Chapter 98: Luxurious Investigation Team
After Danzo left, the air in the heavy rain was moist and sweet.
Yoru stood on a tree trunk, looking into the distance with a telescope.
E was on the other side of Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, also on guard against the distance and the fox.
The place Uchiha Madara chose was extremely remote. The rain here was heavier than in other parts of the Land of Rain, there was no human activity nearby, and no ninja had ever come.
Time passed day by day, and Yoru and E had no communication.
Yoru knew that E had reminded Danzo a few days ago whether to kill Yoru to silence him. He should be the Aburame Ryoma from the original story.
Aburame Ryoma, you’d better not leave Danzo.
From the southern part of the Land of Rain to Konoha, it takes seven days.
Even if Danzo returns to Konoha and discusses a plan with Hiruzen Sarutobi within one or two hours, and sets out immediately, it would still take fourteen days to come back.
On the first day of the month after fourteen days, a large group of people appeared in the distance.
Yoru put down the telescope and thought to himself, did Uchiha Madara give Danzo such great psychological pressure?
Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and the clan heads of the Senju, Uchiha, Yamanaka, Inuzuka, and Aburame—the five major clans. The Hyuga Clan sent an elder.
The Yamanaka, Inuzuka, Aburame, and Hyuga clan heads and elders came to handle reconnaissance.
Senju Hanaki and Uchiha Kane were the two parties involved.
Each of them brought two guards, so the team looked exceptionally large.
With such military force, even if they said they were going to attack Hidden Rain Village, Hanzo would have to tremble.
A super luxurious investigation team.
Yoru paid special attention to Danzo, who still had bandage on his right eye.
It wasn’t over. After Danzo tasted the Sharingan, he could no longer resist the temptation.
It can resurrect, truly tempting.
Danzo had obtained too much from Kagami Uchiha.
The group landed around Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was wearing battle armor, and he held the Adamantine Staff in his hand.
On the Adamantine Staff, a huge monkey’s eye opened.
“Hiruzen, this is… the First Hokage’s Wood Style?”
Hiruzen Sarutobi swung the staff, using some force to smash the curved and entwined tree trunks. He said, “This strength is indeed Wood Style.”
Everyone else looked at Senju Hanaki. After seeing Wood Style with her own eyes, Senju Hanaki was confused and puzzled:
“Danzo Advisor said Uchiha Madara used Wood Style? Not some Senju ninja who awakened a bloodline limit on a battlefield?”
For Senju Hanaki and Uchiha Kane, this intelligence was too outrageous, to the point that it didn’t seem fake.
Danzo had no need to fabricate such an absurd lie on this matter.
The others didn’t respond. The Senju Clan hadn’t produced Wood Style bloodline for decades. Apart from Nawaki, there hadn’t been any stunning geniuses in the Senju Clan in recent years.
People from the Yamanaka, Inuzuka, Aburame, Hyuga, and other ninja clans immediately began reconnaissance, gathering nearby intelligence.
Yoru and E landed beside the high-ranking officials.
Hiruzen Sarutobi didn’t look at Root’s E first, but at Anbu’s fox, and asked:
“Fox, what happened? Tell us in detail from the beginning.”
Yoru figured Danzo had already told them once, so he briefly explained how they saw three Konoha ninja controlled by Madara, and how they were controlled by genjutsu to kill each other.
Yoru pushed the squad’s mutual killing entirely onto Uchiha Madara.
Then he escaped and encountered Danzo. Danzo brought him back and encountered Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara controlled three Konoha ninja and fought against Kato Dan and the other two. Danzo brought him, E, and Prop to assist.
Kato Dan and the other two, along with Prop, all died in battle.
Inuzuka clan head Inuzuka Ryō found seven corpses in Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence.
Yoru took the initiative to lead the high-ranking officials onto Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, to the side of several corpses, and identified them one by one.
When identifying Kato Dan, Senju Hanaki’s expression instantly turned pale.
In the gap between the tree trunks, Kato Dan’s lower half of the face could be seen.
She had previously heard that her father dominated the Ninja World with Wood Style, but now seeing one of the most important younger generation members of her clan dead here, Senju Hanaki’s heart bled.
Kato Dan was not only Tsunade’s lover, but also the clan head of the Kato Clan, a small ninja clan vassal to the Senju.
His death was a huge blow to the current Senju Clan.
Yamanaka clan head Yamanaka Hai said: “The heads of several corpses were all crushed by Wood Style. No intelligence can be obtained from the corpses’ brains.”
Yoru stood on a tree trunk, and in the gap beneath his feet was Kato Dan’s crushed severed hand.
It was gruesome. Even if Senju Hanaki took out 200 meters of surgical thread, she couldn’t stitch together half of Kato Dan.
After Senju Hanaki was completely despairing and raised no questions, Yoru spoke again: “Hokage, please follow me to the cave where Uchiha Madara once hid. There is important intelligence inside.”
Hiruzen Sarutobi immediately said: “Let’s go!”
Even Hiruzen Sarutobi slowed his steps when approaching the cave.
Uchiha Madara had left a deep impression on the young Hiruzen Sarutobi and others back then.
Not to mention Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others—even Tobirama Senju wouldn’t last long against peak Uchiha Madara.
The group entered the cave.
The cave extended downward, digging out a tall, large cave beneath the mountain.
In the center of the cave was a stone chair on a platform.
The surroundings were covered in thick dust. One could imagine that over countless days and months, Uchiha Madara sat on the stone chair, leaning on his scythe, motionless.
He was too old, too old to want to move.
This world was dull and not worth his further attention.
Hiruzen Sarutobi stood at the bottom of the platform, looking up at the stone chair, his expression tense, as if Uchiha Madara was still sitting there.
“Hokage… Hokage?”
Yoru called twice before Hiruzen Sarutobi came back to his senses.
Yoru said: “Hokage, there is a very deep pit behind the stone chair. It seems like a giant once appeared there… I can’t say for sure, maybe a giant, but I don’t know what it is.”
At this point, apart from Senju Hanaki, all the high-ranking officials’ attention was drawn to Uchiha Madara’s intelligence.
They followed Yoru around the platform and stone chair, and saw a huge deep pit behind it.
Yoru said:
“I used a shadow clone to jump down and look. In the deep pit is the lower body of a large humanoid creature, with legs, knees, and feet.
Based on the proportions, there was once a giant over a hundred meters tall here.”
Even Danzo’s gaze was fixed on the pitch-black deep pit.
Yoru’s goal was achieved. Now no one was thinking about silencing him.
Everyone was very confused. What exactly was Uchiha Madara doing? What was this giant here? Was it the Wood Golem Technique?
Or the Senju Buddha?
Yoru took out a scroll and handed the drawing of the giant’s lower body in the deep pit to the Third Hokage.
E was extremely surprised beside him. These past few days, the fox had been sending shadow clones into the cave—was it to draw pictures?
Yoru thought to himself, earth and wood old bro from his previous life, let me show you my drawing skills.
The Third Hokage looked at the drawing of the giant’s lower body and shook his head repeatedly. It was neither the Senju Buddha nor the Wood Golem Technique, but rather like some malnourished muscle-atrophied giant.
After everyone digested this information, Yoru said again:
“Hokage, there is an area on the side with a bed made of Wood Style, big enough for only one child to lie on.
I don’t know what Uchiha Madara did on that bed.”
The crowd surged toward the side.
Yoru completely relaxed. No one was paying attention to Kato Dan anymore, and Danzo had no mind to silence him.
The mysteries surrounding Uchiha Madara were enough to keep these people researching for a long time.
