Calamity Uchiha and the Demon Fox

"This is already the third time this week!"

"What exactly does Uchiha Mirai want? Why does he keep deliberately approaching the Nine-Tails jinchuriki?"

On the roof of a house in Konoha, several ANBU watched Uchiha Mirai and Naruto chatting and laughing on the street below, their eyes filled with grave concern.

The Nine-Tails jinchuriki was simply too important!

A jinchuriki was a village's most vital strategic weapon.

After Kushina, the previous jinchuriki, died, Naruto became the new vessel of the Nine-Tails.

Naruto was only three years old and utterly incapable of controlling the Nine-Tails' power.

To prevent anything from happening to the jinchuriki, Konoha secretly dispatched ANBU to monitor his every move.

They had thought this routine surveillance would continue indefinitely.

But they never expected that Uchiha Mirai, that cunning bastard, would show up!

"You go report to Lord Hokage. I'll continue monitoring them here."

The white-haired ANBU leader in a cat mask gave a grave order to the companions lying in wait beside him.

"Understood!"

Whoosh!

The two ANBU vanished from the rooftop in an instant.

Only the white-haired ANBU leader remained, staring solemnly at Uchiha Mirai below.

On the street, little Naruto walked beside Uchiha Mirai, clutching a stick of three-color dango as he took big, satisfied bites.

The vendors on both sides of the street cautiously watched Naruto and Uchiha Mirai in the middle of the road, fear lingering in their eyes.

"Why is Uchiha Mirai walking around with the demon fox?"

"Who knows? The disaster Uchiha and the demon fox really are a perfect match!"

"Shh! Keep your voice down! Are you trying to get yourself killed?!"

His companion stared at him in shock.

Who was Uchiha Mirai?

He was the ruthless man who had beaten a Cloud Hidden Village envoy to death in broad daylight—and after that incident, not a single word came from Cloud Hidden Village.

They had clearly backed down.

If he could force Cloud Hidden Village, one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, to yield, it was easy to imagine just how terrifying Uchiha Mirai was!

Under his companion's stare, the vendor who had just spoken broke out in a cold sweat and shrank his neck.

He was terrified that Uchiha Mirai would notice him and secretly release that strange poison!

"Big brother, who exactly are you?"

On the street, Naruto had noticed the villagers acting strangely as well.

He took a bite of the three-color dango in his hand and looked curiously at Uchiha Mirai beside him.

Why did all those villagers seem so afraid of big brother?

"Do you think big brother is a bad person?"

Uchiha Mirai asked with a smile.

Naruto shook his head.

"No. If big brother were a bad person, he wouldn't take me out to eat so many delicious things!"

The corner of Uchiha Mirai's mouth twitched slightly.

Just because I take you out for good food, I'm not a bad person?

Was Naruto's way of thinking really that innocent?

Naruto took another bite of the three-color dango and quietly chewed.

Only he himself knew how much Uchiha Mirai's appearance had changed his dark life.

Whenever Uchiha Mirai was by his side, he would take him down an entire street to try all its food, until his stomach was completely full and he could not fit another bite inside.

The expired bread and milk in his refrigerator had gone untouched for a long time.

Those people who used to bully him no longer dared to do so.

Once, a neighbor's child threw rocks at him. Little Naruto suddenly remembered what Uchiha Mirai had told him last time.

So he shouted, "My big brother is Uchiha Mirai!"

The child froze for a moment, then burst into tears and ran away in a flash.

For the last few weeks, little Naruto had not seen him again.

Until one day, he saw the other boy's parents. Their eyes were filled with terror when they looked at him, and they immediately took a detour and ran away.

For the first time, Naruto experienced what it felt like to walk with the wind at his feet.

Hmm... it seemed pretty nice?

Naruto bit into the last tri-colored dango and swallowed it in one gulp.

He tilted his head up to look at Uchiha Mirai beside him.

"Big brother, where are we going to play next?"

Uchiha Mirai thought for a moment.

"Let's go eat Ichiraku Ramen!"

"Yay!"

"Big brother is the best!"

Naruto excitedly jumped up.

Ichiraku Ramen was his favorite!

Meanwhile.

At the Hokage Building.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was holding a pipe in his mouth as he diligently handled official business.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, two ANBU appeared before him and dropped to one knee.

"This is bad, Lord Hokage! Uchiha Mirai... Uchiha Mirai has started approaching Naruto again!"

Clatter!

The pipe fell from his mouth.

The burning ash scorched Sarutobi Hiruzen's thigh with a sharp sting.

He immediately fumbled in a panic to brush the ash off his leg.

