The Muscle God of the Uchiha

As the corpse turned into white smoke and entered the scroll, it quickly left in one direction.

Konoha Village, Root Base.

Danzo and Uchiha Itachi, one old and one young, have been waiting for almost an hour.

Danzo was calm and relaxed, sitting on the chair with his eyes closed and concentrating, not worried about any accidents.

Itachi stood aside, looking solemnly towards the entrance of the base. Although he didn't believe that his uncle would die so easily, he still couldn't help but feel anxious.

And, as time passed, his inner anxiety grew.

"Itachi, are you still harboring fantasies?"

Danzo's voice suddenly sounded.

He saw through Itachi's innocent fantasy and exposed it without mercy:

"What I sent out was an elite team from the root. Among the members, there are people who specialize in restraining Uchiha Dan's ability. In addition, Ryoma also went. You should know what this means."

Hearing this, Itachi was shaken all over, his body swayed for a moment and he almost lost his balance.

He didn't expect that Danzo would be so ruthless.

Leaving aside the so-called elite team, Aburame Ryoma is the second-ranked figure in the root. He once served as Danzo's bodyguard with Orochimaru, and his strength is comparable to that of the Sannin.

Only then did Itachi realize:

My uncle may be in really bad luck this time.

Danzo was satisfied with Itachi's reaction, pretended to sigh again, and continued:

"Although I promised to hand over Suan's body to you, if Ryoma takes action, your uncle may die without a complete body. Alas, I can only hope that Suan won't resist too fiercely, what do you think?"

When Itachi heard this, he was almost desperate, his face turned ashen.

In such suffering.

After an unknown amount of time, a figure appeared at the entrance of the root base, and Ryoma Aburame finally returned.

"Danzo-sama." As soon as Aburame Ryoma came back, he knelt on one knee and lowered his head.

"explain."

Danzo frowned when he saw this, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Aburame Ryoma raised her head, glanced at Itachi who was standing aside, hesitated for two seconds, and then reported the report truthfully:

"We...failed."

What? !

Danzo and Itachi were shocked when they heard this.

silence.

Ever since Aburame Ryoma spoke, the Root Base had fallen into deathly silence, with no one speaking.

Kaka.

Danzo tightened his grip on the crutches in his hand, veins popped out on the back of his hands, and his whole body frowned, on the verge of breaking out.

The atmosphere was solemn and suffocating.

At this time, Itachi came back to his senses, bowed politely to Danzo, and said in a cold tone:

"Danzo-sama, the ANBU still has something to do, so I'll take my leave now."

After saying that, without waiting for Danzo to answer, he turned around and left.

No face was saved at all.

Chapter 31, Codename Araki

Danzo stared at Itachi's back, gritting his teeth as he watched the latter walk out of the root.

Then.

"What the hell is going on!" He was angry at his subordinates, with an angry look on his face.

"I underestimated Uchiha Dan's strength, which led to the annihilation of the second team. I also fought with Dan, but could not kill him, so I had to retreat first. It is my fault that this mission failed. Please Danzo My lord punishes me.”

Ryoma, the oil girl, took the initiative and took over without any complaints.

Danzo heard this and took a deep breath to calm down his anger.

He knew how strong Aburame Ryoma was, and how loyal Ryoma was, and would never deceive him.

Even Ryoma is helpless. What kind of monster is that Uchiha Dan?

Think of this.

Danzo sat back on the chair and raised his hand to Ryoma who was kneeling on the ground: "Get up, I won't punish you this time."

Aburame Ryoma stood up and asked, "Are you still going to send people to assassinate Uchiha Dan?"

"Forget it, don't put more people inside for now, just pretend nothing happened."

Danzo said with a wave of his hand.

He is not worried at all, Duan will cause trouble for him when he comes back.

after all.

He, Danzo, had assassinated even the Hokage. In the end, it wasn't a big deal. Now he just assassinated an Uchiha. What's the problem?

In Konoha, no one can do anything to him.

He is the darkness of the ninja world.

Covering the sky with one hand.

"I will collect and sort out the information about Uchiha Dan in detail and report to you again," Aburame Ryoma said again.

"Yeah. We must find out his real weakness, do you understand?"

Danzo nodded and told his subordinates.

Any ninja has weaknesses, and Uchiha Danzo is no exception, but Danzo has not found them yet.

Put that aside for now.

"This time we lost the second team, it's time to replenish the manpower at the root and absorb some fresh blood. Speaking of which, I haven't visited the major ninja clans for a while."

