Chapter 110: Night Of The Clan Massacre, But The Shimura Clan
When Uchiha Fugaku rushed over with a group of Police Force Ninjas, all he saw was Uchiha Izumi, Kakashi, and others.
When his gaze fell on Uzumaki Naruto, Fugaku’s heart jolted, the bright blood making his hair stand on end.
Nine-Tails Jinchuriki…
He’s injured!!!
Fugaku’s first reaction was to carefully observe Naruto’s mental state. After discovering that the Jinchuriki had not fallen into a loss of control, he finally breathed a slight sigh of relief. The heart that had been hanging finally settled down steadily.
He couldn’t help but look at Sasuke again. Sasuke’s extremely disheveled state and body full of bruises and abrasions made Fugaku furrow his brows tightly.
If it were Itachi, it would be absolutely impossible for him to be this disheveled. They were clearly brothers, yet the gap was so large—this was the first thought that flashed through Fugaku’s mind.
Seeing Sasuke in such a state, his first reaction wasn’t even concern, but instinctively comparing Sasuke to Uchiha Itachi.
And in front, the several destroyed houses, as well as the Uchiha Clan Members who looked quite disheveled and panicked one by one.
This also ignited nameless anger in Fugaku’s heart.
He took a deep breath and asked Izumi, “Izumi, where is Ikeizumi?!”
Uchiha Izumi took out a clean handkerchief, first wiped the blood from Naruto’s face, then while pressing the wound with the handkerchief, answered with a cold pretty face, “Senior Ikeizumi is executing Absolute Justice. Clan Head Fugaku, please do not interfere.”
She paused, then said firmly, “Senior Ikeizumi will soon execute those villains who dared to challenge 「Absolute Justice」. 「Absolute Justice」 will absolutely not allow evil people to be so rampant.”
Then, she ignored this useless clan leader no longer.
After letting Naruto hold the handkerchief himself, she searched her body and pulled out a pack of disinfectant wipes, saying, “Sasuke, let me treat the abrasions on your body.”
Sasuke was stunned. He first looked up at his stern father.
After discovering that his father was furrowing his brows in thought and not even paying attention to him, he pursed his lips, lowered his head, and walked to Izumi’s side.
Father’s concern for him was even less than that of an outsider like Uchiha Izumi.
This made Sasuke feel extremely aggrieved inside.
Fugaku indeed had no time to care for his second son. He had already learned from Izumi’s mouth that Uchiha Ikeizumi had not been successfully assassinated. It seemed Uchiha Setsuna’s little scheme had come to nothing.
Fugaku breathed a sigh of relief once again.
However… who exactly was Ikeizumi going to find to “execute justice”? Uchiha Setsuna? Or that “Ninja Clan” mentioned by Uchiha Setsuna? Fugaku realized he had forgotten to question Uchiha Setsuna about which Ninja Clan it was.
Right!
Fugaku looked at Kakashi. He recognized the Kakashi with silver-white hair. He said, “If Hokage discovers Uzumaki Naruto is injured, please help explain to him on behalf of the Uchiha Clan that his injury has nothing to do with the Uchiha Clan.”
Kakashi didn’t know if it was his illusion or what, but he felt Uchiha Fugaku’s words even carried a hint of pleading?
Hmm…
Probably an illusion?
After all, he was the clan leader of the Uchiha Clan. Would he need to grovel to Hokage over something like this?
With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Kakashi nodded to Fugaku without a change in expression.
“I will report everything truthfully to Hokage.”
Fugaku breathed another sigh of relief.
At this time, Fugaku keenly noticed that two Police Force members suddenly turned and hurried away.
He furrowed his brows tightly.
But he did not stop them.
……
“Not dead… Phew!” Uchiha Setsuna slowly closed his eyes, his facial expression looking very calm, but the few veins on his forehead were throbbing wildly.
He had clearly informed the Shimura Clan, who wanted to “blow up” Uchiha Ikeizumi, of Ikeizumi’s most likely weakness.
