Chapter 80: Sharingan and Wood Release

On the main street.

Dan and Fugaku walked side by side.

Inside the Hokage building, a huge commotion had just occurred. Windows were shattered, walls were broken, and the bodies of ninjas were flung out, landing on the ground in a gruesome state.

The villagers watched from a distance, the news spreading like wildfire.

Although they didn't know the specifics, they didn't need to think hard to guess that the Uchiha were causing trouble.

So, when Dan and Fugaku emerged from the broken window of the Hokage building, wherever they passed, the villagers were filled with fear and kept their distance.

The two men didn't care.

"That was close, I thought we were really going to fight," Fugaku said with a laugh, relieved.

He, the clan head of the Uchiha, had almost impulsively joined his brother-in-law in opposing the entire Leaf Village.

Only afterwards did he feel a chill of fear.

He was almost forty years old, and yet today he had felt his blood boil as if he were a reckless youth again.

"Yeah, it was close," Dan agreed.

He had almost become a rogue ninja of the Leaf Village.

Of course, as a rogue ninja, he would have taken the Third Hokage's body to the bounty office, exchanging it for several boxes of cash to fund his and his sister Mikoto's future living expenses.

The Third Hokage should be worth a lot, right? After all, he was hailed as the strongest Hokage in history.

Thinking about this, Dan suddenly regretted not taking action.

"But, did you really beat up Asuma because he was smoking in public?" Fugaku curiously asked, interrupting his brother-in-law's thoughts.

"Of course, I hate people like that the most," Dan replied confidently.

"Haha."

Fugaku laughed and didn't ask any more questions. His brother-in-law was indeed a straightforward person.

The two gradually moved away.

On a nearby rooftop, space suddenly rippled like a whirlpool.

Whoosh.

Obito, wearing a black cloak, appeared, and Zetsu emerged from the ground beside him.

"What was that all about? What a letdown."

Watching Dan and Fugaku's retreating figures, Obito frowned, disappointed.

He had seen the commotion in the Hokage building and thought the Uchiha were about to clash with the village. He was even ready to join in the fun.

Who would have thought that in the end, it was all bark and no bite, with only a few small fry getting killed.

Was it the Uchiha who backed down, or the Leaf Village?

"I heard that the Uchiha proposed to give up the Police Force, which they've controlled for decades, and that's why they reached a compromise with the Leaf Village's higher-ups. This must have been Uchiha Dan's idea," Zetsu said darkly.

Hmph.

Every time Obito heard Dan's name, he felt extremely annoyed. The spots where his arms used to be still ached, a constant reminder of the humiliation of having his arms ripped off by Dan.

The Uchiha and the Leaf Village don't want to fall out? That's not up to them.

Thinking this, Obito asked Zetsu coldly, "How's the investigation into the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki going?"

"It's a guy named Naruto Uzumaki. The villagers of the Leaf call him the 'Demon Fox Brat,' and he seems to be quite unpopular. He's just a kid with no parents, living alone in a small apartment. His life is pretty miserable," Zetsu replied with a grin.

"Are you sure

about that?"

Obito asked again, finding it hard to believe that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, so important to the Leaf Village, could be as Zetsu described.

Zetsu shrugged helplessly, "I've checked multiple times, Naruto Uzumaki is the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. Sometimes, there are even ANBU ninjas secretly protecting him."

Wait a minute.

A thought suddenly struck Obito.

The Uzumaki surname...

The Uzumaki clan was wiped out during the Second Great Ninja War, and the remaining clan members scattered throughout the ninja world were few and far between.

In Obito's memory, there was only one Uzumaki in the Leaf Village, his former mentor's wife, Kushina Uzumaki.

She was also the previous Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

"Naruto Uzumaki, not Naruto Namikaze. What a clumsy attempt at a cover-up," Obito muttered to himself, understanding the situation. He then chuckled.

That's right, this Naruto Uzumaki must be the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

Years ago, on that night.

Minato Namikaze sacrificed his life to perform the Reaper Death Seal, sealing half of the Nine-Tails' spirit inside himself and the other half inside his newborn son.

Oh, what a great Hokage, what a heavy burden of fatherly love.

Unfortunately.

Minato, you really should see how the villagers of the Leaf treat your son. The village and the Will of Fire that you protected with your life are nothing but a joke.

Indeed.

Only the Infinite Tsukuyomi can save this ugly and fallen world.

Don't worry, sensei, I will reunite you, your wife, and your son in a beautiful new world.

After silently saying these words in his heart, Obito's eyes turned cold:

"Let's go, let's capture Naruto Uzumaki and bring another Nine-Tails disaster to the Leaf Village. Of course, this time it will still be in the name of the Uchiha."

Just as they were about to move, two sharp sounds cut through the air.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

With the sharp sound of breaking air, two sturdy wooden branches suddenly attacked from the shadows at an extremely fast speed, binding Obito and Zetsu tightly like snakes.

Boom.

At the same time, wooden pillars rose from all around, forming a cage that further trapped the two.

Wood Release: Thorny Kill Technique.

"We got them."

Tenzō stepped out, looking at the immobilized pair, and called out to the side, "Captain, you can interrogate them now."

Kakashi, wearing the ANBU fox mask, appeared.

"Who are you, daring to covet the Leaf's Nine-Tails Jinchuriki?" Kakashi asked in a deep voice.

The two men in front of him, bound and helpless.

