Mirai sighed, then directly tossed over the ninja pack from his back. The instant Sasaki Lanyan caught it, his expression changed. The bag gave him an extremely ominous feeling, and a voice in his heart told him that if he truly opened it, his life might change forever.
He sighed. "Mirai, you really are going to get me killed!" With that, he opened the bag. The first things wrapped inside were several slips of paper, but everyone who saw them looked extremely grim. They were Anbu mission passes. As an Anbu organization, they were managed far more strictly than ordinary ninja; without these passes, they could not have gotten out at all.
Beneath those slips was a head. When Sasaki Lanyan lifted it up, his face turned incomparably ugly. "This is... Aburame Fangxiu!"
No one present looked good upon seeing Aburame Fangxiu's head. Though they did not believe themselves to be inferior to the Anbu, they certainly would not claim to be a match for Aburame Fangxiu. Yet now, Aburame Fangxiu's head was in Mirai's hands.
That made the situation abundantly clear. Aburame Fangxiu had tried to kill Mirai, only to be killed by him instead.
This was an extremely ugly affair. If Mirai had simply kept his mouth shut, no one would have known. Though the Council of Elders had suffered a loss, they were in the wrong after all, so they would not have said anything.
But now Mirai had brought the matter into the open. Danzo would certainly fly into a rage over the death of one of his trusted men. Clearly, Mirai Uchiha intended to go head-to-head with Danzo. Either he was stupid beyond belief, or he was mad beyond measure. Did he really have such confidence that the Uchiha clan would protect him rather than