I just returned to Konoha and found that my entire clan was gone.

Tsunade gritted her teeth and said that after taking Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu away for investigation, in order to show that she was not an autocratic Hokage, she promoted several people to serve as temporary advisors.

Besides Hyuga Hiashi and Nara Shikaku, she also promoted Shirakumo Hayama, who had risen from a commoner to a Jonin.

Baiyun Yeshan has the strength, but living on the border for a long time inevitably makes him unfamiliar with some aspects of the village. In addition, being of commoner origin, his suggestions are nothing more than fighting and killing.

Hiashi Hyuga, on the other hand, adheres to the principle of not offending anyone. He agrees with any suggestion, but abstains from voting. He is a non-stick and inactive person. He doesn't care about the advisor position at all. He almost told Tsunade that she could appoint whoever she wanted as advisor.

In other words, only one person, Lu Jiu, can offer a constructive suggestion, while the other two are just figureheads.

"Lady Tsunade, I don't have any good ideas either. It's up to you to decide this matter."

Hijiri shrugged, "That's how I am. I won't offer any opinions. You decide. Anyway, I won't be held responsible for the consequences."

He knew these two were not to be trifled with after being so badly suppressed by Sasuke. In the past, the Hyuga clan had no choice but to act as the Third Hokage's lackeys, dragging the Hyuga clan and the Uchiha clan into fighting each other.

However, the main branch of the Uchiha clan knows the truth perfectly well: once a member of the Uchiha clan awakens the Mangekyou Sharingan, the two types of eyes are not on the same level.

Now that the Uchiha clan is gone, only the Hyuga clan remains, and he doesn't want to be used as a pawn.

Anyway, Hyuga doesn't have any needs right now, and he can tell that Tsunade is unlikely to do anything like what Hiruzen Sarutobi did.

I don't object to being honest and straightforward; I don't believe Tsunade would do anything to me.

"Tsk."

Tsunade didn't expect the aftereffects left by the higher-ups to be so significant. Before, when things weren't exposed, everyone pretended not to know. Now that things have been exposed and even the common people know what happened in Konoha, everyone can no longer pretend not to know.

Her relationship with the higher-ups in Konoha is not as close as before. If it weren't for the Ino-Shika-Cho clan's continued strong support, there would probably be a lot of trouble below.

There's no time to deal with Ye Lan's affairs right now; the first thing to do is to settle things in the village.

...

Where are we going?

Sasuke stared absently at the fire in front of him, holding his lunchbox. Ye Lan had told him everything Danzo had done along the way.

What Sasuke couldn't accept was that Itachi, who did such a thing, was actually a spy sent by Konoha to Akatsuki, and had even been communicating with the Third Hokage in secret.

The escape during this period was not bad. At first, the two of them were not caught by the people of Konoha because of their speed. The escape was relatively smooth. However, he was a little confused about what to do next.

"Now that you know everything, would you still kill your own brother? After all, he was a hero who stopped Konoha from falling into internal strife."

Instead of answering Sasuke's question directly, Ye Lan asked another question that would determine the future of the two of them.

"Don't try to disgust me with those kinds of words..."

Sasuke frowned. He could no longer forgive Itachi after seeing what happened in the laboratory. Danzo and the others had given orders, but itachi really did it.

Especially the fact that I managed to survive in the end, it felt like I had eaten poop and it made me want to vomit.

“Itachi, he doesn’t deserve the Uchiha surname. He wants to be a hero, so give him the best treatment a hero can receive.”

What defines a hero? A hero is someone who dies. Sasuke has made up his mind to kill Itachi with his own hands. Having awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, Sasuke is now qualified to fight Itachi.

"Then you need to be prepared. With the support of natural energy, you can practice your eye technique a little. Natural energy can alleviate the side effects. The more you use eye techniques, the more proficient you will become."

Ye Lan is right. The Kaleidoscope's abilities are inherently very strange, and its side effects are so great that there is simply no opportunity to practice.

