Looking at Mingzhi who had already walked out, Itachi wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to speak, so he could only follow Mingzhi out.

"By the way, are you also joining the Shadows?"

It suddenly occurred to Mingzhi at this time that he seemed to have seen Itachi in the shadows.

"I'm in the same class as you, thank you!"

Itachi glanced at Mingzhi, but he remembered that when he greeted Mingzhi at that time, Mingzhi ignored him.

Although the two are in the same class, but after Itachi entered the dark department, he was frequently doing tasks, which is like Mingzhi, who was beheaded by Ape Feiri for nearly a year, and Mingzhi didn't like to return to the residence of the dark department, so the two basically didn't meet in the dark department again.

“…… yes, yes..."

Mingzhi seemed to think of something, and then said, "Then you should have accepted that task too, right?" Do you feel anything? ”

Itachi nodded and said, "A mission is a mission!" ”

In addition to assassination and the like, the dark department also has various other invisible light tasks, and Itachi also understands what Mingzhi is asking.

Since the Nine-Tails incident, the top management of Konoha has also met more than once to discuss who is behind the manipulation, and the hypothesis that it is the Uchiha clan has slowly been accepted by everyone, after all, there is a writing wheel eye with strong pupil power, but the three generations of Hokage have always defined this hypothesis as pending.

And that's why Konoha is just spying on the Uchiha, not completely tearing his face.

The people in the shadows can't spy on the Uchiha clan in the open, in person, and can only place monitors in the Uchiha clan's place to spy on them.

Mingzhi himself didn't care about these things, he wanted to see Itachi's reaction.

Itachi nodded and said, "A mission is a mission!" Ninjas should be the first priority to complete their mission, but the Uchiha clan has long sensed the village's suspicion of them. ”

"I think so!"

Mingzhi agreed, he had also been to the room full of monitors, and the number of monitors could already show the entire Uchiha clan's place.

What a surveillance, if the Uchiha clan didn't find out, then what would the Konoha First Family talk about.

"Ming Zhijun, did you reject my father's proposal?"

"Definitely, otherwise you think that your father just looked at me unpleasantly, so he deliberately isolated my family."

Mingzhi glanced at Itachi.

Itachi nodded suddenly, and also understood why Fuyue had been unhappy with Mingzhi in recent years.

At that time, he wondered why Fuyue, who was very optimistic about Mingzhi, suddenly snubbed Mingzhi's family, and didn't even let Mingzhi participate in the party.

He was also shocked by this, very few Uchiha people dared to refuse his father's mission, and it could be seen from this that Mingzhi was really on Konoha's side.

"You promised?"

"Yes!"

Mingzhi sighed and said, "If you want me to say, you can't get used to your father, sometimes you have to be tough when you should be tough." ”

Itachi smiled bitterly when he heard this, and didn't say much.

Seeing Itachi's appearance of suffering, Mingzhi didn't bother to say anything, and walked straight to Akemi and took her home, leaving Itachi alone waiting for his younger brother.

"Brother, I've passed!"

And Sasuke didn't let Itachi wait too much, and quickly passed the assessment and happily ran over to Itachi.

Seeing little Sasuke, Itachi, who was in a heavy mood, couldn't help but show a smile: "Let's go, let's go home." ”

The two returned to the door, and in the staggered light and shadow, they happened to see a figure leaning against the door, Sasuke took a closer look, and the figure was really his father, Uchiha Fugaku.

Seeing that it was his father, Sasuke was excited, and he ran to Fugaku's side and said, "Dad, I..."

"Sasuke, you go back to the room first, I have something to talk to your brother about!"

Without waiting for Sasuke to finish speaking, Fugaku interrupted directly, not even looking at Sasuke more, just looking at Itachi.

"I see."

Sasuke said in a depressed mood as if he had been poured a basin of cold water, and then walked into the inner room with his head down, he saw his father, and originally wanted to share with Fuyue the joy of passing the ninja school assessment, but he didn't want to be ruthlessly interrupted by Fuyue, Fuyue didn't even ask.

"What did you talk to Akishi Uchiha about today?"

Uchiha Fugaku looked at Itachi with an expressionless face, and his tone was full of accusations.

"It's nothing, it's just that as a childhood friend, I talked to him about some things from the past."

