Naruto: Konoha’s Kanpu

Konoha’s Military Police Force’s building.

After a morning of publicity, a large number of villagers gathered from all directions. Among them, many of them were family members of the victims. With red eyes, they could not wait to rush up to demolish the Military Police Force’s building!

As for the other villagers, their faces are full of resentment, and their expressions are full of dissatisfaction with the Military Police Force.

Not long after, Uchiha Clan’s Clan Head, Uchiha Tengoku walked out of the Military Police Force’s building step by step. He was slender, with white temples, a wrinkled face, and a trace of undisguised sadness in his cloudy eyes.

Behind him, Uchiha Fugaku followed. He has already understood about the crisis public relations from Tengoku, so his expression is in place, with a bit of perseverance and self-blame in his sadness, which perfectly explains what an actor is.

“Everyone…”

Tengoku immediately do a ninety-degree bow, and it took half a minute before he raised his head again. At this time, his eyes were already red, and the tears from the corners of his eyes were flowing along his wrinkles, which made people feel heartbroken when they saw this.

“Everyone, I’m very sorry! Because of the incompetence of the Military Police Force, the spy incident resulted in 3 deaths and 14 injuries. The Military Police Force’s responsibility cannot be shied away, and will never be shied away!”

Tengoku said with an expression of pain, “We, the Military Police Force will be responsible for all the losses in this incident! For the family members of the deceased, we will…”

Tengoku presented the compensation plan that he negotiated with the three elders last night, and at the same time, he tried his best to appear in difficult situation and old, but his tone became more and more sincere in order to win more sympathy and support from the villagers.

Although there were cries from the families of the dead from time to time at the scene, and the voices trying to discredit them in the crowd, there are also many villagers who kept nodding their heads: ‘The Military Police Force actually bear the responsibility, it seems that the Military Police Force’s conscience is not bad.’

They were gradually persuaded by Tengoku’s speech, and their stance gradually shifted towards the Military Police Force.

This is not over yet. After Tengoku finished his speech, he pushed out Fugaku, who caught the spy, and asked him to describe the process of catching the spy.

Fugaku took a step forward, with a resolute and self-reproachful expression on his face, added a few more to his memories, and then began to make a statement… (A/N: two thousand words are omitted here)

Finally, Fugaku stated fiercely and gnashing his teeth that he would definitely increase the patrols in the future and try his best to catch all the spies lurking in the village, and at the same time, appeal to the villagers to cooperate with the Military Police Force, that if they found any suspicious persons, they must contact the Military Police Forceas soon as possible.

Fugaku’s expressions and eyes are all in place. Coupled with the last proposal of cooperation between the police and the people, he successfully captured the hearts of a large number of villagers.

When he finished his speech, there are loud discussions around him.

“The spy spies are all sent from other villages. In the end, it is not entirely the Military Police Force’s responsibility.”

“Although 17 people were killed and injured, it is said that the spy was a Jōnin. If it wasn’t for Uchiha Fugaku’s obstruction, the number of casualties would definitely exceed 100!”

“It really surprised me that the Military Police Force took the initiative to take all responsibilities and blames this time.”

“Hmph, they just want to win sympathy, that’s all.”

“What’s the use of compensation? Can those who died be resurrected?”

“Everyone sees suspicious people in the village in the future must report it to the Military Police Force in time!”

Various voices of discussion spread among the crowd, and Tengoku tried his best to distinguish these voices. Although among them, there are many people who refuse to forgive the Military Police Force, there are also a large number of villagers who stand on Military Police Force’s side.

As long as public opinion is not one-sided, the situation of Military Police Force and even Uchiha Clan will not be too difficult!

Tengoku and Fugaku glance at each other, each heaving a sigh of relief in their hearts.

…

Hokage Tower, in the Hokage Office.

Danzō was sitting opposite Hiruzen unperturbedly, sipping tea.

Beside them, an Anbu is reporting in detail about what happened in front of the Military Police Force’s building, including Tengoku and Fugaku’s speeches and villagers’ responses.

After a while, Hiruzen waved his hand to let him go back.

Danzō put down his tea cup and stared at Hiruzen with weird gaze, and then said: “To win the sympathy and support of the villagers through hypocritical speeches, the Uchiha Clan is learning from you, Hiruzen.”

“Military Police Force can actually take the initiative to take responsibility. Whether it is true or false, we shouldn’t continue to embarrass them.” Hiruzen did not seem to understand Danzō’s gaze, and then lit the tobacco pipe, and spewed out some smokes.

