I arrived at about the same time as the four fueling the barrier did and what I found was not good at all. The old man was dying and I could tell immediately that there was no saving him. it's hard to describe but it was as though his soul was slipping away to somewhere else and I don't mean in a normal manher. The four fueling the barrier took Orochimaru who for a ck of a better word looked broken. Not dead but like something critical to him had been stolen and he lost some of his will to live.-

  I didn't try to stop them as my full focus was to keep the old man alive for as long as possible but it hill battle that I was badly losing.

  "*Cough* You are wasting your time Kenzo *cough* The reaper will have his prize, theres no denying it now." the old man sucked in a raspy breath. "Listen, I have long prepared for my death. *Cough* In my home I left a envelope hidden in a secret pext to my bed *Cough* Above the picture of my wife. Open it and give it to whoever bees Hokage and as a final warning, beware Danzo. He will act against you now that I am go I believe that you will do what is best for the vilge. It has been my honor to watch you and Naruto grow up*Cough* A shame I'll not see the great men you'll bee." and like that the third Hokage breathed his st.

  With his death the monkey king Enma disappeared with a silent mournful look as the summoning ended. I won't lie it stung at my heart to see the old man go and tears filled my eyes. As though the world felt the same rain began to fall from the clouds overhead as more and more shinobi arrived after subjugating the Suna forces in the vilge. The entire vilge mourhe man and the losses we suffered on this while Shikaku took over temporarily as the ag Hokage until a new one could be appointed. I did as the old man asked of me in his final moments ao his home i to retrieve the envelop as he said and what I learned from it disgusted and disturbed me.-

  Within it held the evidend list of crimes that Danzo had done over the years as well as the information orue motivations of Sasukes brother Itachi. I could uand why the old man would keep this stuff out of the other information in his office, it was dangerous. It was also likely to cause a civil war within Konoha since depending on who became the Hokage Danzo was going to get outed and possibly turned into a missing nin. The matter of Itachi however o be buried for the good of the vilge because it was far too divisive.-

  It was discovered that the fourth Kazekage had actually been killed and repced with Orochimaru and so Suna accepted unditional surrehe vilge didn't press the matter further than that as it was clear to all that Orochimaru had maniputed them without their knowledge. I ended up getting dragged into the politics of the matter of the Hokage for one simple reason, I was there when the old mahe sheer amount of weight that gave my opinion oter ot be uimated.-

  Not that I really had to say anything as it was all but unanimous that one of the old mans students would take over as Hokage and Jiraiya directly said my sensei was the only option that made sense. Really the only input I had to add was the st known pce her infrequent messages to me said she was. Danzo also tried to make a move o failed as I had already packed up my whole house and moved it to a different location in the forest. I was willing to bide my time against the man until the Hokage was officially appointed.-

  It wouldn't be too te the deal with him at that point when I had the full support of the vilge behind me. He seemed to realize this as well if the gres he sent my way every time I was summoo the cil chamber was anything to go by. The third Hokages death wasn't all bad hough as we struck back against Orochimaru with a vengeand easily must have cost the snake a massive amount of resources lost as we ripped through the nd of fire and even further for any sign of him and his bases.-

  None of the reat vilges wao get in our way as they had learnt from experiehat we were most dangerous when recklessly motivated like this. The man hunt for the snake sannio a very rge amount of missing nin in the nd of fire getting killed in the crossfire which funneled a rge amount of funds into the vilge from the bounties ohat was the iing part about the bounty system, anyone including the vilge that posted the bounties enemies could cash them in.-

  The reason for this was mostly because in exge for some mohe other vilges could get a heads up if a dangerous shinobi appeared in another vilge. It was actually one of the reasons I never went bounty hunting as while all the vilges knew I was the student of Tsunade Senju they didn't know what my bat strength was. Hell most of Konoha didn't know how strong I was or even had a guess for that matter. That all ged on the day the Hokage died as the spies in the vilge as well as the vilgers themselves had withe power I had at my disposal.-

  It came as little surprise then to learn that I now had ary in the bingo book(book of bounties, gets updated every month). I was given an A-S ranking and a bounty of two million ryo in every vilge other than Suna and of course Konoha. They had my information on my knows and skills as , chakra beast taming, massive chakra reserves, extreme strength, extreme Iryonin jutsu and sensor type ability. They even had aire page dedicated to all my knows and their threat level, abilities and even individual bounties for each beast if someone somehow mao kill one and bring proof.-

  The bounty for shiro was ironically WAY higher than my own at a staggering fifty million ryo and his ability was listed as a highly suspected kekkai tota. It came as little surprise that literally none of the other vilges wao see su ability show up in Konoha. I found it a bit funny where they couldn't even agree oher I was an A or S rank threat shinobi so they just put both.