Chapter 219 - 219 (1/2)

Every new Hokage brings change to the village, and Minato was no exception.

He finally had full control of the Anbu. Now, the first thing for him to deal with was their reconstruction.

The 3rd took with him around a quarter of their forces to be his personal team, including their leader.

These were his confidants, and naturally Ninjas that wouldn't be put in leadership by Minato.

The original Anbu Leader was also someone from the 3rd's entourage and one of the closest in Konoha to him. The Anbu are the closest faction in a village's Ninjas to the Kage. Naturally, Minato had to pick one who's very close to him.

Not finding someone suitable for the position right off the bat, he decided to train Kakashi to become the new Anbu Commander.

Minato decided to do this for several reasons. First, Kakashi was his disciple, and had worked with him since age five. Thus, he could fully trust him.

Second, because of Kakashi's talent and great training, he was already near Kage tier at the age of 14. He had been more than capable of taking the position for a while now, at least strength wise.

Third, Kakashi had to go to the Anbu department anyway. After all, Fugaku had agreed to let Kakashi keep Obito's Sharingan, but one of the conditions was to get him to disappear for a while.

Therefore, the 3rd did already decide get him to the Anbu preparation training. However, because his Sharingan wasn't merging yet with his body, the decision was postponed.

Now with his Sharingan already integrated into his body, it was time for him to officially join their ranks.

As for the remaining quarter of Anbu that had to be filled, Minato focused on supplementing the Ranks with civilian and Ino-Shika-Cho Ninjas, along with a few Uchihas and Hyugas.

Minato could not trust the last two clans fully; they had initially chosen to support Minato's election as the 4th Hokage just to offset the rapid growth of the Sarutobi clan.

Now with the 3rd retiring, they lost this motive, as the Sarutobi clan's rise in power naturally slowed down.

With no such threat, Minato was reluctant to believe that he could trust the Uchiha and Hyuga clans to keep their full support.

The recruitment of the Anbu was naturally not a one-off event. After finishing this initial phase, Minato focused his energy on another matter.

This matter was the reduction of the three counselors' authorities; to make them share them with the Ino-Shika-Cho, the Hyuga, and the Uchiha.

However, the matter went unexpectedly smoothly, and Danzo, Homura and Koharu did not make any resistance.

At Root's headquarter, the three gathered.

”Why did the two of you look for me?” Koharo's tone was extremely cold.

Since the two gave Kagami's eyes to Orochimaru, Koharu began to deliberately keep some distance from Danzo and Homura.

It's been a long time since the two met, and for a while, they did not discuss anything.

After some silence, Homura said helplessly: ”Koharu, I have already explained that matter to you. Why don't you…”