Over Konoha.

An inconspicuous black shadow silently passed through the barrier, attracting no one's attention.

Like a self-tracking arrow, it glides through the main city in a few breaths to the edge of the Forest of Death.

A wide, infinitely downward pit crouched like a trap waiting for a rabbit.

Even the best shinobi in the village will stay away from the event, as if this is some ominous place.

(Except for Maitkai.) He would have deliberately run here, so at someone's request, he was ordered by the Hokage not to go near here. ）

Their decision was completely correct, because this is the secret department base of the "Darkness of the Ninja World" Shimura Danzo, which is where the "roots" of Konoha are located.

The black shadow of the extremely fast flight stopped at the edge of the crater, and when it looked closely, it turned out to be a pitch-black bird with only a silhouette and a hollow body.

It looked at the bottomless hole and hesitated for two seconds, then changed into a small black snake that continued to explore downward along the inner wall of the hole.

Where the sun shines, there's nothing.

However, when it was submerged into the darkness that no one could see, wooden beams covered with runes stood here, guarding the secrets of the place.

The black snake slid down for a full two or three minutes before it spotted the lights and the complex.

It followed the guidance of the light, swam around the root ninja and inside, eventually burrowing into the training area of the root tissue.

Each training room is divided into two floors, inside and outside, and is a place where the roots cultivate diehards.

At this time, in the No. 1 training room, there was a child about the same age as Yiyong.

He held a red-hot dagger and slowly pushed it into the other's eye socket with a blank expression.

In the observation room through a layer of glass, a white-haired young man and a one-eyed old man were calmly listening to the terrible screams coming from inside.

The latter, leaning on a cane, nodded approvingly, as if admiring the child's performance.

"Faith, your brother is doing better in this subject than at your age."

Shimura Danzo spoke in a quiet tone, "I'm looking forward to his future performances." Your heart is too soft in comparison. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and his half-squinted eyes opened slightly: "However, there is nothing to praise for being ruthless to strangers. If the person who threatens Konoha is his closest relative, he can still be as decisive as today, and he can really meet the requirements of the root - that is a ninja without weaknesses. I don't know how far he is from this step. ”

The white-haired young man named "Xin" didn't say a word, and immediately knelt down on one knee: "If you need it, I'll be happy to verify this myself." ”

"It's still early."

Shimura Danzou was very satisfied with his response, "But it's better to be prepared, the progress of the 'festival' is very fast." I believe that that day, it will not be far away. ”

"Yes."

As an intelligence officer who holds the secrets of the roots, Shin knows very well that he is not destined to live for long.

But if he can exchange his death for his younger brother to gain the trust and reuse of Tuan Zang, he will also die a well-deserved death.

As soon as Xin got up, the ink snake, which seemed to have no size, came in through the crack in the door of the training room.

With a creepy scream, the Ink Snake leaped into the air and swooped down on Shin's neck as if it had found its prey.

But neither Shimura nor Shin paid much attention to the snake's movements.

Shin automatically reacted and took out the blank scroll from his back and unfolded it, allowing the ink snake to pounce on the scroll and turn into a meaningless black pattern.

"The Land of Soup." Shin judged, "It's information from the teacher." ”

As soon as he made a handprint, the ink moved like an ant colony, forming a series of words that didn't seem to make sense.

Shimura didn't immediately look at the contents.

He opened the door of the training room, walked out slowly, and ordered with his back to the signal: "You haven't seen you for a long time, send the sacrifice back first." I'm waiting in the office for you to decipher the above. ”

"Yes." Shin lowered his head, but showed a kind smile like a parent who was about to see a child.

Although it seems abnormal to outsiders, in addition to the expectation of meeting his younger brother, he also has gratitude for Tuan Zang.

Ten minutes later, the most heavily guarded place of the root base was in the office with nearly a hundred kinds of rune paper.

The letter unfolded the scroll and "translated" the code on it while relaying it to Danzo.

"Late last night, the village of Tang Ninja was attacked by the Fog Hidden Ninja and the Cultists, killing nearly six hundred people, injuring nearly two thousand, and half of the village being washed away by the sea. But this attack ended in the defeat of the fog. ”

The first sentence of the letter made Shimura Danzo's lips purse down in disdain.

