[Naruto] The big battle to transform the image of the patriarch

Madara and Hashirama didn't really fight, of course.

Mana casually joked about being misunderstood as an enemy just now, which made Hashirama laugh out loud, and began to praise Mito for being really powerful, and the enhanced barrier was actually so sensitive to chakra fluctuations.

Facing Hashirama who was stroking his chin with a blissful expression on his face, Madara clapped his knuckles again seemingly calmly.

"Hashirama! Hokage-sama!" Mana took a step forward, looking at Hashirama sincerely, "Didn't you come here for the interrogation team, why don't you rush over immediately?"

"Oh, that's right!" Hashirama suddenly switched to the serious Hokage mode, looked at Madara and said, "Madara..."

"Did you underestimate me, Hashirama." Madara interrupted his friend disdainfully, "I'll find out about that little trick. But, let's go to the interrogation team first. I still have some questions about those two people." Things want to be confirmed."

As he spoke, his voice sank again, as if he had thought of something that made him unhappy.

On the way to the interrogation team, Mana and the two quickly exchanged information.

"...Is it really the rabble like 'Ying'?" Ban sneered, "I guessed it a long time ago. I said something about leaving a disguise in the killer's mind, trying to pick himself off... It's funny. How could this kind of trick be hidden? My kaleidoscope Sharingan?"

Mana gave him a slightly amusing sideways look.Most people in the Uchiha clan are like this. No matter what their nature is, when they talk about their Sharingan, their tone is extremely conceited. For this reason, many ninjas once felt that they looked down on others.However, after more than a year of getting along, everyone's attitude towards Uchiha has become more tolerant.There were also comments in the newspapers, frankly lamenting that the Uchiha people speak like bear children, it’s okay in Konoha, what if they come out of Konoha...

That worried attitude was just like my mother's.For this reason, a bunch of Uchihas were unhappy, clamoring to burn the newspaper, but in the end no one really went.

The president of the newspaper, the blonde and blue-eyed beauty Fujii Rio, quietly told Mana that it should be because everyone goes to the street every day to meet the plainclothes police law enforcement, and Uchiha reads shamefully The line "Protect Konoha Peace".So they unconsciously overlap Uchiha with their own stupid children...

While speaking, the three of them had landed at the door of the interrogation team, and the ninjas who came and went quickly saluted.

Hashirama nodded to the ninjas, a little absent-minded.He was thinking about something, his brows were tightly frowned, the corners of his mouth were slightly lined, and the expression on his face was almost sad.

Seeing Hashirama's solemn expression, Mana roughly guessed what he was thinking.Like the patriarch of his own family, this one has always thought about peace in the world.He has a naive and enthusiastic personality, and always thinks of people's best interests. As a result, the attack on the village suddenly told him that Konoha not only has external troubles, but also internal troubles...

Unfortunately, that is the reality.Mana couldn't help sympathizing with Hashirama.

"The attack on the village can't just be left alone." Mana carefully put away the trace of sympathy, and said seriously, "It is our responsibility to protect the residents of Konoha. It is already our responsibility for this kind of thing to happen, we must show Only a tough attitude can restore the confidence of the people, and warn the enemy not to provoke Konoha easily. Do you understand, Hashirama?"

Hashirama looked at Mana, then at Madara.His friend did not speak, but his expression clearly agreed.

His lips moved, turning into a somewhat bitter smile.

"Ah, I understand. I will not evade my responsibilities." There was a conflicting emotion in his eyes, "But..."

At the moment when Hashirama's words turned, Madara seemed to understand what he was going to say, and his expression sank.

click-

At this moment, the door of the interrogation room opened.

"Hokage-sama, Madara-sama...ah, and Mana-sama." A ninja almost broke the door and rushed out, "I, we have successfully obtained the information, discovered, discovered..."

The ninjas who can enter the interrogation team are all elites who are calm, calm and decisive.But it was such an elite who looked very flustered at the moment, with shock and confusion written all over his face.

Seeing him like this, Hashirama's expression changed slightly, he took a step forward, and asked sternly, "What's going on? What did you find?"

The ninja swallowed, opened and closed his mouth a few times, and then said: "We searched the captive's brain. According to his memory, someone in Konoha's upper echelons has been in touch with 'Shadow'... this person has been in touch with 'Shadow' through bugs and "Kage" contact, seems to hate the Uchiha clan, hired them to assassinate Mana-sama, and exchange information with the land of land, this time the secret code was also leaked by this person..."

