Chapter 31 I Want to Go Too

"Shisui, something like this happened suddenly, and the village is also very sad."

At night, while Uchiha Fugaku was talking to Cui and Gan who had woken up, another conversation was taking place in the Hokage's office.

"No matter what the police guessed, I assure you on the Hokage's honor that this matter can never be the result of the village's instructions.

"The Uchiha Fire Team must have encountered an unexpected enemy. At present, all the patrols in the Fire Country are looking for traces of the two children, Fire and Wen. But everyone knows that there have been disappearances in the past Ninjas, their chance of survival is less than 5%.

"As a ninja, if you have a mission, you will have to sacrifice. Although it is the first time for Uchiha Fumi to go out, I believe that you who have experienced that war should be able to understand that this kind of situation is not uncommon."

When Sarutobi Hiruzen said this, he put his hands on his desk, his face still filled with anger and worry that his territory had been invaded, but his tone was more confident and magnanimous than ever before.

First of all, he would not send someone to do it himself.

Ever since Minato's sacrifice and Orochimaru's defection, he had tried his best to avoid any serious losses to the village, even to the point of weakness that Danzo said, and he would never be the first to start a dispute unless necessary.

Furthermore, since Naruto's tailed beast chakra was leaked last time, all exits from the root have been under his surveillance 24 hours a day. None of the root ninjas who had the ability to kill Uchiha Flame or could directly take him away were out last night.

What's more, if it were Danzo's people, there wouldn't be two people left alive at all.

Therefore, the third generation can almost conclude that this incident was caused by Konoha's enemies, and the target should not be Uchiha, but Konoha.

Now he only hopes that the Uchiha side can also understand this, so as to avoid the escalation of hostility and the expansion of the situation, so as not to give opportunities to the enemies hiding in the dark.

"Yes, I understand that ninjas will inevitably make sacrifices, and there will be no exceptions just because they are young or inexperienced."

Uchiha Shisui knelt on one knee behind Sarutobi Hiruzen, his bright eyes lowered slightly.

"It's just that the Yanhuo team encountered a battle. It's still unclear whether the enemy met them by chance or the enemy knew their route of action in advance.

"In addition, the place where they happened is only a day's journey from Konoha, and there are no less than ten patrol troops around. I can also understand the reason why the people of the tribe are doubtful. They can accept the sacrifice of their descendants, but they cannot accept that this kind of sacrifice actually happened. So close to the village.”

The implication of his words is that even if it was not done by the ninjas in the village, there should be spies inside Konoha who are collaborating with foreign enemies, and their status will not be very low.

Otherwise, how could the so-called enemy bypass the eyes and ears of all patrols and come to the hinterland of the Fire Country to commit crimes.

You know, almost every patrol team has a perceptive ninja from the Hinata or Inuzuka clan. If he wants to accurately avoid the detection of all patrol teams, even he dare not say that he will be able to do it unless he understands each in detail. The patrol team’s departure time and traveling speed.

In this way, the number of spies can almost be classified into thirty people.

“That may be the case.

"So Shisui, what are you going to do?"

Sandai turned around slowly, with a hint of inquiry in his eyes. In this incident, as the only Uchiha who may understand the village's position, Shisui's attitude is crucial.

"Hokage-sama, please allow me to resign from the ANBU job in advance."

Shisui's words made the third generation's face stiffen slightly. His fingers that were flicking on the table retracted into his sleeves. He obviously felt the crisis. For a moment, he thought Shisui was trying to draw a clear line between himself and the village.

If even Uchiha Shisui, who has always been able to transcend family concepts, refuses to believe him, then it is almost a foregone conclusion what other Uchiha will think.

At this point in time when the situation was unclear and hidden enemies were waiting for him, once the village clashed with the Uchiha, he could not imagine how much damage it would cause to Konoha.

At least, it is impossible to maintain the title of the leader of the five great ninja villages.

However, Shisui's next words suddenly relaxed his nervous mood.

"I was originally planning to go on a long-term mission to patrol the border of the Kingdom of Water after Itachi entered ANBU. I'm afraid I have to ask Hokage-sama for some grace."

Shisui's voice was gentle and calm, quickly smoothing the wrinkles in the third generation's heart.

"I hope Lord Hokage will allow me to represent both the village and the Uchiha to investigate this matter clearly. Only if an Uchiha personally presides over the investigation of this matter, can the final result convince the tribe. But in order To prevent unnecessary conflicts, it’s best for me to do this myself.”

