Naruto: Uchiha's Absolute Justice

Chapter 41: Cultivating a Successor to [Absolute Justice]?

When Hiruzen Sarutobi returned, a Sarutobi clan ninja went to greet him, only to notice a figure in the distance wearing a Uchiha Police Force uniform.

His pupils constricted, and he hastily asked Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Hokage-sama, that person…"

"Ignore him."

Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head with a grave expression, but anyone could tell his tone was off.

It seemed he was suppressing something.

Hiruzen Sarutobi silently walked to Shin'nosuke Sarutobi's coffin, quietly standing behind his daughter-in-law, Nadeshiko Sarutobi.

...

At that moment.

He heard Nadeshiko Sarutobi's voice: "Hokage-sama, you don't have to worry about me. I've calmed down. Everything… everything must prioritize the village's overall situation, mustn't it?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi was silent for a moment.

He felt some guilt, but only a little. He said, "I have my difficulties. Nadeshiko, you know as well as I do the current state of Konoha. The village desperately needs a fearsome ninja to deter petty rogues from other villages."

"Konoha Village has successively lost Sakumo, had Orochimaru defect, Jiraiya and Tsunade left, and Shisui is gone. Uchiha Ikeizumi is now one of the few pillars of the village."

"Furthermore…"

"Uchiha Ikeizumi's presence can also deter certain ambitious individuals within the village, including some within the Uchiha clan."

Hiruzen Sarutobi paused, then continued, "Even if Shin'nosuke were alive, he would do as I do. You and he are both my right-hand people. He understood me, and you should understand me too."

Nadeshiko Sarutobi nodded lightly: "Hokage-sama, I understand everything clearly."

Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed softly: "Thank you for your hard work, for Konoha's sake."

Immediately.

Hiruzen Sarutobi warned the members of the Sarutobi clan who, upon seeing Uchiha Ikeizumi appear, became indignant and restless.

"No one is to act rashly! He's just here to catch a criminal!"

....

Tsujirō Yamada also saw Uchiha Ikeizumi.

Even though he believed the chance of his exposure was slim, he instinctively shuffled back a few steps.

He cautiously hid himself behind the crowd.

"Hiss, I remember now!" Tsujirō Yamada heard his companion's sudden gasp of realization: "Uchiha Ikeizumi, isn't that the plague… oh no, that guy… is he coming towards us?"

Tsujirō Yamada's heart lurched.

Cold sweat immediately broke out on his palms.

And the last sliver of hope in his heart was extinguished by Uchiha Ikeizumi's cold voice: "Tsujirō Yamada, due to accumulating massive debts. Over four years ago, after your elder brother, Ichirō Yamada, passed away from illness, you attempted to seize his inheritance but failed. In a fit of rage, you murdered your brother's wife and daughter, dismembered their bodies, and discarded them."

The extremely cold and emotionless voice sounded like the grim reaper's death knell to Tsujirō Yamada.

He saw his companions around him, startled, quickly creating distance from him, looking at him with horror.

He also saw these companions, out of overwhelming fear of Uchiha Ikeizumi, hastily make way for him.

Completely exposing his painstakingly hidden figure.

Tsujirō Yamada watched wide-eyed as Uchiha Ikeizumi walked up to him and stood quietly two meters away.

He didn't dare to meet the gaze of this young man, who was more than a decade his junior.

The drizzling rain couldn't soothe the fear in his heart.

He wiped the rain from his face, lowered his head, and forced a calm demeanor, his throat dry: "I… I don't understand what you're saying."

"Izumi Uchiha."

"Here!!!" Izumi immediately stepped forward from behind.

"Interrogate him."

Izumi froze, then took a deep breath, quickly preparing herself mentally. She immediately said, "Yes, Senior!"

She knew what Senior Ikeizumi meant by "interrogate."

Because the first time she met Senior, Senior Ikeizumi had demanded she interrogate a criminal.

And it was a bloody torture inflicted on the criminal in broad daylight, in front of a crowd!

This time…

It would likely be exactly the same as last time.

Moreover.

Izumi also realized that this time, it was not only in broad daylight but also under the gaze of the Hokage-sama not far away! This might be a new test Senior Ikeizumi was giving her.

She felt a bit pressured.

However, compared to the pressure of defying Senior Ikeizumi's orders, Izumi felt that this current pressure was nothing.

Then, thinking of the mother and daughter who had been reduced to scattered bones.

The hesitation and wavering in Izumi's eyes visibly dissipated.

She drew her ninja blade.

And took a few steps forward.

