Rasa's fingers twitched continuously behind his back. White little snakes, as if having received some command, swiftly burrowed into the grass and vanished.
Just then.
A domineering voice rang out. "Hiruzen Sarutobi! Where have the ninjas from our Land of Grass gone?!"
A disheveled middle-aged man angrily charged up to Hiruzen Sarutobi!
He was Homan, the Land of Grass's team-leading instructor, as well as Huo Kaede and Huo Shan's teacher!
Huo Kaede and Huo Shan had died in Konoha. Homan, the teacher from the Land of Grass, had once inspected the scene of their deaths.
The methods used had been extremely cruel!
Homan pointed at Hiruzen Sarutobi and said, "Third Hokage, I hope you can give me an explanation. Why did my two disciples die in the Forest of Death? You also need to give the Land of Grass an answer!"
The Third said, "The people responsible for Konoha's security are not my Anbu, but the Uchiha Police Force!
You can go find Fugaku Uchiha!"
Homan had been blinded by the grief of losing his disciples. He shouted, "Fine, I'll go!"
But Homan had completely forgotten.
The Uchiha were not nearly as easy to talk to as the Third Hokage!
Meanwhile, in the spectator stands.
Fugaku Uchiha was watching the match.
Naruto vs. Rock Lee.
The next match would be Sasuke vs. the One-Tail jinchuriki.
Beside Fugaku was Izumi, Itachi's childhood sweetheart.
Fugaku knew that Izumi liked Itachi, but he had never known what Itachi thought.
Itachi always liked to hide his thoughts.
As the head of the Uchiha clan and Itachi's father, Fugaku believed he was qualified to test Izumi on Itachi's behalf.
By blood relation, Izumi and Itachi were already beyond the fifth degree of kinship, so there was no issue of close-relative marriage.
After all, the