Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 166 Forcing Fugaku to Resign! You're bringing shame to the police force! (7,000 words)
"The Mangekyou Sharingan has a dojutsu that can make people feel endless pain, and the duration is extremely long... Heh heh, how does he know all this so clearly?"

Orochimaru, at a secret human experimentation research base somewhere in the Land of Fire, sat in a chair, legs crossed, deep in thought.

He learned about Uchiha Izumi's eye technique from a masked member of the Akatsuki organization during a previous "online" meeting.

Orochimaru was unaware of the masked man's exact identity, only knowing that the man held a high position within the Akatsuki organization.

She was vaguely on par with that woman named Xiao Nan.

Even though Orochimaru was a member of the Akatsuki, many of the organization's members were still shrouded in unsolved secrets in his eyes.

"Heh, he or his pitcher plant partner must have had a conflict with that righteous brat Uchiha Ikezumi. Perhaps Uchiha Ikezumi used the Mangekyou Sharingan on them."

"The pitcher plant wasn't at this meeting. This means that the person afflicted with the Kaleidoscope Eye Technique might be that pitcher plant, and it's still suffering from the torment of the technique..."

Orochimaru quickly analyzed some information about the "masked man" and the "pitcher plant".

He also concluded one thing—the masked man was probably a young man, and not as cunning as he had imagined.

If the other party is a cunning and older ninja, they certainly wouldn't reveal so much information that would be detrimental to them through their words.

The other person's voice was forced to sound like that of an elderly person.

This made Orochimaru a little curious about the masked man.

"What is he trying to hide? They're all hiding their true intentions. There are so many people like me in this organization!"

"pity……"

"Their vision and ideas are too narrow."

After Orochimaru made a sarcastic remark, he was about to get up to conduct an experiment when a strange tremor suddenly occurred beneath his feet, causing his mocking smile to freeze for a moment.

Orochimaru frowned slightly.

The smile on his face also faded.

earthquake?

wrong.

This strange vibration is more like...

The moment the thought crossed his mind, the piercing alarm of the human experimentation research base was immediately sounded. The sharp alarm continuously stimulated Orochimaru's eardrums, while the red alarm light above Orochimaru's head was flashing frantically.

"Ho ho..."

"Someone actually managed to infiltrate."

Orochimaru narrowed his cold eyes. He was not in a hurry to stop the intruders himself, because he kept quite a few subordinates in this human experimentation research base.

He can't possibly have to personally deal with every random cat or dog that slips in, can he?

What use is it for him to keep so many subordinates who are not qualified to become his reincarnation vessels?

Do you do charity?

Orochimaru slowly walked into the base's monitoring room, looked up at the rough, large monitors in front of him, and stared at the somewhat blurry images with static.

Just then, Orochimaru noticed a figure that surprised him greatly on one of the screens.

This surprised even Orochimaru.

at the same time.

The figure on the screen seemed to sense something as well. It slowly pulled its ninja sword from a bloody corpse, then slightly raised its head and looked at the monitor above.

Their eyes met across the screen.

“Uchiha Ikezumi…”

Orochimaru twitched his fingertips slightly and couldn't help but lick his dry lips.

He recognized the other person.

It's one of the containers he's most looking forward to!

……

"Intruder! You've shown a weakness!"

A ninja without any headband had a sinister grin on his face. His skin was covered with strange black curse marks, and he exuded an evil aura similar to Orochimaru's.

He appeared instantly behind Uchiha Ikezumi, his hands were several times thicker than those of an ordinary person, and his skin had the texture of rock.

He leaped up, clenched his fists, and slammed them heavily towards the back of Uchiha Ikezumi's head.

This strike was capable of shattering even a solid rock weighing several tons!
Uchiha Ikezumi turned around expressionlessly, slightly bending his left arm to block.

Bang! ! !
After a muffled thud, a cloud of dust rose up beneath Uchiha Ikezumi's feet, but his left arm, which had blocked the attack, remained unharmed, and even the elemental transformation of his magma body was not triggered.

His gaze met that of the person who attacked him from behind.

He could see the deep astonishment on the other person's face.

Without hesitation, Uchiha Ikezumi thrust his ninja sword backward with his right hand.

The sharp blade pierced the opponent's heart in an instant.

At the same time, several ninjas who had activated their "cursed seals" rushed over.

Within Uchiha Izumi's gaze, he could clearly see that every ninja who could move freely had a bright red square and text floating above their heads that were impossible to ignore.

