Naruto: Starting with Tsunade

Chapter 371 The Uchiha Clan Knows They Are About to Be Exterminated

Caught off guard by the question, Xia Xian's pupils involuntarily dilated.

This subtle expression did not escape Aokiji's eyes; the corners of his mouth turned up, a half-smile playing on his lips.

"Impossible, how could he know..." Xia Yue panicked, sweat beading on his forehead.

"Lord Aokiji, you really love to joke around."

From the moment Aokiji asked that question, he knew he had been exposed. Now he was just making a last-ditch effort to deceive himself.

Aokiji sneered like a cat toying with a mouse: "This is no joke..."

"Lord Aokiji, I don't quite understand what you're talking about."

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Aokiji's eyes, which had been staring straight ahead, suddenly changed, and blood-red hexagonal snowflake patterns appeared in them.

This is……

Mangekyou Sharingan—!

The moment he saw those eyes, Lower Moon gave up resisting.

It's not that he didn't want to resist.

Rather, it's because the two sides are too mismatched in strength.

You have to lift your hand to crush an ant, but you only need to give him a look.

The powerful pupil energy penetrated through his vision and directly invaded the brain of the Lower Moon, causing his eyes to glaze over—a symptom of being under a spell.

Aokiji, expressionless, asked, "From now on, tell me everything you know."

The Lower Moon, under the spell, nodded blankly.

Fugaku held his breath and watched in silence.

Aokiji immediately began questioning: "Are you a spy sent by higher-ups?"

Xiaxian nodded.

Upon receiving this reply, Aokiji glanced at Fugaku and saw that he was frowning. Because they had already discussed it, Fugaku didn't seem to care and remained relatively calm.

"Who from the higher-ups sent you?"

"Lord Danzo..."

"Including you, who else is a spy?"

"Three people."

"who."

"Horse head, bull head, Uchiha Itachi..."

Aokiji squinted and glanced sideways.

Although Fugaku had somewhat suspected that his son had become a spy for Konoha, he still found it difficult to remain calm when he actually discovered it. He slowly closed his eyes and sighed, "Just as I thought... No wonder he always opposed the coup..."

"Fugaku..."

The son betrayed his family. Aokiji, afraid of Fugaku, called out his name to offer his condolences.

Fugaku opened his eyes, revealing three tomoe on them, and said, "It's alright, I'm not so easily discouraged by this."

Aokiji nodded with satisfaction and continued questioning, "Horse Head and Ox Head don't sound like names. Are they code names for Root?"

Xiaxian replied, "Yes."

"The horse's head and the ox's head refer to..."

"The horse head is me, and the ox head is my twin brother."

"Twin brother?" Aokiji asked curiously, "What's going on?"

"My brother's physique and chakra are extremely similar to mine. To facilitate surveillance, our faces have been completely modified to resemble those of the Lower Moon demons. We take turns using them every so often."

"Where is the real lower moon?"

"We replaced it."

This statement is tantamount to a disguised expression of killing the Lower Moon.

Aokiji scoffed, "Truly despicable."

The result was almost exactly as Aokiji had predicted. Fugaku looked at Aokiji and sighed, "I'm ashamed..."

There's a spy within the clan that he hasn't discovered yet; he needs Aokiji's help to finally find the spy.

As a result, he admired Aokiji even more.

More than admiring his strength, he now truly admires Aokiji's almost supernatural intelligence.

Little did people know that Aokiji was able to uncover the spy so quickly because he was using a map-wide cheat.

All Aokiji had to do was find evidence in the answers, and this seemingly ordinary approach appeared to be incredibly insightful to outsiders with information asymmetry.

Having largely explained the situation regarding the Konoha spies, Aokiji was about to drop a bombshell, so he asked, "The Konoha leadership already knows about the Uchiha clan's planned coup, right?"

"Yes."

"So, if it weren't for the unexpected turn of events with Aokiji Uchiha, how would the Konoha leadership have planned to deal with the coup d'état launched by the Uchiha?"

The horse-headed creature disguised as a Lower Moon demon said in a deep voice, "Let Itachi Uchiha take action, slaughter the entire Uchiha clan, regardless of age or gender, and then let him bear the sin of massacring his own people."

Not long after he finished speaking, an explosion suddenly rang out.

Aokiji's expression was indifferent. He looked to the side in the direction of the sound and saw a pile of broken wood on the ground. There should have been a table in that spot.

As for why things had turned out this way, Fugaku's bloodshot eyes, his rapid breathing due to excitement, and his ferocious expression were the best explanations.

Aokiji crossed his arms and calmly said, "Fugaku, calm down."

After saying that, he gestured with his eyes and looked towards the house at the entrance.

Following that gaze, Fugaku saw the security team members who had appeared at the door at some point.

Just now, Fugaku was so emotional that he punched the table and smashed it. These people heard the noise and rushed in out of concern.

And so, they witnessed the following scene.

Under Fugaku's murderous gaze, the guards trembled slightly. It was the first time they had ever seen their usually composed captain, Fugaku, display such fury.

Now, his bloodshot eyes are more deserving of the title of "fierce eyes" than ever before.

In addition, they also saw that Aokiji was currently in the Mangekyou Sharingan state.

I couldn't help but think in a certain direction.

Did they have a fight?

That shouldn't be the case.

Everyone swallowed hard, not daring to make any wild guesses, and cautiously called out the name: "Captain Fu-Fugaku, what's wrong...?"

Fugaku took a breath to calm himself, looked at Aokiji with a questioning look in his eyes, and knew that the next step depended on Aokiji's attitude.

Seeing the gaze directed at him, Aokiji's expression turned solemn. He nodded slightly and spoke in a deep voice, "It's time to let them know the ugly faces of the Konoha higher-ups."

Upon hearing this, everyone was taken aback.

These two were talking about higher-ups, so why is Captain Fugaku so angry?

But then again, why is the Lower Moon in Captain Fugaku's office?

Just as everyone was filled with doubt, Fugaku, his face grim, pointed at the lower moon and said in a voice filled with intense anger, "Listen for yourselves to what those guys are up to."

Why is Captain Fugaku so angry?

Filled with doubt, everyone looked down at the waning crescent moon and found its gaze unfocused, somewhat like...

"This guy has fallen for my illusion."

Aokiji maintains the Mangekyou Sharingan state, and this is an explanation.

Upon hearing this, everyone was even more confused. Why would Lord Aokiji cast an illusion on the Lower Moon?

Aokiji raised his chin and gave the order: "Let everyone hear what you just said to us."

The Lower Moon stammered, repeating what he had just said: "Spies... Ox-Head, Horse-Head, Uchiha Itachi... Slaughter the entire Uchiha clan..."

During this conversation, the expressions of the guards underwent several obvious changes, from doubt to frowning to shock. Finally, when they heard that the higher-ups were planning to massacre their entire clan, their pent-up emotions suddenly erupted, their eyes wide open, looking like they wanted to devour people.

They finally understood why Captain Fugaku was so angry. Everyone's eyes turned bloodshot, they activated their Sharingan, and they clamored to strike first:

"Damn it, how dare the higher-ups do this?"

"We can't tolerate this any longer. We need to strike first and catch them off guard."

"They actually plan to kill us all, a bunch of old bastards. I'll see who wipes out whom."

"That's right, let's go to war with those guys."

"Let's start the war."

P.S.: I've noticed that I update close to midnight every time, which means I don't have time to correct typos. I have to post it first and then fix it later, which doesn't look good. In the future, I'll post 4000+ words first and then write the rest slowly. This way, I don't have to rush and can still type it all out.

(End of this chapter)