Chapter 135: A Naruto Darkening Plan That Will 100% Succeed
Chapter 135: A Naruto Darkening Plan That Will 100% Succeed
Late at night, at a Konoha BBQ restaurant.
The banquet celebrating Rock Lee's recovery had ended.
These young ones mutually pledged to train hard, and in a month, they would face off in the main tournament of the third exam. A few of the bolder ones even wanted to challenge Naraku Uehara.
After Naraku Uehara cordially bid them farewell, he returned to the inn where he was staying. After slowly pouring himself a cup of tea, he turned to look at a figure in a dark corner: "Kabuto, how are things progressing? Have you found that woman named Karin?"
"Yes."
Kabuto Yakushi emerged from the darkness and replied, "I have temporarily settled her in a small town near Konoha."
"Protect her well. That's a gift I intend for my elder."
After softly instructing Kabuto Yakushi, Naraku Uehara continued, "When the Chunin Exams are about to end, you will go with me to capture Danzo Shimura. If we cannot capture him, we will kill him on the spot."
"Yes."
Kabuto Yakushi chuckled and pushed up his glasses, "Lord Naraku, I have been responsible for the contact between Lord Orochimaru and Danzo Shimura. At that time, I can use the pretext of discussing the Konoha Crush plan to invite him out for a meeting."
"It doesn't matter, he can't escape anyway."
Naraku Uehara clenched his fist, looking as if victory was already in his grasp. "Danzo Shimura is a gift I've carefully prepared for Teacher for when I return to Amegakure. Even seeing his corpse will make Teacher happy."
"..."
Kabuto Yakushi once again felt that his new boss was unreliable.
When he was Orochimaru's assistant in the Akatsuki, Kabuto had met Konan once. He didn't think that cool, blue-haired woman would be happy to see Danzo Shimura's corpse!
No, wait, any woman wouldn't be happy to receive a corpse as a gift, right!
Unfortunately, Naraku Uehara looked so confident that Kabuto didn't dare to rashly speak up and change his decision.
Besides, killing Danzo Shimura was also something Kabuto wanted to do.
"Alright, let's leave it at that!"
Naraku Uehara waved his hand and then gave a few final instructions: "Next, what you need to do is monitor Orochimaru's movements, ensure his Konoha Crush plan proceeds smoothly, and incidentally guide him to research White Zetsu."
"Understood."
Kabuto Yakushi put on his hood and disappeared into the night.
After Kabuto Yakushi left, Naraku Uehara began to scheme his own plan. He had to continue thinking of ways to make Naruto go dark and defect.
This mission was too difficult!
Seriously, making Sasuke defect was very simple.
Today, Naraku Uehara felt that if he just beckoned, that little fellow Sasuke would follow him out of Konoha and become a rogue ninja.
Damn it, Sasuke was really too easy to deceive!
As long as someone held a grudge against Itachi Uchiha and could help him become stronger, enabling him to kill Itachi Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha would be willing to join.
Unfortunately, Naraku Uehara didn't want him at all.
In comparison, a stubborn guy like Naruto Uzumaki gave Naraku Uehara a headache. He really had no way to guide Naruto into darkness, unless he used someone else's identity to leak information.
In about a month, Naraku Uehara was definitely going to kill Danzo Shimura. So, should he use Danzo's identity based on the principle of "use it while you have it, and cherish it"?
After all, once Naraku Uehara himself killed Danzo, the ninja world would lose a scapegoat.
No, wait, there was someone else whose death was also imminent.
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
A smile slowly crept onto Naraku Uehara's lips. Instead of using Danzo Shimura's appearance and risking exposure while acting in Konoha, why not use Hiruzen Sarutobi!
After all, the "Third Hokage conspiracy theory" had a good market in the anime fandom, and he carried a lot of blame, some of which couldn't be washed clean!
Naraku Uehara almost immediately confirmed this plan.
On the night before the Chunin Exam finals, he would impersonate Hiruzen Sarutobi. Letting Naruto Uzumaki discover that his respected Hokage Grandpa had always been a schemer, a dark Hokage, would surely cause Naruto Uzumaki's beliefs to collapse!
A miscalculation!
Why bother racking his brains and being overly cautious with such a simple and straightforward plan?
