Danzo's Covetous Ambitions X Silva's Phone Call

It's the Uchiha again!

"I told you long ago, the Uchiha are the biggest destabilizing factor in Konoha!"

Danzo his left eye into a thin slit, a cold glint in it. "Tell me about this Uchiha Jin."

"Yes." Aburame Torune, who had gathered intelligence beforehand, recounted it in detail, including Roy's birth date, school performance, battlefield performance, and even today's school bombing incident, revealing everything without missing a beat.

Danzo listened quietly until Aburame Torune report, spread out the information, and pushed it in front of him. Only then did he ask in a low voice, "Why was Hiruzen at school today?"

It's not graduation season at the Ninja Academy yet, and as the principal, he doesn't usually make an appearance beforehand.

Perhaps it was just a passing whim?

Aburame Torune secretly wondered, "Should we send two people to keep an eye on him?"

Danzo silent... Hokage was extremely busy, barely able to handle his daily duties. Where would he find the leisure to spend time at the Ninja Academy playing with a bunch of children who were not even worthy of being called adults?

Danzo knew his childhood friend and "best friend" all too well... He never did anything in vain, and then... the Uchiha clan meeting had just been held yesterday, and he was already showing great concern for Uchiha Jin, even going so far as to make a special trip to the Ninja Academy for it...

Danzo pondered for a moment, then coldly rejected Aburame Torune's suggestion.

It should be understood that fortresses are always breached from within first...

"We need to keep an eye on Uchiha Jin, and we also need to keep an eye on the Uchiha Association... Ultimately, we still need to have our own Uchiha!"

"Giving them autonomy in the first place was the biggest mistake the teachers made."

It wasn't just Danzo; Koharu, Mitokado Homura, and even Sarutobi Hiruzen... had all long been extremely unhappy about this!

A country within a country, what kind of nonsense is this?!

The old man glanced sideways at the Aburame Torune left eye. "Have you finalized the list I asked you to select?"

"Currently, we are assessing three individuals." Aburame Torune took out a document from his robes and respectfully placed it before Danzo: "Among the younger generation, Uchiha Tekka... Uchiha Obito... perhaps they are all suitable."

After much deliberation, Aburame Torune only two people who were close to the core decision-making circle of the Uchiha, possessed considerable talent, and were valued by the Uchiha Clan.

However, one of them was a die-hard fan of Uchiha Fugaku, and the other was a student of Namikaze Minato, who was always favored by Hiruzen...

Danzo frowned, glaring at Aburame Torune with displeasure. "Is there anything else?"

"And one more, Uchiha Shisui,"

Danzo skipped over the files on Tekka and Obito, and opened the third file. His eyes fell upon a lively and cheerful little boy. As Aburame Torune, "He's very close to Uchiha Jin. His grandfather, Uchiha Kagami, was a classmate of the adults, but... he's too young."

Immediately, a face with clear eyes flashed into Danzo's mind. Then, in a daze, he glanced at the file showing Uchiha Shisui that bore a striking resemblance to Mirror... The old man recalled his teacher's assessment of Mirror years ago, "He is one of the few Uchiha who truly embodies the Will of Fire."

He was deeply loved by his teachers and the first generation.

Danzo gripped Shisui's documents, narrowed his eyes, and said, "Him."

Being young is never a problem; on the contrary, they are easier to cultivate than older people whose worldviews are already solidified. Of course, they are also easier to... brainwash!

"We'll start making contact now, and after a while I'll find a reason to put him in the Anbu."

Once you get past Hiruzen, it will be much easier to be absorbed into Root from the Anbu.

"Yes!"

Danzo his hand, Aburame Torune, with great tact, withdrew.

The door creaked open.

The chopsticks lay scattered on the ground, and the food in front of him had long since gone cold... Danzo in the mood. After such a report, he had no appetite at all. He simply got up with his cane and went out again... He came to a damp and dark underground laboratory.

Along the laboratory wall, a row of jars were neatly arranged, each containing a different kind of corpse. Some of these corpses had wide, bulging eyes... some were furrowed in pain, curled up in agony... some were terrified, seemingly having endured inhuman torture before their deaths... yet they all grew branches in a bizarre and uniform way, with green leaves covering them, transforming them all into half-human, half-tree monsters!

"You've come." A chilling voice, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, sent a shiver down one's spine.

