Chapter 211: Danzo's Covetousness x Silva's Call
Uchiha again!
"I said it long ago, the Uchiha are Konoha's biggest unstable factor!"
Danzo's left eye narrowed into a thin line, cold light gleaming faintly. "Tell me about this Jin Uchiha."
"Yes." Torune Aburame had gathered information in advance. He narrated everything in detail... Roy's birth date, school performance, battlefield performance, including today's bombing of the school, leaving nothing out.
Danzo listened quietly. When Torune finished and pushed the open intelligence file in front of him, he asked faintly, "Why was Hiruzen at the school today?"
It wasn't graduation season yet. As the principal, he had no custom of appearing early in previous years.
Perhaps a whim?
Torune guessed secretly, "Should we send two people to watch him?"
Danzo remained silent... The Hokage was busy with countless affairs every day, how could he have the leisure to play with a group of children who weren't even on the table yet?
Danzo knew his childhood friend and "best friend" too well... He never did useless things. Coupled with... the Uchiha holding a clan meeting just yesterday, and him showing great care for Jin Uchiha immediately after, even going to the Ninja Academy specifically for this...
Danzo pondered for a moment, then sinisterly rejected Torune's proposal...
Fortresses are always breached from within first...
"Jin Uchiha must be watched, the Uchiha clan meetings must be watched. Root... ultimately needs its own Uchiha!"
"Sensei granting them autonomy back then was the biggest mistake."
Not just Danzo, even Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, and even Hiruzen Sarutobi... had long been very unhappy about this!
A state within a state, what does that look like?!
The old man opened his left eye slightly, glancing at Torune. "Is the list I asked you to select ready?"
"Currently, three candidates for observation." Torune took out a document from his clothes and respectfully placed it in front of Danzo. "From the younger generation, Tekka Uchiha... Obito Uchiha... might be suitable."
Requires proximity to the Uchiha core decision-making circle, good talent, and valued by the Uchiha clan. Torune thought left and right, only these two.
But one was a staunch supporter of Fugaku Uchiha, and the other was a student of Minato Namikaze, whom Hiruzen always favored...
Danzo frowned, glaring at Torune discontentedly. "Any others?"
"One more, Shisui Uchiha."
Danzo skipped Tekka and Obito's files, opening the third one. A lively and cheerful little boy came into view. Torune continued, "He is very close to Jin Uchiha. His grandfather, Kagami Uchiha, was a classmate of yours, Danzo-sama. Just... he's too young."
Kagami? A face with clear eyes immediately appeared in Danzo's mind. Looking at the photo of Shisui Uchiha smiling and revealing two little tiger teeth, he vaguely resembled Kagami by thirty percent... The old man remembered Sensei's evaluation of Kagami back then... "He is one of the few Uchiha who practices the Will of Fire."
Deeply loved by Sensei and the First...
Danzo held Shisui's file, narrowing his eyes. "Him."
Young age was never a problem. In fact, it was easier to cultivate than older people whose worldviews had solidified. Of course... easier to... brainwash!
"Start contact now. In a while, I'll find an excuse to put him into Anbu."
Once past Hiruzen, absorbing him into "Root" from Anbu would be much easier.
"Yes!"
Danzo waved his hand, and Torune Aburame retreated tactfully.
Creeak~ The door sounded.
Chopsticks lay dead on the floor, the meal in front of him cold... Danzo lost his appetite. After such a report, he had no interest in eating. He stood up with his cane and went out... to a damp, dark underground laboratory.
Rows of jars lined the laboratory walls, filled with various corpses. Some with eyes wide open, bulging... some frowning in pain, curled up... some terrified, seemingly having suffered inhumane torture before death... yet strangely and uniformly growing branches. The branches were covered in green leaves, turning them all into half-human, half-tree monsters!
"You're here." A faint, creepy voice, like a snake hissing, made one shudder unexpectedly.