High-level.

Ability to hire killers.

Can come into contact with foreign ninjas.

Mastered the secret code of enchantment.

There are men who are good at controlling insects.

The answer... is almost ready to come out.

Mana and Madara looked at each other, then at Hashirama at the same time.

There was shock on Hashirama's face.He looked at them too.

The three of them knew that the other had a name in their hearts.

Shimura...

But this name is too heavy, even if you know it well, you can't say it easily without conclusive evidence.

"Do you know who this person is?" Mana turned to ask Ninja, "Did you see the face?"

"Yes, yes!" The ninja was probably too shocked and stuttered, "In the memory of the captive, although the other party was very careful, they still discovered his true face. This person is..."

The three of them stared at him.

The answer is about to be revealed.

Suddenly, several people frowned at the same time and looked outside the door.

someone is coming.

bang——

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

The ninja's answer was interrupted.

"You don't need to ask! This old man can answer this question!" The visitor said sharply.

Brown short hair, hanging triangular eyes, small eyeballs, and a fierce look.

"Yuko..." Hashirama frowned.

"Hmph, there's something hidden." Madara squinted her eyes habitually.

He glanced at the things on the ground, and when he raised his eyes again, there was a bit of sarcasm in his eyes.

"..." Mana stared at the things on the ground without making a sound.

It was a corpse.

It belonged to someone they both knew—Youzou's most trusted confidant.

Youzang's eyes swept over them, and stayed on the faces of the members of the interrogation team for a few seconds.

His face was full of anger at the moment, and his small eyes almost burned.

"What you want to say," Youzang said through gritted teeth as he stared at the members of the interrogation team with fierce triangular eyes, "it's this person, right?"

The air froze instantly.

For three full seconds, no one spoke.

Facing the fierce-faced Chief Shimura, the ninja of the interrogation team gritted his teeth, and looked at Hokage asking for instructions.

"...Go and check it out." Hashirama whispered, raising her eyes to see that she was angry but concealed calmly.

The man immediately stepped forward, turned over the fallen body, and began to quickly inspect it with skill.

"This person is my confidant." Youzang's expression was filled with anger and sorrow, "But I never thought that he is actually a spy of the Land of Earth! He has been lurking by my side, using my trust, colluding Foreign enemies, passing information. Until I found out this time, I committed suicide in fear of crime."

"...a spy?" Mana sneered slightly, and mocked, "Master Yuzo, if I remember correctly, you said that this is the confidant you raised since childhood, and it is absolutely guaranteed to be the same as your child. Right? Could it be that the Land of Earth foresaw years ago that Konoha Ninja Village would be established and the Shimura clan would join Konoha, so they specially arranged spies by your side?"

Konoha has been established for less than two years, this statement is simply absurd.

"Yeah, Yuzo." Madara looked him in the eyes, and his tone was as contemptuous as ever, "What explanation do you have for this, let's talk about it together?"

His half-smile expression can be translated as: Make it up, I'm listening.

Some secretly gritted their teeth.

But on the surface, he still had such an expression of anger and grief, and said: "You are still too young, and you have been in the center of the Fire Kingdom, so you don't understand. Our Shimura clan was close to the junction of Fire and Earth, and Earth The ninjas in the country have a lot of conflicts. It is not surprising that the other party cultivates spies and puts them next to me, the patriarch... Alas, it was only this time that I found him. In the past, my Shimura clan also suffered a lot because of him. Many excellent fighters, all..."

He lowered his head, as if the pain was too much to bear to speak.When he looked up again, his face was full of determination.

"But in any case, this is my personal negligence. It was my failure to discover his true identity in time that caused so many losses." Uzo said resolutely, "I am willing to quit the advisory group. Even, if Master Hokage really I can no longer trust me, and I am willing to resign as the patriarch. But I, Yuzo Shimura, and the Shimura clan have no second thoughts about Konoha. I just hope that you will not hold prejudice against the Shimura clan because of my personal reasons."

Youzo's demeanor can almost be said to be awe-inspiring.

At this time, the ninja of the interrogation team finished the inspection, retreated to Hashirama, and reported in a low voice, saying that it was confirmed to be him, and the cause of death was suicide by taking poison.

