Chapter 103: You'll Never See the Height Senpai Ikeizumi Stands At!
Both the appearance of Uchiha Ikeizumi and Uchiha Sasuke took the three men by surprise.
The fact that they had come uninvited, and even walked so precisely into the underground cellar, meant that they must have known beforehand that the three of them were hiding a large amount of illegal drugs!
But how did they know?
There's a traitor?!!
As this thought suddenly emerged, the three Uchiha ninja simultaneously took a half-step back, putting a little distance between each other, their eyes filled with wariness.
Among them, Uchiha Hayata gave the other two a cautious look. He kept a straight face and took two steps forward, blocking Uchiha Ikeizumi's path and demanding in a tense voice, "Hey! What's the meaning of this? We didn't invite you here, did we?"
He then turned his gaze to Naruto, using him as a point of attack: "This brat isn't from the Uchiha clan, is he? Bringing an outsider into the Uchiha compound... what do you think this place is, a playground for anyone to come to?"
"Uchiha Ikeizumi—"
Uchiha Hayata's eyes showed hostility as he warned, "I advise you not to be a busybody. Your meddlesome nature has already caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the clan members."
However, what he didn't expect was that Uchiha Ikeizumi completely ignored his warning and continued speaking to himself.
"Uchiha Hayata, Uchiha Tadashi, Uchiha Naoto."
As he spoke the three names, Uchiha Ikeizumi's cold eyes held a brewing, murderous intent.
"Suspected of illegal smuggling and selling of illegal drugs, in a massive quantity. Furthermore, a little over a month ago, you committed multiple intentional murders outside the Land of Fire, and half of the victims were innocent civilians."
After he finished these two sentences, Uchiha Ikeizumi's right hand was already on the hilt of his ninja blade, making Uchiha Hayata's eyelid twitch.
Damn it—
I haven't seen him in months, and this bastard is still as stubborn as ever!
"Uchiha Ikeizumi!" At this moment, a person behind Uchiha Hayata suddenly shouted in a fit of rage, "Don't pretend to be so noble here! What else can you do besides turn your butcher's knife on your own clan? Everything we've done is for the future of the Uchiha clan!"
"We're raising funds for the Uchiha clan's future plans! Once the plan succeeds, all of Konoha will belong to the Uchiha! From that point on, the Uchiha will no longer be ostracized; we will stand above Konoha!"
"And a person like you, who preaches about some so-called [Justice], will be nailed to the pillar of shame in Uchiha history. You are more despicable than even our clan head, Fugaku, who sides with outsiders!"
Sasuke: "..."
Listening to the guy's emotional rant, he suddenly turned the topic to his own father.
This gave Sasuke the impulse to debate with him for a moment.
But his rationality told him that as a seven-year-old child, he couldn't possibly win a debate against an adult.
"It's people like you, who harm others for the sake of the so-called 'future of the Uchiha,' who should be nailed to the pillar of historical shame."
The young girl's voice was tinged with coldness: "People like you will never see the height Senpai Ikeizumi stands at."
She drew her ninja blade faster than Uchiha Ikeizumi did.
Because when Izumi held her breath and her concentration sharpened, she saw the red words hovering above the heads of the three men in front of her—they were records of their various crimes!
And they were heinous crimes committed in just a few short months!
If these villains, who had already fallen into the abyss, were allowed to remain in the world,
who knows how many more people they would harm?
[Absolute Justice] has a duty to purge the evil in the ninja world!
Without Ikeizumi's command,
Izumi took the initiative to strike!
The cramped space wasn't suitable for Fire Release jutsu. Furthermore, Izumi wasn't very good at ninjutsu; she was more skilled in taijutsu. With a single Shunshin, she closed the distance to Uchiha Hayata, her speed agile and completely transformed compared to how she was in the past.
Uchiha Hayata had been on guard against Uchiha Ikeizumi this whole time, never expecting the short girl to attack first!
He instantly activated his two-tomoe Sharingan, and his eyes immediately captured Izumi's movements.
