A God of Death in Konoha Village

The ninja school is an extremely important part of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara's utopia.

In the Warring States Period where the two lived, the average age of people was only 30 years old. The main reason for this situation was that too many children were killed, even the Senju clan, one of the strongest ninja clans in the ninja world. And the Uchiha clan is no exception.

Senju Hashirama's younger brothers Itama and Wama, as well as Uchiha Madara's three younger brothers, died in the war when they were young.

So the two of them have been eager to build a ninja school since they were young, so that children can grow into qualified ninjas smoothly without being exposed to combat prematurely.

Therefore, when Konoha was first established, the establishment of a ninja school was put on the agenda, and it was completed a few days ago after several months of construction.

Since the admission list had been determined long ago, the Ninja School was supposed to be put into use the day after completion.

However, the assassination of Hokage occurred on the night of completion. Not only Konoha, but also the entire ninja world was in turmoil because of this news.

What's more, at the same time as the assassination of Hokage, the son of Uchiha Madara was almost kidnapped.

And because Konoha did not deliberately keep it secret, it soon spread throughout the ninja world that it was Takigakure who committed these two major crimes.

Konoha also responded quickly and sent two teams headed by Senju Momoka and Sarutobi Sasuke to Takigakure Village, preparing to ask them for an explanation.

Because the matter was so important, the two teams moved very fast and arrived at Takigakure Village in just over a day.

However, what appeared in front of them was a ruined village that had been mostly destroyed.

Senju Momoka and Sarutobi Sasuke looked at each other, and both saw expressions of surprise.

"What should we do next?" Sarutobi Sasuke asked with narrowed eyes.

Senju Momohua waved her hand: "First look for any survivors and ask them what happened."

Sarutobi Sasuke shook his head: "Let's go"

As his order was issued, the two Konoha teams broke into pieces and entered the Takigakure Village, which had been reduced to ruins.

Once inside, the Konoha ninjas discovered that the inside of Takigakure Village was far more tragic than it looked from the outside.

Gunpowder smoke curled up from all over the ground, and the scarlet blood overflowed on the ground, which had solidified and turned black.

Along the way, corpses wearing Takigakure Village ninja costumes kept appearing.

Most of their faces had a look of fear, and their bodies were covered with lacerated wounds.

If you look at it from the surface, those who killed these Taki ninjas did not look like ninjas, but looked like a large group of ferocious beasts.

With doubts in their hearts, the Konoha ninjas searched quickly.

Finally, half an hour later, a surviving Taki-nin was found.

Senju Momoka and Sarutobi Sasuke rushed over immediately and found that the Taki ninja was seriously injured, but he was still conscious.

But his face was full of terror, and he kept mumbling words like monsters.

Seeing that this man could no longer communicate, Sarutobi Hiruzen turned to Senju Mooka.

Feeling his gaze, Senju Momo nodded, and then formed a seal.

The Taki ninja's eyes instantly became distracted, and he had obviously entered the world of illusion.

After a long time, Senju Momoka opened her eyes and said with a solemn expression: "Kakuzu has defected, and Takigakure Village is finished."

It turned out that after the assassination of Senju Hashirama failed, Kakuzu did not escape immediately, but lurked nearby, hoping to wait for an opportunity to assassinate again.

But the next day, news spread throughout Konoha about Kakuzu's assassination of the Hokage in Takigakure Village, which shocked him.

After realizing that something must have gone wrong among Chihui and the others, Kakuzu immediately escaped from Konoha and returned to the village, wanting to discuss what to do with the senior officials.

However, after returning to Takigakure, what greeted him was not an interview from the village's top brass, but cold and ruthless shackles.

Kakuzu, who was thrown into prison, was still confused, wondering why the village did this.

Fortunately, as the most powerful man in Takigakure, he was quite popular in the village, so a guard informed him of the high-level decision.

It turned out that as early as when the four Kakuzu went to Konoha, the village's top management destroyed all information about them, without any thought of sparing the lives of the four.

Even if they successfully complete the mission, they will be secretly killed by the senior officials after returning to the village.

But now that the news has leaked out, the senior officials have changed their plans.

Thanks to the previous destruction of the four people's information, the senior management was prepared to excuse the charge of abducting Kurosaki Ichigo on the grounds that there were no Tomohiro and the other three in Takigakure Village.

As for Kakuzu, since he was already quite famous in Takigakure Village before, the top management could not conceal his existence and prepared to hand it over to Konoha.

At the same time, the village also classified him as a traitorous ninja, and claimed that the assassination of Hokage was just Kakuzu's personal act, and it was a heinous act to discredit Takigakure Village.

For someone who could risk his life for the village, the cold and ruthless treatment from the top management and the hard-to-eliminate stigma after the mission failed is really a cruel thing.

So with strong hatred in his heart, Kakuzu successfully escaped from prison with the help of guards.

Later, Kakuzu sneaked into the village's secret vault, seized the secret technique that was regarded as a treasure by Takigakure, and relied on this secret technique to kill all the high-ranking officials in the village.

After causing a scene in the village, Kakuzu managed to escape, leaving only the half-destroyed village of Takigakure.

Standing at a high place, Senju Momo looked down at the devastated Takigakure Village, and said to himself with some sigh: "As expected of the guy who dared to assassinate Hashirama, his strength should not be underestimated."

Before she finished speaking, a breeze blew up around her, and then the figure of Sarutobi Sasuke appeared.

"How's the investigation going?" Senju Momohua turned around.

Sarutobi Sasuke's face was solemn: "Like the news we got from the survivors, there are no senior members of Takigakure Village left. And..."

Hearing the hesitation in the other party's tone, Senju Momo asked: "And what?"

"And all the hearts of those high-level officials were taken away." Sarutobi Sasuke seemed to have recalled something, his expression was not very good.

"My heart was taken away." Senju Momohua also frowned, imagining such a tragic scene.

"That's right," Sarutobi Sasuke quickly calmed down, "Their deaths were very miserable. It looks like their hearts were taken away before they were alive."

Senju Momo nodded slightly: "This is probably what Kakuzu did, but why did he do it? Is it to take revenge on the senior officials of Takigakure Village?"

Because the Taki ninja controlled by her previous genjutsu was of low strength and was seriously injured by Kakuzu in an instant without seeing the opponent's condition clearly, Senju Momoka did not know the power Kakuzu used.

Sarutobi Sasuke denied her guess: "I don't quite agree with this, because the deaths of those high-level officials are very consistent. It doesn't look like they are venting their anger, but rather like they are performing some kind of ritual. I suspect this is related to the so-called secret technique of Takigakure Village. It cannot be separated."

Senju Momo said solemnly: "Anyway, let's report this matter to the village first."

Sarutobi Sasuke nodded: "Indeed."

Just when the two Konoha teams were surprised by the tragedy at Takigakure Village, Konoha far away in the hinterland of the Land of Fire was as cheerful as a holiday, as if the assassination of the Hokage a few days ago had never happened.

This is not because the residents of Konoha are heartless, but because the two great gods Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara are too powerful.

With two strong men in charge, no matter what happens, Konoha will be as stable as Mount Tai. It just adds some family feuds spread in the neighborhood.

So after Senju Tobirama dispatched two teams to Takigakure Village, Konoha quickly put the matter behind him and began to prepare for the opening of the ninja school.

Since the admission procedures had been prepared before the school was completed, the ninja school had already started in just two days.

Amidst the deafening sound of firecrackers, Ichigo Kurosaki entered the ninja school with several Uchiha clan members who seemed to be about the same age as him.