At Uchiha Fugaku's words, Uchiha Sora's gaze sharpened.
White Zetsu had impersonated Shisui to visit Fugaku yesterday. Apparently, his real aim had been to drive a wedge between Sora and Fugaku!
With Shisui's corpse and some altered information planted on it, Sora would have no way to defend himself.
Apparently, this was the contingency Obito Uchiha had prepared against him.
"Uchiha Sora, you traitor to the clan! What do you have to say for yourself?" Uchiha Fugaku demanded coldly.
"Why should I explain myself to you?" Uchiha Sora replied calmly. "Before you question me, you should consider whether you have the strength to back it up!"
"Hmph! Such arrogance! Seize him!" Uchiha Fugaku swept his hand forward and gave the order.
The surrounding members of the Konoha Military Police Force closed in on Uchiha Sora, brimming with righteous indignation.
Uchiha Sora frowned slightly.
He drew the sword at his waist, gathering lightning release chakra along its blade.
With a light sweep, he scattered a web of lightning and electric arcs around him.
Caught off guard, the charging officers were struck by the lightning and collapsed, paralyzed and unable to move.
The next instant, Uchiha Sora blurred forward and knocked them all down with a few punches and kicks.
Uchiha Fugaku's face turned livid at the sight.
"You actually dare resist! Fine! You really are a traitor!" he roared, drawing a kunai and activating his Sharingan as he charged in himself.
Uchiha Fugaku was no weakling. As clan leader, he might not have been as powerful as Shisui, but all his fundamental abilities had reached the peak of jonin level. He was an elite among elites, even stronger than Kakashi.
Even compared with Naruto, he was not far behind.
He had thought that once he intervened, he would be able to subdue Uchiha Sora.
Instead, Uchiha Sora's strength exceeded his expectations. Whether in taijutsu, swordsmanship, or reflexes, he offered virtually no openings.
They exchanged dozens of moves in close combat before finally breaking apart.
Uchiha Fugaku formed hand seals and spat a large fireball straight from his mouth!
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!
Uchiha Sora also formed hand seals, answering with a Great Fireball of his own!
The two enormous fireballs collided, sending scorching waves of heat sweeping outward.
The Police Force members hurriedly scattered for cover.
Fueled by powerful streams of chakra, the two Great Fireballs continued clashing, their power already far beyond that of an ordinary C-rank technique.
But Uchiha Fugaku soon discovered that his Great Fireball was gradually losing ground. His expression changed, and shock and confusion filled him.
He was in his prime, with chakra reserves no smaller than those of the current Third Hokage. Uchiha Sora was only eleven, the same age as his son. Why did he have such enormous reserves too?
More baffling still, he was the clan leader, using the fire release he excelled at, yet he was being overwhelmed!
Boom!
While Uchiha Fugaku wrestled with his doubts, Uchiha Sora increased his chakra output and activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan!
With his damage-doubling talent, the Great Fireball's power abruptly doubled!
In an instant, Uchiha Sora's fireball engulfed Uchiha Fugaku's and surged toward him.
Uchiha Fugaku hurriedly retreated at full speed, narrowly escaping the fireball's assault.
Even so, the scorching blast left him looking rather bedraggled.
"Uchiha Fugaku, is that all you've got?" Uchiha Sora shook his head in disappointment.
He knew Fugaku might be hiding a Mangekyo, but he had one himself. Besides, he still had plenty of trump cards left unused. In a fight to the death, he was absolutely confident he could kill Uchiha Fugaku.
However, Uchiha Sora could not be bothered to keep tangling with Fugaku. His current targets were not Fugaku, but the Third Hokage and Danzo.
"Uchiha Sora, with strength like yours, why would you serve as the Konoha High Command's lapdog?" Uchiha Fugaku demanded angrily. "If you stood with the clan, and Shisui were still alive, how hard would it be to overthrow Konoha?"
"I can't be bothered to explain it all to you! Figure it out yourself!" Uchiha Sora said, shaking his head.
With that, Uchiha Sora vanished in a flash.
He left behind Shisui's final letter, which fluttered to the ground.
He was about to make his move against the Konoha High Command anyway. He trusted that Uchiha Fugaku would understand soon enough.
The next instant, Uchiha Sora appeared outside the Root Base.
The Root Base was not in central Konoha, but beneath a forest on the village's outskirts.
Over the past two years, Uchiha Sora had already planted Flying Thunder God formula markers at all of Konoha's important locations.
Naturally, he had not overlooked the area near the Root Base's entrance.
He had come here to make trouble for Danzo.
Still, this was Danzo's headquarters. Killing him on his own turf would not be easy.
