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Chapter 400 Lady Mikoto (Please Subscribe)

"No~~"

"Why! Why did this happen?"

Why do misfortune and suffering always seem to befall good people?

In a cave fifty miles from Konoha, Asuma knelt on the ground in anguish, clutching his head and complaining about the injustice of fate.

The former crown prince of Konoha has now become a wanted fugitive.

With his father dead and his clan wiped out, and even the goddess he secretly loved becoming another man's wife, Asuma's heart was overwhelmed by all sorts of negative emotions.

"Die! They all deserve to die!"

"Kamihara Masaru deserves to die! The Uchiha clan deserves to die! The Hyuga clan deserves to die too!"

"And what about the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi families? The Sarutobi clan was wiped out, so why are they still alive and well?"

Asuma was convinced that these people had betrayed his father, which was why the village's leader had died in the coup.

"One day, I will take back everything I've lost!"

When Asuma stood up again, his eyes were filled with an intense, unyielding hatred and a fighting spirit as fierce as a volcanic eruption.

He was determined to dedicate his life to overthrowing the evil Shinbara regime, no matter the cost!

"The Hidden Mist Village is isolated and closed off from the world, which is not a good choice. The Hidden Sand Village is an ally of the Hidden Leaf Village, and its strength is too weak."

Asuma shook his head. If he went to seek refuge with Sunagakure, he would probably be captured by the Kazekage the next day and sent to Konoha to curry favor.

After eliminating those two options, he was left with only Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

As for the ninja villages of other small countries, they were completely outside Asuma's consideration.

“Onoki is mature and prudent, and the people of Iwagakure are all as patient as stone. They probably won’t offend Konoha easily.”

After a moment's thought, Asuma decided against joining Iwagakure.

"Then it's only Kumogakure."

The Raikage of each generation has a volatile temper, and the people of Kumogakure are both barbaric and greedy, in addition to having just suffered a great loss at the hands of Konoha.

They must hate Konoha to a fault. If I go to Kumogakure with the information, I'm sure I'll be put to a high position.

"It's decided then, we'll go and seek refuge with Kumogakure!"

Asuma suddenly pulled out a kunai and drew a deep mark on his ninja headband.

Join the Hidden Cloud Village to avenge our clan! Kill the God Primal, seize Konoha!

Asuma's eyes were firm, as if he were about to join the Party!
puff~

Suddenly, a blade pierced through his chest.

Asma felt a sharp pain in his chest, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and then quickly lost all strength.

With a 'thud,' he knelt down on the ground.

With his head bowed, Asma stared blankly at the blade in his chest, seemingly unable to believe that he had been stabbed in the back.

With difficulty, he turned around and saw a person he would recognize even if reduced to ashes.

"Why?"

Asuma couldn't understand how Maki had discovered his hiding place, which was fifty kilometers away from Konoha.

"Can't figure it out?" Mu Sheng looked at Asma with a smile.

Then, with a sudden swift movement, the sharp blade severed half of Asuma's body.

"If you can't figure it out, then stop thinking about it. Go downstairs and ask your father!"

Mu Sheng had no habit of answering the enemy's questions.

Should I tell Asuma that I confirmed his location by observing the changes in his chakra when his shadow clone dissipated?

Did you search all the way using Byakugan and Flying Thunder God Technique to finally find his whereabouts?
"Hehehehe"

After a few sounds of blood gushing from his throat, Asma quickly lost his breath, without even closing his eyes.

However, that was not the end of it. At the moment of his death, a white bone branch appeared out of thin air and snatched away his soul.

When Asma regained consciousness, he found himself in a hell filled with lava.

The lava hell was filled with enormous cauldrons of boiling oil, where many ethereal souls wailed in agony.

"Where is this place? Is it hell for the dead?"

Asuma instinctively sensed something was wrong, but before he could even begin to escape, he was captured by two Uchiha Oni wielding bone hooks.

"Oh, isn't this Asuma, the young master of the Third Hokage's family?"

"You've finally arrived! Your Sarutobi clan has been missing just you!"

Although the two Uchiha Oni had smiles on their faces, they made no attempt to hide their malice.

"Uchiha? What are you doing? Let me go, let me go now!"

Asuma struggled helplessly, his once-proud power completely gone.

