The Fifth Leaf Village

"Well done! This is how we should treat the traitorous ninjas who eat the village's food and dare to collude with other ninja villages without any mercy." Uchiha Douhuan nodded.

"But, Dohwan, what should we do with these thugs?" Kakashi asked. "Although these thugs were instigated by someone, this behavior is not the first time. If anyone with ulterior motives can incite them, it will cause great trouble to the order of the village."

"I already have plans for this," said Uchiha Douhuan.

"I plan to set up a special department in the village to educate these thugs both physically and mentally. As for the name, let's call it the Sanqing Education Team." Uchiha Douhuan said, "Kakashi, help me get a copy of Gai's daily training plan."

"I understand." Kakashi nodded. Although he didn't know what the purpose of Uchiha Douhuan's training plan was, Kakashi knew that Uchiha Douhuan must have his intentions.

At this time, the medical ninja on duty in the Hokage Building came to report.

"Hokage-sama, Elder Hyuga has awakened."

"Really?" Uchiha Douhuan frowned, then said to Kakashi, "You'll have to make another trip. Take this old man with you to rescue the Hiashi clan leader who has been imprisoned due to an internal coup. And by the way, tell the other veterans of the Hyuga clan that this matter was instigated by the Iwagakure Village. If they dare to continue to be stubborn, they will be treated as traitors."

"Yes." Kakashi nodded.

……

Because there were so many people causing trouble this time, and many of them went straight back to their homes after escaping, even if the entire security force went out to attack until midnight, they only managed to capture half of the rioters.

But the order from above was that no one who participated in the attack on the Hokage Building should be spared, so the members of the security team consciously divided into two groups, one group searched the village overnight, and the other group went back to rest temporarily.

Watanabe Masashi was one of the people who was assigned to go home and rest.

After arresting more than ten thugs today, Watanabe Masashi was exhausted. He returned home with a tired face and planned to have a good night's rest before continuing work tomorrow.

"Brother! You're back!" As soon as he returned home, Watanabe Masashi's sister ran out and warmly welcomed her brother home.

"Meizi, I'm very tired today, so I won't play with you." Watanabe Masashi smiled and carried his sister back to the ground.

"Zhengzhi, you're back." At this time, an old woman who looked a little sick walked out of the room.

"Mom, you didn't go out today, did you?" asked Masashi Watanabe.

"No, your sister and I didn't go out today. Even the appointment with the doctor was postponed. However, your squadron leader came to our house today and gave me a few bottles of medicine and some snacks to Mei." said Watanabe Masashi's mother.

"Captain?" Watanabe Masashi was stunned when he heard that. He quickly changed his shoes and walked into his room.

However, after returning to the room, the first thing he saw was a red envelope lying next to his pillow, which was thicker than his pillow.

Seeing this, Watanabe Masashi slapped himself twice, said nothing, picked up the baton and walked out of the house again.

Chapter 115: Handle with care, dismantle the caged bird

With almost all the security team members mobilized, none of the rioters escaped, and the security department's prison was soon filled to the brim.

On the other hand, Kakashi also successfully helped Hyuga Hiashi suppress the internal rebellion.

After dealing with clan matters, although it was already late at night, Hinata Hiashi still came to the Hokage Building.

Before entering the Hokage's office, Hyuga Hiashi was still very nervous. Although he sent several children to Uchiha as soon as he realized that something was wrong with the elders of the clan, and reported the news to the elders of the Hyuga clan, but in the final analysis, it was Uchiha Dohuan's Hokage line who cleaned up the mess for him, so it was impossible for Hyuga to not pay some price in this matter.

When Hinata Hiashi walked into the Hokage's office, Uchiha Douhuan was leisurely maintaining his ninja sword.

Hearing the sound of Hinata Hiashi coming in, Uchiha Douhuan didn't even raise his head, but just concentrated on oiling the Thunder at his desk.

Seeing this situation, Hinata Hiashi's heart tightened, but for now he could only lower his head and wait for Uchiha Douhuan to speak first.

After Uchiha Douhuan finished maintaining the ninja sword, he put it back into the scabbard, then stood up and put it back on the sword rack in the office, then returned to his seat and looked at Hinata Hiashi.

"It's so late, what does the Hyuga clan leader want in my office, the Hokage?"

"Lord Fifth Hokage, I failed to manage my subordinates, which led to several traitors in the family. That's why I came here to apologize." Hinata Hiashi said after bowing.

"Really? Then how did the Hyuga clan leader deal with those traitors?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.

"I have sealed the chakras of the leading individuals and handed them over to the security team, awaiting Lord Hokage's decision." Hinata Hiashi said.

