Reborn into Naruto World with Tenseigan

by Little Merger

The trembling Hyuga Kuroto finally got the treasure that he dreamed of! How exactly will the world of Naruto be perceived with his glowing Royal Blue Tenseigan

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Sitting crossed-legged on top of a tree branch, Kuroto was cleaning his Kusanagi Sword.

Although his heart was filled with a sense of guilt and irritation, Kuroto was not influenced by these feelings and did his best to restrain his killing intent.

Kuroto's face was extremely calm, similar to the light wind in which his half Kimono swayed, giving off a calm and peaceful aura.

In this war-trodden shinobi world, blindness led by emotions and misjudgment because of the lack of knowledge are the two biggest enemies of a shinobi.

No matter what one is doing, he must always have a clear goal in mind, and Kuroto's goal in coming to the Land of demons is not to indiscriminately slaughter those cultists but to find the Miko-sama, unless and until her situation is not confirmed, Kuroto would obviously keep a restrain.

Besides, it's not like these cultists will be able to live to see the next Sun, so Kuroto was patient, as he knew that these people didn't have much to live anyway.

Looking in the direction of the temple, Kuroto's expression condensed.

As the night fell, the village darkened, and rows and rows of bright lamps that used to illuminate the Miko's temple were no longer there, instead, there were was gloomy red lights lighting the walls of the temple..

Although the cultists are still patrolling through the walls and corridors non-stop, their vigilance was undoubtedly lower compared to the daytime. Giving a perfect opportunity to sneak inside.

But Kuroto still did not act rashly, he was patiently waiting, waiting for a better opportunity, that he knew would present itself soon enough.

As the night darkened, the patrolling formations began to disorganize, the guards at various outposts also yawned one after another, the quiet night coupled with a colorless tasteless and odorless sleeping gas of extremely low potency that was flowing inside the temple with the night breeze prompted the guards to drop their vigilance.

"It's time." – muttered Kuroto as he slowly got up, and immediately disappeared from his position.

Like an unnoticeable and untraceable shadow, Kuroto sneaked into the shadow of the outer wall, past the sleepy guards one after another, avoided some of the active ones, and in just a few moments he was already at the inner temple.

Kuroto lived here for a few days at the time of recovering from his injuries, therefore, even if he did not know the entire structure of the temple, Kuroto was more than familiar to move around the temple and also knew where to look for what he was searching.

Passing through several corridors, Kuroto arrived near a broad passageway, looking forward to the left turn that leads to the left passage, Kuroto muttered, "Miko-sama's residence is in the core areas of the temple, let's start searching from there… as the most likely place where I will be able to find something should be in her private quarters"

Walking through the broad passageway, Kuroto further walked through several corridors and arrived at the place he had to be, as for the reason why he was not stopped midway by anyone?

It's easy! Kuroto simply used the transformation technique on himself to look like one of those cultists.

The place he stopped was just before the corridor where Miko-sama's sleeping quarter was located, as for the reason why Kuroto stopped here?

Because there were about 16 cultists in this small passageway.

Such tight security of her sleeping quarters?

'Is it possible that she is still alive and kept on house arrest in her sleeping quarters?' – thought Kuroto.

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If that is true then Kuroto must hurry.

Thinking so, Kuroto observed the guards, then printed hand signs.

Poof… Poof… Poof… Poof…

And subsequently, four Shadow Clones appeared next to Kuroto.

Nothing was needed to be said, Kuroto just nodded towards the four clones and rushed into the small passageway as he drew out his Kusanagi Sword.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

Kuroto and his four clones rushed out at the very same instant, and with extremely high speed all five of them rushed towards their intended targets.

Even before the enemy noticed them, five were already dead, as the enemy noticed the intruders and hurriedly took out their weapons, five more were dead, and the very next instant five more were dead.

The last one of the cultists knew that he won't stay alive for much longer and tried to alert the other guards in the temple.

"It's an en-…" – However, that was all he managed to speak as a sword that came flying towards him pierced him through his mouth, effectively nailing him on the wall, and he was dead all of a sudden.

With all the guards neutralized, the four clones disappeared in clouds of white smoke, while Kuroto indifferently walked towards the last guard who was nailed on the wall.

Without even looking at him, Kuroto drew out his sword from the other party's throat and walked past him towards the gate of Miko-sama's sleeping quarters.

When he arrived in front of the gate, Kuroto noticed several Fuinjutsu techniques printed on the gate.

Kuroto studied their mechanism and their roles in split seconds and since they were already deactivated, so Kuroto did not bother tempering with them and pushed open the gate.

As the gate opened, Kuroto did not rush inside, but stayed outside and carefully observed the area with his Tenseigan.

Aside from a simple regal residence, which includes furnishings and other things that were probably necessary for Miko-sama's living, there doesn't seem to be anything strange, or out of the ordinary in the area.

"Strange, no one is here!" – But what confused Kuroto, even more, was that there was no one inside. So, what was the purpose of keeping so many guards here?

Kuroto initially thought that even if Miko-sama is not imprisoned inside, he should at least find Yomi here, but it appears that Kuroto was wrong.

Carrying his Kusanagi Sword, Kuroto walked inside, but as soon as he entered inside Kuroto noticed some minute Charka signs and looked up at the roof.

The roof of Miko-sama's sleeping quarter was very high, by a mere estimation, Kuroto guessed that it was probably about thirty meters high.

At the center of the hexagons shaped roof was a beautiful crystal chandelier.

And the minute chakra signs that Kuroto felt were coming from the crystal chandelier.

If it was someone else, they may not notice these minute chakra signatures, but Kuroto with his Tenseigan easily noticed them.

In the vision of his Tenseigan, the core part of the crystal chandelier contained energy, and this energy was a mixture of Chakra and Natural Energy, it was similar to the Ryuumyaku's Gourd Artifact that Kuroto keeps with him.

Whiiish…

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Just as Kuroto was about to float upwards to further satiate his curiosity about that core crystal, a golden light suddenly lit the chandelier, and the very next moment, the shadow of a familiar figure came out of the core crystal.

This familiar figure was none other than Miroku, the Miko of the Land of Demons!

Staring at the translucent figure before him, Kuroto asked, "Miko-sama… your state…"

Miroku nodded, "As you guessed Kuroto-Kun, this is part of my spirit body that I sealed inside that crystal chandelier."

"Right…" – After a nod, Kuroto's face had that guilty look, and he bowed towards her, "Please forgive me Miko-sama, I failed in killing Yomi."

The fact that Miko-sama's spirit body was before Kuroto clearly means that she is already dead.

And this obviously made Kuroto sad, after all, the other party is like his teacher. And it was his failure that killed her, if he had killed Yomi, neither Miko-sama would have died, nor the Land of Demons would have been destroyed.

Miko-sama saw Kuroto's guilty appearance and smiled gently, "You don't have to blame yourself Kuroto-Kun… somethings just cannot be changed."

Kuroto asked, "Was it related to a prediction?"

Miko nodded and said, "In the past few years I have delved deeper into future telling, and now instead of just predicting my death, I am able to see some other things too, for example, reactions influenced my own actions in the attempts of trying to change the fate.

And trust me, when I saw my death, I thought of many ways to change them, but every method had several other consequences, and they were much worse than what you see happening to the Land of Demons and me, so I choose death instead of cheating it anymore."

"What!?" – Kuroto was shocked, and immediately asked, "Could you explain more?"

Miko-sama shook her head, "From all of my research, I have come to realize that it's better to not meddle with time and fate until you become independent of it, or at least, strong enough to resist the passage of time and the lines of fate.

So it is still not the right time for you to learn these things Kuroto-kun… maybe you will have a better opportunity in the future if you preserve."

Kuroto was silent after hearing Miko-sama's words.

At this time Miko-sama said, "Besides everything, I am still very happy, I was supposed to have died at that time, but you and that Uchiha child did not let me die, and I was able to be a part of Shion's childhood, although I feel a little saddened leaving her now, I am still content with the time I spent with my daughter. So you do not need to blame yourself. If anything, I should be grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to watch over Shion, you may not be able to imagine what this means to a mother, so I am telling you that this was something that I will remain eternally grateful for, and no amount of effort will ever be able to repay this favor."

Miroku is very clear, even if Kuroto saved her as a part of a deal he made with her, but this still did give her the opportunity to spend a few years with Shion, watch over her, and love her.

Kuroto sighed, 'Parental love is unconditional.'

At this time, Kuroto said, "You left behind a part of your soul, were you… were you waiting for me?"

Miko-sama nodded with a knowing smile, "Yes I knew you will come."

Kuroto asked, "Even after you sent that warning through the scroll?"

"Of course." – Miko-sama nodded, and said, "I knew you will come regardless."

Kuroto was with a curious expression, "Was it also a prediction?"

Miko-sama shook her head and said, "With Ryuumyaku by your side, predicting your future is no longer possible."

Kuroto was taken aback and asked, "Why is that?"

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"Why is that?" – asked Kuroto.

Miko-sama thought a little and then said, "Although I am not exactly sure, it is probably related to the high amount of Natural Energy that Ryuumyaku contains."

Kuroto frowned, "Because of Natural Energy?"

Miko-sama nodded, "I am not certain, but that's the most logical explanation. Ryuumyaku contains a very high portion of Natural Energy, and since you are something like a Jinchuriki of the Ryuumyaku, so your state is very close to Nature, and the predictions, prophecies, and future telling targets individuals, not nature as a whole. As far as I think, predicting the course of Nature is not possible, so as long as you have Ryuumyaku predicting your future should be impossible."

"So, according to you, Ryuumyaku makes me immune to all the prophecies, predictions, and future telling?" – Kuroto muttered.

Miko-sama nodded and added, "But that's just a hypothesis of mine, I have no conclusive evidence to be sure whether this hypothesis is correct or not."

Then Kuroto asked in confusion, "Okay I understand that, but then how were you so sure that I would come regardless of your warnings?"

Miko-smiled, "I did not send my daughter to be under your protection just for nothing.. There is something we call 'trust,' and 'understanding', and as cliché, as it may sound, you can say that I had faith, faith that you would definitely come!"

Kuroto was embarrassed and said, "When I learned that Yomi was not dead and launched a rebellion in the Land of Demons, I couldn't rest easy, regardless of your warnings."

The Kuroto explained how he killed Yomi, beheaded Yomi the last time.

Miko-sama had a thoughtful look after listening to Kuroto's words and explained, "Even if Yomi is not strong as a shinobi, he was blessed with many forbidden and dark techniques by Moryo, so perhaps whatever technique he used to survive even after being beheaded must be through one of those techniques."

Kuroto said, "Maybe that's the case, but regardless of everything, I will kill him this time without any error."

Miko-sama sighed, "He is present in the temple, and I would suggest you be very careful of him, I know you are strong but still be careful. His state is completely different from what it used t be before."

Kuroto frowned, "Completely different?"

Miko-sama nodded, "I am not exactly sure how so just be careful. Anyway, my spirit form won't last very long, there are a few favors I want to ask of you Kuroto-Kun, I hope you can promise to fulfill them."

Kuroto spoke, "Favors? Please tell me, if I can then I will try to what I can."

Miko-sama asked, "Have you brought that scroll that I sent to you?"

Kuroto nodded and took out that scroll, "Here it is."

Miko-sama looked at the scroll in Kuroto's hand and said, "Follow me."

Kuroto followed and arrived near a bookshelf that was half-filled and half empty.

Miko-sama said, "Place that scroll on the 3rd empty shelf of the 5th row."

Kuroto nodded and placed the scroll at the position where Miko-sama said.

Based on the development of things now something must happen, Kuroto was waiting in anticipation but nothing happened.

Kuroto was confused and looked at Miko-sama with a frown.

Miko-sama seems to have noticed Kuroto's confusion and said, "That was just the first step, now I will tell you the order in which you have to arrange all the books and scrolls, and you will follow."

Kuroto raised an eyebrow in a frown but seeing that Miko-sama was serious, he nodded nonetheless.

And the rearrangement process of the shelf started, 4th scroll on the 7th shelf of the 1st row to the 6th empty shelf of the 2nd row, 9th book on the 4th shelf of the 5th row, to 11th shelf of the 8th row, and so on… after all the rearrangement was carried the bookshelf a 'cluck' sound was heard.

At this time Miko-sama said, "Open that cabinet."

Kuroto nodded and opened the cabinet, what came out of it was not some secret tressure nor some kind of secret scroll, in fact, it contained nothing, but Kuroto's gaze was still on the cabinet as it a pattern was drawn on the cabinet with the insignia of Miko carved at the center of the pattern.

While Kuroto was studying the pattern, Miko-sama was silent, she believed that she didn't need to explain to Kuroto what that pattern is.

After understanding the pattern, Kuroto turned towards Miko-sama and asked, "Few drops of your blood, as well as the name of the first Miko, will be two components required to complete the seal."

Miko-sama nodded and said, "Pick out the 19th scroll from the last shelf of the bottom-most row."

Kuroto did as she said, unfolded the scroll.

The scroll had a lot of text written on it, but what surprised Kuroto was that the text was of red color along with a light fragrance of iron coming off from the pages.

"This scroll is written from my own blood, now I will show you a specific sealing pattern, you have to perform that specific pattern on top of the page." – said Miko-sama and performed the sealing pattern.

Kuroto looked at the pattern and after she was done, Kuroto printed the same sealing pattern on the page.

As the sealing pattern was completed, all the red ink printed on the scroll came to life and started collecting at the center point. From the center point which soaked that part.

But soon enough the red ink seemed to be defying gravity and started rising up, and soon enough a small drop of red blood was floating in the mid-air. It was constantly changing shape, like an aether.

"Now place your fingertip below that drop of blood and use it to complete the seal." – said Miko-sama.

Kuroto did as instructed, and put the drop of blood on the top of Miko's insignia printed at the center of the pattern.

"Next is the name of the first Miko." – spoke Kuroto.

"Her name is 'O-Inari'!" – Miko-sama said.

Kuroto was shocked, but calming himself, he drew O-Inari's symbol to complete the seal.

As the seal was completed, the crystal chandelier hanging on the roof dropped a scroll.

Seeing the falling scroll, Kuroto used Rein Wheel Attraction to draw it towards.

As Kuroto caught the scroll, he looked at Miko-sama for further explanation.

Miko-sama said, "Open it."

Kuroto nodded and unfolded the scroll, and inside he was able to see several things stored inside, so this was a storage scroll.

Kuroto did not have to wait for the explanation, as Miko-sama said, "This scroll stores some items that I want you to pass on to Shion at the right time."

Kuroto nodded, "Okay, I think I can do that."

Miko-sama pointed at one of the symbols and said, "First is the Crown of Miko, Shion will be required to have it when she inherits the position of the next Miko, this crown will also help her better control her powers, you have to pass it on to her when she reaches adulthood."

Kuroto nodded, "Alright."

After that Miko-sama again said, "Second is the Mystic Bell, please pass it on to Shion as soon as you return to Konoha, and make sure to instruct her to always carry this bell with her."

Although Kuroto did not know much about this 'Crown of Miko,' Kuroto did have some impression of this 'Mystic Bell.'

Kuroto vaguely remembers that Shion was able to perform various techniques using the bell she carried with her.

Curious about the 'Mystic Bell' Kuroto asked, "If I am not wrong, this is a sealing artifact, why does Shion need to carry this with her, would it not limit her Miko powers?"

Miko-sama nodded, "Yes, the 'Mystic Bell' will seal her Miko power, but that's necessary, after my analysis, I have come to understand that Shion is most definitely a child with the most potential, her powers are too strong for her own good. Her powers are more of a curse than a blessing until she is ready to wield them, so in order to not inadvertently hurt others or cause a disaster for others, it is better to seal them until she is ready."

Kuroto was highly surprised but he decided not to ask too much for now.

At this time Miko-sama said, "Third items are the scroll of Miko's Fuinjutsu, there are five scrolls, pass them to her in the order of their numbering as per her progress, I have helped her build up the necessary foundation to master Miko's Fuinjutsu so it should be fine to give her the first scroll immediately."

"And the last items are these vials of elixir, there are five vials stored inside, I have already given one vial to Shion a few months back, give one of those vials to her when she is 10 years old, and the second at the age of 14. As for the last two vials, you can use them as you see fit, I give them to you as a gift." – said Miko sama.

Kuroto nodded and then asked, "What is the role of these vials of elixir?"

Miko-sama explained, "This Elixir has been passed down in the Miko's lineage, and it is necessary to help us activate and enhance our bloodline sealing abilities, it also helps us develop an understanding of Nature as well as allows us to gain a passive control over the Natural Energy."

Kuroto was stunned, and exclaimed, "Does that means that as long as someone takes this elixir, he can master how to use Senjutsu Chakra?"

Understanding Nature, controlling Natural energy, learning to use Senjutsu Chakra are all necessary steps to master Sennin Mode. And once someone masters Sennin Mode, he can directly step into the realm of a Super Kage.

Even in the original series, Uzumaki Naruto who had just learned Sennin Mode was able to combat Rikudo Pain.

Miko-sama laughed, "For the descendant of Miko lineage it is indeed possible, but for other people…"

"What about for other people?" – Kuroto asked eagerly.

Miko-sama said, "For others, the effects will mostly be limited, at most it will help them improve their perception of Natural Energy, as for whether those individuals can control natural Energy is another matter altogether, and Elixir will not play any role in that, but it will have a passive strengthening effect and maybe improve their talent towards Nature to some degree. But that's just it."

After hearing Miko-sama's explanation, Kuroto sighed, "Is that all? Sigh, it seems there are no shortcuts to master Sennin Mode…" – muttered Kuroto while folding back the scroll and putting it inside his Shinobi bag.

Miko-sama said with an apologetic tone, "I know that a ninja of your level doesn't care about monetary things, so I did not bother to prepare those, I hope you don't mind."

As soon as he heard Miko-sama say this Kuroto opened his mouth like a fish but no words came out, he did not even know what to say.

Kuroto is too poor now. What he lacks most and needs most is money. Because of lack of money, all his experiments have also come to a halt, and he is left with no choice but to make do with the female Fire Clone.

Tap… tap…

Miko-sama was confused by Kuroto's sudden change, but before she could ask anything sound of footsteps approaching came from the outside.

Kuroto frowned and activated his Tenseigan.

Miko-sama said anxiously, "It's Yomi, he must have noticed that you sneaked in here!"

Kuroto also noticed that it was Yomi, and his lips arched in a cold smirk, "Just right, now I wouldn't have to bother searching for him."

Miko-sama anxiously said, "There is one more thing you need to know, a man named Shinno has swallowed Moryo, and he must be on his way toward Shion now if he is allowed to swallow the powers of Miko from Shion, then he will gain unimaginable power, so you have to protect Shion from him… he must not be allowed to get near Shion."

Kuroto asked, "Alright, I will rush out as soon as I kill Yomi, and what are you going to do Miko-sama?"

Miko-sama said with a bitter expression, "The chakra that my spirit contains won't stay much longer, time is running out for my spirit… ev-…"

Before Miko-sama could finish her words, the gate of this room was pushed open and a gloomy voice came, "I knew you will come 'Yama' I have been waiting for you, now come... and be prepared to die… hmm? Who are you?" – The gloomy voice stopped midway, and looked at Kuroto with a confused expression, "Wait, I recognize that face. You are Hyuga Kuroto of Konoha, right? What are you doing here? Wait are you 'Yama'?"

Kuroto did not bother to answer, as there was no need to.

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"Kuroto-Kun, please be careful, and please also tell Shion that her Oka-san will always be with her…" – spoke Miko-sama.

Kuroto said, "Don't worry, you will have at least one last opportunity to talk to Shion, so tell this to her yourself." – As Kuroto said, he started printing hand seals, and instantly a heavy chakra pressure filled the entire room, and heavy winds surged like a storm.

Instantly, cyan chakra flames erupted around Kuroto's body and wrapped around him.

Miko-sama subconsciously raised her arms over her face to protect herself from the pressure winds.

Honestly, she was rather surprised by the sudden change, this is because the changes happening here different from what she expected.

Miroku always thought that Ryuumyaku is Kuroto-Kun's greatest reliance, but according to what is happening here, Kuroto-Kun doesn't seem to be relying on Ryuumyaku, and yet such intense chakra pressure?

Fortunately, Kuroto's Tenseigan Chakra was very peaceful and gentle compared to the overbearing and violent chakra that most have, so even though raging wind pressure covered the room and the surroundings, it was not uncomfortable or scary for her spirit to withstand this pressure.

As the winds calmed down a little, Miko-sama asked, "What did you mean by the last chance, I am already dead, even my spirit won't be able to stay here for much longer, it is impossible?" .

Kuroto said, "I have a solution for that, this gourd can isolate chakra pretty well, and I have created a small opening, enter inside the gourd and I will close the seal, then after I solve Yomi and the rest of the cultists, I will go back to Konoha, and you will have the last opportunity to have a conversation with Shion."

Miko-sama was silent for a while then nodded and rushed into the Ryuumyaku gourd.

After that, Kuroto looked coldly at Yomi who was standing on the other side.

Even Yomi was shocked by the sudden Chakra pressure, he obviously did not expect Hyuga Kuroto to have such an ability.

Kuroto said coldly, "The last time you somehow managed to survive despite losing your head, it was your luck and my carelessness that I did not destroy your entire corpse, but this time it won't happen again."

Yomi's look was gloomy upon being reminded of their last battle, he suddenly laughed wildly, "Bwahahhaha… idiot, do you think I would be unprepared? Ever since last humiliation, I have been preparing, I have been waiting to finally find you again and give you the same death that you tried to give me! So don't think that you will ever be able to escape from here, because I am not the only person who is after you!"

Kuroto's lips arched in a mocking smile, "Oh, is that right? So why don't you just call Hiruko nad Shinno here so that I can be done with you, and go back home to deal with the other pressing matters which are more important than taking care of some mob class villains who don't know when to give up."

Yomi's expression changed, "You… how do you know about those two…?"

"Does it really matter? Now, why don't you call them?" – Kuroto took a pause here, and seeing that Yomi did not come out of his shock, Kuroto spoke in disdain, "Why don't you call them? Don't tell me, are they not here any longer? Because if that's the case then just dealing would you would be too boring!"

Yomi roared in anger, "Shut up! Shut-up-shut-up-shut-up, who gives a damn if they are not here, I don't need either of their help anymore to deal with you."

Thinking of what Miko-sama said, Shinno has already swallowed Moryo, and his next goal seems to be Miko's power, and since Miko-sama herself is dead, so Moryo's next goal is Shion, and since Shion is in Konoha right now, then that means Shinno is headed to Konoha.

And since there is nothing more left in the Land of Demons anymore, so it is likely that Hiruko is also headed towards the Konoha.

It is difficult for Kuroto to know their exact positions, but Kuroto has to somehow understand how long will it take for either of them to reach Konoha, and since Yomi is his only source of information, so Kuroto tentatively spoke, "Both of them went to Konoha, huh?"

Yomi grinned, "Even if you guessed it, now it's already too late. Counting the time, both of them would have already arrived at Konoha by now, but you do not need to bother with that 'Yama,' you will die here, no, to be exact you will become a part of me, I will swallow you, becoming stronger than ever, and more close to creating Sennen Okoku.

Yomi said and spread open his arms, in the blink of an eye, his body swelled up, completely losing the human form, and turned into a large monstrous appearance with several, eyes, faces, limbs, and so on.

"Chimera Technique!?"

With just a glance, Kuroto judged that Yomi had used Chimera Technique to swallow many individuals, and judging from his disgusting appearance, it seems as if he has swallowed quite a lot of individuals, thus making him even more disgusting than the most disgusting creatures.

Nevertheless, Kuroto had to agree that Yomi's chakra volume was skyrocketing, easily surpassing the chakra level of a high-tier Kage. He has at least swallowed a few hundred people.

'Damn, is this guy crazy to swallow hundreds of people? This is suicidal!'

Kuroto really couldn't understand Yomi's suicidal behavior, but upon thinking a little Kuroto shook his head without a care in the world, it didn't really matter to him, with what Yomi has done, killing him has only become easier, just one blow is needed, and Kuroto can guarantee that even with everyone Yomi has swallowed, he would no longer be able to bear the burden.

ROAAARRRRR…

At this time, Yomi or whatever that thing is let out a roar.

And immediately following which a dark and hoarse, at the same time a maddening voice sounded, "Hahaha… hahahahahaha… I have covered up the entire temple inside an enchantment barrier, this place is sealed off and you won't be able to escape from here!"

Listening to that 'thing' Kuroto chuckled, "Just perfect, now I can deal with you at once, there would be no issue of chasing and hunting everywhere!"

Yomi was speechless by Kuroto's comment and shouted loudly, "Die!"

Followed by Yomi's shout, a whole lot of flesh that was in a semi-solid state much like the 'leech' used for 'Chimera Technique' pounced on Kuroto, not only was the speed of this fleshy substance extremely fast but it was also extremely strong, because of the weight this fleshy substance carried.

But Kuroto did not panic, Kuroto just drew his hand, and instantly a golden sword appeared in his hands, "Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion!"

The dazzling chakra sword seemed to have instantly illuminated the entire temple.

And with just a simple swipe, the golden chakra sword easily cut through the fleshy thing coming towards him, but that was not the end, as the golden sword easily chopped Yomi's swelled-up body into two parts.

Puff…

As soon as Yomi's body was split into two, blood, intestine, gut… colloidal fluids and who knows what not splashed out of his body and scattered on the floor, making the whole room stinky as hell.

Even Kuroto had to hold his breath for a moment as it smelled too disgusting to be able to bear, he was afraid that he would die of this rotten smell.

Anyway, the attack not only mutilated Yomi into two parts but also disrupted his chakra.

In just a few short breaths, the adverse effects of chakra disruption appeared.

Looking at the changes, Kuroto said indifferently, "Other people's chakra is other peoples' after all, even if you forcibly swallowed it, it won't ever be yours."

Yomi who had long lost his appearance tried to stop things from escaping but seeing that he was unable to do anything, he whined intermittently, "This… this is impossible… how could it be!"

Kuroto snorted, "That's what happens when you do things the wrong way."

Yomi never expected that he would lose, not to mention lose so fast and so thorough, it doesn't seem to be any different from the last time he died at the hands of 'Yama.'

All the effort, all the preparation were all meaningless…

"That's what happens when you try to do things that you just aren't capable of!"

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The original disgusting appearance of Yomi was beyond recovering after being cut into two pieces by the Golden Chakra Sword.

Kuroto couldn't even bother to look at him, as he felt nauseating despite the resistance he has towards seeing gross things, this 'thing' was way-way-way past the level of something bearable, unable to bear any more, Kuroto dispersed the Golden Chakra Sword, and was now in the process of preparing Azure Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, to completely shred this 'thing' into uncountable fragments.

Although Yomi is dying slowly, the faster he disappears the better, and because this guy knows Kuroto's secret of being 'Yama' so Kuroto doesn't want this 'thing' to ever come back, therefore, Kuroto wants to be extra sure.

And just when the Azure Wheel Reincarnation Explosion was near completion, 'Yomi' or whatever sanity was left of him, seem to have instinctively felt the danger coming from that Azure spiral ball in Kuroto's hand and shouted, "Damn it… even if I am going to die, I will take you to hell with me!"

Kuroto's face sank, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom…

As soon as Yomi's voice fell, the entire temple was engulfed in a series of destructive explosions!

And because the temple was surrounded by an enchantment barrier, forming a confined space, therefore, the impact of the explosion did not disperse to the surroundings so the village where not even a single soul was alive anymore was not damaged but because the energy of the explosion could not be distributed so the waves and waves of explosion continued, repeatedly destroying everything.

And this increased the power of explosions dozens of times. .

It was only after a few minutes that the explosions stopped, and the earth stopped trembling.

As the entire temple was destroyed, so was the Fuinjutsu destroyed with the temple, as such the enchantment around the temple also began to wither away, and finally dissipated completely.

And as the enchantment dispersed, smoke, dust, fire, and heat finally escaped out of the enchantment barrier and spread in the surroundings.

After a while the scene finally became visible.

And the place where the once magnificent and ancient temple stood was now nothing more than a ruin. There was hardly a single wall standing.

And at the center was a deep pit that spread for hundreds of meters in horizontal radius and about a hundred meters depth.

And at the very center of the pit lay a sphere pitch black in color.

There was not even a single crack in the black sphere, its surface extremely smooth.

Click…

At this moment the sphere suddenly disappeared, to reveal Kuroto's figure.

If Yomi were to look at Kuroto's current state then he will be shocked and completely out of his mind, that's because, the explosion did not even touch Kuroto's clothes, much less kill him.

Coming out unscathed, Kuroto observed his surroundings.

Truth-Seeking Orbs undoubtedly protected him.

It must be known that the temple was protected with tens of thousands of seals, and if such a temple could not withstand the explosion it can be understood just how much damaging they were, if not for the defensive power of truth-Seeking Orbs that protected him from the explosions, otherwise, Kuroto would have been a goner.

"Fortunately, I was cautious enough to sneak here at night, otherwise, if I sneaked here in daylight and Yomi was able to sense me then I wouldn't even have had the chance to have a talk with Miko-sama's spirit, much less retrieving those items that have to be passed to Shion-chan." – muttered Kuroto with a relieved sigh.

Under such an explosion, Miko-sama's spirit wouldn't have survived, Kuroto can be sure of this.

After scanning the surroundings Kuroto can only sigh at the destruction.

The temple which has been standing here for over a millennium was destroyed, the temple had unprecedented historical value, knowledge of several generations along with countless other things which also included thousands of years of inheritance were also destroyed along with the temple. And Kuroto will never have the chance to learn about them, and this made him sad.

Shaking his head helplessly, Kuroto focused on the matter at hand, and after carefully confirming that this time every trace of Yomi was really gone along with the explosion, he too disappeared from the ruins.

Kuroto has bigger troubles to solve, so he can't waste his time crying over the spilled milk.

From Yomi's words, it has been confirmed that Shinno and Hiruko have long left towards Konoha and should be arriving or have probably arrived there, and if they have arrived in Konoha then things are going to be too troublesome for Shisui to deal alone.

The thought of Yui and Shion being present at his home, and Shinno going towards them there to swallow down Shion really scared him. Kuroto rarely feels anxiety about something but thinking of what could happen to Yui if Shinno reached his home really terrifies him.

Rushing all the way, Kuroto arrived at a forest in the Land of Demons.

After a bit of groaning and observation, Kuroto nodded, "This place should be fine."

The distance from here and Konoha is too much, and no matter how fast he rushes or flies all the way using the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, it would take at least forty-eight hours for Kuroto to reach Konoha, and he does not have so much time at his hands.

Therefore, Kuroto decided to make a bold attempt and use soul travel to Konoha, all he has to do is to use 'Tenseigan Soul Descend' and transfer his soul to one of his clone bodies kept inside his secret laboratory.

Because the soul travels in the form of Chakra so the speed will be extremely fast, moreover ordinary people won't be able to see his soul, so there wouldn't be any need to avoid commercial routes, villages, and towns, just fly towards Konoha in a straight line.

But this kind of soul travel is not without its own problems.

While his soul is gone, Kuroto's body will be unprotected and will be vulnerable, it could be discovered by other passing by ninjas, or may even become breakfast or dinner for some animal.

After groaning a little, Kuroto bit his finger, printed the hand seals, then pressed his hand on the ground, "Summoning Technique!"

Poof…

With a cloud of white smoke, a huge figure appeared in front of Kuroto.

"What… how did this pig become so big!?" – Exclaimed Kuroto looking at OkinaButa whose body was easily over ten meters, and this shocked Kuroto.

While Kuroto was shocked, OkinaButa looked at his surrounding with a blank face, he shook his huge head, trying to figure out how he suddenly appeared here.

"Oi, Okina, here-here…" – Kuroto shouted, "Look below, below!"

Prompted by Kuroto's call, OkinaButa lowered his head and saw Kuroto with a confused expression, wondering how Kuroto became so small.

Kuroto has suddenly become so small, so OkinaButa hesitated to step forward because he did not want to crush Kuroto into a meat paste.

Kuroto asked, "You recognize me, right?"

After a bit of groaning, OkinaButa bent his head and carefully sniffed Kuroto's scent, after confirming that it was indeed Kuroto, OkinaButa nodded.

Kuroto sighed and used his sword to cut a big hole inside a nearby tree, the hole was of the size that could accommodate his body inside, and Kuroto did not forget to add several sealing techniques to conceal the hole. After doing this, Kuroto said, "Guard my body here, don't let any beasts come near the tree."

OkinaButa nodded and sat next to the tree.

With OkinaButa's nod, Kuroto entered the tree hole, and used 'Tenseigan Soul Descend.'

Suddenly Kuroto's soul came out of the body and hovered in the air above OkinaButa's body.

Then Kuroto *In the soul form* closed his eyes and tried perceiving various chakra reactions. Kuroto found that he was able to sense that in addition to the Tenseigan Chakra present in his body hidden in the tree hole, and the light Tenseigan Chakra present inside OkinaButa that was very difficult to perceive, Kuroto was also able to sense the Tenseigan Chakra sealed inside the Kazekage puppet present inside his secret laboratory.

And this Tenseigan Chakra became Kuroto's beacon light that will guide him to Konoha.

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Konohagakure.

Looking at the stable and prosperous night, the masked man who stood on top of the Hokage Mountain muttered to himself, "This kind of prosperity is false and fragile, I only need to touch it once to ruin it, this false world is not even worth nostalgia… So then, let's begin!"

After speaking this, the masked man's body disappeared into a spiraling void.

A few seconds later, the same spiraling vortex appeared inside Uzumaki Naruto's home.

Walking out of the spiraling vortex, the masked man looked coldly at Uzumaki Naruto who was sleeping on his bed.

Uzumaki Naruto was peacefully sleeping, dreaming of once again eating Ichiraku Ramen.

The slumbering Uzumaki Naruto was completely unaware of the sudden intruder who can forever take him away from his Ichiraku Ramen.

After looking at Uzumaki Naruto for a few seconds, the masked man looked outside the window, he was aware that the Anbu Team-11 is responsible for the protection of Uzumaki Naruto. .

