Miwa Masayo said with feeling, "You're so capable, yet you deliberately hid yourself and stayed unknown until now. That must have been hard."
"For freedom, hardship was worth it. If I became famous, as an Uchiha, I wouldn't have been able to take C-rank missions and leave the village."
"That's true, meow. You've clashed with Root twice without any reputation. If you were famous, who knows how much trouble you'd have faced."
"Konoha is so scary..."
Uchiha Yu rubbed Miwa Masayo's head and refuted her, "You're wrong. Konoha isn't scary."
"Actually, I started planning to defect when I was four. But through the intelligence I gathered, I discovered that Konoha was already the safest place in the Ninja World. Even for an Uchiha, Konoha was the safest place."
"Outside the village was the real hell."
He let out a deep sigh and pointed at the four captives. "Every one of them reeks of killing intent. They obviously just saw bloodshed."
"Masayo, think about the direction they came from, and you'll know who they killed."
Miwa Masayo fell silent. After a long while, she slowly asked, "The villagers of Jiusen Village? B-but Sunagakure's ninjas had no reason to kill people, did they?"
Uchiha Yu sighed. "Miwa Masayo, all the ninjas you've encountered were Konoha ninjas, so you've developed a misconception."
"Konoha ninjas were educated well. Even Root ninjas needed a reason to kill, such as me being an Uchiha, or someone obstructing their mission."
"But the ninjas of other villages weren't so civilized. Their reasons for killing were utterly unreasonable."
"Or rather, ninjas didn't need a reason to kill. Not killing required a reason."
Uchiha Yu pointed at the leading Sunagakure ninja. His red Sharingan spun as he asked, "Tell me, why did you kill those Land of Rivers villagers?"
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