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Facing Ishigami Hara's aggressiveness, Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't have a good solution at this time. After all, Ishigami Hara came here today as the head of the Ishigami clan, not as a Konoha Jōnin.
So Sarutobi Hiruzen must take a corresponding attitude.
The Ishigami clan may not be a big deal, but after all, it is also a ninja clan. Konoha can handle other matters, but it needs to be careful when dealing with these ninja clans.
After all, no matter how small the Ishigami clan is, it is still a member of the ninja clan. If not careful, other ninja clans could suffer. Sarutobi Hiruzen still understands these principles.
Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen silent, Ishigami Hara did not urge him, and just sat there leisurely, waiting for the next step.
After a while, Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed and then said: "Okay, Ishigami will wait for a while."
Clapping his hands, an Anbu came in from outside the door, kneeling on one knee, waiting for instructions. Sarutobi Hiruzen said: "Go and ask Shimura Danzō to come over."
"Yes!"
Anbu left, and the Hokage office immediately became silent. The two had different thoughts, but no one spoke again.
Time passed, and in a blink of an eye, half a quarter of an hour passed. The door was knocked, and then Shimura Danzō walked in.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Ishigami Hara sitting on the sofa. Especially when he saw Ishigami Hara wearing retro clothes, Shimura Danzō immediately thought of something, and the eyelids of the exposed eye shook unconsciously twice, and then his face darkened.
"Hiruzen, what's the matter with you calling me here?"
Shimura Danzō sat down and spoke directly, his voice dull.
Ishigami Hara raised his eyelids and looked at the other party, who looked at him with indifference.
Sarutobi Hiruzen lit his pipe, took a deep breath, and exhaled the smoke before saying: "Two Chūnin from the Ishigami clan entered Anbu, but their names were not in Anbu, so where did they go?"
Looking at the two ninja certificates on the table in front of him, Shimura Danzō closed his eyes slightly, but still admitted directly: "They are all in the Root."
"Then call them over, and from now on these two people will withdraw from the Root," Sarutobi Hiruzen said.
Shimura Danzō frowned: "This is against the rules. The Root has the right to invite village Chūnin to join, and these two people are now members of the Root, so it is not appropriate for them to show up in public."
Sarutobi Hiruzen just glanced at Shimura Danzō and said: "Did you inform the Ishigami clan when you invited these two people?"
Shimura Danzō frowned even more when he heard this, and immediately knew what it meant to be called over this time, and immediately said in a deep voice: "Everything I did was in accordance with the rules."
Ishigami Hara listened on the side but was silent and did not express his opinion. Sarutobi Hiruzen said in a deep voice: "What the Root did this time was a little beyond its authority, because you did not inform me, and I am the Hokage."
Shimura Danzō couldn't stand hearing this, immediately tightened his grip on the cane, and wanted to say something, but when he met Sarutobi Hiruzen's calm eyes, he said nothing.
"Hmph!"
With a cold snort, Shimura Danzō stood up and said coldly: "I know, I'll let those two people come over."
After that, Shimura Danzō left directly, and from the look of him, it seemed that he didn't want to stay here for a second longer.
"Alas."
Seeing Shimura Danzō leave, Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed and shook his head helplessly.
"Thank you for your hard work, Hokage-sama."
Ishigami Hara spoke at the right time, and at this moment, he didn't have much bad feelings towards Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Anyway, being in the position of Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen is still competent; at least he has fulfilled the duties of Hokage in some matters.
Ishigami Hara just disagrees with Sarutobi Hiruzen's partiality toward Shimura Danzō. Konoha's roots are deep in the darkness, but it also needs someone with a heart toward the light to control it. Shimura Danzō is actually the biggest darkness in Konoha.
This is very interesting.
Not long after, Shimura Danzō came back again, this time with a very ugly face. Two young men in their twenties came in as well, with dull expressions.
Ishigami Hara naturally knew these two people; they were Ishigami Fu and Ishigami Koki, considered elites of the Ishigami clan. However, these two had not looked at him since they entered the room, and their eyes were no longer calm, but rather a pool of stagnant water.
"I've brought them here."
"Since you want them, I'll give them to you."
"Anyway, the Root exists for Anbu training, and I have nothing more to say."
Shimura Danzō paused with his cane, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.
These words were not directed at Sarutobi Hiruzen but rather at Ishigami Hara.
Shimura Danzō frowned and turned around, glaring at Ishigami Hara with a gloomy expression.
Ishigami Hara met his gaze but smiled faintly, then said to Ishigami Fu and Ishigami Koki: "Open your mouth and stick out your tongue."
Shimura Danzō's grip on his cane tightened again as he subconsciously turned to look at Sarutobi Hiruzen.
The latter glanced at Shimura Danzō but did not speak, clearly giving his tacit approval.
Ishigami Fu and Ishigami Koki remained unresponsive, as if they hadn't heard Ishigami Hara's command.
If someone else from the Ishigami clan had been in this situation, they might have harbored some resentment. But Ishigami Hara remained calm, waiting patiently.
"Do as he says," Shimura Danzō ordered in a deep voice.
Ishigami Fu and Ishigami Koki finally reacted, opening their mouths and sticking out their tongues.
Ishigami Hara stepped forward and saw the special seal at the root of their tongues, identifying it as the Tongue Curse Root technique.
Seeing this, Ishigami Hara smirked sarcastically and said: "Elder Shimura is truly impressive."
"You recruited these two while I was away, without even notifying me, the head of the clan, and you planted the curse on them early on."
"Is there something you're worried about?"
Ishigami Hara made no effort to hide his displeasure.
Shimura Danzō's expression grew darker as he glared at Ishigami Hara, but the latter ignored him. His eyes suddenly changed, activating both the Byakugan and Sharingan.
The veins near his Byakugan's eye sockets bulged, showing he was observing closely, while the magatama in his Sharingan rotated rapidly.
Shimura Danzō narrowed his eyes as he watched.
"It's a very interesting seal, designed to restrict brain functions. Clever, but... far too crude."
Ishigami Hara said as he formed a hand seal, and then, under the watchful eyes of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzō, he placed his palm on Ishigami Fu's forehead.
Moments later, Ishigami Fu's face contorted, and intricate sealing marks emerged from where Ishigami Hara's palm made contact. These marks wriggled like living things and quickly penetrated into Ishigami Fu's body.
His eyes rolled back, and his body trembled.
But within seconds, Ishigami Hara completed the process. He pressed Ishigami Fu's jaw, and the latter involuntarily stuck out his tongue, revealing that the curse mark at the root of his tongue had disappeared.
Ishigami Hara nodded silently and repeated the same method to remove the curse mark from Ishigami Koki.
What would be extremely difficult or even impossible for others was no challenge for Ishigami Hara, thanks to his Byakugan, Sharingan, and mastery of sealing techniques. The insight from his two dojutsu allowed him to easily spot the flaws in the seal.
As for why he performed this in front of Danzō?
To put it simply, it was to humiliate Shimura Danzō, showing him that these things were insignificant if Ishigami Hara willed it.
"Thank you, Hokage-sama."
"I will take these two back with me."
"Since they are already Anbu members, I will have them report to Anbu soon."
"As for the Root..."
Ishigami Hara glanced at Shimura Danzō and chuckled: "It's a bit confusing."
With that, Ishigami Hara glanced at Ishigami Fu and Ishigami Koki, then walked out first. The two followed in a daze, leaving together.