Danzo and the Elders

While Sarutobi was musing about academy he heard a knock followed by Danzo entering the office. Now seated infront of his nemesis, he wondered what Sarutobi wanted.

Sarutobi asked

" Danzo, tell me about your root work"

Danzo suprised but kept his face blank, and answered

" Sarutobi, what are you going on about? You know the root was disbanded"

" Danzo, you and I both know that I have turned a blind eye to your little project "

" Fine! what do you want with them. Get to the point "

Sarutobi took out the documents and placed it infront of him, and asked about his opinion on the documents.

Danzo took a glance at the documents and saw what worried the Hokage. " You think it is a work of a spy? "

" That possibility isn't ruled out Danzo. I am thinking of upgrading the security. "

" Sarutobi what does this have to do with Root? "

" Danzo, I want you to stop taking underground mission's and give me the documents on all root members. I will have two of your Root members going through the paperwork and organizing them. The other members will do missions that I forward to you. Deploy one of your root team to guard the village entrance. "

" Sarutobi, what have you thought about upgrading village defenses and academy? "

" The Elders will be upgrading academy standards. I will call Jiraya, he will work with Hiashi and Shikaku to upgrade village defense system. "

" Sarutobi, You should also call back Tsunade, she had enough time to grieve, she should upgrade the hospital and maybe spread her teachings, we need more field medics. "

" I will send her the message. "

" While on topic of increasing village strength, maybe you should retire, a new strong and young leader will definitely boost the village's image. "

" I have already thought about that Danzo, and already have a name in mind, he will need to reachieve his S-class status and then will be announced Hokage "

" Who is it? "

" later "

You are dismissed Danzo. It was nice seeing you grow a backbone Sarutobi, the village will flourish now. Within 5 minutes of his leaving the Elders came.

Sarutobi got directly to the point and told them to upgrade academy standards and oversee the academy matters. He informed them that students leaving the academy must be trained to low chunin level and in there Last year of academy will be doing D-rank missions.

After they left, he summoned his monkey messenger and told them to give the message to both his students. The summons nodded and disappeared with a poof.

While he leaned back in his seat overlooking the village and relaxing.

He wondered what his choosen successor will think.