"What's going on? This is already the third time this week, isn't it?!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at them in shock.

The two ANBU wore bitter expressions.

"Yes. We don't know why either, but Uchiha Mirai's contact with the Nine-Tails jinchuriki has clearly increased significantly."

This was not good news!

Sarutobi Hiruzen's brows furrowed tightly at once.

Uchiha Mirai's first contact with the Nine-Tails jinchuriki seemed to have been after the last meeting at the Hokage Building.

After that, it was as if Pandora's box had been opened.

His contact with the Nine-Tails jinchuriki became more and more frequent.

By now, he was meeting Naruto at least three times a week.

A sudden ache flared in his forehead, making Sarutobi Hiruzen unconsciously rub his temples with his fingertips.

A jinchuriki was far too important to a village.

Especially the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki.

Naruto was still too young. If he slipped out of Hiruzen's protection and Uchiha Mirai took advantage of the opening, it would be far too dangerous!

The Night of the Nine-Tails could absolutely not happen a second time!

Shisui had already confirmed that Uchiha Mirai possessed the Mangekyo Sharingan.

With the same eyes as Madara, it was not impossible for him to control the Nine-Tails.

Sarutobi Hiruzen felt his headache growing worse and worse.

On the night of the Nine-Tails' rampage, he had clearly assigned ANBU to monitor Uchiha Mirai without a single blind spot. Why had something like that still happened?

Could it be that Konoha had a second Uchiha capable of controlling the Nine-Tails?

"Send all ANBU from Squad Seven to watch Naruto. No, transfer Squad Six over as well. We cannot allow anything to happen to the Nine-Tails jinchuriki!"

After calming down, Sarutobi Hiruzen gave the order in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The kneeling ANBU immediately nodded.

Whoosh!

After the ANBU left, the Hokage's office fell silent once more.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, picked up the pipe that had fallen to the floor, and was about to put it back into his mouth.

Bang!

The Hokage's office doors were violently slammed open!

"Hiruzen!!! Have you heard? Uchiha Mirai has set his sights on the Nine-Tails!!!"

Danzo rushed in in a panic.

Before the pipe could reach his mouth, it fell again amid the commotion, and the scorching ash burned Sarutobi Hiruzen's other thigh with searing pain.

"Danzo!!!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen glared at Danzo furiously.

"Knock next time!"

Knock???

Since when had Danzo ever knocked?

Danzo stared blankly.

But that was not the point.

"Hiruzen, you received the intelligence, didn't you? Uchiha Mirai has set his sights on the Nine-Tails jinchuriki."

Danzo's gaze was cold and sinister.

"For now, we don't know whether his goal is the Nine-Tails inside Naruto."

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Sarutobi Hiruzen spoke with a grim expression.

"Hmph!"

Danzo snorted disdainfully.

"If an Uchiha approaches the Nine-Tails jinchuriki, what else could it be for if not the Nine-Tails?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen fell silent.

This was what he feared most.

Once Uchiha Mirai controlled the Nine-Tails' power, who in Konoha could stand against him?

"Hiruzen, if you ask me, we should assassinate Uchiha Mirai at any cost."

Danzo's eyes were icy.

"At any cost?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen gave a bitter smile.

"Danzo, have you forgotten his reputation during the Third Shinobi World War? I'm afraid neither you nor I can bear that cost. Konoha cannot bear it either."

On the battlefields of the Third Shinobi World War, there had been an unwritten rule.

Konoha would never deploy Uchiha Mirai first!

Once Konoha decided to send Uchiha Mirai onto the battlefield, it meant that the battle had entered its final stage.

In the final battle against the Stone Hidden Village, Konoha unilaterally tore up that agreement.

It was said that after the war, the Stone Hidden Village had several hundred malformed children.

Uchiha Mirai truly possessed the power to bury all of Konoha!

That was also why, after the Third Shinobi World War ended, Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately convened a meeting to deal with Uchiha Mirai.

Just thinking about such a ninja existing in Konoha left Sarutobi Hiruzen unable to eat or sleep in peace.

"Then are we just going to let him do whatever he wants?"

Danzo gritted his teeth.

"Once he gains control of the Nine-Tails, Konoha will be finished anyway."

"Hiruzen, have you forgotten the night Minato died? The Night of the Nine-Tails must never happen again!"

Danzo left unwillingly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head and sighed.

The Night of the Nine-Tails had been far too strange.

Uchiha Mirai had no possibility of controlling the Nine-Tails at all. So who was the ninja who had released the Nine-Tails?

But clearly, now was not the time to dwell on it.

He needed a new pair of pants.