Uchiha Dohuan looked at Hyuga Hiashi deeply, and after a long time, a smile appeared on his face. Although Hyuga Hiashi and Uchiha Fugaku could be said to be strong men of the same generation in the village, but when it came to being the patriarch of a clan, Hyuga Hiashi was much stronger than Uchiha Fugaku. At least, at this time, he could make a decision in time.

To be honest, if Uchiha Fugaku could make a decision earlier like him, whether it was to directly recruit soldiers and stockpile supplies to fight the village, or to directly deal with those radicals and surrender to Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Uchiha clan would not be in the current predicament.

"So, Hinata Kazuki and the others' involvement this time is just for their own ambitions, right?" Uchiha Douhuan said to Hinata Hiashi.

"But they are the elders of the Hyuga clan after all..."

"Hokage-sama, you don't have to worry about this matter. If necessary, Hinata will abolish their Byakugan and remove their names from the family tree." Hinata Hiashi said without any hesitation.

Uchiha Douhuan glanced at Hinata Hiashi. This old guy probably wanted to do this for a long time.

Judging from the information Uchiha Dohuan was able to obtain, after the death of Hyuga Hizashi, the head of the Hyuga branch family became someone from Hyuga Kazuki's line. It is not difficult to see that these Hyuga elders are also not clean in the matter of Hyuga Hizashi's death.

"Haha, the Hyuga clan leader is so considerate of the village. The Hyuga clan is indeed the backbone of the village." Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile, "However, in this matter, the Hyuga clan leader should still take this as a warning. After all, in the village, if anyone can fully control a private army that only obeys their orders, it will add a lot of trouble to the management of the village, don't you think?"

"Yes." Hinata Hiashi nodded.

Hinata Hiashi felt a sinking feeling in his heart after hearing what Uchiha Dohuan said. It seemed that the Fifth Hokage was planning to take action against the family's caged bird system?

Yes, any ruler with a normal mind would not tolerate the existence of an armed force within his power whose life and death are completely in the hands of others and can be completely controlled by that person.

Previously, the Hyuga clan had never entered the upper echelons of the village due to the existence of the caged bird system. They just guarded their own piece of land, so even if the Hokage people wanted to intervene, they could not find a reason.

But this time, those idiots Hinata and Teru were completely blinded by the temptation of the Hokage position thrown by Utatane and Mitomon, and put all the reasons in the hands of the Hokage.

Hinata Hiashi also has very complicated feelings about the family's caged bird system. For Hinata Hiashi personally, this system can be said to be one of the reasons that led his fellow brother to his death.

But as the head of the Hyuga clan and the biggest beneficiary of this system, if he really had to abolish it, firstly, he didn't have the ability to do so, and secondly, he was really reluctant to do so. After all, as long as he had this thing, his position as the head of the clan would be completely unshakable unless several main family forces united to force him to abdicate like this time.

Even in the future, as long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, the position of head of the family will continue to be passed down among his descendants, just as he took over the position of head of the family from his father.

But now, Uchiha Douhuan's intention is obviously to take action against the family's caged bird system.

"Elder Hyuga, according to tradition, each Hokage personally accepts a team of three as disciples. Before I took the helm, I already accepted Elder Fugaku's second son as a disciple, so I plan to choose the other two from among his peers," Uchiha Douhuan said. "I think Neji has quite a talent, so I plan to accept him as a disciple on a certain day. What do you think, Hyuga clan leader?"

Hinata Hiashi's pupils shrank, and he almost instantly understood the profound meaning of Uchiha Dohuan. Uchiha Dohuan's move was much more cruel than directly ordering the Hyuga clan to abolish the caged bird system.

Although the Hyuga clan now has something in the hands of the other party, the Hokage's forced interference in the internal affairs of the village ninja clan will itself leave room for gossip.

But now, Uchiha Dohuan suddenly proposed to take Neji as his apprentice, which made it impossible for anyone to find fault with it.

After all, the tradition of the Hokage accepting talented young people in the village as disciples has been going on since the Shodaime and the Nidaime accepted six disciples including the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.

The Third Hokage also continued this tradition and accepted the former Three Ninjas as his disciples. Although the Fourth Hokage died early, he also accepted a team of three people as his personal disciples before taking office. Now that Uchiha Dohuan mentioned and took the initiative to continue this tradition, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

But the problem is that there is another unspoken rule under this tradition, that is, the disciples accepted by the Hokage are eligible to inherit part of the teacher's political assets. In other words, if you become a disciple of the Hokage, you will be qualified to become the Hokage in the future.

This is also the reason why, when Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to force Jiraiya to take the throne some time ago, he did not encounter much obstacles in the process.

Logically speaking, it would be a good thing for Hyuga if Uchiha Dohuan accepted a child from the Hyuga family as his disciple, but the problem was that the person chosen by Uchiha Dohuan was a member of a branch family.

Once you become the Hokage's disciple, you have the possibility of becoming the Hokage. Don't worry about whether he can become the Hokage or not. This position itself has certain political significance.

