manynovel Chapter 106 Kakashi: Did the Will of Fire cause Konoha to decline further?
Chapter 106 Kakashi: Did the Will of Fire cause Konoha to decline further?
Chapter 107 Kakashi: Did the Will of Fire cause Konoha to decline further? (5000 words)
Izumi quickly sheathed her ninja sword. She opened the first page of her notebook and found a person's name, their detailed address, and some of their transaction records.
Quan immediately realized something and exclaimed in shock, "Senior Ike Quan, could this be—"
"Um."
Uchiha Ikezumi said calmly, "The list of people involved in the smuggling and sale of prohibited drugs. Everyone on the list is in Konoha Village."
spring:"!!!"
She didn't even notice where Senior Ikezumi got the list from. Could it be that Senior Ikezumi found it on one of the Uchiha ninjas when she was distracted by this ANBU ninja?
She flipped through several pages quickly, becoming increasingly astonished with each page she turned.
The list included not only ordinary ninjas, but also ninja clan members and merchants who had been doing business in Konoha for many years.
There were a total of fifteen people!
She took a deep breath and said, "Every time I think I've finally reached the limit of evil in the ninja world, a new kind of 'evil' always appears that I find utterly incomprehensible."
So many people are smuggling and selling illegal drugs in the small village of Konoha.
I can't even imagine how many people this monster has harmed in Konoha.
Jiro Tachibana once said that several people in Konoha die every year from illegal drugs.
And those who suffer greatly from it and are barely clinging to life are countless.
A sharp, murderous glint flashed in the girl's eyes.
The pressure on her fingers as she gripped the notebook increased slightly.
"Senior, we—"
"Let's split up." Uchiha Izumi, as always, could see right through Izumi's thoughts, which were always outwardly displayed. He said expressionlessly, "You'll execute the commoner merchants and commoner ninjas on the list. Just to be on the safe side, Tachibana Jiro will go with you. I'll handle the rest of the ninja clan members."
"Yes, senior!"
Kakashi, who was standing to the side, watched as Uchiha Ikezumi walked over, and he wisely made way for her.
Izumi picked up Tachibana Jiro and immediately followed.
She also reminded Naruto and Sasuke.
"Absolute justice indeed—." Finding himself alone in the underground chamber, Kakashi looked again at the gruesome corpses and the basement almost entirely filled with contraband drugs, muttering, "He truly lives up to his word. He killed his own kin without hesitation; he is indeed intolerant of evil!"
"If Naruto Uzumaki continues to uphold this kind of 'absolute justice' in the future, it wouldn't really be considered going astray, would it? The village already owes that kid so much; what's wrong with letting him be a little willful? At least 'absolute justice' won't breed rogue ninja."
Kakashi thought of Obito, who once so desperately wanted to become the Hokage of Konoha. Now, Obito had betrayed Konoha and the past. If it weren't for Uchiha Izumi revealing some of Obito's secrets to his face, he would still be in the dark.
Kakashi had an idea that even he found a bit daring.
Can the Will of Fire truly make Konoha a better place?!
His father believed in the Will of Fire, but was driven to suicide by the negative public opinion in the village; Obito also believed in the Will of Fire, but has now become a rogue ninja of Konoha; Danzo also believed in the Will of Fire, but everyone could see through his true nature; he himself believed in the Will of Fire, but everyone he knew left him one after another. In his memory, Miyake was also becoming more and more degenerate.
At least, the current Konoha is much weaker overall than the Konoha before the Third Shinobi World War.
Kakashi fell silent for a moment, deep in thought.
"If you don't want to perish in the fire along with that ton of banned drugs, hurry up and get on."
The sudden, faint sound startled Kakashi, who immediately went up the stairs and saw Uchiha Izumi standing at the entrance of the underground chamber.
Kakashi saw that Uchiha Izumi's arm was flowing with magma!
The moment he stepped out, scorching magma surged like a mudslide into the secret chamber below. In less than a few seconds, the magma completely filled the underground chamber, melting everything inside into ashes.
