Chapter 11: The enhanced 'Konoha Crush' plan

Hachiro and Orochimaru discussed a plan on how to bring about Konoha's imminent doom.

Right now, the only thing that was stopping a true collapse was the death of the third Hokage.

Although In terms of pure statistics Konoha was only third in terms of strength among the Ninja villages.

The Shinobi from the clans were much stronger and versatile compared to their counterparts, this was the case especially with clan heads.

There was also the lone geniuses like Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy who could ruin the plan with their Dojutsu and Taijutsu.

Of course, like in the original they could work around that, and with much more Shinobi it would be much for them to accomplish their objective.

In the original Orochimaru attacked Konoha with less than 200 shinobi, imagine what would happen if that became 500 or 600. The ensuing chaos would be more than enough to bring Konoha to it's knees.

Although, it would be a problem sneaking so many Shinobi past the border of the Land of Fire, the guards aren't dolls made of straw after all.

This plan was going to be an enhanced version the Konoha Crush plan.

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After discussing for about half an hour.

Even with how calm and detached he was, he couldn't help but sweat at how well informed the cloud was about the ninja from Konoha.

"Kumogakure lives up to its reputation as a village that thrives in war. With how much information you have you must have a lot of spies."

"Let's stop planning here for the time being. We don't have specific numbers on how many and which shinobi we will have. We can plan in more detail after we have got confirmation."

Hachiro got up from the rock and asked,

"So, where are you going next?"

"Hehe~ Couldn't Hachiro-kun make a place for me in Kumogakure?"

Orochimaru asked tentatively with a weird smile.

"Despite not being afraid of snakes, I don't have much interest in raising them either."

He responded with a smile.

Although he isn't afraid of Orochimaru, give him enough time and he could do practically anything.

Plus, according to a report from one of the high ranking spies hidden in Konoha, Orochimaru had taken over thousands of people before he was caught. It wasn't that Konoha shinobi were incapable but rather the snake was too capable.

With how messy and uncontrollable experimental research was, it would probably require countless lives for each project.

Hachiro wasn't interested in helping Orochimaru kidnap people from the Land of Lightning.

Orochimaru had never thought of relying on Kumogakure's charity from the start, he just shrugged it off.

"After Minato's death I prepared a trump card. Hachiro-kun doesn't need to worry about me dying an untimely death."

"That's good, at least before the [Konoha Crush Project] is completed I don't want you to die."

Hachiro raised his hand slightly before becoming a lightning bolt and disappearing off into the distance.

"How does that jutsu mimic the properties of thunder, so well?"

After a moment of pondering he looked at the surface of the river, dipped his hand in the water and laughed.

"Hahaha, Sarutobi sensei, before you know it, all your enemies will come knocking on your door at once."

Recalling his discussion on how to implement the plan that would hopefully end in Konoha's destruction, he felt a surge of joy.

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Kumogakure.

After training, Hachiro threw on a white shirt. At first glance, the shirt looked a bit similar to Dracule Mihawk's from One Piece.

He was sitting cross-legged on top of the roof on his house. Sitting on his lap was an eleven months old Hinata, her hair had grown slightly flaunting its pretty indigo colour.

Hachiro held a recently bought book in his hands, it's title said 'How to teach Babies Language.' in a fancy font.

Currently, he was showing the content of the book to Hinata and pointing at a sequence of letters from the alphabet in a specific order.

"Ha~Chi~Ro~"

He was looking forward to Hinata saying his name before Samui's for future parent bragging rights.

"Oh woo~"

Hinata rocked about as if she understood, before uttering an incomprehensible cry indicating her lack of comprehension.

"Uh..."

Hachiro scratched his head helplessly, then pointed to a word this time and said,

"Kasan (Mom)."

"Oooo~"

Hinata pouted and made a weird and cute bubbly sound.

He rolled his eyes and resisted to urge to slap her little butt.

Forget it, take your time.

"Oh Dosan (Dad)"

Hachiro pointed to the next word with dashed hopes.

"Jaa~ shing~."

Although her pronunciation was not very clear, he could interpret the word easily.

"F***!"

Hachiro shouted in a frightened voice.

Immediately, he looked at Hinata with a scared expression.

The other party gazed back looking innocent.

"Uh... Don't say that name in the future, be careful of evil men when you grow up..."

He rubbed Hinata's little head and said.

Hinata tilted her head, not really understanding who 'Jashin' was.

"That is a very strong and evil man. He kills people for fun."

Hachiro fabricated a lie on the spot.

Note: Ah~, I'm currently drinking tea from a mug I got for Christmas. Feels good.