"...Then where do you plan to start investigating?"

"Please Hokage-sama, please give me sufficient authority so that I can check all the activity records of the Anbu, the village jounin and the barrier class in the recent period."

Shisui paused, "After completing the preliminary screening, I plan to go to the location of the incident to search carefully. I hope that by then, patrols from all over the Fire Country can also accept my review."

"..."

The third generation pondered for a while, and finally the old god nodded, hiding the faint surprise in his eyes.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether Shisui can find the results or not. As long as he is not in the village and not in the Uchiha clan, the Uchiha will never act rashly without the clan's top master.

Accordingly, because Shisui, the Anbu elite who has a lot of information about the village, is not in Konoha, even Danzo, who is hostile to the Uchiha, will not say anything like "take the first step" to embarrass him.

Both sides will be cautious, which is the result that Sarutobi Hiruzen wants most.

"All these are fine, do you have any other requests?"

The third generation agreed, only asking Uchiha Shi to leave the village quickly after the screening, and even leave as long as possible.

"At present, except for the missing Yanhuo and Wen, Uchiha Itachi is the only one in the clan who is still performing tasks outside the village.

"If the enemy's goal is not the village, but Uchiha, then Itachi may also face unexpected danger. As the eldest son of the Fugaku clan leader, if he has an accident, things may immediately become out of control. "

Uchiha Shisui then said his other purpose, "Hokage, I need to know his exact location. Can you tell me the mission he is carrying out?"

The Third Hokage looked directly into Shisui's clear eyes, and seemed a little doubtful, but finally agreed.

...

Clan home, Uchiha Fugaku's home.

Although it was late at night when Fugaku came back from the hospital, all the senior ninjas in the clan were sitting on the practice field in the backyard of his home.

They were filled with a very strong and cold low-pressure cyclone that seemed to explode into a terrifying storm with a slight touch.

The mothers of Uchiha Gan, Wen, and Cui stayed in the Japanese-style room with Uchiha Mikoto. Except for Uchiha Gan's mother who was not a ninja, so she covered her face and sobbed from time to time, the other two mothers were solemn, as if they were ready to listen to the bad news.

"Everyone. "

Fugaku didn't even change his shoes, and walked directly to the outdoor terrace.

More than a hundred eyes stared at his face without blinking, waiting to hear the answer he got from the two survivors.

"The operation is over. Fortunately, the two children, Uchiha Gan and Uchiha Cui, are fine and will be able to move freely soon."

He paused, as if waiting for the tribe to react. But in front of him were only dozens of motionless statues, with dark eyes deeper than the bruised night.

"According to their own statement, they heard the explosion when they went out to check the surrounding environment and set traps, and saw the light of the fire escape ninjutsu, so they immediately withdrew. As a result, less than 20 meters away from the gathering place, the two were swept away by the sudden mudslide at the same time, and then pushed down the hillside, rolling all the way, and finally fell off the cliff. This is not much different from the judgment of the patrol team. "

Fugaku shook his head regretfully, "In other words, what happened to Yanhuo and Wen, they didn't see anything, and they didn't know anything. "

On the roof of the second floor of the room.

Sasuke tightly grasped Giyu's arm - the latter was called back by Shisui's clone. After what happened, it was too dangerous to stay outside the Konoha barrier.

"Giyu, Wen Ta, will he be okay? "

Sasuke heard his father's words clearly, his face was as white as paper, and his lips were slightly blue because of the fear of losing his friend.

Last year, when Uchiha Itachi went to the Sand Village to participate in the Chunin Exam for a month, Cui Wengan and the other two were the first to train with him.

Uchiha Wen was the gentlest of the three. Every time he went back to the tribe to get practice equipment or buy something, everyone ordered him and Giyu to go together.

Although Sasuke had been studying hard in the guard team during this period and they rarely had the opportunity to meet each other, it was the first time for Sasuke that a person who was very familiar with him in the past suddenly became a missing person.

Giyu heard Sasuke's question clearly.

But in the past, if the crow informed him that there were civilians or demon slayers missing - in 90% of cases, they were dead.

His face was as dark as a dark lake, and his memory that had been extinguished for a long time, and something he thought he would never experience again, happened again.

Just this This time, he knew that the instigator was most likely not a demon, but a person with complicated purposes; the one who disappeared was not a stranger, but a friend who had met before and invited him to the banquet, a child under thirteen years old.