What's the use of running away from war, not being well prepared, and making as much money as you have?

In a place like Tang Ninja Village, which is full of wine and wine, it dares to crown the word "forbearance", which is really an extreme insult to the profession of ninja.

"Go on." Shimura Danzou retracted his expression.

"Yes. In addition to the Misty Ninja who had been hiding in the Tang Ninja Village, they also sent twelve elite Shangninja, including the Black Hoe Thunder Tooth of the Seven Men of the Fog Hide, the Dry Persimmon Wave Whale, the patriarch of the Dry Persimmon Clan, two Terumi Clansmen with the Boiling Blood Inheritance Limit, and a corpse bone vein. And among the cultists of the evil gods, the murderous demon Feiduan that the teacher had been looking for was also released. ”

"Really?"

A glimmer of light erupted from Shimura's one-eyed eyes.

"It seems that all these years of waiting have been worth it."

Ever since he heard that there was a murderer with an immortal body in Yunin Village, Danzou sent Shin's teacher to investigate.

But two years have passed, and the teacher of the letter has become the top level of Tang Ren, but there is no progress in this matter-

Most of the people in the Tang Ninja Village said that the guy named Fei Duan was dead, and the Cult of the Evil God had been completely eradicated, and only a few ninjas had doubts.

In order to find out about this matter, Tuan Zang arranged for the teacher of the letter to secretly support the development and growth of the Cult of the Evil God, and gradually converted half of the Ninja into a disciple, which made those hidden Ash-level Evil God Cultists appear, providing a lot of useful clues.

And the matter of the Misty Hidden Meeting's attack on the Yunin Village, Shimura Tunzang has long known, and even he acquiesced.

In order to take this opportunity, they stimulated the disciples to take the initiative to try those dangerous and terrifying methods to release the flying section, and then the ninjas of the root found an early opportunity to capture the flying section to Konoha for research.

After all, this is more exaggerated than the intercolumnar cell, the real sense of immortality.

"Although the one called Fei Duan can't die, his own weakness is obvious, otherwise he wouldn't have been subdued by Tang Ren last time, and there shouldn't be any difference this time."

Shimura's speed of speech quickened slightly due to his excitement.

"Tell your teacher to keep the other person in your hands, no matter what means you use. As for the rest of the failed mist and upper ninja, he also asked him to find a way to transfer flowers and trees and send them to the hands of the roots. So much information about the fog is very important to us. ”

[Maybe this time, I can save a little face with that old thing in Ape Fei. 】

For the past few years, the Hokage doesn't know what to think, and has been using various means to restrict the activities of the roots.

Under this kind of suppression, the roots naturally did not make any achievements, and their role became smaller and smaller, and their status became more and more chicken.

And this incident happened to be an opportunity -

Mizukage Yakura's operations over the years have always given outsiders a very confused feeling, but the information about him is well protected.

Tuan Zang knew very well that as long as he could get this mist hidden ninja, especially the dried persimmon whale loyal to Yakura, it would undoubtedly be a great harvest in terms of fog shadow intelligence.

When the time comes, he may be able to use this achievement to take Mito Menyan and Koharu to put pressure on the Hokage and fight for more power for the roots.

However, after the order was given, the letter remained silent and unanswered.

It wasn't until Shimura Danzou was a little surprised that he spoke again: "Lord Danzang, please report the next one...... After last night's incident, whether it was the Black Hoe Thunder Fang, the Dried Persimmon Wave Whale, or the Bone Vein Ninja, they were all dead. ”

Shimura Danzou didn't have time to be surprised, and Shin added, "And the flying section we've been looking for, he's already a prisoner of someone else. ”

"Someone else?"

Seeing that the boiled duck was about to fly, Shimura Danzo's tone suddenly became stern, "Could it be that someone from Yunnin Village is interfering?" ”

"No, the one who killed them was a boy about ten years old, who called himself 'Tomioka Yoshiyu', a traveler who entered Yunin Village last night."

When the letter was translated here, I was as surprised as Shimura Danzo.

Although the teacher didn't know the specific situation, it was speculated that the child found a chance to kill after a dispute between the dry persimmon wave whale and the black hoe Thunder Tooth. And the cultist named Fei Duan was more unlucky, he was eaten by the shark of the dried persimmon wave whale, and although his head survived, it was now a trophy of the boy. On behalf of Yunin, the teacher once asked him for Feidan's head, but he was sternly refused......

