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"Why are you whispering when I just got here?!"
Itachi abruptly swallowed the words in his mouth, looking at Sasuke with some confusion.
Hatake Kuroshi propped his cheek, turned his head, and waved to Sasuke.
"We're whispering because we don't want you to hear."
"Your brother and I agreed, we won't tell you."
Sasuke immediately became dissatisfied, stepping onto the windowsill and about to climb in.
Kuroshi pointed a finger at the tatami under his feet.
"No, you can't come in with your shoes on, otherwise, your brother will have to stay overnight and clean for me."
Sasuke looked around at the three of them, stomped his feet, ran down from the windowsill, and went around to the front door to enter.
Since Sasuke was already here, Itachi wouldn't discuss it further, he could only sigh and stand at the entrance to put on his shoes.
"Just trust me as long as you think it's okay."
Kuroshi pulled open the door, giving Itachi an OK sign.
Itachi hesitated, nodded, and coaxed Sasuke all the way home.
Shisui watched the two of them walk home with envy, unconsciously showing a gentle smile.
"I don't want them to fall apart because of their clan, and I don't really want to involve an outsider like you."
"Although I'm not quite sure what you have in mind."
"If possible, I want to take responsibility for this alone."
Kuroshi smiled, tilted his head, shrugged, and spread his palms.
"We'll see then."
After sending Shisui and Itachi away, Kuroshi picked up the two porcelain cups on the wooden table.
But the moment he touched the cups, a small piece of glass fell off the edge.
"No luck at all…"
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The day of the Uchiha clan's coup was getting closer.
The relationship between the Uchiha and the village became increasingly tense.
Kuroshi didn't even need to specifically inquire about these things, he could see two or three conflicts between the Uchiha and the villagers on his way to and from school.
The Uchiha Police Force didn't just disperse the crowd and let things go as before, they were more like "if you don't agree, I'll beat you up."
Itachi and Shisui hadn't come to see Kuroshi since then.
He didn't know if it was because they found a more suitable place or if they had made no progress and didn't need to communicate.
Kuroshi leaned against the podium, flipping through the lecture notes in his hand, his mind wandering.
"Teacher, Big Cat is here again."
Hui, who was doing math problems on the blackboard, tiptoed and tugged at his collar.
"Huh? He's here, but you have to finish the problem first."
Kuroshi smiled, moved his gaze from the lecture notes, and pinched the little girl's cheek.
Hui's head immediately drooped, and she shuffled back to the blackboard.
Teacher Kuroshi is great in every way, but why is he a teacher!
Kuroshi looked up at Naruto, who was called Big Cat, and Naruto was sitting in the empty seat at the back of the classroom, swaying from side to side.
"It's good to be a ninja, there's no extra homework, and you can skip class whenever you want."
The student sitting next to Naruto, while keeping an eye on Kuroshi, tilted his head and whispered to Naruto.
"Can ninjas really make two of themselves? Show us after class."
As long as one person spoke, there would be others who joined in.
Naruto's bright blue eyes sparkled, eager to show off to those around him.
This class was the only place in the village where no one was prejudiced against him.
In Kuroshi's opinion, children were very easy to guide.
Compared to stubborn, opinionated adults, children Naruto's age had no firsthand experience of the Nine-Tailed Fox incident.
Isolation and targeting were all results of their learning from adults and imitating them.
"You all look the same, there's no difference. Just treat him like an ordinary listener."
Naruto was naturally very cheerful and not a bad person.
Plus, Kuroshi deliberately blurred the Nine-Tailed Fox incident in class, emphasizing that everyone was the same, and in a few days, Naruto had become close with the students.
The distance that the Six Eyes could sense wasn't small, but the Uchiha clan compound and the school were a bit far apart.
Kuroshi could only sense that suddenly, many Root members were moving towards the Uchiha clan compound.
Although they were scattered, there were quite a few of them.
Kuroshi poked the chalk on the podium, and it "snap" and broke in half.
