Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 157 Fugaku: "Itachi was influenced by his environment."

As Uchiha Izumi exerted a little force with his five fingers, his fingertips even pierced through the skin of the opponent's chest and disappeared into a patch of flesh.

The power of chakra was further destroying the cursed seal on the opponent's chest.

The spy Orochimaru sent from Konoha was now visibly receding from his body like a receding tide, the dense cursed markings on his body visible to the naked eye.

He Chuan Shang looked down at his chest in horror.

Lord Orochimaru placed a cursed seal on himself to prevent anyone from obtaining his secrets. If anyone attempts to do so, the seal will be immediately triggered, causing him to explode and die instantly.

He Chuan Shang was not actually averse to this kind of curse mark.

Because he was loyal enough to Lord Orochimaru to the point of sacrificing his own life to keep Lord Orochimaru's secrets.

To his surprise, the cursed seal was removed by Uchiha Ikezumi!

not good……

Before He Chuanshang could even try to struggle, the intense suffocating sensation in his neck made his eyes roll upwards. His consciousness went blank, and he was choked unconscious.

Uchiha Izumi casually tossed him towards the direction where Izumi was.

"Send it to the Yamanaka clan and have them investigate the memories in his mind and bring back information about Orochimaru."

Uchiha Ikezumi said calmly.

Orochimaru's words did not cause much of a stir in his mind.

"Yes, Senior Chi Quan!"

Izumi realized the seriousness of the situation. It concerned Orochimaru, one of the Legendary Sannin, and whether Izumi-senpai could eliminate Orochimaru, one of the sources of all evil in the ninja world.

“Ikezumi, I want to be a part of this too!” At this moment, Mitarashi Anko’s gaze shifted from the slender white snake that had been cut in two on the ground, and she spoke through gritted teeth.

As Orochimaru's disciple, Anko knew that she actually faced a lot of subtle discrimination and isolation in Konoha.

Although Orochimaru defected, the influence he had on Anko continues to affect her constantly.

Like a nightmare that haunts her dreams, it makes Hongdou want to eliminate it at all times.

She wanted to kill Orochimaru!

Killing one's master...

This is also a characteristic of the ninja world.

"random."

"Uchiha Ikezumi said."

……

"What a stubborn guy! It seems I won't be able to get the Hyuga main family's Byakugan after all. The pawn I planted in Konoha has also been removed. Heh heh, but it doesn't matter. Life may be short, but there's no rush."

Inside a secret experimental base within the Land of Fire, Orochimaru, wielding a scalpel, is cutting into a living person bound to a hospital bed, their face filled with terror and despair.

A hint of coldness flashed in his pair of golden vertical pupils, and his hand unconsciously increased the force of his movements.

Poof——

Orochimaru's movements stopped.

He glanced down at the "guinea pig" in front of him, whose face had visibly turned pale until it stopped breathing completely.

"Uchiha Izumi, you even caused me to lose a precious white mouse from afar! It's really hard to forgive, hehe."

Clearly, Orochimaru's inner world was not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

Uchiha Izumi's act of slaying the small white snake without saying a word clearly stirred up some anger in Orochimaru's heart.

……

Konoha Village, within the Nara clan's territory.

When Yamanaka Inoichi, who was temporarily staying there, saw the unconscious man brought by Uchiha Izumi, he did not ask him anything out of curiosity.

However, Izumi took the initiative to say, "This is a spy sent to Konoha by Orochimaru. Senior Izumi needs to obtain information about Orochimaru."

"Orochimaru's spy..." A strange look flashed across Yamanaka Inoichi's usually placid face. His gaze passed over Izumi and landed on Mitarashi Anko, whose expression was somewhat complicated behind Izumi.

He nodded and said, "Okay."

Then, Yamanaka Inoichi added, "Should we inform the Hokage about Orochimaru, one of the Three Legendary Sannin?"

"No need for now."

Izumi shook his head, his words filled with distrust of the Third Hokage, and said, "If the Third Hokage gets involved in this matter, he might be mindful of his master-disciple relationship with Orochimaru and choose to let Orochimaru go at a crucial moment."

Having followed Izumi for so long, Izumi can now barely see the true face of the Third Hokage.

The Third Hokage was indeed commendable in his deep sense of emotion.

