Sixteen Years Old, The Fourth Generation of Mizukage

Chapter 184 Uchiha’s clan meeting (5.6K two-in-one chapter)

"Father, many people in the clan have been talking about Shisui recently, and some people took the opportunity to discuss you...don't you need to worry about them?"

The training shurikens and the sharp shurikens were staggered and scattered on the floor. The young Uchiha Itachi wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at him with eyes that were half relieved and half tired. His own Uchiha Fugaku asked carefully.

"The matter has been spread. Even if we try to control it, we can't control it."

Uchiha Fugaku sighed, walked up to Uchiha Itachi, raised his hand and touched his eldest son's wet hair.

"Father...sir?"

"Itachi, there is no need to care about what those people say. They are just eager to find someone who can vent their uneasiness and dissatisfaction because they suddenly learned the news that caused them a huge psychological gap..."

"But before, they clearly supported my father's application to the Hokage to exchange Shisui back from Kirigakure, right?"

Uchiha Itachi raised his head slightly, looking at Uchiha Fugaku's tired face, with quite unconvinced and unhappy eyes: "Put all the responsibilities that I share on your father alone. , it’s a bit too much…”

"Itachi, you are still young. This kind of thing is never as simple as it seems on the surface."

Uchiha Fugaku shook his head, leaned over and picked up Uchiha Itachi from the ground, and took his eldest son, who was panting due to the high-intensity training beyond his age, out of the clan's training ground and towards his residence:

"Practice with peace of mind, Itachi...I will find a way to deal with the matters in the clan. Although things seem to be turbulent and people are upset, in the final analysis, it is just because everyone has lost their confidence. It is also time to let them know some things about the past. Something I don’t want them to know.”

"Something you didn't want them to know before?" Uchiha Itachi tilted his head and asked his father curiously: "What is that, Father?"

"It's nothing, it's just something that both you and Sasuke can have in the future... But don't tell other people about this, okay?" As he said this, Uchiha Fugaku still had a reluctant expression on his face. gave a sincere smile.

"But Father didn't tell me what it was at all..." Uchiha Itachi puffed up his face and said gloomily.

"Your current capacity is not enough to accommodate that kind of thing~"

Looking at Uchiha Itachi's childish and cute face, Uchiha Fugaku laughed and ended the topic. Even after sending Uchiha Itachi home, he was about to face those in the clan who were already panicking. Not only could they not be of much help, but the clan elders who had been holding him back could not prevent him from having a bright and positive mood at this moment.

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Later at dusk, the meeting hall of the Uchiha clan.

Uchiha Fugaku, wearing his improved Konoha Jounin vest, walked into the meeting hall. Looking at the people who were already full of people, all wearing the characteristic costumes of the Uchiha clan, he walked through without changing his expression. The crowd left a passage for him, and he sat in the exclusive seat of the Uchiha clan leader. Then he coughed lightly and announced that today's clan meeting had officially begun:

"Everyone must know that in recent days, there is a piece of information in Konoha Village that is extremely detrimental to the reputation of our Uchiha clan, and it is spreading at an alarming speed... As the elite of the clan, I believe that everyone is aware of this matter. We are deeply concerned, and today’s clan meeting is held precisely to discuss how we should deal with this surging public opinion.”

"Due to the large number of people present, today's clan meeting will start with Elder Uchiha Nanto. Please express your opinions in turn..."

As soon as Uchiha Fugaku finished speaking, the white-haired old man named Uchiha Nanto puffed his beard and glared at his cane, and said fiercely:

"Hmph, although I don't know from what channel Shisui's information fell into the hands of Konoha, but the fact that this supposedly confidential information spread to everyone in the village is definitely indispensable for the Third Hokage Sarutobi. Hiruzen and the two Hokage advisors, Mito Katoen and Kaden Koharu, must have planned to take this opportunity to suppress our Uchiha clan and use our bows to establish the absolute authority of the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato. authority!"

"Yes, that's right! Without the permission of Konoha's top brass, how could this kind of information be known to ninjas at the chuunin and genin levels casually?" Yuki Uchiha, who was sitting next to Uchiha Nanto, echoed angrily. Said: "We just made a request to Konoha that every blood family would make, but they plan to use Shisui's own mistakes to liquidate our Uchiha clan. This plan is a little too loud. !”

"Whether it was Shisui's own fault or not, there are two theories. After all, he was brought back to Kirigakure Village by the fourth generation Mizukage. With that monster's talent, he may not be able to survive in the past two years. In the time required, I can make up for my shortcomings in genjutsu to the point where I can control Shisui."

Uchiha Xuanhuo, who was sitting in a different position from Uchiha Nanto and others, shook his head and opened his mouth to defend Uchiha Shisui.

"Xuanhuo, I know that you once faced the Fourth Mizukage in that battle, and was killed instantly by him, but you are a little too high-minded about the ability of the Fourth Mizukage." Uchiha Nanto Stroking his pale beard, he said in a deep voice:

"There has never been a ninja in the Kaguya clan who is good at genjutsu. Even if Rei Kaguya has talent and strength that is not inferior to Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, he cannot be good at genjutsu in the field of genjutsu that his clan is not good at at all. He is better than Shisui, who has the highest talent for illusions in our clan... If you don’t allow yourself to grow up with other people’s ambitions here, you will destroy your own prestige!”

