Chapter 301: Danzo's Attack x Scroll of Seals
"I knew I couldn't escape this brat's perception..."
Through the crystal ball, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly met the boy's sharp eyes. Within that clear gaze, two great suns were slowly igniting, glaring and dazzling. In just an instant, it made his old eyes blur, faintly seeing double.
This phenomenon was clearly a symptom of looking directly at the sun. From this, it could be seen... the brat's [Yang Release] seemed to have obviously improved again after demonstrating the [Wood Release] to him that day. Calculating the time, it hadn't been that long at all...
Hiruzen Sarutobi closed his eyes. Amidst his fluctuating thoughts, he waved his hand and deactivated the [Telescope Technique]...
With a pop, as the crystal ball returned to its original state, that gaze hovering above the Uchiha clan compound dissipated along with it.
Roy slowly withdrew his gaze and said sarcastically, "It seems our Hokage-sama doesn't agree with what I said..."
Fugaku and Tsunade simultaneously fell silent, neither picking up Roy's conversation thread...
One was Hiruzen Sarutobi's direct subordinate and a frequent guest at high-level meetings, and the other was simply Hiruzen Sarutobi's beloved disciple and the most popular candidate for Hokage besides Minato Namikaze. Considering various reasons, even if... alerted by Roy, Fugaku and Tsunade had realized that Hiruzen Sarutobi was peeping, whether due to their own standpoints or out of consideration for the Hokage's face, neither continued to dwell on this topic.
Clang clang clatter... The kitchen curtain fell as Mikoto Uchiha went back to the kitchen to cook.
Tsunade sat cross-legged on a soft cushion, looking at the tatami she had smashed into splinters out of sheer excitement, and sincerely apologized to Fugaku, "I apologize. I will buy a new one to compensate."
Fugaku waved his hand, signaling it was fine, but instead looked deeply at Roy and said, "Jin, you had better be truly certain."
A matter like [Resurrection] was far too shocking!
Not to mention Fugaku Uchiha had never heard of it, even Tsunade, esteemed as one of the Sannin, had never heard of it. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so devastated by the deaths of Nawaki and Dan Kato, eventually even... developing hemophobia and remaining unable to step out of the shadows for so long...
Roy smiled but didn't speak.
Setting aside the fact that [Edo Tensei] could resurrect people,
Within the Naruto world, there were multiple other [Resurrection] ninjutsu officially recorded.
For example, the [One's Own Life Reincarnation] used by Granny Chiyo to save Gaara.
The [Izanagi] prepared by Danzo during the battle at Unraikyo against Sasuke, consuming Sharingan.
The [Curse Mark Reincarnation] created by Orochimaru in pursuit of immortality, taking inspiration from [Edo Tensei].
The Sharingan combining with [Yin-Yang Release] to ultimately evolve into the [Rinnegan], allowing the use of [Rinne Tensei]... And even,
The [Karma Reincarnation] unique to the Otsutsuki clan, which allowed one to forcibly take over a body by implanting a "Karma" mark on another person before death... All these and more were too numerous to count...
The boy could sense Fugaku's concern and worry, which was nothing more than the fear that he was making promises too early. If he failed to deliver, it would be embarrassing. Letting out a light chuckle, he said to Fugaku and Tsunade, "Father, Tsunade-sama, why don't we let time fly for a bit."
[Edo Tensei] was inside the [Scroll of Seals].
Roy stood up tall, stretching his arms in a lazy stretch as he said, "Since you've already waited over ten years, I suppose this little while won't make a difference..."
Fugaku remained silent.
The man quietly glanced sideways at Tsunade sitting opposite him.
The woman was clearly excited for a moment. Her chest rose and fell, her breathing turning faintly heavy. Clearly, her heart... was extremely restless!
"Yes, I've waited for over ten years. People think Tsunade-sama doesn't do any real work all day, either gambling or getting drunk."
"They simply don't know that a broken body can be healed, but a 'wounded heart' is extremely difficult to cure..."
Shizune sat properly behind Tsunade, looking at her with heartache.
The woman, her blonde hair tied into two ponytails cascading down her back, took several deep breaths. Staring fixedly at Roy, she said, "Good!"
"I will wait."
"I will keep waiting for you."
"Until—"
"I die!"
Roy laughed it off. Having been called out temporarily, it wasn't his usual sleeping time after all. With a hint of drowsiness, he smiled at Tsunade and said, "It won't take that long. Wait for me... I'll be right back..."
The boy ruffled Itachi's head, dropping a sentence: "Don't forget to leave some breakfast for me."
In the next glance,
He took a step forward, instantly merging into the light.
In a flash, chasing the light, utilizing [Light Release] to break spatial constraints, he drifted out the window along the sunlight. One could only faintly see... a hazy silhouette of light shooting far towards the very center of Konoha's commercial district.
