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Eri looks weak, but she has a big appetite. It may be because of Minato's secret sauce that she eats a whole plate of barbecue by herself.

Uchiha Hikaru finished the remaining half of the plate.

When the two finished their meal and came out of the barbecue restaurant, they saw a familiar figure waiting here in advance.

"Izumi?"

"Grandmother."

Uchiha Izumi bowed and saluted immediately, with a very respectful face: "Master Fugaku has learned about your return and asked me to come and greet you. If there is anything you need to do, please feel free to tell me."

"Oh."

Uchiha Hikaru certainly didn't have anything to tell him, but just said casually: "Did anything happen in the clan during my absence?"

Izumi hesitated: "...Yes. Several clan members have disappeared recently."

"Missing?"

Uchiha Hikaru raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah."

Quan glanced at Eri quietly, then whispered: "Since the last attack on Nanga River, the situation outside the village seems to have become very unstable, especially in the border area of ​​the Land of Fire. The ninja squad sent there to perform tasks has been attacked several times, and several people have lost their whereabouts, including several Uchiha clan members..."

Then, Quan explained in detail:

As early as the end of last year, the Uchiha clan had reached an agreement with Konoha, and some clan members were sent to the Ninja School and the Jounin Class. Among them, a few clan members have begun to lead the team out of the village to perform tasks.

Originally, everything went smoothly.

Those who were submitted by Fugaku and approved by Konoha F3 were basically Uchiha clan members with good strength and good character. Even if they had a little disagreement with their teammates during the mission, they were just verbal quarrels, and did not cause any major incidents. The efficiency of completing the mission was also good.

But

Since the Nanga River incident some time ago, these teams have started to encounter accidents frequently. It seems that someone is targeting the Uchiha clan who led the team out of the village and carrying out targeted attacks.

"Have you started playing this trick..."

Uchiha Hikaru thought about it for a while and knew who was behind these things: "What did Fugaku say?"

"Fugaku-sama wants to suspend activities involving leaving the village and discuss it when you come back, but some clan members are dissatisfied with this... During the two days you were away, Hokage-sama sent someone to ask the clan leader for his opinion and has organized the Anbu to go to the border to investigate the matter. Jiraiya-sama and Shisui from the clan are among them."

"..."

Uchiha Hikaru frowned.

Although Obito chose to attack the Uchiha clan members who left the village, she was a little surprised, but she could understand it after thinking about it.

After all, Obito had already met her once and should know that she was not an opponent that could be easily defeated. In addition, Danzo and Itachi, who could have been the insiders, are lying in the hospital, and the other has not yet opened the Mangekyō. Therefore, it is a wise choice to abandon the original plan to exterminate the Uchiha clan and adopt the strategy of catching and nibbling at a time.

With Uchiha Hikaru's ability, he can certainly ask to intervene in this incident.

However...

"Tell Fugaku that this choice must be made by him."

"If the Uchiha clan still wants to seek a higher status, the person sitting in the position of the clan leader must not be an indecisive coward. When it comes to making a decision, don't look back and forth. If everything is waiting for me, the grandmother, to deal with it, what's the use of you descendants?"

Uchiha Hikaru paused: "How many clan members are missing now?"

"Three."

"Oh..."

There is really no need to take action yet.

Compared with the crisis of Uchiha clan extermination in the original timeline, this loss is acceptable. I have helped to shelter the wind and rain for so long, and it is time to let these descendants exercise their ability to handle events.

Besides, with Jiraiya and Uchiha Shisui, two Kage-level people, investigating together... there shouldn't be any problems, right?

As his thoughts drifted, Uchiha Hikari changed the subject: "Is Tsunade still in the village recently?"

"Huh?"

Izumi thought for a while, and then said hesitantly: "I... am not sure. But the Hokage recently announced a detention order for Danzo, and transferred him to a prison near the security force building, saying that he would wait until the medical ninja healed his injuries before starting to calculate the sentence. I heard from the clan leader that this seems to be the result of Tsunade's promotion."

"I see. You go and get busy first."

Uchiha Hikari asked Tsunade, not on a whim.

She did have something to do, and wanted to ask Tsunade for help--

Eri.

This seemingly well-behaved and harmless girl is actually a very dangerous hybrid with the ability called "Word Spirit·Judgment". According to the setting of the dragon clan, it is a conceptual ability of "forced death", which is manifested in the form of cutting, and only higher-level dragon bloodlines can be immune or resisted.

If he were to face her as an enemy, Uchiha Hikaru was not sure if his recovery physique could withstand her.

As the price of her powerful strength, Eri's physical condition was quite unstable, and the dragon blood in her body would continue to erode her body until she lost control.

The dragon world did not seem to have a solution to this problem.

At least not on the surface.

But in the Naruto world, there were two people who could possibly solve it -

Tsunade and Orochimaru.

Tsunade's medical ninjutsu is the best in the ninja world - but that was in the past. Now, if you want her to help treat the problem of dragon blood, you have to solve her fear of blood first.

For this, Uchiha Hikaru has not come up with any good solution yet.

As for Orochimaru...

Uchiha Hikaru had thought about trading something with him before.

As a representative figure in the field of science and technology in the Naruto world, Orochimaru has a lot of good things in his hands, such as the improved version of the Impure World Reincarnation, the contract scroll of the Ryuchi Cave, and even the soul reincarnation secret technique. And Uchiha Hikaru also has some things that may attract the latter, such as the demons of the Demon Slayer World and the blood of the Saiyans.

But this kind of transaction is risky.

Orochimaru's style of doing things is more greedy and has no bottom line than Shimura Danzo. Once he gets a sample of the "demon", he is likely to capture a group of living people to feed them to the "demon" and observe their energy conversion process. As for capturing living people for human transformation experiments like Dr. Gero, it is even more common for him.

In theory, none of this has anything to do with Uchiha Hikaru, after all, she didn't instigate it.

But if it was really because of her involvement that Orochimaru conducted a series of bloody experiments that didn't exist in the original work, she couldn't use this excuse to make herself feel at ease.

So...

"It's about time to find a time to test the ability of the 'Eight Thousand Spears' to rewrite consciousness on a living person."

"Danzo's damn life... should also come in handy."