The sun slowly set in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun coated Wood Leaf with a faint golden color after the battle. A day has finally passed. For Wood Leaf, today's events are enough for everyone to remember for a lifetime.
Wood Leaf was attacked by Otogakure and Sand Hidden Village. Wood Leaf had no strategy to defend against the enemy in advance. As a result, at the beginning of the battle, Wood Leaf was unprepared, allowing the enemy to wreak havoc in the village.
Although Sandaime Hokage has ordered the Anbu to be prepared for emergencies, Wood Leaf was attacked by the enemy, and someone has to stand up and take responsibility.
Fortunately, Sandaime Hokage is dead. For a dead man who has made great contributions to Wood Leaf, no one dares to stand up and blame Sandaime Hokage at this time.
In the evening, Wood Leaf's casualty statistics appeared in the hands of Wood Leaf's elders.
Less than 10% of the buildings were destroyed, and Ninja casualties were no more than a thousand, of which only two hundred were unfortunately killed. Because Wood Leaf was unprepared at the beginning, civilians also suffered some casualties, but the specific number has not been counted yet.
Such a loss is simply a drop in the bucket for Wood Leaf, a huge war machine. Not to mention the full support of the Daimyo of the Land of Fire for Wood Leaf, the annual income of Wood Leaf alone is enough to make up for such a loss.
But among all the dead Ninjas, there are two that Wood Leaf can't accept at all. Especially for those so-called elders and consultants, the death of Sandaime Hokage and Shimura Danzo will mean that they have completely lost power.
At eight o 'clock in the evening, the door of the conference room opened with a bang. Koharu and Mitokado Homura walked into the room first, followed by Dynasty Choname, Jiraiya, the elders of the village, the patriarchs of the major clans, and others.
"Unimaginable! The Sand Hidden Village betrayed us, and the Yondaime Kazekage colluded with Orochi Maru to attack Wood Leaf … Fortunately, Wood Leaf responded appropriately and didn't suffer irreparable losses! " After everyone was seated, Koharu spoke first, "But the death of Hiruzen and Danzo … It's really a pity!"
"Done!" Mitokado Homura comforted him, then glanced at the crowd and said, "I think everyone has already guessed the purpose of our gathering today. Wood Leaf had just suffered a disaster. At this time, Wood Leaf needed to re-establish order, form alliances with other ninja villages, and deal with the enemy country's probing and suppression. Now that Wood Leaf has no leader, we need a Hokage to lead us. Do you have any suitable candidates to recommend? "
Although this question was directed at everyone present, there were only a few people who were qualified to speak first. And the only ones who were qualified to be recommended were Dynasty Choname and Jiraiya.
With Jiraiya's personality, it was a bit strange that he would participate in such a meeting.
"Cough!" Hiashi coughed lightly and stood up first and said, "I, Hiashi Hyuga, recommend Dynasty Choname to succeed the Fifth Hokage in the name of the Hyuga Clan."
As Hiashi's words fell, the ninja clans who had previously stood on Dynasty Choname's side stood up and expressed their support for Dynasty Choname to succeed the position of Fifth Hokage. Following that, the patriarchs of the clans could only express their support for Dynasty Choname.
Even the Ino-Shika-Cho clans, with Shikaku Nara as their representative, expressed their willingness to support Dynasty Choname.
Dynasty Choname looked at Jiraiya and saw that Jiraiya just bowed his head and didn't say anything. He chuckled, stood up, and said, "Since everyone is willing to trust me, then I will never fail to live up to everyone's trust in me."
Koharu and Homura looked at each other and nodded. Finally, Koharu stood up and said, "If everyone has no different opinions, then I will report to the Land of Fire tomorrow that Wood Leaf will be succeeded by Dynasty Choname as the Fifth Hokage."
Dynasty Choname nodded to Koharu and smiled kindly.
It was hard to imagine that the position of the Fifth Hokage, who would be in charge of Wood Leaf for decades, was determined in just a few minutes.
There was no discussion at all, and no one dared to question it. From this point of view, it would be more appropriate to describe this meeting as a 'declaration' or an 'ultimatum'.
Even Jiraiya just responded with silence.
Dynasty Choname guessed that Kakashi must have said something to Jiraiya. Today, Jiraiya's attitude was completely different from a month ago.
Koharu and Homura, these two old guys, saw that the Third Hokage and Shimura Danzo both died, and the ninjas of Wood Leaf fully supported Dynasty Choname. They didn't even have the idea of disrupting the situation. They directly expressed their willingness to report to the Land of Fire and let Dynasty Choname succeed as the Fifth Hokage.
Dynasty Choname originally thought that they would support Jiraiya, who was relatively easy to control.
However, this wasn't difficult to understand. Dynasty Choname was Tsunade's disciple. In terms of identity, even if he succeeded the position of Hokage, these old guys wouldn't have any problems.
Dynasty Choname just didn't get along with the Third Hokage. Just like Shimura Danzo, he didn't get along with the Third Hokage, but if he became the Hokage, these old guys wouldn't object.
"Although the position of the Fifth Hokage hasn't been approved by the Daimyo, if the Wood Leaf unanimously approves, even the Daimyo can't object." Koharu looked at Dynasty Choname and asked, "Choname, Wood Leaf has just experienced a disaster. In your opinion, what should we do next?"
"When I went to the Sand Hidden Village before, not only did I destroy it, but I also made an agreement with that old woman Chiyo about the compensation after the war!" Dynasty Choname said as he took out a scroll from his arms and handed it to Koharu.
"This …" Koharu didn't care much at first, but when she opened the scroll, she was shocked and said in disbelief, "How could the Sand Hidden Village agree to such a condition?"
"Let me see!" Mitokado Homura curiously took the scroll and looked at it. He suddenly frowned, "Chiyo really agreed?"
"Yes!" Dynasty Choname nodded and said casually, "The Sand Hidden Village not only has to compensate us for the economic losses, but also a part of the funds used to pacify the civilians. And for the next ten years, the Sand Hidden Village will give us 10% of the mission rewards from Wood Leaf! "
"This compensation alone is enough to rebuild a Wood Leaf Ninja Village." Koharu said, "As far as I know, the Sand Hidden Village doesn't have such funds right now."
"What!?"
Hearing Koharu's words, all the ninjas in the conference room were shocked. Although they didn't see the specific number, the words' enough to rebuild a Wood Leaf Ninja Village 'made them understand how much the Sand Hidden Village will compensate Wood Leaf.
"It's not up to them to disagree!" Dynasty Choname said coldly.
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