Naruto: Uchiha's Absolute Justice

Chapter 34: The Uchiha Clan and Root's Standoff

"Senior Ikeizumi, that… ANBU ninja named Shin'nosuke Sarutobi, was he once your teacher? And… was he closely related to the Third Hokage?"

Throughout their journey, Izumi felt Senior Ikeizumi was walking very slowly.

The overly silent and awkward atmosphere made her subtly uncomfortable.

She bravely broke the silence, cautiously asking.

"He was my Jonin instructor."

Uchiha Ikeizumi replied, "A few years ago, when the Third Great Ninja War erupted, he took me to the battlefield. He's a Sarutobi, so he's definitely related to the Third Hokage. He's the Third Hokage's eldest son."

Izumi: "!!!"

The conversation between Senior Ikeizumi and that ANBU ninja during their fight was a bit muffled, and Izumi hadn't fully heard it.

After all, she didn't even dare to get close to a battle of that caliber.

She hadn't expected Shin'nosuke Sarutobi to be the Hokage's eldest son!

Izumi involuntarily swallowed, feeling sweat on her palms.

She couldn't wipe it away.

Because this was practically tantamount to thoroughly offending the Third Hokage, wasn't it? But Izumi was also somewhat puzzled as to why the Hokage just let her and Senior Ikeizumi leave.

The Hokage had brought so many ANBU, clearly looking like he was coming to demand an explanation.

"Then, Hokage-sama…"

Before Izumi could even voice her concern, Uchiha Ikeizumi interrupted, saying, "Don't worry. Since the Third Hokage chose not to keep me just now, it means he respected Shin'nosuke-sensei's dying wish."

He glanced at the apprehensive Izumi and added, "You don't have to worry about ANBU ninja sneaking into your bed at night."

It seemed Senior Ikeizumi had seen through her thoughts again.

"Oh!"

Izumi nodded mutely.

She didn't quite understand the underlying currents, nor did she know when the Hokage's eldest son had left a dying wish.

But since Senior Ikeizumi said it was fine.

Then it probably, most likely, was fine, right?

Just then, Izumi felt her head dip, as if something heavy had landed on it, causing her to exclaim softly.

Until a strangely accented voice echoed from the top of her head: "Meow. Rookie, just let Lord Ikeizumi have some quiet. Don't keep asking questions all day, meow!"

Izumi immediately fell silent.

In their small group of two people and one cat, her status was probably the lowest.

Even lower than a cat's.

"You don't need to overthink things," Uchiha Ikeizumi said calmly. "Shin'nosuke Sarutobi took the wrong path and was in the abyss without realizing it. Only at the moment of death did he finally understand something, but he still had no regrets."

"The current ninja world is so pathological that even an elite Jonin feels that falling into darkness is not a big deal. Such instances will occur countless times simultaneously in different parts of the ninja world."

"Rookie, this is your fourth lesson."

"No matter what grand excuses 'evil' is given by others, you must unswervingly execute absolute justice. Even if it means turning your blade towards those you know best."

Izumi committed every word of Uchiha Ikeizumi's to memory.

"Understood, Senior!"

She said, straightening her posture.

....

Konoha.

At the same time.

"Lord Danzo, what is the meaning of this from you Root?"

Fugaku Uchiha, leading a group of Uchiha Police Force members, was confronting Danzo Shimura, who was leading a group of Root members.

The Uchiha Police Force members behind him also glared angrily at the Root ninja in front.

The atmosphere on site was extremely tense.

It was a volatile standoff.

Fugaku's face darkened. He looked directly at Danzo Shimura and said in a stiff tone, "Uchiha Ikeizumi, a member of the Uchiha Police Force, encountered an emergency outside the village that required assistance. I am here with other Police Force members to support him. This is perfectly reasonable, isn't it?"

"On the contrary, Lord Danzo… leading so many Root ninja to block us, what exactly are you trying to do?"

As he spoke.

Fugaku's gaze couldn't help but stray towards the bandages on Danzo's body.

He remembered the trump card Uchiha Ikeizumi had revealed to him about Danzo.

If Ikeizumi wasn't mistaken, then beneath those white bandages, there could be Sharingan after Sharingan!

Fugaku's eyes involuntarily clouded over.

"Hmph!" Danzo shifted uncomfortably. From Fugaku's reaction, he knew that that inherently evil Uchiha brat must have told Fugaku Uchiha about this.

Damn it!

That brat was indeed the biggest menace in the village. He wondered if that monkey (Hiruzen) had eliminated him yet.

Danzo didn't retreat an inch; there was no way he would let Fugaku go to assist Uchiha Ikeizumi.

Danzo coldly said, "The Hokage has already gone to 'assist' with the ANBU. There's no need for your Uchiha clan to interfere. Furthermore, your jurisdiction is only within Konoha Village. Outside Konoha Village, your Uchiha Police Force has no jurisdiction whatsoever."

When dealing with the Uchiha clan, the words "speak nicely" simply didn't exist in Danzo's vocabulary.

Fugaku was startled.

He gave Danzo a deep look, saying, "With the Police Force's reinforcement, the Hokage will resolve this matter faster. Lord Danzo, please allow our Police Force to leave the village for support."

Danzo's eyes grew slightly colder: "Fugaku! Are you defying a high-ranking official's orders?"

The Root ninja behind him had already placed their hands on their ninja tools.

The Uchiha clan ninja also immediately became alert.

"You…" Just as a younger, more radical Uchiha ninja was about to speak, Fugaku quickly stopped him.

Fugaku gave him a warning glance.

Then.

He spoke to Danzo again: "If, due to Lord Danzo's delay, our Uchiha clan inexplicably loses a genius with a double Kekkei Genkai, I will definitely report it to the Hokage."

Danzo gave a cold snort.

At this moment.

A Root ninja who had been observing the distant commotion suddenly walked up to Danzo and said, "Lord Danzo, the commotion over there has stopped for over ten minutes. If my subordinate is not mistaken, the Hokage and his group must have arrived, and have been there for a while, and stopped the battle through unknown means."

Fugaku also heard the Root ninja's voice.

His brow furrowed.

Danzo, meanwhile, smirked coldly, as his objective had been achieved. He narrowed his eyes and said, "Fugaku, it seems things over there have concluded. Do you still intend to gather so many Uchiha here? Or… do you have other intentions, Fugaku?"

Fugaku clenched his fist.

But then he loosened it.

"Disperse!" He took a deep breath, his face stony, and addressed the Uchiha clan ninja behind him.

"Lord Patriarch!" Many Uchiha ninja were extremely unwilling.

It wasn't necessarily that they genuinely wanted to leave the village to support Uchiha Ikeizumi.

It was more because they felt extremely angry and annoyed at being distrusted.

"Disperse!"

Fugaku repeated, gritting his teeth.

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