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After eating the venison, the two went to the back mountain and practiced until night.

Itachi: "I feel like the hidden illness in my body is almost healed."

Bai An: "Don't be impatient. You can hold on for at least another year. What are you worrying about?"

Itachi: "Hmm..."

Bai An looked at Uchiha Itachi and continued.

"Thinking about the Sharingan?"

Itachi: "Yeah, I had a sparring match with Brother Shisui a few days ago, and Yan Fan was... "

Bai Eucalyptus stood up and suddenly patted Uchiha Itachi's shoulder before Itachi finished speaking, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "It takes a lot of effort to make a breakthrough, Weasel."

"Powerful things are often accompanied by unknown risks. Without a certain level of strength to support them, problems will arise. You must learn to hide and lie dormant. If you meet Brother Shisui in the near future, tell him about this."

Suddenly Bai Eucalyptus attacked Itachi. Itachi thought he wanted to fight with him, so he accepted the attack, and the two of them collided with each other, making a noise.

At this time, Bai Yan said to the itachi

"Someone."

Itachi: "Who?"

Bai Eucalyptus: "I don't know."

Bai An: "Let's go, let's leave first."

Bai Eucalyptus pushed his hand towards Uchiha Itachi, grabbed Itachi's arm and pulled it to the side. With his other hand, he instantly produced an extremely compressed Rasengan, the size of a ping-pong ball. It could not be seen at all unless you looked closely, and then he threw it directly to the ground.

"Oh!"

Smoke and dust enveloped the two of them.

"Whoosh!"

He activated Flying Thunder God and appeared at Bai An's house the next moment.

Itachi wondered, "Who could it be?"

Bai An didn't reply, but put his hand on his chin, thinking.

Itachi stayed for a while and then left.

Uchiha clan leader's residence

After Itachi returned home, he went straight to the backyard, put his hands on his head, and lay down on the lawn, looking up at the starry sky, thinking about what Bai Euan had said to him.

"The risk... lurks..."

"Can the peace that Brother Shisui talked about with me a few days ago really be achieved..."

"Most people in the village look at the family coldly, fearing the Sharingan. Coupled with the arrogance of the clan members, it is difficult for the family to integrate into the village..."

At this time, a figure appeared beside Itachi.

Itachi: "Brother Shisui, Bai An talked to me about something today and asked me to tell you as well."

Shisui: "Oh? What did you say?"

"Strength comes with unknown risks, so be careful of hiding."

Shisui "Hibernate..."

"It means learning to hide your edge..."

After thinking for a moment, he said, "By the way, do you have any ideas about the village and family I talked about last time? I am a little confused now. The idea is good, but I don't know where to start."

Itachi: "After I finished talking that day, I found that there were many problems in the clan, and it would not be easy to implement it..."

Itachi thought about it, and suddenly thought of something and said

"Maybe we can ask Bai An tomorrow. We are the ones involved, and he is a bystander. He is not a member of the family. What he sees may be what we cannot see, and it may be inspiring to us."

Shisui looked at the sky and muttered, "Those involved are confused, but those who are on the sidelines can see clearly."

Then he smiled and said, "Yeah, that makes sense. I'll ask him tomorrow. Although Bai An is a bit talkative, some of his ideas are quite brilliant."

Itachi's mouth corners slightly raised "That guy..."

......

At this time, Bai An was meditating at home

Eucalyptus leucophylla

"What I said to Itachi also enlightened me. Too many things have been exposed recently..."

"After completely releasing my negative emotions, I became rich from being poor, which made me forget my roots. A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."

"Since I got the forbidden scroll, the Third Generation hasn't summoned me again, but he's been keeping an eye on my whereabouts every day."

"Not only that, another aura appeared today and was staring at Itachi and me. No, to be more precise, it was staring at Itachi. Who was that? It wasn't Shisui."

Bai An suddenly opened his eyes. "Could it be... that old pervert..."

Inside the Hokage's Office

Sarutobi Hiruzen "Danzo, what are you doing here again?"

Danzo "Sarutobi, I need someone from you."

Sarutobi Hiruzen "Who?"

Danzo "Itachi of the Uchiha family."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was not happy about this, he wanted to pull Itachi to his side

"He doesn't have chakra, and he doesn't have what you want. Don't think I don't know what you are planning."

Danzo: "Sarutobi, you are in the open, I have always been here..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen: "Alright, I have my own goals. Uchiha Itachi still needs to grow for a while, at least not this year."

Danzo understood the meaning behind Sarutobi Hiruzen's words and walked out.

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up and stood in front of the large window, looking at the Hokage Rock, lost in thought.

Some of the things Danzo did cannot be said openly, such as forcing Hatake Sakumo to death.

As the Hokage, he chose to turn a blind eye to such things.

Because under Danzo's leadership, Gen did a lot of things that he couldn't do as a Hokage.

After all, some things are not suitable to be done openly. Behind some successes, the means are extremely dark and insidious. At this time, a department like the root is needed.

Sarutobi Hiruzen "Itachi and Bai Yan... It seems that we need to find a time to separate the two of them..."

Five days later, afternoon, outside the village

Itachi and Bai Yan were practicing when suddenly more than ten shurikens were shot towards them.

