Chapter 219 Itachi Uchiha's Conflict

In the land of earth, there is an underground money exchange somewhere.

A man wearing a black trench coat with red clouds walked in. He had his face covered and wore the forehead protector of Takigakure Village on his forehead, but there was a scratch on it, indicating his identity as a traitor.

The man greeted the man in charge, then took out a human head and placed it on the table, "This is the goal."

"That's right, Mr. Kakuzu, your efficiency is really high."

The person in charge here was smiling, calling people to withdraw money, and his attitude towards Kakuzu was very good, because he was a celebrity here.

In the circle of bounty hunters, Kakuzu's name is known to everyone. He is efficient, ruthless, and extremely efficient in hunting.

Once a person is offered a high bounty on the black market, if he has average strength or does not have a strong guard, he will soon lose his life and have his head taken from his neck in exchange for money.

After Kakuzu took the box containing the money, he tapped it lightly and confirmed that it was five million. He closed the box and put it away with satisfaction, "Any new good goals?"

"Mr. Kakuzu, you came to the right place this time. The underground bounty has just been updated. This time there is a heavyweight, but the difficulty is also quite high."

The person in charge said with a smile, spreading out the bounty orders one by one, and everyone looked at them. At the same time, he pushed one of the bounty orders forward, with Lu Li's face clearly on it.

"Sixty million? I remember that the Hokage's son is only worth thirty million, right?"

Kakuzu first saw the amount of money on the reward order, his eyes lit up, and it almost turned into a symbol of money, but he still expressed his confusion in a low voice.

The person in charge took out the detailed information of the bounty target and said, "Mr. Kakuzu will know it after just looking at it. You may not know much about his name, but when it comes to his title, an experienced ninja like you should not know it." No impression, he is a 'natural disaster'"

Kakuzu was a little surprised when he heard this. Although he had lived for a long time, he was not active in the three wars. He had heard the name of the natural disaster, but he could not remember the other party's real name.

Anyway, judging from his age, most of these short-lived brats on the battlefield are not worth mentioning.

However, the information actually said that this natural disaster also injured the Fourth Raikage, which aroused some interest in him and felt that this was indeed a target worth hunting.

Sixty million should be able to help the organization accumulate a lot of war funds.

As the 'financer' of the Akatsuki organization, Kakuzu loves money, but he is more interested in helping the organization accumulate funds for future uprisings.

Kakuzu took a reward order, left the money exchange, and went straight to the Kingdom of Thunder, hoping to find out information related to the natural disaster.

Compared with those small orders worth several million, he still wants to do a big deal and earn 60 million directly.

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Three days after Lu Li broke out from Kumogakure, Konoha Village, the land of the Uchiha clan.

In the training ground, a little boy was holding a kunai, concentrating on it, and then shot it hard towards the target.

Bang--

The sound of kunai colliding with wood sounded, and the little boy's eyes showed disappointment, because he shot it wrongly, and the kunai settled on the outer ring.

This disappointed look didn't last for a few seconds, because the fall of that big hand made his little face turn into a smile.

The young man standing behind touched the boy's head and said in a gentle voice, "Sasuke, you behaved better than yesterday."

"Brother~"

Sasuke called out kindly in a childish voice. He admired his brother very much and liked to be with him. However, his brother was usually very busy and it was becoming increasingly difficult to see him recently.

Standing behind Sasuke was naturally his brother, Itachi Uchiha. He had just gotten off work and was still wearing ANBU clothes, but had put away his mask.

Itachi glanced at the messy training ground, as well as the dust on Sasuke's body and the scratches on his knees, and knew that Sasuke had practiced hard today, "Can you still walk?"

Sasuke straightened his body with force, "No problem!"

As he spoke, he took a step forward, his legs wobbling a bit, but Itachi held him up so he didn't fall.

Sasuke blushed a little, but Itachi had already leaned over and carried Sasuke on his back, "Let's go home and eat."

Sasuke's anger was diluted by his brother's gentle voice, and his chin hit his brother's shoulder, "Yeah."

The two brothers were walking on the path under the sunset, looking at the flowers and grass on the edge of the field. Sasuke's face was filled with happiness, but from the perspective that Sasuke couldn't see, Itachi's face was heavy.

"Brother, you said last week that you would have a day off tomorrow and you were going to teach me shuriken. I'm really looking forward to it."

Sasuke said on Itachi's back that he really hoped to get guidance from his brother, becoming stronger was the second priority. He liked the time spent with his brother.

"I have an impromptu mission tomorrow, sorry, Sasuke, maybe next time."

Itachi rejected Sasuke in his usual way, but it wasn't that he didn't want to accompany Sasuke, but that he had urgent missions every time.

All kinds of things happened recently, which made him confused and unintentional to play with his brother.

He also has a special task to perform tomorrow, and it is a difficult task, and he may not even come back alive.

"That's it..."

After Sasuke was rejected by his brother, he was a little disappointed, but he didn't complain too much. Instead, he fell asleep on his brother's shoulder due to the fatigue of training.

Itachi carried Sasuke on his back and walked on the path, facing the setting sun. When the darkness intertwined with the afterglow of the setting sun, the Sharingan three magatama in his pupils rotated rapidly and faintly transformed into different shapes.

Of course, he had no mood to play with Sasuke now, because just the day before, his most respected elder clan member and his best friend, Uchiha Shisui, died.