In team-11, Uchiha Shisui is the only one that masked man thinks would be difficult to deal with. The opposite party has Mangekyou Sharingan, and the dojutsu that Shisui has is not known to him. But considering that it is a Mangekyou Sharingan, and it is awakened by none other than Uchiha Shisui, the most genius of the Uchiha Clan, so the Mangekyou Sharingan ability cannot be underestimated.

As for the others?

The masked man didn't really care about either of their presence.

There is Hatake Kakashi, but Hatake Kakashi is no threat to him.

As for Hyuga Kuroto and Might Guy?

Masked Man even disdains them.

When he learned that people like Hyuga Kuroto and Might Guy were part of the Anbu black ops that only recruits elites, the masked man was a bit surprised, but more than surprise, he was disdainful towards the village.

The fact that weaklings like Hyuga Kuroto and Might Guy have become part of the Anbu only proves that the village is rotten to the core and lacks talented individuals.

Converging his thoughts, the masked man focused on the thing he was here for, lifting his hands he stretched them towards Uzumaki Naruto.

Suddenly a few shurikens were shot into the room from outside the window, in an attempt to intercept the masked man's hand.

The corners of the masked man arched in a disdainful smirk and the movement of his hands did not stop. It seemed as if he was completely unaware of the incoming Shuriken.

Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk… Tuk…

The Shurikens that were supposed to stop the masked man directly phased through the masked man and nailed at the bed and walls of the room.

And the very next moment, four figures jumped into the room from the window.

The four of them are obviously the members of the Anbu team-11, which included, Dog, Cat, Monkey, and Eagle.

But their arrival was a moment late, as the masked man had already caught Uzumaki Naruto and dragged him into the spiraling whirl.

Seeing that the masked man wearing an orange spiral mask somehow made Uzumaki Naruto disappear into thin air, the four Anbu shinobi were surprised, Dog-masked asked Anbu asked sternly, "Who are you? And what do you want to do with that child?"

The masked man chuckled, and spoke in a deep voice, "I will take away that Kyuubi's Jinchuriki!"

After saying that, the masked man broke the window on the other end of the room and jumped out of it, disappearing into the night.

"Monkey fire the emergency signal flare, and we will immediately chase after him, he may be a member of Amatsukami, but we cannot be sure of that as his disguise is different, regardless we must stay alert and recover Uzumaki Naruto." – ordered Dog.

"Yes!" – all the three nodded, and went after the masked man, and Monkey also fired the emergency signal flare exclusive to team-11.

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Hokage Building.

It's late at night but the Hokage office was still brightly lit, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Shimura Danzo, the four elder executives were sitting in the Hokage office, discussing the two anonymous letters delivered to the Hokage Building.

According to the first anonymous letter that was delivered to the Hokage Building about a month ago, there was only one sentence that stated that the missing-nin Hiruko of Konoha Sannin's generation is conspiring to attack the village.

While according to the second anonymous letter that was delivered to the Hokage Building yesterday, it was stated that the Uchiha Clan is planning to launch a Coup d'état within the next two days.

Looking at the two letters, Utatane Homura asked Sandaime, "Was there any result about the investigation of the creditor of the first letter?"

Sandaime shook his head, "Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy of Anbu team-11 were tasked with investigating, but there was no result, it seems that the creditor of the first letter seems to be very cautious and did not leave behind any clue for them to follow."

Utatane Koharu asked again, "And what about the second letter?

Sandaime shook his head, "Team-17 was responsible for the investigation, and they are still busy doing it but no result up until now."

Mitokado Homura said, "I suspect that the creditor is from the village and knows the basic layout of the Hokage Building, as such he or she may be someone close by, possibly even a guard."

Utatane Koharu compared both the anonymous letters and said, "Given that the handwriting of both the letters is completely different, so we can assume that the creditors who send these letters are different. Hiruzen did you instruct the Anbu to try to match these handwritings with the exam papers of graduating Shinobi? It's possible that we can find some clue from there."

Sandaime nodded, "That has already been done, I reached the same conclusion and instructed the Anbu to compare the handwriting with the papers of all the graduating Shinobi, but the handwriting is completely different, not even a single character matched!"

"Hiruko…?" – muttered Utatane Koharu, and said, "I do have little impression of this person. If I am not wrong, he was conducting unauthorized experimentations, and you sent Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru to catch him, but he managed to flee, right?"

Sandaime nodded silently.

Even now, Sandaime can not forget the fervent gaze that Hiruko gave him when he was selecting disciples from the shinobi academy, because of Hiruko's mediocre talent, Hiruzen weighed it a little and choose Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, who according to Hiruzen had greater potential, and did not choose Hiruko.

Mitokado Homura asked bluntly, "Hiruzen, do you think Hiruko can be a threat to the village?"

Sandaime groaned a little and said, "His strength should at most be at the level of a Jonin, so individually he can not be a threat, but given that the kind of experiments he was doing… adding the rumors of him joining the Akatsuki then he can pose a threat if he succeeded in his experiments and if Akatsuki plans to support his revenge on Konoha."

After a little bit of thinking, Utatane Koharu pushed the first anonymous letter aside, and focused on the second anonymous letter, "And what do you think about this one?"

When the matter of the second letter came, Shimura Danzo who has been silent up until now was the first to speak. "The threat that the Uchiha Clan poses to the village is not unknown, regardless of the credibility of this letter, we should focus our attention on the Uchiha Clan, I propose that the monitoring of the Uchiha Clan that has been withdrawn should be started again, and Root should be responsible for this task."

Sandaime did not immediately agree or disagree with Shimura Danzo's proposal but had a conflicted look and he hesitated.

The Uchiha clan has been somewhat calm in the recent period. The disappearance of Uchiha Hideki, Uchiha Ryota, and Uchiha Hiiragi has been a shame for Konoha, their disappearance has indeed diverted the Uchiha Clan's attention from Coup d'état against the village to hunting down Amatsukami.

But the fear of Mangekyou Sharingan engraved by Uchiha Madara is not so easy to let go, and even if it is 'Professor of Ninjutsu' Hiruzen Sarutobi, he can't fully compel himself to trust the Uchiha Clan.

What's more, there is always a probability that another Uchiha has awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan.

And this anonymous letter says that the Uchiha Clan will launch Coup d'état within two days, even if this is hard to believe Sandaime must take this seriously.

But if the Uchiha Clan is again put under full monitoring, and it turns out that they did not intend to launch Coup d'état, and this anonymous letter is false, then that would again increase the tension between the village and the Uchiha Clan.

But if he did not put the Uchiha Clan under monitoring and it turns out that they were really planning to launch a Coup d'état then the consequences would be disastrous.

And if what this anonymous letter says is true, then he can't leave this matter alone, 'What to do…?"

Shot... Whiiiiiiiiisttttttleeeeeeee... BANG!!!

While Sandaime was having real trouble figuring out which option to choose, suddenly a loud popping sound resounded, following which a whistling sound and then an explosion was heard all over the Konoha.

Sandaime immediately stood up and looked out of the window with a solemn expression.

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The loud sound of the signal flare immediately attracted the attention of the rest of the three consultant elders as well.

Mitokado Homura, Utatane Koharu, and Shimura Danzo all got up following Sarutobi Hiruzen and hurried to the window.

Looking at the eye-catching light of the signal flare, everyone's faces were tensed and gloomy.

As per the regulations of the village, if it is not a matter of immediate urgency, then firing signal flare in the village is not allowed, as doing so would arouse tensions and panic among the civilians, which would lead to chaos in the village.

And in such a case if a signal flare is fired, means that the matter is of utmost urgency. .

At this time, an Anbu appeared in the Hokage office, and reported, "Hokage-sama, the signal flare outside is exclusive to team-11."

As soon as he heard this Sandaime's face was gloomier.

Even the other three elder consultants were shocked. As the members of the Elder Council, they are naturally aware of the secret mission that Anbu team-11 is responsible for.

Now that team-11 suddenly fired the emergency signal flare must mean that something has gone wrong with the Uzumaki Naruto, that is Kyuubi's Jinchuriki.

Danzo immediately said, "Hiruzen, it can only be the work of Amatsukami, let me deal with the situation!"

Sandaime groaned a little and then nodded, "Alright, make sure that Uzumaki Naruto remains safe!"

Kyuubi was at stake, Sandaime originally wanted to go in person but considering the anonymous letter about the Uchiha Clan's planned Coup d'état, Hiruzen must sit back in the village just in case this matter had something to do with the Uchiha Clan.

So Sandaime agreed and allowed Shimura Danzo to go after the Kyuubi.

With the approval of Hiruzen, Danzo immediately led a few members of the Anbu including the Root shinobi, and left in the direction from where the emergency signal flare was fired.

Standing by the window, looking at the ninjas rushing in the night, Sandaime sighed. He did not want the night of the Kyuubi's attack to repeat again.

With the departure of Shimura Danzo, only Sandaime and the other two consultants were left in the Hokage Office.

Utatane Koharu said, "Hiruzen, Kyuubi's Jinchuriki is attacked, we must issue emergency in the village, the attacking party could be anyone from the Uchiha Clan, or Amatsukami or probably even Akatsuki… but if it's the Uchiha Clan, then…

However, before Koharu had finished her words, a figure suddenly broke through the window of the Hokage Office and entered inside.

His speed was so fast that even before anyone could react to the sudden arrival of the intruder, he had already rushed towards Mitokado Koharu, his attempt was to pierce Mitokado Homura's throat, as a result, killing him in just one blow.

"You are…?" – The intruder's speed was too fast, and Mitokado had no time to fully counter the sudden attack, but he still managed to lean back a little as a result avoiding the Kunai piercing his throat, but it still pierced his shoulder spreading blood.

But now Mitokado was already prepared, and he instantly leaped backward. Held his left shoulder with his right hand to stop the blood flow.

He didn't really care much about his injuries, what he cared much about was the identity of the intruder. Even if the attacker is wearing a mask, Mitokado recognized those scarlet eyes with three black tomoe spinning within them.

And because he recognized those eyes which is Sharingan, so he understood the meaning of this attack and immediately warned Sandaime who was not far away and already preparing to kill the intruder, "Be careful Hiruzen, he has Sharingan!"

The attacker did not care about Mitokado's words, and he also did not stop his attack and again pounced on Mitokado.

Whiiish… Whiiish… Whiiish…

At this time, Sandaime had already thrown Shuriken hindering the intruder from attacking Mitokado.

Listening to the sound of incoming Shuriken, the intruder halted and immediately dodged the Shuriken.

With the gap created between the intruder and Mitokado, Mitokado flashed from his position and appeared on the other end of the Hokage office to block off the intruder's escape route.

While Utatane Koharu stood at the third end, effectively surrounding the intruder in a three-way siege, Sandaime looked at the intruder and asked coldly, "Who are you and what do you want to accomplish by attacking the members of Konoha Advisory Council?"

Utatane Koharu stated, "With that height and body shape, along with that incredibly fast speed and the pair of Sharingan… are you… are you Uchiha Shisui?"

Uchiha Clan indeed has many top-level shinobi even after losing four of their elites, but there are only a few handful Uchiha strong enough to be able to hurt Mitokado Homura, who is undoubtedly one of the strongest shinobi in Konoha.

It must not be forgotten that if not for his civilian status, Mitokado Homura might have also been a candidate for the position of Sandaime Hokage along with Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Shimura Danzo.

Trained by Nidaime Hokage, and having experienced the first, second, and third great war, Mitokado is obviously not some run of the mill shinobi, even if his strength is not at the level of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo, he is still a very powerful shinobi with his strength reaching close to the level of a Kage level.

And in Utatane Koharu's impression, this intruder with his speed and Sharingan was able to injure Mitokado, and based on his height and body shape, he has to be Uchiha Shisui.

Otherwise, which other Uchiha can match all the other characteristics.

And this also explains the sudden problem related to Kyuubi's Jinchuriki.

Sandaime had also guessed this possibility when he heard Mitokado mention that the intruder has a pair of Sharingan, he didn't really want to believe that Uchiha Shisui would betray the village.

But the opponent's speed is too fast, and only Shisui is that only Uchiha known to have such a speed.

The security of the Hokage Building was breached and the intruder managed to break into the Hokage office, so the alarm sounded in the Hokage Building, alerting the present Anbu guards.

Hokage Guards specifically responsible for the protection of Hokage immediately rushed into the Hokage Office, their intentions were to protect Sandaime-sama as well as the two advisor elders.

With the clear advantage of number and the fact that the intruder was surrounded, Sandaime said with a cold tone, "Take off that mask of yours and surrender, you have no chance of escaping!"

The attacker was silent for a while, he seemed to be analyzing the position of all the shinobi here and trying to find an escape route, everyone also understood what he intends to do. And just when everyone thought that he is planning to escape from here, the attacker, contrary to their expectations, leaped forward, exploding into his top speed, disappeared from his position, and rushed towards Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Looking at the incoming assailant, and the tree black tomoe spinning in his Sharingan wheel, Sandaime did not panic, and still had a calm and collected look, much to the displeasure of the assailant.

However, the speed displayed by the attacker this time was far more superior than previously, and before anyone could react to such ghostly speed, he had already passed through the Anbu teams and pierced through Sandaime's chest with a Kunai.

"""""""""Shit…! HOKAGE-SAMA!!!""""""""" – Everyone was taken aback.

And just when the attacker thought that he had succeeded in assassinating the Sandaime Hokage, the body of Sandaime suddenly turned into mud. The mud wrapped around the attacker's body, effectively trapping him.

And then one of the Anbu members on the other end of the room transformed back into Sandaime, and said coldly, "Since you don't want to surrender willingly, then don't blame this old man for what's about to come!"

Seeing that Sandaime was completely fine, and in fact, even reversed the situation, everyone was relieved.

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The whole body of the attacker was wrapped in mud, and the more he struggled to break free the tighter the grip of the mud became, so much so that, all his movements were restricted. Not to mention printing hand seals, even finger movements were not possible.

But even with the movements of the other party restricted, Sandaime did not dare to be careless, he understood very well that if the attacker is indeed Uchiha Shisui, then he won't be vulnerable with such a simple technique, after all, Uchiha Shisui has Mangekyou Sharingan, and Mangekyou Sharingan allows the user to use Susanoo.

And Uchiha Shisui's Mangekyou Sharingan allows him to use Kotoamatsukami, so Sandaime was especially careful of the attacker's Genjutsu.

As Sandaime walked closer to the attacker, the attacker turned his head and stared at Sandaime with a gloomy expression.

Hiruzen's eyes flickered, and he muttered to himself, 'He intends to use Genjutsu?'

There are many ways to deal with Genjutsu attacks, and being the 'Professor,' Sarutobi Hiruzen is naturally very proficient in dealing with Genjutsu, so any simple Genjutsu attack won't be effective against him. But if it's Kotoamatsukami…?

However, the expected Genjutsu attack did not happen, but what Sandaime saw was just a gaze filled with hatred and spitefulness from the assailant's eyes.

Seeing those eyes filled with malice towards him, Sandaime was a little dazed, and the Mud Binding Technique that he was controlling to keep the attacker trapped lost its activity..

The attacker immediately realized that the Mud Binding Technique was weakened, and immediately broke free of the Mud binding, he looked to the left, then towards the right, seeing all the Shuriken and Kunai coming towards him, the attacker immediately leaped backward and broke through one of the other glass windows and disappeared into the night.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

Sandaime did not need to order, two Anbu teams immediately pursued the attacker.

With everything calmed down, Utatane Koharu used Iryo Ninjutsu to treat Mitokado's shoulder wounds, and said to Sandaime, "Hiruzen, we can't hesitate anymore, we must act immediately, otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous."

Sandaime thought a little and immediately raised his hand.

In an instant one of the Anbu still left in the Hokage Building appeared in front of the Hokage and asked respectfully, "Hokage-sama, your order?"

Sandaime picked up his tobacco pipe that lay on the Hokage table, and said, "In the name of Hokage, I declare a state of emergency in the village, summon all the clan heads... including the Uchiha Clan Patriarch, as well as the elite Jonin for an emergency meeting."

"Yes, Hokage-sama!" – nodded the Anbu shinobi and disappeared. He was surprised that Hokage-sama even asked to summon Uchiha Patriarch, but he did not question Sandaime's words, as he believed that Hokage-sama must have said so for some reason, maybe to confront Uchiha Patriarch for what happened just now in the presence of all the other Patriarch and elite Jonin.

Regardless, his job is to follow Hokage-sama's order and he must do so.

With that Anbu member gone off to complete the order, Sandaime looked at the captain of the Hokage Guard who stood next to him, and order, "You lead the rest of the team and follow team-11. Check Uchiha Shisui's state, if you find something abnormal with his state then immediately subdue him together with Danzo and Hatake Kakashi and if there is nothing normal then notify Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Shisui that I have summoned them, make sure to NOT injure him at ANY cost if not necessary!"

"But Hokage-sama, then your safety…?" – An assassination attempt was made on Hokage while in the Hokage Building, the most secure place in entire Konoha, under the eyes of all the Anbu, and yet they were unable to do anything. Even if the attacker failed in the end, the Anbu members were still horrified, and obviously had a lot of pressure because there is no guarantee that this will be the end of it.

However, Sandaime thought differently, "Go, don't worry about me, Kyuubi and Uchiha Shisui are more important."

Seeing that Sandaime still insisted, the captain of the Hokage Guards nodded and left the Hokage Building.

At this time, Utatane Koharu asked with a frown, "Hiruzen, was the attacker just now not Uchiha Shisui?"

Based on the orders given by Hiruzen, it wasn't difficult to understand that Sandaime believed that the attacker was not Uchiha Shisui.

Sandaime exhaled smoke and nodded.

Elder Koharu was confused, "Why?"

All the information they have up to now points towards Uchiha Shisui, and yet Sandaime says that it wasn't Uchiha Shisui? Koharu can't help but be confused by this.

Mitokado who injury has been taken care of for the time being asked, "Hiruzen, did you notice something?"

Sandaime was silent for a while, and then said, "From his eyes."

Both Elder Homura and Elder Koharu looked at each other with confusion clearly apparent in their eyes, "From his Sharingan?"

Hiruzen shook his head, "Not the Sharingan, but his eyes, I would like to believe that whether Shisui chooses the Uchiha Clan over the village or he chooses the village, his eyes will never have that spiteful look filled with hatred, there may be some guilt but hatred? Never! And yet the eyes of the attacker had deep hatred towards me that it was clearly apparent from his eyes. It seemed as if he hates Konoha from every fiber of his being, so he can not be Uchiha Shisui, Shisui is Kagami's grandson, and I know that he has the same love towards the village as Kagami."

Even if the attacker's performance was impeccable throughout the attack so much so that even Sandaime had no choice but to think that he may be Uchiha Shisui, but it was that hatred-filled look that gave away the truth, which made Sandaime realize a possible conspiracy theory.

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Uchiha Clan grounds.

An Uchiha Jonin hurriedly rushed towards the Patriarch's mansion and reported all the news to Uchiha Fugaku, "We have received news that a while after the emergency signal flare was fired, Sandaime had declared that the village will enter a state of emergency, and he has summoned the Patriarch's of all the clans as well as the elite Jonin!"

Uchiha Fugaku frowned upon hearing this sudden piece of news, and his drowsy state was immediately gone, he asked, "Has there been any confirmation about why the village has entered a state of emergency? Was it because of some sudden attack from Amatsukami? Or any other Shinobi village suddenly declared war on Konoha?"

Sandaime declared the village to enter a state of emergency and summoned all the Clan Heads as well as the elite Jonin in the middle of the night. Such measures are only used when the matter of utmost seriousness, and probably a war has been declared on the village!

"There has been no confirmation as of yet as nobody seems to know the exact reason." – The Uchiha Jonin shook his head, and said, "But there was no order convened to us, neither to the Uchiha Clan nor to the Konoha Military Police Force!"

Fugaku frowned and immediately noticed that something was wrong, "Issue an immediate summoning order to all the Special Jonin and above!"

If the village were to enter a state of emergency, then Hokage will without a doubt inform the Konoha Military Police Force, as the public security of the village is under the jurisdiction of the Konoha Military Police Force.

It is completely impossible to not notify the Uchiha Clan that has the greatest number of Jonin Shinobi.

But it seems that Sandaime has forgotten the Konoha Military Police Force, which is too abnormal, and there is only one plausible explanation.

Even if Fugaku doesn't want to believe in that possibility he must at least take the necessary security measures.

The Uchiha Jonin nodded and immediately went out to convene the summoning order.

And Uchiha Fugaku immediately walked to his room, at this time, Uchiha Mikoto, the wife of Uchiha Fugaku has already woken up, and seeing the tense face of her husband she asked, "What's the situation?"

Fugaku said, "Things are goin-…"

However, before Fugaku could finish his words, a voice from the other side of Fusuma came, "Otto-sama, what happened? Why was the emergency signal flare fired?"

Fugaku turned towards the source of the voice, "Itachi, the village is in a state of emergency, your mother and I are going out for a while to check the situation."

And Uchiha Mikoto continued, "You will stay at home and take care of Sasuke in our absence."

Itachi nodded, he wanted to ask more but before he could speak, both Fugaku and Mikoto had already walked out.

Looking at the dark sky and the bright full moon, along with the noisy courtyard, Itachi was suddenly reminded of the night of the Kyuubi's attack a few years ago. And he had an ominous feeling that tonight is going to be a very long night…

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On Team-11's side.

Dog, Cat, Eagle, and Monkey all stopped suddenly.

Because on a tree not far away, Uzumaki Naruto, whose hand and feet were tied, mouth gagged was hung on a tree. He was currently struggling to break free but to no avail.

The captain of the team, Dog did not rush to rescue the tied-up Uzumaki Naruto but asked the eagle while looking around vigilantly, "Eagle… try to sense the traps here!"

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Konohagakure.

Standing on top of the roof near the Uchiha Clan, two figures quietly observed all the movements of the Uchiha Clan, without giving away their positions.

These two are not ordinary bystanders, and if Hyuga Kuroto was here, he would have recognized these two as Shinno and Oto Yumie.

Looking at the noisy Uchiha Clan territory in the distance, Oto Yumie licked her lips in anticipation and said with a smile, "It seems that your plan worked, the Uchiha Clan is in a restless state now."

Shinno chuckled softly and said, "Not mine Orochimaru, but theirs, the Akatsuki's. Their plan worked; I am just here to take advantage of them."

Like Orochimaru, Shinno has also never regarded himself as a member of the criminal organization Akatsuki.

There are only two reasons why he joined the Akatsuki. .

Firstly, because he didn't have any other choice when he was found by the two members of Akatsuki.

The second reason was the resources he could use by staying in the Akatsuki, and Shinno did use all the resources that Akatsuki can provide him for his research, to obtain the techniques that he needed and to facilitate his future actions.

In Shinno's mind, only the revival of Land of Sky is his supreme pursuit, and only with the power of Land of Sky will he be able to rule the entire Shinobi World.

And he is really grateful to Akatsuki, his plans have started to come to fruition much before then his initial preparation, and Akatsuki is a major reason for that.

So, it's about time he kicks away the Akatsuki and focuses on reviving the Land of Sky.

Oto Yumie or better yet, Orochimaru glanced at his side with a cold expression, although there was no change of emotion on his face, he was a bit unhappy by the way Shinno referred to him.

It goes to show that after devouring the demon Moryo, Shinno's strength has increased a lot, and with the increase of his strength so has his confidence and arrogance. So much so that even when talking to Orochimaru, Shinno no longer refers to him respectfully.

The change in the method of speaking implies that Shinno is no longer afraid of Orochimaru, and he no longer puts himself in an inferior position.

Feeling the traces of surging dark Chakra being emitted from Shinno, Orochimaru was quite depressed.

Once upon a time, whether it was Shinno or Hiruko or many other Shinobi for that matter, were all below him, could be abandoned at any time, not even worth his attention if they were not useful for him.

But now, whether Shinno or Hiruko or even Hyuga Kuroto, have all turned into powerhouses against whom even Orochimaru has to be very careful.

This makes him very depressed, as he is still at a standstill, he has not made much progress since he left Konoha.

Shinno seemed to have noticed Orochimaru's emotional fluctuation, and said with a smile, "Do not worry Orochimaru, you should be able to obtain what you are here for tonight."

Orochimaru said in a slightly regretful tone, "Unfortunately, I have not been able to find her until now."

Shinno shook his head casually, "Why worry? There is still Uchiha Itachi, a very genius shinobi."

Orochimaru sighed and shook his head, "He is too young."

Although Itachi is undoubtedly a talented child, he is still too young, not even in his teenage, therefore, Orochimaru is not sure whether it would be a good idea to use Living Corpse Reincarnation on Itachi.

Shinno thought a little and said, "Uchiha Tsukihi is Uchiha Shinichi's subordinate spy, so I think it's better not to pursue her, because if you do so, then there are chances that the Akatsuki will come after you more strongly than ever."

"Humph… as if I care what Akatsuki wants, my reason for pursuing Uchiha Tsukihi is different." – Orochimaru snorted.

To be honest, Orochimaru is not the kind of narrow-minded individual who would bear hatred because of one or two defeats, to him, his interests matter most. But it is still hard for him to accept being humiliated and led by the nose by a mere sixteen-seventeen-year-old Kunoichi, even if she is an Uchiha!

What irritated Orochimaru, even more, is that after he had passed Uchiha Tsukihi's information to Shimura Danzo, and asked him to collect more intelligence about Uchiha Tsukihi, but Danzo dared to tell him that there is no female Uchiha who matches this description, neither of the same age nor of a different.

'Shimura Danzo has no sincerity to maintain a cooperative relationship!'

Repeatedly annoyed, Orochimaru wanted to get Uchiha Tsukihi's body more and more.

Orochimaru is sure that Uchiha Tsukihi's basic strength surpasses what Tsunade had at the same age, and this is a big thing to say considering just whose granddaughter Senju Tsunade is.

Orochimaru feels that Uchiha Tsukihi is a bit different from the rest of the Uchiha, the same is the case with her Sharingan, which seems a bit different from the rest of the Uchiha.

This is his serpentine intuition, making him feel that the Sharingan in Uchiha Tsukihi's eye sockets is even more attractive than Uchiha Shinichi's who has a pair of Mangekyou Sharingan.

'Is it possible that Uchiha Tsukihi's Visual Prowess is superior compared to Uchiha Shinichi's, and if it is, then does that mean there is even a superior Visual Prowess than the Mangekyou Sharingan?' – was his thought.

At this time, Uchiha Fugaku led the assembled Uchiha Shinobi and rushed towards the Hokage Building.

Watching Fugaku lead the most elites Uchiha, Shinno said, "The hurdles are gone, it's time for you to act."

Orochimaru did not speak anything and disappeared from his position. Followed by him, Shinno also disappeared from the roof of the building they were hiding at.

It didn't take long for Orochimaru and Shinno to sneak inside the Uchiha Clan.

And since the elites of the Uchiha Clan were taken away by the Patriarch Fugaku, the two intruders easily manage to make their way to the Patriarch's mansion.

However, as soon as both of them broke inside the courtyard of the Uchiha Patriarch's house, several Shuriken were shot at them.

After dodging a few of the Shuriken, Orochimaru then directly reached out his hand and caught the other Shuriken by his hand.

While Shinno easily avoided all the Shuriken.

The Shurikens were naturally shot by Itachi, who was still at his home. He looked at the two people, and his gaze lingered on Shinno a bit longer, as if realizing something he asked with a calm face, "You are… Shinno?"

Itachi has only once met Shinno which was during the first mission that he took with Kuroto-san and yet he recognizes Shinno perfectly.

Shinno said with a smile, "Uchiha Itachi, I did not expect that you would remember me from that time."

Then Itachi's gaze landed on the Kunoichi next to Shinno, and he was able to sense a cold aura from her. Even the Shuriken she held made her bleed, but it seemed as if she did not care about the wound at all.

Oto Yumie took out the Shuriken without any care for the wound and said while licking the blood on her hand, "Uchiha Itachi, it seems that you have grown quite a lot from the last time I saw you, you were able to sense both of our arrivals so early."

Itachi frowned, 'Last time I saw you? Have I met her before?'

Itachi did not have much time to think when suddenly the sound of running came from the back corridor.

Itachi's eyes widened, he suddenly panicked, "Sasuke, don't come here!"

With only him and Sasuke left in the house, it wasn't hard for anyone to figure out that the person running here was Uchiha Sasuke.

Oto Yumie's eyes narrowed at Itachi's sudden panic, and she immediately rushed towards Itachi.

At the same time, Shinno also took the advantage of Itachi's distraction and rushed towards the direction of the sound of footsteps.

Ding… Ding… Clang…!

Oto Yumie fought with the young Itachi in the courtyard of the house, and the Kunai of the two repeatedly clashed with each other producing a harsh metal clanking sound.

At the back corridor, Sasuke's voice was heard abruptly, "Wh-who are you…!?" – And ended abruptly amidst the muffled sound of fist hitting flesh.

Only a few seconds later, Shinno returned with an Uchiha Sasuke held in his hand.

His younger brother caught by the enemy, Itachi was more agitated, but he understood that he is not allowed to panic, because if he were to panic, then Sasuke would be in more danger, so calming down his restlessness, Itachi asked with a gloomily cold voice as his Sharingan was activated and the three tomoe were rapidly spinning, "What do you two want with us?"

Oto Yumie looked at the pair of scarlet eyes and said while licking her lips, "I want you Uchiha Itachi!"

Itachi was startled, 'Me? But why would a Kunoichi who I have never even met want me?' was his thought, but calming his surprise, Itachi immediately said without any trace of hesitation, "Let Sasuke go, I will come with you!"

Shinno chuckled, "It seems that your love for your brother is even more than we expected, since that is the case, then we can't let your brother go."

Oto Yumie nodded, and immediately took hold of Sasuke from Shinno, and said with a smile while licking her lips that almost made her look like a nymphomaniac, "I am giving you two options Uchiha Itachi. Either you come with me without any resistance, or send Uchiha Tsukihi, your choice, choose fast!"

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"I am giving you two options Uchiha Itachi. Either you come with me without any resistance, or send Uchiha Tsukihi, your choice, choose fast!" – said Oto Yumie.

Oto Yumie wanted Itachi to choose the second option, in exchange for Uchiha Sasuke's life.

Hearing the unknown name, Itachi frowned, "Uchiha Tsukihi?"

This is the first time he has heard this name, so Itachi was a bit confused as to who is this Kunoichi referring to, but after a bit of thinking, Itachi also wondered if she is talking about Ho-san?

But this was only momentary speculation, and Itachi was not even sure.

At this time, Uchiha Sasuke who was unconscious, also regained his consciousness, the first person he looked at was Itachi, and realizing the peril he was in, Sasuke cried, "Nii-san, h-help me!"

Even if Itachi had put up a calm face, he was still anxious about Sasuke, and Sasuke's cry for help only made him more restless, he seemed to be in a desperate situation, and the tomoes in his Sharingan were spinning faster and faster.

Oto Yumie smirked at Itachi's helplessness.

She did not stop Sasuke's cries, for her, the more this Uchiha Brat cries for help the more panicked Uchiha Itachi will become, making him prone to accepting any and all conditions to ensure the safety of his 'dearest' Otouto..

And she can feel that this approach is working pretty well as even with the mask of that calm face, there was deep restlessness hidden within.

Shinno folded both of his arms over his chest and calmly watched the situation unfold, he was like a spectator, he did not care about the end result, but he was indeed looking forward to the choice that Uchiha Itachi will make.

It did not take Itachi very long to think, and after weighing out things a little he shook his head and said, "I am sorry, I do not know of any Uchiha Tsukihi, as long as you let go of Sasuke, I am willing to follow you without any resistance."

Oto Yumie was already aware of the importance of Sasuke for Itachi, and taking out a Kunai, she pressed it over Sasuke's neck, and said, "I have changed my mind, now I want both you and Uchiha Tsukihi."

With his eyes fixed on the blade of the Kunai that rested over Sasuke's throat, Itachi's chakra fluctuation started to become erratic and violent.

Oto Yumie's heart shuddered after sensing those chakra fluctuations, but she still had a smile on her face, "Calm down Uchiha Itachi, or would you rather want your dearest Otouto to die here?" – as she said that, Oto Yumie, put some strengthened in her hand, as a result, the blade of her Kunai which touched Sasuke's skin start to cut through it.

Resulting in traces of red blood flowing out of the cut.

Saying that Sasuke was scared would be an understatement, he was literally horrified by what was happening to him, tears rolled down his eyes, he had a pitiful look.

But being the person that he is, Sasuke tried his best to suppress his wailings due to several reasons.

First is that he understood the situation to some extent, if Itachi gave away information about this 'Uchiha Tsukihi' that these two want then that would be a betrayal to the Clan and the village. But if Itachi did not give away that information, then there is a possibility that he will die tonight.

If Itachi were to sacrifice himself for the sake of his Otouto, then Sasuke would not be able to bear that, but if Itachi does not sacrifice himself for the sake of his Otouto, then Itachi would not be able to bear that.

And last, of all, Sasuke understood that Uchiha must never cry, so if someone saw him crying then he would be looked down upon by them.

But he is still a child, and the fear still acted upon him, causing slight drops of tears to roll down his cheek.

Itachi tried his best to pass a reassuring smile, and said softly, "Do not be afraid Sasuke, I will definitely save you!"

Sasuke could not nod because if he did then the blade of Kunai would cut a deeper wound, but his eyes became firm after he heard Itachi's words, and he gritted his teeth to bear the worst because he had faith that Nii-san would definitely save him.

"My… what a touching brotherhood bond we have here!" – mocked Oto Yumie as she licked her lips, and continued, "But Uchiha Itachi are you really sure you can save your Otouto? My patience is limited, and I want your answer now, I want information on Uchiha Tsukihi!"

Itachi stared at Oto Yumie coldly, "I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY UCHIHA TSUKIHI! There is no one in the Uchiha Clan with this name, you can verify this information through all your means, but it won't change anything, if someone does not exist then they do not exist…!"

Oto Yumie's expression darkened.

Shimura Danzo said to Orochimaru that the Uchiha Clan does not have anyone with the name 'Uchiha Tsukihi'' and now that Itachi has also said so, then it's possible that 'Tsukihi' is a pseudonym or a fake name.

Thinking so, Oto Yumie described the physical feature of 'Tsukihi' as well as some of her abilities, and then asked again, "Now answer me!"

