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Chương 156: Chapter 156

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"Time is limited. Everyone, let's wrap this up quickly," Yuikei's voice rang out just as Sasuke finished dispersing Naruto's shadow clone army.

Sasuke's previously casual expression turned serious, and in an instant, he moved.

Sai barely registered a blur in front of him before Sasuke appeared directly in front of him.

"So fast!"

Thanks to his rigorous training in Root, Sai managed to draw his short blade just in time.

Clang clang clang!

A series of metallic clashes echoed, and then—

Slash!

Blood splattered as Sasuke's blade, charged with lightning chakra, pierced through Sai's left shoulder.

"Sai!" Sakura's eyes widened in shock. Clenching her fist, she rushed forward to stop Sasuke from attacking further.

With his blade still crackling with lightning, Sasuke turned slightly, his three-tomoe Sharingan spinning. Sakura's every move appeared to him as if in slow motion.

"Your movements are still a bit crude."

With a calm remark, Sasuke, fully predicting Sakura's actions, stepped forward, disrupting her rhythm. Before she could adjust, he grabbed her wrist with his left hand, pressed down on her shoulder with his right hand, and threw her across the room.

Boom!

Sakura crashed into the wall of the underground base, creating a large crater, with dust and debris scattering everywhere.

"Sakura!" Naruto, having just recovered from the effects of Sasuke's lightning attack, saw this and, enraged, charged at Sasuke with his fist raised.

Smack!

Sasuke extended his left hand, catching Naruto's punch effortlessly. "Naruto, go back and play your ninja games."

"Damn it!" Naruto gritted his teeth and refused to give up, throwing another punch.

At that moment, something unexpected occurred.

Upon hearing Yuikei's command, Jin hadn't responded right away. Dodging Yamato's attacks, he turned and asked in surprise, "If we're going to end this quickly, does that mean we're going all out? Captain, are you sure about this?"

Without looking back as he fought Akatsuchi, Yuikei replied, "We've been given orders from above. There's no need to hide anymore."

"Oh, is that so!" Jin grinned widely, laughing.

Yamato didn't understand why his opponent was laughing, but he had a bad feeling.

Before he could act, Jin spoke again, "In that case…"

He glanced toward Izumi, who was in the middle of her fight with Kurotsuchi.

Izumi smiled brightly. "Let's do it."

With those words, both Izumi and Jin closed their eyes.

When they opened them again, the Sharingan, with three-tomoe, glowed in their eye sockets.

"Sharingan!"

Both Kurotsuchi and Yamato's expressions changed instantly.

Yamato, who had experience with Sharingan due to his time in the ANBU under Kakashi, immediately averted his gaze from Jin, knowing full well what the blood-red eyes could do.

Kurotsuchi, however, was slower to react, not having faced the Uchiha before. Out of habit, she met Izumi's gaze directly. The moment she locked eyes with the red, spinning tomoe, her body froze, and she was sent flying backward, completely immobilized.

Yamato quickly formed a wood clone to catch Kurotsuchi, while he slammed his hands into the ground.

"Mokuton: Jukai Heki!"

A long row of wooden vines erupted from the ground, forming a barrier-like wall between him, Kurotsuchi, and the two Uchiha.

Boom!

Soon enough, the wooden wall was shattered, revealing Jin and Izumi, their Sharingan still active.

Panting slightly, Yamato couldn't help but ask, "Sharingan?! Who are you, really? Why do you have the Sharingan?"

"Sharingan?" Naruto, who was still fighting Sasuke, overheard Yamato's loud question and glanced at Sasuke, thinking, Isn't the Sharingan right here with Sasuke?

Seeing that Sasuke had paused, his expression uncharacteristically shifting toward surprise as he looked in Yamato's direction, Naruto followed his gaze.

And then, Naruto saw the two familiar red eyes.

"They have the same eyes as Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei! Those are the Sharingan!"

"But… didn't the Uchiha clan get wiped out? How do these people also have the Sharingan?"

Naruto, who cared deeply about Sasuke, knew a fair bit about the Uchiha massacre. It was because of this knowledge that he voiced the same question as Yamato.

Meanwhile, as Sakura finished treating Sai's wounds, she noticed Sasuke's expression change for the first time, his usual calm demeanor faltering. Her intuition as a girl immediately told her something—this was likely the reason Sasuke didn't want to return to the village.