But considering that one of the leaders of the Tang Ninja Village was rescued by him, the teacher did not insist on it anymore. It is reported that the other party is looking for a ship to go to the land of water, and it seems that there is something urgent. Accompanying him was the Ghost Lantern Shuiyue of the Ghost Lantern Clan, who claimed to be his disciple; In addition, there is a fox psychic beast beside him, which has no characteristics except for being able to speak. ”

Shin paused, and found that Tuan Zang's lips were getting tighter and tighter, obviously in a very bad mood.

"The teacher's intelligence said that although the other party is young, he is proficient in swordsmanship, and the water escape ninjutsu he uses is very strong, even if he kills the black hoe thunder tooth and the dried persimmon wave whale by picking up the leak, he has no less strength than the general upper ninja. Therefore, the teacher thinks that it is not a good way to rely on the manpower in the Tang Ninja Village to force the flying section, and I hope you can give some manpower support. ”

After saying that, Xin fell into a brief silence, wondering if his teacher had gone crazy because of the contamination of the cult.

The patriarch of the Ninja Sword Seven + the Dry Persimmon Clan, what a vigilant person he was, how could he be picked up and killed by a child about ten years old?

But when it comes to water escape + knife skills, it is very powerful......

Could this "righteousness" be the result of the transformation of the genius "Ghost Lantern Full Moon" in the fog?

This would explain why the ghost lantern Suizuki would follow the other party.

"You just said that the little imp who killed the black hoe and thunder tooth is called 'Tomioka Yoshiyong'?"

"Yes." The letter was stamped again, and the ink on the scroll became a sketchy portrait again, "This is what the teacher wrote about him." ”

[Somewhat familiar...... It looks a bit like the Uchiha Itachi. 】

For this Uchiha clan who he once had high hopes for, Danzang has always been in his mind, and he remembers that face very clearly.

The corners of his mouth twitched subconsciously, and Tuan Zang seemed to remember something, and searched for the documents on the desktop.

"The name Yiyong, I remember seeing one not long ago."

Soon, he found a record of Konoha coming and going two days ago, spread it on the table and looked at it carefully.

- Two days ago in the afternoon, Uchiha Yoshiyoshi and Purgatory Kyojuro left the village at the same time.

[If this righteousness is the other righteousness......]

"If you don't stop hurrying all the time, you can barely reach Tang Ninja Village last night."

In the column of "Purpose of leaving the village", Uchiha Yoshiyoshi only wrote a "tour", which looked like it was printed.

"The time can probably be right, then the other ......"

Thinking of this, Danzou found a backup of Yoshiyu's files at school from the file cabinet behind that contained the information of all the Uchiha clans.

"The photos look alike.

"Age, around ten years old, also fits the description.

"During my time at school, I only participated in one combat class and won the Purgatory Kyojuro. The teacher's evaluation is that the physical skill level is far beyond that of his peers. But that was three years ago...... Considering that both Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi are good at using ninja swords, it is also possible that Uchiha Yoshitomi will use swordsmanship.

"Only this water escape, there is no record in the school files."

Uchiha and Mizuku, it seems that they are a little incompatible.

But in the blink of an eye, Shimura Danzou immediately thought of his old teammate Uchiha Kagami. He is one of the few people in the clan who is born with a water attribute chakra. In this way, it is not impossible for the Uchiha to escape.

I don't know if it's out of hostility towards the Uchiha or because Danzou only knows about this Yiyong, he thinks that this third-year student who is not in the village is the person he is looking for.

Ignoring the confusion shown by Shin, Danzang immediately asked, "What else is there to describe this little ghost?" ”

"Oh, there's a note here. The target's facial features are cute, but his eyes are blank, his face is expressionless, he is silent, and when he speaks, it makes people very uncomfortable, and he seems to look down on others, and he is very rude to adults. ”

The letter repeated the teacher's description verbatim: "All in all, quite annoying. ”

[That's right.] 】

Shimura Danzou remembered that the year before last, Mito Menyan complained to him that Uchiha Fugaku had a very difficult son.

At that time, Mito Menyan took his grandson to buy New Year's gifts, and met Mikoto Uchiha with her two young sons at the market.

