Fūgetsu sat weakly on the ground, his forehead covered in sweat, his face pale.
It was obviously due to chakra exhaustion.
The Third Hokage leaped into the field and quickly instructed the medical ninjas beside him to provide treatment.
Once a medical ninja's chakra enters a ninja's body, they can detect a lot of information.
Therefore, it is usually not allowed for medical ninjas from other clans to treat their own people.
But Fūgetsu was unusually cooperative.
He spoke weakly, "A tragedy has befallen my family, Third Hokage-sama."
"My son and Shisui have defected..."
At this time, the medical ninja gave the Third Hokage a nod, implying that it was just excessive chakra depletion, with no other injuries.
The Third Hokage pondered in his heart.
At this time, a figure leaped into the center of the field.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Uchiha Kawasaki.
"Clan leader, I transferred the clan members to a safe place while you were fighting with Itachi. There are only minor casualties, everyone else is safe."
The Third Hokage's eyes flickered, and he then said, "Fūgetsu, what do you mean? There are many Konoha ninjas who go out for training, and it's not impossible for Itachi to go out for training now."
Kawasaki seemed stunned for a moment, then nodded in understanding, "Yes, yes. Itachi and Shisui went out to train together. Clan leader, don't worry."
Fūgetsu seemed to still be unable to recover from the series of blows, staring blankly at the devastated clan territory.
Kawasaki supported Fūgetsu and said to the Third Hokage, "Third Hokage-sama, we Uchiha deeply apologize for the chaos caused this time. But now that the Clan leader is seriously injured and needs immediate treatment, we will take our leave."
The Third Hokage nodded in agreement and allowed Kawasaki to take Fūgetsu away from the scene.
Other clans arrived one after another.
Seeing the destroyed scene, everyone couldn't believe their eyes. If it were a tailed beast attack, it would be understandable.
Who would have thought that it was the astonishing destructive power of two Uchiha.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the Third Hokage fell into deep thought, and everyone was waiting for his decision.
Finally, the Third Hokage scanned the surrounding clans, and he did not detect any intent to fight in their eyes.
Only flickering gazes and retreating figures.
The Third Hokage took a puff of his cigarette and slowly exhaled.
"Tonight, the Uchiha will only be leaving, it's not a rebellion."
The Third Hokage made a definitive judgment on tonight's events.
The surrounding clans breathed a sigh of relief and began to look at the heavily damaged Uchiha territory.
The Uchiha territory was expanding year after year.
Every year, there were clan members who died in battle, and there were quite a few vacant spaces in the actual living area.
Moreover, it seemed that Kawasaki had evacuated the clan members beforehand. There were only injured people on the Uchiha side, and no casualties.
Was this an accident, or a carefully arranged play?
...
Fūgetsu was supported by Kawasaki and returned to his residence.
His weakness was not a pretense. He had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan many years ago.
After his eyesight declined to a certain degree, he found that it could not be reversed, so he didn't use the Sharingan for a long time.
Until today, his eye power still existed, but it was no longer abundant. Moreover, summoning the Susanoo required a lot of chakra.
Just now, Fūgetsu had used up a lot of chakra to maintain the huge first-stage Susanoo.
Although it only destroyed some of the clan's buildings, maintaining the giant Susanoo form almost exhausted him.
As for Itachi, the situation was similar. He had only recently awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
Even the Susanoo was temporarily taught by Fūgetsu. The half-destroyed territory also made Itachi almost unconscious.
After all, Itachi was only eleven years old, and his body could not bear such powerful chakra skills.
Fūgetsu touched the blurry edges of his vision, and it seemed that his eyesight had declined again.
"Kawasaki, can the Third Hokage see through this play?"
Kawasaki shrugged nonchalantly, "Of course he can. Our strategy is not a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy. Even if the Third Hokage sees through it, he won't dare to tear our faces off now."
"Firstly, the Uchiha have voluntarily surrendered power. Secondly, because we Uchiha, um, have three Mangekyō Sharingan."
