I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 8, the first one

Masayo Miwa accepted her owner's explanation, but there was one detail she still cared about:

"Why did you say you'd only take action if you could kill three generations of people with one hand?"

"Because Hiruzen Sarutobi was the Third Hokage, but the Hokage position is not limited to Hiruzen Sarutobi alone. If you want to kill the Hokage by force, you have to consider the power of the Hokage position."

Uchiha Yu said with emotion, "The Hokage represents Konoha Village and a large number of strong people, including Shimura Danzo, the Legendary Sannin of Konoha, Uzumaki Kushina, Namikaze Minato, as well as more than a dozen veteran Kage-level ninjas and more than three hundred Jonin of Konoha."

"To kill the Third Hokage, it would be best to strike when he is abandoned by everyone. That way, you would only need to deal with one Kage-level ninja."

"When I said 'one hand,' I meant that I had to be powerful enough to wipe out Konoha with a flick of my wrist, so that I wouldn't have to consider too many behind-the-scenes factors."

Masayo Miwa's eyes were filled with spiral patterns, and she meowed, "Too complicated, I don't understand, meow. Yu, just tell me what you want me to do?"

"Silly cat." Uchiha Yu gently stroked the tabby cat's head. "I never expected you to understand."

"Your job is to cover for me, to make it seem like I'm having a late-night snack here and then going home to sleep."

"This is easy, leave it to me, there won't be any problems, meow."

"So, please dispose of the remaining noodles in the bowl, and these few skewers of tempura."

"……,belch!"

Masayo Miwa covered his mouth with his two paws to prevent himself from vomiting.

"Yu, you know I ate three bowls of noodles tonight, and my stomach is still so full..."

Please!

As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Yu disappeared from in front of the tabby cat.

It wasn't a quick disappearance like a teleportation technique, but rather a distorted, transparent, and slow disappearance—it was a clone.

Masashi Miwa was dumbfounded.

The tabby cat was completely unaware that Uchiha Yu had left sometime earlier, and that the person it was talking to was actually a clone.

Of course, clones created by ordinary clone techniques can speak, but either the original body is right next to them and they speak using ventriloquism, or they play pre-stored sounds.

The tabby cat touched its ears with its white-gloved paws and stroked its long whiskers, using the real touch to help calm itself down.

That scared the cat.

After confirming that it was Miwa Masayo who said "Stupid cat," Uchiha Yuu used his clone technique and slipped away silently.

The tabby cat wasn't afraid of its owner's strength.

What she feared was that all the subsequent conversations were recordings of ninjutsu being played, and all the actions were pre-programmed sequences.

It was so meticulously crafted, without a single flaw.

This shows that he understands Masayo Miwa to the core, and can anticipate her every thought, accurately predict her every word and action.

Masayo Miwa couldn't help but shiver.

"I need to be careful around this guy from now on. If he lies to me... meow..."

"You're doomed, meow."

The tabby cat rubbed its round belly with its paws, took a deep breath, and with the spirit of sacrificing itself for a cause, began to slurp up its noodles.

The genjutsu left by Uchiha Yu covered Miwa Masayo, and in sync with her movements, he slurped noodles, and no one noticed anything unusual.

The two Root ninjas who were monitoring the situation also failed to notice that their target had become a genjutsu illusion.

……

Uchiha Yu suppressed his chakra, mobilized the natural energy circulating within his body, eliminated all his information, and perfectly merged into the earth.

This is not Earth Release: Fish Reflected in the Earth Technique, but rather an Earth Release technique activated by natural earth-attribute energy.

Earth Escape Technique is the ability to move through the earth.

In the ninja world, this term was borrowed as a category concept for earth-style chakra ninjutsu.

After completing his Foundation Establishment today, Uchiha Yu discovered that once the fire attribute natural energy reached its limit, it would naturally draw yellow earth attribute natural energy into his body.

The natural energy introduced in this way will not cause any physical pain, nor will it provide any sensation similar to the fire element.

When he went out shopping, Uchiha Yu could feel a kind of exhilarating feeling, similar to the fire element, that was already sprouting. It was a fulfilling and profound feeling of exhilaration.

Without a doubt, this is the natural energy of the earth element.

All of this vividly demonstrates the evolution of fire generating earth, and further verifies the correctness of his memory regarding the theory of the five elements' rotation.

It can be inferred that his Earth Release chakra is likely also beginning to develop.

As a ninja of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Yuu possessed a wide range of ninjutsu and many skills for concealing his presence.

However, in Konoha Village, which is full of ninjas, using ninja techniques is the easiest way to be discovered.

Konoha Village has a radius of only ten kilometers, yet it has as many as eight thousand registered numbered ninjas, and as many as forty thousand ninjas who can respond to the call to arms.

With so many ninjas gathered in Konoha, and so many sharp eyes familiar with chakra watching them, only the most powerful ninjas could carry out such a covert operation.

The ANBU and Root ninjas don't have the secrecy they think they have. In most cases, their covert operations within Konoha will be discovered by ordinary ninjas.

However, when Konoha ninjas see a masked ninja, they know that it represents the Hokage's Anbu or even the Root, which represents Danzo Shimura. To avoid trouble, they will take the initiative to avoid it and pretend not to see it.

In the village, there are two main methods of concealment: one is called "power" and the other is called "the unknown".

Since Uchiha Yu had no power, he chose the unfamiliar Sage Art Earth Release, merging himself into the earth to avoid the ever-present eyes using a method unknown to other ninjas.

Although the speed on the ground is not fast, the target's speed is also not fast.

Danzo Shimura considered himself the shadow of shadows, and his actions strictly adhered to the principle of "covert operations."

He had high expectations of his subordinates. If a Root ninja was discovered and reported by other ninjas during an operation, the person who was discovered would be punished.

If discovered by ordinary villagers, they might even be executed.

Although Root ninjas know that they will avoid ninjas they see, Konoha has tens of thousands of ninjas, and there are always some stubborn ones among them. If you run into one, you'll be in big trouble.

So he carefully avoided people's sight, leaping from one shadow to another, and couldn't move very fast at all.

The Root ninja sidestepped through the gap between the two houses, and just as he was about to leave the gap, a pair of large hands reached out from the ground and accurately grabbed his neck.

Uchiha Yu's upper body then emerged from the ground; he had already activated his three-tomoe Sharingan.

The Root ninja was only a Chunin, and his skill level was not high. The moment he met the Sharingan with three tomoe, his will crumbled.

Uchiha Yu had no intention of interrogating him for information. He simply snapped the ninja's neck and then silently carried the body underground.

Once you've decided to kill, you can't think too much about it.

(End of this chapter)