Naruto: Chronicles of A Fire Ninja

Chapter 152: Reason for everything

"You are right, but remember what I am going to tell you is a secret very few know, so don't go around telling people about this," Shisui said.

"Don't worry, brother, I understand," Kaida said.

"Do you know about the Anbu forces in Konoha?" Shisui asked.

"Yes, they are covert operatives of capable ninja that are dispatched by the Lord Third himself. Everybody knows about them," Kaida said.

"Yes, but there is one more organization in Konoha that very few people know about. That is known as Root. The ninja in this organization work in the shadows and are responsible for tasks which are dirty but important.

The leader of this organization is Danzo. He was in the same squad with the Lord Third and my dad. He is also an S-rank ninja, and from what I can guess, these ninjas are from that organization," Shisui said.

"Wait, if they are actually from Konoha, why are they targeting me or the Uchiha clan in general?" Kaida asked, fully serious.

"Did you read the history of the creation of our Village?" Shisui asked.

"Yes, brother, like how the Lord First and Madara Sama allied together and made this village and all, right?" Kaida asked.

"Yes, but before they allied together, the Uchiha and Senju were mortal enemies of each other. There was so much bloodshed that happened between our clan that it is weird how both Hashirama Sama and Madara Sama allied together.

Due to that much bloodshed, even though the First Hokage never discriminated against us, the Lord Second did, but even though Tobirama Sama was still not able to forget the animosity between us, he still never openly done anything against us other than giving us the most worthless post in Konoha, making us handle the police department of Konoha.

Since Danzo was his student, he also has the same ideals as him and considers all Uchiha as evil. Even our relocation to the outskirts of Konoha was also majorly his doing," Shisui said.

"But brother, don't you think we Uchiha are the perfect choice for the police force? I mean, with the Sharingan, finding evidence and reading minds to find the true story is child's play, and we are the most efficient clan for this, even according to me," Kaida asked.

"I know, Kaida, and every higher-up of our Clan knows about this, but this doesn't change the fact that the Police department doesn't make much.

If we didn't have any other ways to acquire funds, we Uchiha would have been the poorest clan in Konoha," Shisui said.

Kaida nodded his head, completely agreeing with Shisui, but Tobirama was not the main topic here.

"But brother, if we know that Danzo is actually showing such hostility towards us, why did we never do anything against him?" Kaida asked the question which was really on his mind even when he watched this anime in his previous life.

Sure, Danzo was powerful and had a powerful organization full of trained killers under his nose, but the Uchihas were also not something to scoff at,

and even had the power to go toe-to-toe against the most powerful ninja village alone. So why did they never do anything against him?

"Kaida, you know many of our Uchiha 'coincidentally' went missing even though we did a full search until we found their bodies back. Similarly, many Root ninjas also get 'coincidentally' missing time to time," Shisui replied.

Kaida's eyes went wide open when he heard that. Like many times, this was also not shown in the anime he watched; this is the actual world. This doesn't have those plot holes like the anime. Everything which happened here was because of a reason.

Since both parties were more or less equally strong, they couldn't attack each other, otherwise both sides would have losses. So they used another way for the fight, the fight in the shadows.

"I understand, brother. So should we kill those three ninjas as well?" Kaida asked, remembering the three chunin he had put under genjutsu.

"No need, since he had attacked you directly, we had to make this big so that he will not try this once again. Don't worry, no matter how much the Lord Third wants to support his old friend, even he would have to take action against him when we will present enough evidence," Shisui said.

"What about hiding my power level and all?" Kaida asked.

"When I first arrived at the scene, there was no sign of fighting, and neither you nor those ninjas had any injuries on their bodies. Seeing all three of them were unconscious, you must have used genjutsu on them.

Though casting a genjutsu on three chunin at the same time is impressive, it is still doable for any competent Uchiha with the Sharingan activated, so that much information is enough for an exchange of getting an upper hand during the negotiation against Danzo," Shisui said.

Even though Shisui didn't have much talent for business, when it came to fighting and combat experience and talent,

very few people could claim that they were better than Shisui in that. He accurately analyzed what had happened during the fight between Kaida and those three chunin, even when he was only at the spot for a few minutes.

"I understand, brother. Then let's bring them back to the clan," Kaida said, taking out a storage seal to save the bodies of those deceased chunins and jonin.

"No, we had to hide them out of Konoha for some time. If we directly take them back to Konoha, Danzo will be alerted before we could actually do anything, and this whole thing could backfire on us. I have to inform Uncle (Fugaku) about this before we take them back to Konoha," Shisui said.

"Then where do you plan on taking them if not to Konoha?" Kaida asked.

"The Fire Country is very big, my brother, and every clan had one or two secret bases around the country. Come, let me show you the one we Uchiha have," Shisui said with a wink, and then they went and picked up the bodies of all the dead ninjas in the storage scroll.