Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 251 Revealing Danzo!

The voice of Menma, suspended in mid-air and transmitted through the white three-eyed fox mask, struck the hearts of every Konoha ninja.

The air seemed to freeze, with only the crackling of distant flames and the faint groans of the wounded remaining.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, whose name was directly mentioned, instantly turned extremely ugly.

His knuckles turned white from gripping the Vajra Staff so tightly, but his years as Hokage allowed him to quickly suppress the turmoil in his heart, and a solemn and dignified expression appeared on his face.

"Absurd! Shameless slander!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice boomed, filled with offended anger. He took a step forward, his sharp gaze fixed on the Shura in the air.

"The tragedy of the Uchiha clan was an internal rebellion caused by their inflated ambitions! The root of all this is you—'Shura'! And that Uchiha woman beside you! It was you who used sweet words to bewitch the Uchiha and incite their unwarranted ambitions! This must be a vicious contingency plan left behind by the long-dead Uchiha Madara! He has been dead for so many years, but his lingering spirit and his conspiracies continue to plague Konoha!"

He pinned all the blame precisely on the deceased Uchiha Madara and the "outsider" before him, attempting to rebuild Konoha's morale.

“That’s right!” Shimura Danzo immediately echoed coldly, slamming his cane heavily on the ground: “The Star Village harbors wolfish ambitions and has long coveted Konoha! This is all their conspiracy!”

The clan leaders and elite Jonin of the various ninja clans present, including Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Hyuga Hiashi, although harboring doubts about the Uchiha's fate and even having some complaints about the higher-ups, instinctively sided with the village in the face of the mysterious and powerful external enemy, Shura, and the Uchiha and Hyuga branch families who had indeed "rebelled."

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, especially when that "enemy" is so unfathomable.

However, their silence and inclination did not last long.

"Bewitchment? Coercion?!" A blood-soaked Uchiha survivor with deep knife wounds on his arms roared in grief and anger, pointing at Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.

"It's you! It's Konoha that has cornered us step by step! It's you who have never trusted us! You've driven us from the center of the village to the edge, treating us like thieves!"

"Now they're even going to exterminate our entire clan! They're letting that beast Itachi Uchiha slaughter your own parents and relatives! Is this something Shura forced you to do?!"

"That's right! If it weren't for the timely arrival of the Star Ninja, we would have died in the police department long ago, at the hands of that masked monster!" Another Jonin who survived the bloody battle in the police department shouted excitedly. His words resonated strongly with the other surviving Uchiha, and roars and accusations rose and fell.

Just then, Uchiha Shisui, standing within the crystal on the forehead of the towering, verdant Susanoo, spoke clearly, his voice filled with suppressed pain and deep despair:
"Sandaime-sama..."

Shisui's gaze pierced through Susanoo and landed on Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Once, the person I admired most was you. I believed that you could bring peace and understanding to the Uchiha and the village... But now, please look at me and tell me... Danzo Shimura ambushed me, stole my eyes, and tried to silence me... You really didn't know anything about it?"

This problem is more damaging than any accusation.

It directly challenges Hiruzen Sarutobi's conscience and credibility.

Hiruzen Sarutobi swayed slightly, his face flashing with extremely complex emotions, including heartache, helplessness, and a hint of barely perceptible guilt.

He was silent for a moment, then let out a heavy sigh: "Shisui... I am deeply saddened by what happened to you. When you disappeared, I did send out a large number of secret agents to search for you, but I... I really don't know who did it."

His words sounded sincere, but he cleverly avoided the core issue: whether he had doubts or knew the truth afterward.

"Hmph!" Shimura Danzo interrupted Hiruzen Sarutobi abruptly, a cold light flashing in his single eye. He took a step forward, his voice shrill.

"Hiruzen, what's the point of hiding it now! It was I who discovered that Uchiha Shisui was secretly colluding with the Land of Stars, intending to harm the village, that led me to order the arrest of this traitor! It's just a pity that he managed to escape and was even rescued by Shura, and then turned around and slandered me!" He turned the tables, throwing the mud back at the village, and then immediately shifted the blame to the other side.

"And the Hyuga clan! Shura's covetousness of the Hyuga clan is no secret! He attacked the Hyuga main family twice, stole his Byakugan, and now he's even instigating a rebellion by the Hyuga branch family! All of this is Shura's conspiracy! They are Konoha's greatest enemy!"

Danzo attempted to muddy the waters by using the rebellion of the Hyuga branch family and the "collusion" of the Uchiha clan, thus diverting everyone's attention back to external threats.

The clan leaders present frowned. Although they did not entirely believe Danzo's words, the intervention of a powerful external enemy and the defection of two major internal clans left them with little choice.