Two Uchiha Yin soldiers carried him like a chick to a cauldron of boiling oil and threw him in.

"what!!!"

"what!!!"

The scalding hot oil boiling on his skin caused Asma to scream in agony.

Enjoy your time with your family!

After locking Asuma up, the two Uchiha Oni left with smirks.

Overwhelmed by the excruciating pain, Asuma then realized that the oil cauldrons around him were filled with Sarutobi clan ninjas.

His father, Hiruzen Sarutobi, along with his older brother Shinnosuke Sarutobi and sister-in-law Chihaya Sarutobi, were all among them.

Why is this happening?

Has the Uchiha clan already taken control of the world of the dead?

The thought of being tortured by his enemies even after death made Asuma's wails grow louder.

No~~~

A month after the Hokage ceremony, the Hidden Cloud Village finally gave in.

With a compensation of one billion yen, along with more than a dozen Cloud Concealment Techniques including the Lightning Release Armor, and a batch of supplies, Killer Bee was redeemed!

On the eighteenth floor of the Naruto Building, Mu Sheng sat in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, flipping through the secret technique scroll in his hand.

"Use lightning-style chakra to stimulate body cells, thereby enhancing one's defense and speed."

Aside from the extremely high demands placed on the user, it's actually a pretty good secret technique—no, it should be called a forbidden technique!

As a Lightning Release armor technique that only the successive Raikage of Kumogakure can learn, the requirements for mastering it are exceptionally high.

Not only must one possess a strong physique, but one must also have extremely precise control over lightning chakra, at the very least achieving the level of lightning-style chakra nature transformation.

However, for Mu Sheng, this requirement was not difficult at all.

After putting down the secret technique scroll in his hand, a large amount of lightning-attribute chakra instantly surged from Mu Sheng's body.

Soon, a suit of armor shimmering with lightning materialized on Mu Sheng's body. After experiencing the enhancements the [Lightning Armor] provided to his various attributes, Mu Sheng gave his evaluation.

"It is far inferior to my Holy Armor, and even inferior to the complete Susanoo."

However, Mu Sheng also knew that neither his [Divine Armor] nor the [Susanoo], which could only be activated by the Mangekyou Sharingan, were things that ordinary ninjas could access.

In comparison, the Lightning Armor is more versatile.

"Let's put it in the 'Ninja City'. If someone can learn this forbidden technique in the virtual space, we should give them special training."

Mu Sheng could already picture a group of Konoha ninjas in Lightning Release armor charging across the battlefield.

Great, worth looking forward to!

Mu Sheng smiled knowingly, then began to look through the other Cloud Concealment Techniques.

However, the quality of these secret techniques was much worse. They were either flawed and would kill anyone who practiced them, or they were even inferior to the family secret techniques of Aburame and Inuzuka.

But something is better than nothing; it's a way to broaden my research perspective.

Just as Mu Sheng was focused on his ninjutsu research, an Uchiha maid knocked on the door, announced her arrival, and then entered.

"Lord Hokage, Lady Mikoto has come to see you and is waiting in the lobby on the first floor."

"Mikoto?" Mu Sheng closed the scroll in his hand, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Since Fugaku Uchiha's funeral, Maki has had no further contact with Mikoto Uchiha.

Could it be that Itachi Uchiha's bloodline disease has flared up because he came looking for him at this time?

"Bring her up here!"

He had promised to take care of Fugaku Uchiha's wife and children in front of his portrait at Fugaku's funeral.

"Yes, Lord Hokage!"

The Uchiha maidservant respectfully withdrew and soon arrived at the first floor of the building.

in the hall.

Mikoto Uchiha wore a fitted plain dress with a light-colored belt around her waist, which accentuated her mature and voluptuous figure.

She wore a white headband, which tied half of her thick, long black hair behind her back.

Coupled with the faint sadness lingering on her face, she resembled a Yamato Nadeshiko feigning strength amidst suffering.

It evokes a sense of pity in one's heart.

Since awakening the three-tomoe Sharingan, Itachi Uchiha's body has become increasingly weak, until recently when she discovered that her son was coughing up blood.

Mikoto Uchiha instantly realized the seriousness of the problem.

After seeing many doctors without finding a solution, Mikoto Uchiha remembered what Maki had said at her husband's funeral.

