"Did you hear that clearly?"
"Huh?!"
The Anbu member froze for a moment before coming back to his senses. He hurriedly said, "Please rest assured, Hokage Lord. I will spread the news as quickly as possible."
"Good. Then I'll leave it to you."
The Third Hokage nodded and remained standing atop Hokage Rock. The cool night breeze swept over him, stirring the hem of his robes.
Gazing out over Konoha's nightscape, the Third Hokage fell into a daze for no apparent reason.
"What?!"
"That's impossible!!!"
"This news is absolutely fake, right?!"
"Are you stupid? How could news personally announced by the Hokage Office Building be fake?! You're the fake one."
"The village has really been lively lately. As if the endless war wasn't enough, Danzo actually did something so cruel and damaging to the village's interests."
"Exactly. The previous matter already caused quite a stir. Danzo and the Shimura Clan really are no good."
"I heard they've been targeting the Uchiha too. It's always been like that, which is why the Uchiha Clan Head, Uchiha Hikaru, got so angry that he wanted to leave the village."
"Hmph, if it were me, I'd leave with my clan too. They kept contributing to the village, only to be targeted in every possible way in the end!!"
"The Shimura Clan are truly inhuman, especially that Shimura Danzō!!!"
Konoha was lively, truly lively. The matter of Hikaru taking the Uchiha away from Konoha had caused an enormous uproar. Strangely, most villagers stood with Hikaru and the Uchiha, while Danzo and the Shimura Clan had become rats crossing the street.
Most villagers discussed the matter and spoke up for the Uchiha. Quite a few of them felt embarrassed, because they themselves had once viewed the Uchiha through tinted glasses.
Now that everything had come to