Back to Danzo, a thin figure with purple eyeshadow extending to the nose, wearing magatama earrings, highlighting the sickly pale skin of his neck... Orochimaru leaned against the experiment table, "fixing" a man. Amidst the man's terrified, bound, gagged, and desperate Mmph sounds, a syringe went down. Slowly and firmly, the cells in the syringe were injected into his chest cavity, recording his "activation" from human to "half-human half-tree," and finally dying completely due to inability to withstand the vitality of "Hashirama cells."
He turned to look at Danzo, his golden vertical pupils leaking a trace of thirst for knowledge... "I need live subjects, stronger and more live subjects, preferably... ninja."
Danzo didn't answer, just narrowed his eyes at Orochimaru. After a moment, he asked, "Is there hope?"
"Soon. I've found a clue. As long as there are enough test subjects," Orochimaru's mouth curled up confidently, "I can find a suitable person to recreate [Wood Style]!"
[Wood Style], the Kekkei Genkai only the First could master, was also Hashirama Senju's most important reliance to suppress the Uchiha and the Tailed Beasts, forcibly kneading the major clans of Konoha together to become the "God of Shinobi"!
It could be said that with Wood Style, one had the ability to suppress Tailed Beasts, putting a "shackle" on this unstable "nuclear weapon," to be driven by humans at will!
"You better be telling the truth."
Tap... tap... Getting the answer he wanted, Danzo turned and left with his cane. Before leaving, he stopped, snorted coldly, and warned, "Orochimaru, you better be obedient. Hiruzen asked you to research the First's cells, but he didn't tell you to experiment on live people. If this gets out, the consequences..."
"You know them yourself!"
Bang~ The laboratory door slammed shut heavily.
Shutting "Darkness" and "Dampness" all inside the room.
Southern Border Forest.
A training ground south of the Uchiha clan compound.
One big and two small figures stood with legs apart, holding swords with both hands. A basket of stones hung from the tip of each sword. Sweating profusely, bathed in the sunset glow, practicing swinging.
Occasionally, the big one stopped, patiently correcting the stance, posture, breathing, and rhythm of the two small ones... Roy, just like when learning swordsmanship from Sakonji Urokodaki, meticulously guided Shisui and Itachi.
"The sword is an extension of the arm..."
"An inch longer, an inch stronger. Where hands and feet can't reach, the sword replaces them."
"Wrong posture. Back straight, slightly leaning forward, lower body stable, eyes level with the sword tip, forming a line..."
"When slashing down, power must be focused on the blade edge, maximizing the slash force..."
"Wrong, raise your hand higher, where's your elbow..."
"Look forward doesn't mean exposing your chin for the opponent to stab..."
"Slash straight, straight... You'll easily break the blade like this..."
"One, slash... use some force..."
"Two, again..."
"Three... Four... No dinner until ten thousand slashes before sunset!"
"Yes!"
Shisui swung the sword strenuously. Beside him was the struggling Itachi.
Itachi was three, not yet four, two years younger than Shisui... The little person didn't make a sound, holding his breath, secretly competing with Shisui...
Roy sat next to them on a large bluestone with a smooth cut surface behind the two. Snow-Walker was stuck in the ground in front of him. Flipping his hand, he took out a carving knife. Imitating Sakonji Urokodaki, he took a piece of wood, trying to carve a short sword to serve as a prop for carrying [Divine Script].
According to Structure of Divine Script, the properties manifested by [Divine Script] depend on the Nen user's own understanding of that property.
For example, [Enhancement] Divine Script requires a deep understanding of "Enhancement"... [Fire] Divine Script requires a deep understanding of "Nen Property Change: Fire"... [Bind] Divine Script requires "Restriction"... [Extension] Divine Script requires "Space," "Expansion and Contraction"...
In short, [Divine Script] is not created from thin air. Being able to carve it ultimately relies on what the Nen user is good at.
Roy held the carving knife, shaving the wood, clearing the chips. While constructing [Shinso] in his mind, he tried to imprint [Shinso] on the wood...
Buzz~ Nen light added... The wood gradually took the shape of a sword. At some point, due to a deviation in Roy's thought, Bang!
It exploded!
