Chapter 413: Is it Rebellion or Internal Strife?
Within the Uchiha clan, many of the ninja also saw the signal.
Sensitive and suspicious, they gathered spontaneously without receiving any orders from Fugaku.
"Who's there?"
Among the many Uchiha, an elite jonin skilled in sensory perception instantly activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and looked towards the entrance of the clan grounds.
At the end of the street, a figure was rapidly approaching.
The person was not wearing the Uchiha clan's specific attire and was clearly not one of their own. They also wore a mask that only revealed two eyes.
Hearing the challenge, the person immediately stopped and said, "I am an envoy of the Tsuchikage, here to deliver two things to the Uchiha."
"The first is the three-tomoe Sharingan's secret jutsu: the genjutsu that can transform death into a dream, Izanagi."
The person spoke very quickly. As he spoke, he threw scrolls that had been prepared long ago to the Uchiha.
On the Uchiha's side, some were cautious and did not catch them, instead using kunai to knock the scrolls down. Others were eager and immediately caught the scrolls to have a look.
Soon, the ninjutsu was confirmed to be real.
At this time, the person who had thrown the scrolls continued, "The second thing is a piece of intelligence: Danzō Shimura has contacted the Uchiha traitor who controlled the Nine-Tails and is preparing to annihilate your clan. The operation will take place very soon."
After he finished speaking, the Uchiha were all stunned. The amount of information in that sentence was too great.
The one who controlled the Nine-Tails was really an Uchiha?
Danzō actually knows that traitor?
Danzō knows that person, yet he still uses this matter as an excuse to suppress us?
If Danzō knows, what about his best friend, the Third Hokage? Is he also feigning ignorance?
Is Danzō really going to launch a war of extermination?
Is this Danzō's idea alone, or is it the idea of the entire Konoha high command?
And the last question: Is this intelligence reliable?
But before they could ask, the person before them crumbled into a pile of rocks. It turned out to be just a rock clone.
The emotions of the Uchiha had just been stirred up, only to be abruptly cut off, leaving them extremely uncomfortable. They looked at each other, at a loss.
Finally, a radical Uchiha said, "Let's spread Izanagi to all the clansmen first."
Hearing this, the others immediately agreed. That's right. No matter what they chose to do later, there was definitely no problem with increasing their strength.
So, those who had gotten the scrolls first shared the content with the other Uchiha present, and then they all dispersed. Some went to find their clan head or elders, others went to find friends and relatives.
Thanks to the powerful copying ability of the Sharingan, this forbidden jutsu soon spread throughout the entire Uchiha clan. The elders of the pro-war faction even took out many three-tomoe Sharingan that had been preserved from before to use as spares. While an outsider would bear a great burden using someone else's Sharingan, a clansman did not have such a great side effect.
Then, waves of killing intent began to emanate from the Uchiha clan's compound.
Perhaps the original Uchiha still had some calm, but at this moment, after a great increase in their strength, there were not many calm Uchiha left.
One had to know that when Izanagi was first developed, driven by ambition, the Uchiha clan had even resorted to killing each other. Let alone now, when they were facing outsiders who wanted to take their lives.
Perhaps there were still a few calm ones, for example, the indecisive Fugaku Uchiha, or Shisui Uchiha, or the still-young Itachi Uchiha.
While Tsunade and the others had their attention focused outside, they never expected that trouble would first break out on the Uchiha clan's side.
First, waves of killing intent were unabashedly transmitted out. Then came all sorts of shouts of dissatisfaction with the Konoha high command. Later, even the sounds of fighting could be heard.
That's right, the Uchiha clan was having an internal conflict.
When many clansmen were clamoring to fight the Konoha high command to the death, Shisui Uchiha stood up.
With an air of "though thousands upon thousands of people may oppose me, I will go forward," he stood opposite the crowd and began to lecture them on the Will of Fire.
When Ishiro, leading Uchiha Sōkai, took a wide detour and snuck in from the direction of the Uchiha clan's compound, this was the scene they saw.
Right now, basically no one in the entire Uchiha clan had the mind to be on guard against an enemy invasion. And at this location, even if Konoha's sensory team discovered Ishiro's intrusion, they would not dare to send ninja over to search. At a time like this, if the Konoha high command sent people over, it would just confirm the rumor that they were going to exterminate the clan.
Ishiro had taken a detour to get here. By the time he arrived, the Uchiha jonin had just finished passing around the Izanagi scrolls and were gathering together to go out and display their newly acquired power.
Ishiro, with the nervous Sōkai, watched from the shadows.
In front of the crowd of Uchiha, Shisui, seeing that he could not stop them, threw a great fireball onto the empty ground in front of them, causing the emotional Uchiha to quiet down for a moment.
Then, the numerous Uchiha, as well as Ishiro and Sōkai in the corner, heard Shisui's promotion of the Will of Fire.
"Everyone, calm down! This matter is clearly someone sowing discord! How could the village's high command possibly make a move against our Uchiha clan?"
