Chapter – 740 ‘Akatsuki’ Appears

As soon as Asuma and the others moved, their movements were immediately captured by the cameras as such their figures quickly appeared on the viewing screens.

"Who are those people?"

"Look at their cloaks… they… they… they seemed to be members of the Akatsuki Organization!?"

"Damn… how can they suddenly appear here… and that too in the Forest of Death!"

"We have to do something, at this rate, our children will definitely die!"

Instantly, the entire crowd burst into noise. People exclaimed in panic, worry, and anger.

The Matriarch of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Mikoto was closely watching the battle between her son Sasuke and the Chunin for a while and also noticed four members of the Akatsuki Organization appear in the Viewing Screen, and exclaimed, "The direction those people are headed to… It's where Sasuke is!"

Unlike his wife Mikoto, Fugaku wasn't panicked, instead, he tried to analyze a few things and glanced in the direction of the Five Kages. Noting that the five Kages were sitting calmly and discussing something with excitement on their faces, he couldn't help but frown, "It's strange… The Akatsuki Organization is here, If those people are headed toward Sasuke, then their target is undoubtedly Uzumaki Naruto, yet the Five Kages are so calm?" – muttered Fugaku with a frown.

Seeing his parents worried, Itachi quickly explained, "Otou-san, Okaa-san, don't worry, those people are not members of Akatsuki, they are shinobi from Konoha who are pretending to be members of Akatsuki. Earlier Shisui-san informed me that this will be happening."

As Itachi informed his parents, Sandaime Hokage stood up on the stage and informed everyone that the five people on the screen were Konoha Shinobi disguised as members of the Akatsuki Organization. The purpose of their appearance is to test the trainee's response to the desperate situation.

Hearing Itachi's explanation, and Sandaime Hokage's words, Mikoto breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded him, "Itachi you should have told us of this earlier, I was almost scared to death!"

The others in the crowd also breathed a sigh of relief, and their panic also subsided. At the same time, after understanding the gist of things, they admired the person who had the brains and guts to do something so crazy.

Mikoto added with a dissatisfied expression, "Really, Shisui and the others… they are going too far… the children aren't ready to face such a thing."

Itachi explained, "That's the entire purpose… The Principal of the Academy hopes to train those children using this real-world simulation assessment, and also determine the accurate character of all the trainees. After all, real growth happens only in desperate circumstances, and only in desperate circumstances can a person's true character be determined. So, this is not a normal assessment, this will determine how far those trainees will go in the future."

After Hearing Itachi's explanation, Mikoto looked at Fugaku and asked in a worried tone, "Anata… Sasuke… he will be fine, right?"

"At this point, we can only trust him. Anyway, he is a Uchiha and our son." Said Fugakue as he folded his arms over his chest. The content of this assessment has surpassed his expectations, even a shinobi as experienced as him can't say what will happen and how Sasuke will respond in this situation… all he can do is trust in Sasuke.

This wasn't just Fugaku's thoughts, all the Patriarchs had the same thought. On one side, they don't want their children to get hurt, on the other side, they don't want their children to perform poorly in front of such a crowd as their performance will affect the reputation of their Clans.

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As Sandaime sat back after announcing this part of the assessment, Tsuchikage said with a smile, "You people of Konoha actually went as far as to make your men pretend to be members of the Akatsuki Organization… This is really creative, I want to see how those children will react."

Sandaime forced a smile, and nodded, "I do too." In fact, even Hiruzen wasn't completely aware of the entire content of the assessment until a while ago. Although Kuroto informed him of a lot of things, Hiruzen didn't know that his son Asuma and the others would disguise themselves as members of the Akatsuki Organization and get involved in the assessment.

Now that everything has already started, Hiruzen can only hope that nothing goes wrong.

Looking at Hiruzen's expression, Godaime Kazekage was able to guess his thoughts and sighed, 'Really, this is so like him… he can be so cruel when it comes to things he wants.'

Pakura can only think of one person who can be so creatively dark. In her opinion, the idea is indeed quite creative, but considering how much impact this assessment will have on those children, she couldn't help but feel that her master was really heartless.

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Forest of Death

As the four masked people wearing Akatsuki's iconic uniform passed by, Obito and Zetsu who were hiding in the blind spots of Camera couldn't help but look at each other in surprise, "What's happening? Did Nagato send someone to Konoha?"

Zetsu was also at a loss, "No, this is not possible. Last I checked, Nagato was training some Jutsu in order to defeat Yama… and the others were busy watching over the three Jinchuriki… There is no one in the organization who is free right now, so, how could he send someone here so suddenly?"

Obito asked again, "Then who are these people wearing the Cloak of Akatsuki Organization, is it possible that Nagato recruited someone new to the organization without my knowledge? And since when did anyone from Akatsuki start to weak mask? I am the only one who does that!"

Zetsu shrugged, "I don't know… They are not from our side… And I don't think Nagato recruited anyone new to the organization."

"They are not ours, Nagato didn't recruit anyone, then who are they?" muttered Obito, and after a while of thinking, he suggested, "Let's just follow them and see…"

Zetsu nodded and dived into the ground.

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On Sasuke's side.

As the smoke gradually disappeared, the figures of Sasuke and the three Chunin appeared before everyone.

From one glance, everyone was able to see Sasuke easily dealing with the three Chunin teachers.

"Take this you arrogant kid!" cursed Mizuki in anger, and threw a Fuma Shuriken at Sasuke.

Sasuke smirked and jumped up to dodge the incoming Fuma Shuriken, however, at this time, something unexpected happened. Just as he jumped up, Sasuke felt that the soles of his sandals were stuck to something and pulled him back to the ground.

He looked down and soon realized that his feet had been stuck to the ground by a transparent liquid, 'Glue?' He was taken aback, and quickly pulled out two Kunais from his Shinobi Bag to deflect the Fuma Shuriken.

As the Fuma Shuriken was deflected, Sasuke looked in the direction of Iruka and asked, "Iruka-sensei... I didn't know that you could use such a Jutsu."

Iruka replied, "Well I have recently mastered this Jutsu upon Principal's instructions… but anyway, you have lost now Sasuke-kun… give up."

Sasuke smirked, "Don't be so sure Iruka-Sensei!" as his body exploded in a cloud of white smoke.

Iruka was taken aback, "Shadow Clone? When did he weave hand signs?"

Suddenly a voice came from behind Iruka, "As soon as I saw you use that Jutsu of yours with my Sharingan, I had already created Shadow Clone."

Iruka turned around and saw Sasuke coming towards him with a Tanto in his hand.

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