With the blessing of natural energy, although it cannot completely eliminate the side effects, it is much better than the predecessors who activated the kaleidoscope.

"Get some rest early, we still have a long journey ahead tomorrow."

After Ye Lan finished speaking, she crawled into her sleeping bag. During the escape, the conditions were naturally not as good as those in the village.

"Hey, you still haven't answered my question."

Sasuke was somewhat dissatisfied. In the end, Ye Lan still hadn't said where they were going. Could it be that they were really going to Orochimaru's place?

Sasuke felt uncomfortable just thinking about Orochimaru. He wasn't really afraid of the guy in terms of strength, but Orochimaru's strange quirks made him not want to be around him at all.

"Tomorrow we're going to the Land of Rain, to Amegakure."

With his back to Sasuke, Ye Lan gave him the answer he wanted.

"Yu Yin?"

Sasuke couldn't understand why they went to a place like this. Did Ye Lan have some other tricks up his sleeve?

Chapter 115 Reactions from All Sides (Part 1)

Jiraiya gripped the intelligence in his hand, wanting to vent his inner dissatisfaction. He hadn't expected such a big thing to happen in the village. Konoha had been plagued by misfortune for the past two years.

First came Orochimaru's plan to destroy Konoha, then the Uchiha clan defected, and even the Hokage Building was razed to the ground. You can imagine how chaotic the village is right now.

I was also unhappy with Danzo, but it wasn't to this extent. Tsunade's letter was vague about the reasons for Uchiha Yoran's defection, but no matter what, he couldn't have betrayed the village.

Jiraiya deeply despised those who betrayed the village, just as he had been puzzled by Orochimaru's escape.

The next time we meet, we'll be enemies.

"What are you doing here, you lecherous immortal?"

Seeing Naruto approaching, Jiraiya quickly hid the information behind his back. Naruto was at a crucial stage of his training, and he couldn't let the village's affairs affect him.

Therefore, he did not want to mention Ye Lan and Sasuke's defection.

Fortunately, Naruto didn't pay much attention to newspapers and was quite far from the Land of Fire; otherwise, Jiraiya wouldn't have been able to keep the Uchiha defection a secret.

"How many times have I told you not to call me the lecherous immortal!"

Whether he was genuinely angry or just pretending, Jiraiya said, rubbing Naruto's spiky hair.

"Alright, alright, stop touching me! I just wanted to ask you how your practice is going?"

Naruto felt a little uncomfortable being touched and said with some disdain.

"What's the problem? Oh, it's this. You should do it this way first... then that way..."

Jiraiya no longer relied entirely on Naruto to figure things out on his own, but instead explained things to Naruto in detail. The departure of Yoru and Sasuke made him feel a sense of crisis.

...

Sunagakure Village

"Have they replied from Konoha?"

Gaara, wearing the Kazekage's uniform, exuded a mature aura; despite not having been in office for long, he already possessed the presence of a superior.

"Yes, but Konoha's version is that Uchiha Yoran stole Konoha's secret technique. Danzo discovered this and a battle ensued, during which Danzo was killed on the spot, and Uchiha Yoran fled to Konoha..."

Gaara listened with his eyes closed as the Sand Village ninja reported on the situation in Konoha. A newspaper sat on the table.

The large characters above are clearly visible, with the largest title reading: "The Uchiha Clan Declares Independence and Separates from Konoha!"

"Tch, so that's how it is. I knew that Uchiha Yelan wasn't a good person."

Kankuro said dismissively after hearing the report.

He was furious that he hadn't been able to withstand a single move from Ye Lan, but now he was happy that Ye Lan had ended up like this.

"Should we send someone to Konoha to express our condolences? After all, an advisor has died in battle. As allies, we should go and visit him."

Temari, on the other hand, has become much more indifferent to these matters. As Gaara's older sister, she has also started to consider things from the perspective of Sunagakure.

