"Hmm? The Uchiha are actually standing behind a kid?"
"Isn't that… that chatterbox?"
"Damn, isn't he one of the so-called 'Twin Disgraces of the Uchiha,' that loudmouth brat? Why's he standing so far forward?"
"Wait—look at his eyes. Three tomoe!"
The moment Jin appeared, the clan heads and ANBU alike couldn't help but whisper among themselves.
But as the murmurs continued, they gradually fell silent.
It seemed… they had underestimated that talkative Uchiha kid.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Jin stepped forward on moonlight, standing at the front of the formation, facing the Hokage Building directly.
Such a small figure—
yet the pressure he radiated was suffocating.
His gaze swept over the iron-faced Third Hokage, slid past the greed frozen on Utatane Koharu's face, and finally settled on the "corpse" lying on the ground.
He smiled faintly.
"Lord Danzō, this isn't really a place for sleeping, you know."
Sleeping my ass!
Koharu's face darkened instantly. She pointed at Jin's nose and screeched,
"How dare you! You Uchiha brat—what do you think you're doing?!
Leading people to surround the Hokage Building—are you trying to defect from the village?!"
Her voice was shrill and cutting, desperately trying to seize the moral high ground.
Yet when she met those crimson three-tomoe eyes, she still subconsciously took half a step back.
"Defect from the village?"
Jin slightly turned his head, a cold curve lifting at the corner of his mouth.
"Since when does Lord Danzō represent the village?
Or is it you, Utatane Koharu, who represents Konoha?"
"We're here to set things right—
to execute the thieves of the village who steal Konoha's foundations and slaughter their own comrades!"
Koharu shouted furiously, "Nonsense! Utter slander! Hiruzen! Give the order—suppress these traitorous ninja at once!"
Hearing this, Sarutobi Hiruzen drew a deep breath.
Veins bulged on the hand gripping his pipe.
But when his eyes swept over the murderous Uchiha elite, hesitation flickered in his gaze.
Clashing head-on with this many Uchiha right now?
No.
The price would be far too high.
"Uchiha Arata… let's put down our weapons and talk."
After a brief pause, the Third Hokage spoke in a low voice,
"Before things reach the point of no return between the village and the Uchiha."
"Talk?" Jin snorted.
His gaze sharpened like a blade as he suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Danzō's guarded "corpse."
Word by word, he demanded,
"Talk with this old dog who steals my Uchiha bloodline and uses my clansmen's eyes as extra lives?"
"Or talk with these two parasites whose heads are full of nothing but embezzlement and carving up the spoils—leeches sucking Konoha dry?!"
"Watch your mouth! We're Hokage advisors—how dare you smear us like this!"
Koharu and Homura trembled with rage, their voices turning unnaturally shrill.
Like hysterics whose dirty secrets had been exposed.
Oh? There's more to this?
Hearing that, the heads of the major clans immediately suppressed the urge to act and chose to observe quietly.
Hiashi Hyūga even nodded heavily.
Setting everything else aside, even the prestigious Hyūga clan had suffered losses in the village's finances.
Many clan members' inheritances had vanished without explanation.
He had assumed it was due to insufficient investigation.
Now it seemed… they hadn't vanished at all.
They had been swallowed—
by certain people, using the village as cover.
Seeing this, even the Third Hokage unconsciously frowned.
Was there really a problem with the village's finances?
And what did it mean—using Uchiha eyes as "extra lives"?
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt a gust of wind before him.
"Those who are truly insolent—are you!"
"Tonight, Konoha will see clearly the true faces of its so-called leadership!"
Before the words even finished—
Jin's figure had already flashed past the crowd, charging straight into Root's encirclement.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several elite Root operatives were smashed away as if struck by sledgehammers, screaming as they flew back.
"Stop him!"
A Root squad leader's eyes went bloodshot.
But… it was too late.
Jin moved like lightning. One step—
and he planted his foot squarely on Danzō's head.
He even twisted the sole slightly.
"You little bastard! How dare you!!!"