'She is really after Ho-san!' - Was Itachi's thought, but even if he understood this, Itachi still shook his head, "No one in the clan matches this description."

And what Itachi said is not a lie… There is really no one within Uchiha Clan in Konoha who matches the description.

This was the moment Oto Yumie' was out of patience, and said coldly, "If you want your otouto back, you will bring Uchiha Tsukihi to me."

After dropping these words, Oto Yumie did not wait for Itachi's reply, and just disappeared from her position along with Sasuke.

Itachi looked at Shinno for a second and seeing that he has no plans to act, Itachi ignored him and jumped forward to pursue the Kunoichi.

When Itachi passed by him, Shinno noticed the merging pattern in Itachi's eyes, at a glance it seemed to form the shape of three spiraling curves around the pupil, and an eerie aura was oozing off of Itachi's body along with palatable chakra fluctuations.

'It seems Orochimaru is going to be in big trouble…' – Such an idea took birth in Shinno's mind.

Shaking his head, Shinno soon let go of this thought, for one, Orochimaru is a Sannin, and you know what that means, and secondly, Shinno doesn't care in the slightest at what happens to Orochimaru, the savvy snake could die for all he cares.

With that out of the way, Shinno closed his eyes and tried to perceive the thing for which he came to Konoha.

After a while, Shinno opened his eyes and turned his head in the direction of the Hyuga Clan.

"Is she there?" – muttered Shinno.

There are only two reasons why he sneaked into Konoha this time, the first is to repay Orochimaru's favor, and the second is to find the daughter of Miko and devour her. This is the most important part.

After becoming the Jinchuriki of Moryo, Shinno has obtained a lot of knowledge, and he has also learned that Miko and Moryo are two halves of the same being. Which made him understand that as long as he swallows the power of both, Moryo and Miko, he would gain the powers of both Miko and Moryo, as a result transcending into a greater being, perhaps even superior to Pain who has the eyes of Rikudo Sennin.

But when he reached the Land of Demon and broke into the Palace of Miko, he found out that Miko had already passed on her powers to her daughter, and sent her away, and also placed some kind of Miko specific Fuinjutsu on her daughter which hindered Shinno's perception of Shion.

Well, after that Miko was killed by them, and with her death, the sealing technique she placed on her daughter also started to disappear. As a result, Shinno was able to perceive the approximate location of Shion.

Looking in the direction in which he perceived Shion's position, Shinno did not delay any longer and hurried over.

He did not tell about his objective to anyone in the Akatsuki, so he wants to swallow Miko's daughter as early as he can without alerting anyone.

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Shiver… Shiver…

For some reason, Kuroto suddenly started to feel this sudden cold feeling.

Currently, he is in a spirit body form, and logically speaking it should not be possible for him to feel any kind of coldness or warmth as it simply doesn't make any sense. At least, not with the absence of thermoreceptors that only a physical body can have.

Flying such a long distance in the Soul state is a first-time experience for Kuroto.

As his first impression, Kuroto felt that traveling in a soul state is indeed somewhat advantageous as the speed is unreasonably fast. Even if Kuroto is used to the extremely fast speed of Tenseigan Chakra Mode, he still felt that the soul state travel might as well be the second-fastest mode of travel in the Shinobi world. Right after Space-Time techniques.

And since Kuroto knows that he has no way of mastering Space-Time techniques for now, so he feels that such a mode of travel is also a very viable option, considering its advantages.

But soon, Kuroto started to feel discomfort..

And this discomfort appeared in the form of the sudden coldness he started to feel.

Logically speaking, Kuroto should not feel warmth or coldness in the spirit body form, and yet he does, why is that?

He tried to think of the possible reasons, and the first possible reason Kuroto can think of was 'fast consumption of Chakra.'

When traveling in Soul form, the rate of chakra consumption is indeed very high, moreover, in this state, Kuroto has no access to Ryuumyaku Chakra, nor can he condense more of his chakra, so whatever chakra he already has is rigorously being consumed.

And the second likeliest reason is the strength of spirit.

For a myriad of time, Kuroto has pondered as to why was his genetics weaker compared to the rest of the Hyuga (before awakening Tenseigan), Kuroto still doesn't have any possible explanation but there is one possibility, and that is the strength of his soul.

For condensing Charka both physical body and spirit body are essential, and the strength or weakness of either affects the other. From the time he has started to use Tenseigan Soul Descend, Kuroto has figured out that his Soul is way weaker than the indigenous people of this world, and that had somehow affected his physical body too.

And even after he has awakened the Tenseigan which has increased his Soul Body's strength significantly it is still nowhere near ready to perform such long-time separation from any physical body.

And that's why the Charka consumption is very-very high for Kuroto, at least very-very high compared to Miko-sama who was able to remain in the soul state even after losing her physical body for nearly a month if not longer. Well, Miko's specific powers and Fuinjutsu might also be a cause behind this but who knows?

Although he doesn't think that his current soul body is weaker than Miko-sama, he does know that compared to Otsutsuki Indra and Otsutsuki Asura, Kuroto is indeed incomparable, after all, their souls have still been staying in the Shinobi World to this day.

As for Rikudo Sennin, there is nothing to even speak about, someone who can give his Chakra to Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke such that both of their strength reached such a high level is simply unreasonable, and Kuroto couldn't even begin to fathom just how strong would his soul be?

It can only be described as a major qualitative gap of several levels.

"Damn, I have to hurry… or else…" – Gradually, Kuroto felt that his consciousness has begun blurring.

This is obviously not a good sign, it undoubtedly means that the Chakra Volume was at a limit, and he has to hurry.

Fortunately, enough, he is already very close to the village, otherwise, Kuroto would be in serious trouble.

Increasing his speed, Kuroto rushed full throttle towards the direction of the village and soon arrived.

At this moment, the village seems to have fallen into a chaotic state. Many ninjas were gathered near the Hokage Building, and many others were busy evacuating the villagers into the emergency shelter.

Seeing such a state, Kuroto can't help but wonder, "Has the situation gone so worse? Did Akatsuki launch a full-scale attack on the village? No! that's not possible because if it really happened then Konoha would have been destroyed already so that's unlikely, but then what is the reason?"

Kuroto was puzzled, more so because even with the chaotic state of the village, no fighting seems to be happening around, so what is happening that has prompted Sandaime-sama to issue emergency evacuation?

While Kuroto was wondering, he also noticed another spirit body that flashed past the Hyuga Clan territory and disappeared.

Kuroto frowned, "How can there be another spirit body here? Is it possible that someone in the clan is inquiring about the situation in the village in the spirit for?"

Because Kuroto can only remember one Konoha Shinobi who used to use a soul transfer technique, and that Kato Dan, the only user is long dead. Does that mean that someone else has also mastered such a technique?

When thinking so, Kuroto also thought of the possibility that this person may be the traitor that betrayed the village to Kumo by passing secret intel.

And this really makes sense, because if this traitor has mastered such a technique then he can easily pass on the information about the layout of the Hyuga Clan to others, guide them to the Hyuga Clan and even lead the culprit to sneak into the sleeping quarters of Hyuga Hinata.

"I don't think that he noticed me, and I think that I need to find a way to figure out who exactly that person is and then get rid of him as soon as I can." – muttered Kuroto.

Currently, Kuroto doesn't have time to pursue that person, as Kuroto was having difficulty maintaining concentration but in the near future I will try to investigate.

After nodding to himself, Kuroto did not stay here anymore and rushed in the direction of his secret laboratory.

Entering his secret laboratory after bypassing all the barriers, Kuroto came to the room where two Nutrition tanks were stored.

Looking at the two nutrition tanks in front of him, Kuroto groaned for a little.

These two Nutrition tanks contained his Suijin Clone and Homusubi clone, and Kuroto was considering which option should he choose.

After a while of weighing the situation a little, Kuroto decided and transferred his soul into Homusubi Clone.

Since he won't have access to Ryuumyaku Chakra right now, so the battle potential of the Suijin Clone will be somewhat limited, and it would hard to deal with the likes of Shinno in the Jinchuriki state and Hiruko.

Moreover, Ice Release is too conspicuous to act in a covert.

So Homusubi clone is a better option, although the base strength is still not as good as Suijin Clone, the presence of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan makes up for that.

And there is also a possibility that Shinno can perform high-level Genjutsu with the powers of Moryo, so the Visual Prowess of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan coupled with Daikokuten would make up for all the shortcomings and even give some advantages.

When Kuroto transferred his soul into Homusubi Clone, the Sandaime Kazekage puppet helped in draining the solution inside the Nutrition Tank, and he can finally come out of the Nutrition Tank.

After coming out of the Nutrition Tank, Kuroto did not even bother about the wet body, and the first thing he did was take a deep breath to relieve the pain and coldness he was feeling earlier.

The feeling of your spirit body being on the verge of collapse is really makes one uncomfortable.

But there is also no other alternative, strengthening of the spirit body can only be done through adaption, and that takes time and effort.

Regardless, Kuroto doesn't have time to ponder over such issues as he must hurry to ensure Yui and Shion's safety.

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The attacker who dared to attempt Sandaime Hokage's assassination and escaped from the Hokage Building was extremely swift, after just a few ups and downs he has already left the Hokage Building far behind, leaving the central area of the village.

The trailing Anbu members did not give up their pursue because of this. The Anbu Shinobi would never show mercy on someone who would dare to assassinate the Hokage, as such they spared no effort to increase their speed and closely followed the attacker.

"Humph! Idiots." – The attacker snorted coldly after looking at the trail behind him, and deep killing intent appeared in his heart.

Deciding so, the attacker turned around the corner and stopped at the center of the intersection.

Currently, the streets were very noisy, and the villagers were leading their families to take refuge. No one knew what the exact reason was for announcing an emergency so suddenly, so the people were a bit panicked and there was restlessness around.

The attacker quietly stood waiting for the Anbu shinobi to arrive, he did not care about the presence of evacuating villagers. .

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

At this time, the Anbu members that followed him suddenly started to appear, their figures scattered around on the road, on the sidewalls, on top of the roofs of different houses, effectively forming a siege circle surrounding the attacker in the center.

The collective appearance of so many Anbu immediately alerted the evacuating villagers, and they understood that something was wrong here.

Many of the villagers are family members of shinobi and have also been shinobi themselves at some part of their lives, as such they understood that fighting is very likely to break out here, and at once fled without hindering Anbu shinobi.

Now only the attacker and the Anbu members were left in the immediate vicinity.

The attacker swept his gaze over the sieging circle, and he chuckled, "Hahaha… Only twelve of you have caught up?"

The Anbu shinobi looked at each other after hearing the attacker's contemptuous words.

Twelve Anbu means four Anbu teams and considering that they are dealing with only one enemy here means that this number is already quite high.

While the Anbu shinobi were looking at each other, the attacker also looked at them. According to Zetsu, intelligence on his own identity and abilities must not be revealed in this operation, therefore, the attacker was acting covertly.

But now that he is surrounded by a few teams of Anbu shinobi, there is only one thing he can do to make sure that no intelligence of his identity and abilities are revealed, "Once all of them are killed, no one would find any intelligence!"

And without further ado, he raised his arms and started printing the hand seals.

The surrounding Anbu would obviously not sit back and wait for death. When the attacker started printing hand seals, they also started their offensive to eliminate the attacker.

"Earth Release: Earth Bind!"

"Fire Release: Flame Bullet!"

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Instantly, the Anbu used a combination technique, the earth Style Jutsu bound Hiruko, while the Fire Style and Wind Style combined together resulting in much-enhanced compound ninjutsu that was shaped like a large fire dragon and it came towards the attacker as if it would eat him alive and burn him into dust.

However, the attacker did not even try to dodge or counter these subsequent offensive attacks, all he did was just simply stretch out his hand.

Whiiiiishh…

With a sizzling sound, the combined ninjutsu that had an extraordinarily great momentum simply disappeared. It was mysteriously sucked inside the palm of the attacker.

At the same time, the Earth Style Jutsu that has risen a few moments ago on the ground also collapsed.

"This…!?"

"He was able to absorb our ninjutsu!"

"Is It possible that he is using Dark Release?"

"But he is an Uchiha, and Uchihas do not have Dark Release!"

"Then maybe he has Mangekyou Sharingan, as they grant a user some tricky abilities…"

"It is possible, but I would say that's not the case here, look at his eyes, they are still at a simple three tomoe state."

The attacker chuckled at the confused state of the Anbu shinobi, and without waiting for them to recover from their shock, he suddenly disappeared from his position at an unreal fast speed.

Whoosh…

And the next thing you know, he was standing behind one of the Anbu shinobi.

"Just how…?" – …

This Anbu only felt was something coming out of his chest and looking down he noticed a black arm sticking out from his chest and carried his still-beating heart in its grip.

Cough… Spurt… Plop…

Fell on the ground and died.

Everyone was shocked, but that did not stop them from launching the next set of offensive, as the two nearest Anbu members nearest to kill the attacker.

One of the Anbu brandished a special sword, while the other one had a Kunai in each hand.

Seeing two Anbu members rushing toward him, he shook his head lightly, he did not bother to dodge. And at the moment when the sword's blade and the Kunai were supposed to kill him in a pincer attack, the attacker just raised his hand to block both the weapons.

Both Anbu members frowned upon such a reaction.

Because this was not an instinctive response from the attacker, it was a controlled action, and they felt that blacking blades with hand was unreasonable unless and until someone is completely confident in his ability to do so.

And their doubts soon became a reality as the moment both blades touched the attacker, a loud sound of metal clacking echoed.

Immediately afterward, cracks started to appear on the Sword and the Kunai.

Before, either of them could react to such an incomprehensible change, both of their chests were also pierced by the attacker and their beating hearts were gouged out and crushed by him.

Losing their hearts, both of them coughed out blood and fell on the ground, as blood kept flowing out of their hollowed chests.

By now, the other Anbu shinobi were already covered in cold sweats.

"His body is…!?"

"No doubt about it, that one is Steel Release! Close Combat is useless against him!"

"Ninjutsu also seems to be ineffective against him!"

"Taking advantage of speed also doesn't seem to be an option!"

"He also has Sharingan, it is unlikely that Genjutsu would work against him!"

The captain of one of the team stated, "Do not panic, use Fuinjutsu to trap him, and limit his movements!"

With just a few words of the Captain of one of the team, all the Anbu ninja regained their confidence and redeployed their tactics.

However, the attacker did not give them enough time to execute their tactics, as he flashed from one position to another.

Every time his figure disappears, one of the Anbu members would lose his or her life, and within just a few short moments six more Anbu members fell to the ground in the pool of their own blood with their crushed heart lying next to them.

"We are no match for him, retreat, at least the intelligence on his abilities must be passed back!" – With on three members of the twelve remaining, one of the Anbu members issued the order for retreat, and immediately following the order, the three Anbu separated and started running away in three different directions. The purpose was obviously to increase the possibility of survival of at least one of them.

"Hahaha… you want to run away? Do you think you can?" – with a loud laugh, the attacker stretched out his palm, in the direction of the Shinobi who issued the order, "Dark Release: Judgement!" – and immediately light blue flame sprouted out of the attacker's hand burning the shinobi into dust.

The very next moment, his figure flash disappeared and appeared next to the second Shinobi, "Tell me, do you think that you can?" – and immediately he again stretched out his hand, "Dark Release: Inhaling Maw!" – Followed by his action, the running Anbu Shinobi's Chakra was absorbed into the diamond symbol.

"My Chakra…? You rea…lly have… dark Rele…ase Kek…kei Ge…nk…ai d..o..nt..y...o...…o!" – was all he spoke before falling to the ground like a dried up raisin, and soon lost his breath.

But the attacker did not hear this Anbu shinobi's dying words, as he has already flash disappeared and rushed towards the last one.

While chasing after the Anbu Shinobi, he again stretched out his hand. But this time, neither were there any blue flame nor was any chakra absorbed. But long white bandages extended out of his hands and rushed towards the Anbu at a speed faster than that of sound!

The bandages soon closed the distance between the two, and entangled the Anbu's hands, legs, and neck, making him not be able to go any further.

With the Anbu Shinobi captured, the attacker grinned, he also controlled the bandages and dragged the Anbu shinobi backward.

Now, the Anbu shinobi was already lying on the ground, and while keeping his one foot on top of the head of the Anbu Shinobi, the attacker said, "You are weak, and so you know what is the sin of a weak!?"

Although the Anbu shinobi was very much alive, he did not care about the words of the attacker, nor did he respond to the attacker.

The attacker chuckled, and then put force in his leg to crush that head like some watermelon.

Kacha…

The entire scene was like a gore painting, and the attacker appreciated his art by nodding to himself.

After having painted Konoha, he did not stay in this place anymore and disappeared.

Sometime later, he appeared within the forest region outside the village.

With the attacker's, a green bud sprouted out of the ground and soon revealed its figure. This person was none other than Zetsu.

Looking at the attacker, Zetsu asked, "Hiruko, did you complete your part of the mission successfully?"

The attacker who attacked Sandaime Hokage, Mitokado Homura, as well as killed many of the Anbu ninjas was none other than Hiruko, who has gained five distinct and powerful Kekkei Genkai, and has already mastered their combined use at a primary level.

Not looking at Zetsu, "Yes, as asked, a Shinobi with Sharingan, with his body structure similar to Uchiha Shisui and speed as fast as 'Uchiha Shisui of the Body Flicker' attempted to assassinate Sandaime Hokage, although failed, he did manage to injure one of the elder advisors." - Hiruko said as he removed the mask and tore off the black disguise that he wore.

Zetsu nodded and curiously watched Hiruko.

At this time, Hiruko's muscles and skeletal structure squirmed and transformed back into his own skeletal structure.

Zetsu said with an impressed look, "This technique of yours that alters body structure is better than simple Transformation Techniques."

Hiruko smiled in glee.

Chimera Technique grants him various passive abilities other than the five Kekkei Genkai he absorbed and being able to alter his body structure is one of those abilities.

After changing back to his original body structure, Hiruko looked around his surroundings and asked curiously, "Where is Shinno? Shouldn't he be here waiting for me?"

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In the Village.

Plop…

With a muffled sound, a Hyuga chunin was knocked and hit the wall severely.

Shinno dusted off his hands and went further.

Currently, he was no longer the old Shinno, after having used the Body Revival Technique in combination with the Dark Chakra from Moryo to increase his strength, Shinno underwent a great physical change. His hair and beard have grown wild and much longer, as well as blackening under his eyes. His eyebrows became thicker, and his muscles greatly expanded. All this made him look much younger and more physically fit. Even the creases under his eyes and the dark bags around them also seem to have disappeared.

Overall, it wouldn't be wrong to say that he is now terrifyingly strong!

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Glancing at the Hyuga Ninja who has lost his breath in just one punch, Shinno clenched his fist, feeling the strength his body contained, he smiled in ecstasy, "This is the perfect body!"

Shinno felt the changes within his body and felt that his current body contained endless power, even just a casual punch can exert a terrifying level of power to the extent that it can kill a Hyuga Chunin with little ease, such a thing was completely unimaginable in the past.

Moreover, the amount of Chakra he had access to also felt endless, like… like an endless sea, and Shinno can't help but marvel at this, "So this what it feels to be like to be a Jinchuriki!"

At this time, another Hyuga Chunin, who was responsible for the evacuation of the villagers found out Shinno and asked vigilantly, "Just what are you do… in… g… h… e…. r-…?"

The Hyuga Chunin did not get to finish his words, as a punch in the chest stopped his words midway.

His eyes bulged, body arched backward, the sound of ribs cracking was clearly heard, and saliva and blood were coughed out by him… And the next moment he collapsed on the ground, he tried to speak but no sound came out. .

Shinno smiled and then proceeded forward, completely ignoring the two dead Hyuga ninjas.

With the previous punch, Shinno has damaged the heart and lungs of the Hyuga Chunin, a result causing internal bleeding and lack of air in his lungs, even he did not receive emergency medical treatment within 10 seconds, then he would die without any question.

Walking forward, Shinno focused on the exact location from where he felt the power of Miko resonating with Moryo sealed inside him.

Finding it, Shinno slowly walked forward and soon arrived near the house of Hyuga Kuroto.

Looking forwards, Shinno saw that a Kunoichi, a little girl, and a normal human carrying bow and arrow were running somewhere, possibly towards the emergency shelter that the other shinobi were also going towards.

Shinno chuckled, and immediately exerted strength in his leg, and jumped forward, crushing the floor below his feet, and took a high leap into the air.

And traveling at fast speed, he soon covered up the distance between them and landed in front of the three while crushing the road below his feet with an exploding sound.

Boom…

The sudden appearance of this person immediately alerted Hyuga Yui, Shion, and Taruho.

Yui immediately stood before Shion and Taruho, with her Byakugan activated, took her battle stance, and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"

Although Shion has never personally seen Shinno, because of her intuition and disposition as a Miko, she felt resonance with the Moryo sealed within Shinno and also had an innate resistance, fear, and disgust towards Shinno.

Taruho drew out his bow and arrow and guarded the shivering Shion.

Shinno did not look at the Hyuga Kunoichi, his gaze was directed towards the young girl shivering at the back, and he smiled contemptuously.

Similar to how Miko can sense Moryo, so can Moryo sense Miko, and Shinno being the current Jinchuriki of Moryo, he can obviously sense what Moryo can sense. So, with just a glance he knew that the little girl shivering at the back of these two soon-to-be-dead people is his target, even if he has never seen the little girl before.

After confirming his target, Shinno transferred his gaze towards the young Kunoichi who protected the little Miko and observed her eyes and battle stance.

Maybe it was because he felt that he held the situation in the palm of his hand, so Shinno was in a good mood, and felt like playing a bit, "Oh, another Hyuga, a Kunoichi at that, say now that I think about it I want to ask you something, do you know of someone with the name Hyuga Kuroto? He should be about the same age as you, I suppose."

'Is he… is he after Kuroto-Kun?" – Yui's gaze immediately changed, from a vigilant look to a fierce one, and she immediately spoke with a gloomy and murderous tone, "What do you want with him!?"

Shinno didn't seem to notice the Hyuga Kunoichi's dark tone, or maybe even if he noticed, he didn't seem to care, and chuckled, "Want something from him? No, no, you misunderstand me, I am not interested in some lowly Hyuga of the Branch Division, who is nothing more than a slave to his rotten clan, the reason I am asking about him is that I worked with him a few years ago, it was part of a mission that he took a few years ago, along with Uchiha Itachi, but anyway it doesn't really matter, I am here for Miko's daughter." – Speaking so, Shinno took a step forward, the mere thought of swallowing the power of Miko and become an existence beyond the level of Bijuu, reaching the realm of Super Kage level made Shinno extremely excited.

Taruho immediately drew an arrow, and warned, "Stop, don't take a single step forward!"

But Shinno completely ignored Taruho's warning, will Shinno even be deterred by mere bow and arrow?

Shaking his head with a chuckle, Shinno did not even glance at Taruho and took another step forward.

Taruho did not speak anything but directly shot the arrow.

Shinno still did not bother to look towards the coming arrow, and merely tilted his head, to dodge and said, "Don't put unnecessary resistance, it will only make things difficult for you, accept your destiny!"

Yui has already observed Shinno's state, she can see extremely dark and evil chakra surging like a volcano within Shinno, she has never seen something like that, or maybe she has, the Kyuubi, but that was only from a distance, but now was different.

Was she scared? Well yeah… anyone would be! But she has no intention of running!

Why? Firstly, this person is after Shion, the little girl is under Kuroto-Kun's protection, and since, Kuroto-Kun has gone to the Land of Demons to check the state of Shion's mother, so Yui must protect Shion, this is her responsibility as Kuroto-Kun's significant other.

And secondly, this person dared to mention Kuroto-Kun, which means that he will also target Kuroto-Kun if left alone, and how can she let such a thing happen, she knows that Kuroto-Kun is strong and won't be defeated so easily, but this does not mean that she will simply walk away knowing that this person will sooner or later go after the person she loves more than anything in the world!

Yui did not look back and said to Taruho, "Taruho-san, take Shion-chan and leave, I'll hold him!"

Shinno raised his eyebrow, and laughed, "You think you can stop me?" – and immediately his figure flashed and approached Yui.

His speed was extremely fast and his fist was already positioned to directly kill the Hyuga Kunoichi with just one punch.

"Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"

However, his fist did not connect with the Hyuga Kunoichi, as a high-pressured air thrust suddenly stopped him mid-way and then blew him with a tremendous force before he even realized that he was hit.

Blown away by this sudden attack, Shinno severely crashed to the sidewall, causing it to immediately collapse.

"Body Revival Technique!"

As the dust settled, Shinno got up and dusted himself, as his muscles wiggled, bulged, and strengthened, to be honest, he was somewhat surprised, he did not think that any random Kunoichi would be able to do so.

But he wasn't really worried, it only made this hunt a bit more interesting.

After getting up, and dusting himself, Shinno again rushed towards the young Hyuga Kunoichi.

Yui did not move from her position, as the enemy came closer to her, suddenly two metal chakrams slid down from the sleeves of her Kimono and were held by her in both of her hands.

The moment, Shinno's fist was again about to hit her, she leaned her head back, and bent her back backward, her body formed a D-shape, and using both her hands, she lifted both her legs, kicked Shinno on the lower chin with her left leg, then using the same momentum she did a flip and threw both Chakram towards Shinno, one after another.

Shinno who was sent backward with the kick in the chin immediately noticed two chakrams that were spinning at a very high speed coming towards him, and he immediately drew out Kunai to deflect the two spinning Chakram.

While he tried to deflect the two Chakram, the trajectory of both the chakram changed, as a thin metal wire was connected to both of them and it allowed Yui to control their trajectories. So, both the Kunai were cut, and along with it, both of his arms were also cut.

"Body Revival Technique!"

With this, the battle should have come to an end, but actually, it did not, Shinno did not seem to care about his severed arms, and rushed towards Yui. While he rushed towards her, the tissues around his severed arm wiggled and suddenly started to expand, and started growing, and instantly they had already regenerated.

Yui was shocked seeing such a scene, "Regenerating severed arms?"

However shocked Yui may have been, this did not affect her reactions as a taijutsu battle broke out between Shinno and Yui.

Each of Yui's attacks caused internal damage to Shinno, but for some reason, all of them continued to be healed. It seemed as if Shinno was not suffering any injury. And as the battle progressed, Yui's advantage started to fall, and Shinno started to gain the upper hand.

"Revival Fist!" – Shinno gathered Dark Chakra into both his hands and unleashed a powerful shockwave towards Yui.

Yui was horrified and she had no confidence to be able to dodge this pressured shockwave that would cause tremendous internal damage.

"Yui onee-chan!" – Shion who was not far away exclaimed, but it didn't seem that her scream would have much effect.

As Shinno's fists approached Yui, suddenly a shadow leaped down the street at an extremely fast speed, grabbed Yui, who was not able to move much, and disappeared.

Boom…!

And the Dark Chakra that exploded from Shinno's fist caused a loud explosion.

As the dust settled, the view became clear, Shinno frowned because he didn't see the collapsed figure of the Hyuga Kunoichi.

At this time, a female voice reached Shinno's ears, "Hey you, what is your name??"

"Hyuga… Hyuga Yui!" – answered Yui, who was held in the arms of this Kunoichi.

"So, Yui-san, do you think you will be able to stand?" – asked the Kunoichi.

Yui immediately nodded, "Yes… Yes, I am able to stand."

The Kunoichi nodded and helped Yui stand on her feet.

Then she turned to the teenager with bow and arrow in his hand, and asked: "What is your name kid?"

"Taruho." – answered the boy.

Yui nodded and said, "Can I trust you to escort the little girl and this injured Kunoichi here, to the evacuation center?" – asked the Kunoichi who was dressed in black Kunoichi vest with an Uchiha Clan crest in the back.

"But… but what about him?" – questioned Taruho.

"Don't worry about him, he won't be hindering you!" – answered the Kunoichi.

Taruho thought for a moment and nodded, "Alright."

The Kunoichi nodded, "Good, now when I signal the three of you to go, then go!"

"You!" – Shinno frowned when he saw the Kunoichi, as she was none other than Uchiha Tsukihi!

Hearing Shinno's shout, Uchiha Tsukihi turned and looked at him with a murderous gaze.

If Uchiha Tsukihi (or Kuroto) arrived here even a moment late then Yui would have been seriously injured by Shinno and thinking so Tsukihi's heart was almost raised to her throat.

Shinno didn't seem to care about Tsukihi's gaze and asked with an irritated expression, "Why are you obstructing me Uchiha Tsukihi?"

Tsukihi did not answer, but leaped forward slightly, and said to Taruho, Shion, and Yui, "Now go, leave him to me."

Hyuga Yui looked up and down at Uchiha Tsukihi.

Her intuition is telling her that this Uchiha Kunoichi is quite familiar, but even after trying to remember as to who she is, Yui was sure that she has never seen her or heard the name, not personally, not from someone else, as such Yui asked with a frown, "Who are you?"

Uchiha Tsukihi's gaze did not shift from Shinno, as she replied to Yui, "It does not matter who I am, what matters is that the three of you have to get out of here before this place becomes a battlefield, remember the task that you were entrusted with and focus on that objective, leave him to me!"

'Yui, I will be going to the Land of Demons, please try to protect Shion in my absence.' – was what Kuroto-Kun asked her to do.

From her battle with the enemy, Yui has come to realize that this person uses some unknown Jutsu which allows him to regenerate all his injuries, again and again, therefore, it would be hard for her to kill him so easily.

'And this Kunoichi seems to know Shinno and is confident to hold him back to secure a retreat for them, so there is a possibility that she has some way to deal with his regenerative abilities, so it's best that she deals with him.' – Thinking so, Yui did not hesitate any longer, and led Shion and Taruho away from here.

Shinno did not blindly chase after the three, but asked, "I am going to ask this once again, why are you obstructing me Uchiha Tsukihi!?"

Tsukihi said, casually "Because I feel like it. But you can think of this as a payback for sending Oto Yumie after me."

Shinno frowned, and he didn't really have an answer here, because even if he says that Oto Yumie came after her on her own accord, it wouldn't be believable as Oto Yumie was introduced as his subordinate.

Since he did not have any answer here, Shinno said coldly, "I understand, but I will say this if you have even slight attachment to your life, then you would better step aside because I will not spare your life just because you are Uchiha Shinichi's subordinate!"

Uchiha Tsukihi giggled, and did exactly the opposite of what Shinno asked her to do, instead of stepping aside, she blocked Shinno, started walking forward, as well as held the Katana at her waist.

Seeing that Uchiha Tsukihi does not have any intention to follow his words, and the fact that this bitch completely ignored his warnings, Shinno shouted in rage, "How dare you look down on me? Damn Uchiha bitch so proud of your bloodline? I will show you today what real power is!"

With that, Shinno let out a loud scream, instantly, dense blackish-violet chakra vapor, visible to the naked eye burst out of his body.

Under the influence of these chakra vapors, the already bulging muscles of Shinno further wiggled, bulged, and strengthened.

"Hahahaha…" – with a frantic laugh, Shinno shouted, "Do you see this, this is real power, real strength… you Uchiha should be ashamed of yourselves, always relying on the power of Kekkei Genkai!"

Tsukihi's expression shrank.

At this time, the chakra reaction on Shinno's body was extremely strong and dark, giving off a feeling that she stood in the presence of a full-fledged Bijuu class being.

'Damn, fighting him without Ryuumyaku will be extremely tough, not to mention that I can't openly reveal my Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan… this battle will be extremely-extremely tough! I have to play this out with wit instead of pure brawn' – thought Tsukihi.

Suddenly Tsukihi said, "Is that the best you can do? Well, I am not surprised, Shinichi-sama did say that you are the second weakest in the organization, just after Zetsu who specializes in collecting intelligence, isn't that right?"

Shinno chuckled, and just as he was about to answer something unexpected happened.

Whoosh… pierce…

Suddenly there was a sound of something breaking past the speed of sound which reached Shinno's ears, and then the next thing he understood was that something pierced his chest from the back.

Shocked at this sudden change, Shinno looked at his back and found an Uchiha Tsukihi standing at his back, with her Sharingan activated.

Shinno was confused, he looked at his front only to see that nothing stood in front of him.

Shinno was stunned for a moment and reacted, "Genjutsu…?"

Uchiha Tsukihi giggled in a mocking tone, "Sure enough, just as Shinichi-sama said, you are pathetic, aren't you?"

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With the success of the sneak attack, Tsukihi was about to weave the hand signs to launch a fire-style Jutsu, but upon noticing that the Dark Chakra coming off from Shinno had suddenly intensified, and his muscles have again started to wiggle, Tsukihi immediately stopped and withdrew backward.

Drip… Drip… Drip…

As the Katana was suddenly pulled out of Shinno's chest, some blood sprouted out of the wound, as well as from Shinno's mouth, and dripped on the ground.

But it soon started to heal, however, Shinno was angered, and covering the still healing wound, Shinno spoke with a gloomy tone, "How dare you…!"

He didn't expect that he would be affected by a Genjutsu even with Moryo sealed inside him.

Tsukihi did not care about Shinno's gloomy tone, she just casually waved her Katana to get rid of the blood on it, and without saying a word, she was analyzing Shinno's changes, especially how his injury was being healed rapidly.

This attack was just a preemptive one, as Tsukihi need to understand the degree of Shinno's regeneration.

It must not be forgotten that the Secret Technique of Physical Regeneration that was passed onto Kuroto by Orochimaru was obtained from Shinno, so Shinno must know how to use that technique perfectly, there is also a possibility that Shinno is also using the Chimera technique, and coupled with the fact that he has also swallowed Moryo, so it is understandable killing him won't be an easy task.

And as expected, within just short few seconds, the stabbed wound on Shinno's chest completely disappeared, but the muscles on his body were still squirming..

Tsukihi's squinted, immediately turned around, and ran away in the opposite direction to of Yui, Shion, and Taruho.

"Want to escape??" – Shinno's eyes were already red by now, and his expression was full of anger.

The stab wound a moment ago did not cause any substantial damage to his body, but the fact that his damn Uchiha bitch has repeatedly annoyed him, angered Shinno, especially when he was immersed in the feeling of infinite power.

And seeing that this damn bitch now wants to run away, how can Shinno allow such a thing to happen?

