Monitor

She looked at the black figure outside the door.

"Ch- chief."

Samui's voice trembled and she was very guilty. She thought she had been discovered.

A spy should be beaten to death.

At this moment, she remembered what he had said to Uchiha Inabi and the miserable condition of the spies who died in his hands. She couldn't help but shed cold sweat.

Thump.

Her heart beat faster and she stared at the suffocating black shadow outside the door. For a moment, she was nervous and scared to the extreme.

"Listening to your voice, you seems a little uncomfortable." Dan opened his mouth again.

"Oh, I... I have insomnia recently. I can't sleep." Samui found an excuse and quietly opened the window.

Once he confirmed her identity, she would jump out of the window without hesitation and escape from Konoha overnight.

"Insomnia?"

When Dan heard this, she did not know if he believed it or not. He just turned around and left, quickly disappearing into the corridor.

What should she do? Should she escape?

Just as Samui was biting her lips and hesitating, with the sound of footsteps, the black shadow came out of the corridor again and stopped outside her door.

"I brought you a soothing aromatherapy, put it at your door."

"Thank you, Chief..."

Sam was bewildered as she watched the figure leave. Then, she slowly walked to the door, pushed open the door, and picked up the incense.

Looks like... it was just an accident.

"Phew ---"

Samui finally let out a long sigh of relief and collapsed on the bed. The clothes on her back were unconsciously drenched in sweat.

In the future, she had to be more careful.

The night was silent.

In the next two days, the gym returned to its usual calm, and no guests came to visit.

As the front desk, Samui's life became boring again.

That day, Dan left a business card for Akimichi Choza, but nothing happened.

As a result, the opportunity for Samui to spy on the Akimichi clan fell through as expected.

It seemed.

The reputation of the Uchiha was really bad, to the point where everyone avoided him.

Although Samui felt that Dan was a good person, as long as he had the name of the Uchiha, it was impossible to make any friends in the village.

However.

Samui could occasionally feel some strange peeping eyes around the gym.

There were people from the police department and people from the Anbu Group.

Under the calm and peaceful surface, there seemed to be undercurrents flowing.

...

Early in the morning.

Itachi came to the Hokage building and was ready to go to work.

He joined the sixth team of the Anbu Group.

These days, under the leadership of captain Kakashi, Itachi has been serving as the guard of the third Hokage.

To put it simply, he would stand guard outside the office every day.

To be a security guard.

As a newcomer, he had no chance to go out for a mission.

"Itachi, good morning."

A young man with short brown hair and an honest appearance walked over and greeted Itachi with a smile.

He was a teammate of Weasel, codenamed "Tenzou". It was said that he had been promoted to chunin at the age of six, and was able to use the first Hokage's Wood Release.

He was a genius that was one in a thousand.

Although Itachi was also known as a genius, compared to the dazzling team leader and teammates, he was currently the most unremarkable one in class six.

"Where is the captain? Is he not here yet?" Itachi nodded to Tenzou and asked.

"If he isn't late, then he is not Kakashi Senpai." Tenzou leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, looking helpless.

After a while.

"Oh, I'm sorry. After I left home this morning, I lingered at the crossroads of my life for a long time. I was careless and was late."

With a lazy voice, Kakashi with silver hair and a black mask appeared from the corner and slowly walked over.

Itachi and Tenzou exchanged a glance.

This was their captain, a man who was often late and liked to find all kinds of strange reasons.

"There's no need to stand guard today. There's a new mission."

Kakashi patted the shoulders of the two members and signaled them to follow him to a place.

The three left the Hokage building and headed to the southwest of the village.

Soon after, they entered a tall building.

Clang.

Kakashi pushed open the door and entered.

This was a room with an open view. There were several telescopes and monitoring screens installed. Through a row of one-way window, several members of the Anbu Group were on a surveillance mission.

"It's time to change shifts." Kakashi shouted.

"No abnormalities." A few of the Anbu Group stood up, handed over to Kakashi, and retreated.

Kakashi turned his head and looked at Itachi. Before waiting for the latter to speak, he took the initiative to explain,

"This place is used to monitor the Uchiha clan. What should we do? Should we tell your people about this?"

Straight probing.

Itachi did not answer, but directly asked, "What is my job here?"

"It's very simple. Just keep watching with that thing. It's not tiring at all."

Tenzou came over and pointed at the monitor screen. Then, he walked to a telescope and began to work.

Good fellow.

It was either standing guard or watching the surveillance.

After all this time, wasn't this still the work of a security guard?

Itachi was silent.

This was different from the life of the Anbu that he had imagined.

Kakashi had been looking at the change in his expression. Seeing that the latter was silent, he asked again,

"It must be difficult for you to monitor your own people and relatives. Do you want me to be on duty for you?"

"It doesn't matter."

Itachi shook his head and said as he walked to the monitor screen.

In the Uchiha's land.

There were children playing in groups merrily;

There were new stores that opened and the doors were open;

There were old people lying on rocking chairs and basking in the sun;

There were young men and women who were passionately in love and had burrowed into the woods...

From the surveillance, these scenes were very common and warm.

The Uchiha clan was not much different from the other villagers of Konoha.

They had been deliberately demonized by someone.

At this time.

Itachi saw a familiar little figure in the surveillance picture. He was carrying a bag on his back and going to school at the Ninja School.

It was his younger brother, Sasuke.

Itachi couldn't help but smile.

But soon, his smile disappeared, and he looked surprised.

Because.

In the surveillance, he saw his uncle's gym - the physical transformation department.

"That surveillance camera was just installed. You went to see your uncle two days ago. It seems to be called... Uchiha Dan, right?"

Kakashi's lazy voice sounded.

Hearing this, Itachi was shocked.

So, his whereabouts had always been monitored?

"Yeah."

He nodded calmly.

After a while.

Itachi saw that his uncle, Uchiha Dan, and employee, Samui, were out in the alley, carrying a large bucket of milk as if they had just come back from outside.

Suddenly.

Dan stopped at the door and looked up. At a glance, he saw the camera hidden in the tree.

He raised his hand and pointed at the camera to ask something to Samui. She frowned and shook her head.

Because of the surveillance.

Itachi could only see the screen and could not hear the conversation between the two, but he already had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough.

Dan bent down and picked up a small stone from the ground. Then, he flicked his finger expressionlessly.

Pssht.

The stone grew larger and larger in the surveillance camera until it filled the entire screen.

The next second.

With a hiss, the surveillance screen turned black.

Itachi: "..."

Kakashi leaned against the chair with his legs crossed and was reading "Intimacy Heaven" with relish. After hearing the sound, he put down the book and asked,

"Is there a situation?"