Yet he didn’t expect the Shimura Clan, now down to just a few cats, to be even more useless than he had anticipated.
He had turned a blind eye, allowing the Shimura Clan’s Ninjas to set up explosive tags inside the Uchiha Clan Compound.
He was already prepared for Uchiha Ikeizumi to be either dead or severely injured.
If Uchiha Ikeizumi died tonight, that would naturally be great for everyone; if severely injured, he would naturally arrange for someone to finish the job.
But Uchiha Ikeizumi was neither dead nor severely injured…
This truly touched upon a blind spot in Uchiha Setsuna’s plan.
“Truly the trash among trash!” Uchiha Setsuna opened his eyes, squeezing words through his teeth: “The so-called Ninja Clan are all trash! Without our Uchiha Clan, these trashes probably couldn’t even defend Konoha!”
“Hayata…”
Recalling his grandson’s living face, thinking of Uchiha Hayata whose corpse had now been evaporated and vaporized by scorching lava.
And associating it with Uchiha Ikeizumi who had been assassinated but was fine.
Uchiha Setsuna suddenly clutched his chest.
An unusual flush appeared on his face as he panted rapidly.
After finally recovering, his lips had turned completely pale.
“U!chi!ha! Ikei!zumi!”
……
Sarutobi Hiruzen no longer had time to appease the heads of various Ninja Clans “provoked” by Uchiha Ikeizumi. After realizing Naruto might be in trouble, he unhesitatingly brought all the Anbu Ninjas he could and directly charged into the Uchiha Clan.
When seeing many more Anbu Ninjas intruding, the majority of Uchiha Clan Ninjas were naturally very dissatisfied.
No one liked seeing a group of dangerous people wandering at their doorstep, not even the Uchiha Clan Ninjas.
However.
From the moment they had Uchiha Fugaku as clan leader.
The Uchiha Clan Compound became open to anyone.
“Fugaku!” Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately found Uchiha Fugaku at the messy explosion site. His old face didn’t look good as he asked in a deep voice, “Is Naruto here?”
Fugaku, who had already prepared mentally and was about to speak, was loudly interrupted by Naruto not far away.
“Grandpa Hokage!!!”
The moment Naruto’s voice rang out, the gloomy expression on Sarutobi Hiruzen’s face eased slightly.
As he squeezed out a smile, preparing to meet Naruto, he saw Naruto holding his head.
He could even see that the white handkerchief on Naruto’s head had been half-soaked red with blood.
The smile on Sarutobi Hiruzen’s face instantly stiffened.
“Medical Ninja!” As soon as Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke, a Medical Ninja from the Anbu stepped forward. Sarutobi Hiruzen quickly walked to Naruto and said to him, “Naruto, let the Medical Ninja treat your injury first.”
Naruto pointed to Sasuke next to him: “Grandpa Hokage, can you also have them treat him?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was taken aback. This child next door…
Seemed to be Fugaku’s youngest son?
“No problem.” Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded slightly. He made space, letting the Medical Ninja treat Naruto first, then asked Naruto with concern, “Naruto, how did you get that head injury? Did someone hit you?”
Naruto honestly replied, “I was caught in the explosion.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen: “!!!”
Explosion?!
He looked at the ruins nearby. The destructive power of that explosion made Sarutobi Hiruzen’s brows twitch. If caught in the explosion from those ruins, didn’t that mean Naruto had nearly died?
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s face darkened slightly as he asked Kakashi, “Kakashi, I had you supervise Naruto. You should know more than Naruto, right?”
“This white-haired uncle said it was the Shimura Clan who did it!” Naruto, being treated, answered for Kakashi.
“Shimura… Clan…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was stunned.
Kakashi took a deep breath and recounted the more detailed details to Sarutobi Hiruzen, making his brows furrow even tighter.
In other words.
Shimura Clan Ninjas wanted to assassinate Uchiha Ikeizumi, but failed and nearly blew up Naruto and Fugaku’s youngest son!
If Ikeizumi hadn’t quickly thrown them away, if Kakashi hadn’t caught them in time, these two kids would really have been in trouble!
