Naruto: The Information Broker from the Uchiha Clan

Chapter 327: Yun's Attitude

Konoha, Hokage Building.

As soon as Team 7 came in to report their mission, Minato waved for Shikaku to leave first.

Although Shikaku was aware of the mission for Class 7, he figured that with only Minato and Kumo present, the three kids might be more relaxed.

"Is the mission complete?"

Minato looked at Naruto and said, "You guys don't seem to be in a good mood. It seems that this mission, just as I said, shouldn't have been given to you."

Naruto shook his head upon hearing this: "We always have to know. We are already ninjas, and we are different from ordinary ninjas. We always have to face the dark side of this world."

At this point, Naruto looked up and stared directly at Minato: "Dad, is the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Fire like this too?"

As soon as he finished speaking, all three kids looked over.

What they saw and heard in the Daimyo's Mansion of the Land of Hot Water shocked and angered them, but if the Land of Fire were to experience the same thing, it would be an even greater shock to their beliefs.

"call……"

After exhaling, Minato thought for a while and then nodded: "It will be a little better, but it will be about the same."

Yun, who was standing behind them, then spoke up: "The Land of Fire is different from the Land of Hot Water. The Land of Hot Water is a neutral small country whose economy is mostly derived from tourists. It is not short of money and has no external pressure."

"Although the Land of Fire is one of the five great nations, it is precisely because of this that the other four great nations have been keeping their eyes on the Land of Fire in the past. In recent years, because of my existence, the pressure on those nobles has been relieved, but in the last year or two, they have been scared by Akatsuki again."

Seeing Yun's uncompromising explanation, Minato sighed.

Just as mentioned in the previous conversation, from now on, the Kage of Konoha will be Uchiha Kumo, and no one can shake his position or replace him.

The Fifth Hokage's decision was to use the Akatsuki organization as a weapon to eradicate the corrupt nobility and the hatred of the previous generation. This will also be the overt strategy of the future Supreme Commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces.

But is it really that easy to borrow Xiao's sword?

Minato, who was pondering something off-topic, put those aside for the moment and looked at the three kids, saying, "This mission should have been an ANBU operation, or more than ten years ago, it should have been Root. Your classmate Sai came from Root, so you must have some knowledge of this now-defunct organization."

Roots?

At this moment, images of Sai appeared in the minds of the three kids.

Not allowed to have feelings, forever reduced to a tool only for completing tasks.

This concept is remarkably similar to the definition of a ninja.

But as a human being... is it really possible to do that?

Emotions are something no one can truly sever completely. Even Sai, who always fakes a smile, has his bonds; the letter in the hospital is one such bond.

"Are there many missions like this?"

Naruto's voice rang out.

Minato replied, "There haven't been many in recent years. The real peak was around the time the war ended. Because carrying out such missions inevitably involves facing darkness, the Third Hokage entrusted all of them to Root."

"And this... is the very meaning of the roots' existence. The darkness of the leaves, the roots of the great tree, take root in the ground to absorb enough nutrients, and endure a lifetime of darkness."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sasuke frowned: "But as far as I know, Root has been conducting human experiments all along, and even after the war ended, they used the village's ninjas to conduct inhumane experiments."

"The Uchiha clan suffered greatly because of the Sharingan. That so-called Danzo even tried to become Hokage, leading Konoha to destruction as a militant faction."

Yun looked at Sasuke and said, "It seems you know quite a bit, kid. When Root was destroyed, you were still just a little kid."

As he spoke, Yun walked up to the three of them and said, "Danzo and Root were destroyed by Uzumaki Sora, and their entire underground organization was completely destroyed by Uzumaki Sora."

"The formation of roots is wrong in my opinion. Separating light from darkness will inevitably breed something even darker from the darkness that has been buried deep underground."

“Once slogans like ‘for the sake of the village’ become a habit, they will always convince themselves with this reason and then exercise their own selfish desires.”

At this point, Yun looked at the three of them: "You are all extraordinary. You are Sasuke, who will inherit Itachi's Mangekyou Sharingan and awaken the Eternal Eye; Naruto, the perfect Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and son of the Hokage; and Hinata Hyuga, who possesses the ultimate power of the Byakugan."

“The three of you are not ordinary genin, which is why I secured this mission for you from the Hokage.”

"Then tell me, do you regret carrying out this mission? Because as a result, your original illusions about this world have been completely shattered."

……

For a moment, the Hokage's office fell silent.

Minato, with his brows furrowed, was also somewhat nervous at this moment.

Compared to Yun's radical approach, he preferred to let Class 7 grow for a while longer before facing these dark things.

Unlike the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, he was not a ninja from a clan and learned about many of the unfairnesses of the world from a young age.

This unfairness can even arbitrarily control the lives of ordinary people.

Naruto is different from himself. As the son of the Hokage, he spent more than twelve years in Konoha, but he didn't understand some things.

Is it too early? Perhaps not.

"It will be very painful to see it, but if we don't see it for a long time, it may be even more painful in the future."

Naruto raised his head: "My goal is to become the Sixth Hokage! To bear the fate of the entire village on my shoulders and protect everything in this village!"

"So I have to face it!"

Sasuke smiled and said, "When I was a kid, my dream was to become Hokage. I can forget about becoming the Fifth Hokage, but I could compete with Naruto for the Sixth Hokage title."

"The Sharingan of the Uchiha clan is based on protection. The awakening of the power contained in these eyes is also for the purpose of protecting their bonds!"

"Protecting the village and bringing peace to the world—that's what a true shadow should do. Only by seeing it can you clean it up, right?"