One was a long-haired man wearing a strange tiger-striped mask, and the other was even more bizarre, half white and half black, with a strange hairstyle resembling a Venus flytrap.

Were they spies from another village?

A few minutes earlier.

After the clan leaders' meeting had finally ended after some twists and turns, Kakashi, who had been idling around, intended to continue slacking off.

However, before he could leave the Hokage building.

He suddenly felt a crazy twitching in his left eye, which was incredibly itchy.

Then, to his surprise, he found that his left eye was seeing a completely different scene from his right eye.

It seemed to be a view from the rooftop of a building outside, looking towards the Hokage building.

It felt as if...

Kakashi's left eye was sharing someone else's vision.

In his surprise, he decided to bring Tenzō, one of his team members, to investigate, and they actually caught two suspicious individuals.

In response to Kakashi's interrogation.

"Yo, you actually discovered our whereabouts. As expected of the Leaf's top technician, Sharingan Kakashi."

Obito deliberately used a deep voice, responding to Kakashi with a tone of mockery.

Kakashi's face darkened.

He hadn't even asked for their names, yet his own identity had been seen through.

Even though he was wearing a mask, could he still be recognized so easily?

Never mind.

If they didn't want to cooperate, it was fine. He could just use genjutsu to control them and send them directly to the Intelligence Division.

There were many ninjas there who were good at interrogation, and they could even extract information from the brains of the dead. No one who went in there could resist.

So.

Kakashi removed his mask, revealing the Sharingan with its scar, and the three tomoe spun rapidly, releasing a fierce genjutsu attack towards Obito.

"How scary, it's a Sharingan genjutsu, I'm done for."

Obito pretended to struggle desperately, made a few sarcastic remarks, and then suddenly said, "Huh, why am I fine? Oh, it turns out I also have a Sharingan."

Before he finished speaking, his right eye under the mask also turned into the shape of three tomoe.

Easily resisting Kakashi's eye power.

"Who the hell are you?!" Kakashi exclaimed in shock.

Obito, however, just sneered and shook his head, "I don't have time to play with you today, I'm leaving, bye."

After he finished speaking.

Whoosh.

His entire body was sucked into a space vortex, disappearing in front of Kakashi.

On the other side.

"We should also leave."

Zetsu said in a low voice, his body suddenly sprouting numerous sturdy branches, not only breaking free from Tenzō's Wood Release but also turning the tables on him.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The branches shot towards Kakashi and Tenzō.

As the two of them dodged in a hurry.

Zetsu activated his Mayfly technique, merging into the ground and disappearing in an instant.

After finally resolving the enemy's Wood Release attack.

Kakashi and Tenzō looked at each other, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

The two enemies just now, one had a Sharingan, and the other mastered Wood Release, just like Kakashi and Tenzō's combination.

It was simply bizarre.

And also, what was going on with his left eye?

Kakashi furrowed his brows, puzzled.

However.

He quickly realized that now was not the time to ponder these questions, because there was a more urgent matter at hand.

"Tenzō, I'm going to report this to the Third Hokage. You hurry to the Ninja Academy and bring Naruto Uzumaki, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, to the ANBU."

Kakashi quickly ordered Tenzō, who nodded and immediately set off.

The two of them split up.

On a hillside outside the Leaf Village.

With a spatial ripple, Obito appeared on a branch of a large tree.

Zetsu also followed him, emerging from the ground.

"Ah, I didn't expect to be spotted by that guy Kakashi, and he even overheard our plan, how annoying." Zetsu complained, looking frustrated.

"Kakashi always messes things up, doesn't he, Obito?" Black Zetsu started hinting again.

With Kakashi's interference, they definitely wouldn't be able to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki for now, and they would also have to face the pursuit of the Leaf's ANBU.

White Zetsu scratched his head and suggested:

"How about we go back to the Rain Village to lay low for a while? Obito, you should also go back to the Akatsuki to check on things. By the way, you can also ask Pain about Uchiha Dan. Maybe we can figure out whether his 'Shinra Tensei' is real or fake."

Upon hearing this, Obito fell into thought.

Indeed.

He almost forgot.

Compared to Uchiha Dan, Pain, who possessed the Rinnegan, was a more worrying issue. If he wasn't watched for a while, Pain would start causing trouble.

Black Zetsu suddenly remembered something and said to Obito:

"I heard that Pain has recruited quite a few new members into the Akatsuki recently, including a guy named Orochimaru, who is a rogue ninja from the Leaf."

Oh?

Obito was surprised when he heard the name Orochimaru.

Orochimaru, the legendary leader of the Three Legendary Sannin of the Leaf, was also the most proud disciple of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and had even competed with Minato Namikaze for the position of the Fourth Hokage.

After a series of scandals were exposed and his reputation was ruined, he fled from the Leaf.

It seems that Pain hasn't been slacking off, even digging up talents like this.

"Orochimaru, huh... Such a person should be full of hatred for the Third Hokage and the Leaf. In that case, he should be interested in my plan."

Obito stroked his chin, analyzed for a while, and made a decision.

He decided to return to the Akatsuki, bring a few more capable hands like Orochimaru, and then return to the Leaf to cause a big commotion.

So.

Obito ordered White Zetsu, who was good at hiding his presence, to stay and continue to monitor the situation in the Leaf Village and the actions of the Uchiha.

He and Black Zetsu would return to the Akatsuki to recruit more people.

When they returned.

He would destroy the Uchiha and the Leaf at the same time!