Hashirama nodded and waved him to take the corpse down.

The members of the interrogation team withdrew, and vigilantly led the master to guard the surroundings to prevent other people from breaking in and disturbing the conversation of these few.

Now there are only four of them left on the field.

Sneer.

"It's well edited, you can hide it." Madara praised coldly, and then announced, "However, that's where it ends."

The murderous aura was instantly released from him.

The spotted figure moved slightly.

Youzang's eyes opened wide, and a look of disbelief emerged from them.

"Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!"

A sudden burst of laughter suddenly resolved the tense atmosphere.

A hand clapped Madara's shoulder, holding him where he was.

"I see, Yuzo!" Hokage-sama smiled with relief, patted Madara's shoulder repeatedly, and said, "It's great that none of us betrayed Konoha! Hahaha."

Hashirama was a little half a step behind Madara at this time, and while he couldn't see, Hashirama gave Mana a wink.

Mana looked at Hokage-sama with a natural smile while secretly grabbing the patriarch of his family forcefully, while signaling to herself with his eyes, he couldn't help being stunned for a while.

"Uh, uh, yes, yes! Haha." Mana laughed dryly for a while, and grabbed Madara's sleeve from the other side, "Does Hokage-sama think so! Patriarch, then we might as well listen to Hokage-sama's thoughts Well, ahaha..."

Madara first looked back at Mana from the right side, glanced down at her own sleeve that she was holding, and then turned his head to the left, looking at Hashirama who was smirking.

He narrowed his eyes.

"Let go." Madara said nonchalantly.

Hashirama resolutely stopped, and cast a gratified look at Mana.

Mana who was still pulling on the long sleeves of her family: "..."

"However, Yuzo." Hashirama's expression turned serious, looking at Yuzo with a stiff expression, he said, "Indeed, you must be responsible for this matter. Leave the spy's body to me, and you don't have to worry about the follow-up incidents." .The decision to deal with you needs to be discussed at a high level. During this period, you will suspend all powers in the village. Do you have any objections?"

Yuzo finally recovered from the murderous aura just now, he lowered his eyes when he heard this decision, resentment and unwillingness flashed in his eyes.

"No objection, Hokage-sama." He raised his eyes and said calmly.

In the end, Shimura Yuzo returned to the Shimura Clan smoothly. Although he temporarily lost his status as a senior Konoha, he still retained the power of the Shimura Clan patriarch.However, after Konoha announced the identity of the so-called "spy", Yuzo's situation will be even more difficult.

Find a few junin and let them "escort" you back to hide.Hashirama watched the group disappear into the night before turning around with a wry smile.

"Hashirama, explain." Madara ordered, looking at him suspiciously, "or...do you really believe Shimura Yuzo's nonsense?"

"Actually," Mana expressed her opinion objectively, "Youzo's statement is barely passable, it's not really nonsense..."

"Mana!" Madara stared at her angrily.

Mana laughed.

The interrogation office is located in the northeast of Konoha, near the edge of the forest, and it is already secluded.Even during the day, you can talk with confidence here.

"There is no way around this, because..." Mana hesitated to speak, looked at Hashirama who also looked helpless, and said, "Hashirama, you should talk first."

"That..." Hashirama pondered over the words in distress.

Madara glared at the two hesitant people.

One is a close friend who doesn't make much progress even if he becomes Hokage, and the other is his beloved girlfriend and future wife.

"...Forget it, what else can it be." He finally let out a sigh of relief, half compromising and half impatient, "It's nothing more than making compromises."

"Ahahaha, Brother Madara, you have summed it up so brilliantly!" Mana said dog-leggedly.

Then got hit on the head.

"Madara, I knew you could understand!" Hashirama looked at him movedly, and secretly gave Mana an encouraging look.

Mana: "..."

#Did I help a third party attack my boyfriend#

Perhaps having received the meaning of Mana's eyes, Hashirama switched back to the serious Hokage mode in a blink of an eye.

With a wry smile, he said, "Youzo is the patriarch of the Shimura clan, and the Shimura clan is an important allied family. If you want to convict Uzo, you must have enough evidence. But the only evidence we have now is this...' Spy', and Youzo has already voluntarily handed over this person, and the explanation he gave is quite reasonable, and he also voluntarily asked to be removed from the advisory group. At this point, we can't..."

