Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 105 Sasuke: I will never forgive Uchiha Itachi! (5000 words)
Seeing Sasuke's adorable reaction of being tsundere but actually being honest, Izumi suddenly felt a little dazed. These two brothers were raised by the same parents, so why are their personalities completely different?
"Let's go."

Uchiha Izumi didn't waste any more words with the two kids. He uttered two words and walked straight ahead.

"Eh?"

Naruto looked puzzled. "Where are we going?"

Izumi, standing nearby, explained on behalf of Uchiha Ike Izumi: "The way Senior Ike Izumi teaches you about 'justice' and lets you understand 'justice' is not by standing in a classroom and lecturing you."

Back then, she had also received Chi Quan's "hellish teaching of justice," which greatly stimulated her in the first few days.

Fortunately, as time went by, she finally came to understand just how difficult it was for Senior Chi Quan to achieve absolute justice.

Izumi followed behind Uchiha Izumi, her voice clear and crisp as she continued, "Senior's teaching method leans more towards direct practice. Before you arrived, Senior Tachibana Jiro's ninja cats had already found targets for [justice] to hunt and judge!"

Ninja Cat...

Tachibana Jiro......

Naruto and Sasuke simultaneously turned their gaze to a large, fat cat sitting comfortably on Izumi's left shoulder.

Tachibana Jiro opened one of his narrowed eyes and spoke in human language: "You two brats, since you've made this choice, you'd better be prepared not to wet your pants from the fear of sin. In particular, don't be terrified by the evil in human nature."

Naruto muttered, "You sound like an old woman."

Sasuke was about to nod in deep agreement when he suddenly realized that if he were to agree with this loser, wouldn't that be tantamount to admitting that he was indeed inferior to this guy?

Sasuke, feeling a surge of competitive spirit for some reason, gave a soft hum and didn't respond to Naruto's words.

As Sasuke followed behind, he realized something was amiss.

He exclaimed in surprise, "This direction seems to be..."

"It's the Uchiha clan." Uchiha Izumi's cold voice rang out: "The ninja cat discovered a huge quantity of prohibited drugs within the Uchiha clan's territory. Coincidentally, three Uchiha clan members returned from a ninja mission this morning, and they are the prime suspects."

Sasuke was shocked; he never expected that the Uchiha clan would be the ones in trouble!
My mother once said that Uchiha Ikezumi would not make an exception for anyone just because they were a member of the Uchiha clan.

Whenever someone commits evil, Uchiha Ikezumi will strike back without mercy, and it is common for people to die.

At this moment, Sasuke was against the so-called "never making exceptions"...

Suddenly, I had a clearer understanding.

"...Illegal drugs?"

Naruto was a little confused; his attention was on the other side.

Tachibana Jiro yawned and explained, "It's that kind of monstrous thing that will ruin your family if you humans get involved with it. It wasn't so rampant before, but since the Third Shinobi World War, it's become increasingly prevalent. I heard that a merchant named Gato is smuggling these things on a large scale."

“A month ago, I sent out five ninja cats to search for information about the merchant Gato outside Konoha and even outside the Land of Fire. Once we have accurate information and pinpoint his location, Lord Ikezumi will come knocking on our door.”

Tachibana Jiro paused for a moment, then continued, "The sheer number of contraband items found within the Uchiha clan's territory is likely inextricably linked to that merchant, Gato."

"To do this kind of thing right under Lord Chiquan's nose, it seems they've been doing missions outside Konoha for too long and haven't heard anything about what's happened inside Konoha in the past month."

"And little did they know that [Absolute Justice] was becoming unstoppable!"

Tachibana Jiro's words made Izumi realize something belatedly.

It turns out I've known Chi Quan-senpai for so long...

It hasn't even been a month!

Naruto, who didn't have a detailed understanding of this, asked curiously, "How many people have been harmed by those banned drugs?"

"...countless."

Tachibana Jiro's tone became slightly less flippant as he spoke, "In Konoha alone, six civilians and ninjas died last year due to banned drugs. The number of people still suffering from them is impossible to count."

Naruto's eyes widened in shock. "Ninjas can be hurt too?"

Jiro Tachibana said, "There are always naive people who think that with the strong will of a ninja, they can resist the physiological and psychological dependence, but in reality, they can't resist it at all."

"You two brats, just remember this: when you encounter these drug traffickers, whether they are producers, smugglers, or sellers, you must execute them all in the name of justice!"

As they spoke, they had already entered the Uchiha clan's territory.

Naruto never expected that in such a short period of time...

I visited three different places in this very spot!
Sasuke, standing beside him, remained silent the entire way, but a deep sense of unease was clearly visible on his fair face. He seemed to want to say something, yet hesitated to speak.

Sasuke suddenly noticed that the man named Uchiha Ikezumi seemed to have glanced in his direction.

He was startled.

They dared not speak anymore.

Unexpectedly, Uchiha Ikezumi suddenly spoke up: "You believe that as fellow members of the Uchiha clan, even if your own comrades have done wrong, you shouldn't use such extreme methods to deal with them. At least leave them a way out, right, Uchiha Sasuke?"

Sasuke: "!!!"

