Inside Naruto's room.
Orochimaru, with his finger pressed against Naruto's stomach, slowly opened his eyes, then looked at Naruto and said, "I already know everything!"
"Mm!" Naruto nodded and said, "You just need to find Danzo and pin everything I know on my dad!"
Orochimaru looked at Naruto, a strange smile appearing on his face, then performed a Summoning Jutsu on the spot.
Orochimaru's Summoning Jutsu only summoned a small white snake.
"To contact me, just speak to this snake!"
As he spoke, Orochimaru opened his mouth again, spitting out a scroll onto the table, then continued, "This scroll contains the Hashirama Cells of Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze!"
Naruto pointed to the scroll, which still had saliva on it, and said, "That... can you get the stuff out of this scroll? I don't know how to open scrolls."
Seeing Naruto's disgusted look, Orochimaru knew that he wasn't unable to open the scroll; he was simply thoroughly disgusted.
However, Orochimaru didn't mind. He directly opened the scroll on the table, then formed a hand seal. A puff of white smoke emanated from the scroll, and a test tube appeared before Naruto's eyes.
"This test tube contains the Hashirama Cells of the Fourth Hokage."
"Also... if you're not using it for now, it's best to store it in a scroll, otherwise the active cells will die!"
"If not in a scroll, a refrigerator works too."
Hearing Orochimaru's reminder, Naruto nodded, but he didn't seal it in a scroll or put it in the refrigerator as Orochimaru suggested. Instead, he picked up the test tube and walked towards a machine in the corner of the room.
This machine was the treatment machine that hadn't been used much recently.
However... this treatment machine had already been re-engineered by Grey Wolf and turned into a cloning machine.
Arriving next to the cloning machine, Naruto directly placed the test tube into the culture dish next to it, then started the cloning machine.
Orochimaru, who was originally planning to leave, was stunned when he saw Naruto's operation.
"What are you doing?"
"Cloning!"
Hearing the new term "cloning," Orochimaru felt a bit curious and thought to himself, "Could cloning be the method to revive the Fourth Hokage? Interesting!"
Orochimaru knew that in the early stages of cooperation, being too curious about a collaborator wasn't a good thing, and he had already gained a lot today, so he didn't ask any more questions. He greeted Naruto and then turned to leave!
After leaving Naruto's house, Orochimaru disappeared on the spot with an Earth Release Jutsu.
When he emerged from the ground, he had already arrived at the Forest of Death.
To immediately obtain the remaining Hashirama Cells, Orochimaru directly contacted Danzo through his methods.
After receiving the message, Danzo met with Orochimaru again in the underground laboratory of the Forest of Death.
Danzo looked at Orochimaru and asked, "How did the intelligence gathering go?"
Orochimaru shrugged and said, "Of course it's done! Otherwise, I wouldn't have come looking for you."
Hearing Orochimaru's words, Danzo's face immediately darkened.
Danzo had learned from his subordinates that Orochimaru hadn't even gone to see Naruto.
"Heh heh..." Danzo sneered, "Do you think I'm easy to fool?"
"Root didn't see you enter Uzumaki Naruto's house at all."
Orochimaru was also stunned by the remark.
At this moment, Orochimaru's first reaction was, "How is that possible?" Then, thinking of Minato Namikaze's methods, he felt relieved, and finally, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he thought, "So, no one saw me slip on the banana peel and roll down the stairs earlier!"
Seeing Orochimaru's silence, Danzo thought that he had exposed Orochimaru's lie, leaving him speechless.
"So, you admit you were deceiving me?"
Orochimaru came back to his senses, then shook his head and said, "Heh heh... It seems you and the Third Hokage have always been kept in the dark!"
"You underestimate Uzumaki Naruto too much! No... I should say, you underestimate Minato Namikaze too much!"
"Minato Namikaze? What does this have to do with Minato Namikaze?"
Danzo was also a bit confused.
"You want to know why Uzumaki Naruto knows so much? The reason is... Minato Namikaze sealed his own consciousness into Naruto's body at the same time he sealed the Nine-Tailed!"
"Not only Minato Namikaze's consciousness, but also Kushina Uzumaki's soul."
"Hahahahaha... How interesting! Minato Namikaze!"
After hearing Orochimaru's words, Danzo was also quite shocked.
He didn't expect Minato Namikaze to dare to do such a thing.
Danzo knew that if what Orochimaru said was true, and Minato Namikaze had left a contingency, then the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki would no longer be Konoha Village's Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, but Minato Namikaze's Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki, and certainly not his, Danzo's, Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki.
Seeing Danzo's expression at this moment, Orochimaru found it very amusing.
"Alright... The mission is complete, you should give me the remaining Hashirama Cells now!"
Danzo didn't waste any time, directly throwing the already prepared Hashirama Cells to Orochimaru.
After all, there would be future collaborations, so Danzo certainly couldn't swallow up this small amount of stuff.
After handing the Hashirama Cells to Orochimaru, Danzo said coldly, "Orochimaru, let's make another deal! Go kill Minato Namikaze's consciousness within Naruto's body, and I'll give you another set of Hashirama Cells!"
Orochimaru swallowed the scroll containing the Hashirama Cells, then waved his hand and said, "Forget it! These Hashirama Cells are enough!"
Just as Danzo was about to say something else, he saw that Orochimaru's body had already turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared.
"Damn it..." Danzo cursed under his breath, then also left the area.
Naruto having the Fourth Hokage's consciousness within him was definitely not good news for Danzo.
As long as the Third Hokage didn't make mistakes, Danzo currently had only three ways to become Hokage.
Bring the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki under his command and perfectly control it.
Find a way to secretly get rid of Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Finally, get support from the Daimyo's Palace for his ascension.
Danzo had already tried two of the three methods...
Danzo had once tricked Kakashi into assassinating the Third Hokage, but Kakashi was outsmarted by the Third Hokage.
Danzo had also secretly contacted the Daimyo's Palace, but the result was... the Daimyo felt that Hiruzen Sarutobi was doing a good job as Hokage and didn't think highly of him at all.
Now, because of knowing about Minato Namikaze, even trying to get control of the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki had become very difficult.
Moreover, Danzo had a strange feeling; after he heard that Minato Namikaze's consciousness was within Naruto, he felt that he would never be able to touch the "Hokage" title.