“Wait!” Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly said, “You just said Ikeizumi went alone toward the Shimura Clan Compound?”
Kakashi nodded.
Sarutobi Hiruzen asked again, “When?”
“Five minutes ago.”
Sarutobi Hiruzen: “…”
Probably too late.
Tonight, a Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall might very well happen. But not the one in Ikeizumi’s prophecy for the Uchiha Clan, but one for the Shimura Clan!
Sarutobi Hiruzen, due to his close relationship with Danzo, knew exactly what kind of people were in the Shimura Clan.
Those people might indeed be very loyal to Konoha, even willing to give their lives for it.
But they had been deeply influenced by Danzo’s extreme personality.
Regardless of whether they had done dirty work for Danzo, just this incident tonight was a grave taboo.
If not for Ikeizumi caring relatively more about ordinary people’s safety.
This explosion would at least have taken many innocent Uchiha Clan Members.
For Ikeizumi’s 「Absolute Justice」.
All participants…
Must die!!!
“Grandpa Hokage, today Teacher Ikeizumi let me personally execute justice once, and I passed Teacher Ikeizumi’s test!” When the treated Naruto excitedly said this to Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sarutobi Hiruzen was just about to inwardly complain helplessly about why Naruto called Ikeizumi “Teacher Ikeizumi”?
But the next second, Sarutobi Hiruzen was suddenly startled.
“What?!!”
He widened his eyes, unable to stay calm, and glared at Naruto: “Naruto, Ikeizumi… incited you to kill? You say you passed his test, doesn’t that mean…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen stopped mid-sentence and glared fiercely at Kakashi.
Hadn’t he already ordered Kakashi not to let Naruto be influenced by Absolute Justice?
What exactly was Kakashi doing?!
“Hokage, it’s not what you think…”
Kakashi smiled bitterly and explained, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen stunned again and again.
It really was just a test?!
Cough!
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly felt a bit awkward. Good thing he hadn’t voiced his dissatisfaction with Kakashi inwardly, or he really would lose face.
……
Inside the Shimura Clan, some were already waiting eagerly for the elder and others to return.
When they finally returned, they immediately crowded forward.
“Elder, that Uchiha Plague God is already…”
Shimura Clan Elder shook his head: “Although we did personally witness Uchiha Ikeizumi being swallowed by the explosive tags’ explosion, we haven’t confirmed that the opponent is completely dead. Because staying there one more second would mean running into the Police Force.”
A gloom flashed in his pair of turbid eyes: “Moreover, I didn’t expect Kakashi to be at the Uchiha Clan Compound too. If we hadn’t run fast, we probably would have been caught by him.”
“Kakashi? Copy Ninja?” A younger clan member hesitated: “Isn’t he Anbu? Why was he there?”
Shimura Clan Elder said slowly, “Who knows… But our initial goal was at least achieved. After tonight, I will go directly to Konoha Hokage to turn myself in. The responsibility for planning this assassination will be borne by me alone.”
“This way, the Uchiha Clan won’t be able to trouble you. If Uchiha Ikeizumi luckily survived… if he comes for trouble later, it will be my trouble.”
“And in the time I buy for you, you must leave Konoha one after another on the pretext of going out on missions.”
“And return one after another after the storm passes.”
“I have a more suitable place to send you.” A sudden cold voice made everyone present shudder, and especially made Shimura Clan Elder’s old face fill with disbelief.
“Underworld, how about this place?” Uchiha Ikeizumi, holding a ninja sword, boldly stepped into the Shimura Clan Compound.
Shimura Clan’s elder turned back with an expression of utmost shock.
Upon seeing the unscathed Uchiha Ikeizumi.
His aged body couldn’t help retreating several steps, and an unthinkable sentence instinctively blurted out: “You had long foreseen someone would attack you?!!”
Besides that, he really couldn’t think of how Uchiha Ikeizumi, without activating the so-called “Lava Release Chakra Body” in advance, could have dodged the explosion of over a hundred explosive tags?
And the premise of activating it in advance must have been obtaining intelligence, right?