"Heh, you don't believe the bloody facts, but you actually believe the story given by Konoha?"

After a chilling laugh, Granny Chiyo, who had been sitting to Gaara's right, spoke.

Since Gaara became Kazekage, Maki has brought Chiyo and her brother out again. Chiyo had appeared once after Sasori's appearance, and this time she is also making an appearance to stabilize Sunagakure, so she is reluctantly showing up to oversee things.

"What are Elder Chiyo's insights?"

Maki said respectfully that everyone present was a core member of Sunagakure, and there was nothing he couldn't say. Moreover, he didn't believe Konoha's claims and thought the newspaper articles might be true.

"Ahem, I heard that Uchiha Yelan also mastered the Impure World Reincarnation technique just like Orochimaru, or even more powerfully. That night, in addition to the giant demon god, there was also a golden sea of ​​sand."

Ebizo has never left the village yet knows so much detail. He is far from just a retired person on the surface. He secretly controls an intelligence agency that has infiltrated various villages.

"Gold dust?"

Temari had already figured it out: the Edo Tensei, the gold sand, the familiar voice Gaara encountered when he was the Kazekage.

"You mean Uchiha Yelan resurrected my father... the Fourth Kazekage using Edo Tensei?"

He almost called out "Dad," but then realized he should say "Fourth Kazekage." After all, this was a place to discuss official business, and it would be too presumptuous to address him directly by that name.

"Presumably, Uchiha Yelan and Orochimaru reached some kind of deal. The Fourth Hokage died at Orochimaru's hands, and his reanimated body must have been in his possession as well. It's just a mystery why it ended up in Uchiha Yelan's hands."

Ebizo, as expected of Sunagakure's former strategist, was remarkably accurate in his predictions.

"No wonder this guy was able to escape from Konoha!"

Kankuro said indignantly that he himself was not quite sure what kind of strength his father had, but every time he faced him, he felt an insurmountable gap, and he felt that no one could compare to him.

Moreover, the Kazekage are skilled in large-scale battles, and with equal strength, the Kazekage can fight against a large number of people.

"If that's what you think, then you're seriously underestimating Uchiha Yelan! He's definitely a dangerous character!"

Chiyo put away her playful expression and said seriously.

As someone who had directly fought Danzo during the Second Shinobi World War, she was well aware of Danzo's strength and ruthlessness, and she herself had suffered quite a few losses on the battlefield in the Land of Rain.

Ye Lan, who could kill such a person, was definitely not as simple as he appeared on the surface. Moreover, he was not even seventeen years old, about the same age as Temari. Ye Lan's strength had already made her feel a little apprehensive, recalling the legends she had heard when she was a child.

"So, what kind of attitude should we, as the people of Sunagakure, have?"

Kankuro inquired, saying that no matter what Yelan said, he was still just a rogue ninja. Rogue ninjas were not qualified to trade with major ninja villages. No matter how strong you were, once you became a rogue ninja, you had to keep a low profile. The main thing now was to see how they would face Konoha.

"Send some token gifts as a gesture of goodwill, ask if they need our help, and if it's not excessive, agree immediately; if not, return to the village immediately..."

Chiyo breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Gaara had made his decision. Based on her understanding of Tsunade, she knew that the people Gaara sent out would most likely return immediately, since this was a family scandal and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Gaara should just participate casually and not get too involved, otherwise he might end up expending a lot of energy without getting any credit.

"What about the Fourth Kazekage?"

Temari still had some feelings for her father, and besides, her father clearly still cared about the village at that time, otherwise he wouldn't have appeared at that time.

She bit her lip, feeling resentful that the dignified Fengying had been used like this.

"Temari, don't act rashly. The bigger picture is what matters right now!"

When Maki saw Chiyo frowning, he immediately sensed something was wrong and stepped forward to advise her.

"No, I can't let Father be used like a puppet. This concerns the dignity of Sunagakure!"