Konoha: The Innately Evil Uchiha

Chapter 79 Welcoming Hope (Happy New Year!)

Once the psychic serpent had completely left the valley, thick fog enveloped it once more.

The Iwa ninja unit resumed its formation.

A Jonin from Iwagakure approached the old man, looking puzzled, and asked in a low voice:

"Lord Tsuchikage, are you really going to let these Uchiha go like this?"

As he spoke, he kept looking back in the direction where the psychic serpent had disappeared.

Many Iwa ninja outwardly agreed to let the Uchiha go, but inwardly they still hoped that Onoki would take action against the Uchiha.

They brought plenty of elite ninjas with them on this expedition. The Iwa ninja's most glorious siege victory in the past had exhausted and killed a Raikage. Now, using sheer numbers to deal with a few Uchiha would be a piece of cake.

Even though the Uchiha team included two of the legendary Sannin, these Iwa ninja were not afraid.

Onoki stared at the Iwa ninja and sighed:

"I did have that thought before we set off, but then I saw Tsunade and Orochimaru..."

The person who was able to recruit two of the Sannin was an Uchiha.

Honestly, could any one of you have done that?

Given his precious bloodline limit, is he confident enough to escape Konoha so openly?

"If any of you had even a fraction of the courage, boldness, or strength of that Uchiha Yinyue, I wouldn't still be alive today!"

"This... is obviously not possible."

The Iwagakure Jonin lowered his head, thought about it carefully, and felt that Onoki's consideration was more thorough.

The fact that these Uchiha were able to escape here certainly says a lot.

The Jonin felt genuinely ashamed that the Tsuchikage had steered the conversation toward the succession of the Tsuchikage position.

Looking at Iwagakure as a whole, after the Third Shinobi World War, the village was in a state of flux, lacking capable leaders.

but.

The Iwa ninja all knew that the fate of Iwagakure was beginning to change, as the Tsuchikage's granddaughter, Kurotsuchi, and her apprentice, Deidara, were exceptionally talented and had a promising future.

Thinking of this, the Iwa ninja's lips curled up slightly, but he soon heard Onoki give the order:

"Stop thinking nonsense and keep going. This time, our goal is to stir up trouble in the ninja world."

Once Iwagakure makes a move against Konoha.

The Hidden Cloud Village will not be content to follow behind and drink the leftovers. With the current state of Konoha, what can it use to resist an invasion?

Only when the situation becomes chaotic.

Only Iwagakure can reap the greatest benefits effortlessly; this time, their best chance is to carve up the Land of Fire!

The Iwa ninja unit continued their journey.

Fighting spirit!

……

……

After daybreak.

Northwest direction.

Export from the Valley of Sanctions.

"Damn it!"

In the sparsely wooded forest, four Hyuga clan ninjas, their faces contorted with rage and covered in wounds, stood back to back, emitting low growls.

They rolled their eyes, looking around at different corners, filled with despair and fear.

These four were the intelligence escort team that Hiashi was willing to sacrifice himself to stay behind and stop the Uchiha so that they could leave.

They escaped the battlefield in time with the intelligence roll and were lucky enough to survive.

Last night, the four members of the Hyuga clan who were the first to escape into the Valley of Judgment were able to see the intricate mountain paths through the mist using their Byakugan. However, in order to avoid the intelligence squad of the Iwa ninja army, the four could only find a place to hide and escape the calamity.

Unfortunately, they were discovered by the Uchiha clan who arrived riding on a giant summoning serpent.

Thus, the four were relentlessly pursued by the Uchiha clan, experiencing the thrill of being on the run.

The Uchiha clan members weren't in a hurry to kill them; they simply drove them away, occasionally throwing a few explosive tag shuriken at them, letting them experience despair.

By now, the four Hyuga ninjas were exhausted from both mental and physical torment and were unable to escape.

Among them, Tamao, who had recovered from his tree-like state, was the most excited.

Standing on the giant snake's head, Tamao laughed heartily, hands on his hips:

"You bastards, keep running! Now it's our turn to catch you. How come you can't keep up after just one night?"

