Chapter 2: Bald Crow Watching the Nest

In Konoha Hidden Village, the sun was starting to rise over the eastern mountains and the morning mist that was blocking the view began to dissipate.

In one corner of the parapet in Konoha Village, there were two figures in black robes with a red cloud pattern watching the village situation from above the wall.

The sky was starting to show its brilliance, which was very comfortable and pleasant, making everything feel warm and full of vitality, but both of them had an aura that was completely at odds with the current environment, especially someone who didn't carry a sword on his back.

If there was a sensor-type ninja adept at feeling emotions watching him right now, he would definitely be surprised to see the aura of anxiety and panic from this figure soaring high into the sky.

"hehe, as expected of the number one ninja village in the world, even though there is no preparation for war, they were still able to fend off the combined attacks of Otogakure and Sunagakure villages without sacrificing many lives, but the damage suffered to your village seems to be quite severe" Kisame smirked as he observed the current state of Konoha village.

Itachi who was unfocused and very engrossed in his own world began to realize after hearing Kisame argument, he lowered his head and began to focus on observing the condition of the Konoha village.

The sun light grew brighter, this bright sun began to hang high in the sky and every household began to open their doors.

Even though many buildings were destroyed and debris littered the streets, the streets of Konoha were still bustling, no trace of sadness could be seen on the faces of these villagers, the situation of the people looked comfortable and pleasant mixed with the autumn humidity making everything feel warm and full of vitality.

"If I didn't know that this village had been hit by an attack from another village some time ago, I would have thought this village was holding a certain unique festival.

Have the humans in this world become so used to war that they become numb and easily forget past events and treat it like nothing happened?

No, if they are numb to the war situation and easily forget past events there will be no chain of hatred as a sub theme of this manga, even after many years after the second ninja world war, chiyo grandmother one of the top ninja from Sunagakure Village still remembers it was so clear who killed his son that he mistakenly identified Kakashi as his father and refused to cooperate with the Konoha ninja.

Another vivid example is the rampage of the nine tailed beasts in Konoha Village, even if this incident had happened more than a decade ago they would still remember it, if they accept war as a matter of course, Naruto childhood life couldn't have been so tragic.

Then why is the atmosphere in the village so excited right now? It could be said that their current situation was worse than what happened after the kyuubi attack back then.

Indeed, when the kyuubi attack incident they suffered more losses, both in terms of buildings and casualties.

But at that time they still had a lot of backbone with kage power in the village, such as the unelected 4th hokage candidate 'The evil eye of Uchiha Fugaku' and one of Orochimaru 3 sannins, and 2 other sannin members such as Jiraiya and Tsunade.

Even though Tsunade had left the village at that time and Jiraiya no longer returned to the village after Minato death, the outside world did not know this information plus there is still a 3rd hokage namely Saratobi Hiruzen in the village.

Over time Orochimaru also defected from Konoha village, the outside world began to learn information from the sannin, but even though the outside world knew this information, Konoha village still had Patrick Uchiha, namely Fugaku and the 3rd Hokage Hiruzen Saratobi, plus fresh blood from the younger generation such as Kakashi Hatake and Uchiha Shisui.

However, it seems that these figures still have not convinced outsiders, this is due to the occurrence of internal divisions within the village of Konoha, as a result Kumogakure make intrigues to Konoha.

And there is a plan to kidnap Hyuga princess, this incident occurred after the 3 sannin were no longer in Konoha and the uchiha clan had a conflict with village officials which resulted in unstable internal conditions of the village and the uchiha clan was ostracized in Konoha village.

With Konoha still having kage-level ninja with high prestige in their village at that time, other villages still dared to show their fangs to Konoha.

Then look at Konoha today, who is the ninja who is recognized as being on the same level as the Kage who lives in the village and is known by the villagers today?

Only Kakashi Hatake, forget Danzo because many jounin level ninjas don't know of his existence, while for Maito Gai the same as Danzo, no one knows if he can open the 8th gate of Hachimon Tonkou, currently he is only considered a special jounin level ninja who cannot complete the formal jounin exam.

Based on the plot I remember, the arrival of the Akatsuki members to Konoha was 3 days after the death of the 3rd Hokage.

