Chapter 88.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

“And so I call this first meeting of the Hokage’s advisory council in order” I said, feeling the robes as they weighed be down as well as the comforting weight of the hat as I rose from my seat.

We were in one of the many meeting rooms that dotted the Hokage tower. Having it rearranged into a semi-permanent meeting space for this council of mine had been the first thing I’d tasked myself with this morning. In some ways, you could call it my first post-war act as Hokage. Well, that and making the appointments of the people that filled this room.

I looked around them now, and realised that avoiding allegations of favoritism was going to be near impossible. Good thing I was a military dictator and that went par for the course with military dictatorships.

“I assume most of you should be very familiar with each other. You are more than familiar with me, after all. But for the purpose of this meeting, can we have introductions. Just your name and your role in the new Konoha government will suffice” I said, turning first to my left hand side. They would move in a half circle and then return to the person on my right hand side, the most important role of them all.

“I am Uraume Hyuga. Head of Anbu” She said, rising and then returning to her seat. She was the first head of anbu not to be promoted from within the division, and thus the first head of Anbu to not actually be a member of the organisation. It was going to ruffle a few feathers for sure, but I wouldn’t have appointed her if I hadn’t felt that she was suitable for the role at the very least. She would keep things in order.

Next in the line was one of my genin teammates.

“I am Toshiro Takehada, Head of the Academy and Shinobi Education” He said. That was another area where I was promoting one off my people over the existing apparatus. It was going to go better than Uraume’s appointment into Anbu at the very least. For one, the clans gave fewer fucks about the Academy than they did about the Anbu. They did most of their training in-house. Of course, over time I would see to it that that would no longer be the case. But for now, they could ignore the academy. That worked well for my plans.