Unknowingly, ever since this "Future Notebook" appeared, Sarutobi Hiruzen also began to pursue things like power.
He was even becoming more and more unscrupulous.
Only Sarutobi Hiruzen himself remained completely unaware of it.
"No, using Kotoamatsukami on Orochimaru would be too wasteful. In the future, using it on the Raikage or Tsuchikage might have unexpected effects."
Shaking his head again, Sarutobi Hiruzen put away Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan as well.
'However…'
'Not using Kotoamatsukami doesn't mean I couldn't use Shisui's eye as bait to lure him.'
'Like the Uchiha? Like researching all the ninjutsu in this world?'
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't believe Orochimaru wouldn't be tempted.
As for the Future Notebook, if Orochimaru sincerely pledged loyalty to him in the future, and returned to being that obedient and cute disciple, he wouldn't be stingy about revealing a bit of the "future" to him.
For example... the fact that Uchiha Itachi would kill Orochimaru in the future.
———
"I want to see the Tobi."
Although it wasn't the same big tree, Uchiha Itachi still contacted Kisame.
Regarding the "masked man" appearing in Konoha again and even causing trouble during the Chūnin Exams, not only Sarutobi Hiruzen, but he himself was also very angry.
Last time was fine, but now he came again.
Did he really think so little of him and the Hidden Leaf Village?
"Why?"
Kisame did have a way to contact Tobi, but...
Looking at Uchiha Itachi like this, 'Did Tobi do something to offend him?'
But recently, Tobi clearly hadn't shown up nearby.
"He intruded into Konoha again, causing me quite a bit of trouble."
If it weren't for the different Sharingan, Uchiha Itachi almost ended up as the scapegoat again.
"He even used genjutsu to control Asuma-san!"
That's right, after the "masked man" appeared in the Forest of Death during the Chūnin Exams, the suspect who used genjutsu to control Asuma shifted from Uchiha Itachi to Tobi.
"I didn't do something so boring," At some point, after a swirling, transparent space vortex, the masked Uchiha Tobi appeared before the two of them.
After stirring things up in the Hidden Mist Village, he had gone to the Hidden Rock Village.
As for Ōnoki, this VIP client who loved hiring the Akatsuki, Tobi was quite fond of sharing some intel with him.
For example, that Konoha was about to launch an attack on Sunagakure...
"Wearing a one-eyed mask, claiming to be Uchiha Madara. If that's not you, then who?"
Uchiha Itachi quickly explained what had happened during the Chūnin Exams.
"Oh? Something like that happened?"
'Someone pretended to be me?'
After hearing Uchiha Itachi's description, Tobi just found it a bit novel.
Then came shock.
"But... you said that person also had the Mangekyō Sharingan?"
"It really wasn't you?"
Hearing the other party's inexplicably surprised tone, even Uchiha Itachi began to feel a little uncertain.
"I, Uchiha Madara, would never stoop so low as to deny such a trivial matter."
He needed to go back and ask Zetsu properly. How could there still be another suspicious ninja who possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan?
And even disguised himself as Tobi and went to Konoha.
"You're not Uchiha Madara. The Third Hokage said Uchiha Madara wouldn't be afraid to show his true face."
Although he didn't know why, Uchiha Itachi vaguely felt that Sarutobi Hiruzen seemed to have known the true identity of this masked man all along.
"Who exactly are you?"
Uchiha Itachi was also very curious about the true identity of the masked man.
"I have no identity, nor do I wish to be anyone...", Tobi began speaking in a gloomy tone, ready to cloak himself in another layer of mystery.
Unexpectedly, before he could finish, he was cut off.
"Still claiming it's not you? During the Chūnin Exams, you said exactly the same thing."
Compared to the reports from Anko and Uchiha Kage, Uchiha Itachi trusted his younger brother Sasuke's account of his encounter with the masked man more.
And Sasuke and Naruto described the details more clearly.
"I... how could that be?"
That line was something he had practiced in private for a long time, intending to use it for dramatic effect and someone else said it first?
Tobi was dumbfounded.