"Whether it's the Third or the Fifth, they both hold goodwill towards us. Although Lord Danzō's actions are radical, after I joined Root, he also took great care of me. They are all inclined towards the Uchiha."
In fact, from Shisui's standpoint, these words were all sincere.
He had been chosen by Hiruzen and the others as a brainwashing target. The care he had seen and felt was naturally what the Konoha high command had deliberately shown him.
But setting aside the fact that being good to him and being good to the entire clan were two different things, at this moment, even if the Konoha high command were all saints, all glorious and righteous, Shisui's words would only have the opposite effect.
"Shisui, what do you mean?"
"What are you talking about? You actually think the village high command has not been unfair to us?"
"Have you not thought about why we were driven to this corner?"
"You're actually defending Danzō! When the high command targeted us, which time was it not led by him?"
"That's right! We have diligently served the village, but the village has been constantly ostracizing us, yet you are still defending it!"
"You traitor! Instead of joining the Military Police Force, you had to join Root! You are a running dog of the high command!"
"That's right! After you left Root, you joined the Anbu! You traitor! You are not worthy of being called an Uchiha! You are not worthy of having a Sharingan!"
"Shisui, you've been brainwashed by the high command! Wake up!"
"Yeah, Shisui, you are the genius of our Uchiha clan. Don't be so stubborn!"
"Right, Shisui, you are still young. You don't know what the high command has done. Don't get involved in these major affairs."
The gathered Uchiha all opened their crimson Sharingan and glared at him. Some argued with him logically, some cursed him loudly, and some tried to persuade him earnestly. It was a good thing that Shisui was also an Uchiha; otherwise, with those words just now, he would have long since been beaten to a pulp by these emotional clansmen.
Sōkai, beside Ishiro, was also emotional at this time, wishing he could rush up and curse Shisui a few times as well. Having been brainwashed by Ishiro for many years, his emotions were even more agitated than those of the Uchiha outside.
Perhaps the only Uchiha present who could compare to Sōkai was Shisui. Perhaps only brainwashing could compete with brainwashing.
Ishiro had to forcefully hold Sōkai down to prevent him from running out.
Ishiro was also excited. He shouted in his heart: "Good! A little more intense! A little more intense! It's still not enough!"
Shisui, seeing that he alone could not out-talk a group of people, was more anxious than anyone. Once his clansmen left the compound, all his efforts would have been in vain.
He absolutely could not let his clansmen walk the path of no return of a coup d'état.
So, Shisui blurted out, "Everyone, don't be agitated! Don't do anything out of line!"
"Everyone, you must not leave the clan grounds! As long as you don't leave, I will persuade the high command to forgive us!"
As soon as these words came out, the entire scene fell silent.
Shisui really didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said. In the brainwashing he had received from Hiruzen and Danzō, the reason the Uchiha were at odds with the high command was all because the Uchiha acted too radically. It was the high command that had been patient, not that they were deliberately targeting the Uchiha.
But to the other Uchiha, these words had a completely different meaning.
"Forgive? What are you talking about, you traitor?!"
"Damn it! You running dog of the high command, what are you saying?!"
"Shisui, go to hell!"
Some Uchiha roared at him, and some had already made a move.
But they didn't know that in Shisui's eyes, everything everyone was doing tonight was proving Hiruzen's evaluation of their clan.
"What Lord Third said was indeed right," Shisui thought to himself as he dodged the attacks.
But facing the current situation, he had no solution, only a very extreme emotion brewing in his mind.
Finally, as more and more clansmen cursed at him, as more and more of them threw kunai at him to vent their dissatisfaction, Shisui could no longer suppress the anxiety in his heart.
The three tomoe in his Sharingan began to spin at an astonishing speed.
At this moment, in Shisui's eyes, there were only the opening and closing mouths of his clansmen and the motion of them throwing kunai at him.
Only an instant passed, but it also felt like a very, very long time.
The next moment, the three tomoe in his eyes finally connected, merging into a single ink dot. Then, the ink dot spread out, forming a four-bladed pinwheel pattern.
At the same time, Ishiro, in the shadows, once again experienced the change in his Mind's Eye that had occurred when Obito had awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan. He widened his eyes and carefully watched his surroundings, because at this moment, his Mind's Eye was communicating with some unknown existence in an unknown space and could not help him be on guard. And now he was in the enemy's den. A slight carelessness could lead to eternal damnation.
The change in Shisui's eyes was naturally seen by all the Uchiha present.
They all stopped their curses and attacks one by one.
Of course, it was not out of fear, but excitement and thrill.
Although they had spoken ill of him before, their purpose had always been to win him back. They had never truly treated him as an enemy; otherwise, they wouldn't have just thrown a few kunai straight at him, but would have used vast waves of Great Fireballs.
Now, seeing his eyes upgrade, their first reaction was happiness. Our Uchiha clan is about to produce another expert like Madara!
Although Shisui's thinking was problematic, he was, after all, still one of their own.
In the future, under his leadership, the Uchiha would surely become the hegemon of the ninja world.
Some Uchiha were already daydreaming.
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