Naruto: Konoha Spring of the Uchiha Prodigies

"First, I don't want to hear any talk of rebellion from the clan in the future," Uchiha Touhuan solemnly announced.

"Huh?" The Uchiha youth who was just so enthusiastic was stunned. Shisui and Itachi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Uchiha Touhuan still had his senses and knew that he could not rebel against his clan.

But the next moment, their hearts sank again.

"This village was founded by Lord Madara and the First Hokage. In a sense, our Uchiha clan should be one of the masters of this village. All we need to do is reclaim the rights that are rightfully ours."

“That’s right! This village should have been part of our Uchiha clan!” Uchiha Inahi exclaimed fervently.

"The second thing is that the Security Department is short-handed. Starting tomorrow, we will recruit civilian ninjas. Within a week, I want to see the Security Department's manpower double. The salaries of these civilian ninjas should be at least at the level of a D-rank mission in the village. In addition, all the ninjutsu in the clan, except those related to the Sharingan, including the spoils of war accumulated by the clan over the years, should be taken out as rewards for ninjas with outstanding achievements." Uchiha Touhuan then dropped the second bombshell.

This time, the uproar was even greater, and even Shisui and Itachi were somewhat confused about Uchiha Touhuan's purpose.

If it was merely a nominal issue before, now Uchiha Tohkan's order is truly cutting into their own flesh.

"Quiet!" Uchiha Touhuan stepped forward after seeing that the commotion below had subsided. "Most of you here work in the police force. I think you've all encountered this situation before: even if we enforce the law impartially, some villagers still complain about us. The police force may seem powerful and influential, but they've built a thick wall between our Uchiha clan and the villagers. This is the trap that the inherently evil Senju-no-Kami set for our clan!"

"If we want to reclaim our power, the first thing we need to do is to get closer to the villagers. The First Hokage was right when he said that it's not about becoming Hokage to gain everyone's approval, but about gaining everyone's approval to become Hokage!"

"The Uchiha clan has been estranged from the villagers for too long. What we need to do now is to take the initiative to embrace them!" Uchiha Touhuan's voice was extremely infectious. His words made Shisui wonder if he had misunderstood Uchiha Touhuan. Wasn't what Uchiha Touhuan was doing exactly what he wanted to do?

“Recruiting commoner ninjas is understandable, but isn’t ninjutsu a bit too expensive?” an elder asked doubtfully.

“The foundation of our clan is our bloodline limit, and these ninjutsu are better used as a bridge between us and the village than to gather dust in the clan’s warehouse,” said Uchiha Tohkan.

“But, Touhuan, have you considered that recruiting so many civilian ninjas at once and demanding at least D-rank mission pay for them will not sustain the clan’s funds for long? After all, the incident six years ago forced the clan to move away from the village center,” Uchiha Fugaku reminded him from the side.

"Elder Fugaku, don't worry about that. I'll get the money for the clan." Uchiha Touhuan smiled calmly.

"It's good that you have an idea. Well then, according to family tradition, the patriarch will serve as the commander of the security force..."

"No, no, no," Uchiha Touhuan interrupted before Fugaku could finish speaking, "Elder Fugaku, please continue to serve as the commander of the security force. I have more important things to do."

"Something more important?" Fugaku Uchiha asked, puzzled.

“Of course, it’s to complete the task assigned to me by the Third Hokage,” Uchiha Touhuan said with a smile.

“Speaking of which, since you’ve taken on the task of investigating Danzo and Root, shouldn’t we start the investigation as soon as possible?” said one of the clan elders.

“How can we start the investigation now?” Uchiha Touhuan smiled meaningfully. “We need to give them some time.”

A little time to destroy the evidence.

"Inahikawa, Zaidou, starting tomorrow, you two will be with me and in charge of investigating this matter involving Root." Uchiha Touhuan didn't go into details, but instead turned to point out the names of the two Uchiha clansmen who had been following him all day.