The problem is that he often misplaces his emotional attachments.

Indulging Danzo is a good example.

At least, that was Izumi's initial impression. Moreover, Izumi-senpai had said that the Third Hokage wasn't a good person. Under these circumstances, it was even less likely that the Hokage could be trusted.

Izumi even suspected...

The reason why Itachi Uchiha, who was exposed as the "Evil of the Future," was able to hide so well was probably because the Third Hokage hid him.

"Understood." Yamanaka Inoichi nodded slightly, and as Izumi turned to leave, he suddenly called out to him.

Quan snapped out of his daze.

Then Yamanaka Inoichi spoke up: "One of our Yamanaka clan members just returned to Konoha today. While on a ninja mission outside the village, he happened to meet one of the confidants of the notorious merchant Gato. I think... Ikezumi will be very interested in that infamous merchant."

spring:"!!!"

“Kado…” Mitarashi Anko shook off the rather complicated expression on her face and hesitated, “Is he that big businessman who started out smuggling and selling illegal drugs and has a very bad reputation?”

Yamanaka Inoichi said, "Hmm."

"Thank you very much, Chief Yamanaka!" Izumi earnestly thanked Yamanaka Inoichi, "I will pass on your thanks to Senior Ike Izumi."

After watching the two leave.

Yamanaka Inoichi turned his gaze to the unconscious Orochimaru spy.

He knows.

Helping Uchiha Ikezumi obtain information about Orochimaru would inevitably offend Orochimaru. However, having already made the choice for the Yamanaka clan, why should he hesitate?

……

the other side.

Within the Uchiha clan.

"Fugaku...you've been watching for two hours now." Uchiha Mikoto leaned against the door with a complicated expression on her face, staring at Uchiha Fugaku, who was standing motionless in a room.

She sighed inwardly, but said aloud, "Even if you stay in Itachi's room all day, Itachi will never come back."

A hint of dejection crept across Fugaku Uchiha's usually expressionless, stern face. The longing and sorrow in his eyes were impossible to conceal.

“Mikoto, the Uchiha clan shouldn’t be like this.”

After a long silence, Fugaku Uchiha finally spoke: "The Uchiha clan should not pursue absolute justice, because this will cause the Uchiha to fall from one extreme to another."

"Itachi is worried that the Uchiha clan will become too extreme. He is afraid that such Uchiha will harm Konoha. He is even more afraid that if things continue to develop, even he will not be able to control the situation."

"Perhaps it wasn't that he chose the path into the abyss on his own. Rather, it was people like Uchiha Setsuna and Uchiha Izumi who kept pushing him in that direction."

"If it weren't for Uchiha Setsuna's single-minded desire to launch a coup, and if it weren't for Ikezumi's extreme actions, even daring to kill the Hokage's son, would Itachi... still have fallen into the abyss?"

Mikoto Uchiha was taken aback. She thought about it seriously and was about to respond when Fugaku Uchiha interrupted her.

It turns out that Fugaku Uchiha never intended to get any answers from her; he was simply asking and answering his own questions.

"will not."

Fugaku Uchiha took a deep breath and said, "The reason why a person can become so stubborn is due to environmental factors."

"Outside, there was the Hokage's expectations for Itachi, and the influence of the Will of Fire on Itachi. Inside, there was the radical faction led by Uchiha Setsuna, and the absolute justice led by Uchiha Ikezumi."

"These four factors are the main reasons why Itachi is someone that even we, as his family, don't quite know."

Seeing that her husband's mood was a bit off, Mikoto Uchiha finally spoke up.

"Fugaku, let bygones be bygones. If Itachi were still alive, he probably wouldn't want to see you so worried and sorrowful."

Mikoto Uchiha gently comforted him, "Itachi used to be a sensible child who would take the initiative to share the burden, so that you, as his father, wouldn't have to work so hard."

"Your persistence will only make Itachi's life in the Pure Land restless."

Mikoto Uchiha silently added to her mind: 'If we remain so fixated on Itachi's death, something bad is bound to happen.'

Mikoto Uchiha was quite familiar with the radical ideology that was difficult to erase from the bloodline of the Uchiha clan.

She knew that even though her husband appeared calm and composed on the surface, the radicalism and arrogance inherent in the Uchiha clan could never be erased.

