Naruto: Konoha’s Kanpu

Chapter 725: The Truth

A few years ago, due to the Shisui defection incident, the settlement of the Uchiha Clan was relocated from the most prosperous area to the most remote ‘outskirts’ of the village, so Itachi had to pass a section of ‘wild road’ every time he returned home.

The ground on the ‘Wild Road' is compacted yellow soil, which will become muddy when it rains. On the left side of the ‘Wild Road' is a field, as it is autumn at this time, the rice fields are full of bent rice ears, while on the right side is an open field, and there is a river with a small dam beside it. Sasuke likes to come here to train his Great Fireball Technique.

‘Maybe he is waiting for me to go home.’

Itachi felt warm in his heart when he thought of Sasuke, but when his eyes fell on ‘Kanpū’ who was blocking the road, there was a bit of impatience and disgust on his face.

“What on earth do you want to do!” Itachi asked in a deep voice.

“Itachi, it’s me.” ‘Kanpū’ took half a step forward, his eyes are eager and full of expectation!

Itachi frowned when he saw this: ‘Sure enough!’

‘Do you think I will be fooled?’

‘Don’t underestimate my Uchiha Clan!’

He is really angry at this moment. After all, not only did Kanpū not help him find out the truth of Shisui’s defection, but now, he is repeatedly… humiliating him!

It’s simply too much!

However, both parties are Konoha’s Shinobi after all, and both are members of the sixth team. Even if they were not on good terms with each other, they had to at least save some face on the surface, so Itachi tried his best to hold his anger.

But the next scene was unacceptable to Itachi.

Boom!

Light smoke exploded in front of him, and ‘Kanpū’ in front of me suddenly turned into Shisui’s appearance.

“Itachi, it’s me!” Shisui squinted his eyes and looked at Itachi excitedly. His eyesight has deteriorated a lot in the past few years, and he has become accustomed to squinting to see people.

“Gekko Kanpū!”

Itachi gnashed his teeth, with veins showing near his temples, “Don’t go too far!!”

Shisui was startled, then said with a bitter smile: “Itachi, I am not Kanpū, it is me, I am back, because of the Advisor Danzo’s rebellion, I can only appear as Kanpū’s shadow clone before, I…”

“Enough, I don’t want to hear what you say!”

Itachi, who had become wise after learning a lot from the experience, showed the posture of ‘I won’t listen, I won’t listen’, and his figure flickered away in an instant.

……

Back home, Sasuke is still at the Academy, but Fugaku is the only one at home. He’s standing on the wooden corridor in the backyard, quietly looking at flowing water in the small courtyard, and it is unknown what he’s thinking.

“Father.” Itachi greeted him, then turned around and wanted to go back to the bedroom.

“Itachi.”

Fugaku said without looking back, “Did the Anbu's operation go smoothly today?”

Itachi’s steps paused and he replied stiffly: “I'm sorry, I can't leak the Anbu's affairs to outsiders.”

“Am I an outsider too?” Fugaku turned around, and his eyes showed some sadness.

Of his two sons, the one he values ​​the most is actually Itachi!

Sasuke is eight years old this year and is still attending Academy. When Itachi was this old, he had already graduated from the Academy and successfully awaken his Sharingan. He’s a real genius!

But…

“Father is of course an outsider to Anbu.” Itachi said politely.

Fugaku sighed. Since Shisui’s ‘defection’, this son has slowly moved away from him. Although he is still respectful, this kind of unfamiliarity makes him extremely uncomfortable as a father.

But as a father, Fugaku is also proud.

“Even if you don’t say it, I already know it.”

Fugaku spoke slowly, showing a bright smile as if saying that he had everything under control, “Danzo has been caught, right?”

Itachi’s pupils shrank: ‘How did Father know?’

When Itachi left the Anbu’s Headquarters, he happened to see the two Anbu’s teams secretly escorting Danzo, so it was impossible for outsiders to know this information.

‘Unless… When Anbu captured Danzo, Father was by his side!’

Itachi instantly imagined the drama of Fugaku colluding with Danzo to rebel. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: “Father, aren't you afraid of hurting Sasuke and Mother by doing this?”

“???” Hearing this, Fugaku’s old face was full of confusion.

“Danzo has been arrested into the Anbu’s Headquarters, Father, please renounce all relations with him as soon as possible!” Itachi said bluntly.

“Hahahahaha…”

Fugaku laughed and said, “So you thought I would cooperate with Danzo?”

“Don't you, Father?” Itachi doesn’t believe it.

“Indeed.”

Fugaku remembered the scenes on Hokage Rock before, and his whole face instantly glowed, as if he had a second spring. A happy smile that should not be shown in front of his son overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself, “I did cooperate with Danzo. Yeah, that's right, this way I can appreciate Danzo's despair closely, ahhh, it's really exciting!”

Hearing this, Itachi’s face changed slightly: “Father, you are playing with fire. If Hokage-sama knows that you are cooperating with Danzo…”

“Of course Yondaime knows!”

Fugaku put away his smile, regained his calm expression, and said, “Because all this is his plan!”

‘Plan?’

Itachi was shocked: “This…”

‘How is this possible?’

He recalled that the reason for Shisui's defection was because he sneak attacked Minato, but everyone secretly believed that Fugaku was the one who instructed Shisui to do so. Even Itachi had suspected countless times that this might be the truth he was looking for.

But if this is the truth, how can Fugaku and Minato collaborate?

Looking at the puzzled expression on his son’s face, Fugaku seemed to have completely let go of himself. At any rate, he has already said everything to Danzo, so it’s not a problem to say it again.

But as a father, he needed to give himself and his son a reasonable reason, so he said thoughtfully: “Itachi, the fact that you can strictly abide by the Anbu's mission in front of me proves that you have grown into an excellent Shinobi. In this case, it's time to tell you the truth.”

“The truth?”

Itachi looked at him steadily, “The truth Father is saying is…”

“It’s the truth about Shisui’s defection that you have been investigating all these years.” Fugaku said.

Itachi’s pupils shrank, for fear of hearing something like ‘I ordered Shisui to sneak attack the Yondaime Hokage’.

“Shisui's defection was Yondaime’s instruction.”

Fugaku looked deeply at his son and asked, “Do you… understand?”

Itachi's delicate body trembled.

‘Yondaime’s instruction?’

‘So Big Brother Shisui did not attack Yondaime Hokage-sama, and his defection was… a mission?’

‘And it must be the most confidential mission in the Anbu and must not be disclosed to anyone… So Gekko Kanpū knows the truth and does not tell me…’

‘That means, the reason Father can communicate with Yondaime Hokage-sama is because there is no conflict between them. Because Big Brother Shisui’s defection does not exist at all!’

The amount of information in this sentence was too great. By the time Itachi thought about many things and raised his head again, Fugaku has already drifted away.

‘Father…’

Uchiha Itachi remembered how he treated Fugaku so indifferently over the past few years, and immediately felt very guilty!

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After three seconds of feeling guilty, Itachi suddenly remembered something.

‘If Big Brother Shisui’s defection is just a fake, then he must not let Danzo know about his return to the village!’

‘Then, the person who just stopped him might really be the real Big Brother Shisui!!’

Itachi couldn’t wait to turn back and confirm, but as soon as he moved, he couldn’t help but think of the last ‘crazy man’ incident. For a while, he didn’t know whether to advance or retreat.