Itachi sat cross-legged across from Fugaku, his head bowed and he didn't look into Fugaku's eyes.

After listening to Itachi's words, Fuyue clasped his hands around and said, "Well, it's best not to have any contact with him in the future, although he is also a member of the Uchiha clan, but he has always been a member of the same road with us, and the affairs of the Uchiha clan cannot be leaked to him, do you understand?" ”

"Father, you should be more concerned about Sasuke's affairs!"

Itachi raised an eyebrow and said calmly.

Fuyue was stunned for a moment and stood up: "I have a lot of things, Sasuke should understand!" ”

Not long after Fu Yue finished speaking, he didn't expect Zhishui to suddenly appear at their doorstep.

"It turned out to be a stop water, then you young people communicate more, I'll go first."

When Fuyue saw that an outsider appeared, he didn't want to say anything to Itachi, and went straight into the inner room.

"Why are you here?"

Itachi looked at Zhishui and asked suspiciously, "Have you completed your task?" ”

"yes, I came to you when I just came back." The face that stops the water is gentle like water, like bathing in the spring breeze, but that dumpling nose is a failure.

"What's the matter?"

Itachi knew that Zhishui must have something important to discuss with him, and he couldn't let his father know about the matter between them, so he took Zhishui and went outside.

Uchiha in a mountain forest.

In the woods, the branches of the big trees are luxuriant, like a giant umbrella towering high, looking from afar, it is a green ocean, a breeze blows, the trees in the forest like waves, making a loud sound, as if singing.

"How is it, what did Ming Zhijun say?" Zhishui looked at the beautiful scenery in the woods and gave a gentle look at the ferret.

"I've tried, he's just like us, except he's more inclined to Konoha!" Itachi thought for a moment and said.

The two of them felt that they were still a little reluctant to save the Uchiha clan just because they wanted to, so if they wanted to find someone who also surpassed the narrow thinking of their own clan and had strength in their own right, they only had Mingzhi to think about it.

"Yes, with Akishi's help, I think the Uchiha will change a lot at the top of Konoha."

The corners of Shisui's mouth lifted upward, a little happy, the Uchiha was not just him and Itachi fighting, but also other people who thought the same way.

"I'm just afraid that this will make the Uchiha clan even more indulgent, and even give them enough time to stage a coup d'état, and to stop it, only unconventional means can be used."

Itachi is not optimistic about Akishi's role in this, so in the end, it is the Uchiha who wants to carry out a coup d'état, not Konoha who wants to destroy the Uchiha clan.

"I understand, that's why I'm looking for you this time!"

Zhishui nodded, he also knew what the problem was.

"What do you want to do?"

"I want to get rid of these suspicions once and for all."

"Stop the water, what are you going to do?"

A glimmer of light flashed in Itachi's eyes, this was not a trivial problem, the gap between the two parties had existed long before the Nine-Tails incident, how could it be so easy to eliminate.

"First of all, I need to rebuild the trust between the Uchiha and the village, but this matter still needs the support of Hokage-sama, and today I will find Hokage-sama and ask him to give me a certain amount of permission!"

Zhishui thought for a while and said.

"Do you think you can do it?"

"I don't know, but I have to try, I can't just rely on Mingzhi." It's also a little difficult to stop the water, and Konoha can say that after all, the three generations of Hokage are still in power, and it's no problem to get his trust.

The key is the Uchiha clan, this group of people is a group of elm heads, and they can't see the form in front of them clearly.

"I really can't do it, so I can only use these eyes!"

Zhishui opened his writing wheel eyes and looked at Itachi apologetically.

"I understand, even if I can change my father's mind with other gods, other clansmen won't settle down like this!"

"I know, but if the patriarch can do his best to stop the clansmen, it should be able to drag on for a few more years, and a few years can change a lot of things."

“…… That's all it can be! "Itachi really didn't want to go that far.

The other gods can directly invade the other party's brain without being discovered by the other party and modify the other party's will, so that although the only thing that changes is that Fugaku does not launch a coup d'état, will this still be his father?

After all, it's just a puppet manipulated by others!

……

Mingzhi didn't know the plan between Shisui and Itachi, but it was a good thing to see that the Uchiha clan would not be wiped out, so he would do his best.

It's just that this matter can't be rushed, among the high-level of Konoha, that is, his teacher is moderate to the Uchiha clan, and the others are all cold-faced, and they haven't given a good face to see Mingzhi.