That was where the Hokage Rock stood,
Also the location of the Hokage Building,
And more importantly, the place where the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and several Hokage aides usually worked!
"This child... being so impatient is truly improper."
A gust of wind blew in, rustling the hair of the people in the room...
Turning his head to look out the window, watching Roy leave, Fugaku kept a straight face and scolded Roy in feigned anger.
A leisurely gaze immediately fell upon him.
The man turned his head to see Tsunade, arms crossed over her chest, looking at him coldly as she said, "If you are dissatisfied with Jin, you can adopt this child out to me."
"I don't have any children of my own anyway. We might as well change his surname to [Senju]."
Fugaku: "..."
He gave an awkward smile, pretending not to hear, and just focused on refilling Tsunade's teacup, saying, "Drink tea, drink..."
As for "adoption" and "changing surnames"... he didn't mention a single word...
This made Tsunade unable to resist letting out a cold snort, displaying unspeakable envy...
It was a leisurely, cool, and pleasant morning. Itachi silently watched the two of them, casting another glance out the window, silently chanting "Nii-san~" in his heart. He obediently stood up, grabbed a broom resting in the corner, and began sweeping up the splinters around the low table.
Seeing this, Shizune said warmly to the boy, "Let me do it."
As she spoke, without waiting for Itachi to react, she took the broom from his hands and began sweeping up herself. The sunlight shone through the window lattice onto the floor, forming a few spots of light that vanished and reappeared as Shizune swept the floor...
Just like Roy, shuttling through the light, flickering in and out of sight. In no time at all, he crossed nearly more than half of Konoha's commercial district.
With another step,
He walked out of the light,
Slowly revealing his figure right in front of Hiruzen Sarutobi's wide desk in the Hokage office.
"You're here..."
"I'm here..."
"You shouldn't have come..."
"But, I have already come..."
Roy's feet slowly landed on the smooth wooden floor. He cast a glance around... Inside the Hokage office, aside from Hiruzen Sarutobi, there was also an old man sitting on the sofa against the south wall. He held a cane in his hand, and one arm and half of his face were tightly wrapped in bandages...
The moment the boy, wreathed in a solar halo, revealed his figure...
A sharp and piercing gaze suddenly fell upon him!
Roy spread his hands, glanced at the one-eyed old man, turned his head to Hiruzen Sarutobi, and said, "It seems I really came at a bad time."
The corner of Hiruzen Sarutobi's mouth twitched imperceptibly. He glared at Roy in annoyance, then said to the one-eyed old man, "Danzo, you may leave first."
"Space-Time Ninjutsu? Since when did the Uchiha produce a second Minato Namikaze, and this old man didn't know?" Danzo fixed his leisurely gaze entirely on Roy, completely ignoring Hiruzen Sarutobi's words, and spoke to himself. The coldness and mockery in his words spread out, immediately causing Hiruzen Sarutobi to frown and a trace of displeasure to surface on his face.
He pulled a long face and was just about to say something when he saw... Roy slowly turn his body, facing Danzo directly, and said with a beaming smile, "You're blind, so isn't it only natural that you couldn't notice?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi simply swallowed his words, leaning back comfortably against his chair. He opened the teacup placed in front of him and leisurely sipped his tea, unsurprisingly hearing a cold snort!
Half of Danzo's face instantly darkened. He thumped his cane heavily against the floor, emitting a dull thud!
His remaining left eye, not covered by bandages, stared maliciously at Roy like a venomous snake, saying, "Sharp-tongued brat, do you know who you're talking to?"
"Oh~ So it's Danzo-sama!" Roy "suddenly realized", pretending as if he had just noticed Danzo, and apologized, "I apologize. Just now, I thought it was some wild dog barking wildly by the side of the road. I didn't notice Danzo-sama for a moment. Gomen~ Gomen~"
"Pfft—" A mouthful of tea was almost sprayed out. Hiruzen Sarutobi nearly choked to death on the tea he had swallowed. Coughing awkwardly a few times, he waved his hand at Roy and Danzo, who had suddenly looked over, and said, "Cough, cough... Don't mind me. This old man is just looking at the battle reports..."
Danzo: "..."
A vein visibly popped on his forehead, but he quickly concealed it... This "Shadow Hokage" who had defiled Uchiha corpses looked dangerously at Roy. In his mind, the words Orochimaru had said to him before defecting automatically surfaced... Keeping his composure, he forcibly suppressed the anger that suddenly flared up from his heart. Pretending not to hear the veiled insults in Roy's words, he merely said, "What are you here for?"
Roy looked at Danzo in astonishment, as if looking at an idiot. He pointed at the door of the Hokage office and said, "The door is right there. If you can come, why can't I?"
