After Watergate's funeral, Itachi went to the shadows to report.

The Shadows, the representative of Konoha's elite forces. In the eyes of the Konoha ninja, joining the dark department means that the ninja's strength and potential have been recognized by the village. Despite the fact that the missions of the Shadows are more difficult, bloodier, and more dangerous than those of regular ninjas, the ninjas of Konoha are proud to be able to join the Shadows.

The dark part, in addition to being a symbol of Konoha's strength, is more importantly, the scroll unique to the dark part, and only by joining the dark part can you have the opportunity to learn. For Konoha ninjas, joining the Shadows Encounter represents an opportunity to quickly improve their strength. Risks and opportunities coexist, and that's the attraction of the shadows.

Most ninjas won't realize that the dark side can train excellent ninjas, and it can also bind excellent ninjas. For a long time, Sarutobi used the power of the Hokage to hold many ninjas of rival families in the shadows. No matter how much these excellent ninjas have contributed to the village and how much they have done in battle, they will not be known. They live forever in darkness, and even when they die in battle, no one remembers their names.

Once, Itachi thought that all the soldiers in the shadows came from powerful ninjas in Konoha. After a few years of integration into the Hokage world, Itachi has some understanding of the shadows. Contrary to the impression, the dark part has its own internal cultivation mechanism. Every year, the dark department will select some members from the powerful ninjas in the village, and recruit some reserve personnel from the ninja school and various ninja families. Ninjas like Itachi, after joining the Shadows, will undergo a series of training, and after passing the examination, they will become reserve members.

Each detachment of the Shadow Division has forty official members, and the Shadow Team personally led by Captain Aso has twenty members, all of whom are upper ninjas, and there is no shortage of elite upper ninjas, known as "the dark part of the dark department". After the official members of the dark department are killed, lose their combat effectiveness, or retire, and there is a vacancy, the teams of the dark department will promote the regular members from the reserves.

"Don't think that you are an elite when you enter the door of the dark department, in my eyes, you are all weak chickens!" Seto, the captain of the Dark Division, said, feeling very disdainful. This year, it was Seto's turn to train newcomers, and Seto was very reluctant.

"Damn Kakashi!" Seto cursed in his heart.

It turned out that in order to reorganize the detachment, it was planned that Kakashi would serve as a training instructor. When Kakashi met Aso, his eyes were lifeless, listless, and he really didn't have any state. In desperation, Aso instead ordered his own detachment to take over the training task. It just so happened that his detachment had made a contribution to protecting civilians in the Nine-Tails Incident and was staying at the base for repairs.

For these people who are not even reserves, even if there are children of major families among them, the dark department will never be polite. Only by eliminating the arrogance in their hearts can the rules of the dark be engraved in their hearts. Of course, for those famous ninjas who join the shadows, the shadows have another training mechanism.

"Here, you have no name, no past, no personality." After a pause, Seto continued, "From now on, you only have code names, and you can only call each other code names. If you are found still calling your names, let Ibiki teach you herself! ”

Ibiki's name, in Konoha, has the effect of stopping children from crying at night. Itachi once heard it with her own ears when a mother yelled at a naughty child, "If you don't obey again, Ibiki-sama will hand you over", and no matter how bearish the child hears this, he will subconsciously shudder.

Ibiki worked in the dark department in his early years, and after showing a special talent in the field of torture, he was transferred to the Konoha Interrogation Department by Sarutobi. However, Ibiki has not completely departed from the Shadows, and until now, Ibiki has remained a special advisor to the Shadows. For Ibihi, the official members of the dark department are afraid, and in order to prevent leakage of secrets after being captured alive, each member of the dark department will be "specially trained" by Ibihi once. However, only ninjas who have actually experienced it know what the so-called "special training" is all about.

Sure enough, when he heard Ibixi's name, the attitude in the queue was still a little slack, and he immediately held his head high again, not daring to be careless at all.

"Now, give you three minutes to put a code name on the card!" Seeing that Ibhi's name played a deterrent role, Seto nodded secretly in his heart, Ibhi's guy, although he is very perverted, but I have to say that fear is easier to form order.

After Seto finished speaking, the members of his team raised their hands, and cards the size of playing cards flew towards the field. From the action of the newcomers catching the cards, the veterans of the dark department can easily see how fine the chakra is controlled. Itachi lightly verticalized, cast the thunder attribute chakra to cover the earth attribute chakra on the card, and pinched it with his hand, and the card fell completely in the palm of his hand.

"Huh? Is this the Uchiha Itachi mentioned by the three generations of adults? Awakening the Sharingan, the Uchiha's ninja is truly extraordinary in chakra control. Seto stood on the high platform, his eyes scanned the audience, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw Itachi's performance, "Itachi is said to be too late to stop the water, and in my opinion, Itachi doesn't seem to be bad." ”

Itachi, unlike the children of the Uchiha, is never fierce and fierce at the ninja school, and hardly does anything with people. In the few actual combat courses, the weasel coped with it hastily. Most of the time, Itachi is quietly reading. After investigating in the shadows, it was learned that Itachi often read not ninjutsu scrolls, but miscellaneous books such as "Ninja World Customs", "Ninja World Anecdotes", and "Ninja Sea Country Atlas". Many people believe that Itachi seems to be more interested in books than in ninjutsu, and even the Uchiha people secretly sigh.

Sarutobi, Fugaku, and Kakashi all knew in their hearts that Itachi's strength was actually not weak. In the ninja world, young people are making a lot of noise, and their reputation spreads far and wide. Itachi is deliberately low-key and not very noisy, and in Konoha, Itachi has almost no other reputation except as the son of Fugaku.

Itachi's heart is bright, and under the high-intensity forced training mechanism in the dark, it will not be so easy to deliberately hide his strength. If it is discovered, I don't know how it will be treated, not to mention, the young age gives a deep impression of scheming, which is not conducive to Itachi's plan. Long before stepping into the dark base, Itachi decided that in addition to the power of the domain and the purple wheel eye, he could give full play to his own strength.

In order to entrap Itachi, Sarufei developed Itachi into a spy of Konoha and would continue to give Itachi enough temptation. If you don't give enough favors, how can you expect others to work for Ape Fei? Is it just an empty sentence "For the peace of Konoha and for the inheritance of the will of fire".

Observing the performance of the lower ninjas in the field, the members of the dark army secretly kept the excellent seedlings in mind.

"Senior, I've got the card, but I don't have a pen?" Shinobu asked boldly.

"Yes, yes, how can I write a name without a pen?" A few more shinobi said.

Itachi has long discovered this problem, and in the principle of not coming out, he has been waiting for someone to ask questions.

"Hey???hey" A member of the dark army sneered gloomily, pulled out his shuriken, made a cut on Youdou's finger, grabbed it, and yelled at the lower ninjas in the field, "Look, isn't this just a pen?" Remember, when a ninja is on a mission, the enemy won't help you prepare your pen! ”

Yuto was frightened by the brutal behavior of the dark soldiers, and did not dare to move, and after regaining his freedom, while the blood was still flowing, he quickly wrote "Adou" on the card. Since then, Yuto's code name in the shadows has become Adou, and Itachi will smile slightly every time he calls Adou, which makes all the ninjas in the shadows puzzled.

The other ninjas did the same.

Itachi unleashed his water blade, made a small cut on his right index finger, thought about it, and wrote his code name.