Chapter 60 Shisui's Darkening
While Kakashi was rushing to the Hokage Building, the village's fighting tournament had reached its climax. The thugs who had gathered in front of the police headquarters to force their way in had mostly been captured, with only a few remaining—private ninja soldiers disguised as thugs from the two clans—still on the run. Their resistance had resulted in injuries to some civilian ninjas, but with the police headquarters' relentless pursuit, their capture was only a matter of time.
Those civilians living near the police headquarters could easily see through their windows the police officers dragging the beaten-to-death thugs towards the headquarters, their doors and windows tightly shut in fear, too afraid to utter a sound.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Touhuan was in Fugaku's office, drinking tea with Fugaku and Aburame Shihai, even keeping the Anbu who had come to invite him to the Hokage Building detained at the police headquarters.
Everything that happened today was unfolding exactly as he had predicted. After tonight, all the chips in his alliance with Kakashi could be laid on the table, and he would truly become the player.
The Third Hokage had invited him over simply to talk, but before that, Uchiha Touhuan had more important things to do.
Just then, a powerful chakra fluctuation suddenly erupted, and the entire security headquarters building began to shake violently.
"The direction of this fluctuation? Your office?" Fugaku's expression changed drastically, and he looked sharply at Uchiha Touhuan.
"No rush, I'll go take a look." Uchiha Touhuan said expressionlessly, but when he turned his back, a smile appeared on his lips. He had finally waited for this; it seemed his arrangements had not been in vain.
After Uchiha Touhuan got up, Uchiha Fugaku and Aburame Shihai quickly followed.
Meanwhile, the security personnel downstairs, having heard the commotion, rushed up.
Seeing this, Uchiha Touhuan waved his hand to stop the anxious team members, saying, "Go back to work, it's nothing."
"Are you really alright?" Uchiha Inahime was still a little worried, after all, the commotion had been quite loud.
"If there really was a problem, can't I handle it myself?" Uchiha Touhuan glared at the boy, then said, "Take everyone back, I'll handle things here."
Uchiha Touhuan reached his office door, turning back to Fugaku and Aburame Shihai, who wanted to follow, and said, "Don't come in yet, I'll take care of things here."
Two hours earlier, Uchiha Shisui, who had been driven somewhat EMO by the unreasonable Konoha citizens, had not participated in this security operation.
However, after witnessing the security detail brutally beating the thugs and dragging them back to the headquarters, Shisui felt a surge of goodwill and wanted to intervene. But remembering how these people had just shown him and the Will of fire with such disregard, Shisui suppressed the thought, replaced by a deep sense of confusion. This confusion drove him alone to Uchiha Touhuan's office; he wanted to find out why things had turned out this way.
However, upon arriving at Touhuan's office, Shisui didn't find Touhuan, who had been drinking tea with Fugaku. Shisui intended to wait a while, to think things through alone, but then a document scattered on Touhuan's desk caught his eye
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Uchiha Touhuan pushed open the office door and was greeted by this scene.
Documents were scattered everywhere, and Shisui, sitting at his desk, had empty eyes. The tomoe of his newly acquired three-tomoe Sharingan spun wildly, blood and tears streaming from his eyes. His ocular power fluctuated violently around him; if these eyes weren't not Shisui's original ones, a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan would likely have appeared on the spot.
Uchiha Touhuan watched this scene without speaking. After closing the office door, he silently picked up the scattered documents one by one. These documents were copies of something he had brought back from Orochimaru's base, and also a trigger he had deliberately left in the office today. Now it seemed that this thing was indeed effective.
"Touhuan, none of this is real, is it?" Shisui's eyes regained some light upon seeing Uchiha Touhuan, and he asked.
"Shisui, with your level of authority, you're not qualified to see this," Uchiha Touhuan said softly.
"Touhuan!" Uchiha Shisui growled, his eyes pleading even more intensely. He desperately hoped that what he had seen wasn't real, after all, what he had just witnessed was a complete trampling of everything he had pursued in the past.
"These are all things I found at Orochimaru's base, how could they be fake?" Uchiha Touhuan said, sitting back in his chair.
"Ah!!!" Shisui's last shred of illusion shattered at Uchiha Touhuan's cold words. He then clutched his head in agony, screaming, his chakra and ocular power surging. The three tomoe in Shisui's eyes spun incessantly, but he couldn't take that crucial step. However, Uchiha Touhuan could sense through the summoning contract of the Ninja Hawk that Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan was also fluctuating with his emotions.
[It seems that without his own eyes, he truly couldn't push the Sharingan to complete its final evolution.] Thinking this, Uchiha Touhuan stepped forward and sealed Shisui's chakra. He had no choice; the boy was already draining his life force, and if he didn't calm down soon, he'd probably die tonight.
Although Uchiha Touhuan forcibly suppressed his chakra, Shisui still didn't seem to have calmed down.
In response, Uchiha Touhuan brought over a tea set and slowly brewed tea, waiting for Shisui to vent his emotions.
Soon after, Shisui finally calmed down, tears of blood streaming down his face, and looked up at Uchiha Touhuan.
"Are you calmer now?" Uchiha Touhuan pushed the brewed tea towards Shisui.
"Thank you," Shisui said weakly. "Touhuan, why? Why did this happen?"
"I want to know why too!" Uchiha Touhuan, unusually, cursed. "Damn it, how did the village become like this?!"
"We studied the Will of fire every day at the Ninja Academy, and now Shimura Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu—none of them have clean hands!" Uchiha Touhuan grumbled. "These people should all be executed! But for the sake of the village's stability, I have to shelve this already irrefutable evidence!"
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