Probing

These Uchiha fellows just won't give up...

Simu stood in front of the ANBU surveillance monitors, watching the caravans constantly moving in and out of the Uchiha Clan Grounds, and let out such a sigh.

B, pay attention.

Tenzō, standing next to Simu, quietly tugged at his sleeve because performing surveillance duties with them at this moment was also a prodigy of the Uchiha Clan: Itachi Uchiha.

Although this Uchiha genius also served in the ANBU, wasn't it a bit excessive to talk about someone's family right in front of them?

Kakashi, upon hearing those words, offered a similar reminder: Saying things like that right in front of a colleague is a very impolite behavior, B.

Yet the person involved, Itachi Uchiha, uttered not a word, and his expression did not change in the slightest.

Itachi was long since accustomed to such remarks; they could not touch his heart at all.

Compared to Simu's contempt for the Uchiha, Itachi cared far more about the deeper meaning represented by such actions.

Itachi knew the identities of Simu and Tenzō.

They were the secret weapons prepared by Root to deal with the Uchiha Clan.

Both had mastered the powerful Wood Release of the First Hokage, and that guy with the codename B, who had been acting so ostentatiously these days, was most likely the murderer of Shisui.

According to the intelligence provided by Shisui, this guy's Wood Release was quite formidable, having mastered several powerful Wood Release ninjutsu techniques of the First Hokage.

So, why would such a powerful ninja be transferred from Root to the ANBU?

Did they truly defect to the Third, or were they spies planted in the ANBU by Danzo? Or perhaps some kind of arrangement by the higher-ups of Konoha?

Furthermore, they were assigned to execute the