The Uchiha Clan's Sun

Uchiha Jin naturally couldn't make things difficult for Namikaze Minato on this matter, so he readily agreed.

Upon hearing this, Nara Shikaku quickly took out the recommendation letter and pen he had prepared beforehand and handed them to Uchiha Jin.

Uchiha Jin glanced at the contents of the recommendation letter, and after confirming that there were no problems with it, he signed his name on it.

Nara Shikaku breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this, fearing that something else might go wrong in this matter.

Uchiha Jin handed the letter of recommendation to Namikaze Minato and asked, "Minato, when do you plan to go to the daimyo to report for duty and get your appointment letter?"

Minato Namikaze replied directly, "Tonight then. With the Flying Thunder God Technique, I can still make it back in the morning after meeting the Daimyo tomorrow to attend the Hokage's inauguration ceremony!"

Minato Namikaze left the Flying Thunder God mark on such an important place as Daimyo Prefecture a long time ago. Apart from the time required to meet the Daimyo, the time required for the round trip is negligible!

After a pause, Minato Namikaze said meaningfully, "Furthermore, while the village is still relatively well-equipped, I'd like to hold a Jonin meeting tomorrow afternoon to confirm some things!"

Uchiha Jin was taken aback upon hearing this, and asked in surprise, "So eager?"

Nara Shikaku, worried that Uchiha Jin might misunderstand, quickly explained, "Clan Chief Uchiha, please don't misunderstand. The changes that occurred during this Hokage election could have very negative consequences, so we must restore the village to normal operation as soon as possible to reassure everyone!"

"In order to restore the village to normal operation as soon as possible, there are many issues that need to be discussed and agreed upon by everyone, so the Jonin meeting must be held!"

"Furthermore, most of the Jonin in the village have put aside their other duties and rushed back to the village because of the Hokage election. Therefore, in order to avoid any delays, we have decided to hold a Jonin meeting tomorrow!"

Minato Namikaze had obviously discussed this matter with Shikaku Nara, and Shikaku Nara strongly supported Minato Namikaze's decision.

However, Nara Shikaku seems to have misunderstood something and is still trying to smooth things over between Uchiha Jin and Namikaze Minato.

But given the relationship between Uchiha Jin and Namikaze Minato, is it really necessary for Nara Shikaku to act as a third party to ease tensions?

"Actually, I also feel that this meeting is a bit rushed. After all, the Third Hokage, Elder Utatane, and Elder Mitomon are still receiving treatment in the hospital and may not be able to participate in this Jonin meeting."

"But there's nothing we can do about it. The situation in the village is just too tense right now, so we have no choice but to hold a Jonin meeting to finalize some things!"

Minato Namikaze added a sentence, which seemed like a trivial statement, but it revealed a very important piece of information to King Uchiha and also revealed the real reason why he was in such a hurry to convene the Jonin meeting!

That means it's highly likely that Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado will be unable to participate in the decision-making process at this Jonin meeting!

It's important to know that after Minato Namikaze rose to power, his relationship with King Uchiha was no longer a secret.

What Minato Namikaze and King Uchiha are about to do will definitely provoke opposition from Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado!

Currently, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, and Homura Mitokado are unable to attend the Jonin meeting due to their injuries, and their forces are in disarray without their leadership!

This is a golden opportunity to take advantage of the situation!

Uchiha Jin instantly understood the meaning behind Namikaze Minato's words, and with a smile, he covered up by saying, "That's really a pity. I was thinking of bringing up the matter of Shimura Danzo at the Jonin meeting, so that the Third Hokage, Elder Utatane, and Elder Mitomon could witness it as well. Now it seems that they can only listen to the final result."

Nara Shikaku was taken aback upon hearing this, and said in surprise, "Judging from what the Uchiha clan head said, it seems that your Konoha Police Department has already obtained evidence of Shimura Danzo's crimes?"

Uchiha Jin nodded and said, "Today, our Konoha Police Department took over all of Root's secret bases in and around the village, and we did indeed obtain some items!"

"While these may not be all of Danzo Shimura's crimes, each one, based on what is known, is shocking enough to warrant Danzo Shimura being torn to pieces and left without a burial place!"

Upon hearing this, Minato Namikaze also showed a solemn expression and said in a deep voice, "Is it really that serious?"

"It's only going to be more serious than you think!" Uchiha Jin slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and said, "I'll explain the specifics to you at the Jonin meeting tomorrow, but there are three things that can't wait until tomorrow's meeting. I need the village's assistance to get them done as soon as possible!"

Nara Shikaku also adopted a serious expression, looked at Namikaze Minato, and said, "In that case, Hokage-sama, why don't we call everyone over to discuss this together?"

Although those around them were paying more or less attention to the conversation between Uchiha Jin, Namikaze Minato, and Nara Shikaku, some were also trying to calm Tsunade down.