Smash… Boom… Break… Crack…

The angered Shinno completely disregarded the houses and walls, and like an uncontrolled bull, rushed straight towards Uchiha Tsukihi, everything that came in his path was demolished causing loud sounds to reach even the far end of the village.

Uchiha Tsukihi who was running in the front glanced back, and for a while she was stunned by Shinno's physical strength, being able to demolish houses so easily is not a joke, you know.

But what made Tsukihi more surprised was Shinno's stupid behavior, it's true that demolishing houses so easily is not a joke, but it's not that big of a deal either, but the fact that Shinno is doing so is pure foolishness because doing so will only attract the attention of others here, which is obviously not conducive to his objective.

'Is his mentality somehow affected by Moryo?' – a momentary thought appeared in Tsukihi's mind.

Because this is indeed a possibility.

Tsukihi can be sure that the dark and evil chakra of Moryo is significantly higher than the mere Reibi that Shinno used in the Cannon, and Moryo is pure evil, and it is impossible that there would be no complications of swallowing Moryo.

At least, ordinary people should not be able to resist the spiritual erosion caused by Moryo, and considering the foolish behavior of Shinno, it is very likely that his mind is being passively affected by Moryo.

But looking at all the houses collapsed by Shinno, Tsukihi noticed one common thing, each house was empty, which means that all the residents have evacuated somewhere.

Tsukihi can't figure out the exact reason for Sandaime to issue such an order.

This is because such an order of emergency evacuation is not issued unless the village is in existential crisis, and Tsukihi can't figure out what exactly happened that prompted Sandaime to issue such an order.

It couldn't be that some other Shinobi village launched a surprise attack because there are no noises of fighting anywhere.

"What exactly happened in the village in my absence?" – muttered Tsukihi.

After some thinking, Tsukihi thought of one possibility, 'Is it somehow related to Uchiha Clan launching a Coup d'état?'

Considering Shinno's daring infiltration within the village, there is also a possibility that Akatsuki planned all this and put all the blame on the Uchiha Clan.

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On the side of Team-11.

As Kakashi who was still in his Dog Anbu gear waited for the response, the Anbu who wore the Eagle mask said, "Hmm… it most likely is a trap… I am not hundred percent sure as there is something hindering with my perception, captain!"

Dog frowned, "Most Likely?"

Cat quickly said in a low whisper, "Captain, let me rescue him, if it is me, then even if it is a trap it won't be effective on me."

Dog glanced at the young Kunoichi who was wearing the eagle mask, and had purple hair, then turned to Cat, and nodded, "Alright, but be careful."

With the captain's nod, Cat's figure disappeared and instantly appeared on the grass about four or five meters away from the tree on which Uzumaki Naruto was tied up.

When Uzumaki Naruto saw the sudden arrival of this ninja who wore a strange cat mask, he tried to struggle more and tried to speak many things, but for some reason, no coherent sound came.

Cat activated his Mangekyou Sharingan and observed his surroundings, no traps were present nearby, but that simply doesn't make sense.

With a doubtful look, Cat turned towards Naruto and still saw that there were no traps.

At this time, Cat was a bit confused, but regardless, he cautiously walked towards the tied-up Uzumaki Naruto, and just when he tried to cut the rope through which Uzumaki Naruto was tied, he suddenly heard the sound of exploding tag burning.

Hiss…

Suddenly hearing the sound of exploding tag being lit, Cat did not care about his own safety, hurriedly cut the rope, removed Uzumaki Naruto's jacket, threw it upwards, and immediately shielded Naruto.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

In an instant, a series of violent explosions engulfed the area where Cat and Uzumaki Naruto were present.

Dog was shocked and worried, the three tomoe in his Sharingan were spinning, and he rushed forward, trying to check out Cat and Uzumaki Naruto's situation.

At this time, a spiraling whirl appeared behind the Eagle Masked Kunoichi, and a hand stretched out from the spiraling whirl.

"One solved, three more to go!"

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The moment that hand was about to touch the should of Eagle masked Anbu, Monkey masked Anbu suddenly came out of nowhere, caught her, and flashed away.

Chiiiirrrrpppp…

And the very next instant, the sharp sound chirping of thousands of birds was resounded in the forest, and with dangerously dazzling thunder wrapped around his hand, the Dog masked Anbu, who had turned back a few moments ago, quickly rushed towards the masked man.

"If it isn't the long lost Chidori…" – whispered masked man to no one in particular while looking at the lightning wrapped around the right arm of Dog masked Anbu.

Dog masked Anbu didn't seem to notice the masked man's fluctuating emotions.

His speed was extremely fast, and in just an instant, he had already arrived in front of the masked man, but the fact that the masked man did not even attempt to dodge, retreat or block the attack made him feel confused.

Whoosh…

Dog's eyes shrank, the attack that was supposed to kill, or at least injure the masked man, did not even touch him, in fact, it just phased right through him, as if… as if what was standing before them was nothing more than a projection.

"What sort of ninjutsu is that…?" – muttered Dog in confusion.

But before he could reanalyze things, he suddenly felt a harsh kick on his waist, and with just one blow, Dog was blown away and severely crashed on the nearby tree…

The Masked man muttered in anger and disappointment, "Pathetic, useless as always… can't stop anything, can't save anyone!"

At this time the dust on the opposite side cleared, and Cat Anbu, who had a dark green skeletal structure covering him was revealed.

His back was covered in small burns but nothing too dangerous.

He also saw the weird scene where Captain's attack phased right through the body of the masked man, and to be honest, he even with his Mangekyou Sharingan was unable to figure out the exact mechanism. He was certain that it wasn't due to some sort of Genjutsu or mere image projection. The masked man is indeed standing there but the attack still phased right through him, this was strange.

He understood that they have encountered a powerful enemy with strange abilities, so he did not dare to be careless, and said to the panicked Uzumaki Naruto, who was held by him. "I and my teammates will deal with him, meanwhile you will run in the direction of the village, can you do that?"

Cat knew that the reinforcements from the village will be on their way, so as long as Uzumaki Naruto runs in the direction of the village, he will soon meet up with them, and thus will be escorted back to the village safely.

Although Naruto is a kid, and he was unaware that this masked shinobi was secretly protecting and watching him for months now, but he saw the scene where this masked Shinobi did not hesitate to risk his life in order to save him just a few moments ago, he was still touched.

And with the calm and gentle tone he spoke to Naruto, Naruto instinctively nodded, for some reason, Naruto felt that this person was different from the rest of the villagers… he was like… like… Hyuga Kuroto, yeah… like Hyuga Kuroto, and Ramen Guy.

So out of trust, Naruto nodded, and as soon as the cat-masked shinobi put him down, he ran away.

It's just that the ignorant kid did not know the right direction at all, and although he ran extremely fast, he did not run in the right direction.

Cat looked helpless, but at this time it was already too late to stop the kid, so Cat could only sigh, and look at the Captain.

Dog nodded towards the Cat, then glanced at Eagle, "Go after the kid, and make sure that he reaches the village safely!"

The Eagle masked Anbu hesitated a little, but looking at the resolute eyes of three of her seniors, she nodded and disappeared in the direction Naruto went.

The masked man did not stop her, he just lazily stood in the center of the three Anbu.

With Naruto and Eagle gone, Cat asked with a sharp tone, "Just who are you, and what do you want with that kid, I don't believe you are from Amatsukami?"

The Masked man did not even bother to look at Cat, or any of the other two members of Team-11, from beginning to end, his gaze was on Uzumaki Naruto and the Eagle Anbu that went after Naruto.

To be honest, the Jinchuriki kid wasn't really his target, bringing Naruto here was just part of his plan, and letting him escape was also part of his plan, so he did not have any intention of stopping Naruto from beginning to end.

At this moment, sudden noise was heard, and from the looks of it, a large number of Shinobi were on their way here.

The masked man chuckled loudly, "It's about time!" – and immediately activated some strange technique. As soon as the technique was activated his figure distorted and disappeared in a spiraling whirl.

The second part of his plan has just begun, confronting Uchiha Shisui and Hatake Kakashi wasn't really necessary, as such the masked man tacitly disappeared, because his objective was achieved.

"Damn, it's a space-time Jutsu again!" – muttered Cat with a frown.

No matter how much either of three thinks about it, there doesn't seem to be a way to counter this technique.

Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…

Accompanied by the sound of breaking past wind, several figures, led by Elder Danzo arrived at the battlefield.

Shimura Danzo looked at the state of the battlefield, and with just a glance he figured out some things, then he turned towards the captain of Anbu Team-11, and questioned, "Where is the attacker? Where is the Jinchuriki?"

Dog pointed in the direction Uzumaki Naruto ran in, and said, "The attacker just escaped using some sort of Space-Time Jutsu, and Uzumaki Naruto ran in that direction. Eagle of our team went after Uzumaki Naruto and we were going to go after him as well."

"Stop!" – Shimura Danzo ordered and stopped the three of Team-11 to chase after Uzumaki Naruto. His gaze was flickering as if he was preparing for something.

Cat asked doubtfully, "Danzo-sama, is something wrong?"

The Dog looked at Shimura Danzo deeply and then signaled something to Monkey, unlike Cat, who was really worried about the safety of Uzumaki Naruto, the keen captain of Team-11 noticed the strangeness of Shimura Danzo's expression.

At this moment, the Captain of the Hokage Guards along with the rest of the Hokage Guards also arrived, came next to Dog, and whispered lightly, "Someone tried to assassinate Hokage-sama, we suspect that the culprit of the attack is Uchiha Shisui."

The Dog was shocked and immediately denied, "It's impossible, Uchiha Shisui has been under my watch from beginning to end, it cannot be him!"

The fact that Hatake Kakashi denied it made Shimura Danzo's determination stronger. He instantly used the Body Flicker Technique and instantly rushed towards Uchiha Shisui without any warning or questioning. With his crutch pointing towards Shisui.

Uchiha Shisui did not expect Elder Danzo to attack him so suddenly, for seemingly no reason, and that too at such a critical moment when the life of Kyuubi's Jinchuriki was at stake, as a result, he was highly shocked. But even if shocked, Shisui still managed to directly use Genjutsu to subdue Shimura Danzo instantly.

Instantly, Shimura Danzo who had rushed towards Shisui came to a halt, his head bent down, and it seemed he has lost consciousness.

With Shisui's Genjutsu mastery, he managed to instantly subdue Shimura Danzo even with hastily launched Genjutsu.

And just as Shisui wanted to figure out why Elder Danzo suddenly attacked him, the figure of Danzo standing in front of him suddenly disappeared, and this disappearance was so strange that neither was there any smoke nor any signs of other techniques being used, it was as if Shimura Danzo wasn't even present there.

Shisui's eyes widened, "This is Iza-…" – was all he could speak when Shimura Danzo suddenly appeared behind him out of nowhere and fiercely struck his crutch on Shisui's spinal cord.

Shisui wasn't able to avoid this attack, he had barely managed to avoid being hit at the spinal cord but he was still in severe pain, and weakly asked, "Wh… why?"

Shimura Danzo said coldly, "Humph, you Uchiha Shisui, dare to collude with the Uchiha Clan and planned the assassination of Hokage-sama, and you dare to question me 'why?'"

While Shisui lost his consciousness, Danzo did not wait any longer, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to rip out that oh-so-powerful pair of Mangekyou Sharingan from Shisui's eye sockets, so that he can finally have the ultimate Genjutsu technique Kotoamatsukami in his hands and make good use of it 'for the sake of the village.'

Just as Danzo's fingers touched Shisui's eye sockets, some sort of seal hindered Danzo to move forward and rip out those eyes.

And before he could figure out what in the hell was this, two figures simultaneously appeared before Danzo, one of whom heavily kicked Shimura Danzo in the chest, while the other picked up the unconscious Uchiha Shisui.

Both of them acted in tacit cooperation, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed out of the crowd while carrying the unconscious Shisui.

Shimura Danzo, who was kicked heavily in the chest collided with a tree, but it didn't seem that he was injured, however, he was deeply angered, and that rage was clearly visible on his face.

Looking at the two figures who disappeared with soon-to-be-his pair of Mangekyou Sharingan, Shimura Danzo gritted his teeth in frustration, "Hatake Kakashi! Might Guy!"

He was only a step away from Mangekyou Sharingan, and the fact that these two interfered with his plans angered him, in rage he immediately ordered the shinobi around him. "Anbu Team-11 colluded with the Uchiha Clan, and betrayed the village by participating in the assassination attempt of Hokage-sama, for their crime, I, Shimura Danzo declare them to be rebels! Immediately start hunting!"

The loyal shinobi of the Root sub-unit did not hesitate to chase after the three Anbu of Team-11, while the shinobi that were not part of the Root sub-unit looked at their respective captains, they were not sure what to do.

Team-11 is undoubtedly the most elite and strongest team of the current Anbu department, and their respect is extremely high within the Anbu department, as such, they were hesitant to act as per Shimura Danzo's orders.

The Captain of Hokage Guards stepped forward, and said, "Danzo-sama, Uchiha Shisui is only one of the suspects, he is not proven to be a convict as of yet, moreover, Hokage-sama ordered that Uchiha Shisui must be brought back without any injuries, so directly declaring them as a rebel is a bi-…"

Shimura Danzo interrupted his words mid-way, and said sternly, "I will explain things to Hokage-sama myself, now Uchiha Shisui is an extremely dangerous person and he is on the lose, moreover I suspect that the rest of team-11 is under his control, so they must be immediately neutralized, and Uchiha Shisui must be eliminated as early as possible, otherwise the danger he poses to the village is too much!"

Speaking so, Danzo did not care about the opposite parties' words and immediately rushed in the direction of Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy.

Seeing Shimura Danzo's reaction, the Hokage Guards, as well as other Anbu shinobi looked at each other helplessly. They were not sure what to do.

The captain of the Hokage Guard pondered for a moment and said, "Hokage-sama tasked us with bringing Uchiha Shisui back safely, and we have to also see that the Jinchuriki is safe, so from here we are going to be divided into three teams, one will go after team-11 to ensure their safety, one will go in the direction pointed by Captain of team-11 where Uzumaki Naruto went, while the last will go back and inform Hokage-sama. Is that clear!?"

"Yes!" – everyone responded.

The Captain nodded, and immediately divided the teams to follow the orders.

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On the side of Uchiha Clan territory.

Two figures, one after another were running up and down in the forest. Bathed in the cold moonlight, their figures rising and falling from one tree to another, their speed extremely fast, so fast that ordinary Shinobi wouldn't even be able to keep up with their figures.

After a long-distance of travel, the figure who was in front finally came to a stop.

She quietly stood on the branch of a tree, holding a young kid, who was not being honest within her drip.

The child was panting, heaving, and struggling to break free, but all this to no avail.

The Kunoichi is undoubtedly Oto Yumie, while the child struggling in her grip is Uchiha Sasuke who is taken as a hostage by Oto Yumie, to force Uchiha Itachi to reveal everything he knows about Uchiha Tsukihi.

Just a few short moments later, the latter figure that was chasing after Oto Yumie landed on the canopy of a tall tree, staring Oto Yumie with a gloomy look. .

Naturally, this was Uchiha Itachi.

The canopy of the tree on which he stood was a lot higher than the branch on which Oto Yumie stood, so to look at Uchiha Itachi, Oto Yumie had to look up.

And looking up, Oto Yumie saw that the figure of Uchiha Itachi overlapped with the full moon in the sky, giving off a noble and mysterious vibe.

Oto Yumie frowned. For some reason, she felt very upset when looking at 'this' Itachi. But she suppressed her doubts within, as she knew that she is very close to obtaining the perfect body.

"I commend you Uchiha Itachi for chasing after me so hastily, but do you honestly believe that you can defeat me and save you dear little Otouto?"

Itachi pulled out the Sword strapped at his back, and said, "I feel that I would forever regret it if I don't try at least."

"*Giggles* Is that so?" – Saying that, Oto Yumie tightened her grip, her long nails piercing through the skin on Sasuke's neck, she licked her lips, and spoke with a cold smirk, "My condition is very simple, as long as you are willing to give all the information about Uchiha Tsukihi to me, I am willing to let go of both of you brothers."

'Humph, why don't you simply say that you are after her Mangekyou Sharingan!?' – Itachi snorted disdainfully.

Oto Yumie's eyes shrank suddenly.

Itachi's momentary disdain did not escape her eyes, and for some reason, Oto Yumie believed that Uchiha Itachi indeed knows of someone with the name 'Uchiha Tsukihi,' in other words, there is indeed a young and genius Kunoichi within the Uchiha Clan.

As soon as Yumie realized this, her tone became vicious, "Uchiha Tsukihi in exchange for the life of your dearest Otouto, what do you say? Otherwise, you can do everything you want, but nothing would stop your brother from turning into rotten meat in the belly of a snake!" – and further increased her grip, almost choking Uchiha Sasuke.

"Haaah… Haah… Ni… i…- S… a...n…"

The bare amount of air that Sasuke was getting in also disappeared, and he could no longer breathe. His struggle increased, he struck his fists violently, but to no avail. His face was red in desperation, kicking his feet wildly, struggling for even the slightest amount of air but he was not getting anything, and he started to get weaker and weaker… the resistance he was putting also started to die down.

Looking at Sasuke's state, Itachi felt that he was being choked, his heart was thumping rapidly, he was nervous, desperate, he wanted to save Sasuke… this desire was being repeatedly being resounded in Itachi's mind.

For Itachi, his family and friends are his bottom line, nobody is allowed to harm them.

And most of all, his Otouto, Sasuke is the most sensitive, who should be under his protection, so someone is harming Sasuke means not only is he angering Itachi, but in fact, is seeking death!

If Kuroto was here at this time, then he would have definitely teased Orochimaru for messing with the Uchiha Itachi, especially in regards to Sasuke.

But alas, Kuroto is not here, and Orochimaru would soon find out what happens when you offend Uchiha Itachi.

While Itachi's emotions were flaring, Oto Yumie also noticed Itachi's strangeness. But before she could react, the figure of Itachi in front of her disappeared.

Oto Yumie's expression shrank, this is because her perception was unable to keep up with the shadow.

Oto Yumie can be sure that Uchiha Itachi is not so fast, so what increased his speed so much, so suddenly?

Soon, she realized that her perception of time was altered by a Genjutsu, and therefore, her eyes were unable to keep up with Itachi's speed.

Whoosh… Whoosh…

Even if affected by a Genjutsu, being a Sannin, she still managed to react and retreated backward with the use of the Body Flicker Technique.

"His Visual Prowess has suddenly risen to such an extent!?" – Yumie no longer had her previous calmness.

Already having been subdued by Hiruko with a Genjutsu, Yumie understands that as long as the Visual Prowess of the Sharingan is enough, it would be difficult for her to resist the Genjutsu.

And she also understands that because of using Living Corpse Reincarnation to change her body several times and devouring the souls of their targets, the strength of her own soul is no longer as strong it used to be. This is one of the major reasons she is trying to obtain the body of an Uchiha. If she also gains Sharingan Kekkei Genkai then this problem can be solved.

While Yumie was shocked, Uchiha Itachi did not even bother to look at him, he squatted on a tree and said to someone, "Sasuke, follow this crow, it will lead you towards the village…"

"Cough-cough… b… but what about you nii-san?" – questioned Sasuke with a panicked look.

Itachi flicked Sasuke's forehead and said as gently, "Don't worry, Nii-san will be fine, I will quickly take care of her and then join you back at home, alright?"

Sasuke hesitated but looking at that gentle smile of his nii-san he nodded repeatedly, and ran away, following the lead of the crow.

Oto Yumie frowned and looked at the Uchiha Sasuke in her hand.

Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw… Caw…

As soon as Yumie looked, the figure of Sasuke broke into countless crows, surrounding her.

"Crow Substitution Technique!?" – Yumie was stunned, then looked at Itachi and said, "You can actually use Crow Substitution Techniques, Uchiha Itachi, now I am sure that you have some connection with Uchiha Tsukihi, however times you may say otherwise, but I am certain. But putting that aside, at such an immature age you manage to trick me with your Genjutsu… Uchiha Itachi, it seems I was underestimating your potential!"

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On Uchiha Sasuke's side.

Putting his hand over his face, Sasuke hurriedly followed the crow.

Because of being under excessive tension and fear only a few moments ago, his nerves were very tight, and he was feeling slightly dizzy. He was also unable to make out many of the things within the forest. All he wanted was to get as far away from that witch as possible and as soon as possible.

Smash…

Plop…

Because of the darkness, Sasuke didn't see the thing before him, ran into it, and suddenly fell to the ground.

"Oh, oh… it's you, but what are you doing here at this time, it's too late, ya'know!?" – came a voice in annoyance.

Sasuke who fell down to the ground on his butt suddenly heard a familiar voice, and he immediately looked up and said, "It's you! I should be asking you that same thing, what are you doing here?"

The person with whom Sasuke collided was none other than Uzumaki Naruto, who was rescued by Uchiha Shisui.

Hearing other party's question, Naruto put his hand on the back of his head, and said nonchalantly, "I don't know what's going on, someone with a mask suddenly kidnapped me, and I was brought outside the village, then another person with a mask rescued me, and told me to go towards the village. By the way, why are you crying, who is bullying you?"

"Crying!?" – Sasuke was shocked and confused, he immediately turned around, wiped away his tears, and said stiffly, "Uh… nonsense, I am not crying at all, it's too dark and you are seeing things!"

Naruto walked around in front of Sasuke, squatted down, and pointed out after carefully staring at Sasuke's face, "Obviously you are crying!"

Sasuke immediately blushed, "No… don't tell anyone!"

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Looking at Sasuke's embarrassed face, Naruto suddenly laughed loudly, "Hahaha, you are obviously crying, hahaha, I did not expect that you who were so proud the other day would turn out to be a crybaby!"

Sasuke quickly said, "Shut up, shut up, shut up, I… I am not crying…!"

But Naruto didn't believe Sasuke at all.

Helpless, Sasuke said, "Okay-okay, but you can't tell anyone about it, promise me this. As long as you promise to never disclose this matter to anyone, I am willing to accept any of your terms in return. Speak up, this is the promise of an Uchiha!"

As soon as he heard this, Naruto's eyes widened, and he asked while deeply staring at Sasuke, "You will promise any term?"

Nervous because of Naruto's intense gaze, "Uh… the condition you put forward should not be too big or unreasonable, otherwise I will not be able to fulfill them!"

Hearing Sasuke's words, Naruto took up a thinking posture, it was as if he was seriously considering something.

And when Sasuke saw such a serious thinking posture of Naruto, he somehow felt a little uneasy and nervous, Sasuke was afraid that Naruto would definitely put forward some unreasonable condition that he could not promise.

Suddenly, Naruto seemed to have thought of something, and said loudly, "I have decided!"

"What!?" – asked Sasuke.

Naruto pointed at Sasuke, and said, "My condition is that you have to become my friend!"

Sasuke was stunned, then spoke with an unsure expression, "What kind of condition is this?"

Naruto immediately pointed at Sasuke and said impatiently, "Hey, you cannot back off now, you promised, right? You have to accept my condition!"

Sasuke waved his hand awkwardly, and said, "Alright, alright, I accept your condition, from this day, you and I are friends, these are the words of Uchiha Sasuke!"

"Hurray! Then, then, I am… I am Uzumaki Naruto, and my dream is to become the Hokage!" Naruto said excitedly.

Sasuke was helpless by Naruto's exciting aura, but he did not dislike it. It felt strangely comfortable and he felt relief, his anxiety, fear also started to ease away. This was strange, and somehow reminded him how he has always felt in the presence of his Nii-san.

Sasuke smiled lightly, and together with Naruto started to walk in the direction of the village while laughing and talking, under the lead of the Itachi's crow.

And neither of the two noticed the Anbu shinobi with purple hair, and an eagle mask watching over them and silently following them from top of a tree. She had a gentle smile while looking at the two kids but the smile was hidden within her Anbu mask.

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While Itachi and Team-11 each dealt with some situations, the other complicated situations also developed within the village.

Let's rewind time to a few minutes ago.

Uchiha Fugaku led the elites towards the Hokage Building. Although they were not close yet, from the bright lights of the Hokage Office, and tumultuous voices, it wasn't difficult to assume that something was going on, and this something, for some reason made Fugaku a bit uneasy.

"What could have happened that prompted Sandaime to issue emergency evacuation and also gathered so many ninjas at once." – muttered Fugaku in doubt.

Fugaku can easily determine that at least a hundred, or probably more high-level shinobi gathered at the Hokage Building at this moment.

In terms of number alone, Uchiha Clan is obviously outmatched.

Therefore, Fugaku has made up his mind, once he sees Sandaime, and feels that the Hokage faction is planning to take some action against his clan, then Fugaku will immediately use his Mangekyou Sharingan to solve the matter at once.

At least that way, his clan wouldn't be hit and annihilated by a surprise attack. And for this very reason, Fugaku made sure that all the youngsters, including his sons Itachi, and Sasuke were left behind at the clan, so as to improve the chances of survival of the Uchiha Clan even in the worst-case scenario.

Only a few seconds later, the team led by Uchiha Fugaku arrived at the Hokage Building.

As soon as he arrived, Fugaku saw Sandaime, the two elder consultants, as well as around a hundred or so Shinobi standing.

Looking at Sandaime, Fugaku was silent, while he also started brewing his dojutsu, ready to cast at a moment's notice.

Sandaime noticed Fugaku's silence, and there seemed to be some unusual tension in his expression. To ease away the tension, Sandaime took the initiative to speak, "Fugaku, you are finally here, I was wondering what was taking the Konoha Military Police Force so long to arrive here."

Fugaku frowned, he was a bit confused, "Forgive me for asking this Hokage-sama, but I am a bit confused, I heard that you have issued the village to enter a state of emergency, what exactly happened, and why was the Konoha Military Police Force not notified? The security of the village is under the jurisdiction of Konoha Military Police Force, and yet we were not even informed of such!"

Sandaime frowned upon hearing Fugaku's words, "Hmm? The Anbu were ordered to summon all the clan heads, and Uchiha Clan was no exception to that, as such, the order of summoning should have arrived at Uchiha Clan!"

"What!?" – Fugaku was shocked, he turned to look at one of his men, who shook his head in response.

From Fugaku's shocked expression Sandaime understood that his guess was indeed correct, there is indeed some third-party planning somethings, and the Anbu responsible for passing the order to the Uchiha Clan might have fallen in the hands of this third party, now confirmed that the Uchiha Clan is innocent, Sandaime spoke, "Well, I will briefly explain the situation to you. Not long ago, the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi was kidnapped by someone, and taken outside the village, and only a few minutes later, someone attempted to assassinate me inside the Hokage office. Although we were unable to figure out the identity of the assassin, a few things were still noticed. For one, he had a pair of three tomoe Sharingan, and for the other, the enemy was extremely powerful."

"What!?" – Fugaku was taken aback now, such a revelation was beyond what he expected.

Sandaime continued, "From the disguise of the assassin he didn't seem to be a member of Amatsukami and form his height and several other features including his speed made it seem as if he is Uchiha Shisui. To make the matters worse, the other party or probably his comrades deliberately led Shisui away from the village by kidnapping the Jinchuriki. By doing so, the witnesses of Shisui's presence were only the other three members of that team, and the blame will inevitably fall on the Uchiha Clan.

So overall, the situation is pretty messed up, it is hard to figure out whether the other party is targeting Kyuubi, or they are trying to induce infighting within the village or maybe both. And that's probably the reason why the Anbu shinobi who was responsible for passing my order to the Uchiha Clan never reached there as he might have been eliminated by these interested parties. It could be the work of Amatsukami, but I think that this time the enemy is not Amatsukami, this is not how they operate.

It is very likely that the culprit of all this is Akatsuki, but we don't have any solid proof yet."

During the time when the emergency was announced, Sandaime was able to figure out most of the situation, and also explained the ins and outs of the matter to the two elders too, of course, the prerequisite of all this is that his guesses are not wrong.

Fugaku's face was uncertain when he heard all this, he did not expect that so many things to happen on such an ordinary full moon night. Thinking of the intention of the people inducing them, Fugaku can't help but shudder.

If Sandaime hadn't figured out all this, then it is very likely that the village would have already been engulfed in a war.

And if the war did happen, then Konoha would have been ultimately destroyed.

Fugaku can't help but worry at just how much trouble Konoha is facing, at the same time, he felt a bit of pity for Sandaime to have to shoulder so much.

Sandaime noticed Fugaku's worry, and patted his shoulder in reassurance, then said, "I have dispatched the Anbu to help the team-11 with Kyuubi, and also to ensure the safety of team-11, so I don't think that we will have to worry about that, but there has been no news about the assassin who had the Sharingan and posed as Uchiha Shisui, so we have to take that matter seriously for the sake of the village."

Fugaku nodded with a serious expression.

ROARRRRRRRr...

BOOOM!!!

Suddenly there was a loud deafening roar from the direction of the Hyuga Clan. Followed by a loud roar, a loud explosion occurred, and the earth shook.

It felt as if an extremely large monster was ravaging the village.

"Could it be Kyuubi!?"

"Don't speak such ominous things, If Kyuubi went on a rampage, then the village will suffer irrecoverable wounds!"

Sandaime's expression shrank immediately because this incident indeed reminded him of the night of Kyuubi's rampage.

When everyone turned to look in the direction of the Hyuga Clan, they found a behemoth-sized creature, muddy-purple in color, with several heads, and dark chakra raging around and demolishing the houses.

"That… that's not the Kyuubi!"

"Yeah, what in the hell is that thing!?"

"Hey… hey… his Chakra is so dark and evil!"

"Damn that beast! My house is in there, and the loan has yet to be paid!"

The ninjas present here were suddenly agitated, and no one could turn a blind eye to such a monstrous existence raging within the village

At this moment, a Chunin who held his shoulder to temporary stop the bleeding rushed over to the Hokage Building, and reported the situation to Sandaime, "Hokage-sama, one of the squad captains of the Konoha Military Police Force is resisting that monster, please you have to send someone for support else it would be impossible to that monster suppressed any longer!"

"The captain of the Konoha Military Police Force?" – Sandaime was taken aback, and immediately turned towards Fugaku who was standing next to him.

Fugaku also had a confused expression.

The Konoha Military Police Force is under the control of the Uchiha Clan, and all the squad captains are present here with him, and there are no other squad captains. Fugaku can be sure of this, as he, himself is the leader of the Konoha Military Police Force.

What's more, such a large monster cannot be suppressed or resisted by just any shinobi. Kage level strength is minimum.

The injured Chunin did not seem to notice Fugaku's confused expression, and said to him, "Fugaku-sama, this time thanks to the squad captain of Konoha Military Police Force, many lives were saved and the people present around also had the opportunity to retreat as fast as they can, otherwise a lot of casualties would have occurred. I am afraid that none of our teams would have survived. So, please accept my heartfelt gratitude!"

Fugaku could only nod with an awkward expression.

Sandaime jumped on top of the roof of the adjacent building, and shouted, "Let's set off, firstly drive this monster out of the village thirty-degree south from position alpha, and there the sealing class will prepare to seal that monster!"

"Yes, Hokage-sama!" – everyone, including Uchiha Shinobi, nodded with a serious expression, the Uchiha were especially serious.

The appearance of this monster has clearly indicated that there is a third party involved in the matter tonight, so everyone understood that someone was inducing infighting, and they were angered. This debt has to be repaid!

The Uchiha clan has been under tremendous pressure for a while now, and now that they see the opportunity to let loose, they are pretty eager to beat the hell out of that punching bag.

So under the leadership of Hokage-sama, a large number of Shinobi rushed towards the rampaging monster…

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On the devasted street, Uchiha Tsukihi swiftly moved from one point to the other, her glowing Katana dancing in her hands, cutting and severing tentacles that were trying to grope her.

At this time, Shinno has completely liberated Moryo, or better yet, Artificial Bijuu Moryo. Therefore, his size was gigantic. Shinno's entire body was covered in muddy-purple chakra, that seemed to be extremely corrosive in nature.

And this muddy-chakra seemed to also have its own consciousness as it was hunting the unlucky and weak bystanders on its own.

Tsukihi has repeatedly confirmed this, as she saw many Konoha Shinobi who were caught off guard and swallowed were later puked out in the form of an unrecognizable mass of rotten flesh.

"Everyone, retreat!" – Tsukihi shouted while dodging one of the several heads of Moryo that tried to eat her.

The Genins or Chunins present here are of no use, even if they have the will to fight this monster without a care for their lives and sacrifice it if necessary, it is of no point. Their attacks are not doing any damage to the enemy, only increasing the number of meaningless casualties. So, it is better that they retreat and let the ones who have the capabilities do their job.

Listening to the shout of the Uchiha Kunoichi, the ninjas around hesitated a little, but they also understood that their presence is not doing anything and chose to retreat one-after-another. As they have long realized that with the level of their abilities it is impossible to participate in the battles of such level.

Seeing that they started to retreat, Tsukihi sighed in relief.

Fortunately, the resident villagers of this block have already evacuated, and she has also led Shinno outside the Hyuga territory.

Whoosh…!

Using the Body Flicker Technique again Tsukihi avoided another one of Moryo's attacks and landed on one of the semi-collapsed walls, currently, she was panting for breath, and tried to analyze the methods she can use to take down the enemy.

Since Shinno has completely liberated Moryo, so Sandaime must have noticed Moryo raging in the village, and he would have no choice but to leave whatever he was doing and come here to deal with him. Therefore, Tsukihi knows that as long as Shinno is stalled for a while longer, backup would arrive and she would be able to retreat from here.

While Tsukihi pondered, one of Moryo's dragon heads approached her and spoke arrogantly, "Uchiha Tsukihi, do you see this? This is my power, superior to you Uchiha! Hahaha!!!"

Hearing Shinno's voice, Tsukihi's eyes shrank, and she muttered, "How did he completely dominate Moryo's consciousness? Was it because of the Chimera Jutsu?"

For a Jinchuriki, liberating the Bijuu means losing oneself.

Therefore, only perfect Jinchuriki who have reached a deeper level of understanding with their Bijuu sealed within them can liberate Bijuu without any worry.

Other's all are not capable of this without losing their consciousness, so they would rarely resort to such a measure.

