Chapter 61: Hunting Danzo!
Just as Yamanaka Inoichi was about to call clan members over to work, two sudden figures directly intruded into the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters and blocked in front of him, Yamanaka Inoichi.
“……Root?!”
The masks of Root Ninjas were extremely distinctive, and Yamanaka Inoichi recognized the mask with its strange pattern at first glance.
He furrowed his brows.
He became vigilant.
“Why has Root suddenly come uninvited?” Yamanaka Inoichi asked expressionlessly. He didn’t want to have any dealings with Root, because he knew that guy’s ambition for the Hokage Position.
Danzo wanting to become Hokage was like the Uchiha Clan wanting to stage a coup—it was a “secret” that many people could guess.
The Yamanaka Clan was ultimately aligned with the Hokage’s faction.
They naturally felt repulsed toward Danzo, who wanted to usurp the position.
Of course, toward the Uchiha Clan that wanted to stage a coup, Yamanaka Inoichi also wanted to keep his distance. Unfortunately, Uchiha Ikeizumi had the Police Force bring corpses over every day, so even if Yamanaka Inoichi wanted to keep his distance, he had no choice but to have contact with them due to the need for autopsies.
At this moment, the Root Ninja standing on the left said in an indifferent tone: “Inoichi Clan Leader, these eight corpses are all ninjas from our Root. The Yamanaka Clan has no right to explore the secrets in their brains.”
The Root Ninja standing on the right added: “You are not allowed to touch these corpses. Our people will come to take the corpses away.”
Yamanaka Inoichi’s pupils contracted imperceptibly.
All eight corpses were Root Ninja corpses? Had Uchiha Ikeizumi clashed with Konoha Root again in a force conflict?
“Fine.”
Since Danzo was willing to clean up this mess, Yamanaka Inoichi was also happy not to bring trouble upon himself.
……
Not long after.
Sure enough, quite a few more Root Ninjas arrived at the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters.
And Yamanaka Inoichi discovered that the leader was actually Shimura Danzo!
Danzo stood beside Yamanaka Inoichi, quietly staring at the eight corpses covered with white cloth. As a night breeze gently blew past, lifting the white cloth from one corpse’s face and revealing a somewhat familiar face to Danzo……
Danzo took a deep breath.
“U!chi!ha!Ike!izumi!” The backs of his hands were already bulging with veins from clenching his fists tightly, and Uchiha Ikeizumi’s name was forcibly squeezed out from between Danzo’s teeth.
Yamanaka Inoichi standing beside him could clearly feel the immense rage bottled up in this Konoha higher-up’s heart.
Yamanaka Inoichi also noticed Danzo suddenly turning his head to glare at him.
Yamanaka Inoichi: “???”
“I haven’t started examining their memories yet.” He felt he was being unjustly vented on, which made Yamanaka Inoichi somewhat displeased, so his explanation also came out quite cold.
While speaking, Yamanaka Inoichi inadvertently glanced at Danzo’s left ear and discovered that this guy’s left ear was missing.
Danzo then gave Yamanaka Inoichi a deep look.
After he abolished Monkey’s position, every single person up and down the Yamanaka Clan would have to be branded with the Tongue Eradication Seal before he could feel slightly at ease with them.
They knew too much!
Of course, Danzo only filtered these words in his mind.
After watching the Root Ninjas he brought successively carry up the corpses, he also strode out of the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters.
But at that moment, Danzo suddenly felt something was off.
“Wait!”
Danzo tightened his brows and immediately called out to stop his subordinates who were preparing to carry the corpses back to the Root Base.
His sharp gaze wandered in all directions.
Seeing Danzo like this, the Root Ninjas also became vigilant one after another.
Tap…… tap…… tap……
The faint footsteps approaching from far away caused Danzo and the others to instantly lock their gazes on the thick, pitch-black night ahead.
The group of Root Ninjas immediately dropped the corpses, drew their ninja swords from their waists one after another, and clustered around Danzo.
When the owner of the footsteps gradually emerged from the pitch-black night, and his face vaguely appeared in the moonlight, Danzo’s expression instantly turned grim.
He gritted his teeth and shouted the name of the approaching figure ahead.
“Uchiha Ikeizumi!!!”
……
“Daddy, why is it so noisy outside……” Wearing cute pajamas and holding a doll in one hand, little Ino rubbed her eyes while walking out barefoot from the bedroom.
Yamanaka Inoichi had originally been startled by Danzo outside the door suddenly shouting “Uchiha Ikeizumi” in a neurotic manner.
After seeing his own daughter woken up and coming out.
He immediately realized what was happening outside.
“Ino, hurry back to the bedroom! No, go directly and hide in the underground secret room of the clan headquarters!” Yamanaka Inoichi said with a stern expression: “No matter what noises you hear, do not come out!”
“……Huh?” Ino hadn’t reacted yet to what was going on.
She was scolded by Yamanaka Inoichi: “Go now!”
Ino was startled.
Her father’s stern scolding made tears well up in her eyes, but she didn’t dare ask more and could only hurry to the underground secret room.
“Phew……”
Watching his daughter’s quickly departing figure, Yamanaka Inoichi relaxed half a breath while anxiously looking toward outside the headquarters.
“……What a night of troubles!” If he wasn’t wrong, Uchiha Ikeizumi had probably guessed that Danzo would bring Root Ninjas to the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters to take the corpses away.
And what Uchiha Ikeizumi did was wait outside the Yamanaka Clan Headquarters, quietly waiting for Danzo to come to the door!
—He was hunting Shimura Danzo!!!
Yamanaka Inoichi knew that Danzo had once had a force conflict with Uchiha Ikeizumi.
That time, it was the Hokage who had intervened to stop the conflict between both sides.
“Perhaps……in the 「absolute justice」 that Uchiha Ikeizumi believes in, everyone up and down Root must be purged? This is bad, I need to hurry and notify the Hokage.”
Yamanaka Inoichi had a headache.
……
Danzo’s face was ashen, feeling the wound on his left ear, which had long since healed, faintly aching again.
He clearly remembered……
It was Uchiha Ikeizumi who exposed his secrets to Monkey, causing him to lose several three-tomoe Sharingan eyes and even had to hand over some Sharingan data to Monkey.
“Innate evil Uchiha brat! After that last incident, you still dare to appear alone in front of this old man? With the power of Lava Release, you’ve become arrogant and overconfident—your Uchiha Clan’s innate arrogance truly displeases this old man!”
Killing intent was evident in Danzo’s sinister eyes, and as he spoke, the Root Ninjas around him were also restless.
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s gaze clashed with Danzo’s in midair.
“I’ve been waiting for you for over two hours, Danzo ‘sir’.”
Uchiha Ikeizumi’s indifferent tone made Danzo laugh in extreme anger.
Danzo asked gloomily: “Are you deliberately baiting this old man?”
Lava dripped from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s fingertips, the orange-red glow from the lava faintly illuminating half of his side face.
Uchiha Ikeizumi replied eerily: “If not like this, how could I drag you this filthy old rat out from Konoha’s sewers?”
Crack—cracks appeared in the ground under Danzo’s feet.
Even knowing that Sarutobi Hiruzen had warned him not to have any more force conflicts with Uchiha Ikeizumi.
But Danzo knew even better that if he didn’t kill an Uchiha like Uchiha Ikeizumi, who had an extreme and evil personality……
Konoha would never have peace in the future!
He, Danzo, wouldn’t be able to sleep soundly every day!
“Kill him!!!”
He shouted coldly.
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