Before the coup, such a large-scale movement.
Shisui.
Kuroshi couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.
He and Itachi were both tools that Kuroshi was trying to cultivate.
Wouldn't it be a loss if he died now?
Kuroshi glanced at the wall clock, there was still some time before school ended.
If he went to ask for leave, he probably wouldn't even be able to retrieve Shisui's body by the time he reached the Naka River.
Kuroshi's gaze fell on Naruto, who was sitting in the classroom.
"Ah, Naruto's teacher asked me to send him back first, so you guys can finish the problems and leave on your own."
"Don't forget the exercises in the workbook tonight~ I'll check them tomorrow!"
Kuroshi gave the sighing students a wink, then grabbed Naruto and dashed out of the classroom's back door.
Kuroshi grabbed Naruto and teleported them directly from the second floor outside the school.
"Huh?! What, how did we suddenly end up outside?!"
Naruto didn't have time to speak before Kuroshi pulled him out.
In a flash, his surroundings instantly changed.
Naruto widened his eyes in disbelief, shaking his head from side to side in Kuroshi's hands, looking around.
"Well, I have something urgent, this is faster."
"You always skip class to find me, so don't mind helping me skip work."
Kuroshi put Naruto down and patted his shoulder.
Before Naruto could react, Kuroshi instantly disappeared.
Only the slight movement of the wind and the gradually dissipating sweet fragrance remained.
Naruto opened his mouth, looked around, but couldn't find Kuroshi's shadow, he couldn't even see which direction he went.
Instead of leaving, Kuroshi was more like he disappeared into thin air.
"Kuroshi-nii, you're so cool!!"
A loud exclamation rang out from the school gate, startling the crows on the nearby trees, who flew towards the sky with a cacophony of cries.
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"We need to completely eliminate the Uchiha to ensure the future of Konoha, don't you think?"
"This is for the true peace of Konoha."
Danzo looked down at Shisui, his half-clenched hand constantly dripping blood from between his fingers.
Shisui groaned, kneeling on the ground, wiping away the blood running down his eye socket with one hand.
Root members wearing animal masks of various colors stood around Shisui, afraid that he would escape at any moment.
If it weren't for these people…!
As Danzo's hand was about to reach for Shisui's other eye, the Root members around him suddenly flew up.
"What's going on?!"
A cry of surprise suddenly rang out from the surrounding crowd, and Danzo's hand towards Shisui stopped abruptly.
Seizing this pause, Shisui quickly threw a smoke bomb to the ground.
In an instant, the area was enveloped in smoke.
…
Danzo quickly covered his hand in front of him, waving away the smoke that suddenly erupted.
One of the Root members beside him suddenly flew up, they were all caught off guard by this sudden situation.
Danzo turned his head to look at the man who had been slammed into the tree, his teeth gritting in anger.
"Chase him! He's seriously injured, he can't run far!"
The top priority wasn't to figure out how the man flew, but to quickly catch Shisui.
Shisui already knew his purpose, he couldn't be allowed to live.
Kuroshi emerged from the bushes, with a clump of leaves on his head, and the pale blue gas around his hands had just dissipated.
He had no chakra aura, and his Shunshin was a direct movement that cut through distance.
Those Root members were all focused on chasing after Shisui.
They completely didn't notice that Kuroshi was there.
The Six Eyes' range of perception was enough for him to pinpoint Shisui and the Root members.
Danzo took two steps back, his brows furrowed, looking at the masked man embedded in the tree.
The branches had pierced through the man's body, he must have died when he hit the trunk.
Danzo couldn't help but frown, there was only Shisui, who had lost one eye, in this place.
Mangekyo Sharingan, does he have other abilities that I don't know about?!
I need to get rid of him quickly.
Danzo looked deeply into the dense forest in front of him.
After losing one eye, his field of vision had narrowed.
Shisui bit his bloodless lips, turning to look at the five people chasing after him.
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