Chapter 118: Flowers and Soil
The noise of the izakaya didn't last long, and the people dispersed before midnight.
Mainly because Konoha is not rich in nightlife, and the Uchiha clan is a representative of tradition.
There can be so many people at this time, mainly because people coming down from the battlefield need an outlet to numb their painful memories with alcohol and excitement.
If one of the essential healing pills for war is honor, then the Uchiha obviously lacks this medicine.
They can only make themselves forget the pain of war for a while through resentment and feigned hilarity.
After Uchiha Shisui and the two separated, he walked alone on the familiar street.
He put his hands in his pockets and lowered his head, looking like a student who was worried about being scolded by his parents because of his bad grades.
When he walked to the door, he glanced out of the window on the second floor, and the flower noodles he had raised were facing the direction of the Hokage Building, swaying slightly in the cold wind.
He stared at him and walked into the room, and after a few minutes, a dark shadow flashed.
In the Hokage's office, Sarutobi was looking at the map on the wall with his pipe in his mouth.
The map is full of '×'. This is the place where Konoha and Yun Shinobi fight.
Konoha never thought that Yun Shinobi, who could eat deflated in the hands of the sand ninja, would be such a tricky enemy.
Pig Deer, Butterfly Ape Fei and Inuzuka, the five families plus the Water Gate, still have only defense in the face of Yun Ren.
Konoha seems to have a big family, but when it comes to really using people, he finds that he is overstretched.
Not to mention Tsunade and Orochimaru, Jilai took the initiative to ask for battle several times, but looking at the empty calves of his disciple, Ape Fei Ri still couldn't send him to face Yun Ren ruthlessly.
Unlike Iwa Shinobi, Yun Ren can have masters who are good at ninjutsu, and in the face of a thunderous attack, Jirai, who is unable to move, has too much disadvantage in the face of them.
If there is an accident in Zilai, it will be a heavy blow to himself and the village.
Not to mention the Shimura clan, since knowing that Danzo had a secret connection with Hoshino Makaki, the Shimura clan has gradually moved away from the position of real power. Of course, in order to let the other party communicate with Hoshino Maki about the prisoners of war, Sarutobi made some concessions, but it was obviously impossible to send them to the front line of Yunnin.
are all having an affair with Hoshino Mu, who can guarantee that there is no ambiguity with the three generations of Ai?
The oil girl clan who lost their patriarch was also sent by him to the west to beware of the sand ninja and the rock ninja, first, there are many old silver coins and small silver coins in these two places, and the excellent reconnaissance ability of the oil girl clan can be brought into full play in the deep forest terrain; The second is that they are worried about the conflict between the other party and the Uchiha clan.
The Kurama clan has been abandoned by him, and can only be used as a knife, the value and strength of the oil girl clan are far above it, once there is a conflict with the Uchiha clan, it is impossible for him to punish the Uchiha in the environment of external and internal troubles, if this group of madmen is in chaos, with the current situation in the village, I am afraid that without Yun Shinobi, internal strife can make Konoha fall into the abyss.
But if he doesn't, he will make the oil girl clan turn against him.
He knew that Tuanzang had been fighting for the support of the Oil Girl Clan, and with the relationship between the Oil Girl Ryoma, the Oil Girl Clan had always been very vacillating, and if the Oil Girl Clan defected because of Uchiha, it would really make him unwilling.
So he simply sent the people who could call the shots of the oil girl clan to the west before the Uchiha returned, and then dealt with the grievances with the Uchiha when the situation stabilized.
At this moment, there was a soft knock on the door, and Sarutobi took his eyes off the map and looked at the door.
'Come in'
The Uchiha pushed the door open and got down on one knee respectfully.
"Stop the water, what's the movement of the Uchiha clan."
"Hokage-sama, the Uchiha clan is mostly dissatisfied with the hostility of the villagers, and the upper echelons of the clan have not expressed anything at the moment."
Zhishui still carried out a certain amount of artistic processing, and the group of people was not only dissatisfied, they almost had to prepare a yellow robe for Fu Yue to keep out the cold.
But that's where the pain of stopping the water comes in, he's not just a Uchiha clansman, he's also a ninja of Konoha in between, and he's tormented every day in between.
He suffers not because of his status as a double agent, but because he has a sense of belonging to both sides from the bottom of his heart.
If the relationship between the two parties is good, it is naturally no problem, but now the relationship between the two sides is visible to the naked eye, and there is a tendency to continue to deteriorate, and the feeling of tearing makes him toss and turn night after night.
