Spirit Verse
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Chapter 96
🕑 Added 2025-05-21 03:14:09 +0000 UTCIt’s a pity that Orochimaru didn’t know Kakashi’s mission, which was kept top secret by Sarutobi Hiruzen, otherwise he would have learned more information.
However, Danzo felt very satisfied with just the current information.
The next day, Danzo found the Uzumaki clan who had defected to Konoha.
"Lord Danzo." The patriarch of the Uzumaki clan, a branch of Konoha, is a middle-aged man named Uzumaki Rei.
Facing Danzo who was sitting in a wheelchair, Uzumaki Rei behaved very respectfully. He bowed and lowered his head, and his tone was very gentle.
This has to be done, as the Uzumaki clan of the Konoha branch is too weak now.
Of the large clan that was able to establish the ninja village, only twenty people are left now.
There are only five people who are capable of fighting. With such strength, they are much weaker than the Ino, Deer, and Chou clans. Naturally, they cannot stand up straight in front of Danzo.
Uzumaki Rei is a cautious person, even a little too cautious.
The Uzumaki clan had just suffered a severe blow. After arriving in Konoha, he accidentally heard of Danzo's notoriety. Faced with this person who even the Hokage couldn't do anything about, they were already on the verge of death, so naturally they didn't dare to provoke him.
Enter the house and sit down, the servant makes tea.
Uzumaki Rei sat in front of Danzo, feeling uneasy and apprehensive. Opposite him, Danzo, who was obviously a guest, looked calm and natural.
'Although this person is a weakling with no ability, sometimes, such a guy can live longer.' Danzo already knew the information about Uzumaki Rei. After the Uzumaki clan came to Konoha, he kept contacting and investigating them in secret.
In fact, the reason why Uzumaki Rei knew his name was that he specially sent someone to pretend to mention it accidentally.
"I came here this time because I wanted to learn about the past of your Uzumaki clan. I recently learned that your clan had contact with a guy named Rat Hermit several decades ago?" Danzo spoke in a tone as if he was interrogating a prisoner, and his eyes were full of scrutiny.
There is no need to give too much respect to people like Uzumaki Rei. If you are strong enough, you only need to use a coercive attitude to approach them, and then it will be easy to achieve your goal.
"This... is." Uzumaki Rei thought about it, then nodded quickly.
"Then why didn't I see this in the information you submitted to the village?" Danzo asked again.
"It's not that we deliberately wanted to hide it, it's just that it happened a long time ago, so very few people in the clan know about it. I don't know much about that past, so I didn't write it down in the information."
"You're lying!" Danzo said coldly.
"According to my intelligence, the reason you were able to survive the attacks of the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Mist Village during the last Ninja World War was because you were rescued by the Rat Hermit. When you came to Konoha, it was only ten years after the attack. How could you have forgotten it?" Danzo said, his eyes faintly revealing murderous intent: "I now suspect that your deliberate concealment is a manifestation of ill intentions."
"No, no, no, Lord Danzo, please believe me. We really didn't know what happened in that attack, although..." Uzumaki Rei wanted to say something, but when he saw Danzo's eyes, he stopped hurriedly.
He thought about it and understood what Danzo meant. This old man came here not to ask for punishment, but to ask for benefits.
Otherwise, given Danzo's Root style of doing things, the Root would not have come to his house so openly, but would have arrested and tortured him secretly.
"Please believe, Lord Danzo, that the Uzumaki clan has no ill intentions towards Konoha. If Lord Danzo still cannot trust us, then please tell me, how can we prove our loyalty?" Uzumaki Rei asked respectfully and humbly while sitting down.
"It's very simple. Tell us everything you have hidden or can remember, especially about the existence of the Rat Hermit. He is able to kill the Third Raikage and hundreds of elite ninjas. Konoha must be on guard against such an existence." Danzo said lightly.
"...Yes." Uzumaki Rei hesitated for a moment, but then backed down because of the pressure he felt in front of him.
To say that I don’t know or have forgotten would be a lie.
How could I not remember the incident that almost wiped out my clan?
Even an outsider like Orochimaru could obtain this information, so naturally the members of the Uzumaki clan would know about it.
The reason why he didn't mention it when he came to Konoha was, firstly, to keep some cards in mind, and secondly, because this matter was not something that could be discussed within the Uzumaki clan.
The reason why we cannot talk about it is, firstly, because of the split of the Hidden Sect, and we need to prevent other members from following the Hidden Sect.
Secondly, the Rat Hermit can be linked to Uzumaki Mito, and Uzumaki Mito's escape from marriage is a great disgrace to the Uzumaki clan.
According to the information leaked from the Hidden School at that time, the reason why Uzumaki Mito escaped from her marriage was because she and the Rat Hermit were already secretly husband and wife.
With all these things happening, how could the Uzumaki clan ever mention the Rat Hermit?
Uzumaki Rei and Danzo explained a lot, but for the sake of the clan's reputation, they concealed the relationship between Mito and Rat Hermit and only talked about some things about the Uzumaki Hidden School.
Danzo was very satisfied after learning the information about the Uzumaki Hidden Faction.
However, he was not satisfied, since he had come here with such great fanfare.
How can it be just for a piece of information?
Danzo then chatted with Uzumaki Rei for a while, and through coercion and inducement, he deducted three people from the twenty people in Uzumaki and brought them into the Anbu.
The three Uzumaki clan members who were recruited into the Anbu were a young woman named Uzumaki Aloe and two children. Uzumaki Aloe was the younger sister of Uzumaki Rei and one of the only five remaining fighters.
Standing in the courtyard, looking at Danzo's receding figure, and his sister and two children following behind Danzo, Uzumaki Rei gritted his teeth, then hung his head and sighed.
What can he do? What can he do?
Since you have come to Konoha, you must abide by the rules here. And in Konoha, Danzo is the rules in the dark.
However, just when Uzumaki Rei thought that this was the end, what happened next made him even more depressed.
The Third Hokage, the old man named Sarutobi Hiruzen also came later. Unlike Danzo, the Third Hokage was still very amiable.
However, his goal is similar to Danzo's, which is to hope that the Uzumaki clan will join the Anbu that belongs only to the Hokage.
However, unlike Danzo's intimidation, Sarutobi Hiruzen said that this was to protect them.
Think about what the Uzumaki Village has encountered. The sealing technique mastered by the Uzumaki clan is too dangerous for the big ninja villages. If they stand in the open, they will inevitably be assassinated by other big ninja villages. It is better to go from the light to the dark and enter the Anbu, which will be safer.
What else could he do? Uzumaki Rei could only agree.