"This is the Hokage office, not a Ninja Academy classroom! Students are not allowed to enter without permission!"
"I'm sorry to inform Danzo-sama, but with Hokage-sama's special permission, I have already graduated early. I am no longer a student, but a... Ninja!"
"Brat," Danzo suddenly raised his voice, "A ninja must be announced even more so. Moreover... a little ninja like you who isn't even a Genin..."
"That's true," Roy nodded in deep agreement. He simply turned his head to look at Hiruzen Sarutobi and asked, "Hokage-sama, am I allowed to come?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was pretending to look at the battle reports spread open in front of him, when he suddenly heard Roy's voice, encrypted with "Nen aura", slowly transmitting into his mind: "Hokage-sama, you wouldn't want the only [Wood Release] ninja in the village to die on the battlefield, would you?"
The corner of Hiruzen Sarutobi's eye twitched violently. He helplessly raised his head and said leisurely to Danzo, "This old man called him here."
"Hiruzen... you!" Danzo looked over in shock...
At the right moment, Hiruzen Sarutobi waved his hand, "Alright, you may leave first."
"As for the matters on the frontlines, we still need to convene a Jonin meeting to carefully deliberate and discuss them. In the short term... we can't make a hasty decision... We'll talk about it when Jiraiya's letter arrives."
Danzo Shimura rubbed the cane in his hands. With half his face covered by bandages, it was impossible to see his expression clearly. With the remaining half, he narrowed his eyes coldly. Amidst his chilling gaze,
It constantly shifted back and forth between Roy and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
His buttocks seemed glued to the sofa, stubbornly staying put and unmoving.
Seeing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi raised an eyebrow, his tone unkind, "Still not leaving?"
Danzo snorted coldly and said, "I think as an aide, I have the qualification to audit."
"You do," Hiruzen Sarutobi faintly picked up the Hokage hat resting on the corner of his desk, placed it on his head, and said expressionlessly, "But, I think you've mistaken one thing."
With the hat secured on his head, Hiruzen Sarutobi's aura suddenly changed. He looked majestically at Danzo and said, "I am not discussing this with you,"
"It is an order!"
"And I,"
"Am the Hokage!"
Boom! An invisible pressure descended straight onto Danzo!
The stern-faced Hiruzen Sarutobi instantly seemed to overlap with the Hokage portrait sitting on the Hokage Rock outside the window.
This caused the corner of Danzo's mouth to twitch violently uncontrollably.
He stood up, leaning on his cane.
Forced by the majesty of the Hokage... unable to sit any longer, he let out a cold snort and slammed the door as he left!
"Hmph!"
"You will regret this!"
A chilling cold snort drifted in through the crack under the heavily closed door...
Hiruzen Sarutobi breathed a gentle sigh of relief. He casually took off the Hokage hat, pulled out his old tobacco pipe from a drawer, lit it, and took a deep drag. Opening his mouth, he exhaled a smoke ring with a smack of his lips. He glared at Roy in annoyance and said, "Very well. I don't know how many years it's been since someone dared to threaten this old man like that. You brat can be considered the first!"
Roy watched Danzo leave. Finally, he took a deep look at his arm wrapped in layers of bandages. Turning his head, he replaced his expression with a smile. Making himself completely at home, he found a chair and sat down...
He smiled and said, "Me too,"
"I don't know how many years it's been since someone dared to blatantly peep like that. You old geezer can also be considered the first!"
Old geezer... The corner of Hiruzen Sarutobi's eye twitched imperceptibly again. He almost choked on the smoke he had inhaled into his lungs. Taking advantage of his dry cough, he forcibly explained, "This old man wasn't peeping, I was caring for the younger generation!"
"If it were anyone else, see if I'd even bother looking!"
"Unappreciative brat..."
"Is that so?" Roy looked expressionlessly at Hiruzen Sarutobi.
His clear and bright gaze faintly revealed a great sun. It instantly made Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes sting faintly, reminding him of his embarrassing predicament of being caught by Roy and awkwardly deactivating the [Telescope Technique] just now...
Tick tock... tick tock... The clock ticked away the seconds and minutes...
After Danzo slammed the door and left, the massive Hokage office fell into a long silence for the first time...
Hiruzen Sarutobi narrowed his eyes, locking gazes with Roy across the desk... After a long while, seeing the boy stubbornly latching onto this point and not letting go, he sighed helplessly and conceded defeat, saying, "You win. This old man won't peep anymore..."
Roy's expression relaxed. He slowly leaned back against his chair, faced Hiruzen Sarutobi, and extended his right hand, "Compensation... for mental distress..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes widened, "What compensation do you want?!"
"The Scroll of Seals," Roy narrowed his eyes and said, "I want to look at the [Scroll of Seals]!"
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