Chapter 104 Gathering with Orochimaru (Ch 104)

After noticing the aura of Orochimaru on the letter, Yue Yanye took it, opened it and saw that it was indeed Orochimaru’s handwriting.

The general meaning of this letter is that after the decisive battle with the Mist Ninja some time ago, the Mist Ninja announced a ceasefire, and Orochimaru will be able to return to Konoha after a while. Then, without Yue Yan’s help, his experimental progress has slowed down a lot. On the battlefield, Orochimaru has discovered several very interesting topics. Let’s get together in a couple of days and have a good chat about them.

Although Orochimaru has a rather calm personality, Yue Yan can still see his excitement from this letter. Considering the news of the death of the Third Mizukage from Konoha some time ago, Yue Yan can probably guess that this was most likely done by Orochimaru.

This would explain why Orochimaru was so excited. With the Third Mizukage, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, seven ninja swords and the lives of a thousand Hyuga clan ninjas, Orochimaru had made tremendous military exploits in this war. With such achievements, everyone could see that it was a foregone conclusion that Orochimaru would become the Fourth Hokage.

But Yue Yan knew that at this time Sarutobi Hiruzen might want to give Orochimaru a warning, and with Orochimaru’s arrogance, if Sarutobi Hiruzen didn’t explain, he might misunderstand, and be taken advantage of by Danzo.

“Let Orochimaru be careful then.”

Yue Yan sighed. After spending some time with Orochimaru, he discovered that Orochimaru was not an ordinary pervert, but a pervert with his own aspirations. Rather than being schemed by Danzo out of Orochimaru stopping him from becoming Hokage, at least Yue Yan could stop him and give him room to maneuver.

After all, in the ninja world, when it comes to technology, Orochimaru ranks second, and no one is qualified to be first, not even the master of forbidden techniques, Tobirama Senju.

The former has a fanatical pursuit of science, while the latter is only obsessed with forbidden techniques.

After Orochimaru returned to the village and handed over his command, he found a restaurant and met with Yue Yan.

Since Jiraiya was sent to the Cloud Ninja battlefield and Tsunade was not there, only Yue Yan and Orochimaru were present at the gathering.

In order to facilitate the communication of the experimental content, Orochimaru chose a private room and set up a soundproof barrier.

“How has Yue Yanjun been doing lately?”

“That’s all.” Yue Yan shrugged. “On the contrary, Lord Orochimaru seems to be very happy.”

“Maybe.” Orochimaru smiled and talked about the previous experiment.

Yue Yan ate while listening and occasionally interjected.

After saying that, Orochimaru drank the shochu with relish.

“It’s a pity that Yue Yanjun is not here, otherwise my progress could be even faster. Others are really useless to science except as assistants.”

Hearing this, Yue Yan suddenly thought of a white-haired man wearing glasses. At this time, Kabuto should still be just a little kid in an orphanage. Perhaps he could introduce him to Orochimaru.

After chatting for a while, seeing Orochimaru’s happy expression, Yue Yan thought for a long time and finally chose a way that would not make things easy for Danzo, and planned to remind Orochimaru.

Although Danzo and Yue Yan didn’t have much interaction and had only met each other a few times, it would definitely be right to kill this old silver coin.

After tidying up his words, Yue Yan looked at Orochimaru.

“Lord Orochimaru, you and I both know that after the Third Ninja World War, it will be time to elect the Fourth Hokage. Who do you think is the best candidate for the Fourth Hokage?”

Hearing this, Orochimaru’s mouth curled up slightly.

“Since Yue Yanjun has an idea, why do you ask me?”

“Perhaps the person I had in mind was not the same as Lord Orochimaru.”

Seeing that Yue Yan was not joking, Orochimaru also frowned.

“Yue Yanjun, I have set up a soundproof barrier here. If you have anything to say, just say it directly.”

“Since Lord Orochimaru has said so, I will tell you what I think.”

Yue Yan took a deep breath and narrated: “Although Lord Orochimaru has made tremendous military achievements and has great support among the people, this is only on the surface.”

With Orochimaru’s clever mind, he realized something at once and couldn’t help but narrow his bloody yellow snake eyes.

“Lord Orochimaru is the disciple of the Third Hokage. It seems reasonable for the Third Hokage to pass the position to you, and you are also very capable, but don’t forget that in addition to Sarutobi Hiruzen, there are three other high-ranking officials in Konoha.”

Yue Yan took a sip of the juice in the cup and looked at Orochimaru, whose expression already looked a little ugly.

“Let’s not talk about the other two. Let’s take someone who is quite shady but has always wanted to be the Hokage. He will definitely not allow you to become the Fourth Hokage, and the other two high-ranking officials will not want to give up their power. The best outcome is to choose a young Hokage so that they can control power for more time. By then, the young Fourth Hokage will have grown up and they will be about the same age. Then they won’t feel bad about giving up power.”

After listening, Orochimaru did not respond for a long time. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, thinking about Yue Yan’s words in his mind.

Orochimaru had not thought of this before, but when he thought of the weak look of his teacher and the faces of the other three senior officials, he knew that what Yue Yan said was very likely to happen.

“Then Yue Yanjun, what do you think the higher-ups will do?”

“Danzo.”

Yue Yan did not give a direct answer, but just said a name, and Orochimaru guessed it.

“Hehe, it does sound like something Danzo would do. And judging by Sarutobi-sensei’s indulgent personality towards Danzo, I’ll probably have no choice but to defect when he finds out… Hehe, that’s a really good plan.”

“Hey, hey, hey, Lord Orochimaru, calm down and take back your murderous intent.”

After hearing Yue Yan’s reminder, Orochimaru came to his senses and retracted the murderous aura that he had involuntarily released, but he still held a glimmer of hope in his heart.

“Since Yue Yanjun doesn’t think highly of me, who do you think will be the candidate for the Fourth Hokage?”

Hearing this, Yue Yan shrugged.

“Lord Orochimaru should have guessed it, after all, Minato-san has been running around in the Kumogakure and Iwagakure battlefields. If Lord Orochimaru defected, Jiraiya-sensei would not just ignore it and would definitely leave to try to get you back. And with Minato-san’s personality, without Jiraiya-sensei’s help, it would be easy for him to become powerless.”

“That’s something those old guys can do.”

Orochimaru took a big gulp of shochu. He never asked Yue Yan how he knew, nor did he care why he told him.

In order to ease his mood, Orochimaru simply changed the topic and started talking about various experiments.

Until the end of the dinner, Orochimaru’s expression returned to normal, but whether it was true or not, only he knew.

“By the way, Lord Orochimaru, you must be in need of assistants right now. I have two good candidates to recommend.”

Speaking of this, Orochimaru also became interested. After all, Yue Yan couldn’t always be by his side, so it would be nice to have an assistant with good abilities.

Afterwards, Yue Yan brought Orochimaru to the Konoha Orphanage where Kabuto Yakushi and Nono Yakushi were.