"Hey! What… what are you going to do?!" Cold sweat instantly poured down Tsujirō Yamada's face. He frantically stumbled backward repeatedly, but he didn't expect the young girl in front of him, with slightly cold eyes, to press him step by step.

"You have two paths you can choose right now." Izumi felt like she was turning bad, but against a scum like him, perhaps no method, no matter how extreme, was unreasonable.

She tried to imitate Senior's tone: "First, you refuse to cooperate, and I kill you, then the Yamanaka clan will investigate your memories. Second, you confess everything you did four years ago."

"I told you! I don't understand what you're saying… AAAAAHHH!!!"

Tsujirō Yamada suddenly let out a piercing shriek.

He frantically clutched his crotch and fell to his knees, an indescribable pain making his face turn completely pale.

"I'm only giving you thirty seconds to think."

Izumi steeled herself, kicked him again, knocking him to the ground.

Her eyes narrowed, and she pierced Tsujirō Yamada's left palm with her blade, pinning his hand to the ground.

"AAAAAAAHHHH!!" Tsujirō Yamada continued to scream.

"Twenty-nine."

Recalling the bone fragments that made her hair stand on end, Izumi twisted her wrist, and the blade instantly severed half of his palm.

"Twenty-eight."

"Twenty-seven."

Izumi's ninja blade swept, and an ear flew high into the air, the spattering blood quickly washed away by the rain.

"Twenty-six."

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"Hokage-sama! They're clearly torturing him for a confession! And… they're doing this at Senior Shin'nosuke's funeral, right in front of you, Hokage-sama!"

A friend of Shin'nosuke Sarutobi exclaimed in horror to Hiruzen Sarutobi, "Isn't this a forced confession? Perhaps that man is innocent, but under such torment, he'll be forced to admit guilt."

"Such behavior is already…"

Hiruzen Sarutobi stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.

He interrupted: "Uchiha Ikeizumi often disappoints me greatly in many aspects. However… in terms of law enforcement, no matter how extreme his methods, the results he ultimately provides me have always left me unable to refute them."

"When Uchiha Ikeizumi identifies someone as a murderer, that person… is absolutely a murderer. Not once has he been wrong."

Hiruzen Sarutobi gazed at the young girl's back.

He murmured to himself, his voice faint, "Are you preparing to cultivate a successor to [Absolute Justice], Ikeizumi…?"

Shin'nosuke Sarutobi's friend also hadn't expected the Hokage-sama to speak in defense of the person who murdered his own son.

Moreover.

In the Hokage-sama's words, that Uchiha Ikeizumi was perhaps being a bit too "deified," wasn't he?

How could a person never be wrong?!

.....

"AAAAAHHH! I confess! I confess!!!"

A civilian's bones were, after all, much softer than a ninja's; he had never undergone any strict ninja training.

The pain emanating from all over his body, combined with the oppressive presence of the Uchiha Police Force, had already caused his mind to break.

His psychological defenses, already crumbling due to Uchiha Ikeizumi's appearance, completely collapsed at this moment.

He screamed in terror, tears and snot flowing: "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

"I… I did kill my brother's wife and daughter! Why did that damned woman tell me she'd never lend money to someone addicted to gambling when I asked her for money?!"

"They were the ones who disregarded our family ties first! No! No, they were outsiders anyway; they just wanted to monopolize my brother's inheritance!"

Tsujirō Yamada's emotional breakdown transformed into a sudden justification for his actions, all within less than ten seconds.

He gritted his teeth, yelling hysterically, even bursting into angry fury: "I was just cleaning up my brother's affairs!"

"I didn't do anything wrong! Why should I be arrested?!"

"Why don't you arrest the woman who seized my brother's inheritance?!"

"You're all unfair!!!"

"You…"

The moment Tsujirō Yamada, in his emotional frenzy, looked up at Uchiha Ikeizumi, he suddenly saw a pair of crimson, Three-Tomoe Sharingan enter his field of vision.

His entire visual field seemed to be occupied by those Sharingan.

Tsujirō Yamada's face gradually transformed from anger to horror.

He seemed to be seeing something no one else could.

"AAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

Izumi paused, then quickly realized that this was Senior Ikeizumi directly casting a Sharingan genjutsu on him!

Izumi didn't know what terrifying scene Tsujirō Yamada saw in the genjutsu, what horrible illusion he experienced.

But…

She felt he deserved it!

"Rookie, this is the 'evil' of the ninja world. Even when the blade of justice is at their throats, they will not repent. Lenient laws cannot deliver justice for the deceased."

Uchiha Ikeizumi said eerily, "Then, with your [Absolute Justice], deliver justice for the deceased."

"Kill him."

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