Chapter 55: Uncontrollable Public Opinion Pounces On Uchiha Itachi
Today. A strange rumor suddenly appeared in the Uchiha Clan Compound for some unknown reason.
——Uchiha Ikeizumi’s Sharingan possesses a terrifying dojutsu that can see through “Past Evil” and “Future Evil”. He saw through the Clan Leader’s son Uchiha Itachi’s “Future Evil”. Uchiha Itachi will betray the Uchiha and massacre the Uchiha Clan on a certain day in the future.
——Every man, woman, child, and elder in the Uchiha Clan, without exception, will fall to Uchiha Itachi’s cleaver. Even his parents and friends, Uchiha Itachi will mercilessly kill them.
——When Uchiha Ikeizumi wanted to eliminate this “Future Evil”, Clan Leader Fugaku blocked him and chose to protect Uchiha Itachi, who will fall into the abyss in the future!
The rumor involves the three most prominent figures in the Uchiha Clan.
Ninja Cats don’t even need to deliberately fan the flames.
The rumor quickly spread throughout the Uchiha Clan.
But the amount of information in the rumor is simply too great, so much so that it’s hard to believe, and everyone is instinctively questioning whether it’s true or false.
After all, they’ve never heard of a terrifying dojutsu that can see through Past Evil and Future Evil.
Moreover…
That guy Uchiha Itachi is quite out of place in the Uchiha Clan. Many clan members don’t look favorably on him, after all, he’s on the Hokage’s side.
But…
He shouldn’t be that much of a beast, right?
After all, he bears the Uchiha name!
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“That rookie! Yes, you.” In the women’s restroom of a certain public toilet in the Uchiha Clan Compound, Izumi, who had just finished using the toilet, suddenly heard someone call out to her from behind.
She shook off her heavy, preoccupied expression and flicked the water droplets from her hands after washing them.
She curiously turned around.
She saw a female Uchiha dressed in the Uchiha Police Force uniform quietly asking her: “You’re Uchiha Ikeizumi’s student, you must know things we don’t. Let me ask you… is that thing this morning true?”
Izumi looked bewildered: “Huh?”
She didn’t know what Kijiro had done.
“I mean the thing about Uchiha Itachi.” The other said: “Did Uchiha Ikeizumi really see through Uchiha Itachi’s Future Evil?”
Izumi: “!!!”
Izumi was startled, looking at the other in shock. The expression on her small face had already revealed the “answer”.
“It’s actually true…”
She hadn’t even answered, but the other had already realized something, murmuring in shock as she repeated the words: “It’s actually true.”
Izumi noticed that during the other’s neurotic muttering to herself, veins were bulging on the back of her hand.
This Police Force senior seemed to be strangely furious.
She even saw the other’s Sharingan emerge in her anger.
“U…chi…ha…I…ta…chi… You’ve really done it!”
Izumi heard the other squeeze out Uchiha Itachi’s name word by word.
Things seemed to be developing in a direction beyond her expectations.
Also, how did this person know about what happened this morning?
Izumi was utterly puzzled.
……
With “Uchiha Izumi”, this witness who had been tricked into confirming it, the rumor, which wasn’t very believable before, suddenly gained some credibility, making countless Uchiha clan members shudder.
Uchiha Setsuna handed his cane to a guard beside him and slowly knelt down on a soft cushion.
His gaze swept over the group of Uchiha Clan Radicals ninjas in front of him.
Uchiha Setsuna asked in a hoarse voice: “What do you think is the credibility of the special rumor in the clan today?!”
“At least 70% credible.”
A Uchiha Ninja replied in a deep voice: “The girl by Uchiha Ikeizumi’s side also admitted the truth of this matter. Moreover, according to our investigation, some clan members did see the Clan Leader coming out of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s home early in the morning.”
“Moreover, considering Uchiha Ikeizumi’s outrageous case-solving rate. Maybe his eyes are indeed very special, possessing a unique dojutsu we’ve never had.”
Bang!!!
Someone angrily slammed the table and gnashed their teeth: “What a Uchiha Itachi! What a Uchiha Fugaku! We’ve been working diligently and conscientiously just to protect the Uchiha’s future. But… they want to destroy the Uchiha Clan with their own hands!”
Someone else clenched their fist, gaze cold: “Elder Setsuna, we need to nip the Uchiha’s future crisis in the cradle.”
“But what if the information is wrong? Can a normal Three-Tomoe Sharingan really see through Future Evil?”
“No ‘what if’! Even if there’s the slightest possibility, we can’t let it exist in the world. What’s more, that guy Uchiha Itachi was never on our side to begin with. I’ve long suspected that Shisui died at Uchiha Itachi’s hands! After all, on the day Shisui died, we were all at the family meeting, only Shisui and Uchiha Itachi were absent.”
“……”
In just a few words, the group of Uchiha Radicals reached a consensus.
——Believe the rumor!
Even if there’s only a sliver of possibility, they absolutely cannot let that happen.
“Everyone.”
At this time, Uchiha Setsuna, who had been silent for a while, slowly said: “I believe that Uchiha Fugaku, who chose to indulge Uchiha Itachi, no longer has the right to serve as the Clan Leader of the Uchiha Clan.”
All gazes focused on this elderly Hawk Elder.
……
“Clan Leader Fugaku, is this matter true?”
The moderates of the Uchiha Clan, who advocate for peaceful coexistence with the village, found Uchiha Fugaku and asked him this question.
Fugaku’s expression darkened slightly.
He had no idea who had leaked the matter.
He naturally noticed the public opinion storm brewing in the Uchiha Clan, but Fugaku didn’t want to step in to control it. Because he knew that if he did, it would confirm the matter.
But if he didn’t step in to control public opinion, the matter was very likely to spread beyond the Uchiha Clan to the village.
This left Fugaku very conflicted.
So… could Ikeizumi be the one who spread what happened this morning?
However.
This was completely different from Ikeizumi’s usual taciturn style.
Has he changed?
Or…
Is it someone else?
“Just rumors spread by word of mouth.”
After a long silence, Fugaku gave an answer that still chose to protect his eldest son.
With a stern face, he slowly said: “Itachi won’t do such a thing now, nor in the future. The Uchiha Clan needs to unite to continue peaceful coexistence with the village. Don’t believe the instigations of those with ulterior motives. I guarantee Itachi in my capacity as Clan Leader.”
An elder of the Uchiha Clan’s moderates shook his head and sighed: “I hope you’ve made the right choice, Clan Leader Fugaku.”
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Noon.
Ninja Academy.
Uchiha Sasuke had just finished his bento in the first-year classroom of the Ninja Academy when he suddenly noticed that several students who entered the classroom were looking at him with odd expressions.
They seemed to be whispering about something.
And pointing at him secretly.
Sasuke frowned. Just as he was about to go ask what they wanted, they unexpectedly approached him first.
“Sasuke classmate.” One of them tentatively asked: “Did your brother Uchiha Itachi kill everyone in your Uchiha Clan?”
Sasuke: “???”
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