As soon as the two adults exchanged a few words, they were accused by one of Mikoto Uchiha of laughing too fakely, causing Mito Menyan to be unable to get off the stage on the spot. It's just that Mito Menyan is in charge of the village's upper shinobi, and he really can't tell which is Uchiha Sasuke and which is Uchiha Yoshiyu, so he has to distinguish the twins with "particularly annoying" and "quite cute......

Now, combined with the information of Shin's teacher, Shimura Danzou can almost conclude that the little ghost who picked up the leak in the country of Yunokuni and took the flying section as a trophy in the information is this Uchiha Yoshiyu.

If you look at the admission photo on his file, those black hole-like eyes, there is absolutely no problem in saying that his eyes are godless!

[It's Uchiha again! 】

The one-eyed old man clutched his crutches tightly, [What do they want to do when they send this child to the land of water? 】

[If there is no exaggeration in this information, it means that the clan has a genius far superior to that of Uchiha Itachi...... What do they want to do when they hide the Uchiha Yoshiyu? 】

It is clearly written in the ninja school records that the mediocre Uchiha Sasuke is less than ten years old, and he is already a single pair of writing wheels.

But this Uchiha Yoshiyo can kill the dried persimmon whale, but the file says that he didn't open his eyes.

How is this possible?

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he felt.

[That old thing Ape Fei, as the principal of the ninja school, didn't he ever doubt it? 】

The fact that the flying section was cut off is no longer important.

The important thing is that Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi have just returned from the Land of Water, and the latter immediately resigned from his position as a ninja, and turned around and sent the Uchiha Yoshitoi, who may be more talented than Itachi, to the Land of Water-

What is the conspiracy behind this?

Thinking back to the period of World War III, the Uchiha's main opponent was the Kirist Shinobi, and Danzo had begun to hypothesize a possible huge conspiracy.

[Will there be any agreement?] 】

He has always been unafraid to consider this race with the deepest malice......

When Shimura Danzou read the file again and again and found that the relationship between the Nine-Tails Pillar Force and Uchiha Yoshiyoshi was "very close", he couldn't wait to immediately take these things to Sarutobi and remind him to be wary of the Uchiha and not to be confused by the gradual mildness of the garrison in the past two years.

Koshimura Danzou had just lifted his buttocks, and immediately sat back in his place.

A very bold idea came to his mind.

[If this Uchiha Yoshiyoshi is really so strong in the intelligence, will he already have a three-hooked jade writing wheel? 】

According to intelligence, Uchiha Itachi opened his eyes when he was eight years old and appeared to be a double hook.

Uchiha Yoshiyu can become an opponent with Purgatory Kyojuro, and he will only be stronger than Uchiha Itachi at that time, and there is a great possibility of having Sangotama.

He subconsciously touched his bandaged right eye......

A lonely, suspected Sangodama Uchiha outside, was a huge temptation for him.

[It's just, who is better to send over?] 】

After pondering for a while, Shimura Danzou suddenly remembered someone!

"Is Orochimaru still in the Land of Water?" He suddenly asked for the letter.

"I don't know. But according to intelligence, his stronghold in the Land of Water has always been taken care of. ”

There is a sentence that the letter does not say. The person in charge of Orochimaru's stronghold is also a former intelligence officer.

"Then give it a try."

Although Orochimaru may not necessarily give him the Sharingan, at the moment Danzou can't think of anyone over there who can take advantage of it.

In addition, even if Orochimaru swallowed the Sharingan alone and cut off the flying section, as long as he can kill or make Uchiha Yoshito disappear, and then wait until the bad news that Uchiha Shisui was killed by Iwa Shinobi comes-

With the temper of the Uchiha clan, they would never give up if they lost two geniuses in a few days.

The last time the Uchiha died in flames, wasn't the conflict between them drinking the village on the verge of breaking out?

What's more, this time it was the genius son of the patriarch who died, and their greatest pride - to stop the water in an instant!

[If the day is not willing to be the one who ignites the powder keg......]

Shimura opened a scroll, dipped it in ink, and began to write to Orochimaru.

[Then let the Uchiha himself be the one who beats the drums of war!] 】

Irregular ...... There is a high probability that there will be no tomorrow, don't wait......

(End of chapter)