Seeing this, Koharu—Danzō's old friend—finally lost all restraint. As she screamed for him to stop, she roared at the ANBU behind her,
"What are you standing around for?! Attack!"
Whoosh!
Swish swish swish!
More than a dozen shuriken shot out at once!
Crack!
Yet as they neared Jin's body, they abruptly stopped.
Seeing this, the Root elites instantly remembered something and shouted in warning,
"Bad—he can reflect—"
Whoosh!
Before the words could finish, the shuriken shot straight back.
Pshhk!
One ANBU reacted a fraction too slowly and was pierced on the spot.
"T-this ability… is it from those eyes?"
"But abilities like this only appear when the Sharingan evolves to the next level!"
"Then how could Jin…?"
Seeing this, the Third Hokage's brows knit so tightly they could have raised fish.
As one of Konoha's rare long-lived figures—
and the Second Hokage's disciple—he knew many Uchiha secrets.
Including the Mangekyō.
But he never imagined that Jin, at such a young age, had already awakened it.
And even developed a unique dōjutsu.
"Hoo—"
He drew a deep breath, his right hand subconsciously tightening around his pipe.
His wavering heart slowly began to tilt.
The Uchiha's power… was simply too terrifying.
If this continued, Konoha might end up in mutual destruction.
With that thought, he slowly raised his head and signaled the ANBU behind him to halt.
Stepping forward again, he spoke gravely,
"Jin, perhaps we really can talk this through. You wouldn't want our Konoha to suffer such heavy losses, would you?"
He emphasized the words our Konoha, trying to awaken Jin's inner kindness.
"I still remember when you were little—you were a very lovable child."
"Have you been misled? I know Danzō. He may be stubborn, but everything he does is for Konoha."
In his eyes, the Uchiha had produced good children like Itachi and Shisui.
And Jin—he had seen him since childhood.
A child who had the potential to truly inherit the Will of Fire.
"Everything for Konoha?"
Jin repeated softly.
He lowered his head, stepping on Danzō's skull, and asked curiously,
"Is that true, trash?"
Silence.
Danzō lay there as if truly dead, completely motionless.
But Jin knew—this man wasn't dead.
Ever since Orochimaru's defection, after absorbing part of his research, Danzō had been scheming endlessly to obtain Sharingan.
Especially from Uchiha clansmen whose fates on the battlefield were uncertain.
"Really good at enduring, aren't you. Then what if—
I just crush your head right now?"
He smiled, suddenly lifting his right foot high.
Chakra surged—enough to shatter solid rock—as he stomped straight down toward Danzō.
This kick could split mountains and crack earth!
"STOP!!!"
At this, the Third Hokage could no longer restrain himself.
Danzō couldn't die—
he was a critical pillar of his rule!
But just as he prepared to act, he sensed something wrong.
Right in front of him, beneath Jin's foot—
the "unconscious" Danzō suddenly exploded into motion!
Unable to keep pretending, he rapidly formed seals and drew in a sharp breath!
Wind Release: Vacuum Bullets!
Whoosh!
In an instant, chakra condensed in his mouth and was fired outward.
Pshh pshh pshh!
White projectiles blasted out like machine-gun fire, densely shooting toward Jin.
"Can't keep pretending anymore, trash?"
Jin's expression was contemptuous. He ignored the Wind Release completely and continued stomping down.
Pshhk!
Pshhk!
The razor-sharp wind blades slammed into his foot—
yet left not the slightest mark.
They didn't even scuff his shoe.
"He blocked Danzō's Wind Release… with pure flesh?!"
Koharu and Homura stiffened, their eyes suddenly very clear.
As old friends, they knew this technique well.
The Vacuum Bullets were immensely powerful—
even ordinary Earth Release couldn't block them, let alone a human body!
The Third Hokage's pupils also shrank violently.
"A Mangekyō ability focused on physical enhancement… from the Uchiha? That's truly rare…"
After a brief pause, his hands behind his back began forming seals slowly.
"If it's a contest of physical strength…"
"…then I can only rely on you."
"Enma!"
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