Inside the entire secret human experimentation research base, apart from those "research materials" who were captured and used as guinea pigs,

No one is innocent.

They're all red-named villains!
"Wood escape..."

"The flowering tree will be buried forever."

Uchiha Izumi formed a hand seal with his free left hand and slammed it heavily onto the ground. Instantly, the ground beneath his feet churned violently, and thick tree trunks burst forth from the floorboards.

Under the shocked gazes of the cursed seal ninjas, countless tree trunks intertwined to form a wooden wall that blocked their way.

Suddenly, flower buds began to sprout from the tree trunk, and they bloomed in less than a second.

Large amounts of visible pollen began to spread rampantly.

One of the cursed ninjas was hit directly by the pollen.

He instinctively stopped his forward charge, but the next second he realized that his body seemed perfectly normal, which made him grin. He immediately said to his companion behind him, "This guy is just bluffing. This ninjutsu is no match for..."

The words are not finished yet.

The cursed ninja's expression suddenly became extremely twisted and ferocious.

He screamed in agony and immediately clutched his lungs with both hands.

The cursed ninjas behind him could clearly see with horror that something seemed to be about to burst out of this person's body.

puff--

puff--

puff--

The sound of a sharp object piercing flesh suddenly rang out. The lungs of the Cursed Seal ninja, who was screaming in agony, were easily pierced by the vines and thorns that grew out of them! A large number of vines and thorns pierced out from different parts of his body at the same time, turning him into a hedgehog. At first glance, he looked more like a blood-red cactus!

"not good!"

The expressions of the group of cursed seal ninjas behind them changed drastically, but it was too late.

Several more people clutched their lungs, screamed in agony, and knelt on the ground.

puff--

puff--

puff--

Puffs of blood mist exploded in the base corridor.

The pungent smell of blood was spreading rampantly.

"...Wood Release?!"

Upon seeing the scene in one of the base's corridors that resembled a bloody hell, Orochimaru's slightly narrowed golden vertical pupils flashed with a hint of surprise.

"Tsk...you've really given me yet another surprise! Uchiha Ikezumi, just how many treasures are hidden within your body?"

"I don't know why you were in the Land of Rain a moment ago and suddenly appeared here the next."

"But, as long as I know you've come to me of your own accord, that's enough for me."

Orochimaru was starting to lose control of his lust.

He is the kind of person who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Unless you are certain that you will never be able to get that item.

Otherwise, Orochimaru would not have been able to suppress his greed.

His attempt to seize the Rinnegan was also due to this personality trait.

……

at the same time.

Konoha.

Koharu Utatane sat in the interrogation room of the Uchiha Police Department, looking extremely displeased. Her old face was all gloomy, as if everyone present owed her tens of millions of ryo.

Her key subordinates have already been interrogated.

Now it's finally her turn as the "mastermind".

There was a click.

The door was pushed open.

Fugaku Uchiha walked in with a heavy heart. He never expected that such a hot potato would fall on the heads of the police force and into his hands.

The most crucial point is that he has no way to blame anyone, and he has no way to get rid of this big Buddha.

Because... the people who brought the Utatane Village in were dozens of police ninjas, as well as the legendary Sannin Tsunade and the ninja cat Tachibana Jiro.

The person who made Xiaochun, who had switched dormitories, obediently come to the police force.

It's the Hokage!
When Fugaku Uchiha received the news at noon today, he felt like the sky was falling. He gritted his teeth and spent the whole afternoon interrogating a large number of Root ninjas, enduring a lot of pressure that he shouldn't have had to bear, leaving him completely exhausted.

now……

It was time to interrogate Xiaochun, who had just moved to the dormitory.

"Ha!" Komura glanced at Fugaku Uchiha, whose face was contorted with bitterness, and said coldly, "Interrogating a Konoha advisor is definitely something your Uchiha clan has always wanted to do, isn't it? Now, I've given you your wish. I will definitely remember what I've learned today!"

Fugaku Uchiha felt a chill run down his spine.

Koharu Utatane's harsh words might not intimidate the other Uchiha police ninjas, because most of the ninjas in the police force who had decided to believe in absolute justice didn't take her seriously.

But it fooled Fugaku Uchiha.

Sitting directly opposite Koharu Utatane, under immense pressure, Fugaku took a deep breath and said to Koharu Utatane, "The Uchiha clan does not have the idea that you just mentioned, Advisor Koharu."

