Looking at Sasuke's embarrassed face, Naruto suddenly laughed loudly, "Hahaha, you are obviously crying, hahaha, I did not expect that you who were so proud the other day would turn out to be a crybaby!"
Sasuke quickly said, "Shut up, shut up, shut up, I… I am not crying…!"
But Naruto didn't believe Sasuke at all.
Helpless, Sasuke said, "Okay-okay, but you can't tell anyone about it, promise me this. As long as you promise to never disclose this matter to anyone, I am willing to accept any of your terms in return. Speak up, this is the promise of an Uchiha!"
As soon as he heard this, Naruto's eyes widened, and he asked while deeply staring at Sasuke, "You will promise any term?"
Nervous because of Naruto's intense gaze, "Uh… the condition you put forward should not be too big or unreasonable, otherwise I will not be able to fulfill them!"
Hearing Sasuke's words, Naruto took up a thinking posture, it was as if he was seriously considering something.
And when Sasuke saw such a serious thinking posture of Naruto, he somehow felt a little uneasy and nervous, Sasuke was afraid that Naruto would definitely put forward some unreasonable condition that he could not promise.
Suddenly, Naruto seemed to have thought of something, and said loudly, "I have decided!"
"What!?" – asked Sasuke.
Naruto pointed at Sasuke, and said, "My condition is that you have to become my friend!"
Sasuke was stunned, then spoke with an unsure expression, "What kind of condition is this?"
Naruto immediately pointed at Sasuke and said impatiently, "Hey, you cannot back off now, you promised, right? You have to accept my condition!"
Sasuke waved his hand awkwardly, and said, "Alright, alright, I accept your condition, from this day, you and I are friends, these are the words of Uchiha Sasuke!"
"Hurray! Then, then, I am… I am Uzumaki Naruto, and my dream is to become the Hokage!" Naruto said excitedly.
Sasuke was helpless by Naruto's exciting aura, but he did not dislike it. It felt strangely comfortable and he felt relief, his anxiety, fear also started to ease away. This was strange, and somehow reminded him how he has always felt in the presence of his Nii-san.
Sasuke smiled lightly, and together with Naruto started to walk in the direction of the village while laughing and talking, under the lead of the Itachi's crow.
And neither of the two noticed the Anbu shinobi with purple hair, and an eagle mask watching over them and silently following them from top of a tree. She had a gentle smile while looking at the two kids but the smile was hidden within her Anbu mask.
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While Itachi and Team-11 each dealt with some situations, the other complicated situations also developed within the village.
Let's rewind time to a few minutes ago.
Uchiha Fugaku led the elites towards the Hokage Building. Although they were not close yet, from the bright lights of the Hokage Office, and tumultuous voices, it wasn't difficult to assume that something was going on, and this something, for some reason made Fugaku a bit uneasy.
"What could have happened that prompted Sandaime to issue emergency evacuation and also gathered so many ninjas at once." – muttered Fugaku in doubt.
Fugaku can easily determine that at least a hundred, or probably more high-level shinobi gathered at the Hokage Building at this moment.
In terms of number alone, Uchiha Clan is obviously outmatched.
Therefore, Fugaku has made up his mind, once he sees Sandaime, and feels that the Hokage faction is planning to take some action against his clan, then Fugaku will immediately use his Mangekyou Sharingan to solve the matter at once.
At least that way, his clan wouldn't be hit and annihilated by a surprise attack. And for this very reason, Fugaku made sure that all the youngsters, including his sons Itachi, and Sasuke were left behind at the clan, so as to improve the chances of survival of the Uchiha Clan even in the worst-case scenario.
Only a few seconds later, the team led by Uchiha Fugaku arrived at the Hokage Building.
As soon as he arrived, Fugaku saw Sandaime, the two elder consultants, as well as around a hundred or so Shinobi standing.
Looking at Sandaime, Fugaku was silent, while he also started brewing his dojutsu, ready to cast at a moment's notice.
Sandaime noticed Fugaku's silence, and there seemed to be some unusual tension in his expression. To ease away the tension, Sandaime took the initiative to speak, "Fugaku, you are finally here, I was wondering what was taking the Konoha Military Police Force so long to arrive here."
Fugaku frowned, he was a bit confused, "Forgive me for asking this Hokage-sama, but I am a bit confused, I heard that you have issued the village to enter a state of emergency, what exactly happened, and why was the Konoha Military Police Force not notified? The security of the village is under the jurisdiction of Konoha Military Police Force, and yet we were not even informed of such!"
Sandaime frowned upon hearing Fugaku's words, "Hmm? The Anbu were ordered to summon all the clan heads, and Uchiha Clan was no exception to that, as such, the order of summoning should have arrived at Uchiha Clan!"
"What!?" – Fugaku was shocked, he turned to look at one of his men, who shook his head in response.
From Fugaku's shocked expression Sandaime understood that his guess was indeed correct, there is indeed some third-party planning somethings, and the Anbu responsible for passing the order to the Uchiha Clan might have fallen in the hands of this third party, now confirmed that the Uchiha Clan is innocent, Sandaime spoke, "Well, I will briefly explain the situation to you. Not long ago, the Jinchuriki of Kyuubi was kidnapped by someone, and taken outside the village, and only a few minutes later, someone attempted to assassinate me inside the Hokage office. Although we were unable to figure out the identity of the assassin, a few things were still noticed. For one, he had a pair of three tomoe Sharingan, and for the other, the enemy was extremely powerful."
