Hidden Leaf Village, accompanied by smoke and explosions, the setting sun slants westward, and the evening glow covers the sky.
With the Third Hokage personally taking charge, along with various responses and deployments, this sensational Blood Pond Clan attack finally subsided after lasting an entire afternoon.
Hidden Leaf Village suffered heavy losses this time.
In this terrorist attack, nearly a hundred Ninja were killed, countless civilians were injured or killed, countless buildings were severely damaged, and the entire East and South Districts were paralyzed.
Worse, this incident caused severe mental trauma to the villagers of Hidden Leaf Village. Many survivors were left with wounds that were difficult to heal. After all, it would be strange if their spirits weren't impacted by watching their loved ones turn into Human Bombs.
If it weren't for the timely response of Uchiha Chiri and others, these lunatics from the Blood Pond Clan would have broken through the Southeast District Blockade Line and penetrated deep into Hidden Leaf Village.
Hiruzen's strategy was that the Blood Pond Clan were a bunch of lunatics who only knew how to kill. Kill them if you can, and it's not enough to appease the people's anger if you don't. If you really encounter tricky guys, then try your best to drive them away. Fortunately, with the concerted efforts of the Hidden Leaf Village Ninja, these lunatics were finally wiped out near dusk.
Ironically, the Uchiha Clan Territory was located in the West District of Hidden Leaf Village. The lunatics of the Blood Pond Clan fought desperately to the death, but they failed to see a single tile of the Naka Shrine.
Of course, the Uchiha Clan could not escape the responsibilities they had.
The next day, Hiruzen convened a high-level meeting, accusing the current Uchiha Clan Head of dereliction of duty due to poor supervision. He demanded that the Uchiha Clan bear all the losses of Hidden Leaf Village in this incident, and contribute people, money, and effort to provide certain compensation in the reconstruction work, in order to apologize to all the Hidden Leaf Village villagers.
Under the watchful eyes of the public, especially under so many angry gazes, the Clan Head was under great pressure and naturally did not dare to refuse, so he could only nod and take on the responsibility.
But in reality, he was completely clueless about the Blood Pond Clan's invasion. It was completely unplanned!
Especially, compared to him, the Clan Head who took responsibility and bore the infamy, Uchiha Chiri not only returned unscathed, but also gained a wave of support within the clan that could not be ignored because of her meritorious organization of the defense in this attack, which saved the village from a lot of losses and restored some reputation to the Uchiha Clan.
Calculating carefully, he really lost his wife and broke his army this time!
What went wrong!
The plan was arranged...
The conditions were negotiated clearly...
The suicide soldiers were prepared...
The target was successfully deceived...
How did it end up like this in the end!
His face was terribly gloomy, and a storm was brewing between his brows. After returning to the Clan Territory, he immediately secretly summoned his subordinates, wanting to find out what was going on.
This subordinate was his confidant who he had arranged in Hell Valley, and also the person who finally released the Barrier with his own hands.
In the dark and cramped secret room, the Clan Head stood with his hands behind his back, seemingly examining the clan genealogy on the wall, but in reality, he was waiting anxiously.
He needed an explanation!
Fortunately, this subordinate did not keep him waiting for long. After receiving the secret order, he rushed over and stood behind him.
"Speak, what exactly is going on!" he asked with a slight reprimand, his tone revealing strong dissatisfaction. After all, in his eyes, the only place where this plan could go wrong and have loopholes was this subordinate.
"What is your Lord referring to?"
The light was dim, and the subordinate stood in the shadows, unable to see his figure clearly.
"What? Of course it's Hell Valley!"
Realizing his emotions were a bit agitated, he immediately lowered his voice, "Yesterday, what exactly happened in Hell Valley? How did the Blood Pond Clan come out? What were you doing? How was it completely off-plan?"
Faced with the barrage of questions, his subordinate was much calmer.
"So it's about that..." The subordinate's voice suddenly changed, becoming low and hoarse, dragging out the syllables, "Naturally, I opened the Barrier and released all of the Blood Pond Clan. Are you confused? Can't you even figure that out?"
"You!"
The Clan Head abruptly turned his head, but a palm landed on his shoulder first. It felt as if an electric current ran through his body, and then he couldn't move.
In a hurried glance, he only had time to see that the right side of his subordinate's face was as dark as ink, and the left side seemed to be asleep, even his left eye was heavily closed.
In an instant, this dark, ink-like existence wriggled violently, transferring from the subordinate's body to his own, spreading like paint across half of his body, dividing his face into left and right halves along the midline.
"Damn it... What... is this thing..." He found that even speaking was difficult, as if something was fighting him for control of his body!
Not only his physical movements, but the Chakra throughout his body was also like a stagnant pool, no matter how he tried to mobilize it, it wouldn't stir even a ripple.
He suddenly panicked. Now, even if he wanted to activate that Eye Technique, it was too late!
"Want to use 'Izanagi' to rewrite reality? Just like you did before? Heh heh heh, useless."
He was dumbfounded, because this voice was coming from his own mouth. That pitch-black thing had completely taken control of his body. The only thing he could move was that pale, powerless eye.
His heart sank to the bottom.
"Those who play with reality will eventually be played by reality..."
The voice laughed, its tone filled with mockery. The Clan Head could only watch as he drew a Kunai and aimed it at his heart.
"You are just an insignificant pawn, and I, Black Zetsu, am your reality!"
"Pfft!"
The Kunai went straight into his chest, piercing his heart.
His eyes bulged, and the veins in his neck almost burst open, clearly experiencing immense pain, but he couldn't make a single sound.
Blood flowed out of his body little by little, and his body temperature also decreased little by little, his life coming to an end.
In the very end, he only had time to hear Black Zetsu's neurotic muttering:
"Uchiha Shin'yu, so you're not really heartless after all. Good, very good. As long as you're still human, you'll have soft and vulnerable spots in your heart. With these things, there will definitely be flaws..."
A Will was drawn from his body, and the Clan Head collapsed to the ground. Beneath him, a patch of crimson slowly expanded, gradually engulfing his entire body.
That ink-like black shadow also slowly seeped into the floor, leaving no trace.
The next day, the news that the Uchiha Clan Head had committed suicide out of guilt spread like wildfire throughout the Hidden Leaf Village!
The Uchiha Clan was directly nailed to the pillar of shame. The little bit of reputation they had managed to salvage was completely ruined by this wave of shocking actions!
Walking down the street, they couldn't avoid being subjected to strange gazes and the chattering of gossip.
Now, Tong Ren could finally understand how Nian felt back then.
But, for the Uchiha Clan, the humiliation from outside the clan was far less than the pressure from within.
With the Clan Head's death, they once again fell into the awkward situation of having no leader. No one knew whether they would continue to struggle in the midst of partisan strife, or... a new future?
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