Naruto: The Information Broker from the Uchiha Clan

"I believe in the Fourth Generation Lord."

Having received the answer he wanted, Minato smiled and then vanished from the spot using the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Yun looked around, then turned around and returned to the Uchiha clan's territory to go home.

……

At Uchiha Mikoto's home.

The two best friends, who had finally managed to get together after getting married, were overjoyed.

After Minato and Kumo left, the two relaxed a bit more, and Uchiha Mikoto even took out two jugs of sake from the inner room.

"cheers!"

The small wine cups clinked together, and the two women drank it all in one gulp.

Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, momentarily confused as to why their mother was suddenly so happy.

Naruto whispered to himself, "What delicious drinks are they having? Why aren't they giving us any? Do you know where they are?"

Sasuke glanced at the inner room where his mother had just come out, then cautiously slipped inside and peeked out to wave to Naruto.

Then, the two quietly slipped into the room.

The two women, already in high spirits, ignored the two children. Mikoto wiped away her tears and said, "Ever since Fugaku left, there have been all sorts of rumors circulating in the clan. It's only now that I can talk to you like this."

Kushina casually hugged her best friend: "Those people may have talked a lot of nonsense, but... but Brother Fugaku did indeed bring disaster upon himself because of Naruto's birth."

"Mikoto, I'm sorry."

Mikoto Uchiha shook her head slightly and looked at Kushina, saying, "As the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, you represent the village. Fugaku died for Konoha, and I can understand that."

"But...Itachi and Sasuke..."

yes……

However, Itachi and Sasuke ultimately lost their father, especially Sasuke, who had no father by the time he had his memories.

Kushina sighed, picked up her sake cup, and drank it all in one gulp. She was determined not to catch her enemy from that day, or she would tear him to pieces!

At that moment, the two little heads suddenly retracted into the doorway of the inner room.

……

Sasuke plopped down on the ground, ignoring Naruto beside him, after taking out a flask of sake.

Little Naruto didn't know what to say either. At just over three years old, his little head couldn't process the information he had just received.

"Sasuke... Sasuke..."

Naruto's voice sounded helpless, while Sasuke slightly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, struggling to hold back his tears.

"Is it all... because of... you? That's why I don't have a father..."

A deep voice sounded, and Sasuke looked at the sake bottle on the ground. "My best friend?"

Naruto reached out and grabbed the sake bottle, opened it, and took a big gulp.

"Cough cough cough!!"

Naruto, choking and with tears and snot streaming down his face, handed over the sake bottle: "We're best friends!"

Sasuke slowly took the sake bottle and drank a large gulp, then, like Naruto, choked and coughed incessantly.

Yes!

We are best friends...

The heat in his stomach made Sasuke, who had been trembling all over, feel much better. His head was spinning, and he quickly fell asleep.

Naruto was the same; in a daze, the two of them fell asleep in each other's arms.

Because of you... I no longer have a father.

So... I owe you.

……

Under the cover of night, Kushina leaned against the door and looked into the inner room, where she was holding two sleeping children.

Mikoto, who was standing nearby, was also dizzy, but she paused when she saw the sake bottle next to the two children.

"This is...they're actually drinking?!"

Kushina picked up the sake bottle and shook it: "It's alright, the two kids only drank a tiny bit, they'll be fine after a nap."

As she spoke, Kushina put her arm around Mikoto's waist, looked at the two children with hazy, drunken eyes, and said, "If they were a boy and a girl, should we be handing out invitations in the village tomorrow?"

Mikoto blushed and spat, "What time is it to be joking? It's so late, if you don't go back soon, the Fourth Hokage will be worried."

Kushina shrugged: "It's not even certain whether Minato has gone back by now. Let me tell you, I used to want to be Hokage, but now I think being Hokage is just too tiring."

Pushing Kushina aside, Mikoto stepped forward, picked up Naruto, and handed him to Kushina, saying, "Alright, alright, go back now."

Kushina took Naruto from her, sighed and smiled, "Thanks to this opportunity today, I can come and play with you more often in the future."

Mikoto nodded: "The situation of the Uchiha is much better now, and we can get together more often."

After seeing Kushina and Naruto off, Mikoto returned, picked up Sasuke, put him back on the bed, and covered him with a blanket.

"From now on, get along well with Naruto! Just like Mom and Aunt Kushina, you'll always be best friends."

……

Chapter 76: The Influence of the Dark Division

Nanhe River.

"Snapped!"

Yun threw the pebble in her hand into the river below the cliff.