Three days after the death of Sarutobi Hiruzen but the next Hokage has not yet been sworn in.

Villagers must know Jiraiya has returned to Konoha, because when the incident of Orchimaru attack on the village there was a big frog that appeared in the village, it was a his trademark jutsu. Then why the 5th Hokage hasn't been sworn in yet, what does this mean?

With the current condition of the village, don't they think about the other party's response to their village?

So what makes them so happy right now?

Are they happy that Sarutobi Hiruzen has died and that they only sacrificed a few lives and destroyed a few buildings? I'm a little confused by their mindset" said Itachi in his heart.

After analyzing the situation of the Konoha villagers, Itachi began to consider what kind of answer to answer Kisame previous argument so as not to be suspected.

"The village that used to be very strong, the village whose defense line was impenetrable even though it was surrounded by four big villages at once now has its house destroyed by a small ninja village, it's really sad" said Itachi

"You don't usually talk like this, are you disappointed that your village was destroyed like this?" Kisame was a little surprised by Itachi answer

"How sad? What kind of conversation do you usually have with Itachi?," Itachi complained in his heart.

After hearing Kisame words, Itachi began to ponder whether what he just said was an expression of disappointment or not.

After pondering it for a while Itachi did find that what he said earlier was indeed an expression of disappointment but he thought this was the best answer, because these words were the best words he could think of to comment on the current situation.

If we think about it carefully, Kisame previous words were sarcasm. As a big fan of Naruto, not only watching anime and reading manga, MC also reads a lot of reviews on forums that explain the truth of the plot in every episode of Naruto animation.

It can be concluded that in the current timeline Konoha village is not the number one village in the world, their top tier combat strength is still far below Kumogakure and their current position is likely only 3rd under Iwagakure.

Iwagakure village apart from having Onohki the 3rd tsucikage who is the only ninja in this world who has mastered the ability of kekai tota they also have 2 jinchuriki, even though these 2 jinchuriki have not been able to fully master the power of their biju like Killer Bee, they are still able to maintain consciousness while using the bijuu power.

Only after Sasuke and Naruto grew up, Konoha Village was able to rebuild itself as the number one ninja village in the world.

Then we see Kisame, as one of the Akatsuki members who has a strange figure like Zetsu who is very reliable in terms of finding information, there is no way he doesn't know Konoha's current condition. in the end he's just sarcasm, nice taunt buddy.!!

Back to reality. Realizing Itachi was still silent and did not answer his argument, Kisame's gaze began to shift from staring at Konoha Village to looking at Itachi, as if asking what are we going to do now?

Noticing Kisame's gaze, Itachi was no longer as panicked as before, but he was starting to get confused.

"Why are you looking at me, I don't know anything!!. Do whatever you want, don't keep looking at me" complained Itachi in his heart.

Itachi began to ponder what to do now, if following the original plot with his current state of not knowing his ninjutsu abilities, he would be over.

so the best way for him now is not to do the same as in the original plot, but where to go?

Mc began to recall the legacy of memory left by Itachi, he still had some insight about Konoha. It seemed that several hours before arriving in Konoha, Itachi was really thinking about his village.

Better go find a place that has ninjutsu scrolls in it. After sorting through Itachi memories, the MC started to say.

"Before doing the search, there is a place I want to visit first"

"hehe, looks like our master Itachi still misses his hometown" said Kisame

"No, absolutely not, even if you want to destroy this village now, I don't care." He said this coldly, as if the village in front of him had nothing to do with him.

kisame was a little surprised when he heard uchiha itachi words just now and started holding the hilt of the sword behind his back and started grinning widely.

Mc who initially started imitating the original itachi uchiha behavior to act cool began to panic when he saw Kisame movements.

"What do you mean by grinning like that?

Wait a minute, do you want to do it now?

Damn what I said just now is just a parable,

If you want to destroy Konoha village, wait for me to escape from this village! ! Damn why am I talking nonsense like that" said Itachi who was scared in his heart.

Seeing Kisame not doing any other impulsive movement like making hand seals, Itachi heaved a sigh of relief and started to take his eyes off Kisame, he started walking in one direction and Kisame started to follow him, their speed increased and they disappeared.

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