"understand!"

"understand!"

Just as the Uchiha clan was holding a meeting, at the Root base in the village, Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Ryoma were directing their subordinates to destroy Root's documents without a moment's rest. The targets were Uchiha clan ninjas. Yamanaka Fu, whose abilities were naturally countered, was left at the base by Danzo, and Aburame Ryoma was in a similar situation. During the Third Shinobi World War, Danzo had sent him to attack Uchiha Touhuan, who had already made a name for himself. The two had fought before. The insects he cultivated would lose their way if they came near the electromagnetic field created by Uchiha Touhuan's Lightning Release ninjutsu. He had barely survived that attack.

So this time, Danzo left both of them at the base, but unexpectedly, they received news that Danzo had died.

Under Danzo's years of brainwashing, the few remaining ninjas in Root behaved like machines, collecting top-secret documents from the base and then destroying them all using Fire Release.

As the night passed and everything was almost settled, the two received news that Uchiha Touhuan had brought people to the Root base.

The two exchanged a glance, then looked at the remaining secret documents that hadn't been properly processed. They nodded to each other and walked out of the base together.

……

Uchiha Touhuan, accompanied by Inahisa and Zaito, walked leisurely toward the location of Root.

"This old bastard's den of bastards is pretty remote." After walking for a while, Uchiha Inahashi couldn't help but complain.

Uchiha Touhuan smiled upon hearing this, then raised an eyebrow: "The bastard is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, blue lightning flashed from beside Uchiha Touhuan. Various kinds of insects appeared around the three of them and fell down with crackling sounds. The plants growing under their feet withered the moment they came into contact with these insects.

Upon seeing this, Uchiha Inahisa and Uchiha Zaito immediately took out kunai from their ninja tool pouches and assumed battle stances.

"You ninja from the Aburame clan, didn't you learn your lesson last time? These things have no effect on me," Uchiha Touhuan said loudly.

In response to Uchiha Touhuan, a series of shuriken were fired.

However, when these shuriken reached within a foot of Uchiha Tohsen, they all mysteriously hovered in mid-air.

With a bang, one of the shuriken exploded in a cloud of smoke, revealing Aburame Ryoma's figure, his kunai aimed straight for Uchiha Touhuan's throat.

Chapter 9 Kakashi Hatake

After Uchiha Touhuan drew his sword to block the attack, he glanced at the kunai in Aburame Ryoma's hand and chuckled, "A specially made glass kunai? Too bad, it's useless."

The next second, the shuriken hovering around Uchiha instantly shot towards Aburame Ryoma, who had appeared.

Aburame Ryoma hurriedly used his insect substitute to escape, but as soon as he landed, Uchiha Touhuan's next slash arrived immediately. Uchiha Touhuan, whose body was crackling with electricity, was incredibly fast.

The relentless, deadly slashes left Aburame Ryoma overwhelmed. As an insect master, he wasn't particularly skilled in close combat and could only frequently use insect substitutes to escape from Uchiha Touhuan's blades. However, each insect substitute he used meant that a batch of insects he had cultivated would perish under Uchiha Touhuan's lightning.

Within minutes, Aburame Ryoma had been in grave danger several times. Just as Uchiha Touken was about to end Aburame Ryoma's life, everything suddenly went black.

"Using this technique against an Uchiha who has awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan? That's suicide."

Within the realm of consciousness, Uchiha Touhuan's Mangekyou Sharingan flashed, and Yamanaka Fu, who was hiding in the shadows attempting to launch a sneak attack using the Mind Turn Technique, suddenly groaned, coughed up blood, and collapsed.

"Go and catch that one, alive." Uchiha Touhuan ordered Inahisa and Zaito with ease, while forcing out Aburame Ryoma's insect substitution jutsu with another slash.

"Little mouse playing with insects, now that you have a better prisoner, it's over." Uchiha Touhuan laughed, stabbing Aburame Ryoma in the back. Instantly, lightning crackled, and in no time, only a charred corpse remained on the ground.