Once Neji becomes Uchiha Dohuan's disciple, the caged bird above his head will no longer exist.

Otherwise, what does your position as the head of the Hyuga clan mean to outsiders? Holding the future Hokage's life in your hands, are you trying to become the village's emperor? By then, the Hyuga clan would likely be in an even more troublesome situation than the Uchiha clan before.

However, even if Neji was released from the caged position and was promoted to the head of the family as an exception, it would still be difficult for the Hyuga clan to accept.

After all, the Hyuga clan had never had a precedent of releasing the caged birds from the branch families. Even in the Warring States Period, when the main family was short of manpower, they would only select talented children from the descendants of the branch families who had not yet been caged to join the main family.

Once a caged bird, always a caged bird, which is why this system has survived to this day.

Now that this precedent has been set, will the other branch families still be so obedient and follow the orders of the main family?

More importantly, once Ningji becomes the head of the clan, he can easily win over a large number of branch clan members by using the removal of the caged bird as a condition. It will probably not be long before the caged bird will be in name only.

It can be said that Uchiha Douhuan quietly placed two poisonous cakes in front of the Hyuga clan.

Hinata Hiashi was already sweating coldly. While hesitating, he was also glad that he had sent the children to Uchiha as soon as possible to clear himself of the relationship. Otherwise, with Uchiha Douhuan's methods, it would not take much effort to kill the Hyuga clan.

As for directly rejecting Uchiha Dohan's proposal to accept him as a disciple, if this incident had not happened, Hyuga Hiashi would still have this option, but now, the Hyuga clan was involved in a coup, and it was already a mercy for the Hokage to let him go lightly. If they still wanted to reject the Hokage's kindness in accepting him as a disciple, that would be like an old man eating arsenic - seeking death.

【Never mind, just consider it as compensation for the daily difference.】

Hinata Hiashi sighed deeply and nodded, "In that case, I will thank the Hokage for his kindness on behalf of that child Neji."

"Don't say that, Clan Leader Hiashi." Uchiha Douhuan chuckled, "Guiding the talented children in the village and letting them walk on the path of the Will of Fire is also the responsibility of the Hokage, isn't it?"

"Hokage-sama is right," said Hinata Hiashi.

"I have always believed that Patriarch Hiashi is a wise man. However, I still want to remind Elder Hyuga that I don't want my disciples to have any messy things when they become his disciples." Uchiha Douhuan stared at Hyuga Hiashi, "Do you understand?"

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Chapter 116 Raise troops to Luo!

After dealing with Hinata's affairs, Uchiha Douhuan also left work from the Hokage's office and came to the new prison by the Minamiga River with a knife.

After rescuing Hyuga Hiashi from the clan, Kakashi returned here and stepped up the interrogation and trial of the remaining forces of Utane and Mitomon overnight.

Ever since Yuuta Tenshin and Isao Mitokado admitted that they had received funding from the Iwagakure Village, this matter has become much easier for Kakashi to handle.

Kakashi made a special trip to the Yamanaka clan and transferred two ninjas from there who were originally senior ninjas but were later demoted and forced to retire. To show his sincerity, Yamanaka Inoichi personally took them to the Minamigagawa Hotel.

The captured ninjas from both clans were not even interrogated. After the Yamanaka clan's secret technique forced them to give away their intelligence, they became fools and were then executed on the spot.

For rebellious ninjas, except for a few with special identities, this is basically the same process used by all ninja villages.

Moreover, during the whole process, Kakashi considerately tied the current chiefs of the two tribes, who had become one-armed men, and the two advisors who had been captured long ago, to chairs and watched the whole process.

Seeing the family ninjas they had developed with their careful planning being dealt with one by one, the two advisors were furious. If they had not been gagged in advance, they would probably have started cursing Kakashi and Uchiha Dohuan with the most vicious words.

Soon, Uchiha Dohuan also arrived here. After seeing Uchiha Dohuan walk into the interrogation room, Kakashi also gave up the chair in the interrogation room.

After Uchiha Douhuan sat down, he looked at the four people tied to the chairs in front of him with a smile.

After seeing Uchiha Douhuan, the two consultants struggled violently, their heads shaking constantly.

"It seems that the two former consultants want to say something?" Uchiha Douhuan winked at Kakashi on the side. Kakashi waved his hand to dismiss the other people in the room, then walked forward alone and took out the rags that were stuffing their mouths.

"Uchiha Touhan! You will die a horrible death!" As soon as Utane Koharu was able to speak, she couldn't wait to curse Uchiha Touhan.

However, the next second, a baton fell on her mouth. Kakashi probably had wanted to do this for a long time, and this time he was really ruthless. With one blow of the baton, most of Utane Koharu's old teeth fell out, and the cursing stopped abruptly.