"Oh, I remember, there is one more trick!" – Shinno said while laughing loudly, and immediately the corrosive chakra on Moryo's body skyrocketed.

Whiish… Whiish… Whiish… Whiish…

As the chakra on Moryo's body soared, the surrounding earth and stones suddenly came to life and soon took the shape of stone soldiers.

"Shit… shit… shit… shit!" – Tsukihi suddenly panicked as soon as she saw those soldiers of the Ghost army, and quickly weaved the hand signs, "Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"

Instantly, a Dragon-shaped fireball that covered a large part of the sky rushed towards Moryo.

But as soon as the dragon-shaped fireball arrived closer to Moryo's body, the corrosive muddy-purple chakra on his body started corroding the Fire Style Jutsu, and within just a few short breaths the Jutsu disappeared.

"Damn it!" – Tsukihi muttered in frustration.

From this scene just now, Tsukihi discovered that in addition to hunting bystanders and unlucky individuals, this corrosive chakra can also act as a protective covering to protect Moryo's inner body and Shinno within it.

The number of attacks Tsukihi can use is limited because of the absence of Ryuumyaku.

What's more, to deal with Bijuu class monsters, ordinary ninjutsu attacks are of no use, unless you are Uchiha Madara, who can make any random B-Class ninjutsu and display its power as strong as or probably even stronger than S-Class attacks.

"I don't have any good way to deal with so many Stone Soldiers at once, Sandaime will have to order his shinobi to take care of them." – muttered Tsukihi with a gloomy look.

Being aware of what the Ghost Army is capable of, Tsukihi understands that cutting off the main chakra source is the only effective method to get rid of these Stone Soldiers.

There is no other effective method to stop them, and they might even cause large-scale damage to the village, even the civilians and other shinobi will suffer under the siege of the Ghost Army.

"Huh, I guess I will have to accelerate the battle to reduce the damage and casualties!" – Making up her mind, Tsukihi put back the Katana inside the sheath strapped around her waist and slowly walked towards the head of Moryo.

Shinno seemed to be surprised by Uchiha Tsukihi's sudden actions, and spoke with a smile, "Huh, what is this am I seeing? In the face of absolute strength, have you finally decided to give up, bow down and beg me to spare you? Is that it?"

Tsukihi shook her head and said, "No, I am already bored of this pathetic fight, so I decided to get rid of you sooner rather than later!"

"YOU HATEFUL UCHIHA BITCH, YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP ME!? I WILL KILL YOU, SWALLOW YOU AND THEN DESTROY THIS WHOLE VILLAGE" – Shinno roared in anger. This time, all the dragon heads of Moryo cursed at the same time, so the sound spread all over the village. Making every Konoha villager and shinobi look at each other in amazement and surprise. It was only now that they realize that the person who was openly resisting and suppressing the monster from rampaging all over the village is a Kunoichi of the Uchiha Clan.

After the roar, Shinno ignored everything, and directly drove all the heads of Moryo towards Uchiha Tsukihi who stood completely defenseless.

Looking at the wide-open jaw with countless large teeth, Tsukihi smirked, and the Sharingan within her eye changed into the complex pattern of Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

BOOM… SMASH…

Chomp... SWALLOW!

To those watching from a distance, it seemed as if the Uchiha Kunoichi enraged the monster and was instantly swallowed.

While Shinno on the other hand laughed loudly, after realizing that he had successfully swallowed the damn Uchiha Tsukihi, "So what if you are an Uchiha? So, what if you have the Sharingan? At the end of the day, it's all the same after being swallowed by me, will just turn into my pre-... hahahahahahaha…. Stop that… hahahaha… I said stop that… hahaha!!!" But suddenly his voice came to a halt, and he suddenly felt that something was tickling him from within his stomach.

Clutching his stomach, Moryo started to roll madly in laughter.

All the onlookers had their eyes turn into buttons in shock, just a moment ago they felt sorry and sad for the death of the brave Uchiha Kunoichi, and now they don't even know what to make out of the sudden turn of event, but they did feel pity for this poor monster to have to go through such a horrible experience.

"Hahaha… Ahhhhh…... Hot… hot… hot… it burns... it burns… Ahhh!!!" – And suddenly the monster's laughter turned into a terrible cry for pain.

At this time, Uchiha Tsukihi who was swallowed by Moryo was under the protection of the basic ribcage Susanoo.

According to her plan, the moment she was swallowed, she activated the Susanoo to protect herself from turning into rotten meat, but because of the lack of Ryuumyaku, she only used the first stage Susanoo.

Looking at her surroundings, Tsukihi smirked, "Now you will understand that not everything you swallow will become the same in the end!"

Then began the process of taking down Moryo, started with tickling the insides, then using the golden flames of Susanoo to burn the insides of Moryo's body.

Although, the 'Golden flames' of her Susanoo armor are not as strong as Itachi's infamous 'Amaterasu' they are also a force on their own. With the best ability of the Golden Flames being able to burn Chakra.

So even it is a Bijuu, it doesn't have many ways to protect itself from these 'Golden Flames'

And now that these Golden Flames have been lit within the stomach of Moryo, Tsukihi can be sure that Moryo won't be eating anything in the future.

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"Aaaarghhh... It burns!" – Moryo's cry can be heard all over the village, as he rolled and wailed in pain.

With his humongous size, even ordinary steps were capable of shaking the surroundings, not to mention his current rolling and wailing in pain, within just a few moments the entire block turned into a pile of rubble.

"Hehehe… It seems that these Golden Flames are really doing the wonder!" – giggled Tsukihi.

To be honest, she was a bit surprised as she didn't really expect that these Golden Flames would be so damaging to this corrosive chakra, and it seems that up until now she has seriously underestimated the power of these Golden Flames of Susanoo.

And since the effect is so good, so Tsukihi would obviously not stop. As such, she increased her effort and worked harder, spurring the Golden Flame with all her strength, as a result turning the entire abdominal cavity into a sea of Golden Fire.

And just as intended, soon the wailing and cry became weaker and weaker, and the movements of the body gradually stopped.

Seeing that Shinno was almost defeated, Tsukihi projected a chakra blade from her Susanoo and cut off one of Moryo's Dragon heads. Then she deactivated her Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, dispersed the Susanoo, and finally jumped out of that stomach.

As soon as she came out, the first thing she did was to look at her surroundings, and she noticed that no one was present in the immediate vicinity which was a good thing.

Next, all the Stone Soldiers of the Ghost Army also seem to have crumbled and collapsed. At the same time, Moryo's gigantic figure started disappearing, and along with it the Golden Flames also went out. Soon, there was only her and unconscious Shinno were present here.

"It seems that I went a bit overboard!" – muttered Tsukihi with a light chuckle.

Caw... Caw…

At this time, a crow flew down and landed on Tsukihi's shoulder.

This crow was used by Tsukihi to keep a watch over the surroundings, and now that the crow has landed on her shoulder, this indicates that a large number of Shinobi will soon be approaching here. So, Tsukihi glanced at the unconscious Shinno for one last time, and after thinking over it a little, she decided to leave him here.

Although this opportunity to take away Shinno is good, however, if Shinno disappears here then it will be revealed that the Uchiha Kunoichi fighting him is still alive, which is something Tsukihi doesn't want everyone to think about.

She wants everyone to think that the Uchiha Kunoichi fighting Shinno was swallowed by him, and then as a last resort, the Kunoichi used some sort of Kinjutsu that killed her and also defeated Shinno.

Doing this has many benefits, first and foremost, the reputation of the Uchiha Clan will increase, as one of their shinobi sacrificed herself for the sake of the village.

Many Konoha Shinobi have already witnessed her fighting Moryo, so this is a good thing. After all, if Uchiha Fugaku is asked as to who she is, he wouldn't really have any explanation. So, her being dead is better, as he will be able to make up a fake identity if necessary.

Secondly, it will save much trouble for Shinichi.

And thirdly, Orochimaru would stop eyeing her, with Uchiha Tsukihi dead, he wouldn't be able to do anything more to obtain the perfect body.

As for how to obtain Chimera Technique?

Tsukihi has thought about it, and finally figured out a method that would work perfectly, if it is executed well.

Moreover, if Tsukihi guessed correctly, Shinno is not the only individual currently present in the village, more members of Akatsuki are also present here, probably. So, if Shinno were to suddenly just up and disappear, then that would be somewhat troublesome.

As such, taking him away is not worth the risk. Tsukihi has better plans to make use of Shinno.

With everything clear, Tsukihi once again watched the surroundings to make sure that any trace of her still being alive is not left behind, and with that confirmation, she used Body Flicker Technique and disappeared from this place.

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On top of the Hokage Rock.

Hiruko with both of his hands over his chest watched the fully liberated state of the artificial Bijuu gradually shrinking, and finally disappearing, and shook his head with a bit of disappointment, "Sigh, what a waste."

By his side stood Zetsu, who said helplessly. "Oh, the entire plan was ruined by fool Shinno, and now he also seems to have lost."

The appearance of the giant monster in the village directly gave away signs of the presence of a third party. And with Sandaime's wicked nature, it would be very easy for him to make out the entire situation and understand that a third party intended to cause chaos within Konoha by inducing internal conflict.

So, it wouldn't be wrong to say that Shinno's indiscriminate behavior and rampage completely ruined their plan.

Hiruko said, "Since the plan failed, I will go and see if he is still alive and bring him back."

Zetsu looked at the distant moon, the eye on his half-black flickered for a while, and he said with a smile, "Please do so."

Although Shinno completely disrupted their plan, he is still a member of Akatsuki. Moreover, his strength this time also showed that he will be quite useful in the future. And because Shinno also knows too much important information about Akatsuki, so he can not be allowed to fall into the hands of Konoha, whether dead or alive.

Otherwise, too much information about Akatsuki will become common knowledge among the five great shinobi villages.

And this is unacceptable for the leader of Akatsuki.

Hiruko nodded and disappeared from his position.

A while after Hiruko disappeared, the air near Zetsu distorted into the shape of a spiral, and the masked man walked out of it. After taking a glance at Konoha, he questioned in a deep tone, "What happened? Why did the plan not work as intended?"

Zetsu sighed and explained everything, from the moment of disappearance of Uzumaki Naruto to the appearance of Shinno's artificial Bijuu, his battle with Uchiha Tsukihi, and then Uchiha Tsukihi's self-destructing move to take down Shinno.

Hearing everything, the masked man frowned, "Why did Uchiha Tsukihi fight with Shinno?"

Zetsu replied, "I am not sure, but it is probably because of some personal enmity between the two, we will have to confirm it later."

"Is that so?" – masked man muttered, "And according to you Uchiha Tsukihi is now dead?"

Zetsu nodded, "Yes, she was swallowed by that monster, and it appears that she used some self-destructing ninjutsu to take down Shinno in a last-ditch attempt, and died along with it, such a waste."

The masked man sighed, "Such a good opportunity wasted… anyway, that aside, how did Hiruko play out? His strength seems to have improved compared to the time of his battle against Uchiha Tsukihi and Oto Yumie."

Zetsu nodded, "Hmm, his abilities seem to have improved somewhat, especially in terms of speed, I reckon that soon he will be as fast as the Raikage himself."

Hearing Zetsu's words, the masked man groaned a little and said, "This guy regards himself as a hardcore follower of Nagato, I must find a way to bring him under my command."

After all, it was the masked man himself who convinced Pain to support Hiruko's Kekkei Genkai Absorption Ritual.

Hiruko does not know of the existence of the masked man and thinks that it was Tendo Pain with the eyes of Rikudo Sennin, who valued him and thus used the power of the organization to support his plans. Therefore, Hiruko is eager to be recognized and regards himself as a hardcore follower and supporter of Pain.

This is also why, when attacking Konoha this time, Hiruko did not argue but directly disguised himself as Uchiha Shisui and attempted to assassinate Sandaime Hokage. Because this was Pain's order. Otherwise, how could Hiruko agree to remain such low-key after completing his Kekkei Genkai Absorption Ritual?

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While Masked man and Zetsu discussed some things while observing the village, the ninjas led by Sandaime arrived at the scene of battle.

Looking at the originally bustling neighborhood has now turned into a destructed site with not even a single building standing intact everyone felt extreme anger.

At this point, one of the Anbu following the team spotted the figure of unconscious Shinno, and said, "Hokage-sama, this person seems to be a member of Akatsuki Organization."

The five great shinobi villages may have not established a united military front, but they are still willing to exchange all the information about Amatsukami and Akatsuki.

So Konoha has quite a lot of information about the members of the Akatsuki Organization, at least much more when compared to Amatsukami.

After all, the members of Akatsuki do not wear masks and cloaks that hinder perception, moreover, they also have some or other background or origins, which is not difficult for various villages to figure out, unlike the members of Amatsukami who seems to pop out of nowhere.

Upon hearing that it was a member of Akatsuki, Sandaime's expression was gloomier. He walked closer to Shinno and asked, "Is he the guy wanted by Kumo for stealing their Kinjutsu?"

"Yes, Hokage-sama, this is him." – The Anbu member nodded immediately.

With that confirmed Sandaime turned his gaze towards the leader of the sensory department who immediately understood the signal and focused, after a while, he looked at Shinno and said with a serious face, "He is that monster!"

Sandaime frowned after hearing this, and at this moment he suddenly remembered Shion, the daughter of Miko of Land of Demons who came to Konoha a few days ago.

Because of the lack of manpower, Sandaime has been unable to send any team for an investigation into the territory of the Land of Demons. So only Hyuga Kuroto was sent to figure out the state of that country and confirm whether Miko is still alive or has already died.

But now that this monster is present here, Sandaime can't help but wonder, 'Was that monster the same one that Miko sealed a few years ago because the description of that monster matches very well with this one?'

Thinking so, Sandaime suddenly turned towards Shinno, and muttered, "If my guess is correct, then I am afraid that he has become a Jinchuriki to that monster, but it really makes me wonder as to how was he defeated so quickly even after liberating the demon?"

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With a curious expression, Sandaime squeezed a smile, turned towards Uchiha Fugaku who stood on his side, and asked, "I want to meet the squad captain of the Konoha Military Police Force who was fighting Shinno."

Before Fugaku could answer, another group of shinobi who were previously watching the battle from a distance arrived here and reported what they saw to everyone.

After hearing their report Sandaime was shocked, "That is to say, the Uchiha Kunoichi who was fighting the monster was swallowed by him, and then she probably used some sort of technique as a last desperate measure to defeat the monster along with destroying herself?"

"Yes, Hokage-sama! We saw this happening, as soon as she was swallowed by that monster, the monster started struggling, she was probably doing damage from within his stomach." – said one of the Chunin.

Sandaime was more surprised, any shinobi or Kunoichi sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of the village is worthy of honor, but to give that honor it must at least be known who exactly is that person.

Not only Sandaime, even the other ninjas including the Patriarchs of various Clans, the elite Jonins, as well as the elites of the Uchiha Clan looked as Fugaku with inquisitive gazes waiting for his answer.

Everyone was obviously curious about this Konoha Military Police Force squad leader who was capable of defeating that Bijuu class monster.

Feeling those inquisitive gazes upon him, Fugaku fell into an embarrassing situation, because he, similar to everyone else, was also very curious about the identity of this Kunoichi, who was a so-called squad leader of Konoha Military Police Force.

If not for the monster to openly curse with the name 'Uchiha,' then he might have even wondered if it was someone pretending to be an Uchiha.

Therefore, in Fugaku's view, the Kunoichi who fought Shinno here just a few moments ago, although not a squad leader of the Konoha Military Police force, might still be a Kunoichi of the Uchiha Clan, but who exactly she was? He is not sure about it.

'Who could it have been?' – thought Fugaku. If they said that the person fighting Shinno was a Shinobi, not a Kunoichi, Fugaku might have thought of it being Itachi for a second, even though he knows how ridiculous that sounds. Itachi may be an unmatched genius but he is only eleven years old. But still, considering just how much of a freakish talent his son has, it is possible that it was Itachi, but because it was a Kunoichi so it can't be Itachi.

'Unless… unless Itachi has habits of dressing as females? No-no, that not possible, Itachi is my son, he does not have such habits.' – Fugaku immediately erased that thought.

'But then who?' – Because Fugaku can't think of anyone.

Seeing Fugaku's silence, Sandaime frowned.

Although the Konoha Military Police Force is under the control of the Uchiha Clan, Sandaime is still very much aware of the identities of all the squad leaders of Konoha Military Police Force, because of this, he is even more curious about the identity of this Kunoichi because he couldn't remember any Kunoichi being squad leader in Konoha Military Police Force.

Although curious, he did not pressure Fugaku too much. It was possible that Fugaku was sad because of the death of this Kunoichi.

So, to give Fugaku some time to recover from his sadness, Sandaime did not disturb him, and this information can be confirmed at some other point, right now there are more important things that they must take care of.

With that understood he turned towards the Yamanaka Patriarch, "Inoichi!"

Yamanaka Inoichi stepped forward, "Yes Hokage-sama?"

Sandaime instructed, "Read his memory, I want to know all the information we can gain from him, from Akatsuki's goal of attacking Konoha to all their line up, everything!"

"Yes!" – Yamanaka Inoichi nodded and immediately walked towards Shinno.

Yamanaka Clan is known for its Mind Related Techniques, and they specialize in reading through others' memories to extract out all types of intelligence stored within their target's mind. In terms of Mind Arts, no other Clan can outmatch the Yamanaka Clan.

Just as Yamanaka Inoichi squatted down to read Shinno's memory, feathers started to fall from the sky.

"Huh, why are so many bird feathers falling?"

"Look, their ends are burning!" – As soon as one of the Konoha Shinobi discovered this, everyone understood that something was wrong.

Nobody was required to be reminded of the possible danger, as safety methods were immediately deployed.

Boom… Boom… Boom…

Suddenly, these burning feathers exploded like an Exploding Tag.

Everything was covered in a series of violent explosions, the earth shook because of the vibrations, smoke, and dust rose covering the surroundings.

Whoosh…

While the surroundings were covered in dust and smoke, a huge bird flew over the battlefield.

This huge bird is none other than the synthetic bird that was created by Hiruko with the help of the Chimera Technique. And it is capable of much more than just flight.

Being able to destroy villages by using those Exploding Feathers which are as powerful or even more powerful than Exploding Tags, is one of those abilities.

Hiruko stood on top of his synthetic bird, arms crossed over his chest, and a smile on his face; happy to see the destruction of this oh-so-detestable village.

Rather than pretending to be an Uchiha shinobi and attempt to assassinate Hokage to provoke internal conflict within Konoha, Hiruko prefers a simple and direct approach to destroy Konoha to exact his revenge over this hateful village.

Taking advantage of the cover of smoke and dust, Hiruko jumped down and firmly landed beside the unconscious Shinno.

Since Shinno is an important source of intelligence for the village, so Konoha Anbu made sure to protect him from the attack just now.

Therefore, although the explosions just now were violent, Shinno who was under the protection of several Earth Walls was still safe.

Hiruko looked at the Earth Walls, then stretched out his hand and pressed on the Earth Wall. Immediately the chakra that was maintaining the Earth Walls was absorbed into the red diamond-shaped symbol in his hand. And with Chakra support gone the walls cracked and soon collapsed into a pile of dried-up sand.

The nearby Anbu who used the Earth Style Jutsu to protect Shinno immediately realized that something was wrong, and instantly rushed here with his Kunai drawn out. As soon as he saw this person, he took the stance and fiercely slammed the Kunai in his hand on the lower waist of Hiruko.

DING…

The expected splashing of blood did not come, nor was there any feeling of cutting through human flesh and bones, instead there was a loud metal collision sound.

"This…?" – The Anbu was confused and shocked, and feeling the numbness in his arm, he felt as if the person who he intended to kill was not made up of flesh and bones, but of steel and iron.

"Humph… as if the likes of you will ever be able to hurt me!" – Hiruko snorted, he turned around, and with a grinning smile directly drove his arm into the Anbu's chest. And when he pulled it out so abruptly, he had something in the palm of his hand that seemed to be beating.

The last thing the Anbu shinobi saw before his not-so-surprising death was a beating heart being crushed by this person.

Plop… And he collapsed.

Although there was still smoke and dust covering the site, but none of the people present here were ordinary, they instantly noticed the death of a Konoha Anbu.

Understanding that an enemy is here, some of the Shinobi immediately used Wind Style Jutsu blowing away smoke and dust to ensure a clear view of the battlefield.

By the time smoke and dust cleared; giving everyone a clear view, Hiruko has already walked over to Shinno.

Sandaime who stood not far away squinted upon noticing this person, and questioned with an unsure tone, "You… you are Hiruko?"

Because the plan had already failed, Hiruko was no longer maintaining a disguise but was in his original appearance.

It's just that after having completed the ritual, he was no longer the same as he used to be, he has changed a lot, both in terms of appearance and body shape, which is completely different from the Hiruko Sandaime remembered, as such he was a bit unsure, whether this person is really Hiruko as he guessed or not.

When he heard Sandaime's uncertain tone, a trace of anger flashed on his face, gritting his teeth, he said, "Why? Was I such a disappointment that you do not even remember who I was, HOKAGE-SAMA!?"

Sandaime did not care about Hiruko's words as his gaze was more focused on Hiruko's eyes, those eyes filled with hatred towards him reminded of that assassin that came after him a while ago, and realizing so, he questioned sharply, "The assassin who attacked me was you, am I right?"

Mitokado interjected with a confused expression, "How could it have been him? That assassin had Sharingan!"

"Oh, Sharingan, was it!?" – With a cold smirk, Hiruko activated the pair of Sharingan in his eye socket, and said, "This pair of Sharingan was generously given to me by a guy named Uchiha Hiiragi after I tortured him to death, and I am making a pretty good use of these eyes, his soul will forever be glad that his death resulted in me getting stronger, or maybe not as his soul has already ceased to exist!!"

As soon as the term Sharingan was mentioned, and the name Uchiha Hiiragi was voiced out; the hairs of all Uchiha Clan members stood up in anger, more so with the Patriarch Uchiha Fugaku whose murderous aura was unrestrained, "You will atone for your crime now!" – Speaking so, he rushed towards Hiruko.

Hiruko instantly lifted unconscious Shinno, threw him on the back of his synthetic Summon Bird, then greeted Uchiha Fugaku with excitement and fervor clearly apparent in his eyes.

Ding… Ding… Ding… Ding… Bang… Boom... Smash…

And instantly, two people, one Fugaku and the other Hiruko fought. Their speed so fast that only sparks and sounds of collisions from time to time allowed the spectators to judge their positions…

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As the battle between the two progressed, each of them realized the other party's horror.

"His speed is so fast!?" – muttered Fugaku in amazement.

The insight of Mangekyou Sharingan and three tomoe Sharingan is very different, even the insight of a three of a pair of Sharingan that has already evolved into Mangekyou Sharingan is also superior to ordinary three tomoe Sharingan.

And therefore, Fugaku was highly surprised that even with his three tomoe Sharingan activated, he was having quite a bit of difficulty in capturing the figure of Hiruko.

This is obviously different from his expectations.

And Hiruko's line of thinking wasn't much different, "Uchiha Fugaku can keep up with my speed, is his insight so strong?" – muttered Hiruko.

Similar to Fugaku, Hiruko was also highly surprised at this moment, as he did not expect Uchiha Fugaku to be so strong, and Hiruko is also really glad that he has Sharingan, otherwise he would have fallen prey to Genjutsu several times already.

Hiruko did not expect this, according to him, Uchiha Fugaku didn't seem to be so extraordinary. Not in the time when he was still in the village. There was some reputation during the third great shinobi war, but compared to the terror of Yellow Flash, Wicked-Eye was not so much!

Even the information that the Akatsuki has of the several Kage level Shinobi also did not state much about the Wicked-Eye Fugaku.

But with this fight, Hiruko has found out just how much difficult it is to deal with Uchiha Fugaku. Fugaku's speed is extremely fast, top-class Shurikenjutsu mastery, extreme proficiency on Fire Chakra nature, Kenjutsu Master, and most of all, Genjutsu specialist.

Utatane Koharu observed the two, and then said with a frown, "Hiruko can match up to Uchiha Fugaku? This is surprising, in my impression he should not have such capabilities!"

Mitokado Homura added, "And he also managed to transplant a pair of Sharingan! Just what kind of experiments was he doing Hiruzen?"

Mitokado and Utatane were surprised because under Nidaime-sama's era of power Konoha also conducted a lot of human experiments, among which the most famous ones were transplantation of Shodaime-sama's cells to cultivate a shinobi capable of using the legendary Wood Release, and transplantation of Sharingan.

However, these experiments were unsuccessful and did not produce any satisfactory results.

Although transplantation of Sharingan was much easier when compared to Hashirama Cells, it was still very restraining upon a shinobi. In fact, only Hatake Kakashi, whose Sharingan was gifted to him by his teammate Uchiha Obito is the only shinobi known to have Sharingan. And even Kakashi with his incredible talent is able to barely keep up with a single Sharingan. If someone was to transplant a pair of Sharingan then it is very likely that that person will die of the amount of burden Sharingan puts on a non-Uchiha.

For this very reason, even though many people covet the power of Sharingan, there are not many left alive who have acquired that power.

So the fact that Hiruko has acquired that power, not to mention without being restrained by it is highly surprising, "Perhaps his being able to acquire a pair of Sharingan indeed has something to do with the type of research and experiments he was doing. As far as I know, before he defected, Hiruko was researching a Kinjutsu that would allow the user to plunder other's Kekkei Genkai."

When Utatane and Mitokado heard Sandaime's words, both of them were extremely shocked.

Judging from Hiruko's current performance, it seems that the Kinjutsu he was researching and experimenting with was been successfully completed.

And this is not a good thing for the Shinobi world, it means that a bloody storm is about to come if the information about the existence of this technique is released.

"This means that while he pretended to be Uchiha Shisui, he used Swift Release, and Dark Release." – Sandaime paused here then continued, "And then there is Sharingan… I am afraid that he has already plundered three or more Kekkei Genkai!"

At this time, the situation on the battlefield has changed.

Hiruko insisted on defeating Uchiha Fugaku, so printing his hand signs, he shouted,

"Storm Release Secret Technique: Demon Dragon Storm!"

Instantly, a massive thunder cloud capable of absorbing Chakra to grow in size, strength, and ferocity covered the sky above the battlefield. And as per Hiruko's command which he gave using different hand signs to summon multiple red pillars of chakra and lightning raining.

Fugaku immediately realized the danger and retreated far away from Hiruko.

By now Fugaku has concluded that defeating Hiruko without using his Mangekyou Sharingan would be almost impossible But at the same time, Fugaku also feels that Hiruko lacks in the experience department.

Whether it is his attacking moves, or defensive moves, or the overall rhythm of battle, what he seriously lacks is proper coordination and flow which allowed Fugaku to make some extra moves, but because of that damn Dark Release and Steel Release, he couldn't completely exploit it to kill Hiruko at once.

'Genjutsu from simple Sharingan is not working on Hiruko, should I use my Mangekyou?' such a thought emerged, but he immediately shook his head, 'Entire senior staff of Konoha is present here, if I use my Mangekyou Sharingan, it won't go unnoticed by them, and now that the situation of Uchiha Clan has started to improve, I don't want to take any risk, that would again increase distrust between Uchiha Clan, and Hokage Faction, especially now that Amatsukami and Akatsuki are waiting to destroy us at any moment!'

While Uchiha Fugaku considered many thoughts, and possibilities on how to take down Hiruko without the use of his Mangekyou Sharingan, Sandaime muttered, "It seems that Hiruko has also plundered Storm Release and Steel Release!" – Realizing how much of a threat Hiruko has become, Sandaime continued, "Hiruko with five Kekkei Genkai is difficult opponent even for Fugaku, let's take action together and resolve him at once!"

Elder Mitokado and Elder Utatane nodded.

At this time, Hiruko who was raining lightning all over the battlefield laughed out loudly and spoke, "Why Hokage-sama, do you regret your decision now?"

Sandaime who has summoned his Adamantine Staff, Enma looked at Hiruko and said in a deep voice, "Hiruko, do not make mistakes, again and again, it is already too late for you to look back!"

"Mistakes? Again, and again!" – Hiruko muttered in a daze, his face twisted in anger upon hearing Sandaime's words, and he roared, "Why does everything I do is wrong, huh? Is it because I am unwilling to be ordinary like most?"

It seems that the thunderclouds in the sky were affected by Hiruko's mood and became more violent. The rain of lightning from the thunderclouds became stronger and more frequent.

Standing at the center of the thunderclouds, Hiruko glanced at all the Konoha Shinobi around him, and said viciously, "Today, I will make you realize just who is wrong!"

Speaking so, Hiruko increased the amount of Chakra supporting the thunderclouds, thus further increasing the radius of thunderclouds and rain of lighting.

Everywhere lightning fell fire would be lit, and things would evaporate. Some of the Shinobi even suffered heavily from the lightning, and instantly lost their breath.

At this moment, Sandaime signaled Fugaku, who instantly understood Sandaime's intentions and rushed forward to engage in a battle with Hiruko.

"Haven't had enough, huh!?" – Hiruko roared, and violently waved his steel hands that were covered in lightning.

With Hiruko engaged in battle with Fugaku, Sandaime also rushed towards Hiruko with his Adamantine Staff. With just a step forward, the length and girth of Enma increased and it seemed to be ready to slam Hiruko into a pulp.

Seeing the staff coming towards, Hiruko grinned madly, he decided to not dodge that incoming staff, and shock Sandaime just how hard is his Steel Release!

Heavily kicking Uchiha Fugaku in the gut, Hiruko stood straight, with his arms opened wide, and said with a smile. "Any of you attack is meaningless against me!"

SMASH… Crack… break…

Just as his voice fell, and Sandaime's staff smashed on his waist, and instantly his face changed from a mocking look to a shocked and painful look.

Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom… Boom…

Before he could react, Hiruko flew out and collided with several walls far away, he broke through the first four walls and stooped at the fifth one with half his body buried inside that wall.

As the dust and smoke cleared, Hiruko got up, this time he no longer had his previous arrogant look, but a painful one filled with embarrassment and anger, "Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Although the staff only broke a few of his bones, what hurt him more was that his pride was broken. Embarrassed in face of Sandaime Hokage, the fact that he flew out so easily made him lose his face, and the last thing he wants now is to lose his face in the face of oh-so-detestable Hokage!

Just as Hiruko wanted to fight back, several chains that were wrapped in some sort of Shadow appeared out of the ground and instantly restricted his movements. His feet bound to the ground, and his hands restricted by the chains too! But the chains wrapped in Shadow did not stop there and started coiling around him.

At the same time, he felt someone invading inside his consciousness and had to severely resist not to lose himself. Trying to resist mental invasion made Hiruko's face twist in pain.

But that wasn't it, the very next moment, Mitokado appeared behind Hiruko, he was carrying a very large scroll, and putting the scroll on the ground, he made hand signs and tapped on the ground.

After having completed the ritual, Hiruko's perception has obviously increased very much, and sensing the chakra fluctuations coming from his back, he suddenly felt a great threat.

He knows that if he doesn't do something immediately then it is very likely that he will die here!

So, Hiruko immediately looked up, the synthetic bird that was being bullied at the hands of Hyuga Brothers, Akimichi Patriarch, and several other Shinobi instantly swooped away from them and went towards him.

With the arrival of the synthetic bird, Hiruko's hands and legs suddenly exploded, breaking away the shadow chains, as well as his four limbs.

Now with all of his limbs gone, the leech stored within his body instantly took the empty place, and he leaped high up using those make-up limbs, landed on the half-injured bird's back, and hurriedly shouted, "Quickly go!"

As soon as he landed on the back of the synthetic bird, he immediately ordered it to go and did not even dare to look back.

BOOM…!

Just as he was going, the back of the synthetic bird suddenly exploded, but thankfully it wasn't that damaging and the bird could still continue its flight.

Hiruko never expected that even after having absorbed five Kekkei Genkai, he still couldn't manage to hold his own against those people, and had to retreat at the cost of sacrificing his four limbs!

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Outside Konoha Village.

Might Guy carried unconscious Shisui on his back, and followed Kakashi as they galloped through the woods, behind them were a large number of Anbu of the Root subunit led by Shimura Danzo.

He was at a loss at this moment and muttered, "How did things turn out like this?"

"Sigh, I don't know." – Kakashi's face gloomy, although he has yet to figure out the whole situation, he has keenly noticed that their Team-11 has become prey to a certain conspiracy.

Guy asked, "Do you think that the mission Kuroto is assigned to has something to do with what's going on here?"

Kakashi wasn't sure, the mission that Kuroto was suddenly assigned was unknown to the other members of the team-11.

And Uzuki Yugao who was temporarily assigned to team-11 as a replacement for Kuroto's absence was sent to watch over Uzumaki Naruto by him, hopefully, she will safely bring Naruto back to the village.

But there were more important things they have to consider now, which was the information about the assassination of Sandaime-sama, whether that is true or not, "What do you think about the information about Sandaime-sama's assassination?"

Guy glanced at Shisui and said, "We know that it wasn't Shisui, so there is no doubt about that."

Kakashi nodded, "Right, it wasn't Shisui, and I don't think that the Uchiha Clan would choose to do anything of the sort at this point, so the only other possibility is a comrade of that masked man, he did have Sharingan, so it is possible that his other comrades also have Sharingan, and this attempt was likely either related to Akatsuki or Amatsukami, Sigh, I hope that Hokage-sama is safe otherwise the situation could turn worse for the village!"

Guy said, "Do not worry Kakashi, we must trust Hokage-sama, he will be safe."

Kakashi helplessly shook his head at Guy's optimism, then glanced backward at the chasers that were following him, and muttered with a frown, "If this goes on, we will be overtaken by them sooner or later!"

Guy asked, "So what do you suggest?"

Kakashi thought a little and said, "I will hold them, and you will take Shisui to Team-11's 4th rest house, after I lead them away, I will meet you there."

Because Anbu shinobi have to perform several secret missions, so almost all Anbu have certain hideouts spread throughout the country as they can't interact with general shinobi or common folks during any mission.

Guy hesitated a little, "Kakashi, you alone…"

Before Guy could finish speaking, Kakashi has already turned around facing the Shinobi coming towards them, he did not glance back at Guy but said, "That's an order, treatment of Shisui's injuries can not be delayed, go, I will meet you at the hideout as discussed!"

