In the end, Danzo accepted Root's dissolution with a cold face. When he walked out of the office, he gave Minato and Nagasawa a cold look.
Nagasawa looked at Danzo's helpless and furious figure and had trouble holding himself from laughing.
However, he seemed to feel Danzo's cold gaze on him.
After the meeting, Nagasawa also left quickly and walked out of the Hokage Building in a pleasant mood.
The Root Shinobi had been severely brainwashed and had been subjected to Cursed Seals. Even if Root was dissolved on the surface, there would definitely be a large number of Root Shinobi secretly following Danzo.
In the manga, after Uchiha Clan was exterminated, Root was also disbanded once. However, Danzo obtained the support of the two councils and quickly rebuilt Root. It could be seen that Danzo had firm control over Root Shinobi.
However, there were still many benefits to disbanding Root.
At least, from now on, Danzo could no longer do things under the banner of Root. It was impossible to summon Root Shinobi to Root base.
Root had too much power, and even the Fourth Hokage couldn't control him. It was necessary to disband Root.
Minato could tolerate that the Third Hokage had more Anbu than him because he was the Third Hokage, and the Third Hokage's Anbu was also the legitimate Anbu.
Danzo was a whole different story, however. How could he have control over an organization that even the Hokage didn't and use it to do some illicit things?
Nagasawa hated Danzo, and so did Minato because he did some really unpleasant things.
After leaving the Hokage building, Nagasawa walked towards Anbu Base.
He was actually a Commander now. Minato had announced it in public, but the appointment letter had not been issued yet, so he needed to go through a certain process.
Currently, there were only two squads among the Fourth Hokage's Anbu. To be precise, it was two and a half.
Normally, a Division consisted of a Commander with four Anbu squads, adding up to seventeen Shinobi.
However, unlike how it had been before, the Fourth Hokage's Anbu was established from scratch. On top of it, the war had just ended, and they had entered a peaceful period. Therefore, there was no incentive to recruit too many people. Even with the Third Hokage's Anbu, there were only a total of ten Anbu squads.
However, it was impossible to form a Division with just two squads.
So now, a Commander managed five Anbu squads.
Previously, it was the Third Hokage's Anbu that served as the Fourth Hokage's Anbu Commander as he was tasked to help the Fourth Hokage. Now, he had returned to the Third Hokage's Anbu.
Minato couldn't demote that Commander to Squad Leader. After all, that Commander was a veteran and quite skilled on top of that, so he could only send him back to the Third's Anbu if he wanted to appoint Nagasawa as his Commander.
At this time, Kakashi and others were on standby in the Anbu base, doing some basic training.
Nagasawa walked to them with a smile. The three people immediately stopped training and greeted Nagasawa.
"Nagasawa Squad Leader"
"Still calling me Squad Leader?" Nagasawa pointed at the beige trench coat on his body.
Ordinary Anbu usually wore black clothes and a grey flak jacket outside, and the rest of their clothes were basically the same as other Shinobi. Sometimes, Anbu would wear a black trench coat over their attire, with the Division Leader wearing white.
"Yes, Commander Nagasawa." Ensui reacted the fastest.
"Nagasawa-sensei." Midori Inuzuka misunderstood what Nagasawa meant, but she was not exactly wrong.
"You will always be Squad Leader Nagasawa In my heart," Kakashi said after thinking for a moment.
"All of you are getting good at talking. " Nagasawa smiled.
"Is it time to announce the Squad Leader's position? Midori is ready." Midori Inuzuka said in a low voice, seemingly ready to accept the important task.
Ensui rolled his eyes. Why were you so confident? You did basically nothing in the last mission.
Although Ensui also wanted to contest for this position, he didn't do anything worth mentioning in the last mission. Only Kakashi scored some credit, and the rest were all finished by Nagasawa.
Kakashi looked calm.
Based on the performance of the last mission, the new Squad Leader had to be him.
"Based on the performance of the last mission, I hereby appoint Kakashi as Anbu Squad 7's Squad Leader in the future." Nagasawa ignored Midori Inuzuka and looked at Kakashi.
"Kakashi, although you are the youngest, your ability is the strongest among the three. Do you have the confidence to take Squad Leader's position?"
"I will never let you down," Kakashi said determinedly.
He naturally remembered how kind Nagasawa was to him.
At this time, Nagasawa was like another Minato in his heart.
"Very well. You guys should hurry up and learn Six Powers. I have already planned your next training menu once you do." Nagasawa reminded.
The advanced version of Six Powers that he had modified was almost ready. It was more suitable for Shinobi than the original version of Six Powers. The physique requirements were lowered, but thanks to chakra implementation, the power increased instead of decreased.
Since Kakashi and the rest had already learned Six Powers' foundation, they could immediately learn the advanced version, and they would teach the other Anbu members under Nagasawa.
Nagasawa, however, did not plan to teach Haki to all of the Anbu members because Haki was much harder to learn than Six Powers.
He could not possibly make all of Anbu undergo Haki training and neglect their duty.
He could consider cultivating the next generation Anbu.
"Yes." Kakashi nodded.
After setting Squad 7's training menu, Nagasawa went to Squad 6, 8, 9, and 10 that he was in charge of, and assigned them daily tasks.
Anbu's task was handed to the Anbu Commander by the Hokage himself, and the Commander assigned the missions to each Squad, so now, aside from Squad 7, he had to assign other Squads' missions as well.
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Clang!
Rip!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Danzo returned to Root, but the more he thought about what had happened today, the angrier he became. He smashed everything on his desk and threw it away.
Orochimaru, who had just come in, saw this scene. He licked his lips and asked in a hoarse voice,
"What makes you so irritated?"
Danzo gritted his teeth and said, "That kid, Minato, actually ordered to disband Root. The Third and the others actually agreed. What a group of shallow people. They don't know how much my Root has helped Konoha."
"Haha, it seems that your secrets have been exposed."
"You're seriously laughing? Without Root, you won't have the resources to continue your experiment." Danzo said annoyedly.
The two of them were on the same side, but Orochimaru was actually laughing at him.
Orochimaru didn't care and said: "Even if Root is disbanded, Root Shinobi still obeys your order, right? We just have to be more secretive and act more carefully."
"The fund for Root will be gone in the future. This is not a small amount of money. We can't use the Root's name to do things in the future." Danzo naturally knew what Orochimaru said, but he still suffered heavy losses.
"How is the experiment?" Danzo suddenly asked.