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"We found it!"

"The enemy can absorb ninjutsu. Notify the taijutsu units immediately!"

Soon, the taijutsu unit received the reconnaissance team's report and arrived at the battlefield where Pain's Preta Path was.

Might Guy and the Hyuga Family's elite shinobi were among them. Even Hizashi Hyuga had come!

Although Jiraiya, who had become Hokage afterward, had not taken his anger out on anyone else over the Fifth Hokage's defection, the incident had still affected the Hyuga Family and the Uchiha Clan.

The impact of the incident was that the High-Level Advisor had voluntarily resigned, shut his doors to visitors, and all the younger members of the clan had begun keeping a low profile.

After all, none of them could silence public opinion. Rather than letting all those rumors make them furious, they might as well honestly stay at home and avoid the storm.

And this avoidance lasted for several years.

Had Konoha not reached this moment of life and death, Jiraiya would not have personally visited them, reasoned with them, and appealed to their emotions. The Hyuga Family also felt that this was an excellent opportunity to "atone through meritorious service," so they would never have sent so many clan members into danger.

Of course, most of them were members of the branch family...

Compared with the Hyuga Family, the Uchiha Clan was much more carefree.

They had never been well-liked in the first place. After that incident, their family estate became deserted again, which instead brought them quite a bit of peace and quiet.

Moreover, with Fugaku temporarily acting as clan head and forbidding the clan members from slandering the Fifth Hokage, while Clan Head Itachi spent most of the year away searching for "that person," the members of the Uchiha Clan had little to complain about.

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