Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 134 Fourth Level Tactics
It was not until now that Black Zetsu finally understood why Uchiha Tokou was able to single-handedly pull the Uchiha clan out of the mess they had been in and bring them to their current state.

Although Uchiha Tokou's current strength is much weaker than that of Uchiha Madara in the past, Uchiha Madara does not have the ability to incite a large group of people with just a few words. No, no matter which generation of Indra and Ashura's reincarnations, they do not have such ability.

"Friends! This is a war! A war that is about to break out! Those oppressors will perish in the war!" Uchiha Douguang's shadow clone said passionately, and the emotions of the entire tavern were completely aroused by him.

Mei Terumi, who was sitting at the bar, was completely dumbfounded. She was already starting to regret it. Why did she even bother talking to this person? What on earth did he want to do?

"Are you all still going to sit here and drink idly? Do you want your future children to graduate from the ninja academy like you, and have to work so hard for a mere C-rank ninjutsu? Now! Act! Overturn the mountain that's weighing us down! This village belongs to you! It belongs to me! It belongs to every one of us ninjas who fight for the will of water! For a better tomorrow for the Hidden Mist Village, kill all the bloodline families!"

"Kill all the bloodline families! Glory belongs to Kirigakure!" The emotions of the ninjas in the tavern had been aroused. Uchiha Douguang shouted while walking out of the tavern.

The gathered crowd involuntarily made way for him. Uchiha Douguang arrived at the entrance of the tavern and waved his arm again! "Restore the glory of the will of water! Today!"

"Today!" Under Uchiha Toukou's passionate speech, everyone in the tavern was excited, and with a little bit of alcohol as a stimulus, soon everyone in the tavern followed the footsteps of Uchiha Toukou's shadow clone.

Seeing this, Black Zetsu hurried to catch up, and Mei Terumi at the bar also quickly caught up. After she climbed over the bar and walked out of the tavern, she looked at the direction the huge crowd was heading.

"This direction? The Kaguya clan?" Mei Terumi's heart trembled upon seeing this. Her organization had recently received intelligence that the Kaguya clan was preparing a rebellion against the Blood Mist Village policy of the Fourth Mizukage. They were currently trying to find a way to stop this, but now, if so many excited civilian ninjas really surrounded the Kaguya clan's territory, it would be tantamount to tearing their relations apart directly.

"Judging from his attire, that guy is at most a Chunin, right? How dare he do that?" Mei Terumi gritted her teeth and chased after him.

Uchiha Douguang led a group of civilian Mist Ninjas and surrounded the Kaguya clan's territory. He then rushed towards the plaque at the entrance of the Kaguya clan's territory, formed a seal, and fired a water bullet.

"How dare you!" At this moment, the ninjas of the Hyuga clan who received the news also gathered together. Seeing Uchiha Toukou's offensive behavior, the leader immediately became furious and raised his hand to shoot a bone spur at Uchiha Toukou.

Uchiha Douguang did not dodge or evade, and took the attack with the body of White Zetsu. He was then knocked back several meters and landed next to the group of Mist Village ninjas he brought with him.

At the instruction of Uchiha Douguang, White Zetsu Afei simulated spitting blood.

"Are you okay?" A Kirigakure jonin saw this and squatted down to ask.

"My compatriots! Don't worry about me! Revolutions have always been accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice since ancient times. Today, I will start with myself! For the will of water, kill them!" Uchiha Douguang pretended to be dying, spitting blood while speaking.

After saying that, Uchiha Douguang spat out a mouthful of blood, tilted his head and closed his eyes.

"Damn it! You bloodline ninjas deserve to die!" The death of Uchiha Touma's clone instantly ignited the anger of the civilian ninjas present, and a melee broke out.

At this time, Uchiha Tokou's shadow clone was brought out of the crowd from underground by Afei during the chaos and reunited with Black Zetsu.

"Is this what you mean, intensifying the conflict?" Black Zetsu said in surprise, looking at the battlefield not far away where blood had already flowed like a river. It had to be said that although he had been secretly instigating the conflict between the chakra reincarnations of Ashura and Indra for thousands of years, Uchiha Douguang's operation still made him feel amazing. It took him less than an hour to create a melee involving hundreds of ninjas.