"Itachi told me you've been acting strange lately, so I came to check on you."

The sound of still water came from behind. He picked up a pebble from the ground and threw it down with the same force.

Turning back, Yun thought for a moment and replied, "I somewhat regret going to the Dark Division; it's not a suitable place for me."

"Is it because of the Dark Division's mission guidelines?"

As he spoke, Shisui walked to Yun's side, looked at the flowing river below, and said, "The duties of the Anbu are indeed uncomfortable for most people. If you want to quit, I can help you explain to the Fourth Hokage."

"call……"

Yun sighed and asked, "The mission to bring back classified intelligence was accidentally witnessed by ordinary people coming up the mountain. In order to conceal our whereabouts, the Dark Division needs to eliminate all possibilities of exposure."

"An old man and a young girl, the old man carrying a little girl on his back. The child had no parents, her parents were killed in the war, and only her grandfather was left to beg with her."

Shisui hesitated for a moment and said, "You can't tell me the details of the Anbu's mission, can you?"

Yun looked at Shisui and exhaled: "So this is the biggest difference between me and you guys... missions, rules, the nature of a ninja... there's so much."

"The underworld, which treats human life like dirt, is indeed not suitable for me. Although I also kill, I have a bottom line. I had to kill an ordinary old man and a child because of the risk of being exposed."

"That child... at first she smiled when she saw my mask, called me big brother, and asked if she could play with the mask for a while."

Shisui was stunned for a moment, and the scene remained silent for a long time.

After a long pause, Shisui sighed and asked, "So how did you do it?"

Yun smiled and replied, "With me here, how could I let them kill this little girl? She called me 'big brother'."

As he spoke, Yun's gaze deepened: "I stopped my companions from attacking and gave the old man some money, telling them to leave this area quickly so no one would see them..."

After waiting for a long time without hearing any further developments, Shisui couldn't help but ask, "What happened next?"

Yun smiled and said, "Later, the Iwagakure scum still found them during the search. The old man and the child were dead; they didn't reveal any information about us..."

"Then...hearing the commotion, I turned around...and killed them all!!!"

Shisui paused, then asked, "An Iwagakure search team? Did they leave any traces?"

Yun shook his head: "The team from the Dark Division came up and cleaned up the mess. The little girl told me at the end that her grandfather taught her to keep her word."

"It's just a very ordinary sentence, isn't it? It seems to be the ninja way of many people, but it's really ironic... Such an ordinary sentence, yet someone died because of it."

The deep voice and the slightly raised head of the cloud made Zhishui pause in surprise.

The kaleidoscope in its eye sockets quietly opened and began to spin incessantly. This signified that beneath the seemingly calm surface, the clouds were experiencing profound emotional turmoil.

Uchiha Yun raised his hand and clenched it, looking at Shisui and saying, "Actually, at that time I had an impulse to mobilize all my forces to go to Iwagakure and then... destroy it!!"

Zhi Shui hurriedly replied, "Impulsiveness won't solve anything, Yun! You need to calm down."

The kaleidoscope quietly shut off, and Yun nodded: "I know... whether it's the ninja villages of the five great nations or other ninja villages, large or small, they are all inhabited by ordinary civilians."

"The missions are issued by these commoner merchants or nobles who issue high-level missions. These people support the entire ninja system that makes a living from missions, but in the end, it is these ordinary people who suffer."

"Destroying Iwagakure won't change anything. Perhaps in a year or two, a second Iwagakure will appear. And it won't just be Iwagakure; every ninja village will do something similar."

Yun looked at the sky and realized that the uneven distribution of resources had led to the start of the conflict.

A ninja with extraordinary power becomes the best sword.

However, ninjas, who do not engage in production, require more resources than ordinary people, but these resources require the ninjas' military force to plunder.

Thus, the strange system of becoming a shadow only after the daimyo's consent was born.

Suddenly, Yun began to understand Madara and Obito...

Perhaps what they were after wasn't Izuna and Rin, but rather this distorted system that drove them to despair... madness!

The Eye of the Moon project is a scam.

So what else can save this deformed world?

Yun shook his head violently. If he continued thinking about it, he was afraid he would end up like Itachi, that lunatic.

"cloud……"

Shisui placed his hand on Yun's shoulder: "No matter what, if we want to change all of this, we need enough power and enough height."

"Having been raised within the ninja education system, I don't know how to answer you, but if it's about the cloud, I believe things will definitely change, and it will definitely succeed."

Yun looked at Zhishui and smiled: "It's really kind of you to trust me all this time. Even I don't know how to change this system."