After much deliberation, they finally came knocking on the door.

But now that Mu Sheng is the Fifth Hokage, Mikoto Uchiha doesn't know if he will even see her.

"Lady Mikoto, the Hokage has granted your request to see me. Please come with me!"

The maid approached Uchiha Mikoto and spoke respectfully.

Upon hearing this, Uchiha Mikoto was overjoyed and quickly bowed in return, saying, "That's wonderful, then I'll trouble you!"

"This is my duty, please come this way."

Led by a maid, Uchiha Mikoto passed through the front hall and arrived at the elevator lobby at the back, where she boarded the elevator to the top floor.

This was the first time Mikoto Uchiha had ever seen an elevator, and she couldn't help but curiously look around at the interior.

The steel walls were as smooth as a mirror, the digital display screens were constantly changing, and there was a faint sense of lightning chakra.

"Are there dedicated Lightning Release ninjas in charge of operating it?"

Mikoto Uchiha secretly guessed.

Soon, the elevator arrived at the eighteenth floor. After the elevator doors opened, a maid led Uchiha Mikoto out of the elevator.

"That's the Hokage's rest room over there. The Hokage is inside."

The maid pointed to a door and then turned and walked into the elevator, without taking her inside.

As the elevator doors slowly closed, only Uchiha Mikoto remained in the entire corridor.

Looking at the empty stairwell, Uchiha Mikoto took a deep breath: "You can do it, Mikoto, for Itachi, ganbatte!"

After encouraging herself, Uchiha Mikoto walked with firm steps toward the door that would determine her future.

A few minutes later, in the lounge, Uchiha Mikoto explained her purpose to Maki Shō.

"Mrs. Mikoto, it's not that I'm unwilling to help you. If it were anything else, I certainly wouldn't refuse to help if I could!"

Mu Sheng shook his head with a troubled expression and said, "I really can't help Itachi with his illness."

Upon hearing Maki's words of refusal, Uchiha Mikoto immediately threw herself at his feet, pleading:

"Hokage-sama, didn't you cure Rin-sama's bloodline disease before? Please, for Fugaku's sake, save Itachi!"

“Rin’s situation is different from Itachi’s. She was already 12 years old when she awakened her Sharingan, and she already had a certain tolerance for the erosion of the bloodline limit.”

Mu Sheng patiently explained, "Even so, I paid a considerable price to cure Rin's bloodline disease."

“Itachi is only eight years old now.” Mu Sheng shook his head and didn’t say anything more, but his meaning was already very clear.

It's not that he can't cure Itachi's bloodline disease, but the price to pay is too high.

Making the village's Kage pay a huge price to heal an ordinary ninja, even if he is an Uchiha, is something no one would agree to!

Mikoto Uchiha knew her request was excessive, but that was her son. How could she just watch him wither away and die?

"Lord Hokage, please! Didn't you promise Fugaku that you would take good care of my son and me?"

Uchiha Mikoto clung to Maki's legs and pleaded in a low voice.

"This..." Mu Sheng frowned as he recalled the promise he made at Fugaku Uchiha's funeral.

Mikoto Uchiha noticed Maki's wavering and pressed her advantage by pleading repeatedly.

Seeing that Mu Sheng was still hesitating, Uchiha Mikoto no longer hesitated and revealed her trump card.

"Madam Mikoto, what are you doing?" Mu Sheng exclaimed in surprise.

"Lord Hokage, this is the only way I can repay you: please save Itachi!"

"Sigh~" Mu Sheng sighed helplessly, "Fine, fine, I agree!"

Mu Sheng finally relented, but the thought of the huge price he would have to pay later gave him a headache.

"Really? Thank you so much, Hokage-sama!" Uchiha Mikoto was so excited that she stammered.

Seeing this, Mu Sheng didn't say anything more. Although Uchiha Mikoto's actions had a moralistic element to them, he could understand a mother's desire to save her son.

"Let's go, this place isn't suitable, let's find somewhere else!"

Mu Sheng placed his hand on Uchiha Mikoto's head, and with a thought, he led her to Uchiha Mikoto's house.

Time is like water in a sponge; the more you squeeze, the more it slips away.
Before we knew it, several years had passed.

(End of this chapter)