Chapter 34: The Uchiha Clan Confronts The Root
“Senior Ikeizumi, that… Anbu Ninja named Sarutobi Shinnosuke, he was once your guiding jonin? That… he and the Third Hokage, they have a close relationship, right?”
Along the way, Izumi felt that Senior Ikeizumi was walking very slowly.
The overly silent awkward atmosphere made her faintly uncomfortable.
She mustered her courage to break the silence and carefully asked.
“He was once my guiding jonin.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi said, “A few years ago, when the Third Shinobi World War broke out, he took me to the battlefield. His surname is Sarutobi, so he definitely has a connection with the Third. He is the Third’s eldest son.”
Izumi: “!!!”
The conversation between Senior Ikeizumi and that Anbu Ninja during their fight was actually somewhat indistinct; Izumi hadn’t heard it completely.
After all, in a battle of that level, she didn’t even dare to get close.
She hadn’t expected Sarutobi Shinnosuke to be the Hokage’s eldest son!
Izumi couldn’t help but swallow hard, feeling her palms sweating.
No matter how she wiped, she couldn’t dry them.
Because this was almost equivalent to completely offending the Third Hokage to death, right? But Izumi was also a bit doubtful: why had the Hokage just let her and Senior Ikeizumi leave like that?
Clearly, the Hokage had brought so many Anbu over, and it looked like he was coming aggressively to hold them accountable.
“Then, the Hokage he…”
Before Izumi could finish her worried sentence, Uchiha Ikeizumi interrupted and said, “Don’t worry. Since the Third didn’t choose to keep me there just now, that means he respected Shinnosuke teacher’s dying words.”
He glanced at the anxious Izumi and continued, “You don’t need to worry about Anbu Ninjas sneaking up to your bedside in the middle of the night.”
She felt like Senior Ikeizumi had seen through her thoughts again.
“Oh!”
Izumi nodded hesitantly.
She actually didn’t quite understand the undercurrents involved, nor did she know when that Hokage’s eldest son had left behind dying words.
But since Senior Ikeizumi had already said it was fine.
It should probably maybe be fine, right?
At that moment, Izumi felt her head sink low, as if some heavy object was pressing down, making her cry out involuntarily.
Until a voice with a strange tone rang out from the top of her forehead: “Meow. Rookie, just let Lord Ikeizumi be quiet for a while. Don’t keep asking this and that, meow!”
Izumi immediately didn’t dare to make a sound.
In their little group of two people and one cat, her status was probably the lowest.
Not even as good as a cat.
“You don’t need to overcomplicate things.” Uchiha Ikeizumi said flatly: “Sarutobi Shinnosuke took the wrong path and was already in the abyss without realizing it. Until the moment of death, he finally understood something, but he still had no regrets.”
“The Ninja World today is so diseased that even an elite jonin thinks falling into the abyss is no big deal. Such examples occur countless times simultaneously in different places in the Ninja World.”
“Rookie, this is your fourth lesson.”
“No matter what lofty excuses others give to ‘evil’, you must unwaveringly enforce absolute justice. Even if it means turning your blade toward the person you are most familiar with.”
Izumi engraved every word of Uchiha Ikeizumi’s into her heart.
“Understood, Senior!”
She said solemnly.
……
At the same time.
Konoha.
“Lord Danzo, what do you Root mean by this?”
Uchiha Fugaku was leading a group of Uchiha Police Force members, confronting Shimura Danzo who was leading a group of Root members.
The Uchiha Police Force members behind him were also glowering at the Root Ninjas in front.
The atmosphere on site was extremely tense.
A tense standoff.
Fugaku’s face darkened as he stared straight at Shimura Danzo, saying in a stiff tone: “Uchiha Ikeizumi of the Uchiha Clan’s Police Force encountered a sudden situation needing support outside the village. I’m taking the other Police Force members to support him. That’s perfectly reasonable, right?”
“On the contrary, Lord Danzo, you… bringing so many Root Ninjas to block us, what are you trying to do?”
As he spoke.
Fugaku’s gaze kept involuntarily flicking to the bandages on Danzo’s body.
He remembered what Uchiha Ikeizumi had revealed to him about Danzo’s trump card.
If Ikeizumi wasn’t wrong, then under those white bandages might be Sharingan after Sharingan!
Fugaku’s eyes involuntarily clouded over with gloom.
“Hmph!” Danzo uncomfortably turned his body sideways. From Fugaku’s reaction, he knew that evil Uchiha brat had definitely told Uchiha Fugaku about it.
Damn it!
That brat really was the village’s biggest scourge. He didn’t know if that monkey guy had eliminated him.
Danzo didn’t retreat a single step; he absolutely wouldn’t let Fugaku go support Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Danzo said coldly: “The Hokage has already taken Anbu to ‘support’. There’s no need for your Uchiha Clan to interfere. Moreover, your law enforcement jurisdiction is only within Konoha Village. As for outside Konoha Village, your Uchiha Police Force has no law enforcement authority.”
When facing the Uchiha Clan, Danzo’s dictionary had no words for “talk nicely.”
Fugaku was stunned.
He looked deeply at Danzo and said, “With Police Force reinforcements, the Hokage’s side can resolve this faster. Lord Danzo, please let our Police Force leave the village to provide support.”
Danzo’s eyes cooled slightly as he said: “Fugaku! Are you trying to defy the higher-ups’ orders?”
The Root Ninjas behind him had already placed hands on their ninja tools.
The Uchiha Clan’s ninjas also immediately became vigilant.
“You…” Just as a younger, more hot-blooded Uchiha Ninja was about to speak, Fugaku quickly stopped him.
Fugaku gave him a warning glance.
Then.
He said to Danzo again: “If because of Lord Danzo’s delay, our Uchiha Clan inexplicably loses a dual bloodline limit genius, I will definitely report it to the Hokage.”
Danzo snorted coldly.
At this time.
A Root Ninja who had been observing the distance suddenly walked up to Danzo and said, “Lord Danzo, the commotion over there has stopped for a full ten-plus minutes. If I’m not mistaken, the Hokage and the others have arrived, and they’ve been there for a while, stopping the fight with some unknown method.”
Fugaku also heard the Root Ninja’s voice.
His brows furrowed.
Danzo’s lips curled into a cold smile. Since his goal was achieved, he narrowed his eyes and said: “Fugaku, it seems things over there are already over. Do you still want to gather so many Uchiha here? Or… do you have other intentions, Fugaku?”
Fugaku clenched his fist.
But then released it.
“Disband!” He took a deep breath, his paralyzed face tense, and said to the group of Uchiha Clan ninjas behind him.
“Clan Head!” Many Uchiha Ninjas were very unwilling.
It wasn’t necessarily that they really wanted to leave the village to support Uchiha Ikeizumi.
It was more because being distrusted made them extremely annoyed and frustrated.
“Disband!”
Fugaku gritted his teeth and repeated.
……
……
