Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 243 Special Investigation Team on Forbidden Puppet Techniques
After seeing Temari scale the wall and enter the Kazekage Building, the ninjas who came with her followed suit and went to the windows, using various techniques to scale the wall and enter the Kazekage Building.

The two secret agents guarding the gate, however, kept their eyes down and pretended not to see anything.

After Temari led Yashamaru and the others into the Kazekage Building, they headed straight for the Kazekage's office where Ishiichi Seigaku was located. On the way, they happened to encounter Ishiichi Seigaku's secretary, who was sent out to urge the Anbu to suppress the villagers who had come to protest.

The moment they met, Temari's ninjas swiftly attacked, subduing the opponent before she could even utter a sound.

Then, the group walked straight to the door of the Kazekage's office. The ninjas who had followed Temari in all looked at her. Temari nodded, placed her hand on the doorknob, took a deep breath, and prepared to subdue the other party the moment the door opened.

However, just as Temari's hand grasped the doorknob, she faintly heard Ishii Nishigake's voice coming from inside.

"Jianxi, don't worry, these thugs can't stop me. I will definitely use the puppet technique to give you a new lease on life."

Shi Yixi Yue's voice was full of emotion, which gave Temari outside the door and several Sand Ninja nearby goosebumps.

"Jianxi? Is that his wife, Jiaren Jianxi? But didn't his wife die in the Third Shinobi World War? Besides, the puppet technique... isn't that a forbidden technique that has been explicitly banned by the village?" Temari frowned, but stopped what she was doing and turned to remind the ninjas who had come with her to be quiet. She wanted to hear what other big tricks Shiichi Nishigaku could pull.

Temari, separated by just one door, couldn't help but get goosebumps as she listened to Ishiichi Seigaku repeating his nauseating words over and over again.

However, in Shi Yixi Yue's mutterings, Temari also confirmed that the other party intended to use the puppet technique. In Sunagakure, both the creation and manipulation of puppets are absolutely forbidden techniques. For Shi Yixi Yue, this stain was enough to get him kicked off the stage and forced to eat garlic sprouts.

Shi Yixi Yue's actions, when translated into Konoha, are roughly equivalent to a certain elder of the clan harming his own ninja and desecrating the body of the First Hokage. The current Danzo of Konoha can be said to be a character who will be infamous for eternity. His kneeling statue still stands in a park not far from the Uchiha clan's territory, and occasionally passersby will spit on it.

After a while, Shi Yixi Yue realized that his secretary had taken too long to come downstairs to relay the order, so he called out his secretary's name.

However, the next moment, the door to Fengying's office was pushed open.

Upon hearing the commotion, Shi Yixi Yue was about to turn around and reprimand the other party while hiding his deceased wife's body. However, before he could make a move, a kunai, gleaming with a cold, dark purple light and clearly coated with deadly poison, was already pressed against his neck.

"Lord Kazekage is certainly in high spirits." Temari made a sarcastic remark to Ishii Nishigaku as she entered. However, when she noticed the crystal coffin and silicone puppet next to the desk, she felt disgusted. Although Temari was the eldest daughter of the Fourth Kazekage, she rarely came here. In her heart, the Kazekage's office had always been a sacred place. Ishii Nishigaku's actions were undoubtedly a desecration of the Kazekage of Sunagakure.

"Temari! How dare you! Forcibly breaking into the Kazekage's office, do you know what crime that is?" Shi Yixi Yue's face turned red and then pale after his hidden secret was exposed, but the kunai hanging around his neck forced him to calm down, and he could only stare at Temari.

"Lord Kazekage, you should think about how to explain this." Temari and Kankuro walked straight to the crystal coffin. After carefully examining the corpse inside, Kankuro said to Temari, "There are signs of puppet modification."

"How can this be allowed?" Temari looked at Ishiichi Nishigake in disbelief.

"Get away from her!" Seeing Temari and Kankuro approaching his wife, Ishii Seigaku suddenly became anxious.