That was the age when he joined the Demon Slayer Corps and started to participate in training.

Even Uchiha Enhuo, who was not familiar with him, had helped him and Naruto a lot, and now he was only sixteen years old.

For the first time, he did not look at the clan members under the eaves with the eyes of Tomioka Giyuu, but felt the same as Uchiha Giyuu.

He also wanted to know the truth, he also wanted to know the whereabouts of the two children, and tried to avoid the fact that they might have died.

Below, as expected by Uchiha Fugaku, when the clan members heard that the only two "witnesses" knew nothing about this matter, they fell into violent anger.

This means that it is almost impossible to find the whereabouts of the other two.

"Don't think about it anymore! Enhuo is the most outstanding genius of the clan after Shisui and Itachi. It must be because of this reason that he was targeted! "

"The third generation once allowed Orochimaru to conduct human experiments in the village, and a member of the clan also disappeared at that time! This time there must be a similar reason!"

"To take people away under the eyes of more than a dozen patrols less than a day's journey from the village, who else but the ANBU of Konoha can do it!"

"Go directly to the Hokage building and force them to hand them over!"

"Use illusions on those patrol members, we want to hear the truth from them!"

As the saying goes, groups extinguish individual wisdom. This is even more applicable to the Uchiha clan, who are already very paranoid in character.

In this atmosphere of excitement, like a volcano erupting, even the calmest group of Uchiha jounin gradually became red-faced, breathing hurriedly, and joined in the call to "surround the Hokage Building" middle.

The disappearance of Enhuo and Uchiha Fumi was at best a trigger. What really made them angry to such an extent was that the clan's history as the founders of Konoha had been covered up; it was since the Nine-Tails Rebellion six years ago. Prejudice and hostility began to increase sharply; it was the police who worked hard but did not get the recognition and gratitude they deserved...

They had been suppressed and silent until today, when the first Uchiha junior genius to become a Jonin in two years suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the fuse was really ignited.

Sasuke was frightened by the aura of his clansmen. He took a step back with empty eyes and sat down directly on the roof. Yiyong tried his best to calm down, hoping to do something for the two missing children instead of getting involved in the torrent of anger and causing more problems.

Fortunately, Uchiha Shisui came out from around the corner, causing everyone's anxious momentum to suddenly stop.

But before the tribe could turn their guns and attack him, Shisui had already calmly said to Fugaku: "Clan leader, I have resigned from the position of ANBU directly under the Hokage."

Several tribesmen who were about to say something unpleasant quickly shut their mouths. Although Fugaku was surprised, he just nodded calmly.

Zhisui walked nimbly among the clan members. The people next to him made room for him and asked in disbelief: "Is this true?"

During the Third Ninja War, Shunshen Shisui, who had been on the front line of the war for the name of Uchiha, finally came back?

"Well, that happened after all."

Zhisui nodded slightly and sat down on the ground as the hostility of the clan members gradually faded.

"If everyone is still willing to trust me as before, I am willing to personally investigate the disappearance of Yan Huo and Wen, and I will definitely give everyone a satisfactory result."

Except for the instigator of this incident, no one knows better than Shisui what may have happened behind the scenes.

Yesterday, after he had ruled out the possibility of all the three Magatama clan members going out to perform illusions on Uchiha Flame, an outsider with the Three Magatama Sharingan was his primary suspect.

It's just that he hasn't told anyone about this guess yet.

The clansmen were a little disappointed when they heard that Shisui did not come as a fighting force against the Hokage, but as a peacemaker.

But in the eyes of Uchiha Fugaku, who has not yet made up his mind, this is an excellent opportunity to calm down the tribe a little. The few Jonin who had been following him and knew that Uchiha was not ready to confront the village also nodded approvingly.

"No matter what we do without any solid evidence, we cannot be justified. We also need time to make detailed preparations. In this case, let Shisui investigate this matter -"

Before Fugaku finished speaking, a small figure jumped down from the roof, and then Sasuke's horrified voice came from the roof: "Giyu!"

"And I."

Yiyong's eyes were as cold as frost, and he said in an irrefutable tone: "I'm very good at finding people. I want to go with Shisui."

This time, he had nothing extra and wanted to do something by the way.

Uchiha Giyuu just wants to know the whereabouts of his few friends.

(If a clan is not exterminated, which clan will be exterminated in daily literature)