The Fifth Leaf Village

Seeing this scene, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was originally planning to take action, stopped abruptly.

"Another pair of Mangekyō Sharingan? You Uchiha are really good at hiding it." Sarutobi Hiruzen took out his pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it, took a deep breath, and then spoke slowly.

After saying that, Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at the place where the Anbu who usually would be on duty in the Hokage's office were hiding, but he found that several Anbu who were supposed to be on duty in the Hokage's office had long disappeared.

"Sir Sandaime, we will wait here until you sign." Uchiha Douhuan said.

……

In the office of the Assistant Hokage of Konoha Village, Jiraiya and Uchiha Douhuan were facing each other across an office desk.

Jiraiya took a deep breath and asked, "Why? Why do you do this?"

"Why?" Uchiha Douhuan said, "Of course, it's to ensure the purity of the village's will of fire."

"A coup d'état? Is this what you call the Will of Fire?" Jiraiya demanded. "You will lead this village into the abyss."

"Abyss?" Uchiha Douhuan laughed wildly with his head raised when he heard this. Uchiha Douhuan's wild laughter echoed in the sky above the office for a while.

"Lord Jiraiya, what did you get this from? Is it still the vague and ridiculous prophecy you heard from Mount Myoboku?" Uchiha Douhuan said after he had laughed enough.

"Dou Huan, if you do this, the future of the world will fall into completely unknowable chaos!" Jiraiya shouted.

"So? Should I just sit back and watch the darkness of this world like you, doing nothing, waiting for the senseless peace bestowed by the son of prophecy that will appear at any time as said by the big toad?" Uchiha Douhuan said.

Jiraiya wanted to explain, but Uchiha Douhuan didn't give him a chance to speak.

"Toad Sage, Konoha's hero Jiraiya, that's hilarious," Uchiha Dohuan said. "You've been nothing but a coward from the beginning. You've clearly seen the darkness of this world, but you've never had the courage to face reality. You've happily accepted the promises made by that old toad on Myoboku Mountain that even a three-year-old wouldn't fall for. The old toad's lies, which can no longer be made up, have frightened you to this point."

"In my eyes, you are as ridiculous as the idea of peace that you talk about, where people can understand each other. I didn't want to pay attention to you. Kakashi and I are both working towards true peace, but you just jumped out in front of me like a clown. Isn't it better for you to indulge in the dream woven for you by the old toad on Myoboku Mountain and entertain yourself?"

"You're running around the world like a stray dog. Whenever you see someone with a bit of talent, you start to instill your ridiculous dreams into them. Don't you realize you're constantly bringing misfortune to others? Whoever believes your lies today will be in dire straits tomorrow! And you'll never see the tragic death of the person you've fooled. You'll just shake your head and say they're not the person you predicted, and then go find the next unlucky person."

Jiraiya's face turned red and white at what Uchiha Dohuan said. He wanted to refute, but at this moment, figures began to emerge unconsciously in his mind.

Yahiko, Nagato, Konan and Minato, all the people he once had high hopes for, seemed to have really died on the road to pursuing his ideals, just as Uchiha Dohuan had said.

"Am I really a bastard who brings misfortune? Did I kill them all?"

Jiraiya stared blankly at his own face, which had turned pale without him knowing when, reflected in Uchiha Dohuan's Mangekyō Sharingan, and thought to himself.

Uchiha Douhuan's words undoubtedly tore everything apart and placed the bloody reality in front of Jiraiya, which directly broke Jiraiya's fragile psychological defenses.

"Jiraiya, have you made up your mind? Are you going to surrender and follow me back to the Security Department, or are you going to fight me here and let the innocent villagers around you be buried with your ridiculous prophecy?" After Uchiha Douhuan finished speaking, the lightning surrounding his body began to gather and soon condensed into a sticky sea of lightning.

Upon hearing this, Jiraiya raised his head with difficulty and looked at Uchiha Dohuan. His hands dropped weakly, as if all his strength had been drained away.

Although the opponent has the Sage Mode and the Mangekyō Sharingan, Jiraiya does not think that the combination of himself and the two Gama Sages is completely powerless. However, if the two of them fight here, everything within a hundred meters will be destroyed.