He looked up in shock, staring at Uchiha Ikezumi's back with a look of utter horror, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Because what Uchiha Ikezumi said was what he truly felt!

It was as if the voice deep within my heart was being heard!
Uchiha Ikezumi said indifferently, "Evil in the ninja world is divided into three, six, and nine levels. Minor evils, such as Naruto Uzumaki's pranks, only require slightly harsher punishments than usual to correct their mistakes. Medium evils, such as theft and fighting, can be punished by imprisoning them in Konoha Prison for compulsory rehabilitation. Major evils, such as malicious murder, trafficking in prohibited drugs, and human trafficking... must be corrected by death!"

"Justice cannot be compromised, much less forgiven. Uchiha Sasuke, do you think you have the right to forgive and pardon those villains who should have paid with their lives for the sake of the poor, innocent Shinobu whose family was destroyed?"

Uchiha Ikezumi stopped in his tracks, turned around, and looked down at Uchiha Sasuke.

"If your brother, Uchiha Itachi, were to carry out a massacre tonight, wiping out almost the entire Uchiha clan, women, children, and even your father and mother... none of them would escape death."

"At that time... of the entire Uchiha clan, only you and Itachi Uchiha survived. At that time, will you forgive Itachi Uchiha on behalf of the deceased Uchiha clan members?"

"Would you forgive your father's killer? Would you forgive your mother's killer? If someone suddenly stood in front of you and said—Uchiha Itachi is your brother, shouldn't you forgive him? Even if he made a mistake, it doesn't matter, does it?"

"In this situation...would you follow that person's advice and choose to forgive Itachi Uchiha, who killed the entire Uchiha clan?"

Sasuke's eyes widened as he took several steps back from the barrage of probing questions from Uchiha Izumi.

He was looking directly into the eyes of Uchiha Ikezumi.

At this moment, even Sasuke didn't know why, but the words spoken by Uchiha Ikezumi began to form images in his mind.

In a brief moment of confusion, Sasuke felt that everything in front of him had undergone a complete transformation.

He quietly saw himself in the darkness.

He remembered that the building in front of him seemed to be a building within the Uchiha clan.

Sasuke's bewildered gaze wandered around.

And at that moment, his eyes widened even further.

—Under the moonlight, blood, corpses, darkness, screams, pleas for mercy… all sorts of horrifying scenes converged into an extremely gruesome spectacle. Each lifelike corpse had a gruesome death, and the blood seemed to have soaked the earth red.

Sasuke's pupils were trembling.

Because of the relatively bright moonlight, he could clearly see the familiar faces on the corpses, frozen with fear and despair—they were members of the Uchiha clan!

elder.

youth.

Children.

baby.

Everything!

A sudden, seemingly close scream startled Sasuke, who turned around in a panic.

He saw a Uchiha clan member of similar age being lifted up by the hair by a man who had moved his mask to one side of his head. A ninja sword had already pierced through the boy's chest, taking his life.

The ninja sword was slowly drawn.

The body was thrown on the ground.

At this moment, Sasuke, whose body was trembling, finally saw the man's face—Uchiha Itachi!!!
Before Sasuke could even utter a sound, the scene before him suddenly shifted.

Sasuke found himself inside a house. The dim lighting offered him no sense of security. A soft sound of footsteps and dragging startled him, and he quickly turned around.

Sasuke was shocked to see his brother, Itachi Uchiha, dragging a woman who was on the verge of death. He also noticed that Itachi seemed not to see him as he walked past. Itachi was dragging the woman with one hand and holding a handful of blood-stained kunai in the other. Every few steps he took in the room, he would use the kunai to slash a wound on the woman's body.

"Ahhhh-"

The woman's hoarse, heart-wrenching screams caused a faint rustling sound from a wardrobe inside the room.

In his line of sight, Itachi Uchiha slit the woman's throat with a kunai.

He walked up to the wardrobe and opened it expressionlessly.

Sasuke discovered a little girl hiding in the closet!

"Brother! Stop!!!" Sasuke tried to shout this, but found that he couldn't make a sound. He could only watch helplessly as Itachi dragged the terrified little girl out of the closet and ended her life with a kunai.

The scene before my eyes changed once again.

Sasuke, his face filled with grief and indignation, saw Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Izumi, Uzumaki Naruto, and Tachibana Jiro in his line of sight.

Itachi Uchiha has disappeared.

The blood, the corpses, the screams—all of it disappeared.

Sasuke stood there, stunned.

"Did you see that?" Uchiha Izumi's three-tomoe Sharingan slowly returned to its normal form. He said, "If something like that really happened, would you have the right to forgive and pardon him on his behalf? Give me your answer, Uchiha Sasuke."

Sasuke snapped out of his daze: "This is... a genjutsu?"

He was completely stunned. The illusion was so realistic that it seemed as if these tragedies were really going to happen in the future.

He couldn't believe his brother would do such a thing.

But if such a thing really happened, would I have the right to forgive Itachi Uchiha on behalf of the killed clansmen?
Sasuke remembered the peer who had been pierced through the body by a ninja sword.

I remembered the baby lying on the ground, cut in two with a single stroke.