But the Hokage is the Hokage after all, as long as Akishi explains the situation to Sarutobi, Sarutobi Hichisaki will find a way to solve the high-level of Konoha and let them share some benefits with the Uchiha clan.

This can be regarded as Mingzhi's explanation to Itachi.

A month later.

Akemi's enrollment has come to an end.

She originally wanted to learn physical skills with Mingzhi, but who wanted Mingzhi to refuse directly in person, and she was angry that she didn't talk to Mingzhi for three days.

In Mingzhi's opinion, a girl's family, what kind of physical skills to practice, how good it is to play high-end things like illusion, Akemi does not have Mingzhi's physique, and it is basically impossible to make achievements in physical arts.

Besides, don't look at Mingzhi being so idle every day in the shadows, but there are still some things that need to be done, and there is not so much time to teach Akemi.

And the world of ninjas is so cruel, some things still need to be experienced by Akemi herself.

The southeastern part of the Fire Country.

Akishi and Satera sat under a tree to rest.

"It's easy to follow the big brother out of the task!"

Saji looked at Akishi, who was smoking a cigarette and looking in the direction of the land of water, and said.

"This mission is not difficult, but the old man still doesn't worry about me coming out, so he only gives me this kind of task."

Mingzhi pursed his lips.

Sarutobi has been keeping Mingzhi in Konoha all the time, that's impossible, even if it's a dog, it has to be released to slip around.

However, the task given to Mingzhi is simple, and it is not simple, even if it is a new person who has entered the dark department, the task given above to be familiar with the work of the dark department is simpler than this.

"Big brother, it's time for us to go back!"

Saji looked at the sky and hurried to the town to rest.

Mingzhi glanced at Saji and flicked the ash on the cigarette butt, which instantly made Saji, who was about to get up, dare not move: "Okay, let's wait for the eldest brother to finish smoking before leaving." ”

Originally, only Mingzhi came on this mission, but Ape Fei Ri was really worried about Mingzhi, so he had to arrange a boss for him to come over.

And Kakashi shirked this mission on the grounds that he had to deal with a lot of affairs as the head of the dark department, and the actual reason was probably that he didn't want to come out with Akishi, and there was no way to arrange for an old man from the dark department to come out with Akishi.

Of course, he didn't know that Saji had already become Mingzhi's younger brother, otherwise he would never have arranged Saji to control Mingzhi.

On the surface, the two of them want to take Saji as the captain and obey his command in everything, but in reality, needless to say, Mingzhi is the boss.

"Bald, you go to a nearby town and wait for me for a few days, I have some personal matters to do."

Mingzhi finished his last puff of cigarette and said slowly.

"Big brother, don't embarrass me, Hokage-sama said that we must rush back within five days, we have been out for two days, and it will be too late if we don't rush back this time."

Saji was embarrassed for a while, and Sarutobi had already told him in private that if Mingzhi had any messy ideas, he must be persuaded to go back.

"Hokage-sama said, if it exceeds this time, you don't want to come out again, big brother."

This is also the last words that Sarutobi told Saji, but he knew that Sakuji alone would definitely not be able to live.

“…… I don't care, the reason is that you think of one yourself. ”

Mingzhi looked in the direction of the Water Country, this is not far from the Water Country, if Mingzhi flies with all his strength, he can reach Wuyin Village in one day.

It's already here, and I'm not going to see how Terumi Mingzhi does it.

Rushing!

At that moment, there was a slight noise in the woods.

"Huh?"

Mingzhi and Saji looked at the past at the same time, although the mission was over, but in this barren mountain and wild mountains, the two of them never relaxed their vigilance.

The commotion in the woods grew louder and louder, and soon Akishi and Saji saw a figure appear in front of them.

"Put down the knife, your own people!"

Mingzhi looked at the figure, was stunned for a moment, and then said to Saji.

Finally, he smiled at the visitor: "Ling, why did you rush over and think of me here again to cheat money?" Didn't we rub it just a few days ago, and we couldn't help it so quickly, and we all came here to find me! ”

The person who came turned out to be Ling, but I saw that she was full of embarrassment, and looked at Mingzhi with an anxious face: "Mingzhi, I finally found you." ”

(End of chapter)