Chapter 1: The Uchiha Police Force’s “plague God”
Konoha 57, one year before the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall.
Inside the Konoha Military Police Force station, Uchiha Fugaku held a list in his hand. With a stern face, his gaze swept over the young generation of the Uchiha Clan in front of him.
These children, aged 12 to 16, were the future of the Uchiha Clan.
Uchiha Fugaku said in a deep voice: “Next… Uchiha Izumi.”
“Ah? Here!!!”
The twelve-year-old Uchiha girl hurriedly raised her hand in response.
Fugaku stared at the girl and questioned: “Do you have the determination to participate in the Uchiha Military Police Force rookie assessment?”
Uchiha Izumi said with a solemn expression: “I’m already prepared!”
Fugaku nodded: “The assessment time is one month. During this month, a formal member of the Police Force will serve as your assessor and conduct the rookie assessment for you.”
“If he thinks your performance passes the assessment, you can officially join the Uchiha Military Police Force and become an enforcer of Konoha.”
Fugaku pointed to the names written on the board behind him.
Many names on it had already been circled.
Fugaku continued: “You can choose an assessor for yourself, but you can only choose from names that haven’t been circled.”
Izumi looked up at the densely packed names above.
—Uchiha Shun, Uchiha Tsukino, Uchiha Ikeizumi, Uchiha Ieshin…
The girl realized she didn’t recognize any of them!
“Then… Senior Ikeizumi?” Izumi said softly and timidly. She chose this senior simply because his name was very similar to hers.
Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Ikeizumi—just one character different.
Fugaku was taken aback.
“Ikeizumi…” His eyes flashed with a hint of complexity as he suggestively asked: “Are you sure? You can’t change once you’ve chosen.”
Izumi didn’t catch the clan head’s hint and thought the clan head was just urging her on.
“I’m sure.”
She hurriedly nailed down her choice with a decisive hammer.
Fugaku thought for a moment and reminded her: “Uchiha Ikeizumi is an elite ninja of the Police Force. His assessment requirements for you will likely be stricter than anyone else’s. Remember, do not defy his orders if you want to survive.”
Izumi was stunned.
She swallowed hard.
The clan head hadn’t reminded the other clan members like he did her. Did that mean she had made the wrong choice?
The girl started to panic.
……
Izumi was still a bit dazed when she walked out of the Police Force.
She held an “assessment commission letter” in her hand. As long as she handed this commission letter to Senior Ikeizumi, the next month would be a hellish assessment by the Police Force.
“It would be great if Itachi-kun were here. I could ask him what kind of person Senior Ikeizumi is.”
Izumi muttered softly.
She wanted to ask other clan members for information, but then remembered she wasn’t close to the others in the Uchiha Clan.
It was because Izumi was the only odd one out in the Uchiha Clan and couldn’t play with her peers in the clan at all.
Her mother was from the Uchiha Clan, but her father was a civilian ninja. Uchiha Izumi had taken her father’s surname before the age of five.
Until the Night of the Nine-Tails arrived, her father died protecting her, and her mother brought her back to the Uchiha, after which she took her mother’s surname.
“Calm down, calm down… As long as I’m polite, even if Senior Ikeizumi is strict, it shouldn’t get too bad.”
Izumi decided to buy a meeting gift first.
However.
Before she could act, a cry came from not far away: “The Police Force ninjas are back!”
Izumi turned her head to look.
She saw a group of Uchiha Military Police Force members coming in a crowd—they were all dressed in ninja combat uniforms, equipped with many ninja tools, each exuding a powerful aura, majestic and imposing.
There probably wasn’t time to buy a meeting gift. If Senior Ikeizumi was in the crowd and she didn’t greet him in time, it would likely leave a bad impression.
Izumi hurriedly jogged over and mustered her courage to ask them: “Excuse me, which one of you is Senior Uchiha Ikeizumi?”
She nervously showed the commission letter in her hand: “I’m a recruit trainee for the Police Force rookie assessment. My name is Uchiha Izumi.”
The ninjas of the Uchiha Military Police Force stopped.
Pairs of eyes filled with astonishment focused on her.
As if staring at a rare summoned beast.
Among them… a female Uchiha Military Police Force member walked up to Izumi and asked the girl with a strange expression: “You picked Uchiha Ikeizumi as your assessor?”
“Mm.” Uchiha Izumi nodded.
“…Good luck.” The female Uchiha patted Izumi’s shoulder sympathetically: “He’s not here. If you’re looking for him, you can try your luck on the messiest streets in the village. He’s probably there.”
“Wish you good luck. Sometimes surviving is a kind of luck.”
Izumi: “???”
Izumi’s little face turned pale with fright, and she quickly asked: “Senior, is Senior Ikeizumi very strict with us rookies?”
The female Uchiha shook her head and said: “It’s not about being strict. This guy… how should I put it, he’s just a bit of a loner. Even Clan Head Fugaku has a hard time ordering him around. Here’s a suggestion: prepare a will first. Trust me, you’ll need it soon.”
Izumi: “…”
She noticed that the Police Force seniors were looking at her with a hint of pity.
……
At the same time.
In the famous “bathhouse, casino, brothel” street of Konoha Village, a young man dressed in Police Force uniform arrived.
The moment he arrived alone, the air on the entire street seemed to still.
Fully three seconds later, panicked clamor erupted.
“Oh no! That Uchiha Plague God is here again! Last time he came, he stuffed over fifty people into Konoha Prison! Quick, notify the boss, close the casino doors!”
“Why is he here again? How long has it been? A month?”
“Hey! Uchiha Ikeizumi! Don’t go too far, you bastard. We’re all legitimate businesses. Konoha doesn’t ban gambling, doesn’t ban prostitution, and even contraband drugs only prohibit a few kinds. Why do you keep targeting us?”
“Shh—do you have a death wish? Piss off this Uchiha Plague God, and you’ll rot in a Konoha Prison cell for life.”
“Y-you, don’t look at me! I’m just passing by!”
“…”
Uchiha Ikeizumi casually rested one hand on the hilt of the ninja sword at his waist, his gaze lightly scanning the area, searching for prey his eyes could “see.”
Suddenly.
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s gaze stopped: “Found a little rat.”
In his line of sight, a short-statured man was keeping his head down, carefully hiding in the street-side crowd. At first glance, he seemed unremarkable.
But in Uchiha Ikeizumi’s eyes…
The short man was like a firefly in the night, impossible to ignore.
Because he could clearly see a bright red frame hovering over the man’s head, with lines of red text inside the frame.
【Akiyama Jiro—two days ago, after losing at gambling and drinking to drown his sorrows, he committed violence against his own four-year-old child while drunk, leading to the child’s death. Sin Level: Red Name!】
This…
Was also Uchiha Ikeizumi’s golden finger in this life.
Uchiha Ikeizumi walked toward the man expressionlessly, and the crowd of bystanders scattered in fear, afraid this Plague God from the Uchiha Military Police Force would target them.
Just as the man tried to slip away with the crowd.
Uchiha Ikeizumi spoke: “Akiyama Jiro, where do you think you’re going?”
He looked down at the short man.
His gaze was emotionless, like looking at a dead man.
At that moment.
“Fin… finally found you!”
The girl’s panting voice suddenly rang out behind Uchiha Ikeizumi: “Excuse me, are you Senior Uchiha Ikeizumi?”
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