"us……"

“We’re just doing our job.” Fugaku Uchiha could only bring up Hiruzen Sarutobi: “We’re just following the Hokage’s orders, doing our job properly, nothing more.”

Just then, Koharu Utatane suddenly interrupted Fugaku Uchiha.

"Fugaku."

Koharu Utatane, her face clouded with worry, said, "I have a question for you—have you decided to completely change the fate of your Uchiha clan and shift your allegiance to absolute justice?"

"Is your Uchiha clan, under your leadership, going to abandon the Will of Fire that Konoha has inherited for so many years?"

“Answer me, Fugaku.”

It was clearly Fugaku Uchiha who was supposed to interrogate Koharu Utatane, but their conversation sounded like Koharu Utatane was interrogating Fugaku.

……

Outside the police interrogation room, there is a one-way mirror that allows people to see what's going on inside.

Furthermore, through a special structure, it allows people outside to hear what is being said inside, but people inside cannot hear what is being said outside.

Upon seeing this scene, Tsunade's face revealed a strange expression.

She glanced at a police ninja and blurted out, "Is this guy really your police force's captain? He seemed a bit off when he was interrogating the Root ninja; he seemed to be just going through the motions." "Now, it's more than just going through the motions. That old woman has completely taken over; she's overwhelming him. The police force captain being overpowered by a criminal?"

"Is this how your Uchiha police force enforces the law?"

Tsunade had no intention of mocking the Uchiha clan; she simply asked all the questions that were on her mind.

But this simple and straightforward question made all the police ninjas outside blush with embarrassment.

The Uchiha ninjas, who considered themselves arrogant and noble.

How can one withstand such "sincere questioning"?
The key point is that Fugaku Uchiha's performance was indeed shameful.

The police headquarters is the home turf of the Uchiha clan!
When the Third Hokage came here, he had to bring a large group of Anbu ninjas before he dared to come.

just now……

It was just a mere Koharu Utatane, and she didn't bring many Root ninjas with her, yet Fugaku Uchiha was afraid of her.
"How can he be so weak! Isn't his nickname 'Fierce-Eyed Fugaku'? Where is he fierce?" A police ninja couldn't stand it anymore. He was so angry at Uchiha Fugaku's weak behavior that his nose was crooked. He felt that the other party's performance and behavior were simply disgracing the Uchiha clan.

He gritted his teeth and tried to force his way into the interrogation room.

"Wait a moment."

But a clear and melodious voice suddenly interrupted him.

Slightly out of breath, Uchiha Izumi rushed back to the police force, dragging along a Root ninja she had knocked unconscious.

Her clothes were torn and her skin was scratched, indicating that she had been in a battle with this Root ninja.

She naturally won the battle.

Izumi stared at Fugaku Uchiha in the interrogation room, observing his demeanor.

She took a slow, deep breath and said, "Let him continue to be weak. There's no need to interrupt or stop him. What you need to do is call over the entire Uchiha clan and let them see what kind of person this Uchiha clan leader really is."

"Let all the clansmen see his true colors, and let those who still harbor some hope for Uchiha Fugaku completely give up on him. If, under these circumstances, there are still clansmen willing to support him and follow him..."

"That only shows that they are birds of a feather."

Izumi had long seen through Fugaku Uchiha and had long since given up on the clan leader, holding no expectations of him whatsoever.

Moreover, Fugaku Uchiha would occasionally trip up or cause trouble for Izumi-senpai, which made Izumi even more resentful of him.

……

"Lord Hokage, I don't know if you can accept a fact that might be a little hard for you to accept."

Kakashi Hatake appeared before Hiruzen Sarutobi. Unlike his usual self, he showed only half of his face and had a rather serious expression.

His words made Hiruzen Sarutobi take a deep breath.

"It seems... you've uncovered something. Kakashi, you haven't disappointed me."

Hiruzen Sarutobi paused, his old face darkening slightly, and continued, "Although I am old, I am not so fragile. Tell me everything you have to say."

Kakashi paused for a second before saying, "The Konoha Sealing Team has cracked the intelligence scroll inside a ninja pigeon, and the cipher text in the scroll has also been deciphered—the person who released this ninja pigeon to try to transmit intelligence to the outside world is a spy from Kumogakure."

