Chapter 13: Uchiha Ikeizumi! What Are Your True Intentions!
Today, Uzumaki Naruto caused another prank in the village, with the purpose of drawing others’ attention to himself.
His prank succeeded, but it also successfully broke people’s defenses.
As a result, Naruto was chased for several streets.
Fortunately, he ran fast.
Naruto thought that if he ran two more streets, he could shake off the boss uncle from the buns shop behind him, who was getting weaker by the day from delivering public grain to his wife every day.
However…
Just as he was secretly gloating, suddenly, his feet stepped on a patch of empty air.
Naruto felt as if someone had grabbed his back collar and lifted him up.
Bad… this is bad!
He got caught!
The buns shop boss arrived panting, just about to joyfully express thanks, when his gaze suddenly fell on Uchiha Ikeizumi’s young face, and the words of gratitude in his mouth were scared back down.
“Uchi… Uchiha…” The buns shop boss turned pale, unaware even as the rolling pin in his hand dropped to the ground.
“Uchiha?”
Naruto, who was lifted up, struggled a bit, found he couldn’t break free, and looked up with a face full of distress.
Hmm…
Doesn’t know him!
Naruto only felt that this meddlesome guy seemed to have a somewhat cold expression, and when the other was sizing him up, it was like looking at a rare animal.
“What did he do?” Uchiha Ikeizumi asked the buns shop boss.
“He… he…” The buns shop boss was drenched in cold sweat.
“Tell the truth.” Uchiha Ikeizumi reminded.
“Gulp.”
Under some inexplicable invisible pressure, the buns shop boss swallowed nervously and shakily revealed Uzumaki Naruto’s prank today—replacing the wheat flour in his buns shop with protein powder.
The little Naruto who was lifted up muttered: “Protein powder can still be made into buns, and eating it can help build muscle.”
The buns shop boss got so angry his blood pressure shot up: “You little brat…”
But seeing Uchiha Ikeizumi in front of him, seeing this man’s eyes that seemed to have no emotional fluctuation…
He hurriedly reined in his anger and forced the words he wanted to say back down his throat.
Too scary! How was he so unlucky to run into the famous plague god of the Uchiha Clan?
It’s all this demon fox brat’s fault!
“Did such a prank, huh…” Uchiha Ikeizumi nodded slightly and said calmly: “This little brat’s guardian is the Hokage. You can go directly to the Hokage to demand compensation, and say it’s me who told you to go. If the Hokage doesn’t pay, I’ll go get it for you.”
With that, Uchiha Ikeizumi picked up the despondent-faced Naruto and prepared to leave.
This not only stunned the buns shop boss, but even Naruto was stunned.
Naruto hurriedly struggled, flailing his hands and feet while shouting loudly: “Hey, where are you taking me? I’ve already been caught by you, can’t you put me down?”
Uchiha Ikeizumi raised his arm higher, making Naruto a full meter off the ground, and he quietly stared down at this Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
The cold eyes made Naruto’s little face stiffen.
Uchiha Ikeizumi said slowly: “When someone commits a wrong, regardless of gender, age, young or old, they must receive corresponding punishment. Your prank caused economic losses and damage to the shop’s reputation for others. Also, the commotion you made running around has seriously disrupted Konoha’s order and damaged the street’s cleanliness.”
“With multiple crimes combined, even if you’re willing to compensate, you’d still have to go to Konoha Prison for half a month. And that’s just judging by Konoha’s laws alone. Since you fell into my hands, that half month becomes three months.”
The seven-year-old Naruto was completely dumbfounded.
“Locked up…”
“Locked in prison for three months…”
He instantly became dumbfounded.
…
“Bad, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is in contact with someone from the Uchiha Clan!” At the same time, an Anbu elite ninja tasked with surveilling Naruto’s face changed drastically; he felt he had caused a huge disaster today.
As the surveiller of the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, the Hokage’s task for him was not only to surveil Naruto, but also to help Naruto “clean up his messes.”
No matter what prank the jinchuriki brat did, he had to go to the trouble of cleaning it up for him.
He had just deliberately gone to swap back the wheat flour in the buns shop that Naruto had pranked by switching.
But he never expected that in just the short time he left…
The jinchuriki got grabbed by a ninja from the Uchiha Clan!
He absolutely wouldn’t mistake the Uchiha Police Force uniform!
He clearly saw the jinchuriki staring into the eyes of an Uchiha!
That was the rumored Sharingan that could control tailed beasts!
If… the Nine-Tails chaos from several years ago happened again, his negligence would absolutely be the fuse leading to the village’s destruction, and he would be a sinner of Konoha Village.
The Anbu ninja, realizing the severity, had no time to think more and couldn’t care about exposing himself.
He rushed toward Uzumaki Naruto, shouting: “Put him down!”
In full view of many people, the Anbu ninja boldly body flickered into appearance, one hand already loosely gripping the hilt of his ninja sword, the other reaching out to snatch Uzumaki Naruto.
Uchiha Ikeizumi suddenly swung his arm to the side.
The Anbu ninja grabbed at empty air, while Naruto let out a cry of alarm, because the motion was too big, and Naruto nearly got flung away.
“Anbu?!” Ikeizumi recognized the Anbu ninja’s attire at a glance; that fox mask was very distinctive.
She suddenly felt that something wasn’t right.
“Uchiha! What are you doing!” After grabbing at empty air, the expression under the Anbu ninja’s mask became extremely colorful as he demanded: “Don’t tell me you don’t know what this little brat represents! You… hmm? Uchiha Ikeizumi?!”
When facing the other directly, this Anbu ninja only then realized that the one who grabbed the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki was actually Uchiha Ikeizumi!
One of the few Uchihas with a relatively “good” relationship with the Hokage.
Hmm—
At least the type who often meets with the Hokage.
Uchiha Ikeizumi glanced at the white square frame on the Anbu ninja’s head, his eyes brewing a sharpness that made one’s hair stand on end, and questioned: “Are you trying to obstruct the Police Force’s law enforcement? Yamanaka Yoshinobu?”
Anbu ninja: “!!!”
“You…”
He was shocked.
He was clearly wearing an Anbu mask, and he had never met Uchiha Ikeizumi before, so why did the other recognize him?
Noticing the sharpness in Uchiha Ikeizumi’s eyes gradually turning somewhat dangerous, the Anbu ninja hesitated and put away his ninja sword.
He had heard some intelligence about Uchiha Ikeizumi before.
He knew this enforcer of absolute justice’s bottom line.
To be safe, better not to conflict with him.
“Hoo!”
The Anbu ninja exhaled, calming himself a bit, and said in a deep voice: “Uchiha Ikeizumi, the Police Force’s law enforcement shouldn’t have anything to do with Uzumaki Naruto, right? This is just an ‘ordinary’ child, isn’t it?”
He deliberately emphasized “ordinary.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said: “He happens to be the criminal I caught.”
Anbu ninja: “???”
Bad…
This is tricky.
Just as the Anbu ninja was sweating profusely, racking his brains on what to do, a sudden raspy angry shout came from far to near: “Innate evil Uchiha brat! What are you doing! What are your evil Uchiha Clan’s true intentions!”
The Anbu ninja was instantly stunned, somewhat baffled and confused—how was there someone even more anxious than him?
When he looked toward the voice, he saw a familiar figure.
That was…
Shimura Danzo?!
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