Kakashi broke out in a cold sweat.
This method of destroying prohibited drugs was far too hardcore. If Uchiha Izumi hadn't reminded him, he might have perished in the flames along with those prohibited drugs!
"Sasuke!" Suddenly, a group of people burst into the house, and the leader called out Sasuke's name directly.
Upon hearing the familiar voice, Sasuke turned around in surprise: "Father?!"
"Father? Huh??!" Naruto looked at Fugaku Uchiha in shock: "This expressionless old man is your father? I've met him twice already!"
Sasuke: "???"
The newcomers were none other than Fugaku and several ninjas from the police force.
Fugaku's eyelid twitched almost imperceptibly.
If he had a choice, he would rather never see a Jinchūriki.
Fugaku, clearing his mind of his thoughts, reprimanded, "Sasuke! What are you doing here instead of going straight home after school?"
Sasuke lowered his head, nervously clutching the hem of his clothes, not daring to utter a sound. Fugaku's strict upbringing prevented Sasuke from harboring any rebellious thoughts, let alone contradicting his authoritative father.
Fugaku glanced again at the entrance to the underground chamber, where the lava was about to overflow.
Feeling the intense heat in the air, he frowned and asked, "Chi Quan, what's wrong—"
"Clan Chief Fugaku, Senior Ikezumi was upholding justice!"
Izumi took the initiative to explain on behalf of the Uchiha, and emphasized that "Uchiha Hayata", "Uchiha Masashi", and "Uchiha Naoto" were smuggling and selling large quantities of prohibited drugs.
Upon hearing this, Fugaku's brow twitched violently.
Although the spring in front of us didn't explicitly say that the spring killed the three people, the words "execution of justice" and the underground chamber filled with lava had already given a clear answer.
Izumi killed three members of the Uchiha clan!
Those three corpses are probably already bathed in lava!
The identity of one of them was a real headache for Fugaku.
Uchiha Shuta, that's Uchiha Setsuna's grandson!
He simply couldn't imagine what kind of reaction Elder Sha Na, whose personality was already extremely radical, would have after learning that Chi Quan had killed his only grandson!
Fugaku had already sensed that the Uchiha clan was about to engage in internal strife.
He didn't expect that the conflict between the Uchiha and Konoha hadn't even erupted yet, but the internal conflict within the Uchiha was about to break out.
He took a deep breath, his head throbbing, and couldn't help but say, "Chi Quan, those three, like you, all have the surname Uchiha..."
But Uchiha Izumi interrupted his spellcasting: "Just because they're surnamed Uchiha, does that give them special privileges?"
Fugaku was speechless.
He suddenly remembered that Uchiha Ikezumi had even killed his last blood relative, Uchiha Kihara! Because of his blood relative, he had fallen into the abyss of sin!
Compared to their blood relatives, what are these three Uchiha clan ninjas?
Fugaku remained silent.
"Clan Chief Fugaku, please don't block the way." Uchiha Ikezumi reached out and pressed on Uchiha Fugaku's shoulder, shoving him to the side. Caught off guard, Fugaku was pushed to his knees.
"Hey! Uchiha Ikezumi! You—" Several police ninjas brought by Fugaku couldn't help but speak up.
But Fugaku interrupted him, saying, "It's nothing!"
Fugaku's expression was not good, but he did not show the dissatisfaction and anger rising in his heart.
He could sense that after today, the Uchiha clan would likely become a powder keg.
In this situation, what he, as the clan head, should have done was prevent the powder keg from exploding, not add fuel to the fire. Even though Uchiha Ikezumi's actions were disrespectful to him as the Uchiha clan head, Fugaku gritted his teeth and endured it.
He believed that he had endured this for the sake of the Uchiha clan.
This demonstrates that he is a very competent clan leader.
He became caught up in self-pity.
