"Senior Chisen, that Anbu ninja... Sarutobi Shinosuke, was he your teacher? And, is his relationship with the Third Hokage very close?"
All the way, Izumi felt that Senior Chisen was walking too slowly.
The awkward atmosphere, filled with too much silence, made her feel subtly uncomfortable.
She mustered her courage to break the silence and cautiously asked.
"He was my guiding Jonin," Uchiha Chisen replied. "Years ago, when the Third Great Ninja War broke out, he took me onto the battlefield. His surname is Sarutobi, so he must be related to the Third. He's the Third's eldest son."
Izumi: "!!!"
The conversation between Senior Chisen and the Anbu ninja during their battle was a bit blurry, and Izumi hadn't heard it all. After all, she didn't even dare to get close to a battle of that level. She hadn't expected Sarutobi Shinosuke to be the Hokage's eldest son! Izumi couldn't help but swallow nervously, feeling her palms sweat. No matter how much she wiped them, they wouldn't dry. This was practically equivalent to completely offending the Third Hokage! However, Izumi was also a little confused as to why the Hokage had let her and Senior Chisen leave just like that? The Hokage had brought so many Anbu with him; it looked like he was here to demand an explanation.
"Then, the Hokage..."
Before Izumi could even voice her worried question, Uchiha Chisen interrupted, "Don't worry. Since the Third didn't choose to keep me here just now, it means he respected Shinosuke-sensei's dying wish." He glanced at the uneasy Izumi and continued, "You don't need to worry about Anbu ninjas sneaking into your room in the middle of the night."
It seemed she had been seen through by Senior Chisen again.
"Oh!" Izumi nodded dumbly. She didn't quite understand the undercurrents at play, nor did she know when the Hokage's eldest son had made his dying wish. But since Senior Chisen had said it was fine. It was probably fine, right?
Just then, Izumi felt her head lower as if something heavy had pressed down on it, causing her to exclaim. A voice with a strange intonation then sounded from the top of her head: "Meow. Newbie, just let Lord Chisen have some peace and quiet, don't keep asking questions all day meow!"
Izumi immediately fell silent. In their little group of two humans and one cat, her status was probably the lowest. Not even as good as a cat.
"You don't need to overcomplicate things," Uchiha Chisen said calmly. "Sarutobi Shinosuke took the wrong path and was already in the abyss without realizing it. Until the moment of his death, he finally understood something, but he still had no regrets." "The current ninja world has become so pathological that even an elite Jonin feels it's not a big deal to fall into the abyss. Examples like this happen countless times simultaneously in different locations across the ninja world." "Newbie, this is the fourth lesson you need to learn. No matter what grand excuses 'evil' is given by others, you must resolutely execute absolute justice. Even if it requires turning your blade against those you are most familiar with." Izumi committed every word of Uchiha Chisen to memory.
"Understood, Senior!" she said seriously.
...
At the same time.
Konoha.
"Danzō-sama, what do you Root members mean by this?" Uchiha Fugaku, leading a group of Uchiha Military Police Force members, was confronting Shimura Danzō and his Root members. The Uchiha Military Police Force members behind him glared angrily at the Root ninjas in front of them. The atmosphere at the scene was extremely tense. It was a standoff. Fugaku's face darkened as he looked directly at Shimura Danzō, his stiff tone evident as he said, "The Uchiha clan's Military Police Force member, 'Uchiha Chisen,' encountered an emergency situation requiring support outside the village. It's perfectly reasonable for me to lead other members of the Military Police Force to support him, right?" "On the contrary, Danzō-sama... you're blocking us with so many Root ninjas. What are you trying to do?" As he spoke, Fugaku's gaze couldn't help but drift to the bandages on Danzō's body. He remembered what Uchiha Chisen had revealed to him about Danzō's trump card. If Chisen was correct, then beneath those white bandages might be Sharingan eyes! Fugaku's eyes involuntarily clouded over.
"Hmph!" Danzō shifted uncomfortably, turning his body. From Fugaku's reaction, he knew that the inherently evil Uchiha brat must have informed Uchiha Fugaku about this matter.
Damn it!
That brat is truly the village's greatest menace. I wonder if that monkey has gotten rid of him yet.
Danzō didn't retreat a single step. There was no way he would let Fugaku go to support Uchiha Chisen.
Danzō said coldly, "The Hokage has already taken the Anbu to 'support.' You Uchiha don't need to interfere. Furthermore, your law enforcement authority is limited to within Konoha village. Outside the village, your Konoha Military Police Force has no law enforcement jurisdiction."
When facing the Uchiha Clan, Danzō's dictionary did not contain the words "speak nicely."
Fugaku was taken aback.
He gave Danzō a deep look and said, "With the Konoha Military Police Force reinforcements, the Hokage will resolve this matter even faster. Lord Danzō, please allow our Konoha Military Police Force to leave the village to provide support."
Danzō's eyes turned slightly cold. "Fugaku! Are you going to defy the orders of the higher-ups?"
Behind him, a group of Root ninjas had already placed their hands on their ninja tools.
The Uchiha Clan ninjas immediately became vigilant as well.
"You..." Just as a younger, more radical Uchiha ninja was about to speak, Fugaku quickly stopped him.
Fugaku shot him a warning glance.
Then, He said to Danzō again, "If, due to Lord Danzō's delay, our Uchiha Clan inexplicably loses a genius with two Kekkei Genkai, I will definitely report it to the Hokage."
Danzō let out a cold snort.
At this moment.
A Root ninja, who had been observing the distance, suddenly walked up to Danzō and said, "Lord Danzō, the commotion over there has stopped for a good ten minutes. If my subordinate's guess is correct, it should be the Hokage and the others who have arrived, and they have been there for some time, using some unknown method to quell the fighting."
Fugaku also heard the Root ninja's voice.
His brow furrowed.
Danzō, however, curled his lips into a cold smile. Since his objective had been achieved, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Fugaku, it seems the situation over there has concluded. Do you still intend to gather so many Uchiha here? Or... do you have other intentions, Fugaku?"
Fugaku clenched his fists.
But then he relaxed them.
"Disperse!" He took a deep breath, maintaining a poker face, and said to the Uchiha Clan ninjas behind him.
"Patriarch!" Many Uchiha ninjas were extremely unwilling.
It wasn't necessarily that they truly wanted to go out and support Uchiha Chisen.
It was more because they were extremely annoyed and displeased at not being trusted.
"Disperse!"
Fugaku repeated through gritted teeth.
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