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Chapter 394 Return to the Ninja World

For the past six months, Minato Namikaze had been traveling extensively, visiting almost every ninja village except for the Land of Rain. Based on his on-site investigations, he compiled a "Survival Report of the Ninja Villagers" and shared it in the group.

This completes the first half of the "new government plan".

In the latter part, it will be necessary for Uchiha Hikaru to take action.

—According to the plan she and Minato Namikaze had previously agreed upon, it was necessary to introduce a sufficiently powerful external force at this time to forcibly break the existing pattern of the ninja world, promote the integration and reorganization of the five great nations, and thus form the necessary conditions for the emergence of a united government.

The original "external force" was the Ten-Tails and Kaguya.

However, Madara's resurrection gave Uchiha Hikaru a new idea—for most people in the ninja world, the Ten-Tails and Kaguya were actually a bit too powerful. Just like in the original story, only Team 7 participated in sealing Kaguya, and the others didn't even have the qualifications to participate. If she were released directly, most people probably wouldn't choose to put aside their past grievances and unite against her, but rather simply lie down and wait to die.

The intensity of the spots, however, is just right.

Moreover, his fearsome reputation was so widespread that everyone from older generation ninjas like Hiruzen Sarutobi and Onoki to younger generations like Kakashi knew his name.

therefore……

Perhaps we can use this guy's name to give the ninja world a shock with the Uchiha clan.

Since they are his grandchildren, it is their duty to help their great-grandmother.

Uchiha Hikaru made up his mind.

……

That morning.

Uchiha Hikaru greeted Bulma and the others, and then left the pirate world with Esdeath.

A flash of white light.

They returned to Konoha Village, to the Uchiha clan's residence.

This is the place where she left last time.

More than half a year has passed, and there have been quite a few changes in the area.

The most obvious improvement is the significantly increased green coverage in the surrounding area. Some roads also appear to have been redesigned and are now more orderly. Between rows of newly renovated houses, you can see pavilions, rockeries, ponds, and corridors... It's more like a scenic area than a residential area.

In fact...

Uchiha Hikaru indeed spotted a specially designated area filled with sculptures, calligraphy and paintings, and craft shops. Large numbers of Konoha villagers, dressed in various styles, were gathered inside and outside the shops, all observing and pointing with great interest. A red plaque nearby bore the inscription "The Second 'Uchiha Cup' Konoha Art Festival."

"...Is this event already in its 'second year'?"

Uchiha Hikaru's lips twitched slightly.

It seems the Uchiha clan does have some talent in management; it's no wonder she brought back so many humanities and social science books from other worlds...

Given that I have something to do upon my return.

Uchiha Hikaru didn't disturb the clansmen there. He casually closed the villa's window, withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes slightly, and in one breath, he spread his "ki" out, slowly expanding it into the surrounding air.

Instantly.

There was a huge, invisible spherical aura that spread outwards from where Uchiha Hikaru was located. Houses, streets, shopping malls, the Shadow Rock, and even the training grounds around the village... every inch of the area within a radius of tens of kilometers was shrouded in this "aura," and then all the images flooded into Uchiha Hikaru's mind, as if they were right next to him.

This application is naturally one of the results of Namek's special training. Its nature is somewhat similar to "Observation Haki," but in terms of both breadth and depth, it is far more powerful than any known Observation Haki. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as "the eye of heaven."

"...Did that little guy sneak off to the mountains to fish again?"

Hikaru Uchiha quickly located Naruto.

Then there's Shisui, Izumi, Fujikawa, Inuzuka Hana...

These were people she had met many times, and they were all quite strong. They stood out from the crowd of ordinary people, and it was easy to detect traces of their "qi" or "chakra" fluctuations.

However, Kakashi was not found.

Uchiha Hikari immediately focused his mind into his sea of ​​consciousness. In the depths of his dark sea of ​​consciousness, among a cluster of imprints that resembled twinkling starlight, he found the one belonging to Kakashi. By channeling his mind into it, he sensed Kakashi's current location. It was approximately 300 kilometers from Konoha Village, on the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rain, presumably on a mission.

"Alright. Let's go find Naruto first."

Uchiha Hikaru was about to set off when he suddenly stopped.

Then he focused his attention on another slightly dimmed engraving at the edge of his sea of ​​consciousness.

This one belongs to Danzo.

Although Hikari Uchiha never treated Danzo as a human being and basically ignored him after throwing him out of Konoha, he was indeed a window through which she learned about the Akatsuki's movements. Occasionally, she would use her seal to pull him into the genjutsu space, ask him a few simple questions, and listen to the information he had recently investigated.

But now...

The engraving in the delegation's collection began to flicker, like...

"Someone discovered the 'Eight Thousand Spears' I left on Danzo and is trying to break them?"

Uchiha Hikaru tilted his head, slightly surprised.

Obito and the Akatsuki did indeed suspect Danzo, and tested him several times during the period immediately after his defection from Konoha. However, because the mark left by Uchiha Hikaru was quite subtle, and because he almost died at her hands, Obito and the others never considered that Danzo could be a spy she had sent.

And now...

"Was it made by Madara?"

Seeing that the imprint in his sea of ​​consciousness was about to extinguish, Uchiha Hikaru injected a wisp of his eye power into it, and at the same time poured his mind into it, "looking" at the place where Danzo was.

……

In a remote, deserted cave somewhere in the Land of Rain.

Madara gripped Danzo's throat with one hand, lifting him easily into the air. The kaleidoscope-like shapes in his eyes flickered, as if he saw something in Danzo's eyes.

"...Madara-sama?"

Obito glanced at Madara and tentatively asked a question.

"Oh."

Madara curled his lip, with an "I knew it" expression: "Just as I guessed, this guy has something wrong with him. His brain has been tampered with, probably some kind of genjutsu Sharingan eye technique... I haven't been able to determine exactly which eye technique it is yet, but there probably aren't many people who can use eye techniques to this extent."

"It was probably done by one of our own kind."

"Is this really true?"

Obito paused slightly, and the expression on his face, hidden by the mask, became subtle.

(End of this chapter)