After speaking that, Kakashi did not wait for Guy's response and rushed towards the crowd of Shinobi, as a very familiar chirping of thousands of birds rang throughout the forest.

Looking at the determined back of Kakashi, Guy nodded, "Do not die Kakashi, you are my eternal rival, you are not allowed to be defeated by others!" Leaving that sentence he did not hesitate anymore and rushed towards the hideout.

Kakashi shook his head helplessly after hearing Guy's words, but he had a smirk under that mask.

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In Konoha Village.

Currently, everyone had a gloomy expression as Hiruko managed to escape with the help of his synthetic bird.

At the last moment, Hiruko so decisively sacrificed his limbs which somewhat shocked everyone, nobody considered the possibility of his limbs being able to suddenly explode.

But that aside, now they have to consider the threat of Hiruko several levels higher than he used to be.

Hiruko's strength although not fully displayed in the battle against Fugaku still showed what he is capable of should he gain enough experience in using all the five Kekkei Genkai in perfect combination.

Dealing with Hiruko in a one-on-one battle has already become impossible and who knows what kind of monstrous existence will he become in the future.

It would require at least a team of shinobi with very high group strength and perfect coordination to be able to deal with Hiruko.

And nobody knows whether it would be possible to defeat him even in that situation, so defeating him currently when he is still not at his hundred percent potential was a diamond opportunity.

If they had gotten rid of Hiruko just now, then not only they would have managed to eliminate a Shinobi who harbors deep hatred towards Konoha, but also destroyed Chimera Technique, as well as also obtained internal intelligence of Akatsuki.

But unfortunately, the chance was missed, and now it would be extremely difficult to kill Hiruko next time.

With broken fragments of chains remaining in her hand, Elder Utatane walked towards Sandaime and said, "Hiruzen, Hiruko is too dangerous to be left alive, we must notify all the other shinobi villages about his existence and work together to eliminate him. No village will allow a Shinobi who can plunder other's Kekkei Genkai to stay alive."

Elder Mitokado with the scroll in his hand also walked here, "From the Kekkei Genkai he has used we can now confirm that all the four shinobi other than Uchiha Hiiragi in that period have become his prey, and we have also confirmed that the shinobi who attacked Raikage's entourage was a member of Akatsuki, not of Amatsukami."

Akatsuki and Amatsukami have become Sandaime's headaches.

At this moment, two Anbu who went after team-11 finally rushed back to the village and reported about Elder Shimura Danzo's brazen attack on Uchiha Shisui to Sandaime.

Hearing of the attack, Sandaime brown wrinkled and he glanced at Fugaku and the other Uchiha and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they were not paying attention here.

Understanding the complete situation, Sandaime ordered, "Call back Shimura Danzo under my order, also protect Team-11 from any accident until they safely arrive at the Konoha Hospital. Check up on the situation of Jinchuriki, and ask Eagle to come to my office. Too much chaos has already happened in the village, I do not want to deal with any more trouble for the day!"

The Anbu shinobi nodded one after another and went on with the tasks.

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It did not take too long for Guy to arrive at the hideout as this was the nearest one to the village.

The so-called hideout is just a cave transformed into a simple residence that carried all the essentials that an Anbu would ever need amidst his mission.

Shisui's injuries were of two types.

Firstly, some small burns were caused by those exploding tags before Shisui activated his Susanoo as a shield. But this injury was nothing serious.

The other injury was caused by Shimura Danzo when he severely struck his crutch on Shisui's backbone. From the outside, this injury doesn't look much serious but it seems that there was a needle hidden within the crutch that spread some kind of potent poison in Shisui's system, which is probably the cause of Shisui's unconscious state.

After giving Shisui the antidote that was left to team-11 by Kuroto, Guy could only wait for the antidote to take effect, so all he could do was nervously wait for the arrival of Kakashi.

Fortunately, it did not take long for Kakashi to arrive, and as soon as he came Kakashi said, "Other Anbu reinforcements led by the captain of Hokage-sama's guards helped me get away from them!"

Guy nodded, and explained Shisui's injury to Kakashi in detail, and then added, "I was not sure whether the standard antidote distributed to Anbu would work so I used the antidote given to us by Kuroto, I hope it works."

Kakashi nodded and then said, "Now let's go back to the village!"

Guy said, "But what about Danzo-sama!?"

First and foremost, "Danzo-sama do not have any authority to order us around or declare us as defected-nin, moreover other Anbu shinobi have already displayed their stance by protecting us, so we have nothing more to worry about. In fact, I ten to think that the reason he attacked Shisui was also purely acting upon his greed, because he wanted…" – Kakashi stopped halfway through his words and did not continue anymore.

In any case, Shimura Danzo is one of the Elder Advisors of Konoha, as such Kakashi did not dare to voice out his speculation about Shimura Danzo's malicious intentions towards Uchiha Shisui without any conclusive evidence, as that could be counterproductive, even if it just him, Guy, and unconscious Shisui here.

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In the forest near the Uchiha Clan.

The Kunoichi Oto Yumie is tied to a wooden cross, with her hands and legs not capable of moving even an inch, surrounded by the cawing of crows all around. Wherever she looks all she sees are an uncountable number of crows, in this unclear and mysterious world.

And even though she realizes that this is most certainly the result of a Genjutsu, she is still unable to break free of it. Much less breaking free, she can't even open her mouth here.

Even if she wants to shout or cry from the pain of thousands of Crow feathers piercing her per second, but there is no cry, only pain, and agony.

At this time, an indifferent and omniscient voice sounded.

"You dared to touch my Otouto, that was your biggest mistake! Now suffer in these hell flames until not even your ashes are left behind!"

"Amaterasu!"

And the sudden appearance of Black Flames of hell was all she saw before she ceased to exist, not even a cry of pain escaped her mouth.

With Oto Yumie gone, Itachi crouched on the branch of a tree, his hands over his both eyes. He felt a deep pain in his eyes, it felt as if needles were being pierced in his eyes, but that was nothing compared to the pain he felt when he saw Sasuke being strangled to death.

A while later the pain finally ceased and Itachi walked back to the Uchiha Clan, he wasn't worried about Sasuke because he knows that Sasuke has already safely reached, back home, via a side trip of making a friend.

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On Uchiha Tsukihi's side.

Tsukihi slowly put down her hand from her right eyes and said, "That idiot, he actually dared to resist Sandaime-sama's Enma staff! He was being a bit too arrogant; doesn't he know that Sandaime-sama was able to push back Kyuubi with that staff?" – muttered Tsukihi as she continued to run in the direction of Death Forest.

Before her departure, Tsukihi had already left behind a few crows which helped her monitor the progress of events after she retreated. So Hiruko's cool debut, arrogant performance, and finally, a pathetic escape where he almost lost his life were all seen by her.

After shaking her head in disappointment, Tsukihi let go of any thought related to Hiruko and muttered to herself, "Team-11 did not show up here from beginning to end, what exactly happened to them?"

"Forget it, with Shisui, Kakashi, and Guy present, there is hardly anyone who would be able to endanger all of them at the same time, and as long as even one of them is safe, all three of them will be safe. For now, I should hurry to my secret laboratory, store this clone body there and then come back with the main body!"

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Returning the soul back to the main body proved to be much easier compared to what Kuroto had to go through earlier. There was instinctive guidance as such there was no need to keep track of the directions, moreover, the return speed was also several times faster than before.

Before he knew it, Kuroto's soul was already back inside his main body.

Whew…

Coming out of the tree hole, Kuroto stretched his body and felt a bit refreshed.

Since the seals placed around the tree hole were not damaged, so Kuroto was sure that no people or animal dared to approach the tree hole during the absence of his soul. For which Kuroto was really glad, as he wouldn't have to bother wasting time in hunting some irrelevant people or beasts that would later become either his test subjects or will be fed to Okina Buta.

At this time, Okina Buta's nose twitched, and he instantly got up. Noticing that Kuroto has come out of the tree hole, he leaned over and tried to circle around Kuroto.

But given his size, circling around shook the entire forest, Kuroto helplessly smiled and jumped on the back of this idiot boar, after patting the boar's head Kuroto said, "Yes-yes, this time I owe you a favor, I will be sure to send you a treat!"

As soon as Kuroto said this, hot air escaped Okina Buta's snout, which indicated that he was happy and excited for the treat.

Although Okina Buta hasn't been around Kuroto for very long, nor has Kuroto summoned for Buta's help very much, however, every time Kuroto has summoned Buta, he has been handy in one way or the other. There is also the fact that Buta seems to have Kuroto imprinted in his mind as some sort of master or owner probably because Kuroto fed him a lot of poison while he was still young, which might have been an act of kindness from someone's perspective.

Anyway, this boar is now useful since he is almost as big as Gamabunta, which makes him a good summon beast as he is already very strong, and he also has an instinctive understanding of Chakra, probably because of the pure chakra circulating within his body.

After assuring Okina Buta, Kuroto deactivated the Summoning and sent away Okina Buta back to his habitat.

Kuroto himself also did not delay any longer and after spending a few more days in the Land of Demons he decided to go back to Konoha.

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Two weeks later, Kuroto returned to the village.

The first thing he needed to do was to have a meeting with Sandaime-sama regarding the situation of Land of Demons, but it appeared that Sandaime-sama was seriously busy with village's matters as well as some other political matters so he couldn't spare time to meet Kuroto right of the bat, as such Kuroto submitted his report to Sandaime-sama and returned to his house.

Whenever Sandaime-sama will have time, he would Summon Kuroto.

After coming back to the house, he was greeted with the sight of Yui, Shion, and Taruho eating lunch.

Seeing Kuroto's return Yui hurriedly got up from her seat and greeted Kuroto, "Kuroto-kun you are finally back!"

Kuroto hugged her and rubbed Yui's back. There was a short silence as the two stayed in the same position, this was necessary to relieve Yui of her anxieties, but seeing Shion's expectant gaze, Kuroto separated from Yui and walked towards Shion.

He didn't speak much, he just untied the Ryuumyaku's Gourd and gave it to Shion, told her and Taruho to take this upstairs and they will understand everything.

The remnant spirit body of Miko-sama was staying within that Gourd, and it is difficult to predict just how long will she remain in the Shinobi World, so Kuroto believes that instead of him explaining anything to Shion, it would be best for her mother, that is Miko-sama to do so herself. That would be the best choice as Shion and Miko-sama will at least have the last chance to talk things out. And Miko-sama can also express the words she was reluctant to at first.

Although Shion was a bit skeptical, out of trust in Kuroto she nodded and went to the room she was staying in for the past few weeks.

After Shion and Taruho went upstairs, Kuroto asked Yui to recite everything that happened in the village in his absence, "Please explain everything to me very carefully!"

Yui nodded and quickly explained. there was suddenly an emergency flare lit up a few weeks ago which alarmed everyone, immediately after that village entered an emergency state and Hokage-sama ordered villagers to go to the evacuation site.

Then while Yui, Shion, and Taruho were going to the evacuation site, there was this arrogant guy whose name was Shinno, he came after Shino, although Yui resisted him and even almost killed him several times, however, he had some sort of regeneration technique that helped him always recover. Therefore, Yui wasn't sure what to do with him.

Then this Kunoichi by the name Uchiha Tsukihi arrived and gave her the opportunity to retreat along with Shion, and Taruho.

As for what happened later, Yui didn't witness it, but she did hear that Uchiha Tsukihi sacrificed herself to defeat that guy named Shinno. Later everyone found out that he was a member of Akatsuki, and then more things happened, there was Hiruko who fought against the Uchiha Patriarch and several other things also happened.

Overall, the situation was chaotic, and too many things happened, many shinobi also died, so the next day a funeral ceremony was conducted and their names were engraved in the memorial monument, especially Uchiha Tsukihi's who sacrificed herself for the sake of the village.

Kuroto wasn't much surprised after hearing everything, which made Yui frown, she had an instinctive feeling that even though Kuroto-Kun wasn't in the village he was somehow informed of what all happened. Unable to understand the possible cause, Yui decided to let it go, as it didn't really matter much, as long as Kuroto-kun is fine then that's all that matters.

However, Kuroto's thoughts were a bit different, 'Yui's understanding of the situation is limited, I will have to ask Shisui for a better understanding of all the events!'

At this time, Yui spoke, "By the way Kuroto-kun, that person Shinno also asked about you, I don't think that he was aware of who I was, but he seemed to know you."

Kuroto nodded and explained the events of the first mission he took along with Uchiha Itachi after surviving the cleaning operation.

When she heard the details, Yui nodded in understanding as she was reminded of that mission where Kuroto-kun encountered Kumogakure's Nibi's Jinchuriki and was later praised by Jiraiya-sama.

Later Kuroto had some more discussion with Yui and then went on to search for Shisui.

From Shisui Kuroto get to know more information. It turns out that all the Anbu that went on to search for the whereabouts of Uzumaki Naruto searched all over the village and the surroundings but did not find him, later when they returned to the village and thought that Naruto went missing or was probably again kidnapped by someone of Akatsuki, they discovered that at some point Naruto had returned to his home and was immersed in a sound sleep along with another kid, who turned out to be Uchiha Sasuke.

Seeing such a sight, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and asked the details from temporary Eagle, who turned out to be Uzuki Yugao as she was assigned to cover up for Kuroto's absence in team-11

Uzuki Yugao explained as asked, and finally, the matter was resolved.

But the situation was still not resolved as the other three members of team-11 were still missing, later on, that same day when team-11 was returning to the village they again encountered Shimura Danzo and his Root shinobi, and a fight broke out.

Danzo was hell-bent on eliminating Uchiha Shisui for the crime of betraying the village, Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy on the other side were also damn stubborn. They did not allow Shimura Danzo to even touch Uchiha Shisui, so even though both of them played very well, but because the two were heavily outnumbered so they both suffered serious injuries.

It was at that time that Elder Mitokado arrived along with other Shinobi and rescued the three members of team-11 from Shimura Danzo.

The Uchiha Clan also caught the wind of this event and has fuming with anger that Shimura Danzo dared to take action against one of their elite Clansmen, Danzo was also adamant and did not even bother to apologize, he used the excuse that Uchiha Shisui was the culprit who attempted Hokage's assassination and tried to compromise Kyuubi's Jinchuriki.

However, this time, Sandaime severely reprimanded him and Danzo had to finally bite the bullet, and publicly apologize to Uchiha Shisui, he was also ordered to stay away from the Uchiha clan, which everyone knew that he did not take kindly considering his sour expression.

But considering that it was Hokage's order, Danzo had no choice but to obey regardless of his will.

At the same time, Uchiha Clan was really grateful to the other members of team-11 for protecting Uchiha Shisui, and Sandaime also praised captain Kakashi's decision.

Kuroto can't help but smile, he wasn't much worried about either of them because he knew that either way, they would be alright. Might Guy and Hatake Kakashi when together are a force to be reckoned with.

After having an understanding of a general situation Kuroto was busy considering some things.

At this time Shisui said, "Kuroto-san, as you expected, Danzo-sama is really after my Mangekyou Sharingan, I did not expect that he would choose to attack me even when the safety of Uzumaki Naruto was at stake."

Kuroto nodded and said, "Fortunately Kakashi and Guy understood Danzo's thoughts and acted at the right time."

Shisui nodded, "Fortunately there was also the seal you placed on my eyes, and Captain Kakashi and Guy-san acted at the right time, otherwise, Danzo-sama might have succeeded!"

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At the same time, at Uchiha Fugaku's house.

"Patriarch, you have to tell us, who exactly was Uchiha Tsukihi? Is there really some secret unit within the Konoha Military Police Force as the rumors say?"

"Yes, rumors are circulating that Uchiha Tsukihi was an elite member of the secret unit, and some even say that even Sandaime-sama is not aware of this unit, is there really such a secret unit?"

Looking at the eager expression of his clansmen Fugaku sighed.

After coming back, Fugaku has researched all the clan records and he has found nothing about Uchiha Tsukihi.

Even the description of Uchiha Tsukihi that he obtained from Hyuga Yui's testimony does not match any Kunoichi Uchiha Clan ever cultivated, so Fugaku himself is confused as to who exactly was that Kunoichi.

And for some reason, Fugaku even feels that Kunoichi is not dead yet, he may be wrong, but it's also possible that he is right. This is Fugaku's instinctive feeling but there are also some facts behind his reasoning.

But regardless, Fugaku doesn't plan to waste the opportunity that the Uchiha Clan has got because of her fight. Now everyone in the village knows that Uchiha Tsukihi fought and sacrificed herself for the safety of the village just like Yondaime Hokage once did, so people will be more accepting and trusting of the Uchiha Clan.

"Alright everyone, since you all want to know so much about her then hear me, Uchiha Tsukihi was born on the battlefield, but she never got to see the faces of her parents as her father died on a mission while her mother died immediately after giving birth to her. She was personally raised by me and my wife Mikoto was her teacher. As Tsukihi grew up, we came to know that she was suffering from a Bloodline disease, as such she had to live in isolation, but that isolation was not here, not in Konoha, but in one of the old castles of the Uchiha Clan, she lived there, trained there and honed herself to be a Kunoichi that her parents could be proud of, but her time because of her illness was limited as it was slowly killing her. Her greatest desire was to die as a true Kunoichi, a Kunoichi who dies while protecting her clan and village even though she never lived here. It's strange to think about it, but perhaps she did not think so. Maybe she wanted to leave behind something that all her clansmen could be proud of. She idolized Yondaime Hokage and coincidentally she died the same death.

It was perhaps a coincidence that she was in the village recently, it might be because she caught wind of the incoming attack, I am not sure how, only she knows of this, but regardless, she died the death she wanted and we should be proud of her. She was a strong girl, a strong Kunoichi, and a true Uchiha by heart. All Uchiha should strive to be as determined as her!"

By the time, Fugaku finished, everyone was shocked by what they heard, nobody expected that Uchiha Tsukihi's life was so difficult, and everyone felt pride that she was an Uchiha, a true Uchiha.

Looking at everyone's proud Fugaku can't help but sigh helplessly, this is so unlike him, bullshiting never pleases him, but what can he do?

If that's necessary for the clan then he will do so, as that's what a Patriarch's role is.

After some more talks, Fugaku dismissed the now encouraged clansmen as he has to consider many things. With this open attack from Akatsuki, many things in the village will start to change, and he has to prepare himself and the Uchiha Clan for it.

Fugaku also has a feeling that the coming years would be even more troublesome now. The winds of the Shinobi world have started to change, and Uchiha Clan must ride those winds to survive.

At this time, Fugaku saw Itachi walking down the corridor.

Fugaku isn't sure why, but he feels that ever since the event of Sasuke being kidnapped by Oto Yumie, who is another member of Akatsuki, Itachi's persona and temperament have changed drastically.

For a while, Fugaku wanted to attribute this to Mangekyou Sharingan that Itachi might have awakened, but considering Itachi's young ago, Fugaku shook his head, as Itachi is too young to be able to awaken something like Mangekyou Sharingan.

As such Fugaku is a bit worried about Itachi. After all, Itachi is his successor, the heir of the Uchiha Clan.

Fugaku even considered a possibility of mental trauma or guilt that Itachi might be suffering from, but he can't be sure. At least, Itachi's emotions seem stable, or rather too stable actually.

Fugaku sighed, he will have to trust his son, because he knows that his son will never disappoint him, someone who had the sight of a battlefield burned into his mind at the age of four will never be traumatized by such a small event.

'Who am I kidding, perhaps it really is because of that…!'

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Standing in the corridor, Itachi noticed Fugaku's helpless sigh and asked with a worried tone, "Otou-san, is everything all right?"

Fugaku folded his arms around his chest and said, "Itachi, thankfully you rescued Sasuke from the hands of Akatsuki, otherwise I don't know what might have happened to him."

When Fugaku learned that his younger son Sasuke was almost kidnapped by a member of Akatsuki under the chaos of that night, Fugaku was both shocked, panicked, and angry.

He doesn't know what he might have done or how he would have faced Mikoto should something have happened to Sasuke.

Moreover, Fugaku is also frustrated at the shamelessness of these Akatsuki and Amatsukami members. The glorious, noble, and dignified Uchiha Clan, from who everyone fears have now become a vegetable market, anyone wants an Uchiha, just come and take away an Uchiha Shinobi, you want a pair of Sharingan? Just go to Uchiha Clan and you can find a pair of freshly harvested Sharingan, there is also the rare variety of Mangekyou Sharingan, if you can't take them away, then just incite those awakeners, they will follow you, and bam you get a pair of freshly cultivated Mangekyou Sharingan.

Firstly, Shinichi Kurumi, then there is also Ho Musubi, next Ryota, and Hideki, after which Hiiragi was kidnapped by Akatsuki, then an unknown Uchiha Tsukihi appears and sacrifices herself and now Sasuke was almost kidnapped by another member of Akatsuki if this is not a vegetable market than what is?

And Fugaku as the Patriarch is helpless, which is making him extremely annoyed.

Itachi shook his head slightly and said, "It's my responsibility to protect Sasuke, I would do so at all cost!"

"As expected of my son!" – the stern Fugaku showed a rare smile. 'At least, my family is safe for now!' – was Fugaku's thought.

Fugaku knows of Itachi's talent, and if nothing too unexpected happens, Itachi will surely grow into another Uchiha whose strength is no inferior to Shisui, and as the next generation of the Uchiha Clan grows into strong individuals one-by-one, the value of Uchiha Clan in the village will again increase. The status of the clan which was lost will also be recovered slowly.

In that case, even if Hokage Faction wants to suppress the Uchiha Clan they will no longer be able to do so. After all, there is only Hatake Kakashi who could be a Hokage Candidate among the younger generation of the Shinobi.

But Fugaku knows this better than anyone than Hatake Kakashi because the Sharingan that he keeps with him will never be able to match Shisui and Itachi in their prime.

So Fugaku has considered many things over the past few months, and he no longer has any desire for the Coup.

The major reason for this is obviously the heavy pressure from the external enemies including Akatsuki and Amatsukami, especially with the new technique that Hiruko has created, which allows him to plunder other's Kekkei Genkai.

If this technique were to get in the hands of others, the Uchiha Clan will be in extreme danger from all parties. After all, Sharingan is undoubtedly the most superior Kekkei Genkai. So, to ensure the safety of his clan, Fugaku has even regarded Hiruko as the number one enemy.

Of course, Fugaku did not know that his worries in regards to Hiruko's techniques were almost unnecessary.

It's because, the ritual ceremony conducted by Hiruko has too many requirements and variables that are difficult to be met by others, secrecy, time, location, manpower, willpower, and many other factors are involved, and even then, there is no guarantee as there is also the factor of luck.

Even Hiruko himself also almost died, and it was only because of the secret technique he got his hands on from Yomi that he actually managed to survive.

But since Fugaku did not know all about this, so it is natural for him to be worried.

Sighing lightly, Fugaku asked Itachi, "Where are you going?"

Itachi replied, "I am going to visit Shisui-san."

Fugaku nodded and then added, "Shisui is under-recovery so he is not up to his full combat potential, so make sure to keep watch over his safety, I do not want to hear any sudden news about him suddenly going missing."

Itachi nodded and then left.

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Shisui's house.

After listening to the entire story from Shisui, coupled with the information he obtained on his own, Kuroto concluded that Naruto wasn't Obito's goal from the beginning to end.

The reason he even bothered to kidnap Naruto was to draw Shisui out of the village along with the rest of the team-11, then had Hiruko pretend to be Uchiha Shisui and attempt to assassinate Sandaime-sama to ignite a civil war between the Hokage faction and Uchiha Clan.

If Obito's conspiracy had actually succeeded, then I am afraid Konoha would have been finished.

In this chaos, Orochimaru's motive was very simple, which was to acquire a perfect body, which was Uchiha Tsukihi but unfortunately, he failed, just like he will always do when it comes to Sharingan, so Kuroto didn't really have anything to say in this regard.

But anyway, it was perhaps through Shinno that Orochimaru go to know of Akatsuki's plan and decided to secretly reap some benefits by taking advantage of fire.

Shinno's thoughts were probably the same, he also wanted to secretly swallow Shion to increase his strength by taking advantage of the chaos that Konoha was in at that time, but he also failed because of yours truly.

As for Shimura Danzo's motive behind attacking Shisui? There was no need to even guess that.

Fortunately, things turned out well, and Sandaime figured out everything at the right time otherwise Konoha would have been swallowed in civil strife.

With everything clear, Shisui asked, "Kuroto-san, so, um, what should we do next?"

Kuroto observed Shisui's physical state using his Byakugan, and after understanding, he said, "Rest for now, we will talk about our future plans after you are in your tip-top condition."

Shisui quickly interjected, "Kuroto-san, my injury is nothing, Akatsuki is too dangerous to be left behind to their own devices!"

Kuroto flicked Shisui's forehead and said while shaking his head, "We can't be hasty when it comes to Akatsuki, their roots are much deeper than we think, for now, you should focus on your recovery, and we will discuss our future plans later."

Shisui puffed his cheek in annoyance, then finally nodded, "Okay, fine!"

Kuroto nodded and after passing on one of the latest created poison antidotes, he left Shisui's house, only to encounter Itachi who seemed to be here to visit Shisui.

Seeing Kuroto, Itachi hurriedly greeted, "Kuroto-san."

Seeing Itachi, Kuroto smiled and nodded, "Ah, Itachi-Kun, how are you?"

Kuroto heard from Shisui that Uchiha Sasuke was abducted by Oto Yumie, who is officially a peripheral member of the Akatsuki Organization and Shinno's subordinate. It's just that none of the Uchiha shinobi or the villagers knows that the very same periphery member was the Snake Sannin Orochimaru, therefore they don't particularly understand just how much danger Itachi was facing at that time, in fact, Itachi himself may not know this.

In the original story also, Itachi easily dealt with Orochimaru twice, but that was at the time when Itachi had awakened Mangekyou Sharingan and was also a few years older than he is now. So, him being able to rescue Sasuke and defeat Orochimaru at his current age is highly surprising, even for Kuroto.

Itachi looked around, then said lightly, "Kuroto-san, I have something to tell you."

Kuroto nodded, and said, "All right, follow me!"

Not long after, Kuroto and Itachi came to the forest behind Uchiha Clan grounds, and after Kuroto made sure that no one was around, he nodded towards Itachi for him to speak whatever he wants to.

After a bit of silence, Itachi's eyes showed a determined and after taking a deep breath he directly activated his Sharingan.

And the next instant, Itachi's Sharingan changed from three tomoe Sharingan to three spiraling curves around the pupil.

Looking at those eyes, Kuroto was stunned, even he was a bit dazed, but quickly recovering he muttered, "You? Itachi-kun, you awakened Mangekyou Sharingan?"

Itachi deactivated his Mangekyou Sharingan and nodded, "Yes, the Kunoichi I fought that night was very powerful, I almost died several times in her hands, and it seems that I awakened these eyes at that time!"

Itachi actually did not know, it was at the moment when Oto Yumie took away his Otouto, he had already awakened Mangekyou Sharingan, this is because Shinno noticed the changed pattern in Itachi's eyes when Itachi went after Oto Yumie.

But all that aside, Kuroto is really shocked to see those eyes, because Itachi awakened Mangekyou Sharingan almost a year earlier than he did in the original series.

Thinking so, Kuroto asked Itachi, "Did you kill her?"

Itachi nodded.

'Is it even possible to kill Orochimaru?' – thought Kuroto, because he can't think of anyone being capable of killing Orochimaru.

So, after groaning a little, he asked, "Are you really sure that she is dead?"

Itachi hesitated a little, then explained, "I used the ocular power of my right eye, which is called 'Amaterasu' to burn her completely. 'Amaterasu' is the highest level of Fire Release and is capable of burning everything to ashes, therefore, she must be dead."

'So, 'Amaterasu,' huh?' – Kuroto pondered a little and finally concluded that Orochimaru wouldn't die from mere Amaterasu.

After all, if simply 'Amaterasu' was capable of killing Orochimaru then, in the original story, Itachi wouldn't have used Totsuka Sword to seal Orochimaru into a Genjutsu world.

And Kuroto also thinks that aside from sealing, there is no other method to restrict Orochimaru, no matter what approach you use, he will come back.

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Converging his thought on the impossibility of Orochimaru dying, Kuroto focused his attention on Itachi and asked, "Who else knows that you have awakened Mangekyou Sharingan?"

Itachi thought a little, the replied, "Other than Oto Yumie, who is now dead, and probably Shinno, only you know of this fact Kuroto-san."

Kuroto was surprised by Itachi's reply, "You did not even inform Shisui of this fact?"

"Ho-san said that I must not inform anything related to assessment to anyone, not even to Shisui-san, so I did not mention about this secret to Shisui-san." – said Itachi.

Kuroto smiled lightly, then nodded, "And why did you not inform Uchiha Patriarch about this? Aside from being your father, he is also the Patriarch of Uchiha Clan? I don't think you have any reason to doubt him, am I right Itachi-Kun?"

Itachi nodded then said, "True, I do not have any reason to doubt Otou-san, but given the improving situation of Clan, I do not want to break the balance by revealing the appearance of another Uchiha who has awakened Mangekyou Sharingan. Moreover, since I am going to be a member of Amatsukami, so it is best that I am not the center of all attention."

Itachi obviously carefully analyzed many things over the course of the past few months, and then reached this conclusion.

Both Akatsuki and Amatsukami have repeatedly shown terrifying power, something neither Konoha nor Uchiha Clan would be able to resist should then not resolve their internal conflicts. Therefore, both parties are left with no choice but to forcefully resolve their internal contradictions and fight with external enemies as a united front. This is their only option to ensure their survival.

But if this balance in strength is again broken, and if one side starts becoming dominant then contradictions will again appear, which is not something that Itachi wants to see.

Kuroto agreed, "I suppose that's true."

Itachi said, "By the way, Kuroto-san, did Ho-san, or perhaps should I call her Tsukihi-san? Did she really sacrifice herself in the fight against Shinno?"

Kuroto did not answer but instead questioned, "What do you think did she die?"

Itachi shook his head, "I don't think that she is dead, from all the information about her battle with Shinno, there was no mention of her using the Susanoo, so I believe that she did not use all her strength, as such it is very likely that she is alive."

Kuroto nodded, "Right she is very much alive, there are two reasons why she faked her death, firstly to let the people of Akatsuki think that she is dead, and second was to help the Uchiha Clan uplift their lost reputation. And I would like to think that both of her purposes were achieved."

"And what about the rumor of her being a secret member of Konoha Military Police Force, is that really true?" – questioned Itachi.

"That's just a rumor, if you want to know her origins, I think it would be best to ask her yourself on your next mission together, I think she will be willing to satiate your curiosity if she feels like it." – said Kuroto.

Itachi nodded, although he wasn't much interested in her background. As long as she doesn't have any harmful intention towards the Village and the Clan, everything is fine.

At this time, Itachi suddenly caught something in Kuroto's words and asked, "In our next mission together? Does that mean I have passed the assessment?"

Kuroto nodded with a chuckle, "Right, since you have awakened Mangekyou Sharingan so you have successfully passed the assessment. Therefore, you are now an official member of Amatsukami, your code will be the same as was mentioned to you before, that is, Ho Musubi. And as for your Amatsukami disguise, it will be sent to you along with the detail of your missions. And even though I know that I do not need to remind you but I will say it, be ready and do not drop your training as you have still much to improve."

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At the Root Base.

While Kuroto and Itachi discussed many things related to the rules of Amatsukami, Shimura Danzo was staring at the pair of severed limbs stored within the glassware.

It can be said that the previous sneak attack on Uchiha Shisui was the closest he had ever come to Mangekyou Sharingan. And he only needed to get a bit more time to get his hands on Kotoamatsukami.

Unfortunately, there was a seal placed on Shisui's eyes that hindered for a moment and the other two members of team-11 took that opportunity to take away Uchiha Shisui.

Later when he learned that was Hyuga Kuroto who placed that seal on Shisui's eyes Danzo was really angry at that Hyuga brat. But this also explained why were Shisui's eyes not stolen by members of Amatsukami.

Danzo could only sigh, even though all three members of team-11 somehow or other get in his way to get Kotoamatsukami in his hands, he was helpless as he could not do anything to them because they have Hiruzen's protection.

Especially that Hyuga Kuroto, both Hyuga Clan and Orochimaru would be offended if something were to happen to him, and since Danzo is in a cooperative relationship with Orochimaru so he can't afford to break away from him at this point. There is also the fact that he has already offended the Uchiha Clan to the bones so further offending the Hyuga Clan would disadvantageous for his further selection to the position of Hokage.

As for Hatake Kakashi? Hiruzen would have been deeply annoyed should something happen to Kakashi, as Hiruzen is slowly and steadily cultivating Hatake Kakashi to be Minato's successor.

Then there is Might Guy. Well Since the other three kids have become sort of untouchable for him, so Danzo simply left Might Guy alone, besides there's nothing he would gain by eliminating that fool.

Fortunately, his status was not much affected by his action of trying to kill Uchiha Shisui, as Uchiha Shisui was a possible suspect of being the assassin who attempted to assassin Hokage. But he was reprimanded nonetheless and was ordered to keep his hands away from Uchiha Clan, much to Danzo's displeasure.

But it doesn't really matter. Currently, he is focused on other things. He has to improve his combat power and only then will he be able to obtain the throne of Hokage from Hiruzen and only then will he be able to put the entire Konoha in his hands and make it the greatest Shinobi Village.

At this time, one of the researchers wearing those unique white lab coats walked over to him and passed a file, "Danzo-sama, this is the analysis report you wanted."

The researcher's words broke Danzo out of his thoughts, taking the file in his hands, Danzo briefly glanced at the data, then his face turned into a deep scowl, "These values are all wrong, how can you make so many errors in a simple analysis?"

The researcher wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead, and hurriedly explained, "Danzo-sama, we have repeatedly checked and verified this data, and these are perfectly accurate values. The cells we extracted from those severed limbs are simply inhuman… they are... they are…!"

He wanted to use a better term to describe his thoughts but no word came to his mind that accurately described the condition of those cells.

Danzo's face sank, he reread the report carefully, then muttered to himself, "Human cells are impossible to survive at such life values, just how did Hiruko achieve such a feat?"