With his back to Danzo, a thin figure stood with purple eyeshadow extending to his nose, adorned with magatama earrings, and his exposed neck revealing a sickly pallor... Orochimaru leaned against the lab table, "disciplining" a man. Amidst the man's terrified, bound hands and feet and gagged mouth, and his desperate whimpers, Orochimaru slowly and resolutely injected cells into his chest cavity, recording his transformation from a human to a "half-human, half-tree," until finally, unable to withstand the activity of the "Hashirama Cells," his life force was drained, and he died completely.

He turned to look at Danzo, his long, golden pupils revealing a hint of thirst for knowledge... "I need living people, stronger and more living people, preferably... Ninja."

Danzo didn't answer, but merely squinted at Orochimaru, and after a moment said, "Is there any hope?"

"It'll be quick. I've already grasped a bit of the key. As long as I have enough test subjects," Orochimaru said confidently, a smirk playing on his lips, "I can find the right person and recreate [Wood Release]!"

[Wood Release] is a bloodline limit that only the First Hokage could master. It was also the most important reliance that enabled Uchiha Senju Hashirama, suppress the Tailed Beast, forcibly unite the major clans of Konoha, and become the "God of Shinobi"!

It can be said that with Wood Release, there is the ability to suppress Tailed Beast, putting "shackles" on this unstable "nuclear weapon" and letting humans control it!

You'd better tell the truth.

"Tap... tap..." Having gotten the answer he wanted, Danzo, leaning on his cane, turned to leave. Just before exiting, he paused, gave a cold snort, and warned, "Orochimaru, you'd better behave. Hiruzen told you to research the First Hokage's cells, but not to experiment on living people. If things are exposed, the consequences..."

You know it yourself!

"Bang!" The laboratory door was slammed shut.

The darkness and dampness were completely kept out of the room.

Southern Forest.

It is a training ground located to the south of the Uchiha Clan's residence.

There were three children, one big and two small, with their legs spread apart, holding knives in both hands, each with a basket of stones attached to the tip of the knife. They were sweating profusely, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, practicing their knife skills.

Every now and then, you could see the older one stop his sword and patiently correct the two younger ones' stance, posture, breathing, and rhythm... Just like when he learned swordsmanship from Urokodaki Sakonji, Roy meticulously instructed Shisui and Itachi.

"The knife is an extension of the arm..."

"As the saying goes, 'an inch longer, an inch stronger,' and where hands and feet can't reach, a knife is needed to fill the gap."

"The way you're holding the knife is incorrect. Your back should be straight with a slight forward lean, your lower body stable, and your eyes level with the tip of the knife, forming a straight line."

"When chopping downwards, you must put all your strength into the blade to maximize the impact of the strike."

"No, raise your hand a little higher, where did your elbow go?"

"I'm telling you to look straight ahead, not to expose your chin for the other person to stab."

"The downward chop must be straight, very straight... You'll easily break the blade if you do it like that."

"First, chop downwards... use some force..."

"Second, let's try again..."

"No food until you've struck ten thousand blows before sunset!"

"Yes!"

Shisui struggled to wield his sword, while Itachi struggled beside him.

Itachi is three years old, not yet four, two years younger than Shisui... The little boy keeps quiet, secretly holding his breath and competing with Shisui...

Roy sat next to the two of them on a large, smooth-cut blue stone behind them. Snow Walk then thrust her hand forward, pulled out a carving knife, and, imitating Urokodaki Sakonji, took a piece of wood and tried to carve a short knife to serve as a prop for carrying the [God Script].

According to the explanation in the <God Script Structure>, the nature of the [God Script] depends on the Nen user's own understanding of that nature.

For example, the [Enhancement] God Script requires the Nen user to have a deep understanding of "Enhancement abilities... the [Fire] God Script requires the Nen user to have a deep understanding of "Nen Nature Transformation " [Fire]... the [Forbidden] God Script requires the Nen user of "Binding"... the [Extension] God Script requires the Nen user of "Spatial" and "Stretching"...

In short, the [God Script] is not something imagined out of thin air. The reason it can be depicted ultimately depends on what the Nen user is good at.

Roy, knife in hand, planed the wood, clearing away sawdust, while simultaneously constructing the image of [God Spear God Spear] in his mind and attempting to imprint it onto the wood...

"Buzz~" The light of thought was applied... the wood gradually took on the shape of a knife, but at a certain moment, due to Roy's misguided thinking, "Bang!"

It exploded with a loud bang!

The Sun-Earring Boy frowned, picked up another piece of wood, and continued practicing... until the panel displayed. "[Your Believer Uchiha Shisui, has successfully swung his sword 10,000 times, Swordsmanship +10...]"