He was only a ten-year-old child, and all he could think of was saying good things about each other, trying to maintain the current balance.
Ape Fei Ri looked at it and nodded slightly.
Although he can see that the other party's language is not true, as long as the basic content is correct, he can also get eight or nine points for reading comprehension for the rest.
Just as the Uchiha clan wants to break into Konoha inside, the Konoha high-level also wants to install people inside the Uchiha, which is actually more difficult.
Because the Uchiha clan is too closed, they only trust their own people, and finally there is someone like Kagami who is willing to be used by the village, but they die in a mission.
Fortunately, his descendants inherited his will, and Konoha's surveillance of the Uchiha continued.
Otherwise, I really think that he is old and confused, and let the surname Uchiha enter the dark department?
"Stop the water, the current peace in the village is not easy to come by. I know the Uchiha clan's dedication to Konoha, and the strength of Yun Shinobi is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The villagers hadn't fought against Yun Ren before, so they couldn't pay attention to the hardships, and I hope you can understand their shallowness. The Uchiha clan and the Senju clan jointly established Konoha, and the fates of the two are closely linked. Of course, you are a child with the thinking of the Hokage, you must understand these words, alas~ people are old, and it is inevitable that they will speak a little verbose, don't mind~"
Ape Fei Ri's voice is very kind, like an old man chatting with his grandson.
This is said to the heart of the water stop.
In his opinion, the family is closely related to Konoha in the first place, so why should the two sides fight to the death?
"Hokage-sama, don't worry, I will definitely make the people change their hostility towards Konoha."
"Shisui, I believe that you are a capable child, and I also hope that the Uchiha can truly embrace the village, after all, this is also their home."
Under the light, the figures of the two were elongated, and the two kept this posture and chatted for a long time.
Waiting for Shisui to leave, Sarutobi Hiza looked at the door with a faint gaze, if only all the people of the Uchiha clan could be like Shisui.
Thinking of this, he not only laughed dumbly, but it was simply impossible to make those crazy people obedient.
In terms of his attitude towards the Uchiha clan, he and Katsuma are in agreement, and the Uchiha clan will do more harm than good to Konoha.
But how to deal with it, the means of the two are not the same.
Kazuma wants the Uchiha clan to become the enemy of the village, borrowing the power of other people to oppress the Uchiha clan and force the other party to rebel.
This thought is related to his experience. The two sides had been mortal enemies for many years long before Konoha was established, and he didn't have the kind of juvenile bond that Tsuruma and Madara had established with the people of the Uchiha clan, so he had always been wary of cooperating with the Uchiha clan, and he could only feel at ease if he really got rid of them.
But Sarutobi is different, although he didn't have Konoha when he was born, but when he can remember, the Sarutobi clan was already a member of Konoha, plus Konoha was under the rule of the pillar at that time, even the arrogant Uchiha people were under him, and even his classmates and comrades-in-arms also had members of the Uchiha clan, and he didn't have any ill feelings towards the Uchiha clan.
However, the subsequent Nine-Tails attack on Konoha made the ape flying sun, who had just become a shinobi, shocked by the power of the Uchiha.
However, at that time, he was just a guard, and he didn't think too much, but then things changed beyond everyone's expectations, and he was appointed Hokage, and at that time he didn't have the time to think about whether to recite a poem, and immediately threw himself into consolidating his position and fighting.
When it came time to consider the Uchiha's question, he hesitated.
In Kagami's body, he saw the possibility of a peaceful evolution of the Uchiha clan.
So he asked the children of the Uchiha clan to enter the ninja school to study, but later due to various reasons, this article was not fully implemented, but the children of the head of the family must go to the ninja school, and others can refuse.
Later, Ape Fei Sun Slash found that this was too slow, and the effect was not good.
Compared to the short period of instruction at the ninja school, the Uchiha's children were clearly more effectively educated in the family, and even though they were still young, they had been instilled with the idea that Uchiha's interests were more important than anything else.
So he decided to take a two-pronged approach, while continuing the policy of Lord Kasama, while supporting the Uchiha people who have their hearts set on Konoha.
Zhishui is the excellent candidate he is looking for.
These excellent ninjas will definitely be excluded within the clan, and if they are normal, they may have many rational choices, but the Uchiha.
It's probably blood.
Let the Uchiha himself fight among themselves, and the village will clean up the mess again, isn't this much better than the confrontation between the Uchiha and the village?
Hooded out of the light, the face of the ape slash was hidden in the shadows, and at the end of the Hokage's career, the net that had been cast before was about to begin to tighten.