But wreaking havoc and seizing some ninjutsu records were well within his capabilities.
Uchiha Sora had long since decided to leave Konoha. Before he left, he certainly would not let the Third Hokage and Danzo rest easy.
He created a Shadow Clone and sent him to attack the Root Base's entrance, drawing the sentries' attention.
A clash soon broke out.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The Root members immediately sounded the alarm.
Root members rushed out one after another, surrounding Uchiha Sora's Shadow Clone.
Although Sora's Shadow Clone had only half his chakra, he was still immensely powerful compared with these Root members.
Even as a Shadow Clone, the power of his various ninjutsu and skills had barely diminished.
Fire Release, Lightning Release, Wind Release, Earth Release, Water Release...
He unleashed all the elemental techniques he had learned on the Root members as though they cost him nothing.
They had the advantage in numbers, but against Uchiha Sora's endless succession of ninjutsu, they could do little more than defend.
Seizing the opportunity, the real Uchiha Sora quietly infiltrated Root's underground base.
Once inside, he created more Shadow Clones and sent them to search throughout the base.
Every Root member who tried to stop him along the way was brought down with genjutsu.
A few minutes later, he and his Shadow Clones reached the center of the base, at the passage leading into the underground hall.
Looking through the entrance, he saw quite a few Root members gathering in the spacious underground hall.
The Root members in the hall soon noticed Uchiha Sora and his Shadow Clones.
"The enemy's inside! Take him down!" someone shouted.
At once, at least a hundred Root members charged toward Uchiha Sora and his Shadow Clones.
Uchiha Sora glanced at one of his Shadow Clones.
The clone nodded slightly and charged straight at them.
The Root members had already prepared various hidden weapons and ninjutsu, and hurled them all at the Shadow Clone.
Some attacks even tried to bypass the clone and strike Sora's real body.
Just then, the Shadow Clone suddenly pulled a handful of Explosive Tags from inside his clothes and scattered them around him.
Immediately afterward, the Shadow Clone formed hand seals and detonated the Explosive Tags!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
In an instant, explosions thundered everywhere.
Sora's Shadow Clone disappeared into the blasts.
The Root members closing in to attack him were also caught in the explosions before they could react.
But they were elites, after all, and mere Explosive Tags were something they could handle. In the face of danger, each unleashed his strongest defensive ninjutsu.
Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!
Water Release: Water Formation Wall!
They also deployed all manner of secret defensive techniques.
At the sight, Uchiha Sora could not help smiling. "These aren't ordinary Explosive Tags!"
This was the Second Hokage's Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique, which he had obtained from the Scroll of Seals!
The Shadow Clone had scattered dozens of Explosive Tags, and every single one represented limitless explosive power!
By using Explosive Tags to summon more Explosive Tags, no defense was worth worrying about, provided he had prepared enough tags!
Over the past two years, Uchiha Sora had spent almost all his money buying Explosive Tags.
He had prepared at least ten thousand for this attack!
With so many Explosive Tags detonating at concentrated points, the Root ninja's defenses stood no chance.
They might withstand ten or twenty Explosive Tags, but they could never withstand a sustained bombardment of more than ten thousand!
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Violent explosions and bursts of flame shook the entire underground hall.
The air was thick with the acrid fumes of the blasts.
Under such intense bombardment, even the Root members who had hoped to charge at Sora's real body were forced to flatten themselves against the ground, afraid to raise their heads.
Those closer to the explosions had already been reduced to ashes.
Seeing this, Uchiha Sora left some Shadow Clones behind to hold them off, while he and the others headed elsewhere in the underground hall to conduct a thorough search.
His main objective in coming here was Danzo's collection.
From the original story, he knew that Danzo possessed training scrolls for secret Wood Release techniques.
Moreover, Danzo had always operated in the shadows, carrying out who knew how many secret deeds. His collection was certainly no smaller than the Third Hokage's.
They were already in the heart of the Root Base. With some Shadow Clones keeping a large number of Root members occupied, the others began searching the various hidden rooms.
Just then, a piercing whistle of wind suddenly rang through the underground hall.
It was accompanied by a grim, aged voice.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Razor-sharp currents of air, like the blades of weasel spirits, instantly swept through Sora's Shadow Clones.
Pop! Pop! Pop...
Caught off guard, half the Shadow Clones were struck and vanished in puffs of white smoke.
Uchiha Sora, who was searching a hidden room, suddenly grew alert.
Danzo had finally appeared!
Knowing those Shadow Clones could never stop him, Uchiha Sora flashed out into the underground hall.
Surrounded by his subordinates, Danzo approached him with a dark expression. "Uchiha Sora! You've got some nerve! How dare you attack my headquarters!"
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