"As the acting Kazekage, how dare you use your authority to do such a thing! Do you deserve the Kazekage hat you wear?" Temari turned around and said fiercely to Ishii Nishigake.

"Sealing squad! Men, seal all of these! They will be used as evidence in court when he is tried in the future!" Temari said sternly.

"No!" Shi Yixi Yue struggled violently, but as a puppeteer, without his puppet by his side, he could barely unleash even 30% of his strength. His struggles were quickly subdued by two elite Jonin, and the sealing team that came with Temari quickly sealed the crystal coffin and the puppet.

"No!!!" Shi Yixi Yue let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.

The shouts were heartbreaking to hear and tearful to see, yet most of the Sunagakure ninjas present appeared to be suppressing laughter.

The situation is quite clear now. Based on what they overheard at the door, Shi Yixi Yue clearly intends to have a forbidden love affair with his puppet. They did not expect that Shi Yixi Yue, who always presented a tough image in Sunagakure, would have such a hobby in secret.

"Don't waste any more time. Take this guy to a place you can completely control as quickly as possible. Otherwise, things will become more complicated once your two village elders realize what's happening," Uchiha Touko reminded Temari.

"Seal his chakra and then send him to the Jonin squad for strict supervision!" Temari hurriedly said upon hearing this.

Soon, Temari and her group escorted Ishii Nishigaku, whose chakra was sealed, out of the Kazekage Building. The two ANBU guards outside the door, seeing this, simply stepped aside despite Ishii Nishigaku's murderous glare. After all, the order was to guard the gate and prevent the rioters from entering, not to prevent people from leaving.

Upon exiting the gate, the ninjas and civilians who had come to participate in the protest erupted in cheers upon seeing Shiichi Niishagi being escorted away.
"Welcome, Princess, to restore order!" At this moment, a ninja who had been arranged in advance by Temari according to Uchiha Touko's instructions shouted this as soon as he saw Temari.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!" The area in front of the Kazekage Building was instantly enveloped in a frenzied atmosphere, with protesters chanting Temari's name.

After the cheers subsided, Temari waved her hand, signaling everyone to quiet down.

After the crowd in front of the Kazekage Building quieted down, they all turned their attention to Temari.

Temari took a deep breath and then spoke, “Everyone, just now, we discovered evidence in the Kazekage’s office that the Acting Kazekage, Seigaku Ishii, had violated the laws of Sunagakure! As you can all sense, after my father, the Fourth Kazekage, sacrificed himself to protect the village, Sunagakure is in an extremely difficult situation. However, Seigaku Ishii, as the Acting Kazekage, instead of trying to lead Sunagakure out of this predicament, is instead eliminating dissidents for his own selfish reasons, and now he's even using his position to research forbidden techniques! We absolutely cannot accept such a person defiling our Will of Wind!” “That’s right!”

"Princess Temari! You are the best candidate for the fifth generation!" At this moment, To, who had been arranged in the crowd in advance, shouted again.

"Princess Temari! We support you becoming the Fifth Generation!"

After a few people took the lead, the civilians who came to protest also joined in. Although they might not know whether Temari could be a good Kazekage, Temari was, after all, the daughter of the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, who had once given them a good life for a while. She was better than Ishii Niigaku, who just declared martial law whenever he had nothing better to do.

Moreover, the atmosphere had already reached this point, so the civilians present also joined in the shouting.

"Let's put the Kazekage's matter aside for now. I understand everyone's feelings and thank you for your support. However, the most urgent task at hand is to thoroughly investigate the crimes committed by this black sheep of Sunagakure and restore order to our village!" Temari said to the ninjas and civilians in front of the Kazekage's building. "After that, if you are still willing to support me, I am willing to take on my father's responsibility and lead you all, guided by the Will of the Wind, to rebuild the glory of Sunagakure!"

"your Highness!"

"Temari-sama!"

"Lord Godaime Kazekage!"

Upon hearing Temari's words, the crowd grew even more enthusiastic, with some even shouting the Fifth Kazekage's slogan.

