Taking Office

At his feet stretched a long, slender shadow, its other end connected to Nara Lu Yuan.

Nara Lu Yuan had been working when he heard the distant explosion. He assumed enemy ninja had clashed with the patrol, and since the camp's Jonin had all been dispatched to search for the jinchuriki, he was the first to arrive at the scene.

Seeing the horrific scene and the black snake coiled in the center, Nara Lu Yuan immediately leaped over.

He actually saw Uchiha Yuu setting Shi Hebei on fire?

What was going on? Allies were attacking allies?

"Uchiha Yuu, I need an explanation!"

Faced with Nara Lu Yuan's immediate questioning, Uchiha Yuu remained calm and explained how everything had happened.

Nara Lu Yuan's expression shifted from initial shock to numbness, then finally to terror!

"You're saying Root ninja came to assassinate you, and Shi Hebei was a Root ninja! Wait! Let me process this!"

Of course, he knew about Root, which Danzo had created. As the Nara Clan head, he had arranged for some clan members to enter Root as required by the higher-ups. He had also found Shi Hebei strange lately, but had not thought much of it, since everyone Shi Hebei dealt with was Konoha ANBU personnel. Who would have thought he was ultimately a member of Konoha's Root?

Nara Lu Yuan felt as though the sky had fallen!

A genius of the Uchiha Clan had been assassinated in the Konoha camp, and the assassins had been Root! Root was the Hokage's force—didn't that mean the Hokage wanted to crush the Uchiha Clan's hope of rising?

If the Uchiha powerhouses found out, Kumogakure would not even need to attack the front lines. The Uchiha Clan's powerhouses alone would be enough to overturn the camp!

"Heavens, what kind of trouble