One of them drew his sword and quickly bounced it away, while the other took advantage of the situation and caught the shuriken in his hand.

A voice came from a tree.

"Haha, you're quite perceptive."

The two knew who it was as soon as they heard it, it was Uchiha Shisui.

Bai An: "Brother Shisui, every time you come out you throw shurikens, why don't you change it..."

Before he could finish his words, a fireball flew over.

Bai Eu dodged quickly and Shisui jumped out of the fireball in an instant.

"The art of instant body movement. Flame slash!"

Bai Eu immediately retreated half a step, blocked with a single whip in a false step, turned around and punched with his palm, stepped forward and supported with a hammer, and after eliminating the last clone, he activated the Golden Light Curse and hit the heart with an elbow.

The two passed each other.

"Boom!"

"clang!"

At the same time, he turned around, the golden light of Bai Eucalyptus dissipated, Shishui put away his sword, and put his hands behind his back.

Shisui: "I haven't seen you for more than a few months. Can you already take the Flame Slash head-on?"

Bai Eucalyptus: "This time, the Flame Slash is much stronger than the last time. Look."

There was a white mark on Bai'an's elbow. Bai'an didn't know that Zhishui's arms were still numb and his hands were shaking behind him.

"Look at your knife, and then look at the weasel's. It took twelve cuts to break the skin."

Itachi: "Go away, the scar should still be there, why are you pretending? Try again if you have the guts."

White Eucalyptus "I tm......"

Shisui smiled, "Alright, stop messing around, both of you."

"By the way, I received the message you asked Itachi to bring me last time. Thank you."

White Eucalyptus "It's a small matter. Being careful is better than anything else."

Shisui: "By the way, you seem to have quite a lot of ideas, so I came here to ask you what you think of peace."

White Gum "Peaceful?"

"For me, peace is only relative, not absolute. Light and darkness coexist. There is peace in the light, and the same is true in the darkness. On the contrary, there is violence in the darkness, and the same is true in the light."

Shisui whispered "In the darkness there will also be..."

"Then can you tell me about the village and the Uchiha?"

Bai An thought for a moment and said

"You should also know how the people in the village view the Uchiha."

Shisui and Itachi looked at each other and said "Keep your distance, be afraid, and be disgusted."

"Well, this trend actually existed before the Nine-Tails Rebellion, but it was not obvious at that time."

"After the riot, the whole incident pointed to the Uchiha, which made the villagers even more annoyed with the Uchiha people."

Bai An asked back, "Say less."

Shisui sighed "Ah...extreme and arrogant."

Bai An: "There are quite a few people in your family who look down on common people."

The two fell silent.

Bai An: "To be honest, this is a common problem among large families. Other families are restrained, but you are out in the open. What's more, you are an administrative unit, so you are within the system."

Itachi: "Uh...what is an administrative unit, within the system?"

Bai An: “Uh…it’s the core department directly under the village, which is your police station.

Itachi: "Oh."

Bai An: "Let me ask you, what is the most important thing in the composition of a village?"

Itachi: "Force?"

Bai Eucalyptus: "No, think about it again."

Itachi "Hokage?"

White Eucalyptus: "No."

Itachi fell into deep thought, thinking hard.

Bai An thought, "Forget it, let's just say it directly. We have different political philosophies. I almost forgot that the political class here is the will of fire."

At this time, Shisui looked up and said excitedly

“The will of the people is the will of the people.”

Bai An looked at Zhi Shui in surprise, thinking, "Tsk, this guy is a good leader, but he got cheated."

He continued, "That's right. It's the people's hearts. Not to mention a village, even for a country, the people's hearts are very important. Without the people's hearts, things would have been in chaos long ago. Whoever wins the people's hearts wins the world."

"Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it."

“The public can praise you highly, but they can also smash you to pieces.”

Shisui and Itachi were shocked by Bai An's words, "Water can carry a boat..." "Win the hearts of the people...win the world..."

He continued, "Does the police department only recruit people from their own family and not accept people from the village?"

Shisui and Itachi are silent

Bai An said, "Building and maintaining the hearts and minds of the people is a long-term task. It is not enough to just do the work at hand. It depends on communicating with the people and integrating with them. The current approach will only push the people further away, not to mention the hearts and minds of the people."

"You said there are historical factors involved. If you do this now, won't it only exacerbate the conflict?"

Itachi and Shisui both sighed after hearing this.

Itachi sighed, "It's difficult. Among the Uchiha, this is equivalent to a coup d'état."

Shisui had been thinking with his head down, and now he looked up and asked, "Bai An, have you thought of any way to solve these problems? After all, it is already exclusive now, is there any way to remedy it?"

Bai An: "What I said just now already has the answer. To accept villagers and let them work in the police station, of course, they must go through a strict assessment. It is not a mindless recruitment. Let the people in the family put down their arrogance, be gentle and humble, and communicate more with the villagers."

"But this is not easy for your family."

Shisui helplessly sat on the ground leaning against the tree

"Yes, it's no less than a coup d'état."

Next, Itachi returned to the village first, saying that he wanted to go back quickly to teach Sasuke the throwing technique.

At this time, only Shisui and Baian were left. Baian was practicing, while Shisui was just leaning against a tree, looking at the clouds in the sky.