Hashirama tried very hard to explain.

Madara stared at him, twitched the corners of his mouth, shook his head and said, "Are you convincing me or yourself...Hashirama, admit it, you actually want to believe Youzo's words. You want Youzo's explanation It is true."

There was a moment of silence between the pillars.

"...Maybe you're right." A look of exhaustion flashed across his face, "I hope to be able to trust everyone in Konoha. Don't you also hope to be able to trust others, Madara?"

Under the light, his eyes were a little stubborn.

There is a slight wind blowing, bringing a little coolness.The accumulated water on the leaves was blown a few times, and finally fell on the ground, making a clear "click", adding a little coolness.

"...'Hope' to believe and 'to be able' to believe, after all, are two different things." Madara said lightly, with a firm voice, "Hashirama, you know, I have people who I want to protect with my life, I can't put them away in danger."

His gaze turned to the side, paused lightly on Mana, and then turned away.

In the distance, on the side of the main street and buildings, various sounds can still be heard intertwined, which is the aftertaste of the panic.

"I don't believe in Shimura Yuzo." Madara looked directly at Hashirama, and continued, "Hashirama, I will not force you to make a decision. Even for the sake of Konoha's stability, I can temporarily endure it on the surface. But if there is a chance, I'll kill him. You know I won't hesitate."

Madara is serious.

Hashirama fully understands.

"I understand, Madara, I also have things that I want to protect at the risk of my life." He nodded and said, "Please bear with it for a while. I will investigate clearly if there is something hidden."

One hand is raised.

He swayed at the height where the two men's eyes met.

Madara grabbed the wrist of that hand and aimed at the person next to him out of the corner of her eye.

"Mana, if you have something to say, please speak up." He said.

Mana withdrew her hand, put her index finger against her chin, and pondered for a while.

"Well... I don't think as much as you guys do. I don't believe there is something hidden." She said slowly, "The reason why I stopped you, Brother Madara, is because at this time, Konoha must cherish every ounce of strength. , to maintain stability as much as possible.”

"...What does this mean?" Hashirama had a bad premonition.

"This time I was escorting Daimyo Yoshikawa and other high-ranking officials back to the city, but I encountered an attack on the way. The visitor used the Tudun." A look of memory appeared on Mana's face, "Although I told Daimyo, not only ninjas from the Land of Earth can Using Tudun, but the daimyo was very angry. He thought it must be the revenge of the land of the land, because there was a serious trade friction between the two countries last time."

"So, what is the daimyo's decision?" Hashirama's expression became more and more serious.

"It's hard to say right now." Mana answered with deliberation, "The daimyo is going to resolve it through diplomatic channels first, but at the same time, let me come back and spread the word, saying that it is... let Konoha prepare for the war."

small theater:

#Did I help a third party attack my boyfriend#

Mana (hesitating): Well, Miss Mito, I want to ask you a question...

Mito (smiling softly): Huh?Just say it directly, Mana.

Mana (Words carefully): There is a person who always speaks sweet words to my boyfriend... always praises him, runs after him relentlessly, no matter how rude my boyfriend is, this person doesn't care... I said, what else is this guy saying about my boyfriend being his revelation.The most frightening thing is that some people predicted to me that in the future, my boyfriend will tirelessly chase this person and say to him, "You are in my pocket"... Sister Mito, I think it's good Worry.

Mito (silent, then laughs more tenderly): "His" apocalypse?Ah, sure enough, it's Hashirama, right?

Mana (panicked, stuttering): That, that, me, me, me...

Mito (continuing to laugh): It's okay, Mana.I know more or less about these things.Don't worry, I will train him well.

Mana (whispering): Miss Mito, just now, you really used the word "training"...

(Muffled under Mito's gaze)

(Later, Madara went to look for him at Hashirama's house, but Mito was not there)

Hashirama (talking excitedly, seriously): Madara!you are mine……

(The complexion changed, he looked around nervously, took out his wallet and bowed his head to count the money)

spot:……?

Hashirama (talking to himself): It’s okay, it’s okay, Mito didn’t hear about it, otherwise the gambling money will be gone this month...

Zhu Jian'er Zai (trotting over, innocently): Dad, I will tell Mom, don't worry.

Hashirama (panic): No!Smash it!etc! !