Konoha: The Absolute Justice of the Uchiha

Chapter 19 The Hokage, Also an Enemy of Justice
Hiruzen Sarutobi left with two ANBU squads, leaving Kakashi and six ANBU members to handle the aftermath.

"Lava Release Kekkei Genkai... This destructive power is truly outrageous!"

Breathing in the sulfurous smell that even his mask couldn't block out, Kakashi's gaze lingered in all directions.

A look of shock flashed across the eyes of a pair of dead fish.

In his line of sight—the ground ahead was covered with gradually cooling lava, and the earth was scorched by the lava into one pit after another, large and small, deep and shallow; the houses of half a street seemed to have been wiped out out of thin air, and the high temperature that permeated the air made Kakashi feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Lava was still dripping from the edges of many building ruins, making it look like an active volcano to the uninitiated!
Kakashi also saw the corpses of two Root ninjas.

One of them was left with only half a body, while the other half was missing.

The second chest was ripped open with a large hole, and the person was cut in half at the waist.

Kakashi, looking rather troubled, put his hands in his pockets.

Those two corpses are easy to deal with... just tidy them up and have someone hand them over to the Root.

But how can we clean up this devastated street?
Uchiha Ikezumi is really acting recklessly!

but……

Perhaps he is one of the few ninjas in the village who still remembers the Fourth Hokage!

Kakashi recalled what Uchiha Ikezumi had said.

"Only in this way can we be worthy of the Fourth Hokage's sacrifice."

Absolute justice...

Pretty good too.

Just as Kakashi was deep in thought, he suddenly saw a petite figure stagger to her feet not far away. The person also appeared to be wearing the uniform of the Uchiha Police Force.

Seeing the Uchiha clan girl, he quickly followed in the direction Uchiha Ikezumi had gone.

Kakashi thought for a moment.

I chose to ignore it.

……

the other side.

"I...I will never do it again...Can you put me down first? I can actually walk by myself."

"Um... could you please not lock me up for so long? Iruka-sensei would be very disappointed in me if he knew."

"I really know I was wrong..."

Naruto's voice grew weaker with each sentence, and by the end, it was choked with emotion.

Large tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

Naruto truly regretted it.

He knew he had committed a terrible crime; a prank had resulted in half a street in Konoha being wiped out out of thin air!
In other words, many people became homeless because of his pranks.

Apparently, someone even died because of this!

But he discovered that the man who had picked him up was completely indifferent to him!
"Ike... Ike Senpai, wait for me!" A weak cry rang out from behind Uchiha Ike Senpai and Naruto.

Uchiha Ikezumi slowed his pace, and a young girl hurriedly followed.

Her face was pale.

His steps were also unsteady.

"I'm sorry, senior. I... I used my Sharingan before, and it took too much to use. I accidentally fainted..." Izumi was so ashamed that she wanted to disappear into the ground. She felt that she had been a huge burden to the senior.

On the night of the Nine-Tails' death, she awakened her Sharingan at the age of five, and it was a three-tomoe Sharingan, an unprecedented talent for awakening the Sharingan in the Uchiha clan.

but……

Surprisingly, Izumi's chakra reserves were too low; her chakra and the power of her eye techniques were simply insufficient to support her three-tomoe Sharingan.

If chakra is measured in units of "one Kakashi", then Izumi's chakra is at most 0.01 Kakashi.

Among his peers who graduated from the Ninja Academy, his chakra level was either the lowest or among the bottom.

"Uchiha Izumi."

"Here!!!" Faced with being called upon by Senior Izumi, Uchiha Izumi's instinctive reaction made her quickly perk up. "I'll ask you two questions to test you. What do you think about what just happened?" Uchiha Izumi glanced at the weak girl beside her.

"Just now?"

Quan was taken aback.

She vaguely recalled witnessing the conflict between Senior Ikezumi and the Konoha Root before she accidentally fainted. She also remembered witnessing the conflict between Senior Ikezumi and the Hokage after she woke up.

The conflict was clearly caused by a child playing a prank, which sparked a minor disturbance in the village.

In the end, so many conflicts and contradictions arose.

This……

does it worth?
When this sentence flashed through Izumi's mind, she suddenly remembered what Senior Izumi had always said about "absolute justice," and she recalled the many "evils" that had arisen from the morbid state of the ninja world that she could not understand.

—A father who murdered his daughter; a son who murdered his mother.

These two shocking events alone were enough to completely change Izumi's view of the ninja world.

Also, regarding Senior Ikezumi's "absolute justice".

A deeper level of understanding has been gained.

“I think… Senior didn’t do anything wrong.” Quan took a deep breath and said earnestly, “Even the smallest evil, if left unchecked and unpunished, will eventually escalate into a bigger evil.”

After clearing her mind, Izumi continued, "Senior, I've always wanted to protect Konoha. But before, I didn't know what methods I could use to protect Konoha."

"Until I met my senior, I roughly knew what to do. As long as I do my best and use my own strength to eliminate the evil in Konoha, one day Konoha will become better."

"This is my understanding of [absolute justice]!"

Uchiha Ikezumi said calmly, "Newcomer, you're no longer a zero, you're at least a ten."

Quan asked timidly, "Senior, what is the maximum score?"

"one thousand."

spring:"……"

Okay, as long as it's not a negative score.

"Senior, what's the second question?" Izumi asked tentatively.

Uchiha Izumi asked, "What are your thoughts on my 'retreat' just now?"

Quan was startled.

“Senior, I don’t think you were backing down!” Izumi gritted her teeth and said seriously, “In the entire Konoha, I’m afraid only you, senior, are silently upholding absolute justice. Even the other seniors in the police force have been misunderstanding you, senior, you have been upholding justice all by yourself from beginning to end.”

“If you had insisted on a physical conflict with the Hokage and the others back then, Konoha’s [justice]…” Izumi took a deep breath, and his courage gradually grew: “There might not have been anyone to protect it, and it would be difficult for the village to have another person like you.”

"You're beating around the bush."

Uchiha Ikezumi interrupted her: "To uphold [absolute justice], you need absolute power, otherwise things will turn out like they just happened."

"You must remember this frustration, remember this anger, remember how the 'evil' of the ninja world revels above us."

Quan nodded heavily.

"Sooner or later, in the name of 'absolute justice,' I will wipe them all out." Uchiha Izumi stated frankly and openly, uttering a statement that left Izumi speechless: "Including the Hokage!"

"This is the third lesson I'm teaching you. Politicians only care about their power and the so-called balance. In their eyes, the word 'justice' is dispensable."

"The Hokage is also an enemy of justice."

Quan's brain crashed.

Uchiha Ikezumi, who was watching Naruto, temporarily focused his attention on the "reward" of killing three red-named criminals.

Yes.

Three!

Danzo, who rewrote an unfavorable reality with "Izanagi," has already been killed once in the context of his cheat ability.

……

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(End of this chapter)