In the Uchiha clan grounds, morning light penetrated the broken window lattices, casting mottled light and shadows on the floor.
Kaze sat in the Clan Head's seat that originally belonged to Uchiha Fugaku, a seat he had personally vacated just last night.
The room was very quiet, with only the sound of his fingertips tapping lightly on the table.
Tap, tap, like some kind of countdown.
"Nagasawa."
"Here."
Uchiha Nagasawa knelt on one knee, his voice still carrying the murderous aura that hadn't dissipated from last night.
"The list."
Kaze didn't look up, just gently pushed a scroll across the table.
Nagasawa stood up to take it and unrolled it.
The scroll listed the surnames of four clans: Sarutobi, Shimura, Utatane, Mitokado.
Behind each surname, there were densely packed names, from the elderly to children, without a single omission.
"Uchiha doesn't need these unstable factors to exist."
"The village also doesn't need these pests to continue living..."
Uchiha Kaze's voice carried a sense of madness that seemed perfectly natural.
Uchiha Nagasawa's hand trembled slightly.
Not from fear, but from a certain... excitement.
"Yes."
Nagasawa took a deep breath and nodded heavily.
He turned to leave.
"Wait."
"Do it cleanly."
"Let the other clans see... it's not that we are cruel, but we are cleaning up... traitors."
Uchiha Kaze stopped Nagasawa, his brows slightly furrowed.
The Uchiha were a group of very good clansmen.
But their shortcomings were also obvious.
They were simply too kind, too simple.
They simply didn't know those petty maneuvers and conspiracies.
So, for some things, preparations still needed to be made in advance.
Kaze didn't plan to be like the previous Hokage, working himself to death in the position of Hokage, desperately dealing with those trivial matters.
"You mean..."
Nagasawa was stunned, then understood something.
"Intelligence on the Sarutobi clan's private dealings with Kumogakure, records of Shimura clan's living experiments in the Root laboratory, evidence of Utatane and Mitokado embezzling village funds."
"Place these at the scene."
"Make it look like... they didn't have time to destroy them themselves."
Uchiha Kaze said as he took out a new scroll and began to write on it.
Uchiha Nagasawa was shocked.
With his simple and kind brain, he couldn't have thought of these things no matter what.
Moreover, although he watched Kaze write these things out.
Uchiha Nagasawa was still convinced that these things were exactly what those disgusting higher-ups had done.
It wasn't the Clan Head framing them at all!
Right, not framing!
In just a few breaths, Uchiha Nagasawa successfully brainwashed himself.
After writing, Kaze handed the scroll to Uchiha Nagasawa.
Taking the scroll, Nagasawa's heart was interwoven with chill and fanaticism.
"Yes."
Nagasawa's figure disappeared outside the door.
Kaze sat alone in the room, closing his eyes.
Everything from last night replayed in his mind.
Sandaime Hokage's disbelief before dying, Shimura Danzō's horror when his arm was severed, Uchiha Itachi's final blankness when erased by the Space-Time Severing Sword...
Crazy?
Perhaps.
But in this world, if you aren't crazy, you will die.
[Ding, detected that host issued a clan extermination cleansing order, behavior judgment: Completely Crazy.]
[Reward: Special Space · Breeding Ground.]
[Breeding Ground: An alternate space independent of reality, where Bijū breeding and strengthening can be carried out by inputting Bijū Chakra Origin.]
[Basic Breeding Ground, can accommodate Bijū Origin quantity: 1.]
The system's prompt rang in his mind.
Kaze opened his eyes, the Amenoshinra in his right eye rotating slightly.
In front of him, the air began to distort, and an invisible door slowly opened.
Behind the door was a void of chaos, but deep in the chaos, he could feel a certain... pulsation of life.
"Bijū breeding..."
Kaze muttered to himself.
He thought of the little bit of Kyūbi Chakra remaining in his body, wondering if it was the Origin...
"Lord Kaze!"
"Ueda Kazune at the village entrance was attacked and killed. Someone broke through the blockade and defected from the village!"
Rapid footsteps interrupted his thoughts.
An Uchiha Chūnin rushed into the room, anxiety on his face.
"Who?"
Kaze looked up, somewhat curious about who would choose to defect directly instead of coming to fight him desperately.
After all, in the hearts of many Konoha ninjas, Kaze was the traitor who crushed the rules.
"Sarutobi Asuma, and... Yūhi Kurenai."
"They are taking about twenty young ninjas from the Sarutobi clan, and moving towards the border of the Land of Fire."
Uchiha Genichi reported immediately.
"Asuma..."
A flash of understanding passed through Kaze's eyes.
He softly recited the name.
The son of the Sandaime Hokage, a Konoha elite Jōnin, now became a defector.
Truly ironic.
"Let Tekka take a team to chase."
"Remember, I want them alive. I want everyone to see the consequences of defecting."
In the original work, the Uchiha were exterminated, and Uchiha Itachi defected to become a member of the Akatsuki.
But the current ninja world is a ninja world with him, Uchiha Kaze!
Let the Sarutobi also taste the bitter fruit of a ruined family...
"Yes!"
The Chūnin turned and left.
Kaze closed his eyes again, sinking his consciousness into that newly acquired "Breeding Ground".
The chaotic space unfolded in his consciousness, boundless, yet seemingly within reach.
Inputting Bijū Chakra Origin allows for Bijū breeding.
Then...
Thinking of this, Uchiha Kaze got up and walked towards the room where Uzumaki Naruto was resting.
...
Meanwhile, in the forest northeast of Konoha.
Sarutobi Asuma bit on an unlit cigarette, rushing rapidly.
Behind him, the twenty-odd young ninjas were mostly from the side branches of the Sarutobi clan, and there were also a few survivors of the Shimura clan.
Each looked panicked.
"Lord Asuma, can we really escape?"
A young boy asked trembling.
"Shut up."
"Keep running if you don't want to die."
Asuma's voice was hoarse.
Yūhi Kurenai followed beside him, her face pale.
She looked back in the direction of Konoha, which was no longer visible.
Obscured by layers of trees, but the flames and screams of last night still echoed in her mind.
"Kurenai."
"If... if we are caught up, you escape by yourself."
Asuma suddenly spoke.
"What did you say..."
Kurenai turned her head abruptly.
"Their target is me."
"I am Sarutobi Hiruzen's son, the 'root of trouble' that must be eliminated."
"You are different. You are the only daughter of the Yūhi clan. They might..."
Asuma interrupted her, deep exhaustion in his eyes.
"Might what?"
"Might let me go?"
"Asuma, do you still not understand?"
"That Uchiha Kaze... he killed even Lord Hokage, even the advisors. do you think he will let go of any potential threat?"
"Either we escape together, or... die together."
Yūhi Kurenai grabbed Asuma's arm, her voice already somewhat hysterical.
Asuma fell silent.
In his tired eyes, there was a mix of tenderness, and some...