On the other side, Uchiha Inahisa and Uchiha Zaito easily captured Yamanaka Fu, who had completely lost his ability to resist due to the backlash of the clan's secret technique.

"Zaidou, take this guy back to the clan's interrogation room and give him a good talking to. Don't let him die. Inaho, go to the Hokage Building and report that we encountered violent resistance from the remaining Root forces during our investigation, forcing us to take emergency measures. All the villains have been killed." Uchiha Touhuan gave the orders after dealing with Aburame Ryoma.

"Yes!" The two nodded in agreement, and then went their separate ways in two different directions according to Uchiha Touhuan's instructions.

Uchiha Touhuan, on the other hand, walked alone towards the Root base underground.

After entering the Root base, the remaining Root members began to relentlessly attack Uchiha Tohkan. However, Uchiha Tohkan only needed one strike to resolve the situation each time. In this way, Uchiha Tohkan fought his way from the gate of the Root base to the core area inside the base. In just ten minutes, dozens of ninja corpses lay scattered everywhere.

Upon entering Danzo's office, Uchiha Touhuan's first sight was a floor covered in ashes. It seemed that all of Danzo's secrets had been burned to ashes. Seeing this, Uchiha Touhuan smiled slightly, then unfurled a sealed scroll and took out a handful of documents.

"The Root organization is quite efficient. I thought I'd have to help them clean up." Uchiha Touhuan reached out and tossed the documents he had taken out into the air, then ignited them with a Great Fireball.

After burning about half of the documents that Uchiha Touhuan had taken out, Uchiha Touhuan slowly formed hand seals.

Water Release: Water Chaos Waves.

A large amount of water mist appeared around Uchiha Touhuan, then condensed into droplets that fell onto the still-burning papers on the ground. Wisps of smoke drifted out as Uchiha Touhuan picked up the documents, which were half-burned.

……

After a long while, Uchiha Inahime, who had gone to report to Hiruzen Sarutobi, arrived late with the ANBU ninja sent by the Third Hokage.

Although the leader was wearing an Anbu mask, his white hair made it easy for Uchiha Touhuan to identify him as the famous Konoha technician, Hatake Kakashi.

When Kakashi entered the Root base and saw the corpses scattered all over the ground, he couldn't help but frown. It wasn't out of pity, but because these Root ninjas were, after all, ninjas from the village. After Danzo's death, there was still a possibility that they might have reformed. But at this moment, they had all been killed by Uchiha Touhuan.

"Kakashi-senpai, it's you here." Uchiha Touhuan greeted Kakashi with a smile. He wasn't surprised that the Third Hokage hadn't come in person. After all, under the intimidation of Kotoamatsukami, this ninja hero probably wouldn't be willing to face Uchiha Touhuan face to face.

Kakashi, hidden behind the mask, did not respond. Uchiha Tohkan, however, was not annoyed and continued speaking to himself.

“When I arrived here, these remnants of Root were destroying the evidence left behind by Danzo Shimura. Fortunately, I arrived in time and preserved some of it.” Uchiha Touhuan came to Kakashi’s side and lowered his voice. “I found something special in these documents that I think you will be interested in.”

After saying that, Uchiha Touhuan took out a document that had been mostly burned and showed it to Kakashi.

The names above made Kakashi's pupils shrink: Hatake Sakumo, Kishida Keisuke, Arima Kiya, and the ninja whose surname was only Higashiyama. But Kakashi immediately filled in the missing name: Higashiyama Ryota.

These were the participants in the mission that changed his father's life.

The words "silenced" following these names sent a chill down Kakashi's spine.

"Alright, now that you're here, help dispose of the bodies here." Uchiha Touhuan put away the document, patted Kakashi on the shoulder, and then sighed, "It's such a pity. They were all ninjas from the village, yet they were brainwashed like this by Danzo. I didn't want to kill them either."