"Is this difficult?" Uchiha Douguang chuckled. "The Kirigakure ninjas have accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction under the high-pressure policies in this blood mist village. All I do is help them release their emotions, that's all."

Black Zetsu looked at Uchiha Douguang, his eyes moving slightly. After a while, he asked, "What are you pursuing? Is it really peace?"

"Are our ancestors feeling sorry for them?" Uchiha Douguang asked with narrowed eyes.

"No, I just feel that your methods are a little inconsistent with your ideas." Black Zetsu said with some difficulty. He had begun to doubt, could someone like Uchiha Tokou really be controlled by lies like Uchiha Madara?
"This is just the necessary path to peace," Uchiha Douguang said coldly, "They are now enemies on our road to unification. The more they die now, the less harm our companions will suffer on the battlefield in the future. After all, in the new world created by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, they will all be resurrected and live happily in a new world without war and pain, right, ancestor?"

"Okay, I understand." Black Zetsu looked at Uchiha Douguang deeply and nodded, "So, what should we do now?"

"Now?" Uchiha Douguang looked at the battlefield not far away, where Kirigakure's Anbu arrived one after another and began to control the situation. He chuckled and said, "Of course we should go and see. Our Fourth Mizukage, lead the way, ancestor."

……

Soon, White Zetsu, Afei and Black Zetsu brought Uchiha Tokou to the Mizukage's office. The moment the two appeared, a pair of Mangekyo magatama seals appeared in Yagura Karuta's eyes for a moment, and then Yagura Karuta stood up from behind the desk and saluted respectfully to the two.

Just at this moment, hurried footsteps were heard outside the Mizukage's office door. Seeing this, Uchiha Douguang and Black Zetsu hid themselves instantly.

Not long after, several Anbu walked into the Mizukage's office and reported to Karatachi Yagura what happened at the gate of the Kaguya clan's territory tonight. Both sides of the conflict suffered heavy casualties. Nearly half of the ninjas brought to the Kaguya clan's territory by Uchiha Tokou died, and the Kaguya clan also paid the price of several senior ninjas under the siege.

"Sir Yondaime, all the ninja involved in the tavern riot have been apprehended! According to them, the mastermind has died in the conflict. However, the Kaguya clan wants you to give them a reasonable explanation."

"Explanation? What explanation do they want?" Uchiha Douguang controlled Karuju Yagura and said coldly, "Go back and tell them that if they want an explanation, they should come to my office in person to ask for it!"

"Yes!" The Anbu nodded, "Then, Mizukage-sama, what should we do with the ninjas who participated in the riot?"

"Deal with them?" Karatachi Yagura said, "Deal with what? They are all ninjas who responded to the village's blood mist policy and possess the will of water! I believe that after this bloody battle, they will become even stronger! Let them all go."

"I understand." The Anbu took the order and left.

After this Anbu went to deal with the matter, Uchiha Douguang and Black Zetsu appeared again. At this time, Black Zetsu was a little curious.

"Are you planning to have the Mizukage help those civilians?" Black Zetsu said, "I have to remind you that if Yagura appears in front of everyone, there's no guarantee that someone won't notice."

"Of course, if we want to cause chaos in Kirigakure, we must help those guys." Uchiha Douguang said.

"But how can we help them?" asked Black Zetsu.

"Do nothing." Uchiha Douguang said.

"We can't do anything?" Black Zetsu was puzzled. "We can provide them with all the support we can, except for helping them." Uchiha Douguang said.

"But what if they insist on us helping them?" Black Zetsu said.

"Then follow the fourth-level tactics." Uchiha Douguang walked slowly to the Mizukage's desk and sat directly on the Mizukage's office chair.

"Fourth-level tactics? What is that?" asked Black Zetsu.

"This is the standard crisis response strategy I summarized from Sarutobi Hiruzen's actions." Uchiha Douguang said.

"The first step is to make the Mizukage declare that nothing happened."

"The second step is to say maybe something is going on, but we shouldn't take action."

“The third step is saying maybe we should act, but there’s nothing we can do.”

"The last step is saying maybe something could have been done, but now it's too late."

Black Jue:......

After a long while, Black Zetsu finally spoke slowly, "This...isn't this just trying to smooth things over?"

