Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

In the Hokage's office.

Danzo Shimura sought out Sarutobi Hiruzen once more, wishing to have Sakura join his Foundation, but the Third Hokage rejected him again, and said, "Do you really have the heart to let an eight-year-old girl be exposed to things she shouldn't be at this age?"

"She's still a child!"

A child!

To hell with children!

Danzo was almost driven to curse—since when did eight-year-olds grow as tall as he was?

"Their power is too strong and must be controlled," Danzo took a deep breath and slowly said, "It's for Konoha."

"They handle their own power well, and they have contributed much to Konoha with their self-developed Ninjutsu. Allowing them to grow freely maximizes benefits," Sarutobi Hiruzen said solemnly, "If they enter your place, it might stifle their creativity."

Danzo's face darkened. What did he mean his place might stifle their creativity?

"Hiruzen..."

"I said no, and it's no," Sarutobi Hiruzen lost his patience and began to show Danzo out, "If you insist further, don't blame me for not considering our past friendship, Danzo."

Danzo Shimura clenched his fists silently, and then left the Hokage's office without a word.

Just because Hiruzen was the Hokage, and he wasn't, he couldn't retort!

Sarutobi Hiruzen!

Your kindness will cost Konoha dearly!

If Haruno Sakura and Naruto Uzumaki were under his control, they could definitely become his strong lieutenants, and then he could annihilate the other four Great Ninja Villages and truly become Konoha's hero!

By then, pressurized Sarutobi Hiruzen would inevitably relinquish the position of Hokage, and for him to ascend to the throne of the Hokage would merely be a step away.

However!

"Hiruzen, you just don't want me to become the Hokage, opting instead to let those two geniuses roam free!"

"You're too selfish!"

Danzo Shimura, looking out through the window in the hallway outside the Hokage's office, saw the heads of the four Hokages carved on Konoha rock, and amid myriad thoughts, he silently swore, "One day, my face will also be carved there! And it must be in the finest position, so that even future Hokages can only be beneath my visage!"

"I will make sure every person in Konoha can see my face, grander than any previous Hokage!"

Quite a while later.

Danzo Shimura awoke from his reveries of the future, slowly left the great building of the Hokage, and returned to his own Foundation base.

The Foundation, although ostensibly dissolved by the Third Hokage, was in fact still operating, with many individuals following Danzo's orders, distinct and separate from the Anbu.

Hiruzen was well aware of this, and even tacitly allowed the existence of Danzo and his "Foundation."

One reason was because they were once companions with a past connection; another was that Konoha couldn't afford to have him dominate alone, particularly since he was already old and needed others to oversee and prevent him from making mistakes. C-on&t%en-t$ s!o@u^r%c$ed from# MV4LE&M-P%Y-R% – My Vi$rt-ua^l@ Lib%r^a!r@y Empi&re.

Indeed, Sarutobi Hiruzen had realized that Danzo Shimura was not the right person to supervise, but he had no other choice. The ninjas from other families had their own duties and, although they lived within Konoha Village, they primarily considered the interests of their own families first.

Although Danzo was extremely utilitarian and self-interested, his love for Konoha was no less than his own, albeit his methods were somewhat radical.

Sarutobi Hiruzen would not allow someone who valued family interests over those of the entire Konoha to hold an important position.

It was acceptable to have personal interests, and even to use one's position to benefit one's family, but it was absolutely forbidden to forsake the overall interests of Konoha in favor of family interests due to external threats.

Therefore, although the heads of the great families of Konoha had the right to participate in the major affairs of Konoha's development, their own power was not significant; only during wartime could they temporarily take command of Konoha's ninja forces.

At that moment, Danzo entered a secret laboratory where the lighting was dim, but a white, small snake was conspicuously present, opening its mouth to spit out a scroll.

Danzo, not minding the disgusting mucus on the scroll, picked it up and opened it; it contained a lot of text, but the main message was just two things, "need money" and "need materials."

"This Orochimaru is getting greedier by the day," Danzo Shimura frowned and couldn't help but remark.

Orochimaru was a rogue ninja of Konoha, but secretly, he was still in contact with Danzo, and even Orochimaru's human experimentation was supported by Danzo in the beginning.

Therefore, even though Orochimaru had defected, Danzo still maintained contact with him to some extent. Even the eye in his right socket, which he had taken from Uchiha Shisui, was successfully transplanted using Orochimaru's techniques.

Sealing what Orochimaru needed inside the scroll, Danzo then thought for a moment, described the situations of Haruno Sakura and Naruto Uzumaki, and sealed their cells stored in test tubes into the scroll as well.

Although Danzo was not knowledgeable about scientific research, he guessed that the cells of these two individuals must also be very special.

As for where the cells came from?

Getting Naruto's cells was easy, as the boy was always hanging around the streets, with many opportunities to make contact, allowing his men to accidentally bump into him to obtain them.

And Sakura?

She was born in the Konoha Hospital, so Danzo just had to search for the tissue samples left from that time; Konoha would take a blood sample from everyone at birth, store it for about twenty years, and then destroy it.

This was done to record the identity information of the residents of Konoha and to convey to the people of Konoha that they were fundamental to the village, thereby unifying the people of Konoha.

As for whether the body tissue left by the newborn Haruno Sakura was different from that of Sakura today, Danzo felt he still had some scientific understanding—it probably wasn't much different.

The main reason he couldn't obtain current cell tissues from Haruno Sakura—apart from Sarutobi Hiruzen's warning—was that Sakura herself was very meticulous, cleaning herself thoroughly every day, handling even a single body hair carefully to prevent others from obtaining her tissue.

Putting these thoughts aside, before slipping the scroll into the serpent's mouth, Danzo thought for a moment, then went out and had someone bring him the tissue of Shikamaru Nara, Yamanaka Ino, and Akimichi Choji, which he also added to the scroll.

In Danzo's view, there was something off about the new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho, possibly their cells had mutated, which allowed them to grow so tall, and he wanted Orochimaru to study this.

"That's it!" Danzo sealed everything he had prepared inside the scroll, grabbed the white snake, stuffed the scroll down its throat, and then threw it to the ground.

The small white snake, not wanting to stay there long, instantly transformed into smoke and disappeared from the secret laboratory...

...

"Oh? Danzo has already prepared what I need so quickly? That old man is really impatient," the pale-faced, serpent-like man's mouth curled up, his long tongue licking his lips, as he picked up the scroll released by the white snake, finding the funding he needed for his research.

"Only one million taels?"

"What does Danzo think scientific research is?"