
Outside Konoha Village.
Eating the rice ball from the bento he received, Shinichi muttered in annoyance, “Don't I already tell you not to bring me the bento, I've prepared the Military Ration Pill.”
The girl sitting at the side replied with a calm smile, “Eating Military Ration Pills all the time is not good for your health Shin-Kun.”
The girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with raven-colored hair along her chin, wearing a chunin ninja vest with the emblem of the Uchiha Clan on it. From his appearance alone it could be judged that he had decent strength.
The grumbling Shinichi Uchiha ate the rice ball carried by the girl only shook her head helplessly. After hastily swallowing the last part of the Rice Ball, he said with a serious expression, “Outside the village is not safe. Don't come here again, understand?”
The girl frowned slightly at Shinichi's words and asked angrily, “If it's not safe around here then why did you come to train here Shin-Kun? Isn't there so many training places in the Clan, why come here when you can train there?”
Shinichi said with a cold snort, “I don't want to train with that bastard!”
‘They’ in the words of Uchiha Shinichi are the Uchiha people who mock and laugh at him for losing to Hyuga Kuroto.
In the eyes of the people from the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Shinichi who could not even stop a single move of Hyuga Kuroto; lost the face of the Uchiha Clan, so most of the people of the Uchiha Clan ridiculed him openly.
Listening to this, the girl said angrily, “I will visit the Patriarch today and ask Uncle Fugaku to teach them a lesson!”
Shinichi felt his pride being violated, he angrily said, “Kurumi, you don't have to bother with my personal affairs!”
The girl ‘Kurumi’ was slightly offended by Shinichi's response. Seizing the bento box from Shinichi's hand, he said angrily, “You don't want me to interfere in your personal affairs? All right, see if I care!”
Leaving this sentence behind, he walked away angrily.
On a nearby tree branch, the masked one sat down while dangling his legs as he observed the daily fights between Uchiha Shinichi and Uchiha Kurumi.
As Uchiha Kurumi started to leave, Zetsu's body rose from the tree trunk and said in a funny voice, “I've arranged everything as you requested!”
“Then let's start!” – said the masked man coldly while looking towards Uchiha Kurumi away.
Zetsu also looked towards him while asking in a doubtful tone, “Will this method be really effective?”
The masked man glanced coldly, “What do you think?”
Zetsu said with a smile, “Maybe!”
After packing the bento boxes in the camping basket, Kurumi ignored Shinichi and walked towards the direction of the Village.
Shinichi wants to say ‘Be careful on the way back!’ but he could not force himself to be the first to apologize, so lowering his head he let out a heavy sigh.
On the other hand, after leaving the training area, Kurumi sulked while wondering how to complain to the Patriarch and let him teach those people a lesson for bullying Shin-Kun.
“Shin-Kun Fool!” – murmured Kurumi with a frown.
Stop over…
At this moment Kurumi suddenly stopped and the basket in her hand also fell to the ground with a soft voice.
No matter how much she tried Kurumi could not even move a single step.
As the kunoichi of the Uchiha Clan, Kurumi naturally realized that she had been attacked by some sort of technique, her first thought was, ‘Could it be the Shadow Imitation Technique of Nara?’ but looking around there was no shadow holding him back, so it was clear the idea was immediately discarded.
Then comes the thought that his position is still not too far away from Shin-Kun, he tries to shout for help but even if he opens his mouth, no sound comes out of him!
‘How is it possible!?’ – now Kurumi is a little panicked.
However, without waiting for him to calm down, he felt something clinging onto his body and he suddenly lost control of his body.
Now all he could do was watch his body move under one's control and no matter how he fought back, it had no effect whatsoever.
In the nearest tree.
Ninja Root who was responsible for monitoring Uchiha Shinichi also noticed the abnormality of Uchiha Kurumi, while frowning slightly, he muttered in puzzlement, “What's wrong with her?”
Before he could clearly deduce what might happen to him, the stagnant Kurumi suddenly moved and rushed towards him at an astonishing speed.
Due to the mysterious disappearance of the previous Root Ninja who was responsible for monitoring Uchiha Shinichi, this one was very wary of the other party, so even though Uchiha Kurumi was acting a little strange and rushed towards him, this one was very wary of the other party, he did not panic too much and directly took it out.a Kunai to meet the incoming attacks.
While blocking his attack, he asked resolutely, “What are you doing girl? Do you want to betray Konoha?”
However, he did not receive any reply from her.
