"Hiruzen Sarutobi, you filthy bastard!"
"Help! The Root Ninjas are trying to take me for human experiments!"
"I'm only six years old, you inhumane beasts!"
"Have I ever eaten a single grain of rice from your family? You want me to sacrifice myself—why don't you sacrifice yourself? I'm the grandson of the second elder of the Uchiha clan. If anything happens to me, the Uchiha clan won't let you off!"
"You're not saying anything, huh? Fine, fine! Don't blame me then!"
Help! Hiruzen Sarutobi is a beast! As the Hokage's bodyguard, he plotted to assassinate the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, and then seized his position with a fake decree! The Hokage died, but his guard came back unscathed?
Are you kidding me?
Not only did he not commit seppuku, but he shamelessly inherited the title of Hokage?
It's obvious that the Second Hokage was murdered by these despicable, shameless scoundrels!
Just wait!
Today it's the Uchiha clan, tomorrow it'll be the Senju clan!
You're all a bunch of beasts!
If I die, no one will live!
It was the 32nd year of Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi had been Hokage for two years.
In the Forest of Death.
A Root squad led by Aburame Ryoma was carrying Uchiha Yoru, who was bound like a silkworm cocoon, swiftly heading toward the depths of the dark forest under the cover of the pitch-black night.
Their destination was a place officially called the "Konoha Wood Release First Hokage Cell Transplantation Volunteer Research Center," or more simply, the "Wood Release Human Experimentation Base." Their objective was clear.
However, the Root Ninjas seemed young and quite naive at the time. Even though Danzo had largely eroded their humanity, upon hearing Uchiha Yoru's outrageous words, they couldn't help but pale.
One Root Ninja said, trembling, "Kō, this is bad. Uchiha—we grabbed the wrong person!"
Aburame Ryoma turned around and said indifferently, "Shut up, let him say what he wants. So what if he's an Uchiha? Everything is for Konoha!"
Uchiha Yoru grew even angrier upon hearing this.
He had just awakened his memories of past lives and gained a golden finger called "Super God Fusion."
He hadn't even had time to research it thoroughly when he was ambushed near his doorstep.
Now, the Uchiha clan and the Senju clan lived side by side. He didn't believe that Uzumaki Mito, with her Nine-Tails Evil Perception and Kagura Shingan, would be completely unaware.
To save himself, he had to burn his bridges!
"Hahaha, hahaha, for Konoha? I'll give you a mouthful of shit—will you eat it?
I'm the grandson of the second elder of the Uchiha clan. Even if my parents just passed away, I still know what's what.
Even a child of the Uchiha clan knows that to achieve Wood Release, the Sage Body of the First Hokage is the fundamental requirement!
Not the First Hokage's cells, which have a 100% rejection rate!
Something even I know—wouldn't Hiruzen Sarutobi know it?
The so-called Wood Release experiment is nothing but despicable, shameless murder!
Its purpose is to eliminate the united and powerful Senju clan!
Hahaha, and they still say it's for Konoha! That's truly hilarious!"
Uchiha Yoru laughed wildly, unleashing a torrent of words in a frenzy.
The Root Ninja beside him broke out in a cold sweat. If such remarks reached Danzo's ears, they'd all be silenced. But what terrified him more was that, for a moment, he actually felt Uchiha Yoru made sense, and his ninja resolve shook violently.
He was about to knock him out, but Aburame Ryoma, whose eyes grew colder, stopped him, and the team's pace slowed.
Ryoma had only mastered his secret technique and awakened his nanoscale destructive parasite insect technique through Danzo's intense training, and he was fiercely loyal to him. He also harbored deep animosity toward the Uchiha clan and didn't believe a word Uchiha Yoru said.
He stopped his comrade not because Yoru's words swayed him, but to gather more information.
However, the murderous intent in his eyes was clear to Uchiha Yoru.
Uchiha Yoru met his gaze fearlessly, a mocking smile on his lips.
He didn't care about their attitude; his goal wasn't to talk to them.
He muttered to himself, *Don't let me down, Uzumaki Mito…*
Blood trickled from his forehead, but Uchiha Yoru's smile grew even more manic.
Hahaha, Senju Tobirama was a fool too! He thought his wolf-hearted, dog-lunged disciple would take care of the Senju clan integrated into Konoha. In reality, the Senju clan openly gave up their surname and blended into Konoha.
However, a large number of Senju Jonin held various high-ranking positions in Konoha. With the marriage of the First Hokage's son to a member of the Daimyo's family and the Land of Whirlpools as a powerful ally, how could Konoha's Elder Council, who only sought to exploit Konoha and establish their own families, tolerate such a situation?
Just wait!
Because of Danzo Shimura's idiotic command on the Rain Country battlefield, he deliberately sacrificed all the Uchiha experts from my parents' lineage.
Next time, it'll be the Senju clan!
Coupled with this absurd Wood Release experiment, I'll wait in the Pure Land to see when the Senju clan gets annihilated!
Oh, right, I heard the Whirlpool clan has already started asking Konoha for help recently, haven't they?
I bet our wolf-hearted, dog-lunged Third Hokage will surely delay Uzumaki Mito with one excuse after another, then turn around and make the Rain Country battlefield even more chaotic, leading all the Senju clan experts to their deaths in the Rain Country, where there's no advantage.
It's laughable that Uzumaki Mito, with her formidable strength, doesn't quickly set things right.
Instead, she lets a few parasites run amok and makes concessions repeatedly.
She watches her own clan get easily destroyed by a group of disgusting, incompetent, and stubborn individuals!
She doesn't know that without the Third Hokage, the mastermind, quietly pushing and allowing it, how could the other ninja villages tacitly attack the Whirlpool clan?!
Hahaha, it's obvious that in the near future, Hiruzen Sarutobi will surely bring back a prince or princess from the Whirlpool clan with a guilty expression—probably a princess from the Land of Whirlpools, who'd be easier to control—pretending he did his best and so on.
After crushing the last bit of Uzumaki Mito's spirit, he'll then transfer the Nine-Tails, removing the last great mountain above their heads.
I'll watch the Whirlpool clan fall before my own clan.
"Watch them get annihilated by petty people!"
"Hmph hmph hmph, hahaha~, when that time comes, what do you think? Will our Third Hokage, who considers himself the strongest Hokage of all generations, allow Senju Nawaki, Princess Tsunade's younger brother, the grandson of the Ninja God, and the Fourth Hokage who carries the hopes of countless people in Konoha—Senju Nawaki—to survive in peace?
I'm afraid he won't even be able to leave a complete corpse by then, will he?
As you said, everything is for Konoha!"
"You're courting death!" Hearing this, the young Aburame Ryoma could no longer hold back. He immediately summoned a massive cloud of insects and roared at Uchiha Yoru with a ferocious expression. Judging by his stance, he intended to include the entire squad, clearly preparing to kill them all to silence them. He shouted fiercely, "Your hearts only hold your clan! You're the true parasites of Konoha! You're too dangerous! For Konoha, I absolutely can't let you leave alive! Be grateful!
Be thankful!
I'll use my insects to devour you bit by bit, including your brain, and you'll disappear from this world forever.
We are the root of Konoha; we have no present or future.
Everything!
For Konoha!
Die!"
"Secret Technique: Insect Sphere, Nano-Destructive Parasite Insect Technique!"