"The coded message in the scroll is: the plan to cooperate with Konoha's informant is proceeding smoothly. As expected, the Third Hokage of Konoha has lost most of his rationality, and there is a high probability that the Konoha leadership will have a fierce armed conflict with Uchiha Ikezumi."

“But there’s bad news,” Kakashi continued. “When we were trying to capture the Cloud Village spy, he realized what was happening and chose to end his own life. He destroyed his head with ninjutsu, so the Yamanaka clan couldn’t steal his memories.”

"...Kumakuya!" Hiruzen Sarutobi gripped the corner of his desk tightly, the veins on the back of his hand throbbing.

The corner of the table made a slight creaking sound as it succumbed to the weight.

Kakashi didn't stop reporting. He reported truthfully in detail: "We can now confirm that the informants developed by the Cloud Village spies come from the Sarutobi clan, which belongs to you, Hokage. Moreover, they have more than one informant within the Sarutobi clan."

"The Anbu found an informant from the Sarutobi clan, but the informant's body was sealed with a cursed mark. When we tried to steal his memories, the cursed mark was triggered, and he died instantly. I'm sorry, this was indeed our Anbu's mistake and dereliction of duty."

"Lord Hokage, there may be a second, third, or even a fourth informant from the Hidden Cloud Village within the Sarutobi clan."

"We just haven't had a chance to catch them red-handed yet, and the Dark Division doesn't know exactly who they are."

Kakashi's words were truly astonishing, leaving Hiruzen Sarutobi completely stunned.

in fact……

Hiruzen Sarutobi had considered that someone from the Sarutobi clan might be involved.

After all, the Sarutobi clan's hatred for Uchiha Ikezumi was obvious to all, which is why he sent a part of the Anbu to monitor the Sarutobi clan.

What Hiruzen Sarutobi didn't expect was that the informants recruited by the spies in Kumogakure might all be members of the Sarutobi clan!

It's as if his daughter-in-law, Sarutobi Nadeshiko, died right under his nose, step by step!
He clearly lived within the Sarutobi clan's territory.

However, this has been kept secret by some audacious members of the clan until now!
"call……"

A deep gloom had settled on Hiruzen Sarutobi's old face. Even though he had somewhat anticipated it, his mood still turned extremely bad when he heard the result from Kakashi.

"Keep checking."

Hiruzen Sarutobi waved his hand wearily.

"Yes!"

After watching Kakashi leave, Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned and pondered deeply.

"So, the current situation is that several members of the Sarutobi clan are colluding with spies from Kumogakure, trying to use me to deal with Ikezumi. My attitude towards Ikezumi should make these clansmen very dissatisfied, but they dare not say it in front of me, so they have resorted to such extreme means and strategies."

"Or……"

"It was a spy from Kumogakure who took the initiative to contact the Sarutobi clan members. He told them about a pre-planned scheme to cause chaos in Konoha. And those Sarutobi clan members, blinded by hatred, accepted the Kumogakure spy's plan."

"It's also possible that the Cloud Village spy downplayed the seriousness of the situation and didn't tell them how much chaos the plan would cause in Konoha. It's unlikely that the Sarutobi clan knew it would cause such chaos and still insisted on cooperating with that Cloud Village spy..."

The moment his thoughts reached this point, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly fell silent.

Because he felt that the possibility was not nonexistent, after all, one should never underestimate the depravity of human nature.

He has already trained a "Orochimaru".

Who can guarantee that some members of their ninja clan aren't like Orochimaru, who treats life and the village as a joke?
"Hidden Clouds..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly exerted force and snapped the corner of the desk in half.

Since the end of the Third Shinobi World War...

This is the second time that the Hidden Cloud Village has provoked the Hidden Leaf Village.

Last time, the Hidden Cloud Village targeted the Hyuga clan, and the Hyuga clan only managed to alleviate that diplomatic incident by sacrificing Hyuga Hizashi's life.

This time, the Hidden Cloud Village actually turned its attention to the Sarutobi clan.

Or rather, it was aimed at Hiruzen Sarutobi!
……

Inside the interrogation room of the Uchiha Police Department.

With a click, the interrogation room door was opened from the inside.

With a serious expression on his face, Fugaku Uchiha was the first to step forward.

The person following closely behind was Koharu Utatane.

As Fugaku Uchiha emerged, he suddenly realized that something was amiss, because the number of people surrounding the police interrogation room far exceeded the total number of police officers.

When he frowned and looked closely...

