Power of the Nine-Tails Leaking?

Crack!

Shisui instantly crushed the wooden wheelchair's armrest.

He abruptly raised his head toward Jin.

Anger appeared on his handsome yet gloomy face for the first time. "Jin, how could you desecrate the bodies of our clansmen?!"

Smack!

"Desecrate?" Hearing that, Jin acted as though he had heard the greatest joke in the world. He slapped the broken wheelchair and retorted, "You say I desecrated our clansmen?"

"You can't possibly not know what happened to the Uchiha Clan after its extermination, can you?"

"Danzo had coveted the Sharingan for so long. Did you expect that old Monkey, always preaching the Will of Fire, to stop him?"

"Or did you expect that dear friend you entrusted everything to would help preserve the clansmen's corpses?"

"Oh, I nearly forgot. Perhaps that friend you spoke of was the true culprit behind the desecration of the clansmen's bodies!"

Crack!

Perhaps Jin had used too much strength, because the wooden wheelchair quickly fell apart.

Its pieces scattered all over the ground.

Only Shisui remained, thrown onto the cold floor, lost and helpless.

Silence.

Absolute silence.

There was not even the sound of breathing between them.

Only the droplets by the doorway fell quietly.

After a long while, Shisui seemed to have lost all his strength. He said dejectedly, "I understand. I'll think about it..."

"No. You're not qualified to consider it now. You can only—let me do as I please."

Jin reached out again and patted his forehead, then tossed the eye in his palm over with a flick of his hand.

"Put it back in. This time, don't let Danzo take it from you again."

"Also, recover quickly. For certain reasons, the village probably can't wait any longer."

With that, he turned and walked outside.

Shisui paused behind him, confused. "Why?"

Logically speaking, with the coup postponed and him incapacitated, the village should exercise some restraint.

Even if they truly intended to act, they should wait a little longer.

"Because... of me. Hahahaha!"

Jin turned back at those words, slowly baring his teeth in a grin.

The scarlet, sinister chakra in his palm completely dispelled the darkness!

No one had expected that just as the Uchiha District was about to be swallowed by darkness, a scarlet and sinister light would force its way out!

Of course, Shisui could not see it.

He could only vaguely sense an immensely powerful force.

A moment later, he stroked the eyeball that was once more connected to his flesh and blood, and his desolate heart gradually began to stir.

Coming back from the dead and regaining what had been lost—his buffs were stacked to the max!

After a long time, a soft sigh finally echoed through the late night.

"That guy... if he wanted to give me an eye, he could've just given me one. Why did he have to break my wheelchair..."

"Stubborn tsundere..."

By the Naka River.

"Lord Danzo!"

Kakashi immediately sensed trouble and hurriedly got up to bow.

Yamato beside him also struggled a few times, but failed to rise.

Even with the partial recovery ability of the First Generation Cells, he was simply too weak.

Moreover, the injuries caused by the Nine-Tails Chakra Jin had used were far too severe.

So he could only lie there and weakly say, "Lord Danzo..."

"Kakashi, you're here too."

Danzo touched the bandages on his right arm, then turned to Yamato and said in a low voice, "Kinoe, your mission has failed."

Thud.

Both men's hearts skipped a beat. Was he here to hold them accountable?

But Danzo suddenly changed the subject. "What did you mean just now by the Power of the Nine-Tails? Don't tell me you two were injured by that Nine-Tails Demon Fox brat?"

As he spoke, the lone eye hidden in the darkness gleamed with excitement.

It twitched faintly without pause.

Could it be that the Nine-Tails brat had gone on a rampage?

Good!

Excellent!

After all this time, he had finally found an opportunity!

As long as he seized control of that brat before Monkey did, the Power of the Nine-Tails would be his to wield as well!

At that moment, Danzo was particularly high-spirited.

Even the scar on his chin seemed to have smoothed out somewhat.

"My apologies, Lord Danzo, but we cannot tell you about this for now," Kakashi said directly after a brief hesitation.

He intended to conceal the fact that Jin possessed the Power of the Nine-Tails within his body.

The implications of this were far too great!

Great enough to completely alter the balance of power in Leaf.

Unfortunately, Danzo did not believe him.

He waved his hand, and a group of Root operatives wearing colorful masks instantly surrounded them.

Long blades in hand, they stared down at the two men in the crater.

Danzo smiled contemptuously. "Tell me, or the two of you die here."

"Kakashi, that eye of yours should also be returned to my dear friend's clan."

With that, he directly ordered them to attack.

Danzo's aged eyes shifted, and a flash of greed passed through them.

Kakashi's eye was something he coveted as well.

And so was Kinoe's Wood Release.

Every time he used his Wood Release, he had to sacrifice an eye. That was far from ideal.

These eyes were simply too difficult to acquire.

Tap.

Tap tap tap.

But just as Danzo's eyes brimmed with greed, a denser set of footsteps suddenly rang out beyond the crater.

"Stop, Danzo!"

The Third Hokage arrived late, leading a large force of Anbu.

When he saw that Kakashi and Yamato were still alive, he let out a slight sigh of relief.

Then he turned to Danzo, his expression immediately darkening. "Danzo! They are both assets of the village. How could you do this?!"

His very first words were an absolute accusation.

Danzo was so taken aback that he blanked for a moment.

He raised the hand holding his cane and pointed at his own nose. "Huh? Me?"

"If not you, then who else?! You injured the two of them to this extent!"

"Do you even still have any respect for me, the Hokage?!"

This time, the Third Hokage was genuinely furious.

If he had arrived any later, Kakashi would have been ruined by that bastard Danzo.

"No, the two of them weren't injured by me. I was only..."

Danzo was even more speechless and tried to explain.

But what he had been doing could not be brought into the open.

He could hardly say that he had been planning to kidnap Uchiha's Second Young Master in order to provoke the Uchiha clan, could he?

Frustrating!

Utterly frustrating!

And somehow, this scene felt strangely familiar.

As if it had happened not long ago.

"An explanation? Danzo, I told you—you need to behave yourself for a while!"

Another round of reprimands followed.

Anyone could see that the Hokage was furious.

So furious that it took several tries to light his pipe.

After being chewed out thoroughly, Danzo's eyes suddenly shifted as he thought of a key phrase.

"Power of the Nine-Tails! I only sent people because I discovered that the Power of the Nine-Tails was leaking out!"

Thump.

The Power of the Nine-Tails was leaking out?

That single sentence snuffed out even the Third Hokage's pipe.

"The Power of the Nine-Tails leaked out?" He tried hard to open his eyes.

But on that wrinkle-covered face, his eyes seemed to be only that big.

He couldn't open them. He simply couldn't.

"The Power of the Nine-Tails, I—" Seeing this, Danzo was about to continue when the Third Hokage cut him off.

"Kakashi, you explain."

Danzo: ???

Well, well, Monkey. You actually don't trust me now!

His expression darkened for a moment.

He felt deeply uncomfortable.

It felt like betrayal.

But he was also curious about what Kakashi and the other two were hiding.

Since Kinoe had failed to return for so long, he had assumed the man had defected and brought people to capture him.

Yet he had unexpectedly stumbled upon a secret.

Whoosh!

In an instant, dozens of gazes fell on Kakashi's face.

He fell silent.

If he told them, Jin's situation would probably become very...

At that moment, it seemed fate was playing a similar joke on him as it had on his family.