Danzo muttered to himself, pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked Aburame Ryoma, "By the way, have the Aburame clan had any good prospects recently?"

"I'll go back and ask."

Ryoma Aburame lowered her head and replied, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes under her sunglasses.

He is loyal to Danzo and Konoha, but he also loves his people, and he knows what joining the Roots means to them.

Itachi walked out of the root, his eyes flashing with disbelief.

Unexpectedly, even Genbu's carefully planned assassination failed to kill his uncle.

It must be a thrilling and exciting battle.

Although Itachi didn't know the details of the battle, he guessed that his uncle must have used the same method against the masked man again to make Aburame Ryoma return without success, right?

Maybe, when his uncle comes back, he can try to ask.

but.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Itachi still hadn't waited for Duan to come back.

Early in the morning, he received a notice and went to the Hokage's office with Kakashi and Tenzo to meet the Sandaime.

Bada.

The Sandaime took a puff from his pipe, blew out a long smoke ring, and then said to Kakashi:

"The Kingdom of the Forest has clearly formed an alliance with us, Konoha, and is secretly flirting with the Iwagakure Village. I have sent Metkai to lead a team to the border to exchange information scrolls with the Prajna of the Kingdom of Forest, but after thinking about it, it still feels a bit... Don’t worry. You take the sixth team and follow Kai secretly. If the Prajna clan betrays Konoha, you know what to do.”

"yes."

Kakashi took the order and led the team to set off immediately.

Along the way, Itachi seemed worried.

Kakashi was a little surprised when he saw this, and asked lazily: "It's your first time to go out on a mission as an ANBU, are you nervous?"

Tenzo also patted Itachi on the shoulder and encouraged:

"Don't worry that you won't perform well. It's actually nothing. I even assassinated Lord Hokage. That was when I was ten years old..."

Tenzo was still at the root at that time, and he was ordered by Danzo to assassinate the Sandaime. He only abandoned the dark side and turned to the light after being defeated by the Hokage guard Kakashi.

Weasel: 6.

In fact, he was not nervous because of the task.

It's almost the end of the month, and in just over a week, the Uchiha clan meeting will be held.

Today, undercurrents are surging within the clan, and the contradiction between hawks and doves has become increasingly prominent.

Shisui met Itachi last night and told him solemnly:

This clan meeting may become a flash point for conflicts between the two factions. I hope Itachi can work with him to maintain peace within the clan.

in addition.

Itachi remembered that his uncle had previously agreed to his father's invitation and would attend the Uchiha clan meeting for the first time.

With my uncle's unpredictable character, I don't know what he will do at the clan meeting.

Think of this.

Itachi was confused for a moment, he had a premonition that something big would happen by then.

Therefore, he cannot miss this clan meeting.

What Itachi was worried about now was whether he would be able to get back in time if this mission took too long.

…

Within the Land of Fire.

Duan was wearing a cloak and a bamboo hat on his head, walking on a forest path.

He was surrounded by a vast virgin forest, with birds and wild animals appearing from time to time. After walking for a long time, he arrived at a remote town.

The streets were deserted and without any fireworks, with only a few sparse houses and convenience stores. A few crows sat on the telephone poles on the side of the road, occasionally calling strangely.

After taking the familiar route, we walked to the end of the street, entered a tall building, and went straight to the toilet.

Different time, same toilet.

Behind the secret door of this toilet is the underground money exchange of the Fire Country.

Crunch.

He pushed open the door and walked in, followed the passage dozens of meters down, and arrived at the trading hall of the gold exchange.

Different from the emptiness and loneliness on the ground, there are a lot of people here, and a large number of bounty ninjas, ronin and samurai are bustling and noisy.

A money exchange is a black market that circulates countless amounts of dirty money, information, and stolen goods, as well as...

corpse.

In the world of ninjas, dead people are sometimes more valuable than living people, because corpses often contain important information.

The person who best proves this is Senju Hashirama, known as the God of Ninja.

His cells are comparable to Tang Monk's meat, whoever gets them will cheat.

If the first Hokage is cremated after his death, there won't be so many troubles in the future.

The morgue is the most popular department of the money exchange.

When Duan came here, several bounty hunters were lining up with the bodies. After the staff checked and verified, the bodies were recovered on the spot and the bounties were distributed.

The price of corpses ranges from hundreds of thousands of taels to tens of millions of taels.

Of course, corpses worth tens of millions of taels are usually from Kage, high-level elites or S-class rebel ninjas from major ninja villages, and you may not be able to see even one throughout the year.

Duan is a high-level bounty hunter, codenamed "Araki", so there is no need to queue.