Hiruzen Sarutobi raised his head suddenly.
His eyes were widened, and his pupils reflected Jiraiya's face, which was slightly distorted by shock.
"You're crazy!"
"Not me!"
"I didn't!"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Deny the three in a row!
It surged out from Hiruzen Sarutobi's throat, and every word was filled with irrepressible rage and anxiety!
"Why should I kill them! It was those Man in Black who did it!"
"They impersonated me! They framed me with Five Release Great Combo Technique!"
"One of the Man in Black is Kakashi! He used Lightning Blade to kill the survivors who fled to the door! I saw it with my own eyes!"
Jiraiya stared at him.
Staring at his black clothes, staring at the mask on his face, staring at the bloodstains at his feet, staring at the marks left by Five Release Great Combo Technique on Ruins.
His lips moved, then closed again. Moved again, then closed again.
In the end, I couldn't help but speak.
"... There are traces of Five Release Great Combo Technique everywhere!"
"Also, your outfit!"
He raised his finger and pointed at the black clothes on Hiruzen Sarutobi and the mask on his face.
"Why did you, great Hokage, come to the Shimura clan dressed like this in the middle of the night?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi was stunned on the spot.
His mouth opened and closed, and a bunch of defensive words surged in his throat, but the words were stuck in his throat and no words could come out.
Dress like this.
Much of the night.
Run to Shimura clan land.
What are you here for?
Come and kill Danzo's son and grandson!
Come to take revenge on Danzo for killing his grandson Konohamaru!
Come and fulfill the agreement of three for one, so that the plan to siege Masked Man can continue! Let Uchiha Yongye and Madara Uchiha both suffer losses, and then kill them all!
But he couldn't tell a single word about these private reasons.
Tsunade stared at him.
In those eyes, suspicion turned to confirmation. Rage.
She stood up, the hem of the medical gown fluttering gently in the night wind. Her hands hung by her sides, her fingers spread slightly, and Chakra condensed in her palms.
"Hiruzen Sarutobi!"
"What the hell is going on?"
"Immediately, immediately, tell me clearly!"
Flame burns on Ruins.
Thick smoke billowed in the night sky.
Blood was flowing on the Stone Slab ground.
The night wind blew by, picking up the ashes on the ground, rolling past Hiruzen Sarutobi's feet, and blowing past his face.
The black cloth covering his face was blown gently by the wind, revealing the old face underneath.
His body was trembling slightly. It started from his fingers and spread to his wrists, from his wrists to his arms, and from his arms to his shoulders.
Facing Tsunade's Rage question, he wanted to go crazy, roar, and destroy the world!
Damn it, his wife, wife... it's so unfair!
Suddenly, Hiruzen Sarutobi had a flash of inspiration.
He raised his head suddenly, his eyes widened, and an almost crazy light burst out from his pupils.
"Kakashi!"
"He can prove my innocence!"
"I'm going to catch him!"
Before he finished speaking, his hands had finished forming the seal. Body Flicker Technique was activated, and his figure disappeared from the place, leaving only a cloud of white smoke that had not completely dissipated.
Tsunade's feet paused, his body ejected forward, his right hand stretched out, his fingers spread out, wanting to pursue and intercept.
"Stop-"
Jiraiya's hands are faster.
He grabbed Tsunade's arm, clasped his fingers on her upper arm, and held her tightly, forcing her to stop.
"Save people first, put out fires first!"
He spoke righteously, and his eyes swept over the Ruins that were still burning and the bodies lying in a pool of blood.
"Perhaps, there are still survivors."
Tsunade turned his head and glared at him fiercely. Those eyes were full of Rage, unwillingness, helplessness, and countless emotions intertwined together.
Then she took back her hand, turned around, and walked towards Ruins.
"Put out the fire!"
Her voice exploded, echoing in the night sky.
"Help!"
"Move quickly! Don't dawdle!"
Anbu Ninjas ejected from roofs, walls, and street entrances. Some people rushed towards the burning Ruinss, some squatted down to inspect the bodies on the ground, and several people rushed into the still smoking ruins to search.
Water Release Ninjutsu, keeps being released.
A stream of water jets shot out from Anbu Ninja's palm, hitting the burning beams and smoking rubble. White water vapor rose into the sky, covering the entire courtyard in a white mist.
The flames made a hissing sound under the impact of the water. The flames turned from orange to dark red, and from dark red to blue smoke, dissipating in the night wind one by one.
Tsunade looked around and found no one still breathing!
She sighed sadly, walked to a corpse that might still be saved, and made a last-ditch effort.
Pressing his right hand on the corpse's chest, light green Medical Chakra poured out from his palm and seeped into the already cold body.
No heartbeat. No breathing. No pulse.
She retracted her hand, stood up, and walked to the next body.
Squat down. Lay hands. Chakra pours in.
No heartbeat. No breathing. No pulse.
She stood up and walked towards the third body.
The fourth body.
The fifth body.
Every one has the same result...
After a while, the fire went out. The flames on Ruins were extinguished by Water Release. The broken beams and columns no longer burned, and the smoking rubble no longer smoked. Only gray-white water vapor was still floating in the night wind, mixed with the smell of burning, filling the air.
No one was saved.
In the settlement of the Shimura Clan, from east to west, from south to north, no one is alive.
The corpses scattered in the courtyard, the corpses pressed under Ruins, the corpses lying in pools of blood in the streets and alleys - every one has been checked, every one has been confirmed.
There is not a single survivor.
Jiraiya stood in the center of the courtyard, his eyes scanning the corpses covered with white cloth. His lips were pursed into a line, his face was ashen, and his eyes were tangled.
He approached Tsunade again, and his voice was very low, so low that only Tsunade could hear it.
"Either the teacher is really innocent."
"Either, there are others involved."
His eyes moved away from the corpse and fell on the marks left by Five Release Great Combo Technique on Ruins, on the house crushed by Susanoo, and on the pool of blood next to the corpse penetrated by Lightning Blade.
"Maybe, it's Sarutobi Clan, and Uchiha."
"Danzo, offend them so much!"
Tsunade looked gloomy.
"Hmm."
One word squeezed out of the throat, short and heavy.
Her eyes swept through Ruins, from the group of houses in the east that were flattened by Five Release Great Combo Technique to the settlement in the west that was crushed by Susanoo.
In addition to Five Release Great Combo Technique, the traces of Fire Release are also very obvious: the burnt blackness on the walls, the cracks on the ground, and the residual heat in the air - those are the Cursed Seal left behind by the large-scale Fire Release Ninjutsu.
Uchiha, good at Fire Release. Sarutobi, also good at Fire Release.
To kill all Shimura Clan in such a short period of time, even with Ninjutsu, a powerful map cannon like Five Release Great Combo Technique, it would be difficult for Hiruzen Sarutobi alone to do it.
There must be others cooperating.
The powerful Fire Release Ninjutsu is most suitable for large-scale killing.
Jiraiya The tangle on his face became thicker and heavier, and his voice became lower, as if he was afraid of being heard and spread by the night wind.
"If it's really a teacher."
"Fifth Hokage, what are you going to do?"
"Is it a case of favoritism and perverting the law, or is it a matter of extermination of relatives for the sake of justice?"