Shisui's death made him fully realize the darkness of Konoha and made him deeply feel despair. Under the interweaving of pain and various complex emotions, he opened his eyes.

Itachi understood that the situation was developing in the worst direction. Uchiha Shisui failed to persuade Danzo and was taken away from one eye. The situation was completely passive.

The family members were also excited because of Shisui's death. The hawks were secretly mobilizing to rebel.

Itachi loved this village and his family. Now he was in a dilemma and was very entangled and painful.

On the night after Shisui's death, the third generation Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned him. It was a seemingly peaceful conversation, but it was actually a test of his loyalty.

He answered all of them correctly, and what he said was basically what he thought. If he had to make a choice, he would never want a war to break out. When necessary, he was prepared to use his new power to suppress the riots in the clan.

The Third Hokage had promised him that he would leave a seed for the Uchiha clan, let his younger brother Sasuke live, and take good care of him, which comforted Itachi.

But he was still overwhelmed in his heart. After all, he was just a thirteen-year-old boy. It was too cruel for him to kill all the clan members.

Fortunately, another major event happened internationally recently. The former war hero of Konoha, Tianzai, was not dead and made a big fuss in the Hidden Cloud Village. This incident shocked the eyes of the five major ninja villages.

The Hidden Cloud Village condemned Konoha internationally, saying that the rebel ninjas of Konoha were making trouble in the Hidden Cloud Village, and Konoha should give them an explanation.

Well, if someone knows the whole story, they will definitely think that the Hidden Cloud Village is extremely shameless, but the Hidden Cloud Village secretly captured Lu Li and detained him, and no one has evidence that they have detained Lu Li for eight years.

And this kind of thing is a political matter, and it is originally a matter of who is more shameless.

Although Konoha Village knows what happened, it can only accept it with a pinch of the nose, after all, Lu Li is indeed a traitor here.

Due to the poor international influence and the urgent need for Konoha to establish the strong status of their ninja village after the death of the Fourth Hokage, the matter of natural disasters must be handled properly.

But the natural disaster was a powerful ninja back then, and it is rumored that he also injured the Fourth Raikage this time. Most of the general Anbu hunting teams are unable to capture or kill him.

So this task finally fell on the Anbu elite directly under the Hokage, that is, Uchiha Itachi.

Itachi is a smart man, he can see clearly that the Third Hokage does not trust him very much. After all, he said that he would kill all his people, which is not credible to outsiders.

Now that the natural disaster has reappeared, the Third Hokage obviously wants to test himself.

If he can successfully kill or capture Lu Li, then Konoha's international status will naturally rise, and he can also give an explanation to the Hidden Cloud Village, which will have great political benefits.

But if he fails and dies in the hands of the Hidden Cloud Village, the Uchiha clan will lose a large fighting force. At that time, even if the clan members really rebel, I am afraid that they will not be able to cause much trouble.

Itachi knew the Third Hokage's calculations in his heart, but he felt that he had no choice. If he confronted head-on, the family members would not have a chance of winning, even if he had the Mangekyō Sharingan.

His good friend in the Anbu hinted to him that the Third Hokage had sent people to call Master Jiraiya, who was traveling outside, back to the village. If a fight really broke out, he would not be able to be the opponent of Jiraiya, one of the three legendary ninjas.

The Uchiha clan's affairs made Itachi feel very uncomfortable. This mission was also full of crises, but in a sense, he felt that this was also a chance for him to breathe.

After all, he could finally walk out of the village, breathe the air of freedom, and temporarily put aside the bad things in the clan.

Natural disaster Lu Li? Why did the former hero of Konoha betray?

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Lu Li traveled very fast these days. He eliminated all kinds of small temptations from the outside world and went straight to the border of the Fire Country.

He was not going to a dangerous place like Konoha Village, but if he went south from the Thunder Country and then went west to the Hidden Rain Village, he had to pass the border of the Fire Country.

This is where many small countries meet. The borders adjacent to the Fire Country are the Field Country, the Frost Country, the Taki Country, and the Grass Country.

The Fire Country occupies the best central area of ​​​​the continent. The small countries on the edge can only survive under its nose. Once a war breaks out, these small countries on the edge will become the buffer zone of Konoha.

Weak countries have no diplomacy and sovereignty. The Second and Third Ninja World Wars were fought in these places. The five major ninja villages would not let the war spread to their own territories. They all fought in those small countries.

This is why Nagato and his party hated the ninjas of the big countries so much. The war between the big countries had to be decided in their homes, which eventually led to their homes being smashed and the people living in misery.

When Lu Li passed through the small country, he also saw other explorers, both from the End Space and the God Space, but no one fought each other.

Obviously, in the first few days after entering the world, everyone's camp was still vague. After establishing their own camps later, they would probably fight to the death when they met again.

After all, explorers from the enemy camp have a double chance of exploding the dead treasure chest, which is a great temptation, even explorers in the same space are no exception.

When Lu Li crossed the border between the Land of Field and the Land of Fire and wanted to go directly to the Land of Water Trap from the forest valley, several kunai flew over and pierced the tree trunk beside him.

Lu Li stopped and looked with interest at the four Anbu who surrounded him from all directions. Judging from their attire and mask style, they should be the Anbu of Konoha.

This group of Anbu were all very cold. No one spoke after they attacked. It was obvious that they had already identified his identity and made arrangements here in advance to surround and kill him.