Chapter XVII
"Well, it's okay."
Uchiha Itachi hesitated, but still didn't tell the truth.
Izumi Uchiha smiled sweetly, and the breeze gently ruffled her long black hair.
The setting sun shone on her face, dyeing her delicate face a golden color.
Uchiha Itachi looked at her quietly, and his heart skipped a beat.
He hurriedly turned his head and pretended to be nonchalant.
"I really want to be a ninja like Itachi sooner."
Izumi Uchiha sighed softly.
"That... Izumi-san, can you use the Sharingan? β
As soon as the words came out, he regretted it a little.
"If I could use the Hind Sharingan, I would have graduated from the ninja school with Itachi."
Izumi Uchiha's smile faded, and her voice became much softer.
Before they knew it, the two had walked to the wall that separated Konoha from the Uchiha clan.
A tall and majestic wall is carved with a fan pattern that symbolizes the Uchiha clan.
It was this wall that separated the Uchiha clan from Konoha's village.
"That's right, Itachi. Have you ever felt like adults are being scary lately? β
Izumi Uchiha asked quietly as she walked through the gate of the wall.
"Did you hear anything?"
The Uchiha Itachi frowned slightly.
"No, it's just my own feelings."
Izumi Uchiha shook her head,
"However, sometimes when walking in the village, there is always a feeling of panicγγγγγ
"Really? Maybe it's because the school homework is too hard. β
Uchiha Itachi breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to comfort Izumi Uchiha with a frightened face.
"Probably."
The expression on Izumi Uchiha's face relaxed a little when she heard his words.
"Izumi."
Before they were about to part, Uchiha Itachi called out a friend's name,
"It's better not to talk about those things to anyone else."
Izumi Uchiha nodded slightly,
"Okay, since Itachi says so."
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The Uchiha clan is a clan with very keen senses.
Since even a child like Izumi could feel the abnormality, the top management of Konoha was afraid that they had already been wary of it.
At this sensitive time, adults are still gathering at Nanga Shrine with great fanfare, and it is becoming more and more frequent.
It's like I'm afraid that others won't know.
Even if you really want to do something, I'm afraid that someone will find out the details a long time ago.
I don't know what the hell are the adults thinking?
If this continues, the situation will only get worse.
The Uchiha frowned, everything in front of him was like a heavy fog, covering his eyes, completely unable to see the truth.
The next time you see Uchiha Shisui, be sure to ask about the adults' gatherings.
He thought to himself.
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Konoha has not fully recovered from the Nine-Tails attack, and another big incident has happened in the village.
That was Hinata Wakuta's kidnapping incident.
Yunyin Village, which had been hostile to Konoha for a long time, suddenly sent an envoy to Konoha on the grounds that it wanted to conclude an alliance treaty with Konoha.
Konoha higher-ups, who were worried that the other ninja villages would attack while Konoha was weak, happily agreed to Yunyin's request.
The high-level held a grand welcome ceremony to welcome the Yunyin envoys from afar.
The entire Konoha is enveloped in a festive atmosphere.
However, on the same night, there was an incident in which the daughter of the Hyuga family, Childta, was kidnapped.
Fortunately, the prisoner was killed on the spot, so that the "white eyes" of the Hyuga clan did not fall into the hands of outsiders.
But even bigger trouble arose.
The suspect who was killed on the spot turned out to be a shinobi of the Yunyin Emissary Regiment.
What was supposed to be a simple burglary kidnapping case suddenly turned into a confrontation between Konoha and Yunyin.
Under the pretext that the upper shinobi of the envoy group was killed, Yunyin began to deploy a large number of troops to the border of the Fire Country.
And forcefully put forward conditions to Konoha and demanded that Konoha hand over the body of the Hyuga clan who killed the Kugakure Kamishinobi.
The three generations of Hokage Ape Fei Hi Slash were still proud of their diplomatic skills, and when they heard the news of Yun Yin's troops, they were immediately confused.
In desperation, he had to give the order for the Hyuga clan to hand over the Hinata Hinata who killed the cloud shadow shinobi.
In the end, Hinata Hinata committed suicide and took his own life to apologize for his brother's guilt, which finally calmed Yunyin's anger temporarily.
In order to cope with the war that could break out at any time, Konoha had to send a large number of ninjas to the border.
Taking advantage of the tension between Yunyin and Konoha, other ninja villages also began to move, and sent spies to Konoha one after another.
While gathering relevant information, he weighed the pros and cons of attacking Konoha.
At this time of turmoil, Uchiha Itachi received his first assignment as a ninja.
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A group of four people walked on the way to the outside of Konoha Village.
A sturdy boy with a pimple-covered face and a hill-like look whined loudly at the vine tree at the front of the line, sounding more like a roar,
"Fujiki-sensei, this kind of mission to eliminate enemy spy forces should be the work of the dark department. This kind of task is also the lowest "B" level, and the shinobi like us, who have just graduated, shouldn't they perform those simple "C" or "D" tasks? This kind of high-level mission can be fatal. I don't care, but we also have a girl on the team who likes to cry and a Uchiha kid who is a dragger. This kind of mission shouldn't be our squad's turn, right? β
"Who do you say likes to cry?"
Before Fujiki could answer, the hot-tempered Xinquan had already scolded,
"An enemy you will encounter in a while, you don't want to be so scared that you pee your pants thank God, coward Kurama."
In order to prevent the war between the two from affecting him, Uchiha Itachi deliberately slowed down and distanced himself from the two.
The scolding battle between the two lasted until the group was away from Konoha and didn't end until they were away.
Fujiki looked at the two of them who were huffing and wry, and scratched his head with a wry smile,
"That. . . That's like this, because the border hasn't been quiet lately, and all the shadows have left the village. Coupled with the Nine-Tails attack some time ago, the number of ninjas in the village is seriously insufficient. That's why I gave this task to our second shift. This is also the trust of the top management in our second class. We should do it all the more beautifully. Also, there is only one enemy in this mission, and we... β
Fujiki was only halfway through his words, and Kurama Izumo, who heard the words "Nine-Tails Attack", suddenly came to his senses and launched the second mouth cannon of the day towards Uchiha Itachi.
"Speaking of the Nine-Tails attack, it's not a good thing that the Uchiha clan has done, it just so happens that there is a Uchiha clan imp in our team. We should settle the Uchiha clan first, and then discuss the missionγγγγγ β