She feared that Fugaku Uchiha might suddenly have some strange idea while caught up in his inner turmoil and obsession.

That strange thought could very well lead to something bad happening to Fugaku.

"call……"

Fugaku Uchiha let out a heavy sigh, his solitary figure appearing particularly forlorn. With his back to Mikoto Uchiha, he said, "Mikoto, Itachi is someone who considers everything very thoroughly, no matter what he does. Especially after he learned from Izumi that he would destroy the Uchiha clan in the future, perhaps he was already plotting the extermination plan in his heart."

"That also means that he prepared a lot of backup plans, measures and contingency plans in the process. Perhaps among his many contingency plans, he also anticipated that he might die at the hands of someone before he had a chance to destroy the Uchiha clan."

"I'm thinking about what kind of backup plan he left behind."

Upon hearing this, Mikoto Uchiha realized that her husband hadn't listened to a word she said.

A hint of disappointment flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Mikoto Uchiha said, "Fugaku, I just hope you won't say these strange things to Sasuke when he comes back. You've already turned Itachi into that, you can't let Sasuke, who chose a special ninja path, become like Itachi too."

"really."

This time, Fugaku Uchiha surprisingly listened: "We can't let Sasuke repeat the same mistake."

Mikoto Uchiha paused, then smiled slightly: "That's more like it."

She continued, "I'll go out and buy some ingredients first, and then I'll cook some of Sasuke's favorite dishes for dinner."

The sound of Mikoto Uchiha's footsteps grew fainter and fainter.

Fugaku Uchiha remained quietly standing in Itachi Uchiha's room.

"Konoha..."

"Sasuke..."

"Itachi..."

"Chiquan..."

Fugaku was somewhat agitated.

……

An hour passed quickly. During this time, Izumi first relayed Yamanaka Inoichi's words to Uchiha Ike Izumi, and then hurriedly ran back to the Nara clan's residence.

She brought out the information about Orochimaru that Yamanaka Inoichi had gathered from Kagawa Hisashi, as well as the Yamanaka clan ninja who had just returned to Konoha, and found Uchiha Ikezumi again.

After pausing to catch her breath, the girl said, "Senior Chiquan, I've brought everything!"

Uchiha Ikezumi took an intelligence document, but did not rush to open it for reading.

Instead, he focused his gaze on a mountain clan ninja in front of him who looked somewhat uneasy.

“Cooperate with me and find Gato,” Uchiha Izumi said to him. “Afterwards, the police force will give you a reward.”

"No, no need!"

Yamanaka Anzawa hurriedly shook his head. He was just a lowly Konoha Chunin, and he couldn't muster any confidence in front of Uchiha Ikezumi, even though the clan leader had warned him beforehand that he didn't need to be so nervous...

He hurriedly continued, "As long as there is an opportunity to help absolute justice, I will definitely do it without hesitation and without seeking any reward."

Uchiha Ikezumi glanced at him and said, "But you need to set an example for others who don't quite trust absolute justice yet. Let them know that cooperating with the police to eradicate crime isn't a terrible thing. They can even benefit from it and get a positive feedback loop."

Shan Zhong Anze was taken aback.

"Absolute justice does not expect everyone in the ninja world to follow or believe in it. But it also cannot make those who have expectations of justice too afraid that absolute justice will harm them. Only those who are evil in their hearts should fear justice."

Uchiha Izumi hurriedly pulled a small notebook and a pen from his pocket.

She quickly wrote down every word that Senior Chi Quan had just said.

Ah!
Senior Ikezumi's words were definitely not only directed at this Yamanaka clan ninja, but also possibly at himself and Anko.

Uchiha Ikezumi didn't pay attention to the girl's little actions.

He opened the interrogation document, which contained all the intelligence information about Orochimaru that Yamanaka Inoichi had selected.

The most crucial piece of information is the exact location of Orochimaru's secret experimental base in the Land of Fire!
Uchiha Ikezumi's eyes narrowed slightly.

Then, he asked the restless mountain clan ninja, "Where are the confidants of Gado that you know?"

Yamanaka Anze gave an address.

Uchiha Ikezumi closed his eyes and recalled the detailed map of the Land of Fire, connecting the two locations with Konoha Village.

"It's a good opportunity to solve this at the same time."

He said.

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(End of this chapter)