Chapter: 10 Conspiracy, The Killing Intent Approaching the Clan
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Three days after the duel, news suddenly came from the front line that the Senju Clan was assembling a large portion of their forces.
According to reports, a figure resembling Senju Butsuma was seen on the main battlefield.
Upon confirming the news, Uchiha Tajima immediately made a decision to risk going to the battlefield himself.
Of course, he wouldn't go alone.
Sensing that a decisive battle was near, Tajima mobilized most of the remaining forces within the clan.
During the Sengoku era, the prosperity of each clan was far greater than that of the villages in later times.
Take the Uchiha Clan, for example. They had established four major legions, each responsible for dealing with enemies from different directions.
Within the clan, the number of resident ninjas alone exceeded 800, and each legion had over a thousand ninjas.
Kyosuke roughly calculated that the entire clan's ninja count was at least over five thousand.
While this couldn't match the terrifying scale of the ninja villages of the future, which could deploy tens of thousands of ninjas for war, it was enough to wipe out a small nation.
However, the problem wasn't just the Senju Clan.
News came from the southern legion that the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans were rapidly gathering their forces, preparing for an all-out war with the Uchiha.
The legion commander, Uchiha Rei, sent a request for reinforcements, but Tajima completely ignored it.
"We don't have anyone to spare. If we can't defend, we'll at least drag them down with us."
When Rei received the response, he angrily tore up the letter in front of everyone and called Tajima a fool with a pig's brain.
These pieces of information were kept highly secret, and Kyosuke only learned of them through Izuna's casual chatter.
Looking at the empty street, he couldn't help but sigh.
After three days of effort, Kyosuke had mostly mastered the use of the Body Flicker Technique.
The price, however, was that his entire body ached, and large bruises began to form on certain parts of his body.
During this time, Uchiha Madara had sternly warned him that forcibly using the Body Flicker Technique before his body was strong enough was akin to slowly committing suicide.
In other words, Madara was trying to persuade him to give up on practicing it.
But Kyosuke retorted with one line: "In the battlefield, it's either you or me. If I can't use it in a critical moment, I might not even live long enough for a slow death."
Faced with Kyosuke's sharp tongue, Madara, who wasn't good with words, had no way to respond.
In a fit of frustration, he hadn't appeared before Kyosuke for the past three days.
"Such a child." He commented.
Tajima didn't want to deal with the southern battlefield, but Uchiha Rei was no ordinary person. He was once a fierce rival in the battle for the clan leadership.
When the second letter arrived, not long after, news came that the stationed legion had secretly moved out.
Upon learning of this, Tajima was furious and openly cursed.
The problem was, there was little Rei could do to him, and on the other hand, Tajima couldn't deal with that old man with the graying hair.
The large-scale participation of the legions caused the clan's defensive power to become increasingly weak.
"If enemies attack now, the history of the ninja world might be rewritten."
What had originally been a joke began to make Tajima uneasy as he thought more about it.
A year ago, a team had successfully infiltrated the enemy's rear and ambushed the fleeing heirs of the three clans.
This was considered a highly successful extermination operation.
If the enemy didn't harbor hatred, it would be hard for anyone to believe.
Moreover, the decisive battle between the Uchiha and Senju clans wasn't supposed to happen at this time.
Uchiha Madara was about to turn 11, and his encounter with Senju Hashirama was not far off.
At that time, Madara would likely be on the battlefield, and it seemed the war hadn't yet reached a point where both sides were on the brink of destruction.
In other words, a large-scale slaughter between the two clans shouldn't happen now.
"If the Senju are pretending to set a trap, then what is their goal?"
Kyosuke glanced at the empty street, as if he was beginning to understand.
The Senju weren't aiming for a decisive battle; they were trying to lure Uchiha Tajima to the battlefield.
The southern legion and the three clans nearly simultaneously began to act, and although there was no concrete evidence, Kyosuke's intuition told him that there must be some connection between them.
'Senju's trap…'
'The three clans' assembly…'
'Senju… Nara assassination…'
This was bad!
Kyosuke's expression turned serious as he stood up, determined to head straight to the clan's mansion.
No matter whether it was true or not, preparations had to be made.
If it turned out to be true, it would be too late to react once things unfolded.
"I hope I'm just overthinking it."
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At the southern entrance of the Uchiha clan's land, a series of carriage were parked by the roadside, being inspected by the guard team.
"Good work."
The head of the convoy was an old acquaintance, having been transporting goods for decades, so the guard team did not make things difficult and decided to let them pass.
"Wait!"
Suddenly, the captain of the guards called out to the convoy.
"There's an order from above to step up the inspection." The captain seemed a bit helpless as he spoke.
He couldn't understand what the young patriarch was thinking, mentioning something about enemies potentially infiltrating.
Infiltrating the Uchiha clan's territory?
No one had ever achieved such a feat in the past thousand years.
To him, it probably just seemed like a child trying to show off, but unfortunately, it was always the lower-ranked ones like them who suffered.
Just as the captain was about to say something, an intense feeling of heart palpitation suddenly surged from deep within.
Before he could react, he realized that he had lost control of his body.
"But they are all old acquaintances. If there's a problem, won't we starve to death?"
The captain smiled and waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to allow the convoy to pass.
"No, they have a problem!!!"
As he saw his body moving against his will, he was overwhelmed by an urge to end it all.
But he was unable to do anything. At that moment, he felt like a mere observer, powerless to control his body.
In the end, he could only helplessly watch as the suspicious convoy wobbled its way deeper into the clan.
"This feeling, it's unmistakable. It's the secret technique of the Yamanaka clan!"
"What do they want to do?!"
The poor captain was "personally" escorting the convoy deeper, heading westward.
Judging by their direction, it was clearly towards the residential area where most of the clan members lived.
Since most of the ninjas had gone to the battlefield, only the elderly, women, and children remained in the residential area. Even a fool could understand the invaders' objective.
"Damn it, move, body, move!"
The captain screamed desperately, but his resistance against the Yamanaka clan's secret technique seemed as childish and laughable as a child's tantrum.
Soon, the convoy reached the heart of the clan.
Seeing the children playing joyfully on the streets, his heart seemed to bleed.
"We're almost there."
Suddenly, a low mutter filled with killing intent came from behind.
Not far ahead was the Uchiha clan's long-standing kindergarten.
If they were going to eliminate their target, the best place to strike would be there.
"Damn Uchiha, you will pay the price today."
Listening to the laughter of the children around, the invaders discarded their disguises and charged into the ancient Uchiha school.
But what they found was not their intended target, but a group of vivid clones, and the entire school filled with explosive tags that were now burning fiercely.
Boom!
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