"Actually, I'm really curious," Uchiha Douhuan said calmly, "I've already spared your two clans a chance to live for the sake of the Sandaime. If it were any other village, losers like you would have been shot to death. But why did you insist on courting death?"

"Hmph, how can you, an Uchiha like you who is born evil, become Hokage? When the Second Hokage suppressed the Uchiha Setsuna rebellion, he should have killed all of your clan!" Mitomon En also cursed, but as soon as he said this, he followed in the footsteps of Utatane Koharu.

"How dare you mention the Nidaime-sama?" Uchiha Douhuan chuckled. "Did the Nidaime-sama ever teach you that you can collude with forces from other villages in order to achieve your own goals?"

"Hmph, Uchiha Dohwan, you'd better think about how you're going to explain this to the Daimyo!" Utatane Koharu spat out a mouthful of blood and mumbled through her leaky mouth, "You've just taken office as Hokage and such a big thing has happened in the village. The Daimyo won't let you off! Your good days are about to end!"

"Really?" Uchiha Douhuan smiled and thought for a moment, "It seems to be true. How should I explain this to the Daimyo? It's really difficult to deal with it."

"So, why not just change your real name?" Uchiha Douhuan chuckled.

Just then, a man rushed in from outside the interrogation room.

"Hokage-sama! Urgent news from the Fire Capital! Orochimaru has led his men to assassinate the Daimyo. The Crown Prince is dead, and the Daimyo is seriously injured! The Twelve Guardian Ninjas are desperately resisting! Hokage-sama, please rush to the Fire Capital for support!"

This man's urgent report resounded throughout the entire underground interrogation room. Uchiha Douhuan and Kakashi looked at the four people in the interrogation room with a half-smile in their eyes.

"Uchiha Touhan...you...you..." Utane Koharu and Mito Menen looked at Uchiha Touhan in horror. It was not difficult to see from their expressions that this matter was inseparable from Uchiha Touhan. Uchiha Touhan's courage was completely beyond their understanding.

"Kakashi, send the two of you on your way. Then, gather the elite jonin in the village and we will go to the Fire Capital to support the Daimyo."

The two consultants wanted to say something, but the next second, the sharp kunai cut their throats, and their shouts could only turn into weak hoarse sounds like a broken bellows. Their vitality quickly faded, and they fell down powerlessly.

Uchiha Dohuan also raised his sword and killed the remaining two people, then walked out of the interrogation room with the sword in hand and looked at the ninja directly under the daimyo who came to deliver the information.

"What? You dare to assassinate the Daimyo! Kakashi! Gather all the elite Jonin still in the village. I will rush to support the Daimyo first, and you follow as soon as possible!"

"Understood!" Kakashi nodded and then rushed to the guard post as fast as he could.

Uchiha Douhuan looked at the ninja who came to report the news: "Come with me and tell me all the detailed information on the way!"

"Understood...understood." The ninja who came to report the news breathed heavily and nodded.

The next second, after the two of them left the guard team, Uchiha Douhuan directly picked up the other party, then stepped on the lightning, turned into a ray of lightning and rushed towards the direction of the Fire City.

On Kakashi's side, he gathered the elite jonin in the village as quickly as possible, and left the village overnight to provide support in the direction of the Fire Capital.

At this moment, in the capital of the Land of Fire, Orochimaru was controlling thousands of snakes to wreak havoc in the Daimyo's bedroom. The originally magnificent bedroom had now turned into a large area of ruins. Only in front of a small palace, several ninjas were using various escape techniques and a Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara barrier formed by a golden chakra to desperately resist the offensive of the man and the snake. The army of wandering ninjas brought by Orochimaru was outside the palace, mercilessly slaughtering the samurai guarding the Daimyo's bedroom.

"Asuma! When will the support from the Hokage arrive!" In front of the door of the only relatively well-preserved bedroom, a big monk in monk's robes, with his hands clasped together, was trying his best to maintain the Thousand-Armed Guanyin barrier covering the bedroom. However, at this moment, he was also sweating profusely, and it was obvious that he was at the end of his strength.

"I don't know either! My old man is no longer Hokage!" Sarutobi Asuma used a series of fire-style ninjutsu to repel the attack of the Ten Thousand Snakes that was attacking the barrier.

"Damn it! Wasn't this guy a disciple of your father, the Third Hokage? Why did he suddenly show up to assassinate the Daimyo?" Beside Asuma, a man wearing a blank forehead protector shouted at Asuma, "I always say that the country's ninjas should obey the Daimyo completely. The position of Hokage should not exist!"

"It's already this late and you're still talking like this!" Asuma turned around and shouted, "Besides, this guy has been a traitor for years, and the village has never stopped hunting him down!"

"Stop arguing! I can't hold on any longer!" The big monk standing between the two of them gritted his teeth and said.