Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 408 Zhong Ai

The heartland of the Land of Fire.

On the devastated battlefield, a giant in emerald green slowly sheathed the spiraling longsword in his hand.

The corpses lying all around, the deep trenches in the ground, the still-burning flames nearby, and the scattered kunai and shuriken all indicate that a great battle has just taken place here.

"Finally, these enemies are gone!"

Wiping the blood from the corner of his eye, Shisui withdrew his eye technique and then turned his gaze to the edge of the battlefield, where a Konoha ninja lay dying.

Judging from the wounds on the other person's body, it seems that he can't hold on for much longer.

"Duomen, pull yourself together!"

Taking out his personal Uchiha secret medicine, Shisui injected a vial into Maeda Takamon's body through his vein.

"Is this... a completed mission?"

With the invigorating effect of the Uchiha secret medicine, Maeda Tamon, who was already on his deathbed, looked around at the corpses and then fixed his gaze on Shisui.

"Domen, do you have any last words?"

"No... I'm just an orphan, and I don't have many friends in the village."

Realizing that his time was running out, Maeda Tamon did not show any signs of hysteria or fear; his expression remained unusually calm.

"In that case, I have something to ask you!"

Shisui frowned, looking at his new companion who was about to die, and hesitated.

However, when his gaze swept over another figure, also wearing a green vest, but already lifeless, along with the numerous corpses around him, he became even more certain of his thoughts.

"Our mission this time should be top secret. Even the Hokage shouldn't know our exact retreat route... Why did these rogue ninjas just happen to run into us... And why did they attack without saying a word as soon as they saw our headbands?"

Before he embarked on this mission, one of his teammates suffered a backlash from practicing a new ninjutsu. Maeda Tamon was the new teammate who joined their team under these circumstances.

Because of the addition of new team members, Shisui was very careful along the way, but they didn't make any mistakes. When they were retreating after completing the mission, they encountered this sudden attack.

The strength and teamwork of these ninja exceeded their expectations, and some of them were even fearless, causing casualties to his squad.

"..."

Upon hearing Shisui's question, Maeda Tamon glanced at Shisui and then remained silent, as if he had resigned himself to his fate and was silently awaiting the arrival of death.

"You're not going to tell me!"

With a dark expression, Shisui stopped being polite and forcibly activated his already sore Sharingan, bringing it close to Maeda Tamon's eyes.

Normally, Shisui wouldn't have done something like this, but another of his fallen comrades had just become a father.

He even attended a family gathering when the other party's wife and children were discharged from the hospital. This time, they had an accident while on a mission with him... How could he face that widow and her child now!

"Uh~"

Ignoring Maeda Takamon's struggles, Shisui forcibly pried open his eyelids and projected his crimson Sharingan into the depths of Maeda's eyes. Shisui was prepared to manipulate Maeda's mind and make him tell him all the answers he wanted to know.

"I...I am..."

As Shisui unleashed his eye power, Maeda Tamon's expression began to become wooden.

The mouth, which was originally tightly closed, began to open and close, as if it wanted to speak.

"This is... a cursed seal?"

Seeing the other person's hesitant expression, Shisui noticed something unusual about them.

Just as he was considering whether to use his eye technique to cover the curse mark on the other person and make him speak.

"Well…"

Maeda Tamon let out a long breath, then tilted his head to the side and became a corpse.

"Dead!"

Shisui's slightly upturned eyes twitched involuntarily. Instead of giving up, he pried open Maeda Tamon's mouth and examined his tongue.

"It really is a root!"

Shisui did not immediately conclude that there was something wrong with the other party based on this, but instead examined several of the enemy corpses again.

"They seem to be ninjas from the Hidden Cloud Village!"

Fortunately, these people did not have the same curse mark as Maeda Tamon. However, the marks on their bodies and the ninjutsu they used indicated that they were Cloud Ninja, and should be elite members at that.

"Could it be that I'm overthinking it?"

Finding nothing amiss with the corpses, Shisui felt both relieved and somewhat puzzled.

Could it be that I've just been having bad luck lately?

He has encountered three unexpected situations in the past year.

Once, an assassin suddenly appeared beside the target being protected; another time, during intelligence gathering, their own information was leaked; and this time, after the mission was completed, they were suddenly attacked by 'Rangin'...

The frequency of accidents is too high.

……

"Hiruzen, Shisui Uchiha's strength has exceeded our expectations!"

In the Hokage's office, Shisui had just left when Danzo Shimura visited again. As soon as he sat down, he began to proclaim the threat posed by Shisui.

"This time, the Cloud Ninja's elite troops made the move. Despite the intelligence we provided, they still failed!"

The Third Hokage simply listened quietly without offering any opinion.

Danzo was extremely disappointed. In the past year, he had only made a few moves, two or three times, each time with great care and meticulous planning. Unfortunately, all his meticulous plans failed.

This time, he even revealed Shisui's information to the Cloud Ninja, intending to use their power to solve this problem.

Unexpectedly, these arrogant guys are so useless; they still failed despite having intelligence.

Although the Third Hokage seemed to acquiesce, Danzo did not stop talking and instead revealed a piece of news that made the Third Hokage's expression change drastically.

"It's possible that Uchiha Shisui has awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan..."

"What did you say?"

The Third Hokage, who had been calmly watching Danzo's performance, finally changed his expression after hearing about the Mangekyou Sharingan.

"Danzo, can you confirm the accuracy of the information?"

He had heard of the Mangekyou Sharingan when he was a child, and later, after becoming Hokage, he had read through the notes left by the Second Hokage.

The description was brief, but he could sense his teacher's apprehension about this power between the lines.

One Toshiro was already a headache for him, and now another Uchiha Shisui has appeared... Heaven really loves this family too much.

(End of this chapter)