Naraku whistled, and the clan members who had been searching for clues gathered.
Most of the bodies buried underground had rotted. The stench kept the ninken at a distance.
The Special Police Force shinobi ignored their disgust and carried all the bodies out, arranging them neatly on the ground.
Every corpse had empty eye sockets.
These two teams of clan members had gone missing over the past few months. Their disappearance was what led the Clan Affairs Hall to discover that most of the clan shinobi sent on missions in the Land of Rain over the past two years had vanished. That was why Naraku had decided to investigate the Land of Rain.
"Two teams should mean eight people. One got away."
Naraku planned to seal the seven corpses in a Storage Scroll. They were his clansmen, and he had to bring them back to the Uchiha clan grounds in Konoha for burial, so the clan could identify them.
Naraku knew most of the jonin and famous prodigies in the clan. He had little impression of ordinary clansmen, though, and couldn't recognize them all.
There were only so many jonin, and everyone knew each other well. The clan naturally kept an eye on its famous prodigies.
Among the people present, everyone knew that Uchiha Mu, who had the Three Tomoe, wasn't among the dead. Mu was powerful, so they could only hope he was safe.
Uchiha Kakube pulled out a Storage Scroll and prepared to seal away the bodies. Just then, his ninken began barking loudly, as if warning them of danger.
Kakube's vision blurred.
"Damn it! Poison!"
Kakube took an Antidote Pill from his ninja tool pouch and swallowed it.
Naraku and the others moved farther away.
Uchiha Kakube also stepped back from the bodies.
"The Rain Ninja did