"Stop! Don't run!"
Just then, the Military Police Force ninja caught up.
"Damn it!"
Fuu Yamanaka gritted his teeth, completely ignoring the pain in his body as he fled as fast and wildly as he could. Thankfully, the only one chasing him was a Genin who had just joined the Military Police Force. His condition was terrible, but shaking off a Genin should probably—hopefully—be no problem.
Uchiha Kazuto, you didn't see this coming, did you? You never thought I'd get away, did you? Hahaha!
I absolutely won't let Lord Danzo's diary fall into your hands.
Just as Fuu disappeared into the darkness, a Kunai suddenly appeared behind him and plunged straight into his chest.
Pfft!
"Argh!"
Fuu let out a scream. Like a madman, he dragged his battered body along, driven by sheer resolve, and ran frantically until he finally collapsed in an empty alley.
"Lord Danzo, I won't let you down... I won't disappoint... your... expectations..."
He tore open the skin on his chest and pulled out a small scroll. When he opened it, a diary appeared on the ground. He raised his trembling hands, trying to form hand seals and release a Fire Style Ninjutsu to burn the diary.
At that moment, a glimmer of hope seemed to shine in his eyes. Then...
The light faded. His body stiffened, his hands still held in the shape of a hand seal. He stared blankly at the diary. He was dead.
He died in this obscure little alley, carrying false loyalty and the expectations of certain people with him. He died here in despair. The moment that Kunai pierced his body, his life had already begun to run out. Now, his time was up.
Kawasaki Sora walked cautiously, glancing around every so often, his heart brimming with excitement. He felt he was about to accomplish something extraordinary: overthrow Konoha as a spy. Hahaha! When he returned to his village with an achievement like that, he might even become the new Kage. Hahaha!!!
Suddenly, he heard some strange noises. For some reason, curiosity stirred within him. He crept over and saw a battered figure lying in a dark alley. It looked like the person was already dead.
A black book lay in front of the figure.
He looked around, then hurried over, picked up the book, stuffed it into his shirt, and quickly left.
At that moment, he had no idea what he had picked up.
"It's begun!"
Beneath the moonlight, a figure watched silently. Then he vanished in a puff of smoke.
Before long, several figures appeared in the alley.
"Is he dead?"
"Dead!"
"Damn it, he actually tried to run!"
"We're done for. They'll dock our pay. We've let Lord Kazuto down after all his efforts to train us!"
The figures glared angrily at Fuu, lying on the ground. The bastard had actually tried to run. He really didn't know when to quit!
"So that's how it was! Konoha really is dark! This is horrifying! Lord Hokage and those advisors are actually people like this!"
"How could this happen? No wonder, no wonder Hiruzen Sarutobi turned out this way. He was like this from the very beginning—a beast!"
In a secret room that the Military Police Force seemed to have overlooked, a group of villagers stared in horror at the black diary. It recorded Konoha's dark deeds in full, including the sinister dealings between Shimura Danzō and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
At last, they understood what their loyal Lord Hokage really was.
So the Second Hokage hadn't died at the hands of ninja from another village at all. He had died at the hands of Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others.
Back then, the Second Hokage had honored the First Hokage's final wish and decided to treat every clan in the village equally, including the Uchiha Clan. Although the Second Hokage had strongly disliked them, he had still taken a student from the Uchiha Clan.
That student was Kagami Uchiha.
Later, the Second Hokage discovered that Kagami Uchiha had been born with the Will of Fire and was a natural Hokage. So he decided to pass the position of Hokage on to Kagami Uchiha.
After all, no matter what, the Uchiha Clan was one of Konoha's founding clans. Besides, Kagami Uchiha truly fit the role.
But Hiruzen Sarutobi found out.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was furious. He had always put on such a good act and made himself so beloved by his teacher. Who else could take the position of Hokage if not him?
Kagami Uchiha? What right did he have?
And the Second Hokage, who had always seemed to hate the Uchiha Clan, had ultimately decided to hand the position of Hokage to someone from that very clan. How could they accept that?
They had spent so much time ostracizing and bullying Kagami Uchiha!
Soon, an opportunity came. During the First Ninja World War, the Second Hokage was ambushed. For the sake of the village's future, he stayed behind to cover the others' retreat. But the Second Hokage hadn't died then.
He had broken through and escaped, only to be killed by Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others. After killing the Second Hokage, they had killed Kagami Uchiha as well.
In truth, if the Second Hokage hadn't volunteered to stay behind, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others had planned to trip him up during the battle, then escape on their own.
"Teacher, you really were foolish. You had no idea that Hiruzen Sarutobi was a beast."
Those were the words Danzo had written in the diary, though he wasn't much better himself.
After the Second Hokage and Kagami Uchiha died, everyone knew what came next. In short, Hiruzen Sarutobi became Hokage, and some of his other companions became his closest aides.
As for Shimura Danzō, he formed Root. No matter what he did, Hiruzen Sarutobi let him get away with it. That was because Shimura Danzō had dirt on Hiruzen Sarutobi.
That was also why they had suppressed the Uchiha Clan.
This was the true darkness that had plagued Konoha, the real truth!
Besides that, there had been many other dark experiments. They could only be carried out because Hiruzen Sarutobi had either turned a blind eye or even approved the funding. And Hiruzen Sarutobi's student, Orochimaru, had committed such grave crimes, yet ended up as a missing-nin instead of being killed. Why?
Because Hiruzen Sarutobi needed Orochimaru's research, so he hadn't killed him.
This was also why Danzo wanted to join forces with Uchiha Fugaku and stage a Coup. He'd had enough of being Hiruzen Sarutobi's hatchet man.
All the blame fell on Danzo...
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