Third Generation Faints from Anger

"Lord Hokage, this is bad!" Just then, the voice of an Anbu operative approached from afar.

Sarutobi Hiruzen stiffened, a bad premonition rising in his heart. He knew that something major must have happened again.

Outside Konoha.

Just as in the original history, after Uchiha Itachi finished off the two Root elites tasked with intercepting him, he arrived at the rendezvous point with Obito.

"You've finally arrived? Well, is everything arranged properly?" Obito asked, arms crossed, leaning against a giant tree.

A breeze swept past, scattering leaves in all directions, causing the long hair of both Obito and Itachi to flutter in the wind.

"Yes, let's go." Uchiha Itachi did not ask about the death of Sarutobi Shinnosuke, nor did he ask about the missing corpses of the Uchiha clansmen.

Among the agreements he had made with Obito, one was to turn a blind eye to Obito's actions tonight.

In exchange, Obito would spare his younger brother.

And he would guarantee that, for as long as he lived, he would never lay a hand on Konoha.

"No, we still need to wait for one more person." Obito shook his head.

"Who?" Uchiha Itachi was startled. He had not expected that, besides himself and Obito, a third person was involved in the Uchiha Clan massacre tonight.

"A new member of the Akatsuki," Obito replied indifferently, then fell silent, waiting quietly.

Before long, a figure streaked over at high speed. With every step, he covered dozens of meters in a flicker, and in the blink of an eye, he stood before the two of them.

"You've finally arrived? Why didn't that little girl come with you?"

Obito stood up and addressed the figure in the shadows.

"As for Izumi, I used the Reverse Summoning Technique to send her out of the village long ago. It won't be too late to summon her back once she reaches a safe location."

Fujiwara Chiya casually offered an excuse and slowly stepped out from the darkness. Under the glow of the bright white moon, he revealed a fair, youthful face.

"Fujiwara Chiya. How could it be you..." Upon recognizing the newcomer, Uchiha Itachi gasped in shock, his face filled with disbelief.

"Why couldn't it be me?" Chiya countered, a playful smile tugging at his lips.

Itachi glanced at Obito. "What exactly is going on here?"

"As you can see, Chiya is now a member of the Akatsuki. Just as you joined the Akatsuki to protect your brother by wiping out the Uchiha clan, he chose the same path to protect that little Uchiha girl. As for the Chiya and the Uchiha girl you killed, they were merely decoys created by Chiya using special means," Obito explained.

Chiya walked to Obito's side and, under the latter's look of extreme disgust, draped an arm over his shoulder and said to Uchiha Itachi, "Well, Uchiha Itachi, you who killed your own parents—are you surprised? Are you shocked? It seems your pride-and-joy Mangekyo cannot do anything to me."

"Of course, you could choose to use the ocular technique in your other eye against me, but the price for attacking me a second time might not be something you can afford."

Uchiha Itachi looked at Chiya, then at Obito. From the latter's eyes, he sensed a wariness toward Chiya. After weighing his thoughts, he replied calmly, "I am no longer a ninja of Konoha. Since you have also joined the Akatsuki, I naturally will not attack you in the future."

"However, I am curious. Madara just said you made the same choice as I did. Can I take that to mean you also wiped out a clan in Konoha?"

"That goes without saying." Chiya smiled indifferently.

As the two spoke, Obito, standing to the side, grew impatient and shoved Chiya's arm away. "Enough, save the talk for the road. It's time to go."

As his voice fell, Obito used the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from the spot, with Chiya following closely behind.

Uchiha Itachi followed immediately after, pressing, "Which clan did you actually wipe out?"

"Danzo used Izumi as a threat to order me to assist you in wiping out the Uchiha clan, while simultaneously ordering you to kill me and Izumi. And Sarutobi Hiruzen tacitly allowed all of this. I am a man who always repays his grudges. You tell me, which clan do you think I would wipe out?"

Chiya glanced at Uchiha Itachi and chuckled mockingly.

"The Sarutobi and the Shimura?" Uchiha Itachi realized.

He looked back at Konoha one last time. Bewilderment, shock, worry, and a trace of imperceptible glee flashed through his eyes.

Finally, it turned into a long sigh as he followed behind Chiya and Obito, disappearing into the darkness.

He sighed inwardly, thinking that it seemed the sky over Konoha was truly about to change.

On the other side, the Konoha Anbu, who had just finished collecting the corpses of the Uchiha clansmen, had not even had a chance to catch their breath before they were placed on high alert once again.

They were urgently assembled.

And their destination was nowhere else.

It was the Sarutobi Clan Compound.

As far as the eye could see, corpses littered the ground, blood staining the earth and buildings a deep red. The state of the bodies was gruesome.

Even Kakashi and the others, who had grown accustomed to the tragic scene at the Uchiha compound, could not help but gasp, wondering in their hearts just how deep a grudge one must hold to commit such a vicious act.

It was truly a case of leaving not even a chicken or dog alive.

As for Sarutobi Hiruzen, he felt dizzy and was on the verge of going insane.

He had just pulled out the thorn in his side that was the Uchiha, only to receive news of his eldest son's death.

Before he could even settle down, another piece of tragic news arrived.

His youngest son had been mutilated, his chest suffered a devastating blow, three ribs were broken, and he had crawled out of the Sarutobi compound in a critical state, only to collapse from blood loss on the street, where he was discovered by patrolling Anbu and sent to the Medical Department.

The Anbu followed the trail of blood into the Sarutobi compound to investigate, only to see a scene as shocking as the one at the Uchiha compound.

The entire clan had been wiped out, corpses covered the ground, and almost no one had survived.

Looking at the corpses of his clansmen strewn across the ground, the heart of Sarutobi Hiruzen bled.

His consistent development strategy for the clan had always been to amass wealth in silence.

The Sarutobi Clan had reached where it was today—growing from an obscure, nameless little family into a major clan no less powerful than the Uchiha—only through his painstaking efforts and meticulous management.

It was the foundation upon which he relied for his entire career as Hokage.

It was his final trump card.

He had assumed that after the Uchiha Clan was wiped out, the Sarutobi Clan would face no more threats in Konoha, standing alone as the undisputed number one clan.

The position of Hokage would also be passed down through his Sarutobi lineage forever.

But look at how it turned out—damn it!

They were all wiped out in a single night.

The only survivors, his youngest son and grandson, had even been castrated.

He himself was old.

His wife had died long ago.

Even if she hadn't.

He no longer had the strength to till the fields.

The Sarutobi Clan was now extinct.

How could he remain calm?

How could he remain composed?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt aggrieved, sorrowful, and enraged; Sarutobi Hiruzen felt his vision go black, failed to catch his breath, and collapsed into a dead faint on the spot.

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