They must stand on the side of the village; this is fundamental to the existence of Konoha.

However, Danzo overlooked one point, or rather, he underestimated the evidence and determination that Shisui possessed.

"Danzo!" Shisui's voice suddenly rose, carrying a cold sarcasm: "You say you're capturing a traitor? Then, do you dare to take off the blindfold over your eye right now, in front of everyone! And unwrap the bandage around your arm!"

"Let everyone see for themselves what shameful thing is hidden down there...!"

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like thunder exploding!

All eyes instantly focused on Shimura Danzo!

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was standing next to him, suddenly turned his head, his eyes filled with surprise and scrutiny!
Danzo's body stiffened instantly, and a barely perceptible hint of panic flashed in his single exposed eye.

He instinctively covered his bandaged right eye and right arm, and shouted with a fierce but weak voice, "Uchiha Shisui! Stop talking nonsense here and disrupting the morale of the army!"

"Nonsense?" Shisui sneered, his voice echoing throughout the entire area: "When you ambushed me back then, you used the forbidden Sharingan technique—Izanagi! That three-tomoe Sharingan that allowed you to successfully launch Izanagi and ambush me was stolen from the Uchiha clan by you!"

"I swear on my honor and these eyes, Shisui Uchiha! Underneath the bandages on your right eye and right arm, Danzo Shimura, you must have had more than one Sharingan from our Uchiha clan transplanted! You might even have had my eye transplanted into you!"

"As a high-ranking member of Konoha, you stole the Uchiha's bloodline limit and conducted forbidden experiments that desecrated the dead! Hokage, didn't you Konoha's higher-ups know anything about this?!"

These words contained a wealth of information and were direct and specific, instantly causing a huge uproar!

Stealing the Bloodline Limit?
Desecration of a corpse?

Taboo experiment?

These words struck the nerves of the ninjas from various clans like heavy hammer blows!

"Danzo! What on earth is going on?!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice was filled with shock and anger. He stared intently at Danzo, feeling for the first time that he was out of control of the situation.

Although he knew about Danzo and Orochimaru's collaboration, he thought everything was settled after Orochimaru escaped.

If what Shisui said is true, then Danzo's behavior is simply appalling!
Just as Danzo was stammering, creating an extremely awkward and tense situation, Kisame Hoshigaki's tall figure silently appeared beside Uchiha Hikaru, handed her a heavy scroll, and whispered a few words of report.

Uchiha Hikari took the scroll, her crimson Mangekyou Sharingan lightly sweeping over the Konoha high-ranking officials opposite her, before slowly unfurling it. Her cold voice rang out, like the reading of a verdict:

"Perhaps words are not enough. So, please listen to this... experimental records seized from the deepest part of Konoha's root base."

She began to read aloud the contents of the scroll clearly, each line of which was shocking:

"...On [Date], subject number XXX, implanted with a three-tomoe Sharingan, sourced from a fallen Uchiha soldier, experienced a severe rejection reaction and died three hours later..."

"...An attempt was made to fuse the cells of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, with the Sharingan; the experimental subject exploded and died..."

"...After Orochimaru's defection, the experiment stalled, and the new researchers were unable to understand the core data..."

"...A feasibility report on Sharingan transplantation and the application of Izanagi..."

Each cold, hard record, like the sharpest knife, cut open the festering sore beneath Konoha's glamorous exterior!
Steal the Sharingan from the Uchiha clan!

Desecrating the cells and tissues of the First Hokage!
They conducted inhumane human experiments!
All of this actually happened at the "Root" that protects Konoha!

After reading a few key records, Uchiha Hikaru flicked his wrist, sending the heavy scroll hurtling towards Hiruzen Sarutobi as if it were a kunai!
Hiruzen Sarutobi instinctively caught the scroll, his hands trembling slightly.

He eagerly opened it, his eyes quickly scanning the familiar root format and the appalling content. The more he looked, the paler his face became, and the more his fingers trembled.

Finally, he slammed the scroll shut, closed his eyes, his face filled with pain and a chilling sense of utter betrayal.

He knew that Danzo was finished. Once these things were exposed in public, facing the wrath of the other ninja clans, even he couldn't protect Danzo!
Konoha's reputation will suffer an unprecedented blow!
Although the clan leaders and Jonin around them could not see the specific contents of the scroll, the Third Hokage's drastic change in expression and the fragments read aloud by Uchiha Hikaru were enough for them to deduce the general truth.

The look in his eyes as he looked at Danzo was instantly filled with shock, disgust, and deep vigilance.

The floating creature spoke again.

