The Ugliness Beneath Your Masks

Uzumaki Naruto held two eyeballs in his hand, walked over to Uchiha Shisui, and crouched beside him, comparing them briefly.

"Shisui, it's very inconvenient to be without eyes. I'll put these two in first as replacements."

Uchiha Shisui snapped out of his shock, immediately breaking into a cold sweat. Trembling, he said, "Na-Naruto, don't mess around. Transplanting eyes isn't as simple as you think..."

"I'm a person, not building blocks. You can't just put them in and use them..."

"Shut up."

Uzumaki Naruto shot Uchiha Shisui an impatient look. With a thought, four chains directly bound Uchiha Shisui tightly.

Roughly stuffing the Root ninja's eyeballs into Uchiha Shisui's eye sockets, Uzumaki Naruto asked, "How is it? Can you see?"

Uchiha Shisui: "..."

On the verge of tears, Uchiha Shisui said, "Naruto, you put them in backward. The black part should be on the outside."

Uzumaki Naruto froze slightly, only then realizing that he had put them in backward.

However, Uzumaki Naruto did not care. He directly dug the eyeballs back out of Uchiha Shisui's sockets.

Uchiha Shisui: "..."

"They really were backward... The black part should be on the outside..."

"This should do it."

Uzumaki Naruto adjusted the eyeballs and stuffed them back into Uchiha Shisui's eye sockets.

Uchiha Shisui was crying inside.

You think I'll regain my sight through such a brutal transplant? What a joke. An eye transplant is an extremely precise...

"Eh!?"

Uchiha Shisui blankly raised his head and looked at Uzumaki Naruto. He blinked repeatedly, his face utterly dazed.

"I can see..."

What the hell!?

I can see just like that!?

The corners of Uzumaki Naruto's lips curled up slightly as he looked at Uchiha Shisui as though he were a toy.

"The Uchiha Clan's constitution is really interesting. Uchiha Madara was like this, and so are you. I wonder whether other eyeballs would work if I replaced yours with them..."

Uchiha Shisui did not catch Uchiha Madara's name, but he was still scared half to death and hurriedly shook his head.

"No, no, no, Naruto. Please give up on that terrifying idea."

Now that he had eyes, Uchiha Shisui saw the Root ninja corpses and could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

"It was these three Root ninja. You killed them instantly... Naruto, you actually killed three Chunin in an instant..."

Uzumaki Naruto came back to himself and glanced at the three Root ninja corpses.

"So they were Chunin. No wonder they were so weak."

Uchiha Shisui nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. Did Naruto even know what he was saying?

Naruto was just a brat from the Ninja Academy, not even a ninja yet. Was killing three elite Chunin somehow not enough!?

Uzumaki Naruto spoke.

"Alright, Shisui. Go to sleep first and get some rest. I'll have something to ask you when you wake up."

Uchiha Shisui froze for a moment. Then pain struck the back of his neck, and darkness filled his vision as he lost consciousness.

After knocking Uchiha Shisui out, Uzumaki Naruto turned his gaze toward the corpses of the three Root ninja.

With a flick of his finger, several Scorch Release fireballs landed on the Anbu ninja corpses. Fierce flames instantly ignited, burning the bodies into dried husks that continued to burn.

Uzumaki Naruto used Adamantine Chains to bring Uchiha Shisui to the Forest of Death.

Choosing a cave hidden behind leaves, Uzumaki Naruto drove out the black bears inside, tidied the place up a little, and placed Uchiha Shisui atop a pile of fallen leaves.

"Whew!"

After finishing everything, Uzumaki Naruto wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Hey, Naruto, why did you save that Uchiha Clan brat?"

Inside the Sealing Space.

The Nine-Tails angrily swished its tail and growled, "The Uchiha Clan is an innately evil clan. It would be best if they all died."

Uzumaki Naruto smiled and said, "Because I want to know the truth."

The Nine-Tails froze.

"You mean the deaths of your parents?"

Uzumaki Naruto nodded, his voice cold. "What happened was far too unreasonable."

"My mother's delivery location should have been top secret, yet someone discovered it. Besides that, when you went berserk, the Root ninja did not come to support us. They even stopped the Uchiha Clan's ninja. It was practically as though they were letting Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina die."

The Nine-Tails had nothing to say.

When it went berserk back then, it had already lost its mind and attacked the people around it with near-mindless fury.

Coldness flashed in Uzumaki Naruto's eyes. "There is definitely something suspicious going on."

Root was Konoha's dark side. Though Danzo controlled it, its true master behind the scenes had to be Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Yet during the Nine-Tails Attack, the Root ninja had actually not come out to help.

It was just like the Uchiha Clan massacre.

Uchiha Itachi wiped out the Uchiha Clan. Heh, who would believe Sarutobi Hiruzen had not ordered it?

The same logic applied to the Nine-Tails Attack.

It was one thing not to let the Root ninja act.

Sarutobi Hiruzen even stopped the Uchiha Clan's ninja from acting, despite their Sharingan being the true means of stopping the Nine-Tails.

Minato Namikaze!?

His Flying Thunder God was powerful, but at most, it could transfer a Tailed Beast Bomb. It could not harm the Nine-Tails at all.

The only effective method was the Reaper Death Seal.

Sarutobi Hiruzen definitely knew that.

Yet he forcibly stalled against the Nine-Tails until Minato Namikaze arrived to provide support.

The result was that Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina died in battle, while he reclaimed his position as Hokage.

It looked reasonable.

But upon closer thought, it was riddled with holes.

Too many things had been deliberate. It was as though the Nine-Tails Attack had been meant to kill Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina.

Before, he had lacked strength. Even if he had suspicions, he could only hide them in his heart. But now... he already had the strength to uncover the truth.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, just how ugly are the faces you hide beneath your masks!?"

Uzumaki Naruto punched the cave wall. A huge crack split across it, and blood rolled down along with the broken stones.