"What else?" Uchiha Douguang shrugged, "We are not really here to govern the Hidden Mist Village."

"Okay, ancestor, it's time for us to go back. From now on, let Kirigakure mess things up for a while." Uchiha Douguang looked at Black Zetsu and smiled, then took the initiative to dismantle the shadow clone.

……

In Uchiha Douguang's home, Uchiha Douguang, who was meditating in the backyard to comprehend the natural energy, suddenly opened his eyes.

Afterwards, Uchiha Douguang came to the map of the Ninja World hanging in his house and thought carefully.

"There's no need to worry too much about the Water Country for now. The main trouble still comes from..."

Uchiha Douguang looked at the upper left and right corners of the map.

There is no need to pay too much attention to the remote and poor country of Wind. After all, a place where the shadow of a village needs to go to the desert to mine in order to keep the village running normally is a joke in front of the size of Konoha. Among the five major countries, the only ones that are truly worthy of Uchiha Douguang's attention are the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth.

First of all, there is the Land of Lightning, a group of barbarians whose brains only care about muscles and who believe that whoever has the bigger fist is right. Even Uchiha Douguang himself is not sure how effective his methods will be. Now that he can no longer take direct action, it will be quite difficult to plunge them into civil strife.

Then there is the Land of Earth. Compared with Sarutobi Hiruzen, Ōnoki is undoubtedly a more mature politician. The Iwagakure Village is firmly in his hands. Except for the problem of no successors, the Iwagakure Village is basically an ironclad entity. Uchiha Tokou has little room for maneuver, but it is not impossible to try.

If you want to cause chaos in the Land of Earth, you need an opportunity...

[A small country between the Land of Fire and the Land of Earth...]

[Rain Country... Now is not the time to go to war with Akatsuki. Although Taki Country is sitting on the fence, its stance still leans towards the Fire Country, so there is no need to move for now. So, is the Grass Country the only one left?]

"The Land of Grass..." Uchiha Douguang's eyes moved slightly in front of the map. Judging from the time, Xiangling and her daughter should have been kidnapped by them and used as blood bags. In this case, the reason for sending troops is ready.

"However, although it is a piece of cake to deal with the Kusagakure Village, if we want to involve the Land of Earth as well, we need to plan carefully." Uchiha Douguang looked at the map and fell into deep thought.

After a long while, Uchiha Douguang looked at the calendar next to the map and muttered softly, "I remember that two weeks from now will be the day when the Whirlpool Country will be destroyed."

……

The next day, after the village's daily meeting, Uchiha Douguang stopped Tsunade who was about to return to the medical school after the meeting.

"Hokage, if it's not something particularly important, it's best not to bother me. I still have students waiting for me to go back to class." Tsunade said impatiently, turning back.

Uchiha Douguang: ...

It was obvious that Tsunade was very unhappy about having to come for a meeting so early in the morning, as she would leave the village to play in a casino over a hundred miles away until midnight after work every day. Therefore, Tsunade had no good face towards the Hokage who asked her to work overtime. Moreover, Tsunade was the one in the whole village who gave Uchiha Tokou the least face. Only during the few days of each month when the funds were allocated would this lady give Uchiha Tokou a good face.

But Uchiha Tokugawa had no choice. After all, he was the one who invited this old lady back. At present, Tsunade was the only one in the entire ninja world who had the ability to train a large number of qualified medical ninjas. Therefore, Uchiha Tokugawa did not care too much about the old woman's attitude and just regarded it as respect for the elderly.

"Um, Lady Tsunade, do you have any news about the remnants of the Uzumaki clan?" Uchiha Douguang said.

As Uchiha Douguang finished speaking, Tsunade's expression changed, and she asked coldly, "Hokage-sama, why are you suddenly asking this? The Uzumaki clan was wiped out decades ago, right?"

It's no wonder that Tsunade reacted so strongly. After all, this was her grandmother's maternal clan, and in the genocide of the Uzumaki clan, it was Konoha that let the Uzumaki clan down. Now that Uchiha Tokou suddenly brought up this matter, Tsunade couldn't help but think about it.

"It's like this. As you know, decades ago, it was indeed our Konoha that abandoned Uzumaki. But now, as Hokage, after learning about this history, I also want to do something to compensate the village's once most steadfast ally."

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(End of this chapter)