"Right now, it's the critical moment for the Kumo ninjas to come to negotiate. If we Uchiha, with three Mangekyō Sharingan, resist Konoha, even if Konoha wins, they will suffer heavy losses."
"At that time, the Kumo ninjas will no longer come to negotiate, but to destroy the village."
"Now, we just need to act according to plan."
Fūgetsu endured the discomfort in his eyes, and after discussing the follow-up plan with Kawasaki, he entrusted the task of appeasing the clan members to the Fourth Elder, and then fell asleep.
In the Root base, Danzō was carefully reading through the report in his hand.
The report detailed the serious losses suffered by the Uchiha clan this time.
"You mean, such a large-scale destruction was caused by just Fūgetsu and Itachi?"
The subordinate below affirmed, "Yes, Danzō-sama. Most of the buildings in the clan territory were destroyed, and the traces at the scene are like those left by the fierce battle of multiple shadow-level masters."
Is the power of the Mangekyō Sharingan so powerful?
Danzō paced back and forth. Previously, Shisui only told him about the Kotoamatsukami.
Moreover, even if Shisui was forced to demonstrate the Susanoo, it would not be as shocking as this.
He naturally didn't know that the Uchiha Susanoo had different stages.
Moreover, Shisui's condition was not good at that time, and his fighting will was not strong.
Therefore, the Susanoo that Shisui used was very conservative.
"How many people did Itachi take away?"
"Report to you, the exact number has not been counted yet, and the Uchiha side is not cooperating. It is estimated that it is over a hundred people."
"What does the Third Hokage think?"
Danzō lowered his eyelids, his entire body hidden in the darkness, his face expressionless.
Root responded, "The Third Hokage said that tonight's events are just a departure, not a rebellion."
Danzō heard this and slammed his cane heavily on the ground.
"Humph, Third Hokage, you're getting old after all."
"You still want to protect such ambitious people like the Uchiha."
"Send someone out, tomorrow spread the news in the village, saying that the Third Hokage is incompetent, and Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui have led everyone to defect."
"Yes!"
After his subordinates retreated.
Danzō stepped into the darkness, with a greedy light flickering in his eyes.
Mangekyō...
......
Inside the Hyūga clan.
Hizashi, Hiashi, and other elders were scrutinizing the investigation report in their hands.
The extent of the damage to the Uchiha territory was like a tailed beast rampage.
Can our Hyūga clan achieve such a level?
As one of the two great clans of Konoha, the Hyūga clan has always been on par with the Uchiha clan.
During the Third Shinobi World War, the two sides were also evenly matched.
Although they were slightly outnumbered, the Byakugan's reconnaissance ability was highly valued.
The Kirigakure was still overjoyed when they obtained a Byakugan.
It shows how powerful the Byakugan is.
However, it now appears that there are two Mangekyō Sharingan users in the Uchiha clan.
One of them is Clan leader Uchiha Fūgetsu.
The other one is even more extraordinary, Itachi, at the tender age of eleven.
His future growth potential is immeasurable.
"Clan leader, the Uchiha sent this this morning."
Hizashi opened it and saw that it was a letter of recommendation from Fūgetsu.
The general content was that Fūgetsu was unable to continue managing the Police Force due to injury and illness, and he recommended Hiashi to take over as captain.
The rest were some ideas and plans for the future development of the Police Force.
It was obviously a long-prepared plan.
After Hizashi finished reading, Hiashi and the other heads of families also read it in turn.
Everyone understood tacitly that this was Fūgetsu's way of completely withdrawing from Konoha's power structure.
Although Fūgetsu had already hinted at it before, he didn't expect it to be so sudden.
And the method was so decisive.
The destruction of the Uchiha territory was deliberate, as anyone with discerning eyes could see. Those buildings were almost all empty.
There were almost no casualties.
How could a real battle allow the other side to withdraw their people beforehand.
"I feel like Uchiha Fūgetsu has changed since Uchiha Kawasaki came back."
Hiashi said.
Everyone present was a shrewd person. They had all seen Fūgetsu before Kawasaki's return, and Fūgetsu's actions after Kawasaki's return.
They all agreed that Kawasaki was extremely wise.