"What!?" – Fugaku was taken aback now, such a revelation was beyond what he expected.
Sandaime continued, "From the disguise of the assassin he didn't seem to be a member of Amatsukami and form his height and several other features including his speed made it seem as if he is Uchiha Shisui. To make the matters worse, the other party or probably his comrades deliberately led Shisui away from the village by kidnapping the Jinchuriki. By doing so, the witnesses of Shisui's presence were only the other three members of that team, and the blame will inevitably fall on the Uchiha Clan.
So overall, the situation is pretty messed up, it is hard to figure out whether the other party is targeting Kyuubi, or they are trying to induce infighting within the village or maybe both. And that's probably the reason why the Anbu shinobi who was responsible for passing my order to the Uchiha Clan never reached there as he might have been eliminated by these interested parties. It could be the work of Amatsukami, but I think that this time the enemy is not Amatsukami, this is not how they operate.
It is very likely that the culprit of all this is Akatsuki, but we don't have any solid proof yet."
During the time when the emergency was announced, Sandaime was able to figure out most of the situation, and also explained the ins and outs of the matter to the two elders too, of course, the prerequisite of all this is that his guesses are not wrong.
Fugaku's face was uncertain when he heard all this, he did not expect that so many things to happen on such an ordinary full moon night. Thinking of the intention of the people inducing them, Fugaku can't help but shudder.
If Sandaime hadn't figured out all this, then it is very likely that the village would have already been engulfed in a war.
And if the war did happen, then Konoha would have been ultimately destroyed.
Fugaku can't help but worry at just how much trouble Konoha is facing, at the same time, he felt a bit of pity for Sandaime to have to shoulder so much.
Sandaime noticed Fugaku's worry, and patted his shoulder in reassurance, then said, "I have dispatched the Anbu to help the team-11 with Kyuubi, and also to ensure the safety of team-11, so I don't think that we will have to worry about that, but there has been no news about the assassin who had the Sharingan and posed as Uchiha Shisui, so we have to take that matter seriously for the sake of the village."
Fugaku nodded with a serious expression.
ROARRRRRRRr...
BOOOM!!!
Suddenly there was a loud deafening roar from the direction of the Hyuga Clan. Followed by a loud roar, a loud explosion occurred, and the earth shook.
It felt as if an extremely large monster was ravaging the village.
"Could it be Kyuubi!?"
"Don't speak such ominous things, If Kyuubi went on a rampage, then the village will suffer irrecoverable wounds!"
Sandaime's expression shrank immediately because this incident indeed reminded him of the night of Kyuubi's rampage.
When everyone turned to look in the direction of the Hyuga Clan, they found a behemoth-sized creature, muddy-purple in color, with several heads, and dark chakra raging around and demolishing the houses.
"That… that's not the Kyuubi!"
"Yeah, what in the hell is that thing!?"
"Hey… hey… his Chakra is so dark and evil!"
"Damn that beast! My house is in there, and the loan has yet to be paid!"
The ninjas present here were suddenly agitated, and no one could turn a blind eye to such a monstrous existence raging within the village
At this moment, a Chunin who held his shoulder to temporary stop the bleeding rushed over to the Hokage Building, and reported the situation to Sandaime, "Hokage-sama, one of the squad captains of the Konoha Military Police Force is resisting that monster, please you have to send someone for support else it would be impossible to that monster suppressed any longer!"
"The captain of the Konoha Military Police Force?" – Sandaime was taken aback, and immediately turned towards Fugaku who was standing next to him.
Fugaku also had a confused expression.
The Konoha Military Police Force is under the control of the Uchiha Clan, and all the squad captains are present here with him, and there are no other squad captains. Fugaku can be sure of this, as he, himself is the leader of the Konoha Military Police Force.
What's more, such a large monster cannot be suppressed or resisted by just any shinobi. Kage level strength is minimum.
The injured Chunin did not seem to notice Fugaku's confused expression, and said to him, "Fugaku-sama, this time thanks to the squad captain of Konoha Military Police Force, many lives were saved and the people present around also had the opportunity to retreat as fast as they can, otherwise a lot of casualties would have occurred. I am afraid that none of our teams would have survived. So, please accept my heartfelt gratitude!"
Fugaku could only nod with an awkward expression.
Sandaime jumped on top of the roof of the adjacent building, and shouted, "Let's set off, firstly drive this monster out of the village thirty-degree south from position alpha, and there the sealing class will prepare to seal that monster!"
"Yes, Hokage-sama!" – everyone, including Uchiha Shinobi, nodded with a serious expression, the Uchiha were especially serious.
The appearance of this monster has clearly indicated that there is a third party involved in the matter tonight, so everyone understood that someone was inducing infighting, and they were angered. This debt has to be repaid!
The Uchiha clan has been under tremendous pressure for a while now, and now that they see the opportunity to let loose, they are pretty eager to beat the hell out of that punching bag.
So under the leadership of Hokage-sama, a large number of Shinobi rushed towards the rampaging monster…
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