Chapter 337 Meeting Place

Konoha Village

Today, most of the Konoha jonin returned to the village.

Because today is the day when the fifth Hokage will be chosen.

The Ninja School was supposed to graduate at this time, but the time for re-election of the Hokage was delayed.

There is a huge square in front of the Hokage building.

Today, the square is already crowded.

There is a podium in the square, with an electronic screen behind it, and all the current high-level officials of Konoha, as well as the patriarchs of major families, on both sides.

The third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mito Kado En, and Utane Koharu are also here.

In the front meeting hall are many jonin of Konoha, and the young generation of jonin are basically here.

The son of the third Hokage, Sarutobi Asuma, and his girlfriend Yuhi Kurenai, are also standing among them.

Akimichi Tofu also rarely appeared at the meeting, but because of his injury when he was young and his age, his health is not very good.

A few young people from the Akimichi family carried a huge armchair and sat in the last row.

Earlier, Uchiha Natsuki led a group of Uchiha and people who came back from the Hidden Sound Village.

They entered the square first.

Yaoye in the team kept looking around, muttering to himself, and no one knew what he was saying.

Tsunade brought Shizune and a group of medical ninjas from the Konoha medical system into the square.

Although there were fewer people, medical ninjas were much more valuable than ordinary ninjas, and their momentum was not inferior to Uchiha Natsuki at all.

Sasuke followed Natsuki, while Naruto stood behind Tsunade.

In fact, Naruto wanted to stand on Natsuki's side, but Natsuki let him stand with Tsunade in order not to stimulate the sensitive nerves of the Third Hokage.

After Natsuki and Tsunade arrived, Orochimaru finally arrived.

Behind Orochimaru were Konoe I, Karin, Juugo, Shin, Sai, and Kakashi.

As a disciple of Orochimaru, Hongdou stood in the audience.

And Hongdou was wearing a hat to cover her face.

It can be seen that Hongdou was worried that others would recognize her.

Since the last incident, she has not come to see Orochimaru.

Since she and Orochimaru separated when they were young, her world has always been white.

Suddenly Orochimaru came back and told her.

The white world is fake, and the environment she has been living in is the result of her deliberately avoiding contact with darkness.

Orochimaru tore it all apart.

While Hongdou's worldview collapsed, she was also trying to get in touch with this world.

At this time, a new announcement in the village directly pushed Hongdou.

Orochimaru's cloning technology breakthrough can now be used to treat people with limb disabilities.

It can make more people who can only wait to die regain the brilliance of life.

How great this technology is, you can have an idea just by thinking about it.

But what was this cloning technology like at the beginning and how it developed later.

Hongdou, who has recovered her memory, knows it clearly.

She suddenly understood that she had been narrow-minded all along.

This world is neither black nor white, but a delicate gray.

However, she did not return to Orochimaru.

The reason...

She! Grow! Fat! And she is extremely fat.

Not only is her face bigger, but she also has a belly fat.

If she was Red Bean before, now she is Sweet Potato!

She is completely crazy.

She also stays at home, drinks, overeats, and eats sweets constantly.

She has never been fat before, but now she is suddenly fat like this.

The first time she was anxious about her appearance and body shape, she was directly defeated.

Red Bean could not accept herself like this and appeared next to her teacher.

Especially at this time, she heard that her teacher was nominated for the Fifth Hokage.

Although Red Bean tried her best to lose weight, it was easy to get fat, but it was not easy to lose weight. In a month, she did not lose much weight.

Seeing herself in the mirror who was as fat as two people, she thought of her elegant teacher with unchanged appearance.

Red Bean, who has always been generous, playful and impulsive, suddenly felt inferior.

This emotion affected her, and she finally appeared in the audience instead of behind Orochimaru.

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Orochimaru's team was small, and it was a bit shabby compared to Natsuki and Tsunade.

But when Orochimaru entered the venue.

There was a sudden "bang bang bang..." sound from outside the crowd.

Under the colorful flowers flying all over the sky, everyone realized that it was a salute.

The atmosphere in the venue was boiling instantly, and many civilians who were watching the excitement on the periphery were clamoring.

Natsuki looked at the third generation's little action with some amusement.

Really, in order to build momentum for Orochimaru, no one else can do it.

Orochimaru has not appeared in the public eye for a long time.

Those who wanted to see him were blocked by the third generation of Hokage.

Let him do the experiment with peace of mind.

This is also the first time that Orochimaru has participated in an event with so many people after his defection.

Orochimaru looked around and saw many familiar figures in the venue.

Is Akimichi Tofu on the stage dying?

Life is so fragile.

He moved his eyes, searching for the marks of the past.

Suddenly his eyes paused on a man wearing a bamboo hat in the audience, and then moved away.

Xiao Hongdou, do you think I can't recognize you like this?

Orochimaru saw the crowded and lively venue.

His thoughts went back to the day when he and Minato competed for the Fourth Hokage.

The brutal Third Ninja World War had just ended.

Everyone wanted to get out of the shadow of the war quickly, and all the villagers were very enthusiastic.

The war had just ended, and both Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru were frontline commanders.

In terms of strength and reputation, Orochimaru was higher than the rising star Minato.

Minato only had a huge reputation among the civilians.

The huge reputation among the civilians was useless because the civilians did not have the right to vote.

However, when Orochimaru thought he had a sure win, reality gave him a heavy blow.

The result of the vote count showed that Minato had far more votes than he had imagined.

After the vote count, Orochimaru discovered that there were many votes from the Sarutobi clan in the vote.

Orochimaru knew that all this was the work of the Third Hokage behind the scenes.

But today, it was different.

Orochimaru turned his head slightly and glanced at Minato behind him.

Then a smile appeared on his face.

Everything is under control.

The third generation stood in the middle of the stage, looking at Uchiha Natsuki, and then swept across Tsunade's team.

His sight swept over Naruto behind Tsunade.

Although Tsunade did not withdraw from the Hokage election, it was a bit unexpected.

But as long as Naruto is close to Tsunade, everything is under his control.

Today's Uchiha Natsuki is destined to return empty-handed.

As for Kakashi standing behind Orochimaru, it is already a result that the third generation Hokage can accept.

When everyone arrived, the third generation Hokage walked to the front of the stage.

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