He quickly drew his blade, attempting to strike down the girl who didn't know her place.
However,
when his eyes met Uchiha Izumi's in a hurry, Uchiha Hayata's pupils suddenly contracted like pinpricks.
A three-tomoe Sharingan!!!
!!!
The clash of two ninja blades made both Uchiha Hayata and Uchiha Izumi's arms tremble. In his haste, Uchiha Hayata immediately changed the angle of his blade, stabbing it downward toward Izumi's throat.
"Hayata! What are you doing?!" A panicked shout suddenly entered his ears, jolting Uchiha Hayata awake.
He realized that his blade's tip had clearly stabbed the girl, but it felt like he was stabbing air.
It's a Sharingan genjutsu!!!
Uchiha Hayata immediately realized he had fallen into a genjutsu the moment their eyes met. When he gritted his teeth and used his chakra to successfully break the Sharingan genjutsu, his peripheral vision caught the tip of a ninja blade just a little over an inch from his heart!
Crap!
Clang! A swiftly flying kunai hit the side of Izumi's ninja blade, deflecting her strike. The blade tip only left a shallow gash on Uchiha Hayata's chest, staining it with a bit of crimson blood.
It turned out that the other Uchiha had intervened. The other two, gritting their teeth, attacked Izumi at the same time.
Izumi was forced to fight against the two of them alone.
The sharp pain in his chest made Uchiha Hayata sweat profusely. He was still rattled because he had almost died just now! His opponent was serious!
This girl—a three-tomoe Sharingan—
Could she be that half-blood Uchiha? How did she get mixed up with Uchiha Ikeizumi?!
"I can't even see them clearly!" Sasuke, standing behind Uchiha Ikeizumi, watched the sudden fight in shock.
He couldn't even make out the movements of either side!
If even these people were this strong, just how powerful would his brother, who would one day wipe out the Uchiha clan, be?
Did he even have the ability to stop him from making that mistake in the future?
Amid his shock, Sasuke was filled with confusion and helplessness.
"Meow, the newcomer is improving so fast!" Kijiro had already jumped off Izumi's shoulder the moment she moved. It said with emotion, "She's already at the level of a special jonin, meow? It's a shame her ninjutsu talent isn't very high; it's too lopsided. If her ninjutsu talent were just a little better, she'd probably be even stronger than she is now, meow."
"She's that amazing?" Naruto was also dumbfounded.
In his stereotypical impression, this girl, who might only be a few years older than him, was kind of like Ikeizumi-sensei's assistant and follower. She just had to follow behind Ikeizumi-sensei and record some things, basically acting as an office worker.
But now it seemed that...
His stereotypical impression of Uchiha Izumi was completely unreliable.
"Meow, but her fighting three against one is still a bit of a stretch." Kijiro licked its paws and said, "Two of these guys have two-tomoe Sharingan, one has a one-tomoe Sharingan, and they're all experienced adult fighters. Even though the newcomer has a three-tomoe Sharingan and has received the blessings of justice several times, she's still just a genin who only recently graduated from the Academy."
"Also, it would be bad if those illegal drugs got damaged, meow. It would be a huge mess if the dust got everywhere."
With that,
just as Kijiro was about to step forward to help, it suddenly saw a foot step out from its side.
Kijiro paused.
Looking up, it could only see Lord Ikeizumi's tall back.
Kijiro's footsteps halted. Its cat face now wore an expression of pity, and this pity was directed at the three Uchiha.
"Meow, looks like I won't get a chance to show off in front of that brat. If Lord Ikeizumi is personally taking action, there probably won't be any full bodies left."
"Huff... these three are so well-coordinated!" Izumi forced one person back with a single strike, then pulled out several shuriken and threw them, forcing the other two to halt their movements.
She was able to catch her breath as a result.
"The blessings of justice" that Senpai spoke of before have indeed greatly increased my stamina and chakra reserves. It keeps me from collapsing after activating my three-tomoe Sharingan.
But fighting against three well-coordinated Uchiha ninja... is it still too much for me in my current state?
