Riot... The Fall of the Shimura Clan

Riot... The Fall of the Shimura Clan (Dear readers, please rate this book. A five-star review would be great and would encourage the author! I truly need your support!)

Danzo's head rolled across the stone slabs of the square.

That ever-gloomy face was still frozen in an expression of disbelief.

The entire square fell deathly silent, before erupting into thunderous cheers.

"Good kill! Good kill!"

"Shimura Danzō deserved to die!"

"Shimura Danzō deserved to die!"

The cheers came in waves, and more and more people gathered after hearing the commotion.

In the blink of an eye, the treetops and rooftops were packed with people. Tens of thousands had gathered to watch.

Shimura Danzō was Konoha's Advisor Elder, his status practically equal to that of the Hokage.

Yet in just a few seconds, someone had cut off his head in the street.

Sarutobi Hiruzen pushed through the crowd, his face pale as he stared at the old friend and political rival lying on the ground with his head separated from his body. His eyes were full of disbelief.

"Uchiha Sanpo, do you know what you've done?"

Uchiha Sanpo said disdainfully, "I wielded the butcher's blade for justice and killed someone who deserved to die!"

Pointing at Uchiha Sanpo, Sarutobi Hiruzen roared, "Even if Danzo was guilty, he should have been tried... And he was Konoha's Advisor Elder. Even if he was to be executed, he should have been given a dignified death. How could you take the law into your own hands?"

Uchiha Sanpo placed the extracted Three-Tomoe Sharingan into a nutrient jar, then put away Danzo's severed arm containing Hashirama Cells.

Only then did he turn to face Sarutobi Hiruzen, his gaze filled with contempt.

"Take a good look, everyone. This is the true face of our Hokage. He thinks people like them stand above everyone else, that even in death, they deserve dignity. They never considered the thousands of children in the Root Base, carried onto operating tables and cut open, watching helplessly as their organs were removed... Yet when it came to their high-ranking lot, they demanded trials and dignity... Tell me, was I right to kill him?"

"Kill... Kill... Kill! Those scum deserve to die!"

The cries grew louder and louder. At that moment, the Konoha villagers seemed to have turned into a mob.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's expression grew increasingly grim.

He looked around, and when he saw Hyuga Hiashi, Senju Akagi, and the others standing behind Uchiha Sanpo, he understood that there was no turning things around.

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's pale face, Uchiha Sanpo swaggered over and spat a thick glob of phlegm at his feet.

"Hahaha... You call yourself the strongest Hokage? Trash... garbage. Got the guts to fight me one-on-one? Since you're already fifty-five, I won't hit hard enough to beat you to death! Come on... Fight me!"

Uchiha Sanpo was arrogant beyond measure. Standing before Sarutobi Hiruzen, he taunted him without pause, practically grinding Sarutobi Hiruzen's dignity into the dirt.

A few dozen of Sarutobi Hiruzen's die-hard supporters tried to rush over and teach Uchiha Sanpo a lesson, but the surrounding Military Police Force stopped them.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's face shifted from green to white, but he calmed down instead. He snorted coldly. "We're leaving!"

The moment he spoke, Sarutobi Hiruzen and over a dozen Anbu used the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from where they stood.

At that moment, a dazzling signal flare rose above the Forest of Death... The Uchiha Clan crest bloomed in the sky.

Uchiha Sanpo glanced up, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. He knew that the Root Base had been completely brought under control.

He turned toward the surrounding villagers and announced loudly, "My fellow people of Konoha, are you willing to come with me to the Root Base and see the hidden truth of its darkness?"

The crowd erupted with an even fiercer response and began moving in a continuous stream.

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood in his office in the Hokage Building, overcome by a wave of powerlessness.

He understood that Konoha's power structure was about to undergo earth-shaking changes.

"Damn it, what should I do... Someone... summon Advisors Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to the Hokage's office immediately."

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Deep within the Forest of Death, at the entrance to the Root Base, the crowd surged in like a tide.

Uchiha Sanpo's voice, amplified by chakra, spread throughout the area. "Everyone, prepare yourselves. You are about to see Konoha's darkest truth, concealed under Sarutobi Hiruzen's protection."

Looking at the open base gates, the Konoha villagers hesitated briefly before entering one after another.

The lights inside the base were bright, and traces of the recent battle still remained on the walls.

Every few steps, they saw subdued Root ninjas bound by special sealing techniques.

"Th-this... what is this?" Her voice trembled slightly.

The crowd pushed forward, then immediately erupted into terrified screams.

Inside the spacious laboratory stood dozens of neatly arranged transparent incubation tanks, each two meters tall. Floating inside every tank was the body of a child between five and seven years old.

"Oh my god! That's... that's Ryota, who disappeared two years ago!" A middle-aged woman suddenly lunged toward one of the tanks.

Her trembling fingers pressed against the cold glass as tears streamed from her eyes. "He was only five then! The Anbu said he'd been abducted by ninjas from an enemy country..."

"This is... one of the children from our Senju Clan who went missing!" A Senju Clan ninja recognized the figure in another incubation tank.

The laboratory walls were covered with detailed experimental records.

They coldly documented the details of how organs were extracted from living subjects and how the rejection reactions of Hashirama Cells were tested.

A Senju Clan elder smashed his fist into the wall. Chakra burst forth, and the sturdy stone wall immediately cracked.

"Beasts! They actually used our children for these experiments!"

Anger spread through the crowd like a plague. Some began to cry, some stood there blankly, while even more had flames of hatred ignite in their eyes.

Uchiha Sanpo raised his voice. "Everyone, please remain calm! This is only the first level. There's more below..."

Before he could finish, an angry roar suddenly burst from the crowd. "Those Shimura bastards! They all deserve to die!"

As if a fuse had been lit, the crowd instantly boiled over.

The villagers stopped touring the base and turned to rush outside.

They shouted slogans of revenge, their eyes filled with tears and fury.

On Konoha's commercial street, the enraged crowd surged like a tide toward the major shops run by the Shimura Clan.

"Smash it!" A father who had lost his son picked up a stone from the roadside and hurled it hard at the display window of the Shimura Apothecary.

The sound of shattering glass was like a signal, and dozens of people rushed forward at once.

Shelves were overturned, precious medicinal herbs were trampled underfoot, and counters were smashed to pieces.

The owner of the neighboring Shimura Weapon Shop hurriedly tried to close up after seeing this, but it was already too late.

"What are you doing? This is private property!" A Shimura Clan ninja tried to stop them, only to be immediately surrounded by the furious crowd.

Fists rained down like raindrops, beating him to death on the spot.

Tens of thousands of villagers gathered outside the Shimura Clan Lands, and people continuously hurled Molotov cocktails inside.

The elegant Japanese-style buildings were soon engulfed in raging flames, black smoke shooting straight into the sky.

Inside the estate, members of the Shimura Clan frantically packed their valuables and fled through secret passages.

A Shimura Clan elder kept cursing under his breath. "Those ungrateful wretches... Lord Danzo gave so much for Konoha..."

He did not get to finish. A kunai shot from the shadows and pierced his throat with perfect accuracy.

The old man fell with his eyes wide open, never understanding who had struck him even in death...

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