Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 137 Don’t say you didn’t predict what you said

Soon, this somewhat overbearing declaration of the Hidden Leaf Village spread throughout the entire ninja world, and a week later, Uchiha Douguang even specially arranged a political show.

The two Hokage, Uchiha Tokou and Sarutobi Hiruzen, took Naruto, a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, to the former site of Uzushio Village with great fanfare.

The once prosperous Wochao Village is now in ruins, with broken walls and moss growing all over the ground.

"Is this where my ancestors once lived?" Naruto raised his head blankly, looked around, and said in a daze, "But why did it become like this?"

After hearing Naruto's question, Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to say something, but the old man's lips twitched and he couldn't say anything.

Why did it become like this? We have to ask what he, Danzo, and the two advisors were thinking at the time.

Although Konoha was mired in the war at the time, they were still able to gather a troop to support Uzushio Village by gritting their teeth. However, the four of them watched the demise of the Uzumaki clan, and even lost the last pure-blooded Uzumaki descendant in the village.

"The village of Uzushio has an unshirkable responsibility for what has become of it," Uchiha Douguang said. "What has happened cannot be undone, but I can guarantee that such a tragedy will never happen again."

Uchiha Douguang pulled Naruto to the shrine in Uzushio Village, placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the shrine, and then bowed deeply.

Sarutobi Hiruzen followed closely behind, presenting flowers and bowing.

"Come, Naruto, offer flowers to your ancestors." Uchiha Douguang turned around and touched Naruto's head, then said.

Naruto followed Uchiha Tokou's example and placed the flowers in front of the shrine, then bowed deeply. After standing up, he stared blankly at the dilapidated shrine in front of him. Suddenly, he seemed to feel the gaze of his ancestors.

"Protect this place. If any descendants of the Uzumaki clan want to rebuild Uzushio Village in the future, we will return their ancestral land to them." Uchiha Douguang turned around and instructed Uchiha Inahib.

"I understand." Uchiha Inahori nodded and sighed as he looked at the ruins around him. As a child who grew up in a large clan, he had heard many stories about the Warring States Period when he was a child. Although in the stories of their clan, the Uzumaki clan was a big villain who was not much better than the Senju clan, and was often the target that the heroes of their Uchiha clan had to go through untold hardships to defeat, but now seeing this big clan that could be compared with their Uchiha clan in the Warring States Period now in this state, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Teacher, I want to rebuild this place in the future." After a while, Naruto came to his senses and turned back to Uchiha Douguang and said solemnly.

When Sarutobi Hiruzen heard this, he immediately turned around to look at Naruto, and then looked at Uchiha Touma. Naruto is the village's Jinchūriki. If he comes to rebuild Uzushio Village, what will happen to the village?
Besides, it's only been a few days? Has the dream he's fostered for Naruto since childhood, becoming Hokage, become about rebuilding Uzushio Village?

"This is what you should have done." Uchiha Douguang ignored Sarutobi Hiruzen's gaze, touched Naruto's head and said, "You are now the patriarch of the Uzumaki clan."

"The clan leader?" Naruto lowered his head unconsciously when he heard that. "But I don't know what to do."

"Don't worry." Uchiha Douguang said, "I will teach you all these slowly, and Sasuke and the others will also help you, because you are companions."

"Okay!" Naruto nodded vigorously.

"However, before that, you should first learn the most basic Yin-Yang Seal. Otherwise, the patriarch of the Uzumaki clan who doesn't even know the sealing technique will be laughed at." Uchiha Douguang said with a smile.

"But, teacher, as the head of the Uchiha clan, don't you even know illusion?" Naruto suddenly said.

"Who told you this?" Uchiha Douguang said angrily with his eyes fixed.

"Well, when Sasuke, Neji and I were playing in the Uchiha clan territory, an old man from the Uchiha clan told us." Naruto said.

Uchiha Douguang: ...

Ever since he became Hokage and fulfilled the long-cherished wish of these clan elders, these old guys have been really idle recently. They even stopped holding the clan meetings that they used to love to hold. They just wander around the clan land and play with the children all day long. They even leaked the secrets of their Uchiha clan casually. It seems that they have to find something to do.

