Shizune's life is terrible these days.

Thanks to Anjurou, Tsunade successfully quit drinking three years ago and finally no longer wastes her life in a drunken state.

This long-lost sobriety gave Tsunade strong self-confidence, allowing her to devote more time to her favorite gambling table.

Unfortunately, Tsunade, who was not drunk, had worse luck than before.

Over the past three years, the interest on gambling debts owed by this big fat sheep has almost reached ten figures, which is equivalent to the reward for hundreds of S-level tasks.

Just a few days ago, she was approached by more than a dozen creditors and had to hand over her pig to them as collateral to get out.

However, that night, Tsunade won a small victory for the first time in a long time.

But instead of continuing to play, she became suspicious and immediately sent Shizune to steal the pig from the creditor. The two of them and one pig fled to the Land of Fire overnight.

Although the dolphin did not suffer much during the period when it was used as collateral, the pearl necklace and specially customized clothes around its neck had been exchanged by the creditor for money, and now it looks like an ordinary pig.

No difference.

After arriving at the new place, Shizune made a bow tie for Dodo, and the daimyo's guardian nin came to ask for help.

Due to the critical condition of the patient, the two had to rush to the City of Fire as quickly as possible to treat the daimyo's daughter-in-law, who was seriously injured by the detonating talisman.

The long and intense treatment was over. Just when Shizune, who had not slept for more than thirty hours, thought she could finally rest, Hiruzen Sarutobi came.

Tsunade has a special status and a bad temper, so she can refuse to see him if she doesn't want to see him, but in that case, Shizune will have to answer many questions for her, and she will have to hold on for another long time.

When the third generation was about to finish talking, the old man was suddenly called out by Kakashi, but when he came back a few minutes later, his face was as gloomy as iron, and he broke into Tsunade's house without saying a word.

room, loudly said: "Something happened in the village!"

In this way, Shizune, who already had dark circles under her eyes, could only take Bingliang Pills to replenish her strength and endured for more than twenty hours before rushing back to Konoha.

When she came back last night and saw the Hokage Building collapsed into rubble, she thought she was too sleepy and dreaming.

She followed Tsunade and Sandai in a daze and listened to what happened. Then she went to the hospital to check on the condition of the injured. When Shizune realized what she was doing, she was already standing in the Uchiha clan's territory holding Dodo in her arms.

In front of the door.

【Why on earth am I here? 】

"well……"

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at the figures on the wall of the Uchiha clan.

Among the ninjas on duty who looked coldly at them, no matter whether they were the older people who had always been dissatisfied or the young people who had graduated in recent years and had a more gentle attitude, not one of them was wearing Konoha's standard vest, and not one of them was wearing Konoha's standard vest.

The man is wearing a Konoha forehead protector.

It seems that Uchiha was completely disappointed in Konoha by encountering an ambush by foreign ninjas at the Minagawa Shrine where they paid homage to their dead clan members.

Needless to say, those Uchiha who have always been dissatisfied, after discovering that the clan leader, the clan leader's wife, and Giyuu have such strength, they have been trying to persuade Fugaku to simply use force to capture Konoha. But with Giyuu guarding the door, they can't even enter the entrance.

Can't even get in.

Another group of tribesmen who had longed for the village in the past also showed a disheartened look as if they had seen through everything. They seemed to hope that the tribesmen would follow Madara Uchiha's example and move out to find their own way out.

As for staying——

Who can guarantee that the same thing will not happen again?

Even though they did nothing, they were almost exterminated. No one can trust this village anymore.

"Lord Hokage..."

Under the ferocious gaze of a pair of Sharingan eyes, Shizune's originally groggy brain suddenly became much clearer.

"Do you really don't want ANBU or jounin followers in the village?"

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

On the wall of the tribe, a young tribesman in his twenties chuckled and mocked: "Why don't you go back and call more people? It's better to call all the ninjas in Konoha here! It's just the two of you plus one."

Pig, you can’t even break in, can you?”

"enough."

A figure jumped up the wall and stopped the former from continuing. It was Uchiha Tekka who was on duty.

After he stood still, he scanned the empty streets outside the clan area and the Hyuga clan area opposite, and found no trace of anyone else.

And according to the news from the scouting ninja cats, all the ninjas stationed near Uchiha yesterday were withdrawn early this morning.

Now that the Hokage came in person, he only brought a medical ninja who had been away from the village for many years, which showed his basic sincerity, so the Uchiha Iron Fire also showed great restraint.