I thought of the woman tormented by pain, and I also thought of the little girl who couldn't help but make noise because she heard her mother being tortured.

"Plop"—tears flowed uncontrollably down my face.

Sasuke's blurred vision made him realize that he seemed to be crying.

He hurriedly reached out to wipe the wetness from the corners of his eyes.

Sasuke lowered his head and silently replied, "I... have no right to forgive him on behalf of others. In fact... if such a thing were to happen, I myself would not forgive him..."

He suddenly understood something, and looked at Uchiha Ikezumi with his reddened eyes. His fear of Uchiha Ikezumi seemed to have dissipated a little, replaced by a courageous thirst for knowledge: "Those three clansmen who brought large quantities of prohibited drugs to Konoha...did they also cause such pain to others?"

"Yes." That was a single word in response.

Sasuke was so ashamed that he wished he could disappear into the ground.

"……sorry."

He apologized in a low voice.

"Huh?!" Naruto was completely bewildered, having no idea what was going on. He couldn't understand why Izumi-sensei had only asked this arrogant guy a few questions, and then the guy inexplicably bowed his head and apologized.

……

Meanwhile, at the police force building.

"Lord Fugaku, the Jinchuriki... has been brought in by Uchiha Ikezumi again. There are also some Anbu ninjas, probably monitoring the Jinchuriki, who have also sneaked in."

When those words reached his ears, Fugaku was completely numb.

This is the third time, isn't it? When are they finally going to take a break?!

Even if Chi Quan, you're not tired.

I'm so tired!
however.

When the next sentence came out, Fugaku was stunned for a moment: "Moreover... it seems that your second son, Uchiha Sasuke, is also with Uchiha Ikezumi."

Fugaku: "???"

Sasuke?!
Fugaku racked his brains but couldn't figure out what strange relationship Sasuke could have with Uchiha Izumi.
In his mind, the two were completely incompatible people.

Fugaku frowned, a hint of worry flashing between his brows. He instinctively thought—could it be that Sasuke had done something wrong and been caught by Uchiha Ikezumi?!
Although he was extremely disappointed in his second son's talent, feeling that he was not even a tenth as good as Itachi.

But he is still his son no matter what.

Fugaku stood up and said in a deep voice, "Where is the pond? Take me to see it!"

As for the Anbu that infiltrated the Uchiha clan to monitor the Jinchuriki.

This was then grandly ignored by Fugaku.

……

On the other side of the Uchiha base.

Inside the basement of a house.

Three Uchiha clan ninjas gathered here. One of them, arms crossed, frowned as he looked at the packages of goods in front of him: "Hayabusa, more than a ton of medicine. Can Konoha handle it? It will take quite a while to use it all up!"

"Don't worry." The young man named "Uchiha Hayata" smiled and said, "We don't need to use them up in Konoha. We just need to resell them. How they are used up is their business and has nothing to do with us."

Another person frowned and said, "It's best to be careful. If Fugaku Uchiha finds out, it will be troublesome."

"Humph!"

Uchiha Hayata sneered, "What are you afraid of? We're doing this precisely to raise enough funds for the Uchiha clan! As long as we use these funds to buy a large number of explosive tags, we can turn them into the military capital to launch a coup and overthrow the Hokage someday."

"If Fugaku Uchiha, the clan head, were to cause us trouble over such a trivial matter, it would only prove that he's nothing but a traitor! And it just so happens..."

"At that time, I will directly encourage my grandfather to use this as an excuse to launch a clan election and elect a new clan leader."

“Ha, that’s true.” Another person said, “Your grandfather is Elder Setsuna, so the weak Fugaku certainly won’t do anything to you.”

"Speaking of which," the man frowned, hesitating slightly, "I haven't been back for several months... Why does Konoha feel so strange? And I seem to have heard quite a few people talking about that dangerous guy. Do you think he might come looking for trouble? After all, that guy is always talking about justice and injustice."

Uchiha Hayata dismissed it, saying, "You're being too suspicious. As for that guy you mentioned, tch, how could he possibly know what we did if we don't tell anyone?"

Clearly, all three Uchiha clan ninjas were young and radical.

Just as Uchiha Shunta was about to say something more...

The sudden sound of footsteps above made the three of them shrink their pupils.

Where did those footsteps come from? Did someone break in? — This was the thought that popped into the minds of the three of them almost simultaneously.

The three exchanged glances, and just as they were about to go up from the underground chamber, they noticed that the footsteps were getting closer and closer.

In other words... this guy, who somehow managed to sneak in, even went down into the underground chamber!

A sense of foreboding instantly filled the minds of the three.

When he saw who stepped out, Uchiha Hayata's heart immediately went on high alert, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "Hiss! Uchiha Ikezumi?!"

Subsequently.

The three of them then saw three more people walking down from behind Uchiha Ikezumi, and they were three kids.

One is a girl in police uniform.

One was a little brat with blond hair.

another……

Ok? !

When they saw Sasuke's youthful face, Uchiha Hayata and the other two were all taken aback. They knew what Fugaku Uchiha's eldest and second sons looked like.

……

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(End of this chapter)