……

Soon, the news that Uchiha Toukou was paying homage to the former site of Uzushio Village spread throughout the ninja world. At this time, all forces in the ninja world also realized that the statement issued by Uchiha Toukou before did not seem to be a joke.

Inside the high tower of the Hidden Rain Village, Uzumaki Nagato's expression changed slightly after hearing the news.

"Nagato, what do you think of the new Hokage of Konoha?" At this time, Konan walked in and asked Nagato, who looked haggard.

"Don't worry about it." Nagato said slowly, "No matter what his purpose is, our Akatsuki organization will confront them sooner or later."

"I understand." Xiaonan nodded.

"By the way, speaking of Konoha, is there any news about the traitor Orochimaru?" Nagato asked.

"No, after that guy did something as big as assassinating the daimyo, it seemed like he disappeared from the ninja world." Konan said.

"I understand." Nagato nodded, and the Rinnegan in his eyes flashed with a deep light.

Compared with the Rain Country, the Kusagakure Village, which also has descendants of the Uzumaki, is not so peaceful.

You know, they are the force that Uchiha Tokou mentioned, which has harmed the Uzumaki clan and will be pursued to the end by Konoha.

Now Karin and her daughter are being held captive in the village, used as blood bags to recover from injuries at any time and anywhere. If Konoha gets to know about this, who knows what Konoha will do.

Therefore, the top leaders of Kusagakure Village also had a quarrel about how to deal with the mother and daughter in the village.

This group of people were reluctant to let Karin and her daughter go. Over the years, it was because of the existence of such a blood bag in the village that the village's senior ninjas dared to take on some dangerous tasks, and the village developed because of this. Moreover, the things they had done over the years had already been within the scope of Konoha's settlement, and Konoha would not let them go just because they let Karin and her daughter go.

"Humph, I don't believe that Konoha will really start a war over two women!" said a radical from the Kusagakure Village, "Those two women are our Kusagakure Village's property! What right does Konoha have to dictate what happens?"

"That's hard to say. The current Fifth Hokage of Konoha is from the renowned Uchiha clan," the leader of the Kusagakure Village said solemnly. "Are they really going to let those two women go?" someone protested.

"It's impossible to let them go! Their blood is more effective than any medical ninjutsu." The leader of Kusagakure Village said after a moment of contemplation, "Let's give the order. This matter shall be kept as a village secret. No one can spread it. Also, lock up those two women. Don't let anyone know that they are in our village."

"Yes!" The senior leaders of Kusagakure Village present received the order and left.

However, they thought they could keep the secret of Karin and her daughter. However, at this time, Uchiha Douguang, who had returned to the Hokage's office, had already obtained the ready-made information.

"Damn Kusagakure Village! How dare they treat the descendants of the Uzumaki clan like this? I don't think they even take me, the Hokage, seriously!"

In the Hokage's office, Kakashi, Uchiha Fugaku, Inuzuka Jaw, Aburame Shiwei, and all the people currently at the power center of Konohagakure gathered together, listening to Uchiha Doukou slamming his desk and cursing.

On the desk, there was a piece of information that the Grass Country was torturing the descendants of the Uzumaki clan like blood bags.

"Hokage-sama, we can't just let this matter go." Kakashi spoke up at this time. "If the village hadn't issued a statement, it would have been fine. But now that the village has issued a statement, promising to protect all Uzumaki descendants, these people from Kusagakure still dare to do this. It seems they really don't take us, Konoha, seriously."

"So, are we going to declare war on the Kusagakure Village?" asked Uchiha Fugaku.

"Declare war? Are they worthy enough?" Uchiha Douguang sneered, "Send two people over and tell them that either they release the people now and make those who hurt the Uzumaki descendants pay the price, or I will come personally to seek justice for the Uzumaki descendants."

"I understand. Then I'll go there myself," Kakashi said. "If I go, even if the talks fall through, I can still evacuate safely."

"Okay." Uchiha Douguang nodded, "Then I'll leave it to you."

……

In the Kusagakure Village, if Karin and her daughter had been living in hell before, then in the past few days, they have undoubtedly been thrown into a new level of hell.

In the past, the mother and daughter were still qualified to bask in the sun in the village, but since the Kusagakure Village decided to hide them, the mother and daughter were quickly transferred to a basement in the Kusagakure Village that was never exposed to sunlight overnight.

