"Captain Itachi."

The Land of Fire, the entrance of Konoha Village,

The Konoha executives, led by the fifth Hokage, are looking forward to it.

After seeing the carriage of Itachi and the others slowly approaching from the official road, they took three steps and two steps one by one, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

And when the weasel got out of the carriage and looked at the familiar and unfamiliar faces in front of him, his heart was full of emotion.

is familiar because the high-level of Konoha is still the same face, and there have never been a few less, nor a few more.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, Nara Shikahisa, Koharu, Mito Menyan......

It's strange because except for Tsunade and Jiraiya, everyone else has a completely different emotion on their faces.

That's a kind of ...... A warm, gracious smile.

It's like seeing a loved one you haven't seen for a long time.

But if you think about it carefully, whether it is Itachi himself or Artoria who jumped out of the carriage immediately behind him, he has already expected it in his heart.

'The meeting between the Uchiha and Konoha may no longer be a tense atmosphere, but a diplomatic meeting scene. ’

Talking and getting along with each other will become polite and very measured, and they will never be cold or red-eyed. ’

After all, the Uchiha at that time may not have been a position that Konoha could hold in his impression. ’

Itachi remembered the words he had spoken to his people when he had left.

Now, it has become a fact.

The Uchiha is no longer a caged bird in the leaves, but a goshawk soaring in the sky, ready to spread its wings and hunt at will.

"It's been a long time, five generations, and ...... Self-come also senior. ”

Itachi nodded softly to the two people in front of the Konoha team, and as for the people behind him, he didn't say hello.

And Tsunade, who was about to ask Itachi more information about the Kaleidoscope Writing Wheel Eye, was stunned, and then, looking up and down at the young man in front of him who he hadn't seen for a few years.

"Weasel Chief...... It's grown a lot. ”

Her eyes were half-squinted, and her expression was full of surprise and trance.

Behind him, the rest of Konoha also looked at Itachi in front of them with strange eyes.

What makes Tsunade react like this, of course, will not be the change in the size of the Itachi.

As for his use of some kind of 'secret technique' to exercise his physique and make his body grow, they had already known about it when he was fighting with Yunyin Village, so it was not surprising.

What they were surprised by was the strands that escaped from the inside out of Itachi's body now...... Coercion?

This kind of aura suppression of the superior to the subordinate, everyone present felt it inexplicably!

When facing the weasel, only a few people from the big families at the front of the team, or those who had also held high positions, could resist it, and the rest of the people didn't even dare to look at the weasel directly!

But compared to the ferret, their experience is much deeper!

"It's natural to grow, after all, I haven't seen each other for a few years."

Itachi replied calmly, "But...... I'm not a patriarch anymore. ”

"Oh?"

Tsunade's puzzled voice sounded, "Uchiha now, isn't the Itachi patriarch in power?" ”

"I was ordered to be in danger, and now that the crisis has passed, I naturally have to choose a more suitable person to take the position."

Itachi said, motioning for them to look at Uchiha Ryu and Uchiha Hazuki next to them, "Uchiha Ryu, our current Uchiha patriarch. ”

"Uchiha Hazuki, the head of our Uchiha Administration Department."

"In the future, the two of them will be responsible for the connection between Konoha and Uchiha, and it has nothing to do with me."

"yes......"

Tsunade's face did not change because of Itachi's words, and he looked at Uchiha Ryu and Hazuki very kindly, and stretched out his palm, "Since this is the case, then I will ask Patriarch Ryu and Minister Hazuki to bear with me in the future." ”

While shaking hands with the two, information about the two quickly came to her mind.

In my heart, I was quite puzzled by Uchiha's action to change the patriarch's authority.

Intelligence information about the Uchiha was classified in Konoha, and any ninja who had a record in Konoha had read the information by heart.

Tsunade knew very well that the two so-called 'more suitable' people in front of him were just two middle ninjas.

And he is also a person with a mediocre record among the Uchiha clan.

Did the Uchiha actually allow such two mediocre people to hold high positions?

Those who have outstanding achievements and abilities, are they willing to stay under these people and do things?

Everyone didn't stop at the entrance of the village for long, and soon, Tsunade and the others invited a few people from Uchiha into the village.

But in the walking position, she was even more puzzled.

Because Itachi and the extremely mysterious blonde girl did not stand at the front of the line, alongside him, but willingly lived behind Uchiha Ryu and Uchiha Hazuki.

In the past, whether it was the ministers of other countries who arrived in Konoha to receive guests, or the daimyo of their own country.

After they entered the village as envoys and guests, they all had a relatively regular process.

For example, a group of people wander around Konoha Village, where the Hokage introduces some of the village's development strategies to the guests and entertains them at the village's famous restaurant.

But now, Tsunade looked at Uchiha Ryu and Uchiha Hazuki beside him, and he didn't know how to carry out the process for a while.

"Brother, it looks like Konoha hasn't changed much."

Sasuke's immature voice rang out in the ranks.

Itachi and Artoria each took one of his hands from each side.

"It's true that nothing has changed, it seems that Konoha hasn't paid much attention to environmental development in the past few years."

Itachi replied casually, not caring what emotions his words would leave on the people in Konoha next to him.

"But there seem to be more ninjas in the village than before."

Artoria said softly, the number of shinobi coming and going in this village was much higher than when they left.

It seems that in the year after the war, Konoha can be regarded as recuperating.

Compared to the others next to them, the three of them seemed to be really here for sightseeing, and they didn't shy away from talking, commenting on the current Konoha and the previous Konoha .

In the team, some people on the Konoha side are afraid to speak, and those who dare to speak don't know what to say.

Because the current Uchiha in charge is Uchiha Ryu and Uchiha Hazuki at the front of the team, it stands to reason that they should talk to the person in charge.

In this way, the whole team marched directly in the direction of the Hokage Building in a very strange atmosphere, and there was no so-called diplomatic reception process at all.

And along the way, the villagers of Konoha looked at the Uchiha Itachi and others in the team, and their expressions were obviously very complicated.

The reason for their complexity, Uchiha Itachi and the others understand, and Tsunade and the others also know.

"Actually, this time, I invited everyone from Uchiha to come to Konoha as guests, in addition to watching the New Year's festival together, there are some things about the kaleidoscope, and I want to ask Uchiha a thing or two."

And as the team approached the Hokage Building, Tsunade, who had been silent, finally got down to business.

"Alright, let's stop here."

Then, before Tsunade could elaborate more, the Itachi in the team nodded understandingly, "The patriarch, you go and talk about business, and the three of us will walk around the village by ourselves." ”

"You're busy with yours, don't worry about us."

And standing in front of him, Uchiha Ryu also responded in a timely manner, "Yes." ”