*Somewhere far away*

"Earth Style: Ferocious Earthquake" Five people uttered the same thing at five different locations causing at konoha with epicenter being Mukai's residence. A lot of the houses collapsed but no one died.

The beast howl investigation squad came back with mixed results and the hokage ordered them and some more jonins and chunins were sent to calm the ma.s.ses. The hokage knew something big was happening and he needed to get to the bottom of it or else something horrible might happen.

*Hidden Root Base*

"What happened to nue" Danzo asked the kneeling root s.h.i.+n.o.bi. "He was sent after Mukai Hizas.h.i.+, was he not?" He continued knowing that they won't talk back to him. "How is it that one of our own s.h.i.+n.o.bi die to a child who is barely 6 years old. Clearly someone interfered with his mission, I want you all to find out who he is, kill him covertly and recover nue's body before it reaches the forensics.

Split into two groups, one group search for clues and the other group recover nue's body. Don't kill anyone that is dealing with the corpse unless absolutely necessary. Now move out"

With that said, the root s.h.i.+n.o.bi flickered away. "Danzo sama, hokage wants to speak to you privately." Suddenly arrived a s.h.i.+n.o.bi. "I see, contact oroichimaru. I need his with a certain project of mine which I'm sure he would be interested in." "Yes Danzo sama"

*hokage office, hokage building*

"You called Hiruzen" Danzo said to the hokage as he entered the office. "Yes, you see. I found out about something very important from one of my contacts. It seems that you were contacting with some of the amegakure s.h.i.+n.o.bi specifically Hanzo. Danzo are you betraying the leaf, if you are I will have to put you down. " Sarutobi Hiruzen otherwise known as the 3rd hokage said to danzo while smoking with his pipe.

"No, never. Every action I did and will ever do is and will be for the leaf. The ninja world is an ascetic world. To remain anonymous is a source of pride. But by controlling both the surface and underground, one can truly strengthen the village and nation. Self-sacrifice is a ninja's duty and as such I will do whatever I must for the sake of the villiage. Hiruzen, you are too soft and you know it. We should have made that brat our weapon but no, you wanted him to have a normal life and look how it turned out. The boy's a b.u.mbling fool who is scorned by both his peers and their parents. JInchuriki can never have a normal life."

"Shut up danzo, he is but a child and you expect him to be a weapon? I maybe soft but I am not a fool. Do you think I don't know about you monitoring naruto."