Sarutobi, Save Me Quickly!

"Uchiha!"

Before Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Shisui could finish their conversation, a roar filled with fury erupted from the distance.

The aura of chakra, incomparably cold and wrathful, manifested within the sensory range of every Uchiha present.

The next moment!

Accompanied by the solidification of dozens of flickering figures, a cold, elderly man wrapped in bandages strode in, leading dozens of masked subordinates behind him.

Shimura Danzo!

Upon easily recognizing the ugly face of the man who had arrived, both Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Shisui could not help but frown.

Although neither of them liked this old man, their reasons for frowning were entirely different.

After all, Shisui was concerned about the impending chaotic situation, while Uchiha Jin simply loathed the very existence of Shimura Danzo.

Much like that guy who used "mother-binding," slaughtering Shimura Danzo would be a deeply satisfying affair.

However, compared to the former, Uchiha Jin was more curious about how this guy, who didn't look particularly bright, had managed to survive until now.

With a mere handful of men, he actually dared to confront the elite of the Uchiha head-on!

Hm!

In fact, this was the first official meeting between Uchiha Jin and Shimura Danzo. After all, Jin, who had previously needed to lie low, had always remained steadily in the clan grounds sipping tea, so naturally, he had no opportunity to see this rat who always hid in the sewers.

But!

The moment Uchiha Jin and Shimura Danzo met, both sides immediately confirmed the other's identity, and an invisible pressure began to surge outward, centered on the two of them.

During the brief clash of auras, Shimura Danzo felt a slight shock at being unable to directly suppress Uchiha Jin, but his gaze immediately fell upon the neatly collected corpses scattered around.

Only after truly confirming that the subordinates he had sent had all perished did Shimura Danzo finally solidify the intense unease in his heart.

How dare you!

Long ago, when he sensed the fluctuations of battle from afar, Shimura Danzo had felt that his perfect plan had hit a snag, but he never expected the other party to strike to kill!

One had to know that there were eight Jonin and ten Special Jonin there; these people were the elite of the elite, even within Root.

Even after years of scraping together resources, Shimura Danzo had only managed to accumulate such a small foundation, yet he had lost over twenty percent of it in this short instant.

Hiss...

This feeling of heartache made Shimura Danzo's expression look extremely ugly, but compared to the loss of his Root members, he was more concerned about this perfect opportunity to target the Uchiha.

Shimura Danzo's cold gaze slowly swept over the Uchiha present. While feeling a slight shock in his heart, he still sternly rebuked them.

"Uchiha Jin, you have dealt such a ruthless hand to Konoha's Anbu. Do you even count as a Konoha ninja?"

"I do not!"

Uchiha Jin's reply was extremely decisive, his tone even carrying a hint of mocking laughter.

Hearing such a disrespectful answer from Uchiha Jin, not only was Shimura Danzo stunned on the spot, but even Uchiha Shisui behind him was completely bewildered!

Is he really going to be this blunt...

Didn't he just plan to deflect this by claiming they were spies?

Why is he suddenly going head-to-head with Shimura Danzo like this? Is this guy Jin really not afraid of things getting out of hand!

The sweat on Uchiha Shisui's cheeks had only just stopped, but now it showed signs of gushing out again. However, it was clearly our "Pot Shadow" Shimura Danzo who was even more furious at this moment.

"Uchiha Jin!"

Accompanied by Shimura Danzo's angry shout, the dozens of Root members behind him simultaneously drew their kunai, assuming an offensive stance.

"In my capacity as the Hokage Assistant, I declare Uchiha Jin a traitor to Konoha, to be killed on sight—"

Just as Shimura Danzo wanted to use the banner of righteousness to suppress the Uchiha army opposite him and then order the Root ninjas behind him to kill Uchiha Jin, that familiar mocking voice came once again.

"I am an elder of the Uchiha, not some Konoha ninja. Did you hear that clearly?"

As Uchiha Jin spoke these indifferent words, pairs of scarlet Sharingan, accompanied by cold ocular power, instantly made the spacious Konoha street feel chillingly cold.

"You..."

Seeing that he had failed to successfully bluff the other party, Shimura Danzo's already ugly face became even more twisted, and he then braced himself to rebuke them again.

"Shisui, are you Uchiha trying to rebel!"

When picking a persimmon, one must pick the softest one; at this moment, Danzo clearly saw the softest target.

"I..."

Shisui instinctively took a step back under Danzo's rebuke, stammering, not knowing how to reply.

But it was clear that Uchiha Jin had also seen through Danzo's intentions. With a casual kick, he sent Shisui flying over ten meters away before staring coldly at the Root members not far away.

"We just encountered a few spies who didn't know their place. The Police Force was ordered to execute them on sight. Do you have an objection?"

"Sophistry! These are clearly members of the Anbu. Uchiha Jin, you commit murder in the street and dare to spout nonsense! Everyone, listen to my orders—take him down!"

Danzo was furious at Uchiha Jin's reply and immediately issued orders to the many Uchiha in front of him, actually wanting to command the Uchiha Clan to arrest Uchiha Jin.

But unfortunately...

The Uchiha present all wore sneers, not taking Shimura Danzo's orders in the slightest, and the members of the Root behind him remained equally motionless.

For a moment.

Danzo, who was maintaining a posture of righteous indignation, found himself in an awkward position, though such a slight humiliation was nothing to his thick skin.

Otherwise, the Root ninjas he had brainwashed would have already charged in; he didn't truly believe that he, the Darkness of the Ninja World, couldn't command his own subordinates—he was merely testing the Uchiha's bottom line.

But it was clear that the opportunity to pull a fast one had vanished, and realizing this, Danzo immediately changed his strategy.

After all.

Sending Root ninjas disguised as Anbu to summon Uchiha Jin had already been a blunder; he had originally thought that sending a small number of people to summon Uchiha Jin would be more convincing, making it easier to lure the guy out alone and kill him on the spot.

He hadn't expected Uchiha Jin to be so decisive, actually killing them right in the middle of Konoha. Consequently, having suffered heavy losses in his own strength, he was naturally even less capable of confronting so many elite Uchiha ninjas head-on.

The next blunder was appearing before Uchiha Jin to see if he could hoodwink the other party with the "greater good" of the village as he had in the past, but it was clear that this time it had absolutely no effect.

Now, he could only stall—stall until Sarutobi Hiruzen reacted, stall until the ninja clans of Konoha gathered here. Only then could he return to his home turf.

But at this moment, Shimura Danzo was afraid. He had heard of Uchiha Jin's reputation as the "Jade Shatter." He had originally thought the Uchiha were all trash who only knew how to talk big, but he hadn't expected this guy before him to be truly ferocious!

Danzo felt that his assassination plan had seemingly truly enraged this Uchiha "Jade Shatter"!

If the other party was truly prepared to fight him to the death, then Shimura Danzo felt his current situation was very dangerous.

Young man, impulsiveness is the devil...

While Shimura Danzo maintained his stiff, cold expression, he was frantically muttering to himself in his heart.

Sarutobi, hurry up and save me!