They discovered that the vast majority of the people gathered outside the door were not ninjas from the police force, but ordinary members of the Uchiha clan!
Fugaku was taken aback for a moment.

"Captain Fugaku, the justice of our Uchiha clan is truly as lowly as dust. We are so polite to a prisoner who is about to be imprisoned in Konoha Prison. You should know that this prisoner instigated his subordinates to arrest your own son."

An Uchiha ninja with his arms crossed sneered and said directly to Fugaku Uchiha, "Could it be that in your eyes, your only son is Itachi Uchiha, and not Sasuke Uchiha?"

“I’ve heard that you’ve always been dissatisfied with your youngest son, and that you think he can never be as good as that beast Uchiha Itachi.”

Fugaku Uchiha's serious face instantly turned cold.

He stared directly at the Uchiha ninja who had spoken so rudely.

"Do you know what you're saying? Mind your place!" Fugaku Uchiha's aura was not weak.

next second.

But someone interjected, "Instead of asking him that question, you should ask yourself it. Clan Chief Fugaku, have you ever considered your own position?!"

Fugaku Uchiha suddenly felt that the voice sounded familiar.

When I turned my head and looked...

They discovered it was Uchiha Izumi.

Izumi's face tightened slightly. In front of all the Uchiha clan members, she looked up and met Uchiha Fugaku's eyes, and said, "You are the head of the Uchiha clan, and also the captain of the police force."

"Have you fulfilled your responsibilities and obligations as the former? Have you protected every member of the Uchiha clan who has never committed evil? Have you ever fought for the interests of the Uchiha within the legal framework?"

"Did you fulfill your duty to uphold the justice required of the latter? What I saw was you groveling before a prisoner in the interrogation room!"

"Your attitude is a disgrace to the police force!"

This was the first time Izumi had spoken so sharply to Fugaku Uchiha.

She had long been utterly disappointed in this clan leader.

Because of the care she had received from the Uchiha clan led by Fugaku Uchiha over the past few years, Izumi refrained from saying much.

Fugaku Uchiha was so polite to Komura Utatane in the interrogation room.

It was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Izumi finally couldn't take it anymore!
"You are bringing shame to justice!" Izumi gritted his teeth and added, "You are not only unworthy to be the head of the Uchiha clan, but you are also unworthy to be the captain of the police force!"

corner.

Watching this good show, Tsunade raised an eyebrow, clicked her tongue, and muttered to herself, "I didn't expect this kid to be so extreme, criticizing Uchiha Fugaku in front of so many people."

"It seems that Chi Quan has brainwashed him so much that he only has 'absolute justice' in his heart."

Jiraiya somehow blended into the crowd.

He moved closer to Tsunade and coughed lightly: "Since you know that absolute justice is achieved through mediation and brainwashing..."

"What's it to you?" Tsunade glared at him fiercely, then gave a second look to Shima and Fukasaku, who were perched on his shoulders.

Jiraiya: "..."

No, I was only halfway through my sentence!

Is this kind of differential treatment?
……

——Boom! ! !

In a certain place in the Land of Fire, scorching hot magma, accompanied by a terrifying impact comparable to a volcanic eruption, instantly vaporized several strangely shaped cursed seal ninjas in front of them.

The surging lava that covered the entire corridor continued its relentless forward flow.

The moment it hit the end of the corridor, it instantly melted through the metal wall at the end.

The lava spread in all directions of the base along the channels.

They destroyed most of the precious research equipment that Orochimaru had accumulated over the years.

They also killed off most of Orochimaru's trained subordinates.

Orochimaru, who was in the monitoring room, could already smell the strong sulfur odor as it crept in through the crack in the monitoring room door.

When Orochimaru saw a valuable machine being melted into molten iron by lava, his eyelids began to twitch uncontrollably.

"Heh heh, that's so rude it makes me want to kill!"

Orochimaru's eyes gradually turned sinister as he watched one tool-like subordinate after another die at the hands of Uchiha Izumi, without feeling any pity for them.

In his eyes, the only purpose of these tool-like subordinates was to deplete Uchiha Izumi's stamina.

Their existence is valuable because it allows Uchiha Ikezumi to use one more ninjutsu.

As long as the containers I've hidden away aren't found by the other side; as long as my precious little white mice are still alive and well.

The loss of this little tool was not enough to make him angry.

On the contrary, there was massive damage to research equipment...

This made Orochimaru a little uneasy.

……

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(End of this chapter)