When Shimura Danzo heard that Hiruko somehow created and completed a technique that could help him plunder other's Kekkei Genkai and the fact that he actually used that technique to plunder off five Kekkei Genkai, including Uchiha's Sharingan, Danzo was shocked, but he was crazier and more jealous.

Danzo feels that such a miraculous technique is simply a waste in the hands of useless and foolish people like Hiruko, and only he who has the glorious dream of uniting the entire Shinobi world should have such a technique in their hands. But unfortunately, he doesn't but does that mean he can obtain it?

Of course, he can!

So to get his hands on that technique, Danzo immediately collected samples of those severed limbs left behind by Hiruko then summoned the researchers of the root department to study them and figure out a method to recreate that technique.

However, the first step of the process has yet to proceed as the life values of those cells are too contrasting from human standards, it's as if those cells do not even belong to humans, and therefore, no progress can be made. As their level of technology simply does not support those life values.

Di… Di… Di Di Di Di Di Di Di… Beep… Beep… Beep… Beep Beep Beep...

At this moment the reading displayed by the instruments started to go chaotic, and soon alarming sirens sounded.

Danzo did not panic, as the source of these alarms was right inside the glassware.

Through the glassware, Danzo could clearly see that the cells stored within the glassware suddenly started to swell and in just a few moments their volume expanded hundreds of times like cancer cells.

Crack…

The glassware could no longer hold them and started to crack as those cells started to break free.

The researchers standing around tried various ways to stop this sudden change but nothing they did worked as the cracks continued to expand.

Crack… Crack… Crack… Crack... Crack… BOOM...!

And not long after those meatballs exploded, damaging the surroundings.

With the only clue that he had in front of him to get his hands on Hiruko's technique now destroyed, Danzo's cold face became gloomier. In anger, he swept his crutch and smashed all these instruments in front of him.

While Danzo roared in anger, the researchers standing around just gulped nervously, they did not dare to even breathe much less speak something or move. Obviously worried that they might become Danzo's next target to relieve his anger.

After a while of venting out, Danzo finally calmed out and took deep breaths, by now the room was nothing short of a horror site. But did Danzo care? Obviously no! He simply waved his hands, signaling for the researchers to get out, then summoned one of his loyal Root Shinobi, and said, "I want to know Hiruko's whereabouts!"

The Root ninja immediately replied, "Yes Danzo-sama, we are already investigating his whereabouts, as soon as we obtain any intelligence, we will deploy our assassination team!"

As soon as he heard the Root Shinobi's words, Danzo immediately held the Root Anbu by the neck, smashing his back on the sidewall, he roared, "Who said I want to assassinate him? What I want is his technique, use every means at our disposal, buy it if you have to, torture it out if you have to, but get me that damn technique!"

The root Shinobi was panicked, but he was also having difficulty in breathing, so he was unable to immediately reply. But Danzo did not want to wait and again smashed him back at the wall, "Am I clear!?"

"Y-*cough* yes…*cough* I will...*cough* will arrange it right… *cough* away!" The root shinobi coughed out blood but repeatedly nodded as his life depended on it because it really did, he was in a situation where he felt that if he said anything otherwise then he wouldn't be able to live a minute longer.

Danzo nodded, and threw oof this root shinobi towards the gate, "Now go, and do not dare to show your face in front of me unless you have some useful clue!"

The root Shinobi did not dare to question and just disappeared.

With the room returned to silence, Danzo muttered, "Where in the hell is Orochimaru? Why has he not done what I asked him to do?"

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On the way to his home, Kuroto thought, 'Compared to Shisui, Itachi is really more cautious.'

During their conversation, Itachi revealed his Mangekyou Sharingan, and even if Kuroto is the only person he has revealed this secret to, and even if Itachi is willing to completely trust Kuroto. He still did not mention his Mangekyou Sharingan abilities at first.

It was only after Kuroto asked Itachi about the description of the battle between him and Oto Yumie that Itachi briefly mentioned Amaterasu, as for the other technique he still chose to remain silent.

And this is a very good thing, and Kuroto is also the same.

No matter how trusted one person is, Kuroto will never reveal all his cards to others.

One should never reveal all their cards even to their trusted individuals because trust is both precious and fragile at the same time. Moreover, this matter is not even about trust, it's more about reassurance and cautiousness.

Even if the people you trust do not want to betray you and do not want to give away intelligence on your abilities, there are countless methods others can utilize to get their hands on that intelligence. Hostage-taking, Mind Control, et cetera are just a few of the known methods. So, it's always best to keep your secrets to yourself.

Not long after, Kuroto returned to his home.

At this time, Taruho returned the Ryuumyaku Gourd Artifact, then knelt before Kuroto, and spoke, "I am very grateful for everything that you have done for us, Kuroto-sama!"

Kuroto nodded, and after taking the Gourd in his hands, he sensed that the remnant spirit of Miko-sama that was staying within the Gourd was no longer there, which means that, "Miko-sama, she…"

Taruho nodded sadly, as a trickle of tear escaped his eyes, which he wiped away instantly.

This meant that after her last conversation with her daughter, Miko-sama's spirit body collapsed and she finally departed from this world to the afterlife.

Kuroto was silent, he tied back the gourd around his waist, then asked after a while, "Where is Shion-chan?"

Taruho replied, "After seeing Miko-sama, Shion-sama cried a lot and just fell asleep."

Kuroto nodded and immediately took out the bell artifact Miko-sama gave to him, and said, "Miko-sama should have mentioned this bell to Shion-chan, give this to her, and instruct her to always keep it close to her. This bell will seal Shion's power, as well as also protect her from Moryo, and Shinno, neither of them would be able to sense her position."

Taruho quickly took the bell from Kuroto's hands, with a nod, "Yes, I will pass this on to Shion-sama!"

Kuroto asked again, "With that out of the way, tell me Taruho-Kun, what are your plans now?"

Taruho said without any hesitation, "As per Miko-sama's instructions, everything is subject to your arrangements, Kuroto-sama."

Kuroto nodded, "Alright then let's do it this way. For the time being both of you will live in my house until Shinno's threat is resolved." – After a pause, Kuroto continued, "As for Shion's education, I will await for Sandaime-sama's instructions, but one thing is decided, which is that next year Shion will enroll in the ninja academy."

Although Yomi was killed by Kuroto, Shinno is still there who has swallowed Moryo's power and will definitely come after Shion again, and given the fact that an entire Akatsuki is standing behind Shinno, Shion's safety is obviously not assured.

There is obviously no point in sending both of them back to the Land of Demons, as that country is almost destroyed so there is nothing left there. So Shion will be living in Konoha closer to him that way he would be able to better protect her.

As for the reason why Kuroto intends to enroll her into the ninja academy, this decision was also made after careful consideration because of various reasons.

First is that Konoha's ninja academy is undoubtedly the best compared to the education system of other villages, aside from teaching basics of Shinobi training, there are also a lot of extracurricular and cultural classes that have been designed to cultivate the character of their Shinobi.

So, this will save a lot of trouble for Kuroto to personally educate Shion about various things that she can learn from the academy.

The second reason is that Shion must learn to control her powers, so she definitely needs a strong foundation, there is also a need for companionship, which she will make at the academy.

The third is that Shion is heir to the throne of Miko of the Land of Demons. So, it is natural that Sandaime will monitor her very closely, so enrolling her into the academy would be the best method to dispel many of Sandaime's worries.

"One more thing, I will have Yui instruct Shion-chan in etiquette and other teachings, like 'Flower Arrangement,' 'Tea Ceremony,' 'Calligraphy,' 'Classical Dance' etc that a woman of her status must be proficient in, so make sure that Shion-chan is prepared for everything, understand?" – Kuroto said.

Taruho nodded.

After instructing a few more things, Kuroto went out again. This time he bought a few flowers at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, along with some fruits, and then went to the direction of Konoha Hospital.

After confirming the ward number where Hatake Kakashi and Might Guy were admitted, Kuroto walked over.

In their hospital room, Guy put one hand which was plastered behind his back, and was doing one-hand push-ups.

While Kakashi was lying on the bed flipping the pages of a certain book.

Kuroto put the fruit basket on the side bench, and asked, "So, un, how are both of you?"

"997… 998… 999… 1000!" – As soon as he completed a thousand pushups, Guy immediately jumped up, and while waving his hand excitedly he said, "Do not worry Kuroto, such meager injuries would never stop the flames of my youth to burn as fiercely as ever."

Kuroto nodded awkwardly, "Right."

Then Guy immediately took an apple from the fruit basket and took a big bite of it.

Meanwhile, Kakashi just nodded, and after the book he was reading he said to Kuroto, "Kuroto, there is something I want to talk to you about."

Kuroto nodded, "Alright, then let's go to the rooftop!"

Soon both of them came to the rooftop.

A light wind was blowing the drying sheets. The wind was also blowing Kuroto and Kakashi's hair.

At this time, Kakashi looked at Kuroto and asked, "Kuroto, I heard from Hokage-sama that you went to the Land of Demons, so is Miko-sama still alive or…?"

Kuroto said directly, "She is dead, killed by Yomi and Shinno."

"And what about the Land of Demons?" – asked Kakashi.

"The Land of Demons is almost destroyed, most of the population of that country is dead." – added Kuroto.

Kakashi was silent, if you think about it, the destruction of Land of Demon is their team-11's responsibility. Their team was responsible for eliminating Yomi, but they failed, he should have died from Kakashi's attack, yet he did not, and now this happened.

"And what about her daughter?" – Kakashi asked.

"She is in Konoha, she was entrusted to me by Miko-sama, and she will stay here until she feels she is ready to face everything." – answered Kuroto.

Kakashi was silent, Kuroto did not say much, he knew that Kakashi was probably blaming himself for failing to eliminate Yomi at that time, but there was nothing he could have done, nobody had known what secrets Yomi had hidden within him.

After a while Kakashi sighed, then said, "As for the seal on Shisui's eyes, I take that you placed it, right? Kuroto were you aware of…?"

Kuroto nodded, "Considering who my Jonin Sensei was, there are many things I have known as such I had warned Shisui of that matter beforehand and also took the necessary precautionary measures to safeguard his Mangekyou Sharingan. After all, that technique can mess with anyone's mind, it's too dangerous if it falls into the hands of people who should not have it."

Kakashi nodded, at this time, Kakashi's expression also sharpened, and said, "By the way, this time the masked man who tried kidnapping Uzumaki Naruto was very strong, he had mastery over some type of Space-time Jutsu, as such we have to be more careful from now on!"

Kuroto nodded, he has already learned the entire story from Shisui. The fact that Obito dared to reveal himself has almost freaked out Kuroto. The progress of events has completely changed from the story, and Kuroto has no choice but to deal with the matters more cautiously.

"So, what are the next arrangements of Uzumaki Naruto's protection?" – asked Kuroto.

Kakashi sighed, "It hasn't been decided yet, because of our injury, Uzumaki Naruto is under the protection of Hokage Guards, but that will soon change… regardless of the approach that Sandaime-sama deploys, the identity of Naruto being the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi has become Akatsuki's knowledge, and it would be best to assume that Amatsukami too is aware of this information!"

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After leaving the Konoha Hospital, Kuroto strolled on the streets.

Because several blocks have to be rebuilt, Konoha at this time has become a large construction site again, and the streets are full of carts transporting building materials.

Fortunately, Sandaime-sama issued an emergency on that night and evacuated most of the villagers so even though a lot of buildings were destroyed, the casualty count was still quite less.

Of course, Kuroto also played a large part in resolving Shinno's threat, otherwise, even if the villagers were evacuated, there is a high possibility that they wouldn't have been able to escape the pursuit of the Ghost Army.

With these thoughts in his mind, Kuroto quietly came to his secret laboratory.

To be honest, Hiruko's success in the Kekkei Genkai Absorption Ritual about ten years earlier than it was supposed to happen has really disrupted all of Kuroto's plans, making him feel exhausted and troubled for the past few months.

And what worries him more is that as Hiruko's strength and fame rise more and more, people all over the shinobi world will also try to get their hands on Chimera Technique, because the potential of Chimera Technique if succeeds is too high, so no one will deny that this technique is really capable of changing the Shinobi World.

"I have to obtain this Chimera Technique as soon as possible!"

Initially, Kuroto was not in a hurry, because there was always Shinno who would be willing to sell this technique to Shinichi or someone else with enough of a price.

But since Kuroto as 'Uchiha Tsukihi' disrupted Shinno's plan of swallowing Shion, as well as injured Shinno quite a lot, so Shinno would be unwilling to sell Chimera Technique to Shinichi, because it was Shinichi's subordinate who disrupted his plans.

As such this direct channel is obviously not going to work.

"I still have that one option, but it would be best to visit Orochimaru prior to that, firstly I will be able to confirm his state before commencing that plan, and maybe try to see if Orochimaru is willing to give Chimera Technique to me at a low price" – muttered Kuroto.

After making up his mind, Kuroto created a Shadow Clone to cover for his absence and then secretly left the village.

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Two days later, Land of Sound.

Kuroto was walking through a dense forest of the Land of Sound.

At this moment, Yakushi Kabuto came out from behind a tree, and after greeting Kuroto, he said, "Orochimaru-sama is waiting for Kuroto senpai, please follow me."

Kuroto nodded, and then followed Kabuto.

Not long after Kuroto was in the underground laboratory of Orochimaru, and saw Orochimaru sitting on a stone chair with bandages wrapped all over his body.

Although Kuroto did not activate his Byakugan, it did not stop him to sense the strangeness within Orochimaru. Kuroto was able to sense the presence of some sort of discomfort within Orochimaru's body.

This kind of feeling may have been difficult for others to detect, but not for Kuroto, as he is already very familiar with the soul and body. Whenever there is aversion between body and soul such a feeling of discomfort arrives.

'It seems Orochimaru has suffered more than I expected!' – thought Kuroto.

"Cough-cough…" – Looking at Kuroto's thoughtful face, Orochimaru coughed to attract Kuroto's attention and said in a hoarse voice, "Kuroto-kun, I wonder why you suddenly decided to pay me a visit?"

Kuroto asked tentatively, "What happened to your body?"

Orochimaru chuckled, "Sigh, the kid from Uchiha Clan is the cause."

Although Orochimaru seems to laugh it off as something casual, Kuroto, however, was able to sense Orochimaru's gloomy aura when he said so.

"Uchiha Itachi, huh…?" – after a pause, Kuroto Said, "He is obviously not an ordinary Uchiha."

Kuroto's words seemed to bring back some painful memories, and an indescribable expression flashed in Orochimaru's eyes. But this expression was fleeting and soon disappeared.

At this time, Orochimaru asked, "I wonder why you suddenly came here?"

Kuroto directly expressed his reason, "For Chimera Jutsu!"

Orochimaru said with a smile, "I shouldn't be surprised, you came to look for me in such a hurry, it must have been for the Chimera Technique."

There was no need to hide his intentions, and Kuroto nodded with a smile, "So, you have it, right?"

As far as Kuroto understands Orochimaru, it is obvious for Orochimaru to have it. Even if Orochimaru disdains Hiruko he wouldn't mind getting his hands on a magical technique like the Chimera Technique which is capable of plundering others' Kekkei Genkai.

This fact can be clearly highlighted from Orochimaru's actions, when he personally went to observe Hiruko's ritual, even if as a woman.

Orochimaru weighed Kuroto's words, then said, "Right, I do have the original version of Chimera Technique, but I have to warn you that the success of Hiruko in plundering other's Kekkei Genkai is not solely because of this technique, other techniques were also involved."

Although Kuroto knows this, he still asked curiously, "He also developed other Kinjutsu to help him?"

Orochimaru shook his head contemptuously, "No, being able to create something like Chimera Technique took most of his time so I don't think he had enough energy left to develop other Kinjutsu. Hehehe… I also heard that he lost to old man this time even after succeeding in his ritual, which is ridiculous…" – After mocking until here, Orochimaru continued, "He was able to survive until the end and complete the ritual because of two other Kinjutsu, one of them being Secret Technique of Physical Regeneration which he got from Shinno while the other being, Dark Medical Ninjutsu that he obtained from someone named Yomi from Land of Demons."

Kuroto thought, 'Hiruko used both the Techniques? I thought it was only Dark Medical Ninjutsu, but it appears that I was wrong…'

After pondering a little, Kuroto asked, "What price do I have to pay to get 'Chimera Technique' as well as 'Dark Medical Ninjutsu'?"

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Meanwhile in the Land of Rain, at Amegakure, inside Akatsuki's Base.

Tendo Pain looked into the distant sky and asked, "So, the objective was a failure this time?"

Madara shrugged helplessly.

Pain said indifferently, "Stop doing such meaningless actions."

In Tendo Pain's eyes, the actions of Madara to induce civil strife in Konoha are all meaningless. Pain's philosophy is pretty simple, that is, to suppress all forms of dissatisfaction and conflicts with absolute strength, pain, and fear. Only when people experience's others' pain can they ever hope to understand other's pain and only then will peace prevail over war.

Madara didn't answer Pain's words, instead, he said, "Shinno is hiding something, for that 'something' he decided to carry out unauthorized actions which exposed him to the people of Konoha and gave away the presence of the third party, so overall, it was because of his actions that the plan failed."

Pain frowned, and said, "I will have Hiruko investigate him."

When Hiruko was mentioned, Madara thought a little and said, "Hiruko seriously lacks in combat experience, you would better send him to perform some tasks, the way he lost this time was too ridiculous… I don't want to see his potential being wasted."

Standing at the top of the Rain tower, Pain lifted both of his hands and said, "It does not matter, soon Gedo Mazo will be ready, and we can finally start collecting the nine Bijuu… once Juubi is resurrected nothing will stop Akatsuki from bringing peace to the Shinobi World."

Madara reminded, "Do not forget Amatsukami, they have remained silent for a while now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they act suddenly… they have already declared that their next goals are the nine Bijuu, we will need as much manpower as we can to deal with Amatsukami."

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Kuroto calmly looked at Orochimaru, patiently waiting for his answer.

"My condition is very simple, I want Uchiha Itachi. Earlier I wanted Uchiha Tsukihi, but now that she is dead, I want Uchiha Itachi. Bring Uchiha Itachi to me, and I will give you any and all technique that you want from me, of course, Chimera technique and Dark Medical Ninjutsu being part of that condition." – It seemed Orochimaru was speaking in a casual tone, but the slight change in his expression was not hidden when he mentioned Uchiha Itachi.

'Sigh, I should have known that he has not suffered enough to forget Sharingan…' – thought Kuroto.

If before, Orochimaru was after Uchiha Tsukihi because of his instincts telling him that it would have been worth it, but now that Uchiha Tsukihi is dead, and given the fact that Orochimaru is aware of Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan so it is obvious that now he is after Uchiha Itachi.

Besides, Itachi's indifference, coldness, and ruthlessness must have seriously wounded Orochimaru's pride, so it is not strange that Orochimaru is now pursuing Itachi's body.

Sighing at the impossible dream of his Sensei, Kuroto said with a bitter smile, "You are overestimating me Sensei… If… even you couldn't defeat Uchiha Itachi, then who am I in front of him?"

Orochimaru sneered, "Kuroto-Kun, I may not know your abilities, but I perfectly understand that so long as you are truly willing, you can find a way."

Kuroto smirked, "Maybe you are right, but I do not have such an early death wish, and I have a piece of advice for you too Orochimaru-sama, but you may not like to hear it."

Orochimaru said, "Try me, let's hear it."

"I would suggest that you give up on Uchiha Itachi." – pausing till here, Kuroto continued, "You are staring at him just like an injured mouse stare at a cat, the result is pretty obvious."

Kuroto is not satirizing Orochimaru, but it is a piece of serious advice for Orochimaru from Kuroto.

If Orochimaru really wants to take over Uchiha Itachi's body, firstly he will have to subdue Itachi in a battle.

Even if Orochimaru somehow manages to do so, the last step of devouring Itachi's soul is still unavoidable. So, a battle of the soul will obviously break out between the two parties, which is something Orochimaru would lose without a doubt.

Why? Because Orochimaru lost the same battle against Uchiha Sasuke in the original series, compared to Sasuke who only had a three tomoe Sharingan at that time, Itachi with Mangekyou Sharingan will be multiple times difficult opponent, not to mention Itachi will not leave a danger conscious remain within his body.

So Orochimaru's defeat is decided even before he would try something.

But who would explain Orochimaru such a thing, Kuroto obviously won't, and Orochimaru naturally did not take Kuroto's advice kindly? As soon as he heard Kuroto's words, his expression shrank, "Kuroto-kun, it seems that even you have begun to look down on me."

Kuroto shook his head in denial, "No, sensei, I have never underestimated you, not once in my life. But I think that you should not waste your time on something impossible, and if you are so adamant about obtaining Sharingan why not change your goal to someone else? Anyway, there are so many Uchiha clansmen in the Uchiha Clan. Why do you always target the most difficult ones?"

"Humph, It seems that you have forgotten many of your old experiences so it seems that there is a need to remind you of them!" – After a snort, Orochimaru continued, "Forget it, if you want to those techniques, my conditions are the same. Bring Uchiha Itachi to me, and you can have them."

Kuroto was silent now, he was calculating many things.

Kuroto knew that Orochimaru would not understand his kindness unless he suffers heavily.

Seeing Kuroto's silence, Orochimaru smirked, and said, "Of course, you can also try to steal these scrolls from me, if you want to."

After a long silence, Kuroto sighed, "You are my Sensei, and you have protected me from many things. Even if I want to obtain Chimera technique so badly, I still have my bottom line, so I am not going to do it." – Leaving this sentence, Kuroto did not wait for Orochimaru's reply, he directly turned over and disappeared.

A few seconds after Kuroto left, Yakushi Kabuto walked out of the shadows, and said, "Orochimaru-sama, it seems that we were able to fool him."

"Cough-cough…" – Orochimaru coughed out violently, wiping away the blood from the corner of his mouth, Orochimaru said with a sulky look, "Unfortunately that isn't the case. Hyuga Kuroto easily saw through my bluff, do not look down on him, the current him is a younger version of myself. From the way he acted in my presence, I can be certain that he saw through us."

Kabuto froze in surprise, "Then why did he not act?"

Orochimaru groaned a little and said, "Perhaps he has some other means to obtain the technique, or maybe…"

"Maybe?" – Kabuto asked in confusion.

"Nothing, by the way, how was the investigation on Yomi's whereabouts?" – asked Orochimaru changing the subject.

Kabuto answered, "He has gone missing, Miko's Shrine is also destroyed, so the most likely conclusion is that he is dead."

"Who could it be?" – Orochimaru muttered thoughtfully, then asked, "What about Miko's daughter? If I recall correctly, she is in Konoha, right?"

Kabuto nodded, "Yes, she is in Konoha, in fact, you would be surprised to hear that she is under Hyuga Kuroto's protection."

"Oh? That's surprising." – muttered Orochimaru.

"In fact, I also heard that during the chaos a few days ago, Hyuga Kuroto was not in Konoha as he was personally assigned a mission by Sandaime Hokage, and another Kunoichi was temporarily placed in team-11. If I have to guess then it is most likely the Land of Demons where Hyuga Kuroto went in that period, so Yomi was most likely killed by Hyuga Kuroto." – added Kabuto.

Orochimaru nodded, "That explains why Kuroto-kun was not surprised at the mention of Dark Medical Ninjutsu, he probably has some understanding of that Kinjutsu. Anyway, clear off all of his connection with his visit to the Land of Demons, and to Yomi's death, and put the blame on Amatsukami. I do not want Akatsuki to go after Kuroto-kun in regards to Yomi's death, he is still not ready to face the likes of Akatsuki."

"Yes, it will be done." – Kabuto nodded, and proceeded to walk out of the laboratory, but suddenly came to a stop and asked, "By the way Orochimaru-sama, Shimura Danzo sent a messenger and wanted to know when will you commence with the plan?"

Orochimaru sighed, "Although I really want to fight Sandaime Hokage, it is still not the right time. Firstly, I need a new body so that I can play at my full strength, otherwise, it is unlikely that I would be able to get rid of the him."

Although the Kinjutsu 'Living Corpse Reincarnation' does make it impossible for him to die, not all bodies he takes over allows him to retain a hundred percent of his strength.

And the body he is in currently does not allow him to use a hundred percent of his strength, so fighting Sarutobi Hiruzen would be simply seeking death, which is not something Orochimaru would do, this is not his style.

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On Kuroto's side.

After leaving Orochimaru's laboratory, Kuroto started to devise his plan to obtain Chimera Technique.

Since Orochimaru is unwilling to give him the technique so next target is obviously Shinno. Kuroto has already thought up a plan, now it's time to implement it.

With everything decided Kuroto increased his speed and went in the direction of Konoha.

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Amegakure, Hiruko's laboratory.

"Ahhhh….!!!"

"Ahhhh….!!!"

"Ahhhh….!!!"

There were several painful cries from one of the sealed rooms in the laboratory. Even those listening from a distance could understand that the source of these screams was feeling devastating pain.

In the corridor, next to the sealed room, Shinno stood quietly, he was leaning on the wall and analyzing the seals placed on the gate in front of him.

Staring at his wristwatch, Shinno muttered, "It has already been seven hours, and this has now become a daily occurrence. It seems that the hidden dangers within Hiruko's body are quite bigger than he expected."

At present only, Shinno has noticed those hidden dangers, others in the Akatsuki are not aware of it.

"Hmm, it seems that the Chimera Technique is still not fully developed, and there are also flaws in Hiruko's approach to plunder others' Kekkei Genkai."

As a researcher and observer, Shinno has been able to notice many details that Hiruko himself has ignored, as such Shinno can conclude that there many flaws with Hiruko's approach.

Tap… tap… tap… tap…

Just when Shinno was able to consider other things, he suddenly heard footsteps.

Shinno immediately raised his guard and asked vigilantly, "Who is it?"

At this time, the person walked out of the shadow, and Shinno can finally see the person.

Seeing the person who walked in, Shinno's expression shrank.

"No need to be so tensed, it's just little ol' me." – said the person.

Shinno's face immediately turned cold, and he asked while gritting his teeth, "What do you want Uchiha Shinichi?"

That's right, the person who walked in was none other than Uchiha Shinichi.

And seeing Uchiha Shinichi, Shinno was obviously angered, after all, it was only because of Uchiha Shinichi's subordinate that his planned to swallow Miko's daughter failed.

"Ahhhhhhh...!!!" – When the two people stared at each other coldly, a heart-wrenching sound came a distorted hand appeared on the glass window, and lights in the corridor blinked.

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As soon as Shinichi arrived, he heard a painful cry so he was taken aback for a moment, and it seemed he forgot to say the thing he was here to say.

Shinno asked in annoyance, "This is experimental division, please leave!"

"Experimental Division?" – With a chuckle, Shinichi shook his head, not only did he not follow Shinno's words, but in fact, he walked closer to Shinno, and asked in wonder, "That scream just now sounded like Hiruko's, I wonder what's wrong with him!? You seem to have some idea; would you care to explain it to me?"

Shinno replied coldly, "I have got nothing to say to you!"

Shinichi did not care about Shinno's coldness, and he spoke with a Cheshire grin, "Oh, is that right? But I think you have plenty of explaining to do! For example, the little secret you have been trying to hide, I wonder what Pain would think when he hears about it."

Shinno squinted, and asked in confusion, "What secret?"

Shinichi grinned, "No need to act innocent, you know very well what I am talking about here, the other half, right? How did it feel to swallow the first half? Did you like it so much that you want to devour the other half too?"

Shinno's eyes widened, and his anger rose, "Are you trying to threaten me?"

"Maybe!?" – Shinichi said as his grin widened, "What do you think? Am I threatening you? Anyway, I have control over your fate, so if you want to think that I am threatening you, then so be it. I am threatening you. You killed my subordinate, although I don't really care about her life or death, I still have to make use of her death."

Shinno tried to suppress his anger, and asked while gritting his teeth, "What do you want?"

"I want 'Chimera Technique' along with 'Dark Medical Ninjutsu.' You went to the Land of Demon, and swallowed down the Demon Moryo, destroyed the whole country that has nothing to do with the conflicts of the Shinobi World. Pain may have ignored this act, but I wonder how he will react when he comes to know that you destroyed the organization's plan for your goal of swallowing Miko's daughter, and for what? Because you want can rule over the five Shinobi Villages. You are an ambitious guy I will give you that. And both you and I know that sooner or later you will defect just like Orochimaru did, I wonder what would…"

Shinno hurriedly interrupted Shinichi midway, "I will not accept any threat, I have already planned to confess this matter to the leader and the rest of the organization, so all your threats are meaningless."

Shinichi's lips arched, "Is that right? Then I will wait and leave you alone for a while now." – With that said, Shinichi turned around and started walking back.

Looking at Shinichi's back that was about to disappear, Shinno said, "I did not expect that someone like you, who has awakened Mangekyou Sharingan would be interested in a Kinjutsu like 'Chimera Technique,' even the prideful Uchiha Clan wouldn't hesitate to stoop so low in the face of power. It's really ironic."

Shinichi didn't stop, and while waving his hands, "Instead of worrying about what is ironic and what is not ironic, what you should worry about is how to confess this matter to Pain. Oh, one thing I forgot to remind you, recently I also got intel that your so-called research assistant Oto Yumie is none other than Orochimaru, and both of you have been in very tacit cooperation. You would better speak this matter too and hope that Pain spares you for repeatedly betraying the organization." – Leaving this sentence Shinichi disappeared.

But Shinno did not breathe a sigh of relief, especially after Shinichi mentioned 'Orochimaru.' The mere fact that Shinichi realized that Oto Yumie was Orochimaru really panicked Shinno.

After confirming that Shinichi had really left the base, Shinno muttered to himself, "Once all these matters are revealed even if the organization does not eliminate me, they will no longer trust me. if they find out that I have been in cooperation with Orochimaru and even dared to bring him to witness Hiruko's ritual, things will become very troublesome. In fact, they will also raise their guard against me. Always keep me under surveillance and my movements will be limited. And there is also no guarantee that Uchiha Shinichi would not expose me after I fulfill his condition."

Similar to Orochimaru, Shinno doesn't really have any attachment to Akatsuki.

Now that he has already exploited Akatsuki to his benefit, and his own safety is at stake, Shinno doesn't feel that Akatsuki could offer him anything more. Moreover, when the organization starts collecting Bijuu they will be in constant conflict with the five great shinobi villages and Amatsukami at the same time, which would be very troublesome to deal with for now.

After weighing up everything, Shinno concluded, "Maybe it's time to revive the Land of Sky!"

Since the Land of Demon is almost destroyed, and Miko is already dead, so the little girl Shion who is supposedly the next Miko is alone. Even if she is under Konoha's protection, so Shinno feels that as long as he is patient, he will have a perfect opportunity to devour her.

Now that he has decided to leave Akatsuki, so the first step is obviously to transfer all his things. But Shinno also knows that if he takes away everything then that could possibly alert others.

Understanding that Uchiha Shinichi won't give him much time, Shinno obviously cannot afford to take away everything. So he hurriedly packed up all the things that he found to be extremely important inside the storage scroll.

After everything was prepared, Shinno took a deep breath and after adjusting his mental state, he calmly walked towards the main tower of Amegakure where the leader of the organization stays.

Not long after, Shinno met with Pain.

Pain looked at Shinno, and asked indifferently, "What is the matter?"

Shinno said while maintaining a respectful tone, "Hiruko's injury is more serious than our initial expectations, so there is a need for some special materials. The problem is that those materials are so rare that they are not sold in the market, they can only be collected by going to specific locations. So, to treat Hiruko, I will have to leave the Land of Rain for a while."

To leave the Land of Rain, he must have a believable reason otherwise, without any mission assigned to him, Shinno can't leave the Land of Rain without alerting Pain. And since he is already under suspicion, coupled with Uchiha Shinichi ready to stab him at a moment's notice, Shinno understands that even if he has swallowed Moryo, he won't be able to escape the combined pursuit of Pain, Shinichi, Biwa Juzo, and Konan at the same time, not to mention that there will also be Zetsu who can track him.

So, using Hiruko's injury is an excellent excuse to make his way out of Land of Rain.

With Hiruko's current state, even if he survives those hidden dangers, it will take a long time of recuperation and cultivation for him to recover, so during that time, no one will doubt his whereabouts. And even a quarter of that time will be more than enough for Shinno to revive Land of Sky.

Pain nodded.

Shinno breathed a sigh of relief.

When he was about to turn around and leave, Konan who stood on Pain's side suddenly said, "Your emotions seem to be fluctuating, I would say you are nervous, why is that?"

Shinno reluctantly turned back, and explained with a bitter smile, "I do not understand this myself, but whenever I stand in the presence of the leader, I always get nervous, perhaps it is because of the pressure from those eyes, after all, the powers that the eyes of Rikudo Sennin give off is simply too much for anyone to be able to bear it head-on."

Konan snorted coldly, "I hope that you do not have any unnecessary thoughts like you did the last time and concentrate on things that you are supposed to be doing."

Shinno nodded quickly, "That time was my responsibility, please forgive me for outstepping my boundaries, there will be no next time."

"I hope so because there will no next opportunities." – Konan said.

"I assure you." – Shinno nodded.

With that said, Shinno excused himself, and after putting on Akatsuki's rain gear he galloped in the direction of Land of Fire.

Just a few moments after Shinno exited the building, Shinichi who stood on the balcony of one of the higher floors stared at Shinno's departing back, and muttered with a smirk, "Good luck out there Shinno!"

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Konohagakure.

Poof…

With a poof of white smoke, the very familiar greedy orange cat appeared in front of Kuroto.

Even before Kasai asked for money, Kuroto had already placed two thousand Ryo bills on the table out of habit.

"Nya, thank you for utilizing my service, here is your scroll!" – Kasai spoke, she lifted the two bills and passed the scroll to Kuroto.

Kuroto hurriedly unfolded the scroll, and after reading the content, Kuroto's lips arched, "It's about time I get myself a better laboratory."

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Because the three members of team-11 were seriously injured, so team-11 was given a short respite period by Sandaime-sama.

During this period, Kuroto also got the opportunity to finally meet Sandaime-sama and recited all the things he witnessed in the Land of Demons.

Sandaime sighed after hearing those, although he had already read the report submitted by Kuroto, hearing it is another thing. Destruction of an entire country is not something that can be taken lightly.