After saying that, Uchiha Touhuan walked outside, gesturing for Uchiha Inahisa to follow.

"Wait a minute!" Kakashi suddenly called out to Uchiha Touhuan, who had already reached the door of the office.

"Is there something you need, Kakashi-senpai?" Uchiha Touhuan turned around with a warm smile on his face. "I still need to go back and organize this remaining evidence, as well as interrogate the captured Root remnants."

"N-nothing." Kakashi Hatake hesitated for a moment behind the mask, suppressing his urge to ask Touhuan Uchiha for clarification.

"Then I'll be going now. Please give my regards to the Hokage for me." Uchiha Touhuan said, turning and leaving. After a while, as if he remembered something, he turned back and said, "By the way, Kakashi-senpai, if you have time, come visit the clan. Grandma Miori hasn't been feeling well lately, and she's been talking about you."

Chapter 10 The World Is Still the Same

Uchiha Touhuan left Root without looking back.

Kakashi was also jolted when he heard Uchiha Touhuan utter that name.

【Obito's grandmother? Yes, it is. All these years, out of guilt, I've never even visited her...】

I'm such a failure.

"Captain..." Seeing Kakashi standing there in a daze, an ANBU ninja stepped forward to remind him.

"I'm fine." Kakashi waved his hand after regaining his senses. "Clean this up and then go back to report to the Hokage."

……

After returning to the security headquarters located within the Uchiha clan's territory, Uchiha Touhuan immediately went to the interrogation room.

The Wood Release ninja brought back yesterday has been interrogated for a day, and Yamanaka Fu, who was just brought back today, also woke up shortly after being brought back to the interrogation room. The two are currently firmly bound in the interrogation room, and their chakra is sealed.

However, the interrogation did not go very smoothly. After all, the two were ninjas, and ninjas from Root. The interrogation room that the Security Department had prepared for the village's petty thieves was naturally a bit inadequate.

"Clan Chief." As Uchiha Touhuan entered the interrogation room, several clan members in charge of the interrogation temporarily stopped what they were doing and stepped forward to greet him.

"How's the interrogation going?" Uchiha Touhuan asked.

"Both of them are very stubborn, especially the one from yesterday. We beat him all night, but he still wouldn't confess anything. We were just about to ask the clan's Jonin, who is proficient in genjutsu and has three tomoe, to help us." The person in charge of the interrogation was just an ordinary Uchiha Chunin with only one tomoe Sharingan. After all, he usually only used it to deal with petty thieves in the village. Such strength was more than enough, but it was a bit insufficient when facing two ninjas who were not weak.

“No need for that trouble, I’ll do it myself.” Uchiha Touhuan said, walking into the interrogation room and standing in front of Yamanaka Fu.

Yamanaka Fu, who was tied to a chair, had clearly been beaten several times in the past few days. When he saw Uchiha Touhuan arrive, his face immediately turned into a look of hatred, and his eyes seemed to want to devour Uchiha Touhuan alive.

Uchiha Touhuan smiled slightly, just looking at this unlucky guy who had been completely brainwashed by Danzo, then waved his hand, and the interrogators behind him stepped forward and gave him another beating.

Even Uchiha Touhuan shook his head at the sight. It was somewhat driven by personal grudges. Indeed, Danzo's Root clan had often clashed with the Uchiha clan, and now that someone had finally fallen into their hands, they naturally had to treat them well.

Seeing that the fight was almost over, Uchiha Touhuan slowly got up and came to Yamanaka Fu.

"I...I won't...say anything." Yamanaka Fumi, panting heavily after being brutally beaten, stared defiantly at Uchiha Touhuan as he arrived.

The midday sun streamed through the interrogation room windows, making it difficult for Yamanaka Kaze to open his eyes. Even the face of Uchiha Touhuan right in front of him appeared somewhat blurry in his vision.