[Do you really want to involve these innocent villagers? ]

Jiraiya turned his head and looked out the office window. Under the evening sunset, wisps of smoke rose from the surrounding houses.

Seeing this, Uchiha Douhuan also withdrew the thunder around him and came to Jiraiya.

Uchiha Douhuan formed seals with his hands and used the fairy chakra to cast a sealing technique to seal Jiraiya's chakra. During the whole process, Jiraiya did not resist at all.

"Let's go, Lord Jiraiya, don't try to unlock the seal by yourself. I think you should know very well what the consequences of natural energy rioting in your body are." After doing all this, Uchiha Douhuan said expressionlessly.

After Jiraiya followed Uchiha Dohuan out of the office, he looked up and found that the Anbu ninjas who were supposed to be guarding here were now standing with the security ninjas brought by Uchiha Dohuan, looking at him coldly.

"Inahimi, Zaito, take him back to the security department and treat our Lord Jiraiya well. Try to satisfy any of his requests except releasing him." Uchiha Douhuan instructed the two.

"Yes!" Uchiha Inahori and Uchiha Zaito nodded in acceptance.

Uchiha Douhuan nodded, turned and rushed towards the Hokage Building.

"Hey! Dohwan!" At this time, Jiraiya suddenly looked up and called out to Uchiha Dohwan.

Uchiha Douhuan stopped and looked back at the other party.

"You will... bring peace to this world, right?" Jiraiya's face had a very complicated expression, and there was even a hint of pleading in his eyes.

Uchiha Douhuan smiled disdainfully: "That's natural, you just need to be a good audience."

……

In the Hokage's office, Sarutobi Hiruzen watched the entire process of Jiraiya's arrest without saying a word. He raised his head and looked at the people in front of him, wanting to say something, but Uchiha Dohuan's shadow clone suddenly exploded in front of him.

The next moment, Uchiha Douhuan's true form pushed the door open and walked in front of Sarutobi Hiruzen. He said, "Now, can we sign, Sandaime-sama?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen raised his eyes and looked at Uchiha Dohuan: "You are...killing first and asking for permission later."

Uchiha Dohuan didn't say anything, but just looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with a smile.

"If I don't sign, are you planning to use that eye technique?" Sarutobi Hiruzen said in a deep voice.

"Hokage-sama, why do you think I would use my trump card in a bet that I'm sure to win?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile.

"Do you think you have won now?" Sarutobi Hiruzen said slowly.

"Then... let's wait and see." Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile.

……

In the Anbu's residence, Uchiha Itachi and Nara Shikaku were dealing with a mountain of documents, when an Anbu from the Yamanaka clan suddenly broke into the office.

"It's bad, Captain Itachi, Assistant Shikaku! For some unknown reason, the Security Department has issued a martial law order in the village!" Yamanaka Masahiko reported in a panic.

"What?" Uchiha Itachi and Nara Shikaku stood up and looked at each other with shocked expressions.

"What on earth happened? Why is there martial law again? What does the Security Department want to do?" Uchiha Itachi slammed the table hard and said angrily.

【Has this day finally come? 】

Nara Shikaku sighed inwardly, but remained calm and said, "Captain Itachi, the most urgent task now is to find out what exactly happened."

"That's right." Seeing this, Uchiha Itachi calmed down and walked out of the office with Nara Shikaku. However, after walking out of the office, Uchiha Itachi immediately froze in place.

At this point, under normal circumstances, there should be at least nearly a hundred ninjas on duty in the Anbu base, but now, except for those forty or so people, the entire Anbu base is empty.

"Where are the Anbu people?" Uchiha Itachi couldn't help but get furious when he saw this situation.

"Captain Itachi, the Security Department came to issue a coordinated mission this afternoon, and it seems that everyone else has gone to participate in the mission." A civilian staff member of the Sarutobi clan in the base came forward to report.

"What kind of mission does the Security Department have to mobilize so many Anbu to cooperate?" Uchiha Itachi said in disbelief, "Give me the list of people participating in the mission!"

Sarutobi Shinya quickly handed the list to Uchiha Itachi. When Uchiha Itachi took a look, he was surprised to see that all the members of the Isshinkai in the Anbu were on the list.

