Looking at the decadent-faced Shisui, Itachi's heart was also very complicated.
Even...
He couldn't believe his own eyes. Why did all these ninja clans defect to the Uchiha?
He couldn't figure it out!
Finally.
He suddenly saw a fat man and walked straight up to him.
"Keita?"
"Itachi?"
Akimichi Keita, who was about to go home, was also stunned when he saw Itachi stopping him.
Yes!
The two were classmates back then, just that Itachi graduated earlier.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy, because he couldn't form an Ino-Shika-Cho team with his peers, he was arranged to return to the clan to help.
"Hmm, Keita."
"Can you tell me why you joined the Uchiha?"
"I really don't understand!"
Uchiha Itachi asked doubtfully.
Although he was very aloof during the Ninja Academy period, his brain was actually very sharp, and he knew everyone in the class.
So.
Now that he saw a classmate, he naturally asked directly.
In response to this.
Akimichi Keita looked at Uchiha Itachi in front of him. Although he didn't know Itachi's situation very well, Nara Shikaku was in the higher-ups after all, and he would talk about some basic situations of the village during clan meetings on ordinary days.
Their Ino-Shika-Cho three clans were connected, so he naturally knew a little bit.
Therefore.
After hearing Uchiha Itachi's inquiry, his eyes instantly became strange.
Thinking that they would be on the same side as the Uchiha in the future, he coughed and said carefully: "Itachi, you should have heard some of the rumors spread by your Uchiha in the village recently, right?"
"Aren't those rumors?" Itachi looked innocent.
In response to this.
Akimichi Keita was instantly embarrassed, and then looked at him like a national treasure panda: "You actually think those are rumors?"
"Aren't they?" Itachi retorted.
Akimichi Keita's mouth twitched.
But, in the end.
He sighed helplessly, and after a sigh of emotion, he said helplessly: "Itachi, although your strength is strong, you are really terribly naive. Of course those rumors are true!"
"Even those things are almost open secrets. Even without your Uchiha spreading rumors, in fact, all of us ninja clans know very well."
"It's just that the situation in the village is very complicated, and we ninja clans want to protect ourselves, so we are unwilling to get involved."
"Since we defected to the village, I don't need to lie to you. The village is targeting the Uchiha. There is the influence of the Second Hokage in this, but it is more because the Uchiha are too strong and too uncontrollable!"
"Like the Senju, the Uchiha will either become the leader of the village or be directly exterminated. There is absolutely no third way!"
"The strong have no qualification to surrender!"
"Unless your Uchiha dismember themselves, either weaken to the point where only a few clansmen remain, or split into a dozen or even more factions, and these factions must be mortal enemies."
"Otherwise, no matter who sits in the position of Hokage, they will definitely find a way to target the Uchiha. And the village's previous method was like this, trying to win over and divide the Uchiha as much as possible, thereby creating more factions."
"But, unfortunately."
"Sarutobi Hiruzen might just want to split the Uchiha, but Danzo doesn't know which nerve is wrong; he intends to completely exterminate the Uchiha. Fortunately, Uchiha Jin appeared in your clan."
"Otherwise, with Danzo's ruthlessness and Sarutobi Hiruzen's style, your Uchiha's future would be worrying!"
"As for why we joined the Uchiha? That's because the village pushed too hard."
"Root asked our Ino-Shika-Cho to contribute seventeen people from each family to join Root. You should know what Root is like; it completely treats our Ino-Shika-Cho as cannon fodder and sacrifices."
"In this situation, why not run?"
"In the past, we ninja clans remained neutral. Even if we were slightly dissatisfied with Sarutobi and the others, we were unwilling to intervene in your war."
"Now it's different. Involving our own life and death, of course we have to fight desperately!"
Akimichi Keita spoke eloquently.
Although he was not a core member of the clan's higher-ups and only knew superficial intelligence, he was not comparable to Shisui and Itachi.
So.
After these words, Itachi was silenced directly.
Shisui, standing aside, couldn't hold back and couldn't help but say: "Although Root is a bit strict, everyone is for the village. A little sacrifice is normal, right?"
"Everyone is for the Will of Fire; are you still afraid of mere sacrifice?"
This was Shisui's lifelong belief and the foundation of his persistence.
And, what about now?
He actually couldn't hear even a bit of 'Will of Fire' from the mouth of another ninja clan member, all filled with various words like calculation, planning, choice, etc.
This made him a little unable to hold back for a while.
Yes.
If someone from the Uchiha said these things before, he would feel that the Uchiha lacked a big picture view, and their hearts were full of their own petty calculations. But the problem was that the person speaking now was not an Uchiha, but a person from another ninja clan!
"Will of Fire?"
"Is that just a slogan used by those in power to fool the common people?"
"You—took it seriously?"
"No way? No way?"
"Is there really someone so stupid in this world who would believe that damn slogan?"
Akimichi Keita was full of astonishment.
His face was filled with bewilderment and disbelief, looking at them as if they were fools.
Itachi: "..."
Shisui: "..."
At this moment, the two felt very stifled.
Especially Akimichi Keita's look as if he were looking at fools caused a devastating blow to their worldview.
There was no helping it!
If someone from the Uchiha said this, they would just treat it as a fart and not care at all.
Now, it was different.
The person who said this was an Akimichi clansman!
"Is the Will of Fire really wrong?" Itachi asked hoarsely.
In response to this.
Akimichi Keita rolled his eyes: "A very simple question, have you ever seen Hokage-sama go to the front line?"
"But that's because Hokage-sama must control the overall situation!" Shisui tried to find an excuse.
But, unfortunately.
Akimichi Keita retorted directly: "Don't the Kage of other ninja villages need to control the overall situation? Are other ninja villages not afraid of being sneak attacked?"
Shisui was instantly bewildered.
After a sigh, Akimichi Keita couldn't help but say: "Wake up, you two!"
"The Will of Fire talks about burning oneself to exchange for the space for children to grow, but in fact, the village can't do this kind of thing at all."
"You have also experienced the Third War. Batches of children were sent to the battlefield, while the older generation stayed in the village."
"Our Hokage-sama, and those two elders, have you seen any of those in power personally go to the battlefield to fight?"
"Those who truly fight on the battlefield are all children of the village!"
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