The once chaotic battlefield suddenly quieted at the mention of the "Sharingan."

Facing Yamato's confused and surprised inquiry, Jin laughed. "Why do we have the Sharingan? That's the funniest thing I've heard today."

"If outsiders can have the Sharingan, why can't true Uchiha possess the Sharingan?"

Yamato, of course, knew that members of the Uchiha clan could awaken the Sharingan. But the Uchiha clan had been wiped out. Other than Sasuke, how could any other Uchiha have survived?

Wait a minute… There had been one more.

The man who had accompanied Sasuke during the battle at Mount Katsuragi and the Fire Temple.

Thinking back, Yamato studied the two Uchiha before him more carefully. They seemed vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite place them.

He couldn't help but ask again, "Are you members of the Uchiha Clan from Konoha?"

"Konoha…" Jin chuckled. After receiving a nod of confirmation from Yuikei, he smirked and introduced himself, "Uchiha Jin."

Izumi followed calmly, "Uchiha Izumi."

Yamato's expression shifted slightly upon hearing their names.

He had no memory of Uchiha Jin. However, Izumi rang a bell, as he had crossed paths with her during his time in ANBU when Itachi was also a member. He vaguely remembered seeing Itachi and a young Uchiha girl together outside of missions. If his memory was correct, her name was indeed Uchiha Izumi.

Could the woman in front of him really be that same girl?

"So, this is a civil war within Konoha now?" Kurotsuchi, who had regained consciousness, couldn't help but sarcastically remark.

She didn't know the full story behind the Uchiha massacre, but now it seemed that every opponent they faced was an Uchiha.

Everyone knew that the Uchiha Clan was once part of Konoha.

Kurotsuchi was beginning to wonder what kind of conflict they were really involved in today.

As Yamato pondered the sudden influx of information, sensing a deeper conspiracy, he took a deep breath. Though his hopes were slim, he decided to try anyway and said, "I don't know what happened in the past, but the Uchiha were once a part of Konoha. If you're willing, you could return to Konoha."

(End of Chapter)


Chương 157: Chapter 157

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"Heh, trying to recruit them right under my nose, are we?" Yuikei, the only one in the group not from the Uchiha clan, chuckled as he folded his arms upon hearing Yamato's proposal.

On the opposite side, Akatsuchi, careful not to make eye contact with Yuikei, asked in a low voice, "Are you an Uchiha too?"

"I'm not."

Yuikei, who took great pride in being from the Hagoromo clan, immediately denied it without hesitation.

"That's good," Akatsuchi sighed in relief.

He wasn't comfortable talking without looking someone in the eye—it felt impolite.

Meanwhile, Jin, whose wife was Yuikei's sister, quickly voiced his loyalty, "Captain, you know where my loyalty lies."

Yuikei glanced at Jin and nodded casually. Who would've thought that despite Jin's wild and arrogant exterior, he was utterly obedient to his wife? Betrayal? That was simply out of the question.

Yamato, after hearing the exchange between Yuikei and Jin, quickly processed the situation in his mind: This man isn't from the Uchiha clan but is a shinobi from Jōmae Village. If the Uchiha willingly call him captain, he must be incredibly strong. Small villages aren't supposed to produce such figures—unless he's from the Hagoromo clan!

As the leader of this mission, Yamato had access to a wealth of intelligence gathered by the united investigation teams, including a key piece of information: the Hagoromo clan, once as renowned as the Uchiha and Senju, had mysteriously disappeared from the shinobi world. Rumor had it that they had settled in Jōmae Village.

Now it seemed that rumor was very likely true.

Moreover, considering Jin's attitude toward Yuikei, Yamato's suggestion of bringing them back to Konoha was clearly impossible.

Yamato sighed inwardly. The thought of the Uchiha and Hagoromo clans joining forces was unsettling. To make matters worse, there was also Gensou, whose abilities seemed unfathomable, leading them.

Sure enough, Izumi, who had been mostly quiet until now, spoke up with a firm rejection, "The Uchiha will never return to Konoha. We've had enough of being looked down on by its villagers, and we don't want to risk being labeled traitors again, facing another massacre."

