Chapter 148 “Only Water, I Come to Save You.” (Ch 148)

The Uchiha arrived in front of the Hokage Building in a mighty force, waking up many residents along the way.

When everyone saw this, they retreated back into the house and dared not say a word. Only a few brave ones were still peeking out.

The jonin team arrived very quickly. Long before the Uchiha arrived, many jonin were scattered around the Hokage Building, and now they were in a standoff with the Uchiha.

The Hyuga, Ino-Shika-cho, Aburame, Inuzuka and other ninja clans could not sit idly by. Several clan leaders led their people over, looked at the situation at the scene, and looked at each other in silence.

Uchiha is serious about this.

So which side should they support?

On the surface, the Uchiha has little chance of winning. Even if they join in, the situation will be fifty-fifty at best.

But from the Hokage’s side, to be honest, they were not very willing.

Everyone has seen what Danzo has done over the years. It is a routine operation for him to suppress the Uchiha who he dislikes, and it is common for him to wantonly search for children from the ninja clan and bring them into the Root. He does not take their opinions seriously at all.

But the Hokage only trusts him, giving him money and power, making them feel helpless.

Especially the Inuzuka clan leader, as a victim, his mind is even more wavering.

His daughter also disappeared, and when he went to find the Hokage, he only heard one sentence: “Be patient, the child is not in danger.”

He never cared about what the Uchiha had gone through in the past, but now he could empathize with them.

The Inuzuka clan leader looked at Uchiha Fugaku, and unconsciously hoped that the other party could be a little tougher and more competitive than usual, giving him some courage and hope to stand by his side.

“Fugaku!”

Minato was supposed to ambush in the southeast corner, but he simply couldn’t stay there, so he left a shadow clone at the location and his real body appeared in front of Fugaku.

“If things go wrong like this, there will be no turning back for the Uchiha!”

Fugaku smiled helplessly and looked up at the brightly lit window at the highest point of the building.

“There is no turning back for Uchiha.”

“We were forced to walk onto this single-plank bridge.”

“Minato, please stay away from here. I don’t want to get you into trouble.”

After saying that, he revealed a pair of blood-red eyes, and his chakra began to fluctuate violently.

The Uchiha behind also opened their Sharingan one after another from the front to the back, and the overflowing chakra almost condensed into substance, as cold as an iceberg and as hot as magma.

Everyone immediately felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.

“Sandaime,” Fugaku said stiffly, not even adding the honorific, “Are you still not going to show up?”

“What does this mean, Uchiha clan leader?”

Sarutobi Hiruzen appeared on the roof, overlooking everything below. Even in this critical moment, he still maintained the last layer of decency and pretended to be stupid as soon as he opened his mouth.

“Can a gathering of people approaching the Hokage building late at night be called a rebellion?”

Hearing the other party’s questioning, Fugaku sneered repeatedly: “We are only here to retrieve the missing children of our clan, and the truth about how my adopted son, Uchiha Naraku, died.”

“If an Uchiha child is missing, they should report it according to the procedure, instead of gathering together to cause trouble. As for Uchiha Naraku, as long as the evidence is solid, there is no reason not to deal with it.”

Fugaku had long expected that he would get such an official answer, and he always endured it in the past, but now, he just wanted to go crazy and tear these hypocritical guys to pieces, along with the entire Konoha, into pieces.

“Who should I report to? To the people who kidnapped my children?”

“I know none of you will admit it!”

“I guess in your minds, Uchiha is just meat on the chopping board, to be slaughtered at will!”

Sarutobi Hiruzen scolded: “Uchiha Fugaku, be careful with your words!”

Before the situation became irreversible, he habitually tried to maintain the last bit of balance.

“We are also extremely worried about the missing children. As long as you are willing to go back and wait for news, I can forgive what happened tonight.”

“No!” Fugaku said each word loudly: “I refuse!”

…

On the outskirts of Konoha, on top of a four-story building.

“This is really lively.”

White Zetsu stretched out his right hand and placed it on his forehead, looking towards the Hokage Building.

The Uchiha army rushed out of the clan’s territory, and under the light of torches, they looked like a long dragon, charging forward with unstoppable force.

“Now it’s time to watch something interesting, Jhin, what do you say—”

Bai Zetsu turned his head to look at Naraku, only to see that the latter’s eyes were flickering, his breathing was rapid, his fingertips were trembling, and his chakra was disordered. If this continued, the burden on his internal organs would be increased, and he might suffer internal injuries.

“Jin? What’s wrong? Jhin!”

Just as it put its hand on the other’s arm, the arm along with half of the shoulder was cut off by a cold light and fell to the ground with a plop.

“Do not touch me.”

The abnormalities in Naraku’s body gradually subsided, and he returned to his original calm state, but White Zetsu always felt that something was wrong.

Confused, it used the Mayfly Technique to sink down the wall to the ground, picked up its fallen arm, and pressed it back on.

The cracks quickly healed up and I clenched my fingers without any discomfort.

When it returned to the rooftop, it couldn’t find Jhin.

“Huh?”

Bai Zetsu scratched his head, puzzled, and suddenly remembered that when Jin spoke just now, his tone was not lively and crazy as he often saw, but gentle and calm, with a kind of stagnant silence.

“How strange.”

…

Naraku ran all the way along the route he remembered, and by the way, he created a shadow clone to give him a few instructions and asked him to go in another direction.

The Xu base is not far away, and it only takes one or two minutes to get there.

The guards at the entrance and in the passage of the base had no time to see Naraku before their necks were neatly cut by a knife and they fell to the ground with blood spilling.

The Hatake swordsmanship was superb in his hands. The white light reflected from the blade turned into crescent moons, just like the sharp sickle in the hands of the god of death.

When they reached the bottom level, the ninja sword in Naraku’s hand was already covered in blood, and the blood slid down the blade, forming a blood line as he moved his feet.

After struggling several times in vain in the dark room, Shisui was resting, waiting to recover his strength to try again, when he saw a dark red light lighting up at a certain position on the wall.

The light became brighter and brighter, and it seemed that it was about to break through the obstacles, causing the surrounding iron walls to melt and flow due to the high temperature.

In an instant, a ball of fire broke through the iron door with a big hole in it and rushed into the house, and the blazing fire illuminated everyone’s face.

Shisui looked towards the door and his eyes widened instantly.

He had recalled and depicted that figure countless times in his mind, and now it appeared vividly before him.

He couldn’t help but wonder if he had fallen asleep. This was all just a beautiful dream because he hoped too much that the other party would come to rescue him.

“Naraku, senior…?”

Hearing this faint call, the man turned his head to look at him, and his eyebrows softened slightly.

“Shisui.”

He heard the other person’s hoarse but calm voice, the same as before.

“I’m here to save you.”