The boy frowned, took another piece of wood, and continued practicing... Until, panel notification... [Your believer Shisui Uchiha successfully swung the sword 10,000 times, Swordsmanship +10...]
Thus... [Provided you with one point of Faith Power...]
Roy glanced sideways at Shisui, who was sitting on the bluestone, panting heavily. The boy grinned at him. "Nii-san, I did it!"
Saying this, he actively scooted over.
Roy had no choice but to stop his work and rub his head.
Shisui closed his eyes like a cat, quietly enjoying the company, waiting for Itachi. A moment later, he opened his eyes, suddenly remembering something. He whispered to Roy, "Nii-san, someone looked for me today... He sent a lot of gifts to my house and said he wanted to be friends. I didn't accept any."
"Why not?"
En released, Heart Worm wriggling, quietly entering Shisui's heart... Roy keenly captured an image, found the person, and memorized their appearance.
"I suspect he's a bad guy!" Shisui scratched his hair with innocent eyes. "Nii-san always says pies don't fall from the sky..."
"I don't know him, why would he send me gifts?"
"Seven thousand seven hundred eighty-one... Seven thousand seven hundred eighty-two... Seven thousand seven hundred eighty-three..." Itachi's strenuous low groans could be heard faintly...
Roy smiled and praised Shisui, "You are clever."
"He probably wants to recruit you as a spy."
"Me?"
"Yes." Roy's gaze was profound. His vision expanded, looking at the Hokage Rock standing not far away through the greenery. He sneered, "Butt decides the head. As long as the Uchiha aren't exterminated, someone won't sleep well for a day."
Everything started when Tobirama Senju killed Madara's brother, Izuna Uchiha!
"So that's it..." Shisui got angry. Remembering the secrets he heard at the clan meeting, his small head drooped like a frosted eggplant.
Choose the village or the clan? Like a curse, entangling every talented and capable Uchiha, never stopping... Shisui is like this, Itachi is like this too...
Roy measured the world with his eyes, not comforting Shisui. Only when Itachi completed the "Ten Thousand Swings" for the first time and collapsed on the ground like a dead dog...
The boy scooped up his butt, hoisting him onto his back. Taking Shisui's hand, the three walked home under the afterglow...
Tap... tap... Footsteps sounded. Passing the Hokage Rock...
Shisui suddenly looked up, chin raised, looking at Hashirama Senju's face. "Nii-san, if I can be as strong as the First, can I solve this problem?"
Roy stopped. Faint snores came from Itachi sleeping on his back... He remained silent, also looking up at Hashirama Senju's huge face, and shook his head slowly. "Don't need you."
After speaking, he started walking again.
Shisui was stunned, freezing in place, almost dragged into a stumble by Roy. Hurrying to catch up, his small hand held in Roy's large hand, his dejected heart suddenly settled down.
"That's right... there's Nii-san..."
"As long as Nii-san becomes Hokage..."
"Everything won't be a problem."
Night. A gust of wind blew away the day's noise...
After sending Shisui home, Roy carried Itachi, had dinner, greeted his mother Mikoto, knew his father Fugaku was called to the Hokage Building for duty overnight, and returned to his room alone. Closing his eyes, he threw himself into the futon.
The hard tatami floor wasn't as soft as his big bed, but... it was good for sleeping.
Soon, a trace of sleepiness came... As Roy relaxed his mind...
The familiar falling sensation followed!
When he opened his eyes again, he had passed through the familiar dream tunnel, leaving the Naruto world, returning to the Hunter world.
Dong~ 5:00 AM. The Big Ben in the center of the seaside city Vebis struck the dawn bell.
Roy sat up. Beside him, Goldie drooled, head buried in the soft quilt, sleeping more soundly than him. Hearing the noise, it looked at him dozily, then was grabbed by Roy and thrown onto his head.
The boy stood up, washed briefly, and started his morning run as usual.
About half an hour later, when he returned to the room, Gotoh had already prepared breakfast and was waiting by the table.
The young butler held a phone, having just hung up a call. He called out softly, "Young Master, the Master asks when you will return home?"
"The Young Master is about to be born..."
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