Moreover, the commanders of the two battalions and one squadron who were taken away did not come to report to him. If he had not seen the mission report, he would not even know that this had happened.

"Masahiko Yamanaka." Uchiha Itachi took a deep breath and turned to look at the Anbu who came to report the news.

"Here!" Yamanaka Masahiko hurried forward.

"Go to the Hokage Building and report the situation here to Lord Hokage." Uchiha Itachi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

After Yamanaka Masahiko left, Nara Shikaku came to Uchiha Itachi and said, "Captain Itachi, the Security Department is very likely to be carrying out a coup."

"That's impossible. The coup of the Security Department has already begun." At this time, the door of the Anbu base was pushed open and Yamanaka Inoichi walked in.

"When the Security Department put the streets under martial law, I rushed here as soon as possible. It took some time to get here," Yamanaka Inoichi said. "However, on the way, I saw Lord Jiraiya being escorted to the Anbu by several members of the Security Department. Since the escorts were all members of the Uchiha clan, my abilities were restrained and I didn't act rashly."

"What? They have already attacked Lord Jiraiya?" Uchiha Itachi gritted his teeth.

Soon, Masahiko Yamanaka, who had just left, returned to the base with another Anbu member of the Utatane clan.

"Captain Itachi, the Hokage Building is now surrounded by the security team and the second battalion of Anbu." reported Utatane.

"Damn it! Is this their joint mission? They even dare to surround the Hokage Building?" Uchiha Itachi said angrily.

"Captain Itachi, calm down. Things haven't reached the worst point yet." Nara Shikaku patted Uchiha Itachi's shoulder and said, "Don't worry about the Hokage Building for now. They shouldn't dare to do anything to the Hokage. The most urgent thing now is to rescue Master Jiraiya."

"I understand," Uchiha Itachi nodded, looked at Nara Shikaku and Yamanaka Inoichi, and asked, "How many people can we mobilize now?"

"Our three tribes have a total of 24 jonin and 75 chuunin who can completely obey your orders." Nara Shikaku said. This is already the strength that the three tribes can put on the table, and Nara Shikaku is ready to abandon this part of the strength, including himself.

"Can we assemble now?" asked Uchiha Itachi.

"Of course, I will contact Ding Zuo in the family right away." Yamanaka Hai nodded and used the radio to contact Akimichi Ding Zuo who stayed at the family today.

Not long after, Yamanaka Haiyi hung up the radio and said, "In 20 minutes at most, the troops of our three tribes will be assembled and arrive here."

"Okay, thank you very much." Uchiha Itachi nodded, then thought for a while, took the radio beside him, and called the captain of the second team, Moonlight Toru, who was also the only senior ninja in the Moonlight clan in the village.

In the office of Uchiha Dohuan of the Security Department, the radio on Gekko Toru, who was staring at the sand table with Kakashi, began to beep.

Moonlight Toru took out the radio and after it was connected, the voice of Uchiha Itachi, who was suppressing his anger, came over: "Moonlight Toru! What are you doing?"

Seeing this, Gekko Toru quickly covered the receiving port of the radio and looked at everyone: "It's Uchiha Itachi."

"Let me answer it." At this time, the captain of the senior ninja squad, Yoshimura Ryoto, took the initiative to take over the radio.

"Hello? Is this Captain Uchiha Itachi?"

"Who are you?" After the office fell silent, everyone present could clearly hear Uchiha Itachi's voice.

Chapter 97: Konoha's Fifty-Sixth Year, December th (Part )

"I'm the captain of the jonin squad, Yoshimura Ryoto."

"Why are the people from the Jonin squad with our Anbu captain?" Uchiha Itachi asked in a low voice, "What are you planning? Let Gekkou Toru answer the phone!"

"Captain Uchiha Itachi, calm down." Yoshimura Ryoto said, "The Jonin Squad and the Anbu are together, so they naturally have a cooperative mission. Why don't you come to the Security Department and we can talk slowly."

"Joint mission? How could I, the ANBU captain, not know about this!" Uchiha Itachi suppressed his anger, "Besides, why are you in the Security Department? You even dared to kidnap Master Jiraiya, what do you want to do? Release Master Jiraiya immediately!"