He even began to suspect that he might be having memory lapses.
'Could it be, the masked man who appeared during the Konoha Chūnin Exams... was actually me?'
'I just forgot?'
"Anyway, don't come to Konoha again. Otherwise, for the sake of my own safety, I'll have no choice but to cooperate with the Hokage to eliminate you," After saying this threatening remark, Uchiha Itachi turned and left without looking back.
Leaving Tobi standing there, still wondering if something was wrong with his memory.
"Itachi-san's temper is getting worse and worse."
The only one who saw through the truth was Kisame.
As soon as he heard Uchiha Itachi's account, he immediately realized that the person disguised as Tobi was most likely his new superior, Uchiha Kage.
That ability to mess with people so thoroughly could only belong to that mysterious young Uchiha.
"Hmph! Dare to threaten me. Even the First Hokage wouldn't dare," Tobi thought for a long time and finally confirmed that it wasn't memory confusion. There really might be someone in Konoha impersonating him.
And possibly possessing the same Sharingan as him.
'Wait a minute, the same Sharingan?'
'Could it be Kakashi?'
'Something happened to Kakashi?'
"..."
'Dude.'
'Everyone's already gone, and you're still playing Uchiha Madara here.'
Kisame silently roasted him in his heart, then casually asked Tobi a question.
"Where's Zetsu now? Last time the clone he gave me was..."
But before he could finish, Tobi vanished into the air in a hurry.
———
"Damn it, all my people were detained by the Anbu?"
Danzō had originally thought he could undermine the situation from the root, and by trading Shisui's Sharingan, steal the "treasure" locked in Sarutobi Hiruzen's office cabinet.
Unexpectedly, not only did his subordinates fail to retrieve the treasure for him, they were all detained by the Anbu.
"This is outrageous!"
'Not only trying to keep the treasure all to himself, but also taking my Kotoamatsukami and grounding me!'
"I'll make you regret this, Hiruzen!"
'You will definitely pay the price for everything you've done today!'
Alone in Root, Danzō furiously smashed his desk with his cane.
———
'Did the Anbu and Root have a conflict today?'
Uchiha Kage, who had already sent Samui back ahead alone, of course did not refuse Hyūga Hiashi's invitation.
On the way, seeing the situation of people gathering near the Hokage building, he was also a bit curious and... regretful.
Regretful that he wasn't there. Otherwise, it would've been another wave of ninja fragments for his collection.
"Maybe the things happening in the Chūnin Exams are somehow connected to this."
'Could there really be such a coincidence?'
As soon as the Third Hokage left the exam grounds, the exam had trouble, and now the Hokage building too.
'Maybe all this is done by the Third Hokage!'
Thinking of Asuma being grounded by Sarutobi Hiruzen for no reason, Yuhi Kurenai felt like all these events were beginning to connect in her mind.
'No, the events in the Chūnin Exams clearly involve people from Sunagakure stirring up trouble...'
'No...'
"Could it be that the people from Sunagakure controlled the Third Hokage?"
The goal being to create chaos in Konoha.
Otherwise, why would the Anbu and Root have such a large-scale conflict?
"What are you talking about? The Third Hokage is the strongest Hokage, how could he be controlled?", Uchiha Kage felt that Yuhi Kurenai's thinking lately was really getting...
Bold.
"Sunagakure shouldn't have that kind of capability, but...", Hyūga Hiashi recalled Asuma being controlled by genjutsu.
"You Uchihas... might."
'The Uchiha clan's Sharingan genjutsu is truly hard to guard against.'
"Right, the previous Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Village. What was his name, Yagura? Wasn't he controlled by a Sharingan? They still don't know who the culprit is."
Thinking of the Fourth Mizukage Yagura, Yuhi Kurenai felt like she was getting closer to the truth behind the Third Hokage's recent strange behavior.
"I got it, it's Uchiha Itachi! Uchiha Itachi controlled the Third Hokage!"
"Uchiha Itachi?"
Hyūga Hiashi glanced at the expressionless Uchiha Kage, then asked Yuhi Kurenai in confusion.
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