Moreover, perhaps because they needed to vent their panic, during this period, these Kusagakure high-ranking officials became more unscrupulous when absorbing Uzumaki's vitality, and they wanted to bite off a piece of flesh directly from Uzumaki Anri.

Moreover, every time after taking advantage of Uzumaki Anri, he would punch and kick the two of them as if to vent his anger.

"I'm warning you, it was Kusagakure that gave you a place to stay. Your abilities are your only value for survival. You'd better not have any unrealistic expectations." On that day, a senior ninja from Kusagakure Village, after absorbing a wave of Uzumaki Anri's vitality, said coldly to Uzumaki Anri who was lying on the ground dying and Uzumaki Karin who was shivering beside her.

However, at this moment, Kakashi arrived at the gate of Kusagakure Village alone.

"Who is it?" Seeing a stranger coming, the ninja in front of the gate of Kusagakure Village immediately became alert.

"The Hokage's assistant from Konohagakure, Hatake Kakashi, is here to visit," Kakashi said coldly.

"A ninja from Konoha?" The guard ninja of Kusagakure frowned slightly. "What business do you have in Kusagakure?"

"Call out the people in your village who have a say. I'll only give you 15 minutes," Kakashi said.

The two guards at the gate of Kusagakure Village looked at each other, and then one of them hurried into the village.

Ten minutes later, a high-ranking official from Kusagakure Village arrived at the village gate with several Kusagakure jonin.

"I wonder what's the matter with Assistant Hokage coming here today?" Yoshioka Shinzo, the leader of the Jounin squad of Kusagakure Village, asked with forced calmness.

Konoha had just issued a statement some time ago, and now the Hokage's assistant came in person. I'm afraid he came with bad intentions, but before coming, Yoshioka Shinzo had already received instructions from the leader of Kusagakure Village. As long as they insist that there are no descendants of Uzumaki in Kusagakure, Konoha will have no way to deal with them.

"Konoha has received intelligence that two former Konoha allies, descendants of the Uzumaki clan, are in your Kusagakure Village and are being abused by your Kusagakure Village. Can you explain this?" Kakashi said with a cold face.

"Hehe, I don't know where the Hokage's assistant got the information from. The Kusagakure Village doesn't know anything about the Uzumaki descendants." said Shinzo Yoshioka.

"I think you misunderstood. I am not asking you whether this happened or not. I trust our own intelligence channels more than your words. I just want you, Kusagakure, to give an explanation." Kakashi glanced at Yoshioka Shinzo and the Kusagakure Jonin behind him and said coldly.

"We really don't know what Uzumaki descendants are." Yoshioka Shinzo said stubbornly, "And..."

"I only give you 30 minutes. Hand over the Uzumaki descendants in your village. Then, those who have hurt them, the mastermind must commit suicide, and the others must cut off a finger to apologize. If you delay, don't say I didn't warn you." Kakashi directly interrupted Yoshioka Shinzo who was planning to continue fishing in troubled waters and issued an ultimatum.

"Aren't you, Konoha, too overbearing?" Upon hearing this, Yoshioka Shinzo's face turned cold. "Do you really think that we, the Kusagakure Village, are afraid of you, Konoha?"

"It seems that you, Kusagakure, do not appreciate the kindness of Lord Hokage." Kakashi said as he pulled up the forehead protector covering his left eye. The three magatama in his left eye spun rapidly and turned into a kaleidoscope pattern. He then used summoning technique to summon Puck and then cancelled the summoning.

Seeing this, Shinzo Yoshioka directly fired a flare and pulled out a kunai at the same time.

The Kusagakure ninjas behind him also took up combat stance.

However, the next moment, with a fluctuation of space, Yoshioka Shinzo's entire body was instantly cut in half by the distorted space, and blood gushed out.

The other Kusagakure members were horrified when they saw this. Kakashi's method was too strange and it stunned them directly.

"Does Konoha want to start a war?" At this time, the leader of Kusagakure walked out with a gloomy face.

"Are you worthy enough to negotiate war with Konoha?" Kakashi sneered, took out a special kunai and stuck it into the ground in front of him.

(End of this chapter)