Nara Shikaku's statement clearly formalizes this matter!

Minato Namikaze didn't respond immediately, but instead cast an inquiring glance at Jin Uchiha.

Minato Namikaze didn't know what King Uchiha was talking about, or whether it was appropriate to explain it publicly, so he could only ask King Uchiha's opinion first.

After pondering for a moment, Uchiha Jin nodded and said, "Then let's have everyone come over and discuss it together!"

Chapter 290 The insane Shimura Danzo!

Having obtained Uchiha Jin's consent, Namikaze Minato had no more reservations and nodded to Nara Shikaku.

Nara Shikaku understood and spoke up loudly, "Everyone, gather around for a moment, we need to hear your opinions on some things!"

Upon hearing Nara Shikaku's words, everyone present stopped pretending and openly gathered around. Even Tsunade and Jiraiya temporarily quieted down.

Seeing that everyone's attention was focused, Nara Shikaku spoke up: "I think everyone knows that today, the Konoha Police Department, led by Konoha Police Department Chief Uchiha Jin, took over some Root bases in the hands of Shimura Danzo and collected evidence of Shimura Danzo's crimes."

"Minister Uchiha Jin has already made some progress. The specifics will be discussed in detail at the Jonin meeting after the Fourth Hokage takes office. However, there are some urgent matters that require our immediate decision!"

"Next, please let Minister Uchiha Jin speak!"

After explaining the whole story, Nara Shikaku gestured for Uchiha Jin to proceed.

Despite the gazes directed at him, Uchiha Jin remained unfazed and said, "Everyone, based on our busy day, there are three urgent matters that need to be addressed!"

"First, our Konoha Police Department dealt with over a thousand children, ranging in age from a few months to eleven or twelve, in various Root bases!"

"Most of them are reserve personnel being trained by Root, while others are experimental subjects rescued from various human experiments being conducted by Root!"

"What we need to solve now is their resettlement problem!"

As soon as Uchiha Jin finished speaking, everyone present erupted in an uproar!

The children undergoing root training were all fine; that wasn't surprising. But the experimental subjects were something many people found hard to accept!

Previously, Hiruzen Sarutobi had brought up Danzo Shimura's human experimentation at the Jonin meeting, trying to disqualify Danzo from running for Hokage, but Danzo Shimura managed to thwart his efforts.

Uchiha Jin's words undoubtedly confirmed that Shimura Danzo was conducting human experiments!

Seeing this, Uchiha Jin continued, "Everyone, we won't discuss Shimura Danzo's crimes today. I will list them one by one when we hold the Jonin meeting, and then we will convict and try him together!"

"The most crucial issue now is the placement of these children!"

After a pause, Uchiha Jin and the others quieted down again before continuing, "At first, I found the head of the Konoha Orphanage, Yakushi Nonou, and planned to have the Konoha Orphanage temporarily house these children."

"However, after a thorough investigation by Dean Nono and me, we discovered that these children all have very serious psychological problems. Putting them together with the children in the Konoha Orphanage would cause serious problems, and the Konoha Orphanage does not have enough manpower to take care of these children."

Uchiha Jin's words caused everyone present to frown slightly. More than a thousand children—that was indeed a big problem!

Tsunade, however, sensed something was amiss and asked, "Kin Uchiha, I can understand that the children rescued from human experiments might have psychological problems, but what about the children trained by Root? Why do they also have psychological problems?"

"Is the situation really as serious as you say?"

Tsunade didn't mean anything by it; she just wanted to clarify things.

After all, it is considered a very normal thing for children to undergo ninja training from a young age. Almost all the ninja clans present also train their children from a young age.

Even if the Root ninja training is more rigorous, it shouldn't cause all the children who receive the training to develop psychological problems!

Everyone present looked at Uchiha Jin upon hearing this, waiting for his explanation.

Uchiha Jin said, "I won't say much about the children who were rescued from human experiments. As the Senju clan leader said, they lived a life worse than death every day, so it's normal for them to have psychological issues."

"But in reality, their psychological problems may not be as serious as those of the children who received root training!"

"Because no matter how serious their psychological problems are, they don't have 'aggression'. All we can do is take good care of them in the future and let time heal the wounds in their hearts!"

"But it's a different story for those children who have received root training!"

"Does anyone know how the Roots train these children?"

When asked about Uchiha Jin's question, everyone present shook their heads, indicating that they were unaware of the matter.

Uchiha Jin didn't wait for their answer and continued, "I won't go into too much detail about the ordinary ninja training. Just know that the Root's training program is more than ten times more demanding than the training you do at home!"

"Sigh~~"

Uchiha Jin's words caused everyone present to gasp in shock.

