Recruit Inuzuka for tracking and forensics. Consider the use of Yamanaka auxiliaries.
Shared leadership on rotation between the three clans. Membership to ideally be opened eventually to any law-abiding applicant of relevant skills regardless of background.
Hiruzen barely saw the words anymore. All he could think was that he couldn't believe Konoha was a place where citizens could only do good in spite of him and his Shinobi.
He didn't want Konoha to be a place where people talked to him believing he might order them executed at every moment. That madness was for the lawless, for Rain, for the Village of Mists, not here.
He got up from his chair and went to the window. Looked at the Hokage monument.
Looked down at the people going about their day. Somewhere among them, there was a large minority, perhaps even majority, of civilian people who understood how he and his shinobi worked better than most genin.
Yet the invisible divide between them and the ninja was so large that nobody saw fit to recognize that, never mind report.
Konoha's citizens are no fools at least.
The thought wasn't as happy as it used to be.
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