Naruto Uzumaki's sole aspiration was to become Hokage. Once he saw that Konoha's Third Hokage was so dark psychologically, he would definitely abandon Konoha completely!
If his lifelong dream collapsed, what was there left to persist for?
The only trouble was, he couldn't leave any flaws.
Naraku Uehara needed to find a way to get someone to put on a show, allowing Naruto Uzumaki to inadvertently discover that the 'Third Hokage' was a dark person. This way, he would surely believe it.
And then, when the finals began and Orochimaru launched the Konoha Crush plan, he would have someone sling mud at Hiruzen Sarutobi, thoroughly cementing the idea that Hiruzen Sarutobi was a schemer. How could Naruto Uzumaki still doubt it?
Furthermore, after Orochimaru killed Hiruzen Sarutobi, wouldn't this matter become a case with no living witnesses to refute it?
After all, Hiruzen Sarutobi was indeed tainted by a lot of darkness. As the leader of a major nation's ninja village, how could he possibly be completely clean!
Naraku Uehara rubbed his hands excitedly and directly finalized the plan: "As long as the plan succeeds, it's almost 100% certain to make Naruto go dark. I'm truly a genius!"
Now that this plan was confirmed, the rest was how to sling mud at the Third Hokage, and incidentally, think about what dirt Hiruzen Sarutobi had…
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First, start with Naruto Uzumaki's lineage.
In fact, during the Nine-Tails' rampage, the Anbu reported to Hiruzen Sarutobi first instead of Minato Namikaze. This implied that the real power of the Anbu might still be in Hiruzen Sarutobi's hands.
This made him seem a bit too greedy for power.
After pondering for a while, Naraku Uehara planned to adapt this into Hiruzen Sarutobi, in his greed for power, instigating Obito Uchiha to launch the Nine-Tails' attack, secretly assassinating the Fourth Hokage and his wife, and thereby retaking power in Konoha.
Second, start with Naruto Uzumaki's upbringing.
It had to be said, Hiruzen Sarutobi had always been watching Naruto Uzumaki's growth, fearing he would be influenced by the Nine-Tails' chakra, and thus continuously instilled the Will of Fire in him.
Moreover, Hiruzen Sarutobi nominally forbade others from discussing Naruto Uzumaki being the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, but he didn't prohibit the villagers from ostracizing Naruto Uzumaki.
This was blatant psychological manipulation.
This was mental brainwashing.
Naraku Uehara thought for a while longer and planned to adapt this into Hiruzen Sarutobi, in order to cultivate a war machine loyal to himself, secretly ordering others to ostracize Naruto, while he himself guided Naruto to accept the Will of Fire, actually just wanting the Jinchuriki to be useful to him.
Third, start with Naruto Uzumaki's bonds.
Hiruzen Sarutobi personally arranged for Kakashi Hatake to be the supervising jonin of Team Seven. He likely valued Kakashi's compatibility with Team Seven. After all, Kakashi had the Sharingan and was a disciple of the Fourth Hokage; he could surely protect his teacher's son and educate the Uchiha survivor.
This was using bonds as a restraint.
Naraku Uehara thought again for a while and planned to adapt this into Hiruzen Sarutobi sending Kakashi to use his Sharingan to monitor and control Naruto at any time, lest the Nine-Tails went berserk; and then leak the information about Kakashi Hatake and Obito Uchiha's teammate relationship.
In addition to these, he also had to add in Hiruzen Sarutobi secretly guiding Itachi Uchiha to betray his clan and ordering him to massacre the Uchiha clan.
After all, Danzo had been the scapegoat for Hiruzen Sarutobi so many times, it was time for the roles to be reversed!
After thinking for an entire night, Naraku Uehara barely perfected his plan.
Now that he had developed the plan to this extent, he would definitely be able to guide Naruto into darkness and defection. If it still failed, then he would freaking stop doing this mission in the future!
Heh, how could it fail?
After returning, he would apply to Teacher Konan for two sets of Akatsuki uniforms.
One for the twelve-year-old Naruto Uzumaki, and one for his sixteen-year-old self.
He would soon be able to bring the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki back. Wasn't that worth a uniform and the status of an official member?
However, just as Naraku Uehara finished formulating Naruto's defection plan, a variable appeared within his plan.
An old man returned to Konoha.
One of Konoha's Sannin, the Toad Sage Jiraiya.
(End of Chapter)
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