Chapter 197: The thief cries "Catch the thief" and turns the tables

"It's here. The captain and his men were killed here. That person possessed a pair of three-magatama Sharingan. He seemed to be the famous young warrior in Konoha. His name was Uchiha... Ryuun!"

A Cloud Ninja brought the entire Cloud Hidden Village delegation, a total of 12 people, to the crime scene.

Not long after, several people dug out three Cloud Ninjas whose deaths were tragic under the newly turned soil.

"I had a stomachache at the time, so I ran to the side to take care of it. When I came back, I saw that my three brothers had been killed by that guy. I knew I was no match for him, so I could only hide and not say a word..."

The Cloud Ninja's eyes turned red as he spoke, and he even looked extremely remorseful and in pain.

"Lord Sachi, you must avenge your dead brothers!"

The leader of the Cloud Ninja Delegation knew that their plan to capture the Nine-Tails container had failed, but looking at the red hair in his hands and the broken bodies on the ground, Sachi Jonin still gritted his teeth and nodded heavily.

"Konoha... Uchiha Ryuun... killed someone from our Hidden Cloud Village. I will make that damn guy pay with blood! No matter who he is!! What is his identity!!!"

"Come on, come back to Konoha with me!"

Konoha - Inside the underground Root organization's headquarters.

"Master Danzo, I noticed that Uchiha Ryuun was acting suspiciously, so I started tracking him. I saw him saving the kidnapped Uzumaki Kushina and killing all three Kumo ninjas in the Forest of Death..."

The 'Root member' half-crouched on the ground and reported the matter to Danzo Shimura.

"what!!!"

Upon hearing this, Shimura Danzo was shocked and immediately stood up and asked his subordinates to speak more clearly.

At this time, he was very familiar with the chakra of the ninja opposite him, and there was no problem with his voice and appearance, so Danzo Shimura didn't even think about whether this person had been replaced. He instinctively felt that it was impossible for a member of the Root organization to lie to him or betray him.

After the 'Root member' explained the situation in detail, Danzo Shimura immediately led his men to the crime scene.

It just happened that as soon as they left Konoha and entered the Forest of Death, they ran into the returning Cloud Ninja Envoy.

As soon as the two sides met, they drew their weapons due to stress reaction, and the atmosphere became extremely tense.

"You, Konoha, want to kill us to silence us, right? As long as we die here today, the Hidden Cloud Village will surely destroy the Konoha Village, and Lord Raikage will surely avenge us!"

Sachizoe's face was gloomy, and even though he seemed to be in danger at the moment, his attitude remained tough.

"Wait...it seems like you Kumo Ninjas have misunderstood..." Shimura Danzo raised his hand and explained.

"What misunderstanding? Aren't you heading in the direction you want to hunt us down?" Sachi, the senior ninja, still did not let down his guard.

"Your Excellency has indeed misunderstood. We are just passing by..."

Although Danzo Shimura was a little confused about the situation, he still explained it again.

"But all the members of your delegation are not staying in the hotel so late at night. What are they doing here?"

Danzo also realized that something was wrong at this time.

"How is this going?"

A familiar voice suddenly sounded, and Danzo Shimura turned around and saw Sarutobi Hiruzen who was leading his men over!

Sarutobi Hiruzen was the first to receive the news that all members of the Cloud Ninja Delegation had been dispatched. He thought that the other party was up to something, so he hurriedly brought people over to check it out.

The three waves of people gathered together almost at the same time.

"What are you doing here? What's going on? You, Konoha, killed people from our Hidden Cloud Village, and now you're asking us what's going on?"

At this moment, Sachi was like an angry lion, and the chakra in his body burst out in the next moment.

It's a pity that his strength is not enough in front of the people of Konoha, but when they heard his words, Sarutobi Hiruzen and Shimura Danzo both widened their eyes and looked extremely surprised.

Danzo subconsciously glanced at the Root ninja who provided him with information and led the way.

But the next moment, the other party shook his head slightly, as if he didn't know why the Cloud Ninja Envoy knew about this.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could we in Konoha kill your people?" Sarutobi Hiruzen denied it immediately.

However, when he counted the number of people in the Cloud Ninja Mission, he found that the original team of 15 people had now become a team of 12 people. It seemed that there were indeed three less...

When he saw this situation, Sarutobi Hiruzen instantly had a bad feeling.

"Nonsense? How dare you say I'm talking nonsense? Then open your dog eyes and see clearly!"

As the Jonin Thatch said this, he took out a scroll, and then he opened the sealed scroll in front of everyone and took out all the corpses inside.

All the Konoha ninjas took a deep breath when they saw the broken bodies covered with mud on the ground.

"What exactly is going on!!!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen exclaimed subconsciously, not understanding why the Cloud Ninja people were chopped like this, and it seemed that these people had been deliberately buried and now dug out again.

At this time Danzo Shimura roughly understood what had happened. He winked and nodded to the Root member, indicating that he should explain the cause and process of the incident to the Third Hokage.

Then he walked to the front of the Kumogakure with his cane and spoke calmly:

"How can your delegation conclude that it was our Konoha people who killed him based on these body parts? Moreover, the crime scene was not in Konoha. It is not good to jump to such a conclusion, right?"

Hearing what Danzo Shimura said, all the Cloud Ninjas instantly showed angry looks.

"It was someone from your Konoha who killed him. I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be false? The murderer was a brat holding a black-handled lightning sword and possessing the Sharingan. I even heard his name. It was Uchiha Ryuun from your village!"

A 'Cloud Ninja' spoke loudly with an excited look on his face.

"what!!!"

All the Konoha ninjas, including the Third Hokage, were shocked.

At this moment, Danzo Shimura, who knew the whole story, was the first to react. He knew that this was because Uchiha Ryuyun was incompetent and left a person alive without knowing it, and his identity was recognized by others!

'It's absolutely stupid!'

Danzo Shimura couldn't help but curse in his heart. For a moment, he felt that Uchiha Ryuyun was too unreliable and was definitely an incompetent waste.

At this moment, Danzo Shimura actually didn't know what to do. He thought it would be better to leave this troublesome matter to Sarutobi Hiruzen to deal with. After all, the other party was his apprentice and one of the people he valued most.

When Sarutobi Hiruzen heard what happened from the Root member, his face turned purple with anger.

He was angry about the Nine-Tails container being kidnapped by the Cloud Ninja, he was furious that they were crying "stop thief" and then turning the tables, and he was also angry that Liuyun killed people without authorization and left a "fish that slipped through the net" and was recognized.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage at this moment, he finally suppressed his anger and forced himself to calm down.

"Your purpose of coming to Konoha this time is not to form an alliance with us... The so-called alliance is fake, and the real purpose is to kidnap the Nine-Tails container!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at the group of Cloud Ninjas with cold eyes.

“Total nonsense!!!”