It was already two o'clock in the night when the water stopped, and although I didn't do anything today, my heart was much more tired than my body.
Just as he took out the key and was about to open the door, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he turned his head to look at the canopy of a large tree in the courtyard, and his eyes became sharp.
"Come out!"
After waiting for a moment, he didn't hear a response, and just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly heard a yawn from the canopy, and then a man jumped down from the tree.
He was wearing a low-quality mask that he looked like he had picked up from a stall on the ground, and he was dressed in thin clothes.
You know, it's still winter, and this outfit is so strange that Zhishui can't tell for a moment whether he is an enemy or a patient who ran out of the hospital.
"Hmm"
The man looked up at the sky: "Good evening, Uchiha Shisui, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”
"Who are you?"
Shisui narrowed his eyes, tensed his nerves and muscles, ready to strike at any moment.
Since he is not a patient, he is most likely an enemy when he touches his residence in the middle of the night.
"I'm the one who can help you."
"Trickery"
Zhishui snorted coldly, and the figure disappeared.
In the next second, Jin Ming's voice sounded behind the opponent's head, and the man found the kunai out of nowhere, and with a backhand, he resisted the invincible backstab of Zhishui on the battlefield, and saw that his move was lightly resolved by the opponent.
Zhishui quickly pulled away, and a hint of jealousy flashed in his eyes.
After the master's move, he instantly had a rough judgment of the opponent's strength, and Zhishui could feel that the opponent had no killing intent, otherwise he would not have retreated so easily.
"In this world, there aren't many people who can help the Uchiha clan, I think you should listen to my advice, it won't hurt you, right? If you listen to too much of Ape Fei's words, you will die. ”
The pupils of Zhishui shrank suddenly, he was extra careful every time he went to the Hokage Building, he never felt that someone was following him, how could the other party know so much about his own affairs?!
Looking at the silent Uchiha Shisui, the man threw out the kunai in his hand and walked up to Shisui with a French military salute: "I said, I have no malice, and you don't have to use the writing wheel eye on me, it's useless." ”
The man looked at the writing wheel of the water stop and said lightly.
Seeing that the illusion didn't work on the person in front of him, he suddenly spoke, "Are you the Kazekage-sama?" ”
He had never seen anyone immune to illusions, and with the strange dress of the other party, it didn't look like a person at all.
Although he hadn't seen the Wind Shadow, as a member of the Shadow Division, he was looking through the materials to learn the system for the first time during the day, and one of the most important pieces of the materials was the information about the Wind Shadow, and the no chakra line puppet was one of his symbols.
Hoshino Mu knocked on the thin mask in distress and snorted, "Don't you invite me in and sit?" ”
Zhishui was silent for a moment, opened the door, and turned sideways to make way.
Hoshino Maki walked into the house, and the decoration of Shisui's home was very simple, which was also the style of the Uchiha clan, who did not attach much importance to material life.
"Did you come to me for something?"
Although he knew that the other party was a puppet, Zhishui still poured a cup of tea for the other party.
Hoshino Mu crossed his fingers, leaned back in his chair, and suddenly said, "Have you awakened the kaleidoscope?" ”
Seeing the expression that the other party tried to adjust after a short period of doubt, Hoshino Mu shook his head: "It seems that there is not." Let's talk about it when you wake up to the kaleidoscope writing wheel. ”
Hoshino Maki's standard riddler's words naturally aroused Shisui's curiosity.
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
Hoshino didn't answer him, but asked, "It's not nice to be a double agent, isn't it?" ”
Zhishui's body stiffened, and he said without changing his face: "I don't know what you're talking about, if you do this again, I'm going to ask you out." ”
Hoshino Mu smiled: "Before lying next time, you must not only control your heartbeat, but also learn to control your muscles, otherwise you will be like having no clothes in front of an experienced ninja." ”
After Hoshino finished speaking, he saw a few delicate flowers in the vase on the table, but they didn't look very moist and full.
He flicked the vase with his fingers: "No matter how beautiful flowers are, they need suitable soil, if there are too many flowers planted in a piece of soil, competing with each other for nutrients, no one will survive in the end." ”
"You say. Is that right? ”
Hoshino Mu looked at Shisui and showed a meaningful smile.
Taking advantage of the last night, Hoshino Maki returned to the base where the 'root' was located.
He walked over to the armor and was about to put it on when a snake-like face suddenly appeared in the position of the puppet's face.
The erected snake pupils stared at Hoshino Mu, and the slender tongue licked the corners of his mouth: "Hoshino Mu, Lord Tuanzang shouldn't have agreed to your departure, right?" ”
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