Chapter 8 The Demon of the Uchiha Clan

"Okay, it's finally done!" After placing the last surveillance camera, Hongdou stretched comfortably, looked at Ye Lan beside her, nodded with satisfaction and said: "As expected of an Uchiha, the speed of completing the task is so efficient."

"With this, the second examination room has been set up." Ye Lan said calmly, "Next, we just need to wait for the candidates to arrive."

"That's right, we still have several days to rest before that. Would you like to go for a drink with me, Ye Lan?" Hongdou said casually.

"Captain, I'm not an adult yet." Although they had only been together for a short time, Ye Lan roughly understood the character of the female ninja in front of him. To put it nicely, she was generous and not fussy, but to put it bluntly, she was brainless.

"Haha, don't be so boring~" Hongdou said teasingly with a smile, "Come on, come on, at worst I can buy you some juice."

"Sorry, Captain, I have some personal matters to attend to." Ye Lan thought that he still had to train Sasuke, and it was not time to rest yet.

"That's such a shame." Red Bean thought of something and continued, "When the Hokage announced the Chunin Exams, Kakashi said that some of his students would also sign up. One of them seemed to be from your clan, right?"

Ye Lan nodded.

"Let me think, what was his name, Uchiha...Sasuke." After thinking for a while, Hongdou finally remembered it. After all, the only survivor of the Uchiha clan at that time caused a big sensation in the village.

"You're not going to give him some special treatment when you go back, are you?" Hongdou had already realized what private matter Ye Lan was talking about.

"It's just simple training. In fact, that boy is still far from being a Chunin."

“I didn’t expect you care so much about your cousin.” Hongdou came again and slapped Ye Lan’s shoulder hard, as if this person had no sense of boundaries.

"That's the thing. If there's nothing else, I'll go back first. We can have dinner after the Chunin Exam is over." Ye Lan looked at Hongdou helplessly. If he wanted to integrate into Konoha and get more information, he had to start from all aspects. Although Hongdou was only a special jonin, after all, being arranged as the chief examiner must be trusted by the Third Hokage. And this was his first mission after returning to the village, so he couldn't let others find any problems. Maybe he could be more casual when he had more missions in the future. Now he could only develop honestly for a while.

"It's settled then. I'll treat you all after the Chunin Exam. I've never met a teammate who's so satisfying to me." Hongdou patted her chest. The two round objects hidden in the black net clothes trembled and shook twice. Ye Lan hurriedly turned around, said goodbye and left.

Watching Ye Lan leaving in a panic, Hongdou smiled and murmured, "The Uchiha aren't as difficult to get along with as I imagined. I feel they are much easier to get along with than Yamashiro Aoba and the others."

A few days later, in a training ground in Konoha.

Fire Style, Great Fireball.

Sasuke, who was making a sneak attack, jumped down from the tree where he was hiding and attacked Ye Lan directly with a powerful fireball.

Is this the same move again? Although the distance was very close, he was barely able to dodge it. Just as Ye Lan passed over the fireball to look for Sasuke's trace, he discovered that there was extra movement behind the fireball.

In a blink of an eye, it seemed to be Sasuke hiding behind the fireball. He protected his mouth and nose with his arms, and passed through the flames, staring at Ye Lan with his sharingan.

Seeing the Sharingan in Sasuke's eyes slowly turning, Ye Lan felt something was wrong.

Illusion is not the right technique here.

This is the only technique Ye Lan has taught Sasuke in the past few days. It is of C-level difficulty. Sasuke, who has the Sharingan, learns it very quickly. This technique can make the target think that what he sees is actually something else, making the opponent lose judgment. It does not consume much chakra, and is a very useful ninjutsu.

If this technique normally doesn't affect Ye Lan at all, but without using the Sharingan and with his strength limited to the level of a Chunin, this technique will still affect him for a second or two. When he just finished the hand seal to release the illusion, Sasuke's kunai was already hovering around his neck.

This was the first time Sasuke succeeded in his training over the past few days. Before he could feel happy, Ye Lan's voice came from the woods not far away.

"Not bad, it seems that you have made some progress in the past few days." Another Ye Lan walked out of the woods. When Sasuke saw him, he couldn't help but curl his lips.

"Is it just a shadow clone?"

"Do you think you can really defeat me after just a few days of training? Besides, if you want to control your strength to the level of Chunin, it is most convenient to use Shadow Clone." As he said that, Ye Lan released the clone in front of Sasuke.

Sasuke knew that just a few days of training was not enough, so he couldn't help but say, "Then try again. If I succeeded the first time, I can succeed the second time."