Although there was a clear panic in Kurumi's eyes, this did not stop her from carrying out a quick and clean attack. Even without the passage of time; over a dozen shurikens had already been fired towards Ninja Root, cutting off all of its escape routes.
Ding.Ding…
As a Darkness Shinobi, he had heard all kinds of strange Jutsu under the teaching of Danzo-Sama, so when he saw the panic in the girl's eyes, he understood that the problem was not as simple as it seemed.
While continuing to evade and block his attacks, the Root ninja asked wilfully, “What's wrong with your country?”
Kurumi wanted to speak, she tried hard to shout, answer, tell him that she was being controlled, that her body was not responding to her, but no matter how much she tried, no sound came out, no voice came out, he could only bring out a puppet-like attack.
In despair, tears began to flow from his eyes.
He doesn't want this! What's wrong with him going through this? Without any hope left, he could not even think of a way out of this.
Seeing the tears coming out of the girl's eyes, the Ninja Root was now convinced that he was being controlled, so in order to avoid unnecessary damage, he decided to stay away from her for now.
After all, the scene before him was definitely being played out under someone's direction, which means there must be more enemies hidden somewhere and they are using the girl to fulfill some goals that she does not understand for now but that does not mean she will play according to their script.
So, avoiding would be the best option or taking her towards that Uchiha child, maybe she could help him calm down!
But just as the Root ninja was about to blink, he discovered that his body was unwilling to move, even after exerting all of his strength, the Root ninja could not move an inch.
“This!?”
Once he realized that his body was out of control, his heart became frenzied!
Now he realized what happened to Uchiha Kurumi.
But even if he realized it, it was already too late.
Uchiha Kurumi's body rushed towards her straight, and the Kunai she held tightly in her right hand lifted—even after the resistance she was trying to do—dan smashed into her chest.
Breezy…
Blood spurted out from his chest and mouth as Kunai pierced through his chest.
Uchiha Shinichi who rushed to this place after hearing the sound of metal clashing froze for a moment as soon as he saw this scene.
His mind went blank where Kurumi was stabbed.
In panic and anger, Shinichi roared furiously, “What did you do to him!?”
However, the Root ninja could not take care of the Uchiha boy, he was more panicked than ever in his life as a shinobi, because when his Kunai pierced through the chest of the girl, she discovers that she has regained control over her body.
Realizing what had happened; his heart shuddered, he understood that they were all acting in the hands of a third party who might be having fun as he watched them all kill each other.
Uchiha Shinichi's gaze clearly stated that he would not listen to any explanation, after all, why would he do it? The boy actually saw the girl being stabbed in the chest by him! So, without even bothering to try, the Ninja Root rushed towards the village with everything he had.
Uchiha Shinichi stumbles towards the body of Uchiha Kurumi, hugging her, she screams desperately as she runs towards the village while carrying her, “Kurumi, k-you will be fine! I swear.. stay with me.. listen.. We will hurry to Konoha hospital and they will take care of you... It will take time... But you will recover.. Stay with me!”.
Kurumi was already dying, even her last consciousness would fade away, but felt the sensation of warm tears on her cheeks, she said, he exerted the last strength and stretched out his hand to wipe the tears on Shinichi's cheek as he weakly muttered, “Shin-Kun, be. ca. re…. F.... you.... i..... th-...”.
However, before he could finish, his last breath disappeared and his hand fell lifeless.
Shinichi who ran towards the village with all his strength stopped in the middle of the road.
“No! Nah! No!”
“Kurumi! KURUMI!”
“Kurumi! It's not good to joke like this. Please wake up Kurumi! I promise I will never avoid you. Please wake up! Kurumi! A-At least finish the sentence, DAMN IT!”
However, no matter how much Shinichi yelled, nothing worked, the girl in his arm was already gone.
Kneeling to the ground Shinichi cried hoarsely. His mind was completely blank as he could not think of anything at the moment. There were only memories of the time he spent with Kurumi that kept passing before him.
He did not even realize that the 3 tomoe in his Sharingan were spinning rapidly as they started to merge together…
On tree.
Zetsu asked curiously, “It looks like they will change! By the way, how do you know that he's qualified? His strength was definitely not the best in the Uchiha Clan, right?”
After pondering, the small masked man replied, “Opening Mangekyou has nothing to do with strength. It depends on the innocence, of course, it does not matter whether someone is simple or complicated, good or evil, the more innocent and pure one's emotions, the more likely they are to open Mangekyou.”.
As he explained, the masked man seemed to have fallen into memory …
Zetsu looked around curiously, but he seemed to disagree with the masked man's words …
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