Konoha Under Lockdown

Seeing Sasuke standing there without moving, Boruto tugged at the hem of his clothes.

Uncle Sasuke, come on. The Konoha Ninja think we're spies from another village.

And more people keep showing up. They're about to arrest us!

"Who exactly are you?" The Uchiha Jonin narrowed his eyes and activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

He had a feeling something was off about these two.

The gloomy, long-haired man in particular looked like an Uchiha, from his face to the way he dressed.

Yet he was certain there was no ninja like him in the Uchiha Family.

He was one of the Uchiha Family's higher-ranking Jonin, but the man still made him feel an immense pressure.

It was like facing Director Fugaku and Miss Hikari...

No, wait.

The thought of Fugaku made the Uchiha Jonin frown. The man before him, who seemed to have Uchiha blood, looked remarkably like Lady Mikoto.

Could he be a relative from Lady Mikoto's side of the family who lives outside the village?

Some of the wariness faded from the Uchiha Jonin's eyes, but he still did not trust him completely.

The Security Division's duties came before everything else. Until he confirmed the man's identity, he could do nothing that compromised them.

"I don't want to fight," Sasuke said, looking at the Uchiha Jonin with a rush of conflicting emotions.

He could not bring himself to attack a ninja from his own clan.

The Uchiha Jonin narrowed his eyes.

The Uchiha Family took pride in themselves. He had been cautious, but that did not mean he was afraid.

The man had practically declared himself unbeatable and implied that fighting would only hurt them. Anyone would have been annoyed.

He was about to subdue the man and take him back to verify his identity when the unassuming civilian-born