Danzō continued to tease: “If the Military Police Force can win the support of more villagers, maybe the next Hokage will be selected from the Uchiha Clan.”

Hiruzen squinted at him and said, “I’m not that old yet!”

“Really?”

The corners of Danzō’s mouth twitched slightly, “But why do I think you’ve grown white hair?”

Hiruzen frowned when he heard this.

‘For that white hair to appear, isn’t it because of Kirigakure’s incident that made me couldn’t sleep all night?’

“Yesterday, after arguing for a long time without results, it’s time to make a decision, Hiruzen.”

Danzō’s eye flickered as he said that.

After the war broke out, Konoha stationed a large number of Shinobi in the border with the Land of Earth and Land of Lightning to deter these two Great Countries. Now that Kirigakure has made it clear that they would also participate in this war, Konoha had to deploy Shinobi to be stationed in the coastal area.

At this moment, Konoha only has two choices, one is to transfer the Shinobi at the Land of Earth and Land of Lightning’s borders, but doing this would cause their power to be scattered, and it won’t be enough to shock the three Great Countries. Once the three Great Country feels that Konoha can’t bear it anymore, they are very likely to attack at the same time, which would cause disastrous consequences.

Another option is to draw Shinobi from the Uchiha and Hyūga Clan.

After the war began, although the two great clans sent a lot of Shinobi, most of them were just Genin, and none of their pillars were sent!

So, drawing their power is the best choice at present!

Danzō, Homura, Koharu all support the second option, and Hiruzen… is still hesitating.

The reason why he couldn’t make up his mind is naturally his concern!

The Uchiha and Hyūga Clan are both Konoha’s noble clans, and have a great reputation, but they have little actual power. However, if two great noble clans go out this time, it will be equivalent to opening the prison of power.

Hyūga Clan seems to be in better situation, as the Caged Bird seems to allow Branch House to revolve around the Main House firmly. However, the Caged Bird not only limits Byakugan’s ability, but also also the Main House to directly destroy the Branch House’s members’ brains through the Caged Bird. This kind of contradiction involving life and death is irreconcilable, therefore, it is more difficult for the Hyūga Clan to unite to fight for power and profit.

On the other hand, the Uchiha Clan is extremely united, especially those from the Military Police Force, who are very united.

Speaking of which, all of this are thanks to Nidaime Hokage.

The original intention of Nidaime Hokage to establish the Military Police Force was to allow Uchiha Clan to have something to do, and to facilitate centralized observation and monitoring of them, but the consequence of concentration is also allowing the Uchiha Clan’s elites to have a fair reason to stay together all the time!

For example, when the clansmen of Sarutobi Clan went out for missions, they were scattered around the Shinobi World. The clansmen may only be able to see each other for a few times all year round, while the Uchiha clansmen in the Military Police Force are staying together all year round. From morning to night, they work together, patrol together, eat together, chat together, enjoy the glory together, and bear the criticism from the villagers together. Over time, how strong their unity and solidarity be?

In terms of internal unity alone, in the entire Konoha, except for Anbu and the Root, Uchiha Clan’s Military Police Force is the best!

Fortunately, the three words ‘Military Police Force’ also firmly pressed the Uchiha Clan on the bench of power. If they want to go further, they will either have to rebel or… make a huge contribution!

And now, the opportunity is here.

Once the Uchiha Clan has achieved enough merits on the battlefield, their prestige and reputation will inevitably rise to the higher level!

When the time comes, with their left hand of the united Military Police Force, and their right hand of the great prestige and support from the villagers which were transformed from the contribution on the battlefield, the Uchiha Clan can logically seek greater power and more right to speak!

For example, competing for the Yondaime Hokage’s position!

Although Hiruzen does not have any evil intent and is not deliberately targeting Uchiha Clan, he really doesn’t want the Yondaime Hokage to come from the Uchiha Clan!

When Danzō said that the Yondaime Hokage may come out of the Uchiha Clan just now, it’s all to seize this point and deliberately disgust Hiruzen.

Hiruzen looked at Danzō deeply, his eyes cloudy and uncertain.

Facing Hiruzen’s gaze, Danzō is unperturbed, and didn’t panic at all, he even wanted to laugh a little bit, it can’t be helped, after all, because of the situation, Hiruzen has no choice at all!

He can only let Uchiha Clan go to the battlefield, watch them build merits, watch them breed ambition, watch them jump up and down, and then Danzō can just jump out and wipe his ass!

Danzō took a sip of tea with elated expression: ‘I am indeed the Konoha’s wisdom!’

After looking at Danzō for a while, Hiruzen finally nodded!