Just as Izumi gritted her teeth, preparing to use her Sharingan genjutsu again, she suddenly found her collar being grabbed.
Before she could even react, both of her feet lifted off the ground, and she was yanked backward.
She vaguely smelled a familiar scent.
It's Ikeizumi-senpai!!!
Uchiha Ikeizumi, who had pulled the girl to the back, let go of his right hand. Looking forward, he saw the Uchiha ninja that Izumi had just forced back with her blade now rushing forward to attack with his ninja blade.
However, when the vicious-looking man saw Uchiha Ikeizumi suddenly appear, his eyes showed a look of shock.
Swoosh!!!
A flash of a blade filled the Uchiha ninja's entire field of vision. His two-tomoe Sharingan didn't even capture how Uchiha Ikeizumi drew his sword, because in his sight, the blade was still in its sheath!
Uchiha Ikeizumi shifted his footsteps, avoiding the man's strike as they passed each other.
The Uchiha ninja, who had struck at empty air, was about to turn his head in surprise.
But at that very moment he turned, his head suddenly tilted. A line of blood, encircling his neck, visibly grew thicker. Crimson blood gushed out, staining the top half of his clothes red.
Naruto's shocked cry rang out at the same time.
A head with a face frozen in a look of disbelief rolled onto the ground. Blood shot up from the headless body, splattering into dense plum blossoms of blood on the ceiling of the underground cellar.
"Naoto!!!" Uchiha Hayata shouted in horror.
But his horror lasted for less than half a second before he was shocked to find that his other companion seemed to have seen something strange, as he suddenly screamed in terror and quickly dodged to the side.
And the direction he dodged was, astonishingly, right where Uchiha Ikeizumi was standing! It was as if he had willingly "walked into a hug"!
This made Uchiha Hayata instantly realize that his companion had fallen into Uchiha Ikeizumi's Sharingan genjutsu!
He didn't even notice when Uchiha Ikeizumi's Sharingan had been activated!
"Tadashi! Snap out of it!" Uchiha Hayata shouted in a panic, "What you're seeing is genjutsu! It's fake!!!"
But it was already too late.
Uchiha Ikeizumi's ninja blade lightly sliced across the man's neck. A head uncontrollably slid off, and a large amount of blood shot up from his neck!
In just under five seconds, an Uchiha with a two-tomoe Sharingan and an Uchiha with a one-tomoe Sharingan were without vital signs.
Uchiha Hayata's eyes were wide, and his pupils trembled as he watched his two childhood friends and partners be separated from their bodies. His hands, gripping his ninja blade, were shaking violently.
"We... we were clearly doing this for the future of the Uchiha clan! We worked so hard to save up money for the coup so the Uchiha wouldn't be ostracized by the village! What did we do wrong?!"
Blood vessels filled the whites of Uchiha Hayata's eyes. Under the strong emotional stimulation, his two-tomoe Sharingan began to change.
"Uchiha Ikeizumi, people like you are traitors to the Uchiha clan! You have betrayed your own bloodline! You are even more detestable than the Hokage's lapdogs!!!"
The two tomoe in his eyes visibly evolved into three tomoe.
At this moment,
Uchiha Hayata felt that everything he was seeing had become out of the ordinary. The surging chakra also made him aware of the transformation in his strength.
The anger and grief on his face instantly turned into a sinister smirk, which became a face-upward, deranged laugh as he held his blade in one hand and covered his face with the other.
"Hahaha! Is this... is this the power of a Sharingan evolved to its peak? I can finally feel it! Naoto, Tadashi, they didn't die for nothing! I feel the will they entrusted to me before their deaths! I have taken the key to unlocking the three-tomoe Sharingan from them!"
"Hahahahahaha!!!"
"Uchiha Ike—"
Uchiha Hayata, who was laughing maniacally with joy at the sudden surge of power, had just moved the hand covering his face and refocused his three-tomoe Sharingan on Uchiha Ikeizumi in front of him. His words abruptly stopped, and the look of wild joy in his eyes instantly became one of shocked horror.