He paced slowly in the air, as if surveying his own territory, his voice coming through the mask with an all-knowing indifference and mockery:
"Do you see that? These are the Konoha high-ranking officials you are loyal to. Perhaps, back then, Madara Uchiha foresaw all of this, foresaw that the establishment of Konoha would eventually lead to suspicion, exclusion, and even complete purging and plunder of the Uchiha... That's why he wanted to take the Uchiha away. Unfortunately, the clan members at that time chose to believe in Konoha and betrayed their clan leader."

His gaze swept over the Uchiha survivors below, whose faces were filled with confusion, anger, and sorrow.

"But what has the Uchiha clan gained over the years? Suspicion, surveillance, isolation... Even their clan territory has been moved from the core area of ​​the village to the outermost edge. People who don't know the situation might think that Konoha Village was built solely by your Sarutobi clan."

"Shura! Stop inciting unrest here!" Hiruzen Sarutobi suppressed the shock in his heart and shouted sternly, "I am deeply saddened by the fate of the Uchiha clan, but that is absolutely no reason for you to incite rebellion and divide the village!"

"Incitement? Division?" Menma's voice carried a hint of contempt: "Compared to how you gradually pushed the Uchiha clan, the founders of Konoha, to the brink of extermination, and even incited Itachi Uchiha to slaughter his own relatives... what are my actions compared to that?"

His gaze slowly swept over the heads of various clans, including Nara Shikaku, Akimichi Choza, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Inuzuka Tsuru, his voice carrying a certain demonic power:

"I still remember, in the distant Land of Water, in the Hidden Mist Village... They first used a pretext to attack the Yuki clan, almost wiping them out under the pretext of treason... Then they pressed on step by step, until the Kaguya clan could no longer tolerate it and launched a rebellion, and then they had a legitimate reason to exterminate the Kaguya clan..."

"So, which ninja clan will be the next one that the Konoha leadership sees as a thorn in their side and wants to eliminate as soon as possible?"

These words were like a cold, poisonous thorn, instantly piercing the hearts of all the ninja clan leaders present!

Especially those ninja clans that are not direct descendants of the Hokage and have only a general relationship with the Sarutobi clan.

They couldn't help but feel a chill; even the Uchiha clan, who founded Konoha, was being treated this way...

Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will grow wildly.

Menma seemed to think the time was right. He waved his hand gently, his tone returning to its previous indifference: "Enough, there's no point in saying more. Arguing won't get us anywhere. Now, let those who want to leave make their own choice."

Killing Danzo and Hiruzen Sarutobi and then unleashing a powerful attack on Konoha would be too lenient on them.

Killing someone is too easy; he wants to destroy their spirit!

He wanted to crush Konoha's corrupted Will of Fire into the mud!
As Mianma finished speaking.

Hyuga Hizashi suddenly took a step forward, ripped off the Konoha headband that had long since lost its function, and slammed it to the ground!

His gaze swept over the ashen-faced Hiashi Hyuga and Hiruzen Sarutobi, his voice firm and resonant:
"The Hyuga clan has long been corrupt from within! The so-called main and branch families are nothing but shackles around our necks! And Konoha is the biggest accomplice in maintaining these shackles! Such a village is better off not existing! I, Hyuga Hizashi, on behalf of all branch family members who pursue freedom, declare—we withdraw from Konoha!"

"From this day forward, I swear to follow Lord Shura to the death and seek our true home!"

Immediately afterwards, Uchiha Shisui, within Susanoo, loudly proclaimed, his voice echoing in all directions: "The corruption of Konoha's leadership is so profound, it's chilling! I, Uchiha Shisui, withdraw from Konoha!"

Then, he looked down at Fugaku Uchiha, who had been silently observing, and urged, "Clan Head Fugaku! Konoha can no longer tolerate the Uchiha! Look at your comrades around you, look at the clansmen who have died! It's time to make the final decision! For the future of the Uchiha!"

Fugaku Uchiha stood in the center of the devastated clan territory, looking at the expectant, angry, and survival-driven eyes of the surviving clansmen around him, and then at the mysterious and powerful Shura and Hikaru Uchiha on the high wall.

He had originally resolved to die, preparing to exchange his own and his clan's blood for Sasuke's future, but the intervention of Hoshinobi and the exposure of Danzo's crimes gave him a glimpse of a different possibility in the darkness.

A completely different path that might preserve the Uchiha bloodline and power.

He took a deep breath, as if a tremendous burden had been lifted, or as if all his resolve had been gathered; his voice, heavy yet crystal clear, resounded across the battlefield:
"I... in my capacity as the head of the Uchiha clan, declare..."

"The Uchiha clan, from this day forward—"

"Leave Konoha!!!"

A few resounding words, like the final death knell, brought a cracked end to this bloody night and to the decades-long feud between the Uchiha and Konoha.

(End of this chapter)