Uchiha Assassination Plan!

After half a month of ordinary life, Ye Liang happily began preparing for the Chunin Exams.

It was said that the reward this time was extraordinarily generous. He beamed as he looked over the mission list, his face breaking into a broad grin.

"One, ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand! A reward of a hundred thousand ryo! That's enough for me to buy another house!"

Ye Liang counted it over and over on his fingers.

"Once you've finished counting, get to work. Time is tight this time. People from the Five Great Shinobi Villages will all be coming, and we only have a month," Hiruzen Sarutobi said blandly. Then he waved his hand, dismissing him.

Ye Liang left the office.

After giving Team 7 a few instructions, he went home to enjoy himself.

"Obito, what should we eat for lunch? My treat!" Kakashi happily patted Obito Uchiha on the back. This mission paid extremely well, and as Ye Liang's students, they would receive quite a sizable share as well.

"Forget it. I have something urgent to deal with today, so I won't be doing the mission." Obito replied nervously before quickly leaving the Hokage Office.

"Kakashi, don't you think Obito has been acting strange lately?" Rin Nohara walked over from the side.

"A little. But I heard something happened at his home."

"His home?"

"Yeah."

Half an hour later.

Obito Uchiha wandered toward the outskirts of Konoha in a daze.

He kicked at a pebble beneath his feet, feeling irritated.

It had already been several days.

The people of Konoha had been ostracizing the Uchiha clan for days.

Not only were they shunned by civilians when they ate, but even when they went out to use the restroom, Anbu ninja monitored them!

Obito did not know what was going on, but something had definitely happened!

He hurried toward the village outskirts.

Previously, for certain political reasons, the Uchiha clan's main compound had been placed outside the village.

"Why am I not there yet?!" Obito raced through the branches, but the road home still seemed endlessly far away.

"Who goes there!"

A voice rang out ahead of Obito, and he slowed down.

"Village-guarding jonin? What are they doing here?" Obito recognized the ninja blocking his way.

They wore Konoha uniforms and jonin forehead protectors, so Obito recognized them at once.

"It's a special period. We need to conduct a routine inspection!" The two jonin aggressively blocked Obito's path, snatching away his Ninja Tools bag in the process!

"That was a gift from Teacher Ye Liang."

Obito protested, but all he received was a disdainful eye roll.

"You can go through, but this Ninja Tools bag contains dangerous weapons and must be confiscated!"

"What?"

Obito froze.

In a shinobi village, he had never heard of anyone having their Ninja Tools bag confiscated. Though those things were indeed dangerous, they were ninja!

Could a ninja without a Ninja Tools bag still be called a ninja?!

Obito immediately tried to snatch his Ninja Tools bag back.

"What are you doing?! Do you realize we can rule this behavior as desertion?!" The two men glared at Obito, their expressions seeming somewhat disgusted.

"It was a gift from my teacher. You can't have it!" Filled with rage, Obito lunged at the two village-guarding jonin.

But with his level of skill, how could he possibly defeat them? Not only did he fail to retrieve his belongings, he was beaten until his vision swam and nearly passed out.

"Get lost! If you weren't just a child, I'd kill you on the spot!"

"Damn it!"

Obito slammed his fist into the ground, but there was nothing he could do.

Once the two jonin had left, he could only silently enter the Uchiha settlement.

Inside the Uchiha clan shrine.

A group of Uchiha clan members angrily stared at Uchiha Fugaku!

"Clan Head, if this continues, the Uchiha clan will have no dignity left!"

"Yeah! Those bastards are already bullying us right to our faces. Are we still supposed to swallow this humiliation? I propose that we rebel against Konoha now and seize control of the village!"

"I agree!"

The crowd below erupted in clamor.

Uchiha Fugaku's brow had furrowed deeply.

Previously, due to Danzo's pressure, the Uchiha clan had been forbidden from joining the war against the Nine-Tails. This should have been a good thing, since the Uchiha would not have to sacrifice their clansmen for it, but it had also planted the seeds of disaster.

Every other clan had lost people, yet only the Uchiha had suffered no losses. How could anyone accept that?

Because of this, all the villagers now harbored deep resentment toward the Uchiha.

"Enough, stop talking. I understand what everyone means, but we truly cannot clash with the Senju. Leaving aside the fact that the Senju now have the Hyuga clan's support, even the mysterious expert Ye Liang alone is enough to give us trouble. Given the current situation, how can we oppose the Senju?" Uchiha Fugaku calmly analyzed the situation.

The people below fell silent.

They all understood Uchiha Fugaku's concerns. If it were only the Hyuga clan, the Uchiha would not fear the Senju at all, but Ye Liang changed everything!

Not only did they need to deal with the two old men, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo, they also had to face Ye Liang, a Super Kage-level powerhouse!

Ye Liang had killed Uchiha Madara before!

By now, he had become an insurmountable mountain in everyone's hearts!

"Then what are we supposed to do? Just watch our Uchiha people get bullied?"

"Sigh. Tomorrow, I'll speak with Lord Hokage properly about this matter. I hope he can give our clan a satisfactory explanation." Uchiha Fugaku sighed, bringing that day's clan meeting to an end.

Meanwhile, a squad of Anbu ninja had quietly positioned themselves throughout every corner of the Uchiha compound. Among them, two people wearing cat-face masks had stopped above the shrine.

"Shisui, are we really going to do this? Those are our clansmen!"

"But you heard them too. Those clansmen want to rebel."

"But the Clan Head doesn't want to!"

"Itachi! You must understand that even if they don't rebel today, there is no guarantee they won't in the future. Those who harbor the heart of a Rogue Ninja will sooner or later do the same thing."

Uchiha Shisui spoke those cold, merciless words calmly.

The other person fell silent.

His name was Uchiha Itachi, and he was also one of Clan Head Uchiha Fugaku's sons.

If Uchiha Fugaku had led the clan in betraying the village today, Uchiha Itachi would naturally have acted without mercy. But today's circumstances seemed different from what Danzo had described.

The Uchiha had not truly opposed Konoha, and this caused doubts to arise in his faith.

"If you can't bring yourself to do it, then I'll kill your family for you. After all, I'm an Uchiha too. I must personally deal with traitors!" Uchiha Shisui continued.

After years of Anbu indoctrination, familial affection had long since ceased to matter so much.

To the Anbu, the village's interests outweighed everything else!

"Then please don't hurt my younger brother. He's still a child," Uchiha Itachi added.

"Fine."

As night gradually deepened, they slowly approached the settlement.