Yin Yue glanced at the four Hyuga clan ninjas, then looked towards the valley exit where the thick fog was thinning, and said, "Kill them."

"yes--"

Tamao put away his playful mood and, together with Nanfeng, led the Uchiha clan to draw their swords and surround and kill the four Hyuga ninjas, giving them a dignified end.

After finishing, Tamao and Nanfeng examined the four corpses, returned to the head of the giant serpent, and reported with their heads shakes:

"No scrolls containing intelligence records were found."

Before attacking the remaining Hyuga clan ninjas, Orochimaru mentioned something:

"During the war, Konoha relied on the Hyuga clan to remotely observe and record intelligence about enemy ninjas through the Byakugan most of the time on the battlefield."

Therefore, these Hyuga clan ninjas who escaped in advance likely possessed scrolls containing records of the battle, or information about the Moon Drinking ability.

"Let's leave the Valley of Sanctions first."

Yin Yue looked up at the exit of the Valley of Sanctions, seemingly unconcerned.

Even if Konoha finds out about his abilities, his strength will inevitably increase dramatically when he returns to Konoha.

How should Konoha respond then?

Konoha is now preoccupied with its own problems, beset by internal and external troubles, and is in a precarious state.

Yin Yue hoped that Konoha could withstand this wave of attacks from the other ninja villages, otherwise it would be too boring to destroy the weakened Konoha.

Rumbling--

The giant snake rolled away out of the valley ahead, gradually moving away from the white mist behind it. After yesterday's torrential rain, the weather was clear today, and the sun hung high in the sky.

The vegetation is lush and verdant.

The air is fresh and humid.

The Uchiha looked around and discovered that outside the Valley of Sanctions was a forest. Under the sunlight, through the gaps in the trees, they could see a lush grassland a hundred meters away.

The Uchiha clan members instantly shed their fatigue and their faces lit up with joy. When the first ray of light shone on their faces, they almost burst into tears of joy.

The escape is finally over.

From now on, they will be free and unrestrained, no longer bound by the ninja village, no longer disliked by the villagers, and no longer harmed by others!

With red-rimmed eyes, holding a kunai in one hand and a Konoha headband in the other, Izumi approached Yinyue and choked out, "Captain..."

Yin Yue turned to look and was surprised to find that the other Uchiha, except for Mikoto who was still unconscious, including Nono, had also put away their kunai and Konoha headbands and walked to his side, just like Izumi.

This is the final ritual before becoming a rogue ninja; the ninja world adheres to this procedure.

Even if they become rogue ninjas, ninjas will not easily give up their former honors.

Adding the final scratch to the headband of the original ninja village signifies a complete severance of ties between the ninja and the village in name and means starting a new ninja life of licking blood on the edge and having no home, free from all attachments.

"Okay." Yin Yue did not refuse to complete the ritual for the Uchiha.

clang--

The kunai grazed the metal headband, leaving a deep scratch that split the Konoha emblem in two.

This scene was witnessed by Tsunade and Orochimaru, who had long since become a rogue ninja.

The former felt a pang of regret, while the latter didn't care about any of it.

When Yin Yue finished carving the Konoha headband for Tamao, Tamao suddenly looked up, his baby face revealing an innocent smile: "Big brother, could you carve one more scratch for me?"

"Hmm?" Yin Yue looked puzzled.

The remaining Uchiha, holding their headbands of rogue ninjas, were interrupted from their emotional outbursts and all turned to look at Tamao.

Everyone has one engraved.

You engraved two lines.

What does that mean?

Tamao chuckled, "My bounty is already so much lower than everyone else's, I can't possibly have fewer headband markings than everyone else!"

The Uchiha clan members: "..."

Yin Yue shook her head helplessly and carved two parallel marks on Tamao.

Taking the headband from the rogue ninja, Tamao chuckled foolishly, as if he had found a treasure.

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P.S.: Happy New Year to all my dear readers!

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