Finally, Sandaime said, "I will discuss this matter with the other Kages so you do not have to worry about these things, now what do you plan to do with the daughter of Miko?"

Kuroto answered, "Shion is the heir of Miko, so it is inevitable for her to inherit that position in the future. But considering the enemies, it would be best to enroll her in the ninja academy. In the academy, she will be able to build her foundation as a Kunoichi, while her other education will be conducted under my fiancé, Hyuga Yui's guidance."

Sandaime nodded, for the personal education of Miko's daughter, he didn't really care much. But he was happy that Miko's daughter will be enrolled in the ninja academy. Sandaime hopes that the future Miko of the Land of Demons would have friendly relation with Konohagakure. The authority of Miko of Land of Demon is unquestionable, so her being friendly with Konoha would obviously be advantageous for Konoha. Therefore, Sandaime had no reason to decline Kuroto's proposal.

In fact, he also said that he would make sure that the instructors at the academy take special care of Miko's daughter, befitting of her status.

Everything is for the benefit of Konoha, if the next Miko is under Konoha's debt so Konoha will continue to receive many missions from her. Which will ultimately improve Konoha's income.

After everything was cleared, Kuroto excused himself and spent some days strolling around the village along with Yui, Shion, and Taruho.

The objective was to make Shion familiar with the village, and also spend some personal time with Yui that he has been unable to do for quite a while.

One day he also brought Shion and Taruho to the center of the Hyuga Clan to introduce them to the Patriarch.

Although Shion's identity was concealed from most, the higher-ups of the Hyuga Clan were obviously aware of the existence of the daughter of Miko of the Land of Demons.

Hyuga Hizashi personally escorted Shion and Taruho and led her to the Patriarch, Hyuga Hiashi's mansion.

At this time, in the training field of Patriarch's House, two kids, one girl, and the other boy, both around the same age as Shion were fighting each other using Hyuga Gentle Fist.

The two kids were none other than Hyuga Hinata and Hyuga Neji.

The two kids stood opposite each other, and after a ceremonious bow, both of them took their respective stance and were ready for combat.

"Begin!" – Shouted the referee.

"Byakugan!" – Neji.

"Byakugan!" – Hinata.

Both of them activated their respective eyes almost at the same time.

"Be careful Hinata-sama!" – Neji said gently.

"Yes, Neji-nii-san!" – Hinata nodded.

With that Neji stopped talking and immediately started attacking.

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Among the spectators.

Kuroto smiled looking at Neji, 'Neji is really good for his age, in fact, I bet that he is even better compared to how strong he was at this age in the original story.'

Neji's talent is undoubtedly very good, at such a young age, he has already mastered, pace, rhythm, coordination, and basic chakra control required to practice Gentle Fist Taijutsu. And the reason why his strength is higher compared to his cannon counterpart is because of the presence of Hyuga Hizashi. Since he has not died, so Neji is constantly being trained and supervised by his father therefore, his strength is obviously better.

In contrast, there seems to be no change when it comes to Hinata, she is still weaker compared to Neji.

But it's not that Hinata's talent is bad, the main reason is a bit of reluctance within her. Hinata is a gentle girl, and that gentleness is stopping her to make the most out of her talent. This is also reflected here, and slowly flaws have started to appear.

Until Hinata hardens her resolve, she would not be able to accomplish what she is truly capable of.

Shion who sitting next to Yui tucked her sleeve and asked in a low whisper, "Yui-sensei, why are both of them only using Taijutsu? Aren't ninjas supposed to use all kinds of Jutsu, like… like… throw Shuriken, use swords, breathing out fire, controlling earth, and water et cetera."

Yui nodded slightly, and explained, "True, but not everyone uses everything."

Shion questioned curiously, "Why?"

Yui answered, "Well it's because ninjas are also of various types with different fields of expertise, and everyone uses has their own unique style of combat that suits them the best, what you are seeing there is a Hyuga-Style Taijutsu. It is called Gentle Fist. Our Hyuga Clan specializes in this form of combat method."

Shion nodded as if she understood, she asked, "Can I also learn it?"

Yui asked curiously, "Why do you want to learn Gentle Fist Taijutsu?"

Shion answered with sparkling eyes, "Well, Kuroto Onii-chan and sensei are Hyuga so you must also know Gentle Fist Taijutsu, so I was wondering if I could also learn it too? I want to become like Onii-chan!"

'Kawaii!' was Yui's first thought as she looked at Shion, but she immediately recollected herself and after putting one finger over her cheek she said, "Theoretically speaking you can indeed learn Gentle Fist Taijutsu Style, however, in practice, it wouldn't be feasible for you Shion-chan. The Gentle Fist of the Hyuga Taijutsu highly relies upon Byakugan, that is our Clan specific Kekkei Genkai, and our innate ability to expel chakra from all our Tenketsu.

Putting aside our innate ability, Byakugan alone brings a worldly difference to our Gentle Fist style."

Shion asked in confusion, "What is Byakugan?"

Yui realized her mistake, and answered, "You have been in Konoha for a while now, and you must have noticed that many people living in this area of the Village have these white-colored eyes, right? These are called Byakugan, and almost all Hyugas have them. But that's the thing, only Hyugas have them. These eyes are necessary to be able to use Hyuga Style Gentle Fist. Without these, mastering Gentle Fist would be very difficult. So, you'd be far better off spending your time learning new Ninjutsu and still become much stronger."

"Oh…!" – Shion nodded with a pout.

Yui smiled slightly while looking at Shion's disappointed look, and she said lightly, "Don't worry Shion-chan, as I mentioned, there are still many other forms of combat, and you will definitely find something that will suit your style.

Of course, if you don't find something else, and if you are still adamant about learning the Gentle Fist despite how difficult it may be for you… then I definitely do my best to teach you."

Shion raised her head and asked expectantly, "Really?"

Yui nodded, "Mm-hmm, really."

Smash… Smash…

Plop…

At this time, Hinata was knocked out because of momentary carelessness.

Neji himself was taken aback, he expected Hinata to be able to dodge those palm strikes, but she didn't and now he was a bit panicked that Hinata may have gotten injured. So he hurriedly stepped forward to help get up.

"Do not help her, let her stand up by herself!" – At this time, a cold voice sounded from the spectator's side.

Neji froze, and he had to step back, his expression was at a loss.

While Hinata bit her lip and got up.

Hyuga Hizashi saw that Hinata was both tired and injured and he wanted to let Hinata take a break, Hiashi obviously couldn't voice out his thoughts, and Hizashi also understood that if he asked Hinata to take a rest then the elder sitting on the side would object.

Kuroto understood the dilemma of the two brothers, and volunteered, "Hiashi-sama, with your permission may I check up on Neji's progress?"

Hiashi was silent for a while, then nodded.

With a smile, Kuroto got up and walked to the court.

Taking advantage of the gap when Kuroto was instructing Neji, Hinata retreated with her injured arm and sat next to her father, who did not even bother to glance at her from beginning to end.

On Kuroto's side.

Neji ceremoniously bowed to Kuroto, and said respectfully, "Sensei, please advise."

Kuroto nodded, and said, "Attack with determination to kill, anything less than that is unacceptable, understand?"

Neji nodded, and after taking a deep breath his eyes turned serious and the veins around his eyes bulged.

Whoosh…

After activating his Byakugan, Neji fiercely rushed towards Kuroto and started a flurry of attacks.

From just the first few moments, it can be seen that he was holding himself back when fighting Hinata. But when fighting with Kuroto, Neji understood that he can go all out, as such his speed was faster, attacks were more precise, such that his arms had turned into afterimages.

However, all of Neji's effort was ineffective as his attacks couldn't even graze Kuroto who deflected all of his attacks with little ease. Kuroto did not even have to activate his Byakugan to be able to do so.

Kuroto only dodged or deflected Neji's attacks and also gave occasional advice.

"Huff… Huff…!!!" – Soon Neji could no longer keep up the same pace, and his breathing became rugged, but he still had a fighting spirit burning in his eyes.

Kuroto nodded and said, "You can go faster, can you not?"

Neji spoke, "I can, but in which case, my form will be improper, and pace will also be disturbed."

"True, form, and pace are two very important aspects of Gentle Fists. However, you must understand that having a good form and perfect pace would be of no use if you can not even touch your enemy, think about it, would they be of any use if your opponent can dodge it or block it all?"

Neji had a thoughtful look upon hearing Kuroto's words.

At this time, Kuroto glanced in the direction of the elders from the corner of his eyes. What he said just now was not just intended to be said to Neji, but also to the other Hyugas, including Hiashi and Hizashi brothers sitting on the side.

The education system of the Hyuga Clan is too rigid, which has caused the Hyugas to be highly restrained in their desired form of combat from early childhood. There are no variations from clansman to clansman. And this is clearly displayed in their rigid nature.

Take Hinata for example, Kuroto doesn't think that she is suitable for practicing Gentle Fist, however, she is forced to practice Hyuga Taijutsu, but because of her kind nature, she is unable to display the full potential of Gentle Fist. But instead of given proper guidance, she is scolded, met with cold eyes, and repeatedly looked down upon by others which has made her personality to be meek and weak.

Hyuga Clan was undoubtedly powerful, has existed for over a millennium but this ancient history has stopped its development. The times are changing, but Hyuga Clan has always been unable to keep up with these changes.

So much so that, Kuroto is the only one in his generation with strength at the level of a Kage, and among the females, there is only Yui, but even her strength is still far from being at the level of a Kage, maybe a quasikage?

Anyway, the overall strength of the Hyuga Clan has declined so much. Compared to the Uchiha Clan that has been causing storms all over the Shinobi World, and has been regarded as the strongest Shinobi Clan of this era, Hyuga Clan is nothing special.

In fact, Hyuga Clan is almost regarded as nothing more than a clan sensor shinobi, the Byakugan, one of the three Great Dojutsu is now only used for detection, which is laughable, considering that the Chakra Ancestor also has a pair of Byakugan, and Byakugan is one of the three great dojutsu.

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After the practice, Hyuga Hizashi pulled Kuroto to the side and asked sternly, "Kuroto-Kun, what did you mean when you spoke those things to Neji?"

Kuroto didn't answer but just smiled casually while looking in the distant moon that was not clearly visible because it was still daytime.

Hizashi frowned, and asked seriously, "Kuroto-Kun, do you have any objection in regards to the education system of Clan?"

Kuroto shook his head, "I won't say that I have any objection, but I do have some suggestions or perhaps should I say advices?"

"Advice? Like what?" – asked Hizashi.

After a while of silence, Kuroto said, "We of the Hyuga Clan shouldn't just focus on Gentle Fist, it is about time we start training the children of our clan in terms of other aspects of Shinobi arts, otherwise it would get more and more difficult for us to maintain our foothold in the shinobi world in the coming future."

Hizashi was silent, and then asked, "What other aspects are you suggesting?"

Compared to the more rigid clansmen of the Main House, Hyuga Hizashi as a member of the Branch House is more acceptable of the ideas of reform. However, because of his limited vision, Hizashi is also confused about where to start the reforms from.

Kuroto shrugged, "Of course start with the weakness of Hyuga Clan!"

"Our weakness?" – This time Hizashi was a bit confused. Gentle Fist of Hyuga Clan is so strong that few can dare to say that there is any weakness or shortcoming in it, as such he didn't quite understand what aspect was Kuroto referring to as the 'weakness' of the Hyuga Clan.

Seeing Hizashi's confused look, Kuroto sighed. He was honestly shocked that even people as experience as Hiashi are unable to see the weakness of Gentle Fist, or maybe even if Hizashi has noticed but he doesn't seem to want to accept it.

And seeing Kuroto's look, Hizashi directly asked, "Okay, just tell me, what is the weakness of Hyuga Clan?"

Kuroto stretched out his finger, "First, we cannot compete against Bijuu class enemies on an even footing."

Hyuga's Gentle Fist can literally render a shinobi useless for the rest of his life, or kill him in just a few shots but fighting a Bijuu class enemy? That's just unimaginable for the Hyuga Clansmen, as Gentle Fist will be pretty much useless in that level of battle.

Hizashi was a bit speechless, "Monsters of such level are simply not what normal shinobi can deal with, as such it is normal for us Hyuga to be unable to deal with Bijuu."

However, Kuroto shook his head and said, "That's not true and you know it, there are a lot of Uchiha who can subdue Bijuu class enemies. Why can't the Hyuga who are the bearers of one of the three great Dojutsu just like the Uchiha can not subdue Bijuu Class enemies?"

Hizashi was silent.

At this time, Kuroto stretched out another finger and continued, "We cannot deal with Uchiha Shinobi who can use Susanoo. Why is that? We Hyuga claim ourself be equal to the Uchiha Clan, then why is it that we are so weak in the face of Mangekyou Sharingan? Why treat Hyuga Clan as ordinary? Are Hyugas just meant to be used as Sensor Class? Because if that's really what we are hoping for then instead of competing with Uchiha Clan we should compete with Inuzuka Clan and the Aburame Clan. Because an Uchiha who can use later stages of Susanoo can destroy our Hyuga Clan in moments."

When faced with Susanoo, no matter how perfect Gentle Fist is, it is as weak as a twig.

In fact, Uchiha Sasuke mocking Hinata a few months ago is not just a child's ignorance. With the emergence of more and more Uchiha who have awakened Mangekyou Sharingan, Hyuga Clan, who used to be as strong as Uchiha Clan seems to be weaker and weaker as days pass.

Hizashi opened his mouth as if he wanted to retort Kuroto's statement but even after he thought a lot, he just couldn't think anything that would put up a solid argument.

When faced with that massive Susanoo, he, himself feels that he would be pretty much useless.

Kuroto didn't point out any more weakness, but said, "We Hyuga need more powerful ninjutsu, we need bigger Summon Beasts, we need to create stronger and more useful Fuinjutsu, we need to better exploit the advantages of our Dojutsu in different aspects of Shinobi arts that aren't just limited to Gentle Fist, for example, Iryo Ninjutsu, distant projectile attacks et cetera…

You also understand that the direction in which this shinobi world is headed is very chaotic… if the Hyuga Clan hopes to survive the upcoming storms then we need shinobi capable of dealing with those monsters otherwise, the Hyuga Clan too will fade away just like most of those clans that have faded away in the long river of time."

Kuroto has accurately worded out what he hopes for Hyuga Clan to improve.

Especially in the field of Summoning, Iryo Ninjutsu, and Fuinjutsu.

As a noble Shinobi Clan with a long history, it is impossible that Hyuga Clan does not have knowledge about the many Summoning Clans, and knowledge of stronger summons. And even if it isn't there, the Hyuga Clan can invest its resources in locating Summoning Clans and making pacts with them.

The same goes for Iryo Ninjutsu, Hyuga shinobi have Byakugan, therefore they hold the caliber to become some of the best Iryo Ninjutsu users, and yet there are close to no or very few Hyuga shinobi or Kunoichi who opts to practice Iryo Ninjutsu.

And Fuinjutsu is not much different, firstly we Hyuga have the ability to analyze the Chakra Flowing Mechanism in a seal, moreover, the Hyuga Clan were able to create Caged Bird Curse Seal, and yet there is close to no unique seals within the Hyuga Clan that can help its shinobi deal with enemies, this seems really ridiculous.

Gentle Fist is indeed impeccable. But that's also its weakness. It's not as versatile as Strong Fist. It limits Hyuga Shinobi to research and creates their own path, so there is almost no development or advancement within the Hyuga Clan.

Compared to Gentle Fist, Strong Fist seems to hold more potential even if it is in conjunction with another Kinjutsu.

Might Guy with his Strong Fist Taijutsu and Hachimon Tonkou was able to fight against Uchiha Madara, even if he didn't manage to kill Madara, but being called the strongest Taijutsu user by none other than Madara is no joke.

And even if we don't count that, Might Guy was still one of the strongest forces during the Fourth Great Shinobi War.

But what about the Hyuga Clan?

Hyuga Clan with their perfect Gentle Fist were nothing whether during Pain's Assault or during the later Fourth Great Shinobi War, the Hyuga was used as nothing more than Sensors who would detect and tell the status of fights. Everyone was basically cannon fodder class, they could be stomped any moment.

Is that what Hyuga Clan truly is?

Has Byakugan been reduced to nothing more than what Ninken and Bugs do?

Kuroto spoke in a deep voice, "Gentle Fist has what made Hyuga Clan one of the most prominent ones, but Gentle Fist is also what's restricting us and leading us to fade away, we should not forget that it was Hyuga Clan that made Gentle Fist not the other way around… we should not limit ourself to just a clan that specializes in Hyuga Taijutsu and sensing. It is time we change otherwise it will be too late to change ourselves."

Hizashi sighed, "I will think about this matter, but make sure that you do not speak of this to anyone as it could lead to issues."

Kuroto nodded and this time asked something casually, "By the way, does anyone in your knowledge of our clan has mastered Spirit Transformation Jutsu?"

Hizashi muttered, "Spirit Transformation Jutsu? There shouldn't be anyone within the Clan capable of using this Jutsu. As far as I know, there was only one shinobi known to use such a Jutsu and he has been dead for a very long time."

Kuroto nodded, he didn't really want to reveal what he saw during the Moryo's Raging as that would be counterproductive.

After that out of the way, Kuroto went back to Yui, Shion, and Taruho who were waiting for him.

Yui asked curiously, "Kuroto-kun, what were you talking with Hizashi-sama?"

Kuroto rubbed her head gently and said, "Don't worry just some casual updates, nothing too serious. You don't need to worry about these things for now."

Yui was silent for a while then nodded with a cheerful smile.

After that, the four went in the direction of Kuroto's house while talking and laughing.

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At the same time somewhere within the hinterlands of Land of Tea.

A shinobi wearing the forehead protector of an unknown shinobi village said, "Shinno-sama, we have transported almost all the materials."

Shinno nodded, "Very good."

The Shinobi asked, "Shinno-sama, this time are we finally going to stop hiding and take our revenge against Konohagakure?"

Shinno said while looking towards the distant moon that was yet not visible because it was currently day time, "Do not worry, the Land of Sky will rise soon enough, and under my command, we will rule over the entire Shinobi World." – The corners of lips arched as he continued, "With my ultimate weapon, I will bury Konoha!"

The shinobi who stood on the side was excited, "Is it finally the time? Are you going to use that to destroy Konohagakure?"

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"WOW!!!" – exclaimed Shion in excitement while she was sitting on Kuroto's shoulders.

Kuroto looked helpless, "Okay-okay, don't jump around so much otherwise you might fall."

"Kuroto-onii-chan, we are flying, we are really flying!" – But it seemed that the excited Shion completely ignored Kuroto's words, and clapped in excitement. Her mood was on cloud nine, and even if they both were flying so high, Shion didn't feel scared at all, rather she was more and more excited as Kuroto went higher and higher.

Kuroto said, "Remember what I told you before?"

To deal with Shinno, firstly the location of his hideout must be determined. Therefore, taking advantage of the cover of night, Kuroto left two clones in the village, one to cover his absence and the other to cover Shion's absence, and sneaked out of the village to determine Shinno's hideout.

And Shion is the only one who is capable of locating Shinno. With the hell of that bell, Moryo or Shinno would not be able to sense Shion, but Shion will still be able to feel Moryo's location.

Shion who was extremely excited by the experience of flying did not pay any attention to Kuroto's words, and said while pointing towards the moon, "The moon in the sky is so big and round from up close, it is so beautiful!"

Hearing Shion's words, Kuroto also looked towards Moon. He of course understands that Moon is more than Moon than just beautiful.

Because of Tenseigan, Kuroto can always feel some sort of connection or better yet, a resonance with the Giant Tenseigan on Moon.

But Kuroto has never dared to make a connection with the Giant Tenseigan.

The main reason is obviously the presence of the Otsutsuki Clan on the Moon.

Those people are nothing more than ignorant people who aim to destroy the Shinobi World because they misunderstand Hamura's ideals.

And Kuroto has no wish to stimulate the nerves of such lunatics as that would only prompt them to act earlier than they should according to the original story.

But Shion of course doesn't know of all this and said while excitedly pointing towards the moon, "Kuroto-onii-chan, Kuroto-onii-chan, can we go to the moon? Please!?"

Kuroto shook his head, "No, we cannot."

Shion's seemed a bit dejected, "B… But, why not?"

Kuroto said, "These wings of mine will not be able to carry us to the moon."

Shion looked at the pair of flapping purple wings with scales sprouting from Kuroto's back, then sighed.

Seeing Shion's disappointed expression, Kuroto grinned and said, "But maybe it will be possible for me to bring up a method through which we can go to the moon."

Shion's eyes lit up immediately, "Does that mean that someday we can go?"

Kuroto neither nodded nor denied, just said casually, "Maybe…"

However, that gave Shion some understanding, "Then-then, when can we go to the moon?"

Kuroto said with a smile, "Maybe in a few years. But even after I come up with a method, we still have to beat those bad people on Moon. When I beat the bad people on the moon, I will take you to play on the moon."

The Giant Tenseigan on Moon is very-very-very strong. Firstly, it contains Hamura's own Tenseigan as the core as well as Hamura's entire Chakra. Then it also contains the chakra of hundreds of thousands of Otsutsuki's who have existed on the Moon throughout the Millenia. As such it is without a doubt an extremely strong force.

In terms of Chakra Volume alone, it is hundreds or perhaps even thousands of times superior to Kuroto's own Chakra.

Therefore, unless Toneri acts as he did in the original story, Kuroto doesn't really have any confidence to take control of Moon unless he completed his grand plan and reaches the Kekkei Mora.

Shion asked, "How can there be bad people on the Moon?"

Kuroto questioned, "Who said there can't be bad people on Moon?"

Shion pouted and folded her hands over her chest, "Kuroto-onii-chan, you are making excuses, how can there be bad people on the Moon? Doesn't the Rabbit Goddess live on the moon? How can there be bad people there when she lives there?"

As soon as Kuroto heard Shion mention the Rabbit Goddess, he froze, "Shion-chan, who told you that the Rabbit Goddess lives on Moon?"

Shion said, "Of course it was Oka-san."

"M… Miko-sama told?" – Kuroto was more stunned, 'Did she knew of Otsutsuki Kaguya or was it just some sort of fairy tale?'

Kuroto can't be sure, if it was just some fairy tale then that's all there is to it as there are countless fairy tales about Rikudo Sennin, his brother, his mother Rabbit Goddess, and the God Tree, but if it was not just some fairy tale and Miko-sama intended for Shion to remember such information… then Kuroto doesn't even know what to think about it.

Deciding that he doesn't want to discuss this matter more as Shion probably doesn't understand this very deeply, Kuroto decided to divert the conversation, and said while pinching Shion's nose "maybe I am making excuses but we will talk all about that later, you remember why came here tonight, right?"

Shion nodded, "To find his location."

Kuroto said, "Good, now it's time to get to work, quickly try to sense the direction where Moryo is positioned."

Shion nodded and after sensing a little she pointed in the southeast, "He seems to be… to be in that direction."

Kuroto looked southeast and then asked, "How far is he in that direction?"

Shion thought a little and then said with a confused expression, "He is far, very very far away."

Kuroto nodded and thought, 'Southeast of the Land of Fire? Is it near the Land of Whirlpool? Or maybe near Land of Tea, Land of Soup, and around? If you travel far enough then that would be the Land of Water, so it has to be before that.'

In the original story, the Shinobi of Land of Sky launched an air raid on Konoha… and if Kuroto remembers correctly, the air raid was launched from the direction of sea to the east of the Land of Fire.'

'It seems that Shinno's current hideout is located somewhere in and around those island countries.' – thought Kuroto.

Thinking of this, Kuroto flew in that direction.

After crossing the border of Land of Fire, and traveling further, Kuroto stopped and waited for Shion to further confirm the direction.

Shinno sensed again and pointed.

Kuroto noted the direction and muttered, "That direction leads to the Land of Tea."

Understanding this, Kuroto did not hesitate and flew further, soon Sion said, "I can sense him getting closer and closer."

"Getting closer and closer? – Kuroto nodded and immediately landed on the ground as the purple wings behind his back disappeared.

At this time, he was standing within a dense forest, and all he can look at was land filled with trees.

Shion who was held in carrying by him suddenly hugged him closer, she buried her head in Kuroto's chest, her arms locked around Kuroto's neck and her body shivering in fear.

Kuroto has noticed this, the closer they have been getting to Shinno and Moryo, the more afraid Shion got. If not for being under Kuroto's protection, she might have already cried.

Kuroto gently rubbed Shion's back to ease her and said in a calming tone, "Do not worry Shion-chan, onii-chan is here, right? Nothing will happen to you."

Shion nodded lightly and asked in a low voice, "Onii-chan, after… after finding his hideout… can you… can really get rid of him?"

Kuroto immediately nodded, "Of course!"

Kuroto's words seemed to give some courage to Shion, and her shivering stopped.

With Shion calm, Kuroto traveled through the forest and soon located a post. While hiding himself and Shion so that nobody on from the watchtower would be able to spot either of them and then observed the situation through his Byakugan.

In the watch post, Kuroto saw a few shinobi wearing the forehead protector of the Land of Sky.

And he spotted many similar outposts through the forest. Two things were common in all of them, one being that all of them had shinobi of Land of Sky guarding, while the other being that they were transporting supplies.

By now, Kuroto no longer needed for Shion to point anything more, and he was already certain about many things. As such, he no longer stayed here and left with Shion.

After returning to the village, Kuroto made sure to make a pinky promise with Shion to keep their little adventure today a secret from everyone, including Yui sensei, Taruho, and Hinata-chan, Shion's newest best friend.

Shion of course complied and then went to sleep like the good girl she is.

While Kuroto sneaked out again, but this time, he went to the back forest of the Uchiha Clan and secretly summoned Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi.

As soon as the two arrived one-after-another, Kuroto decided to not waste either of their time and directly cut to the chase, "I have investigated the hiding place of Akatsuki Organization's Shinno."

Shisui perked up, "It's the guy who unleashed that demon inside the village?"

Kuroto nodded.

Itachi asked, "So, um, Kuroto-san, what is Amatsukami going to do?"

Kuroto said, "Of course, take action and eliminate the threat of Shinno, as well as obtain intelligence on the other members of Akatsuki through Shinno."

Shisui asked, "When will we take action?"

"The sooner we act the batter, as I have a feeling that Shinno has some big plans, and considering his hatred towards Konoha, we can't take the risk of him acting first." – After a pause here, Kuroto continued, "But I also want the two of you to understand that other than the fact that Shinno has become the Jinchuriki of Moryo the Demon so his strength is obviously very high. Also, there will be hundreds of shinobi of the Land of Sky under him that we will be going up against, and we can't be careless. So Shisui, you will also participate in this operation."

Shisui and Itachi looked at each other and nodded together.

Kuroto said, "And one more thing, Uchiha Tsukihi will be in charge of this operation, the three Ho Musubi of Amatsukami will act on this mission."

Shisui frowned, "Uchiha Tsukihi?"

Shisui has never personally met Uchiha Tsukihi so even though he heard of Uchiha Tsukihi, and the fact that she faked her death for the sake of the Uchiha Clan, he is still a bit skeptical about her.

Itachi was different from Shisui, he was not so suspicious as he has been trained by Tsukihi, so he nodded and then asked, "Tsukihi-san will lead the team? Then what about you Kuroto-san?"

Kuroto shook his head and said, "I won't be participating in this mission as I have other things to take care of, this will be a solo Ho Musubi action."

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On the night of the next day.

Three figures appeared in the forest far away from Konoha. All three of them had the traditional Homusubi disguise.

Although all three of them looked exactly the same, each of the three exuded a different aura.

Firstly, there was Homusubi – 1 with a long ponytail and a Katana strapped around the waist exuding a noble and indifferent aura.

Secondly, there was Homusubi – 2, he wore extra black gloves and a short sword hidden under his cloak, his hands clasped on his chest, and he gave off an energetic and cheerful aura.

And finally, there was the third Homusubi, his hair tied in a low ponytail. He didn't speak much, but the way he carried himself showed his calm and confident demeanor.

These three are undoubtedly Uchiha Tsukihi, Uchiha Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi respectively.

With all the three of them gathered, Tsukihi jumped down from the tree and said, "All right Homusubi's, let's go!"

After leaving this sentence, Tsukihi disappeared.

Shisui didn't say much, he just used his signature Body Flicker Technique and disappeared.

Lastly, Itachi looked back in the direction of Konoha, then turned back his head and he too disappeared.

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Land of Tea.

Sitting inside a tent, Shinno was carefully examining the layout of something from the blueprints.

This something is the main base of the Land of Sky, a giant temple names Ancor Vantian. Not only the main base, but this is also the ultimate weapon of the Land of Sky, and according to Shinno, it wouldn't be wrong to describe it as the 'Ultimate Weapon of Destruction.' Built after many years of research and construction, and it will be powered by Moryo's chakra.

'Hmmm, the repairing of the weapon systems is almost complete, as this rate we should be able to take to skies within a week.' – thought Shinno as he folded back the blueprint. His expression was cheerful that everything was going perfectly.

Over the years, he has wandered the Shinobi World, collecting various resources, stealing various secret techniques, all for the goal of one day restoring the Land of Sky, and letting the village he rules stand at the pinnacle of Shinobi World.

Although things deviated from his plans when he was discovered by Akatsuki, everything still turned out for the better, and now he is close to his goals much earlier than his initial calculations.

Just when Shinno was busy imagining how it would feel to burn down other great shinobi villages, one of the shinobi of the Land of Sky hurriedly came to his tent and said in a panic, "Shinno-sama, Shinno-sama… someone is attacking out outposts. At present, we have lost contact with fourteen of our outposts!"

"What!?" – Shinno exclaimed in shock.

Although the quality of Shinobies of the Land of Sky is not as high as that of Konoha and other great shinobi villages, they are all trained shinobi. Unless they are being targeted by any of the great shinobi villages or a couple of extremely strong shinobi, it is impossible for them to lose so easily, at least they would alert the other with emergency signals.

So, the fact that someone could capture so many outposts so easily, without even letting them alert others shows that the enemies are not just some ordinary shinobi.

'Is it possible that Akatsuki figured out that was just a clone of mine and now they have to deal with me?'

Realizing so, Shinno questioned with a gloomy face, "Is there any intelligence about who the enemy is?"

The Shinobi shook his head as he wiped away the cold sweat from his forehead, he was really afraid of angering Shinno-sama. But before he could speak any further, another shinobi stumbled inside the tent and spoke, "Shinno-sama, we have figured out who the enemy is… but… but the thing is…"

Shinno hurriedly questioned, "But what!?"

The shinobi said in a panic, "The enemy is wearing the disguise of… of… he has a fire pattered mask so… so… he seems to be Homusubi of… of…!"

"Of Amatsukami?" – Shinno completed the sentence for the Shinobi.

Shinno's face sank understanding who the enemy is, exactly what he feared has happened, although it wasn't Akatsuki, however, Amatsukami is no different. Shinno really doesn't want to entangle with either of these organizations before he deals with the five great shinobi villages.

This is because he has come to an understanding that both of these organizations are more than likely strong enough to destroy the great shinobi villages very easily if they so much as a desire to do so.

According to Akatsuki's intelligence, any of the members of Amatsukami that has appeared up to now is a shinobi of Kage level or higher level of combat power, especially Homusubi. It has already been confirmed that he is most likely very powerful, at least as powerful as Uchiha Shinichi.

Angered, Shinno lifted this Shinobi with the collar, and asked while gritting his teeth, "How many members of Amatsukami are here?"

The shinobi who was lifted by the collar stuttered, "Up to now… up to now we have only confirmed the presence of one."

"Just one…? Is he really after me, or is he after Hiruko's Kinjutsu and intelligence on Akatsuki?" – Instantly Shinno thought of the many possible reasons why Homusubi would target him, and after some analysis, he muttered, "Whatever may be their reason, I can not afford to get caught by Amatsukami."

Making up his mind, Shinno put down the Shinobi and said, "Both of you stay here."

The two shinobi looked at each other with fear apparent in their eyes, but they no longer had any choice left, it was either follow Shinno's order or die, so all they could do was bit the bullet and nod, "Yes Shinno-sama!"

After explaining everything, Shinno picked up the blueprints and hurriedly left the tent.

Originally, he wanted to wait for everything to be clear, but now the situation has changed. He can only hope to leave behind all things that are left behind and directly activate Ancor Vantian to escape.

Running all the way, Shinno soon came to the entrance of the ruins of the ancient temple structure.

These ancient ruins of a temple that seemed to be covered with vines are just a cover to hide Ancor Vantian.

Just as Shinno was about to open the secret entrance to the temple, a figure revealed himself out of the shadows and stood in front of him.

Shinno's eyes shrank as soon as he saw this figure, "How did you find this place?"

It was obviously none other than Homusubi who stood in front of Shinno. While stroking the hilt of Katana with one hand, Homusubi put his other hand on his chin and said, "Does it really matter? What I would like to know is that where are you going? You seem to be in quite a hurry, did you expect to be able to escape here?"

Shinno was silent, and then said with a forced smile, "As you said it doesn't really matter, as for where I was going? I was just going inside the temple to collect some medicines, by the way, what are you doing here? I don't think I did something that would make me an enemy of Amatsukami. If you are here for something, we can speak, if I can I am willing to help."

Homusubi tilted his head in confusion, "True, but why would you want to help me? Aren't you a member of the Akatsuki Organization, and as far as I am aware, Akatsuki and Amatsukami are hostile to one another? So why do you want to help me?"

Shinno didn't let go of his smile, and said, "You are mistaken, I did not choose to join Akatsuki, I was left with no other option as you must understand how dangerous they are. If you are willing, I can cooperate with you, and I already plan to leave Akatsuki as soon as I can!"

Homusubi chuckled, "Is that right? Then that's fine by me. You should be very clear about what I am here for?"

Shinno nodded, "If I did not guess wrong, you are here for the Kinjutsu that Hiruko created, that is 'Chimera Technique,' right?"

Homusubi nodded.

Shinno said, "Alright I have it. You can take it."

And started ruffling around the small bag that he kept with him. Not long after he took out a scroll and threw it towards Homusubi while saying, "Since this is what you want, then you can have it. I don't think there is any need for us to engage in any form of conflict over just a technique."

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