Chapter 106 - Kabumbum.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was satisfied.

Teaching the ropes to Minato was a fairly easy endeavor thought Sarutobi, apparently, the blonde talents reach more places than just the Shinobi field, which just cemented my choice of him, his only problem, is his obsession with peace, undoubtedly my student Jiraya's doing, but I guess times are changing, so maybe a new outlook of the world is what the village needs to prosper.

And while I was thinking about peace, a sudden premonition hits me, the fabled gut feeling that has saved my ass more times than I can count, and right now I almost convulsing on how much my gut is hurting, I immediately lifted my arm to call the Anbu on my presence, but when I lifted my arm two gigantic explosions occurred.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*2X

From that moment Sarutobi deduced that his day would become worse.

And it surely did, most of his Shinobi are running around like a headless chicken, and looking at them like that I feel quite shamefully right now, the guys who usually are calm and collected are acting in some ways worse than a civilian, a paranoia bred from countless conflicts the most probable cause.

But I myself are a little bit relieved, by the feeling of the explosion it occurred relatively far, years on the battlefield enabled him to measure an explosion by its shockwaves, and the shockwaves that reached here are relatively harmless, save for some glass on the border houses, maybe the shaking of some old homes, but that's it, whatever used these explosions wasn't aiming at the village per si.

At this moment while I am submerged in my thought Aizen appears in the middle of the room, he certainly rushed here, after accessing the situation, good lad this one, has the big hearth of the Senju, but carry the ruthless of my Sensei Tobiramma, truly a fearsome combination. I asked for him to stay put, even if I don't expect an immediate risk from these explosions, having Aizen here can surely boost our defenses in the worst-case scenario.

I have already sent some of my Anbu squads to investigate the explosions, and I have been commanding the ninja to their respective functions according to their competence.

A good time later I receive the results, even as the explosions practically disintegrated there epicenter places, we shinobi have a lot of ways of finding clues on situations like that, at the end it is a necessary skill we had to develop, a lot of valuable information can be learned from an explosion.

The information that I received is nothing short of horrifying, apparently, the explosions occurred in two secret bases on my doorsteps, who could've built something like that under my nose, It has to be someone extremely skilled and knowledgeable on Konoha intricacies.

The answers to my doubt came moments later when I convocated all hight level personal to a council meeting, and neither Danzo nor Orochimaru appeared. I didn't care much at the start, both shinobi are quite individualistic, so I wouldn't put past them to go search for clues on their own, principally Danzo and his Root.

While they are missing I wasn't that much concerned about them, both are a strong ninja in their own right so anyone who can kill them would definitely be able to endanger my life, sadly I was in a negation apparently, because when more clues where made know to me I couldn't help but shed a tear or two, today I've found that my best friend and one of my disciples are dead.

This affects me a lot, I even went out to drink with my other treatment after so many years, remembering the nostalgic times and lamenting how just the two of us are what is left from the original team.

Orochimaru's death was felt by a lot of people too, as much creepy as he was, he still had friends and teammates.

The funeral was a quiet and sad affair, both ninjas contributed immensely to the village over the years, so their death really made a great impact, now the only thing that is left of them are our memories and a tombstone.

After mourning for some days I immediately started the pressure on the other villages, war right now is all but inevitable, so I started demanding answers to their attacks, and a bunch of other political maneuvers, my objective is acquiring the most amount of help possible before the inevitable conflict explodes.