to not even give him a chance to run?

Moreover, this is not the first time that Uchiha has failed to be nominated.

Ever since Uchiha Madara lost the election for Hokage, the Uchiha has never been nominated for Hokage again, and now nearly fifty years have passed.

After returning to the Uchiha clan territory, Fugaku announced this at a meeting at the Nanga Shrine.

After hearing that Uchiha had no chance of being nominated for Hokage, the Uchiha present were suddenly in an uproar, with all kinds of complaints about the injustice of the top management coming one after another. They too were unable to accept this powerless fact.

But this is the reality. Uchiha is not even qualified to run for the position of Hokage, let alone become one.

No matter what, the Uchiha family is still a large family with more than a dozen jonin and hundreds of elite ninjas. In terms of strength, it is not inferior to any other family. The actions of the top leaders are really too much.

"Captain Fugaku, the higher-ups have gone too far. We must make them pay the price!"

"Captain Fugaku, if we can cause an accident to one of the candidates, will that allow him to be eligible to run for Hokage?"

When these words suddenly came out from the crowd, all the Uchiha were stunned and looked at the spokesperson.

Uchiha thought about running for Hokage and once openly challenged the top leaders, but the elder Uchiha was eventually imprisoned by the Second Hokage.

But the idea of ​​attacking the Hokage candidate had never occurred to them.

The pride of the Uchiha people also prevents them from plotting in the dark. They prefer to face the enemy head-on and win the battle fairly with their strength.

Fugaku glanced at the Uchiha who was speaking, and said with a serious face: "The ninjas in the village are all our companions. We Uchiha want to become Hokage openly and honestly, and we must not use such tricks."

At this time, the Uchiha whispered:

"But we didn't get the nomination. If the position of Hokage is always held by the Senju clan, we will never be able to become Hokage. They don't even give us a chance."

Fugaku's expression changed, but he still scolded him harshly.

The speaker may not have intended it, but the listener may have taken it to heart. This Uchiha's words gave many Uchiha new hope. If they could not run for the position of Hokage, they might be able to find another way and launch a coup against the top leaders.

A coup to become Hokage is also Hokage.

However, the strength of the Hokage series is too strong now. Even if they have ideas, they are just ideas and it is difficult to put them into action.

Shisui, in the corner, listened quietly to what was being said at the clan meeting.

Although his face seemed expressionless, he remembered what Bai Ye once said in his heart, that getting close to the Hokage would make the Uchiha people unfortunate, and that the Uchiha people would perish because of the Hokage sooner or later.

He didn't know whether the Uchiha would perish because of the Hokage.

But now the clan members do have bad thoughts because of the position of Hokage. Things are developing in the direction predicted by Bai Ye, which makes him very panicked, but helpless.

……

A few days later, the Hokage Building convened a meeting of all jonin to start the election for the Fourth Hokage.

There were only two ninjas who were qualified to participate in the election for Hokage. One was Minato Namikaze, who had made great achievements in the Iwagakure War, and the other was Orochimaru, who had made extraordinary achievements in the Battle of Mount Kikyo. Of the remaining two who were qualified to participate, Jiraiya voluntarily gave up the election, and Tsunade went out and left the village.

After briefly introducing himself, the election for the Fourth Hokage officially began.

Just when the Konoha jonin thought that the competition between Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze would be extremely fierce, or even stalemate, the voting results were beyond everyone's expectations.

Minato Namikaze defeated Orochimaru with an almost overwhelming advantage and became the fourth Hokage of Konoha.

This result surprised all the ninjas present. After all, although Orochimaru was aloof, he was actually quite popular in the village and was a capable and responsible boss.

After being defeated, Orochimaru walked down the podium expressionlessly and turned to walk towards the Root base.

Danzo, who was standing by, took a fierce look at Minato Namikaze and the Third Hokage on the stage, then followed closely behind Orochimaru and disappeared into the crowd.

After entering the Root base, Orochimaru said nothing.

It was as if his indifference to the position of Hokage was not as important as the experiment he was about to conduct.

Danzo glanced at Orochimaru and said with dissatisfaction:

"Orochimaru, Hiruzen must have tampered with the voting results. With your resume, you can't be that far behind Namikaze Minato in votes. He deliberately didn't want you to be the Hokage."

"How could that brat Minato Namikaze be a good Hokage? In the end, it was still Sarutobi Hiruzen who continued to exercise the power of Hokage under the pretext of assisting the Fourth Hokage."

After listening to Danzo's words, Orochimaru silently put down the test tube.

His inner thoughts were far less expressive than his outer expressions. He was very angry about his failure in the election for Hokage, but he was not used to showing his feelings on his face.

"I'm actually not interested in the position of Hokage, but the teacher did go a little too far this time."

Orochimaru's idea is very simple, he can not want the position of Hokage, but you can't not give it to him, or use some dishonorable means to win.

After a pause, Orochimaru continued:

"I will forgive the Third Hokage this time, but Master Danzo, I think Namikaze Minato is quite ambitious, and he will not let the teacher control him obediently."

"It would be interesting if the successor chosen by the teacher himself also became his political enemy."

Orochimaru seems to be disdainful of the position of Hokage, but Danzo is different.

The reason why he supported Orochimaru in the election for Hokage was because Orochimaru was not interested in the position of Hokage. After he was elected Hokage, he became the Hokage in disguise.

He had a hundred ways to make Orochimaru become a stamping machine, but unfortunately he still failed in the election.

Danzo, feeling depressed, skipped the topic of the Hokage and said while looking at the test subjects around him: "Orochimaru, how is the progress of the Wood Release experiment? Are there any successful test subjects?"

Orochimaru stuck out his forked tongue, then shook his head and said, "The phagocytic ability of Hashirama's cells is too strong. Currently, there is no experimental subject that can carry Hashirama's cells. A lot of experiments are needed."

"Generally speaking, there is too much Yang escape power in Hashirama's cells, so Yin escape is needed to neutralize it..."

Danzo didn't want to hear the experimental data, so he asked directly: "How long will it take? If Sarutobi finds out, he will have another excuse to target us."

"We'll need at most three more experiments to get the final results. Go find more laboratories."

Orochimaru said expressionlessly that he didn't care about Danzo's words, he only cared about the materials and funds for the experiment.

(End of this chapter)