Shin Uchiha looked down tenderly at the foolish girl, Uzuki Yugao. As an elite ninja who had qualified for the Anbu, she was no child fooling around at the Ninja Academy.
Anyone who joined the Anbu had undergone extensive training and knew the confidentiality regulations inside out. Yugao could not possibly have been unaware of the consequences of what she intended to do.
The Anbu answered directly to the Third Hokage, and loyalty to him came before everything else. If Yugao informed the Uchiha Clan because the Third Hokage had held Shin back, she would be betraying that loyalty.
If she were exposed, the lightest punishment would be dismissal from the Anbu. With that black mark on her record, her career as a ninja would be over. She could only live as an ordinary civilian and might even be kept under constant surveillance.
The harshest punishment would strip her of both her ninja and civilian status and put her in prison for no less than ten years. Even after her release, she would be expelled from Konoha, forbidden to live or stay there.
The Naruto anime could be misleading, with all its lighthearted humor. In reality, Konoha was the largest ninja village in the shinobi world, as well as its largest village under paramilitary administration. Its rules were extremely strict, leaving no room for betrayal.
Since this foolish girl had already decided to inform the Uchiha Clan, she must have been prepared to face the consequences. As for deceiving Shin, that was impossible.
Ever since Shin had awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, his mental power had soared, and his spiritual perception had become exceptionally keen, making him practically half a Sensor Ninja. Something as elementary as determining whether someone was lying to him was perfectly clear to him.
Unless Yugao had