Although they cultivate various abilities in their family children from a young age, they are also aware of the principle of moderation and the dangers of forcing growth.

Before the age of twelve, most children's bodies are not fully developed and are not suitable for receiving extensive ninja training.

Therefore, most ninja clans only start teaching their children ninja skills after they turn six, and only increase the intensity of training after they turn twelve!

Therefore, the period after the age of twelve is also a time of rapid growth in a ninja's strength!

Characters like Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Shikamaru Nara, who are protagonists in the story, were all genin who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy at the age of twelve, and their strength was not significantly different from that of their peers!

Their strength only reached its peak after several years of accumulation following their graduation from the Ninja Academy!

Even the legendary ninja world's Asura, Uchiha Madara, and the ninja god, Senju Hashirama, were just spiky-haired and pot-cut boys who couldn't even reach the other side of the water when they were twelve years old!

If children are forced to undergo high-intensity training at a young age, apart from a few geniuses who can stand out, most ordinary people will suffer irreversible damage to their bodies!

Being drained of their potential and unable to reach their original heights is secondary; more importantly, it may leave them with hidden injuries and lead to their untimely death!

Danzo Shimura's training completely disregarded these children as human beings; he treated them as expendable resources and tools to be used!

Ignoring the astonishment of the crowd, Uchiha Jin continued, "That's secondary. The most crucial thing is the special program that Root has set up for these children!"

"These special projects are, in my opinion, utterly insane and inhumane!"

Chapter 291 Fratricide! (Part 2)

"The first item in those special training programs at the root is 'vital organs and drawing blood'!"

"The Root ninjas will teach those children the location of various vital points on the human body, and tell them the fastest way to kill with a single blow!"

"If this is considered normal, then the root will also regularly subject these children to live training, making them see blood!"

"Moreover, the live training at the Root is not as simple as giving those children weapons and letting them kill; it's about making them fight against adults. If they don't want to be killed, the only way is to kill!"

"Under such training, one can only imagine the psychological distortion that would occur in those children!"

As Uchiha Jin recounted his story, the expressions of everyone present gradually became solemn.

Uchiha Jin continued, "In addition, the Root training process also adopted a team cooperation system and a bottom-ranking elimination system!"

"The team cooperation system is self-explanatory; it simply means that these children form their own teams and help each other."

"The bottom-ranked elimination system periodically eliminates the teams with the lowest overall performance, and the consequence of elimination is death!"

"These two systems undoubtedly train the children's teamwork skills while also giving them pressure and motivation to train!"

"If that were all, it would be fine, but there's another special training within the Root: to make those squads that have developed deep bonds kill each other at the right time!"

"Only one person from each squad can survive, in order to extinguish their emotions and humanity!"

"It's fair to say that the Root's training methods are essentially training emotionless killing machines that only execute tasks!"

Uchiha Jin's narration moved everyone present.

Although they always say that ninjas are just tools for carrying out missions and that everything should be done with the mission in mind, very few of them actually do that!

Even though all the ninja textbooks told them that Shimura Danzo's actions might be 'right', they still harbored doubts about it in their hearts!

Even if they don't say it, that's what they're thinking!

They are ninjas, but they are also human! They value the bonds between comrades even more!

Tsunade frowned and asked, "To what extent have the children you rescued from Root been trained?"

Tsunade, as expected of the world's number one medical expert, went straight to asking the most crucial question.

Uchiha Jin said, "Due to certain reasons, Root has suffered heavy losses recently, so the training of these children has been accelerated!"

"About 30% of those children have already completed the training to kill each other and extinguish emotions! The remaining 70% have already seen blood!"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look and began to discuss it amongst themselves.

"We've already seen blood, this is definitely going to be difficult now!"

"Yes, people who have gone through this kind of training are emotionally fragile and are indeed not suitable to be placed with the children in the Konoha orphanage!"

"Putting them together isn't impossible, but we still need to assign someone to keep an eye on them!"

"The people sent to take care of them not only need to be meticulous and bold, and know some professional knowledge, but also preferably have some self-defense ability. The most suitable would be medical ninjas! But are there so many medical ninjas in the village right now?"

"Yes, there are, but this is clearly not something that can be resolved in a short time. Deploying too many medical ninjas at once might disrupt the normal operation of the village!"

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It's not hard to tell from the discussions that Konoha is capable of resolving this matter, but it would be time-consuming, laborious, and risky, making it a losing proposition!

Seeing this, Uchiha Jin added, "By the way, there's one more thing I need to tell you all: many of those children are from your clans, they are your clansmen!"

The entire room fell silent instantly, and everyone stared wide-eyed!

Then they remembered that Danzo Shimura would occasionally use the Hokage's name to take away talented children from their clan, and that such an incident had just happened not long ago!

"How dare you! Shimura Danzo has gone too far!"