Fugaku watched silently as Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Izumi, Tachibana Jiro, Uzumaki Naruto, and Kakashi, people who shouldn't have been together, left one after another.
It wasn't until they discovered that Sasuke had actually followed them that they realized...
Fugaku could no longer remain silent. He frowned and immediately questioned Sasuke's small, retreating figure, "Sasuke! The direction home is to your left. What do you mean by going to the right? It's getting dark, go home right now!"
Sasuke's body stiffened instantly.
His father's stern tone made him feel inexplicably down.
"Yes, Father."
Just as Sasuke was about to turn around with his lips pursed, he noticed that Naruto Uzumaki, who was about to leave, suddenly turned back, grabbed Sasuke's wrist, and pulled him to the other side.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Sasuke was horrified.
While pulling Sasuke along, Naruto turned to Fugaku, who looked surprised, and said seriously, "Uncle, this arrogant guy has been asking me what 'justice' is all day. I brought him to see Ikezumi-sensei so he could know what 'justice' is. So, please lend him to me for a while."
Under Fugaku's gaze, his second son was dragged along by the Jinchuriki and eventually had to leave with the Jinchuriki. He felt that Sasuke's struggle was a bit fake.
"I see"
Fugaku shifted his gaze to Uchiha Ikezumi's receding figure, his expression extremely complex as he muttered to himself, "Ikezumi, you once targeted Itachi with malice, and now you're targeting Sasuke with goodwill. Are you using Sasuke? Or..."
"Are you trying to use Sasuke to manipulate me?"
But then I thought, is Uchiha Izumi really the kind of person who would take advantage of others?
Fugaku discovered that this was not the case.
In other words, Ikezumi genuinely wanted Sasuke to experience what "justice" truly meant!
The biggest problem is that Chi Quan's sense of justice is too extreme.
Will his sense of justice lead Sasuke astray in the future?
Does he even know about this?
On the other side, Kakashi, who was worried that the Jinchuriki might get into too much trouble and end up being all alone, has now gone back into hiding.
"Nothing's wrong." Kakashi said to his ANBU subordinates after putting the ANBU mask back on his face.
"Oh, right...—"
With his lifeless eyes, he listlessly told one of them, "Go back and inform the Hokage that Uchiha Izumi might be going on a killing spree today. But those killed today will probably all be villains."
"I only know that the first three who died were all members of the Uchiha clan. As for who will be killed next, I don't know. I remember there were about fifteen of them!"
Kakashi didn't peek at the notebook in Izumi's hand. He could only roughly guess that each page of the notebook's list represented one person. The Uchiha girl had turned the pages fifteen times, so Izumi's target was fifteen people. That should be correct.
"yes!"
The subordinate immediately realized that something big was about to happen. He broke away from the team supervising the Jinchuriki and rushed to the Hokage Building. By the time Hiruzen Sarutobi received the news...
The sky outside was gradually darkening.
"Pfft—" The information from Kakashi caused Hiruzen Sarutobi to spit out the mouthful of hot tea he had just put in his mouth.
"Fifteen people?!" Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly stood up. The last time Uchiha Ikezumi killed so many people at once was when he killed the second son of the daimyo and a group of daimyo retainers.
This time, he's going to go on a killing spree and kill so many people again. Hiruzen Sarutobi can't even imagine what kind of trouble Uchiha Ikezumi is going to cause this time!
But before he could even set off to find out what was going on...
Then another ANBU ninja rushed over.
"Lord Hokage! Captain Kakashi sent me here to tell you that Uchiha Ikezumi broke into the Utatane clan and killed two ninjas! Moreover, Uchiha Ikezumi and Uchiha Izumi have separated, and it seems they are planning to split up to carry out a highly efficient massacre!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi: "???"
It is indeed highly efficient.
Just as the previous ANBU ninja came over to remind him, the next ANBU ninja ran over and said that Izumi had already killed two people, and they were ninjas from the Utatane clan!
Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't even imagine how furious Koharu Utatane would be tomorrow.
and many more!
Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly remembered that Naruto was still at the pond!
Won't Izumi's rampage corrupt Naruto?
What if the kind and obedient Naruto were transformed into a murderous Naruto—?
Wow! Is that still the Naruto Uzumaki I know?
Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was eager to set off immediately.
He saw another ANBU ninja return.
"Hokage-sama!" This time, it was Yamanaka Yoshinobu who rushed over: "Kakashi assigned two of his men to me to follow Uchiha Izumi. That girl, Uchiha Izumi, broke into a tavern and beheaded the tavern owner in front of everyone!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi: "..."
Before he could even calm down, another ANBU ninja rushed back, panting, and reported, "Hokage-sama, Uchiha Ikezumi has broken into the Mitomon clan! He's killed an elderly Mitomon ninja in his sixties!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi almost gasped for breath. This sounded so much like Mitokado Homura!
The ANBU ninja seemed to realize his words were somewhat ambiguous, and quickly added, "Not Advisor Mitokado Homura, but Advisor Mitokado Homura's cousin!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi: ".—"
He suddenly felt his vision go black.
Yan's cousin is a prominent figure in Konoha.
He found it hard to imagine what kind of angry attitude Mitokado Homura would have when he spoke to him, the Hokage, tomorrow.
Although Mitokado Homura was the best-tempered of the four, it was the other party's cousin who died!
They are blood relatives!
"Lord Hokage!" Another call made Hiruzen Sarutobi kneel down.
Before the newly arrived ANBU ninja could even speak, Hiruzen Sarutobi, his face dark with rage, gritted his teeth and demanded, "Who did Uchiha Ikezumi kill this time!?"
The ANBU ninja paused, then replied, "It wasn't Uchiha Izumi, it was a ninja cat named Tachibana Jiro and a police probationary member named Uchiha Izumi. Together, they killed a special Jonin!"
clack—
In his extreme emotional turmoil, Hiruzen Sarutobi even crushed the legs of his desk.
"You're just watching them from the shadows, aren't you going to do anything to stop them? Even if you can't stop Izumi, can't you at least stop a ninja cat and a genin who just graduated from the ninja academy?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn't help but grit his teeth and ask this question.
The ANBU ninjas exchanged glances, and one of them hesitated before saying, "Captain Kakashi told us to just run over and report to the Hokage. Since it has nothing to do with Jinchuriki, we don't need to get involved. That's what Captain Kakashi said too."
Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly let out a breath.
It was because he didn't even know who to vent his anger on for a moment!
His chest heaved up and down, because none of the people Uchiha Ikezumi had killed today were ordinary people. Just thinking about how big the mess he had left behind made Hiruzen Sarutobi's scalp tingle with fear.
"Lord Hokage!" Such a call rang out once again.
Hiruzen Sarutobi's face was ashen.
Even if we run over and find Chi Quan now, we probably can't stop it.
[Absolute Justice] Once it finds its prey and begins its killing spree, it's destined to be unstoppable. Moreover, it might not even be able to find a pond teeming with wildly roaming creatures!
Unless Chi Quan kills everyone.
"Throat 1"
He stood up abruptly, only to find himself alone; Hiruzen Sarutobi sat back down.
tonight·-
I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep again!
"Last-and-last, how many is this?" Sasuke stared in horror at the corpse in front of him, completely terrified by Uchiha Izumi's "killing madness".
Perhaps it was right for his father to stop him; he never imagined that "executing justice" would be so bloody!
"— Forgot, forgot." Naruto was so shocked by the horrifying methods that he forgot Sasuke calling him a loser.
Naruto had actually prepared himself mentally to some extent.
But he found that this mental preparation was simply not enough!
"Let's go."
Uchiha Ikezumi drew his ninja sword, flicked off the blood, glanced warily at the two kids who were too frightened to speak, and said expressionlessly, "There's one left. Uzumaki Naruto, that one—you'll handle it."
"...ah???"
Naruto was stunned.