Seeing that both of her companions had answered, Hinata panicked for a moment.

Finally, under Naruto's gaze, the scenes he had witnessed in the Land of Hot Springs flashed through his mind.

Those things... shouldn't exist in this world.

"If I could, I would like to use the power of these eyes to change everything I see."

……

The three little devils left.

Only Minato and Kumo remained in the Hokage's office.

"More than 80% of the nobles in the Land of Hot Water were killed. Intelligence indicates that they were members of the Akatsuki organization. One was Kisame Hoshigaki, who was originally on Obito's side, and the other was Juzo Biwa."

Yun picked up the intelligence report on the table and looked at it: "I used illusion magic to make them do it, although these people were also part of their original target."

Minato turned around, his gaze fixed on Yun: "You should know very well that if people find out this was your doing, the alliance of the five great nations will be thrown into turmoil!"

"Kisame Hoshigaki and Juzo Biwa are not dead. Under your control, they slaughtered 80% of the nobles of the Land of Hot Water, including the daimyo!"

"The daimyo of a country being killed by a Konoha ninja is something that his class would never allow to happen! In recent years, the five great ninja villages have been providing them with money and supplies whenever they asked, all for the sake of Akatsuki!"

"Do you want Konoha to become the second Akatsuki?!"

Yun waved his hand: "I'm not taking the blame for the death of the Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs. That was made very clear in the mission report. The missions overlapped, and the Akatsuki took the commission from his brother and killed the Daimyo of the Land of Hot Springs."

"Besides... given what Xiao has done in recent years, no one would believe they'd try to drag me into this. Everyone would be worried that this is just their attempt to sow discord."

"And then there were those three kids in Team 7 back then. Apart from Sasuke, Hinata and Naruto were both ready to take action regardless of the consequences. After all, you know those guys never do anything right."

As soon as he finished speaking, Minato exhaled and said, "You could have stopped them. You said you'd bring them back after witnessing the darkness once, that's what you said when you took this mission from me."

Just then, the office door opened.

Nara Shikaku walked in and raised the scroll in his hand: "I just got back. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation. This is an emergency scroll from the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Fire."

Minato took it, looked at it, and then handed it directly to Yun.

After a long pause, Minato said, "The incident at the Daimyo's residence in the Land of Hot Water has directly triggered the nerves of the entire ninja world's nobles. Before this, although it was not uncommon for nobles to be assassinated by the Akatsuki, this is the first time a daimyo has been killed."

Lu Jiu nodded slightly: "They're afraid, afraid of being assassinated while they're asleep at night. After all, they haven't had enough of that decadent lifestyle."

Yun placed the scroll back on the table: "So the daimyo of the five great nations have already informed us? It's only been a day, but when it comes to our lives, the speed is quite remarkable."

Minato glanced speechlessly at the still relaxed Yun: "These are all things you recklessly caused. Do you think the Akatsuki's Uzumaki Sora, with his Rinnegan from the Sage of Six Paths, is really that easy to defeat?"

Yun smiled at Minato: "There's an Akatsuki rendezvous point in the mission report. We used genjutsu to probe those two guys' minds. Should we report that?"

Minato sighed.

"It's just a gathering point. When we arrived at Amegakure, it was deserted. We still don't understand Uzumaki Sora's intelligence capabilities."

"Furthermore... Team 7's strength has not yet matured. The Fifth Raikage of Kumogakure has just died, and the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure is also gone. Under these circumstances, it's a case of soldiers fighting soldiers and kings fighting kings, so our chances of winning are not high."

Shikaku nodded slightly: "The plan is to make Team 7 grow to the point where they can rival the Rinnegan and Obito Uchiha's side."

"Currently, the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha can no longer be reanimated, but the Second Hokage, Third Raikage, and Fourth Raikage are still under the control of the other party."

Yun looked at the scroll on the table: "So this thing is meaningless. It's an order to gather the five great ninja villages and destroy the Akatsuki organization within a year..."

"Heh... He's not exactly brain-dead. He didn't make us kill Uzumaki Sora within three days, so he still has some brains."

The other two people present knew very well who was being referred to in such a derogatory statement.

Although Danzo of Root had sometimes threatened the daimyo of the Land of Fire before, he had never belittled him so blatantly.

"So their idea of ​​sending you to Daming Prefecture as a guard is a complete mistake."

Minato looked at Yun: "If you go, I guess you'll just watch from the sidelines during the assassination, and then fight back and say you did your best, right?"

Yun shook his head and smiled, "Such a good show should at least be enjoyed with a small stool and some snacks. It would be even better if we could have some wine while watching the show."

Uh!

For a moment, Shuimen was speechless.

Shikaku, standing to the side, twitched at the corner of his eye. The attitude of the person in front of him towards the nobles had long been self-evident.

"By the way, how are you planning to push it back to them?" Yun asked.

Minato picked up the scroll: "What else can we do? Let them find it themselves. If they find it, we'll fight immediately. If they don't find it, who will the Allied Forces fight? Air?"

Shikaku said, "If that's the case, the Daming Prefecture will definitely request to increase the number of guards again."

As he spoke, Shikaku glanced at Yun: "The other four great nations have no reason, but the daimyo of the Land of Fire will definitely ask Yun to go there in person, and there may be other actions as well."

Yun waved her hand, turned around and opened the door: "Don't even think about it. I hate those parasites. I'll go over there and see how I'm being bullied every day. Maybe I'll just kill a few to cheer myself up."

As soon as he finished speaking, the office door was closed.

Minato took two deep breaths, feeling a headache coming on.

I really don't want to be the fourth Hokage anymore.