He saw that Uchiha Ikeizumi had somehow already moved an inch from him, and his right arm had completely turned into lava. The lava formed a horrifying, man-eating magma hound that was blasting toward him!
Uchiha Hayata used his three-tomoe Sharingan's superior dynamic vision to capture Uchiha Ikeizumi's movements.
However, he was shocked to find that his body was too slow to react!
The light emanating from the lava had already illuminated the front of his body.
The scorching heat, right in front of him, made all the hairs on his body curl up.
Move now! Move, dammit!!!
Uchiha Hayata's mind was screaming, trying to get his body to move. But the moment he finally managed to move his body, trying to dodge, the man-eating magma hound from hell had already blasted through his chest!
Rumble!!!
The ninja vest was frail and couldn't even hold out for 0.01 seconds. The magma hound had already burst out of Uchiha Hayata's back and created a giant lava hole in the wall of the basement!
Uchiha Hayata's crimson eyes were trembling violently.
"Pfft—P-p-pwaa!!!" He coughed out large amounts of blood that had already been baked into blood clots by the high temperature.
The area around his chest, which had been pierced by the lava, was even on fire!
All the strength in his body was instantly drained.
Uchiha Hayata's face was filled with despair and confusion. He had just awakened the three-tomoe Sharingan in his grief and rage, so why was his life ended in an instant by his opponent?
This—
Is this Uchiha Ikeizumi's Lava Release?
Isn't this a little too powerful—
When Uchiha Ikeizumi withdrew his lava-formed arm, Uchiha Hayata's eyes had already turned to ash. He weakly fell forward onto the ground, his life completely extinguished.
[Ding! You have successfully killed three "Red-Name" evildoers! Your chakra has received a small increase! Congratulations, you have successfully dropped: "All pupil power of a two-tomoe Sharingan", "Konoha-Style Blade Jutsu Skill Book x10", "A complete list of all personnel involved in the Konoha illegal drug smuggling and sales"!
"A three-tomoe Sharingan—"
"...And he just died like that."
Sasuke, who had witnessed the entire event, looked at the giant lava hole that took up half the wall in shock and daze. Next to the giant hole, lava was still slowly dripping down.
As a member of the Uchiha clan, how could Sasuke not know how powerful a three-tomoe Sharingan was?
After all, even he, who had only activated a one-tomoe Sharingan under emotional stimulus, felt that he was practically invincible in the Ninja Academy.
Sasuke even had the vague idea of challenging that guy named Hyuga Neji.
If a one-tomoe Sharingan was already like that,
what about a three-tomoe?
And yet,
such a powerful eye was so completely helpless in front of Uchiha Ikeizumi. Just when he thought that the two sides were about to engage in a life-or-death battle, and he even felt a bit of worry for Uchiha Ikeizumi, the "battle" ended so unceremoniously.
"Huh? Who's there?!" Suddenly, Izumi, who felt something, grew tense and quickly turned to look. Her voice and movements startled both Naruto and Sasuke.
The two little boys also turned around immediately and saw a masked man standing behind them with one hand in his pocket.
Izumi took a breath: "...ANBU?"
"Ahem!" Kakashi, who had followed them, let out an awkward cough.
He noticed Uchiha Ikeizumi's gaze also shifting toward him. To avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings, he simply took off his ANBU mask, revealing the bottom half of his face covered by his own mask.
Glancing at the three corpses on the ground, Kakashi candidly explained, "The Hokage ordered me to supervise Naruto Uzumaki. I heard some noise outside and was a bit worried, so I came down to see what was going on."
Kakashi slightly regretted coming down impulsively.
However, he found that Uchiha Ikeizumi simply ignored him.
Uchiha Ikeizumi was holding a palm-sized notebook, which he had pulled out from who knows where, and he simply tossed it to Izumi.
Izumi fumbled and caught it.
"Senpai, what is this?"
"The list." Uchiha Ikeizumi said, "Today's kill list."
Izumi: "???"
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