Thus...[this provides you with a little bit of Power of Faith...]

..]

Roy glanced sideways at Shisui, who was sitting heavily on the large blue stone, panting heavily. The Sun-Earring Boy grinned at him and said, "Nii-san, I did it!"

As he spoke, he sidled closer to me.

Helpless, Roy had no choice but to stop what he was doing and pat his head.

Shisui closed his eyes like a cat, silently enjoying being by Itachi's side, waiting. After a moment, he opened his eyes, suddenly remembered something, and whispered to Roy, "Nii-san, someone came to see me today... He brought a lot of things to my house and said he wanted to be friends with me, but I refused them all."

Why not?

As the circle emerged, the Heart Bug wriggled and silently disappeared into the Shisui waters of the heart... Roy keenly captured a scene, found the person, and remembered the person's appearance.

"I suspect he's a bad guy!" Shisui stared with innocent eyes, scratching her head. "Didn't Nii-san always say that there's no such thing as a free lunch...?"

"I don't even know him, why would he send me something?"

"Seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-one... seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-two... seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-three..." Itachi's labored murmur could be heard faintly...

Roy smiled and praised Shisui, "You're quite clever."

"He probably wants to recruit you as a spy."

"I?"

"Yes." Roy's gaze was deep and unfathomable as he looked across the lush greenery at the Hokage Rock standing not far away. He said with a cold laugh, "Your position determines your perspective. As long as the Uchiha exists, some people won't be able to sleep at night."

It all started when Senju Tobirama killed Madara's younger brother Uchiha Izuna!

"So that's how it is..." Shisui got angry. He remembered the secrets he had heard at the clan meeting, and his little head drooped like a frostbitten eggplant.

The choice between the village and the clan is like a curse, binding every talented and capable Uchiha, never letting up... Shisui was like that, and so was Itachi...

Roy surveyed the vast expanse of heaven and earth, offering no words of comfort to Shisui, waiting only for Itachi to complete his "Ten Thousand Swings" for the first time before collapsing to the ground like a dead dog...

The Sun-Earring Boy grabbed him by the bottom, scooped him onto his back, and then took Shisui. The three of them, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, headed towards home...

"Tap... tap..." Footsteps sounded, and they encountered the Hokage Rock.

Shisui suddenly raised his head, tilting his chin up to look at the portrait of Senju Hashirama, and asked, "Nii-san, if I could be as strong as the First Hokage, would I be able to solve this problem?"

Roy stopped in his tracks, the faint snoring of Itachi, who had been sleeping soundly, rising behind him... He remained silent, looking up at the massive image of Senju Hashirama, and slowly shook his head. "I don't need you, 77."

Having said that, he continued walking.

Shisui was startled and froze on the spot. She almost stumbled as Roy pulled her along. She quickly quickened her pace, and Roy took her small hand in his large hand. Her dejected heart suddenly calmed down.

"Oh, right... and Nii-san too..."

"As long as Nii-san becomes Hokage..."

Then everything will be fine.

That night, a gust of wind blew in, carrying away the hustle and bustle of the day.

After taking Shisui home, Roy carried Itachi on his back, ate dinner, greeted his mother Mikoto, and learned that his father Fugaku had been called to the Hokage Building and had to keep watch overnight. He then went back to his room alone, closed his eyes, and threw himself into the bedding.

The tatami-style wooden floor served as a hard bed; although it wasn't as soft as his large bed, it was still very comfortable to sleep in.

Soon, a wave of drowsiness washed over him... as Roy relaxed his mind...

The familiar feeling of falling followed immediately!

When he opened his eyes again, he had already passed through the familiar Dream Passage, left the Hokage world, and returned to the Hunter world.

"Ding~" At five o'clock in the morning, Big Ben, standing in the center of the seaside town of Vibis, rang the bells of dawn.

Roy sat up, and Little Gold beside him was drooling, its head buried in the soft blankets, sleeping even more soundly than him. Hearing the noise, it glanced at him groggily, and in an instant, Roy grabbed it and threw it on his head.

The Sun-Earring Boy stood up, quickly washed up, and, as usual, began his morning run.

About half an hour later, when he returned to the room, Gotoh had already prepared breakfast and was waiting at the table.

The young butler, holding his phone, had just hung up a call and softly called out, "Young Master, the Master is asking when you're coming home?"

"The young Young Master is about to be born..."