Seeing Sasuke's high spirits, Ye Lan scratched his face with his index finger and said, "Did you forget something? This afternoon is the time to submit the application form for the Chunin Exam."

After hearing this, Sasuke remembered that five days had already passed. He didn't expect time to pass so quickly.

"You can go back and pack your things first, and then go register with your teammates in the afternoon." Ye Lan instructed.

Is it over? I didn't even feel like I trained that much. Sasuke felt like he had just gotten into the groove when he was told it was over.

"Don't think too much. You've actually made a lot of progress in the past few days. The magatama in both eyes have finally become the same." Ye Lan said, looking at Sasuke's pupils, "And you also know how to use your advantages to defeat your opponents. You can judge the timing of attacking and defending. You are no longer reluctant to fight with your brain like before, and your physical skills have also improved a little."

"Besides, you are Kakashi's student. Although we are from the same family, I can't interfere in your affairs." Looking at Sasuke's somewhat confused eyes, Ye Lan continued.

After listening to Ye Lan's words, Sasuke realized that he had actually made a lot of progress compared to five days ago. He did not learn any powerful ninjutsu, and his chakra amount did not increase much, but he was confident that he could easily defeat himself five days ago.

"I see. Thank you for your care these days." Thinking of this, Sasuke thanked the man in front of him. If Kakashi and his former classmates saw this, their jaws would drop. Maybe it was Ye Lan's teachings that made Sasuke feel the warmth of his people again, maybe it was because of the same goal, maybe it was because Sasuke knew that if the only person in the world who would not hurt him and could understand him was the man in front of him, Uchiha Ye Lan.

Ye Lan looked at Sasuke in surprise when he was thanking him. Sasuke's face suddenly turned red after being stared at by him. He said goodbye and left in a hurry.

"Sasuke, let me tell you one last thing."

Hearing Ye Lan's words, Sasuke stopped.

"Just like a ninja gathering intelligence, some intelligence is true and some is false. For every word and every piece of news we hear, you have to think about it in your mind to see if it is true or false. No matter how close the person who told you this is to you, you have to understand that you can only be sure if you verify it yourself. As a ninja, you should not be able to think independently as a person. You should think before you act on anything you encounter."

Ye Lan’s words were not long and easy to understand, but not easy to do. Sasuke nodded thoughtfully and left.

Not long after Sasuke left, Ye Lan looked at the dark forest and sighed helplessly.

"Come out, everyone's gone. Do you still need me to treat you?"

"Oh my? I accidentally got lost just now, how did I end up here?" A man with white hair suddenly appeared and walked over with a smile on his face.

Ye Lan was too lazy to expose him. The person who came was Sasuke's teacher, Kakashi Hatake.

"Why do I feel like you care about Sasuke more than I do? Your last name isn't Uchiha, right? I'm afraid you've been here on the first day?" Ye Lan complained.

"This is also my first time leading a team, so I always have to care about my subordinates."

Keep pretending. It was Shisui who told Ye Lan the reputation of Cold-blooded Kakashi before he left the village.

Ye Lan sneered: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first."

"Wait." Kakashi put away his smile and looked at Ye Lan seriously, "Actually, what I care more about now is the last words you said to Sasuke."

"What's the matter, Senior Kakashi, is there anything you want to teach me?" Ye Lan looked at Kakashi playfully.

"Ye Lan, I know you just returned to the village, and the incident with the Uchiha clan was a big blow to you, but I think you can't be blinded by hatred. Revenge will not have a good result."

"Senior, you can just preach to those Genin. What qualifications do you think you have to teach me?" Ye Lan's voice gradually became cold. All along, Ye Lan had been suppressing his emotions. He understood that there were too many mysteries on the night of the genocide, and they were not something that could be solved in a rush.

"Do you think what you said is fair to the 1257 people lying in the Uchiha cemetery? Can you imagine a mother preparing a table full of food and happily opening the door to be greeted by a butcher's knife? Can you imagine an old man who is too old to walk and begging for mercy while lying on the bed? Can you imagine a child hiding under the bed, being forcibly pulled out, and then being killed in front of his parents?" The Sharingan in Ye Lan's pupils was as red as blood, and his calm words told a horrifying story.

Kakashi remained silent about all this. He might have thought about it, but he would never face it.

"How can I live without taking revenge for such a great cause?" Ye Lan said, looking at Kakashi, "I am the evil ghost of the Uchiha clan that crawled out of hell. I will offer the heads of all the participants that day on the tombstone of the Uchiha clan."