"Sandai." Uchiha Tiehuo asked condescendingly: "Since you appear here, it means that Konoha already has countermeasures, right?"

His tone was not aggressive, but his words were full of distance, and every word contained vague hostility.

"It's iron fire..."

Sandai closed his eyes and slowly opened them again, raised his head and shook his head: "The so-called countermeasures are plans to target the enemy or deal with troubles.

"Uchiha is not the enemy of the village, nor is it the trouble of the village. I cannot agree with the use of such words."

"Stop saying those nice words that waste time! This is not the opening ceremony of Ninja School!"

Before Uchiha Tiehuo could respond, the young tribesman from before had already spoken angrily.

"We are not enemies, so why are we surrounded by foreign ninjas in our own clan?

"They are not enemies, so why did the village secretly capture Itachi Uchiha and Mrs. Mikoto?

"It's not the enemy. What happened to the thousands of ninjas you stationed nearby yesterday?!

"We are not enemies. Why have you been spying on us for so many years? Why did you place us at the outermost edge of the village, right next to the Hyuga clan?!"

A series of parallel questions made the third generation open his mouth, but for a moment he had nothing to say.

Although he had long expected Uchiha to ask such a question, he never had a suitable answer.

After being silent for about half a minute, Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke in an old voice.

"If I said that this incident was Danzo's personal behavior from beginning to end, you probably wouldn't believe it."

The Uchihas on the wall didn't respond, obviously they did think so.

It would be unjustifiable if Sarutobi Hiruzen blamed Danzo for everything.

"So, even if you regard me as Danzo's accomplice and think that he and I planned this operation together, I have no intention of refuting it.

"I did set up a secret department, purchased a large number of high-end instruments, and sent ANBU to observe Uchiha's every move.

"Many jounin in the Hyuga clan are indeed secretly carrying out the surveillance missions signed by me.

"In addition, there have been multiple reviews of the police force, limiting the number of Uchiha clan members who can be promoted to Jonin, and assigning missions to Uchiha ninjas who cannot accumulate combat experience... Each of these measures was personally formulated by me.

"

"Lord Hokage..."

Shizune was stunned. She didn't know if this old man was crazy. It was really abnormal for him to tell such a truth.

In fact, if she and Tsunade had come back a few years ago, they would have discovered that although Hiruzen Sarutobi is getting older, his recent style of doing things has a tendency to return to his youth.

"Are you finally willing to admit it?" Uchiha on the city wall gritted his teeth.

Each of them had encountered various difficulties in the ninja promotion assessment, and the tasks assigned were chores that could be completed independently, with almost no opportunities to interact with others.

Otherwise, when facing those foreign ninjas the day before yesterday, they wouldn't have been so passive without using fire escape.

The tribesmen had never thought that this was done intentionally by the village, but it was not confirmed until today.

"The above are all manifestations of my unfair treatment of Uchiha, so I don't think there is anything wrong with you treating me as an enemy."

Sarutobi Hiruzen continued: "But we are us, and the village is a village.

"You should know one thing. The major ninja clans in the village, as well as the other ninjas, have never had the idea of ​​​​wiping out Uchiha.

"At least, the fact that Genbu had to hide it from other people in the village and use foreign ninjas to do this is enough to illustrate this point, isn't it?"

The Uchihas exchanged glances on the wall, and they agreed with this statement.

Today the village dares to use foreign ninjas to eliminate Uchiha, and tomorrow it dares to use the same method to eliminate Hinata.

Not to mention ordinary ninjas, at least the major ninja clans would never allow this to happen.

"So, if you are looking for Uchiha's enemies, then in this village, there are only two of them, I and Danzo. You don't need to count the others."

Sarutobi Hiruzen raised his head and his voice became slightly more energetic.

"Now, Danzo, as an important insider, has died without any evidence, and I don't want to use the evil magic of earth reincarnation to ask him to come out and explain anything.

"Although I don't know everything he does, I see most of it. Since I am a shadow, I naturally have an unshirkable responsibility.

"So, in order to appease your anger, it is okay even if you want me, the perpetrator, to commit suicide.

"But I have a request. At least before that, let me see Uchiha Fugaku to discuss it so that we can make up for the mistakes we made before. How about that?"

Uchiha Tiehuo observed the old man's dejected face from a distance of three or four meters, and noticed that the will to die in the other man's eyes did not seem to be fake.

When the other party came here, he was indeed prepared that he would not be able to get out alive.

"That's all we have to say..."
To be continued...