Wait, what? There's something deeper here!

Kurotsuchi and the other Iwa shinobi perked up, ready to soak in the drama. Although they were working alongside Konoha for now, they didn't forget that they were still rivals. Hearing Konoha's dirty laundry? That was something they were eager to spread.

"Why?" Naruto, not waiting for Yamato to respond, asked anxiously.

He had been so happy when Yamato suggested that the Uchiha could return to the village. After all, that meant Sasuke would come back too.

But now, with Izumi rejecting the offer outright, Naruto couldn't understand. Why did people have to fight to the death? They were once family, so why couldn't they just reconcile?

"Idiot," Sasuke muttered from the side.

He had thought that over the past two years, Naruto's strength had increased, and maybe his mind had matured a little as well. But in the end, he was still the same—always seeing things through rose-colored glasses.

A shattered mirror, no matter how carefully pieced back together, could never be the same as before. Even if you managed to repair it, the cracks inside would always remain invisible yet ever-present.

The Uchiha, having endured one night of massacre, would never entrust their fate to Konoha again. Besides, compared to Konoha, the Uchiha already had a better place to pledge their loyalty.

Naruto fell silent.

He couldn't understand why Sasuke, Kurotsuchi, and so many others thought of him as foolish, naive, and unrealistic.

Yes, he didn't understand the world of adults.

But did that mean the adult world was right?

What was wrong with trying to exchange one sincere heart for another? Even if others didn't want to, couldn't, or wouldn't, he was willing to keep trying.

Yet, no matter how hard he tried, there were always obstacles in his way.

"So, just as Captain Yamato said, I have to keep growing. I need to become strong enough that no one can ignore me," Naruto thought, clenching his fists, his expression complicated.

At that moment, a sinister red chakra began leaking uncontrollably from Naruto's body.

"Disappointment, pain, helplessness—I can feel your intense emotions!" came a voice from deep within him.

"Boy, do you want to stop everything around you? Do you want everything to go your way? Power! You need more power!" In the dark, sealed space, the massive form of the Nine-Tails emerged from the shadows, its glowing eyes glaring through the cage as it tempted Naruto, "Tear off the seal on the bars, and I'll give you the power you need. Power that can change everything!"

"Power… I… I need power…" Naruto muttered, walking toward the cage instinctively.

In the real world, the ominous crimson chakra of the Nine-Tails began to envelop Naruto, covering his entire body.

"Naruto!"

Yamato, shocked by the sudden outburst of tailed beast chakra, panicked. He had no choice but to prioritize suppressing the chakra. Just as he prepared to use Mokuton to forcibly suppress the beast's energy, something unexpected happened.

Sasuke, Jin, and Izumi, sensing the change, turned toward Naruto. Their three-tomoe Sharingan activated simultaneously.

In the blink of an eye.

Drip…

In the damp, water-filled space of the seal.

Sasuke, Jin, and Izumi appeared beside Naruto.

Sasuke looked up and saw the massive beast behind the golden bars, its mere size enough to shock anyone. His eyes widened slightly.

"So this is the Nine-Tails…"

Seeing it with his own eyes, Sasuke had never imagined that the monster sealed inside Naruto would be so enormous.

"That revoltingly familiar scent! It's… the cursed Sharingan!"

The Nine-Tails, noticing the intruders, immediately turned to see the three pairs of eyes it despised staring at him.

Naruto, who had been under the beast's influence, snapped out of his daze as he saw Sasuke and the others. Looking around in confusion, he asked, "Huh? How did I get here? And Sasuke… why are you here too?"

Before Sasuke could respond, bubbles began to rise from the water, forming a gigantic fox head with slit eyes glaring coldly at the three intruders.

The naturally evil Uchiha!

The Nine-Tails had almost succeeded in luring Naruto, only to be interrupted by these three. And the beast hadn't forgotten the times it had been controlled by the Sharingan, leading to its two humiliating defeats.

One time, it had been beaten by Senju Hashirama and sealed within a jinchūriki. The second time, it had been split in half, with only one part of itself remaining in the real world.

Both instances could be traced back to the Uchiha.

Old grudges and new hatred swirled within the Nine-Tails as it lowered its head, ready to tempt Naruto once again…

(End of Chapter)


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