"Let me say it." At this time, Uchiha Shisui stood up and said to Yoshimura Ryoto.

After Yoshimura Ryoto handed the radio to Uchiha Shisui, Shisui made some preparations first, and only spoke after hearing Uchiha Itachi's angry growl over the radio.

"What about people?"

"Itachi, I'm Shisui, calm down first." Shisui said slowly.

"Shisui?" Uchiha Itachi said in disbelief, "How come even you have joined them? Wasn't it because of your influence that I pledged allegiance to the Sandaime-sama and Jiraiya-sama? But how can you kidnap Jiraiya-sama now?"

"I won't say anything more. Now, release Master Jiraiya immediately!"

"Captain Itachi, I'm sorry, but we can't let him go. Lord Jiraiya is now suspected of aiding the enemy and betraying the village. We can't let him go until everything is investigated. But don't worry, if Lord Jiraiya is sure there is no suspicion, we will release him immediately."

"Brother Shisui!" Uchiha Itachi yelled.

"Itachi, calm down." Shisui reminded again.

"Why should I be calm?" The fact that Shisui had completely sided with the other party had completely torn apart Uchiha Itachi's composure. "All of you traitorous ninjas, just wait for me! I'm coming over now and will use my ninjutsu to blow each of you to the sky!"

Uchiha Itachi hung up the phone angrily.

In Uchiha Dohuan's office, Shisui looked at everyone helplessly: "He said he would blow us all up into the sky."

"I can hear you." Kakashi's mouth twitched, and after a while he said to Shisui: "Shisui, please stop him."

"I understand." Shisui nodded.

A flying insect flew out from Aburame Shiwei's body and drilled into Uchiha Shisui's ear. Shisui looked at several people, pushed the door and walked out of the office.

"Senior Jaw, how are things going over there?" After Shisui left, Kakashi used the communication bug to contact Inuzuka Jaw, who was leading the team guarding outside the territory of the Ino, Deer, and Chou clans.

"They've already started gathering," Inuzuka Jaw replied.

"Just hold them back and prioritize our own safety," Kakashi said.

"Understood." Inuzuka Jaw ended the call. In his sight, Akimichi Choza, fully armored, led a team of Ino-Shika-Cho ninjas and slowly walked out of the three clans' territory.

"Chief Jaw, what do you say?" Uchiha Haruka asked after activating his three magatama beside Inuzuka Jaw.

"Just stop them. If they know what's good for them, try to avoid a conflict," said Inuzuka Jaw.

"Understood." The people behind Inuzuka Jaw nodded, no longer hiding their figures, and walked out of their hiding places one by one, blocking the road leading to the village from the three tribes' territories.

The two groups soon met face to face.

"Chief of the Jaw Clan, are you here to visit us again this time?" Qiu Daodingzuo asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes, we are all grateful for the hospitality provided by Chief Dingzuo last time," said Inuzuka Jaw. "I wonder if Chief Dingzuo can treat our two clans well, just like he did last time?"

"I'm afraid that won't work. Such a big thing happened in the village, I should be there." said Qiu Dao Ding Zuo.

"Has Chief Dingza really thought it through? If you take action, you'll be charged with aiding the civil unrest." Inuzuka Jaw said, "Why are you doing this? Jiraiya has already been arrested. You can't change the outcome. Forcibly intervening will do you, Ino-Shika-Chou, no good."

At this time, behind Inuzuka Jape, ten Uchiha ninjas with three-magatama Sharingan slowly walked out and stood in front of Akimichi Choza.

In this dark night, ten pairs of scarlet Sharingan suddenly brought tremendous pressure to Akimichi Choza and the Ino, Shikaku, and Chou clansmen behind him. This time was different from the last time. Nara Shikaku and Yamanaka Inoichi, who cooperated with him most tacitly, were not around. In terms of one-on-one combat, his strength was only comparable to that of Inuzuka Jaw.

However, the Jonin and Chunin of the Ino, Shika, and Chou clans behind him would probably not be able to resist the Inuzuka and Aburame clans led by ten Uchiha three-magatama Jonin.