Toji: Leave No Konoha Ninja Alive. Kill Them All!

The figures on the ground dwindled to specks, then vanished from sight.

"Phew—I've never felt anything so wonderful."

Uchiha Yan let out a long breath. With this raid, she had avenged her predecessors against Kumogakure.

She turned to the Fire Release Clone beside her, her eyes shining. "You aren't Madara Uchiha, are you?"

"I've only ever seen Lord Madara use Fire Release at that level."

"First you said I was Hashirama Senju, and now you think I'm Madara Uchiha. So who do you think I really am?" Toji asked. Without explaining further, he handed her a copy of the Heavenly Transfer Technique.

"Learn this secret technique. If you can't, quietly find someone in the Akatsuki Ninja Village who can."

Uchiha Yan took the scroll and frowned. "You do know the side effects of the Heavenly Transfer Technique, don't you? Even a ninja who specializes in Taijutsu would die using it without the Raikage Clan's inhuman bloodline constitution."

"Of course I know."

"Then why—"

"Maybe I'm actually the Raikage?"

"Oh, please."

Uchiha Yan curled her lip, catching the teasing note in his voice. Diablo clearly didn't fear the technique's side effects.

"What happens after I learn it? What are you planning to do with the Heavenly Transfer Technique?"

"Set the Shinobi World ablaze."

Toji said it calmly, like a man speaking in riddles.

Seizing the Tailed Beasts and secret techniques of the Four Great Ninja Villages would undoubtedly reignite war across the Shinobi World. Countless people would die. But Toji didn't care. If it gave him power beyond all others, the cost was worth it.

Besides.

The one throwing the Shinobi World into chaos was Diablo. What did that have to do with Toji Zenin, Konoha's Third Hokage?

Uchiha Yan shivered for no reason she could name.

Only now did she