Amidst the cheers, Temari watched as Maki, having finished dealing with the puppet squad, escorted Ishii Nishigaku towards the Sand Village Jonin camp, the headquarters of their faction of ninjas.

Then, Temari turned around and went straight into the Kazekage Building.

Back in the Kazekage's office, Temari looked up at the photos of the past Kazekage hanging in the office, a slightly dazed expression on her face.

They succeeded already? That was too easy! It's been less than 10 hours since he and Kankuro returned to Sunagakure, and a major obstacle to her becoming Kazekage has already become her prisoner?

"What's wrong?" After Maki went to interrogate Ishiichi Nishigaku and Yashamaru went to take over the ANBU inside the Kazekage Building, only Temari and her brother were left in the Kazekage's office. Uchiha Touko's communication snake simply climbed onto the desk and saw that Temari looked a little dazed, so he asked.

"So we've succeeded in this coup?" Temari asked, looking at the messenger snake with disbelief.

"Do you think that a coup is something that requires a long time to prepare, a meticulous plan, and a process where you are on the verge of death?" Uchiha Touko couldn't help but laugh when he saw this.

Temari nodded.

“The more you try to ensure a coup is foolproof, the more unpredictable things will happen,” Uchiha Touko said. “On the contrary, if you prepare well in advance and act decisively when the opportunity arises, the success rate will be much higher.”

"The foundation your father left you in Sunagakure is so deep that when your opponent makes a mistake, you don't even need to prepare. You can just strike and take him down," Uchiha Touko laughed. Compared to his coup in Konoha, this coup in Sunagakure was a piece of cake. First of all, Temari's coup team was all left to her by her father. She just needed to inherit the team he left behind. In addition, her opponent was a complete idiot who didn't understand the situation, which gave Temari the illusion that the coup was easy.

"However, isn't it a bit too early for you to think everything is settled? Arresting Shi Yixi Yue is just the simplest part of your coup. Don't forget, whose credit is it that he was able to become the acting Kazekage?" Uchiha Touko reminded him.

"The two elders..." Temari finally realized that compared to capturing the fool Ishii Nishigake, Chiyo and Ebizo were the most troublesome part of this coup. Their influence in the village was deeply entrenched. In the past, even her father, the Fourth Kazekage, sometimes couldn't do anything about them. If they couldn't...

"Hokage, what should I do?" Temari asked humbly as she thought of this.

“The two elders in your village are nominally the assistants of the Kazekage, but over the years, the power they have cultivated in the village has become too great to control. Without them openly violating the laws of Sunagakure, the possibility of getting rid of them like you did with Ishiichi Seigaku is very low,” Uchiha Touko said.

Compared to those old scoundrels in Konoha, Chiyo and Ebizo can be considered qualified elders of the ninja village. Although they have some selfish motives, they at least do things for the good of their own village. Apart from Chiyo hiding some things for her beloved grandson, they have not done anything to enrich themselves at the expense of the public. Therefore, it is still quite difficult to take them down directly.

“However, you can slowly erode their power, and the reason for doing so is readily available,” Uchiha Touko said. “In your Sunagakure, the person with the most exquisite puppetry skills should be your Elder Chiyo, right?”

“Yes.” Temari nodded, quickly understanding Uchiha Touko’s meaning, “Could it be…”

"Shi Yixi Yue was just a Jonin before, so where did he get the technology to create human puppets? Now that you're the Kazekage candidate favored by the people of Sunagakure, you should investigate this matter thoroughly, don't you think?"

"Then take the opportunity to strip them of their power?" Temari understood what Uchiha Touko meant, but still asked with some doubt.

“If it were really that easy to strip them of their power, your father would have sent them back to retire long ago,” Uchiha Touko said, shaking his head. “Even if Shi Yixi Yue really had some kind of deal with these two old guys, they could easily explain it away and pin the blame on Shi Yixi Yue.”

“So,” Uchiha Touko said meaningfully, “what you need to do is set up a special task force to investigate this matter thoroughly, and then investigate it until the very end…”

(End of this chapter)