Wait!
Shimura Clan Elder’s expression visibly darkened. He was already starting to suspect if this was a play colluded between Uchiha Setsuna and Uchiha Ikeizumi targeted at the Shimura Clan?
Their goal being to use this as an excuse to strike at the Shimura Clan?
“Phew!” After exhaling a heavy breath of turbid air, Shimura Clan Elder said coldly, “Uchiha Ikeizumi. I act alone and bear it alone. The one who wanted to assassinate you was me! It was I who actively planned the plan, and I who personally set the explosive tags.”
“Everything… has nothing to do with the other Shimura Clan members. They were merely coerced by my orders. In the Shimura Clan, only I bear sin!”
“Is that so?” Uchiha Ikeizumi glanced at the Shimura Clan Members casting hostile and vigilant gazes at him.
Looking around, pieces of bright red text stood out.
Among them, the vast majority of Shimura Clan Members were marked with a red name sin: 【Deeply involved in the plan to assassinate “Uchiha Ikeizumi”】.
This evil deed alone had already made them red name villains.
Because if not for Uchiha Ikeizumi exposing his Wood Style ability and saving the Uchiha Clan Members who were nearly caught in it, these people’s actions would have killed many innocents.
They all knew doing so would cause such collateral damage to innocents.
But they still deeply participated.
They didn’t care about killing innocents at all.
What’s more…
Besides the red name sin of plotting his assassination, Uchiha Ikeizumi also saw some “fish that slipped the net” he hadn’t caught on the heads of some Shimura Clan Ninjas.
This wasn’t strange.
Konoha Village wasn’t big, but not small either, and with many Ninjas constantly out on missions, Uchiha Ikeizumi couldn’t encounter every Konoha Ninja.
Moreover, before he fully grew up, 「Absolute Justice」 was still very weak.
“Unfortunately, I don’t see a single innocent person.” Uchiha Ikeizumi’s words made Shimura Clan Elder’s face change drastically: “Especially you, Shimura Shoya. In my eyes, the sin on you is the most shocking.”
The Shimura Clan Elder named “Shimura Shoya” immediately realized that Uchiha Ikeizumi had come to kill tonight!
And…
The opponent didn’t just want to kill him alone!
Uchiha Ikeizumi wanted to wipe out the clan!
“Attack together! Otherwise, we’ll all be killed by him!” The unorthodox Uchiha Ikeizumi made it impossible for Shimura Shoya to stay calm. He twisted his old face and roared, then directly threw away his cane in his hand, hands rapidly forming seals.
“Wind Release: Wind Scythe Technique!!!”
Shimura Shoya was desperately squeezing out the scant chakra from his aged body.
After taking a deep breath, he spat out, two invisible wind blades barely visible to the naked eye rapidly flying toward Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Uchiha Ikeizumi sidestepped one wind blade, his ninja sword slashing horizontally, easily cutting the other wind blade in half.
When he slightly raised his eyelids, that pair of scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan under the moonlight looked especially eerie!
The other several Shimura Clan Ninjas also immediately attacked.
Some even bit their thumbs to summon a Summoned Beast.
Every possible method was exhausted.
Every strongest ninjutsu was unleashed.
“No wonder you can’t stir up any waves or have any presence.” Uchiha Ikeizumi sheathed his sword. His right arm had completely turned to lava, several “Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere” striking his body, punching four holes in it.
But no blood splashed from his pierced body; only lava could be seen flowing inside.
Whoosh—a sharp wind blade precisely sliced half through Uchiha Ikeizumi’s neck and, without losing momentum, also sliced open half the Shimura Clan’s half-open clan gate.
But the cut on his neck was still lava!
Gurgling lava slowly flowed from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s body and neck. Almost in an instant, the “injuries” from the Wind Release ninjutsu had all recovered to pristine condition!
The lava on his right arm was surging continuously.
Under the extremely horrified gazes of many Shimura Clan Ninjas.
His right arm was rapidly expanding.
“Lava Release…”
“Great Eruption!!!”