"Then are you going to say that Shisui voluntarily became a ninja of Kirigakure?" The Uchiha clan elder sitting in the far left area suddenly opened his eyes wide, stared at Uchiha Nanto and asked sternly: " Are you questioning Shisui’s will and character!?”

"Huh, Uchiha Yao... you are Uchiha Mirror's brother, so of course you will speak from Uchiha Shisui's standpoint," Uchiha Nanto, who represented the radical faction, came back without showing any weakness, "But you Ask yourself, a child who is more than nine years old and less than ten years old, no matter how precocious he is, is still a child who has not received a series of training such as confrontational torture. How can he withstand the torture and torture in the blood mist? Brainwashing method?"

"Just because he is Uchiha Shisui, he is one of the most talented and mature children that our Uchiha clan has ever seen since it took root in Konoha!"

Uchiha Yao, who represented the conservative side, also slapped the tatami next to him hard and shouted sternly.

"But he is now one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure! No matter how talented he is, he is still a traitor who betrayed his family and the village!" Uchiha Nanto snorted coldly, and turned his eyes to the person who had been listening below with an unkind expression. Uchiha Fugaku was arguing among the clan, "Clan Chief Fugaku, you have a good personal relationship with the Fourth Hokage. You should have confirmed from him whether this news is true or false, right?"

"Unfortunately, both Jiraiya-sama who went to investigate the attack and the intelligence I received from the Kingdom of Wind using my family's intelligence network showed without exception that Uchiha Shisui was wearing a fog. Hidden's forehead protector, as the representative of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and the Mizukage, came to deal with the attack and killing incident initiated by the 'Root' organization."

Uchiha Fugaku reported the news without any change of emotion that everyone already knew, but were waiting for him to say it himself.

Hearing this, Uchiha Yao's face darkened, he snorted coldly, closed his eyes, and stopped talking. Uchiha Kaito, who represents the neutral faction and is the clan elder who has the closest relationship with Fugaku, took the lead before Uchiha Nanto. Before speaking, he said in a good-natured tone:

"Okay, okay, let's stop arguing about whether Shisui betrayed voluntarily or not... Isn't this meeting of ours held to discuss how to deal with public opinion in the village that is unfavorable to the Uchiha clan? ? Talk about business, talk about business..."

"Hmph, what's there to say? It's nothing more than insisting that Uchiha Shisui's defection was his personal behavior and had nothing to do with the Uchiha clan, and then publicly posted a reward for Uchiha Shisui to express our support for him. The traitors will never be tolerated, isn’t it the end?”

Uchiha Nandou snorted angrily, looked sideways at the Uchiha Jonin who sat next to Uchiha Yao and opened their mouths, trying to say something, and said with cold eyes:

"Still, you conservative guys are planning to let the top management of Konoha reach out to our clan, or return part of the authority of the Konoha police force to quell their liquidation of the Uchiha clan. against?"

"Power is stronger than people. We don't have the power to confront Konoha head-on. If we continue to fail to cooperate on such a very bad thing, it will only make our situation more embarrassing."

A conservative Jonin sighed and said with a helpless expression:

"If you radicals want to compete with Konoha, you must at least bring out a clansman with the Mangekyo Sharingan, right? If you don't even have the Mangekyo Sharingan, do we have to rely on the lives of Jonin to resist? Are those Kage-level combatants in Konoha?"

"How come a Jonin with three Magatama Sharingan in his body, in a group of five, can't hold back a Kage-level expert?" Uchiha Nanto's face darkened, but he still insisted on speaking harshly.

"Do you think the other shinobi in Konoha don't exist?"

The conservative jounin immediately became a little unbearable, "Even if the jounin of our Uchiha clan are good enough, they are still very fragile when faced with the enemy's siege! Not to mention that Konoha not only has several times the As jounin as we are in the Uchiha clan, there are also chuunin and genin that are dozens of times our number. If our jonin are all held back by Konoha's Kage-level combat power, what will happen to the chuunin and genin in the clan? Are you going to kill me just by prodding your neck!?”

"But if we make a concession this time, Konoha's higher-ups will ask us to make more concessions next time, right!?"

Uchiha Yuki took a deep breath, succeeded Uchiha Nanto and became the spokesman of the radical faction. He opened his arms and loudly said to all the jonins of the Uchiha clan present:

"Don't you remember? Our Uchiha clan is one of the two blood families that founded Konoha! Aren't we supposed to be the real masters of Konoha Village like the Senju clan? But look at it Now, how can we, the Uchiha clan, look like the master of Konoha?"

"Forget it about the First Hokage and the Second Hokage. They are indeed strong men that we are convinced of. But starting from the Third Hokage, the situation of our Uchiha clan has begun to take a turn for the worse, right? There are more and more targets, and more and more people are targeting us. The narrow promotion choices are increasingly deviating from the Hokage's position... We have been kicked out of Konoha's center of power by people led by Sarutobi Hiruzen who consider themselves to be Hokage's disciples!"

"Think about it, the Fourth Hokage is a disciple of the Third Hokage's disciple, so when he gets old and retires, the person who becomes the Fifth Hokage will definitely be his disciple. Originally, the Fourth Hokage also had Obito under his sect. We can count on him, but after his death in the battle, the only disciple left of the Fourth Hokage is Kakashi Hatake!"

"It will take decades for the Fourth Hokage to grow old, and we will have to wait for another few decades after Hatake Kakashi succeeds. After fifty or sixty years, there will still be people in Konoha who remember that our Uchiha clan was also the founder of Konoha. Or? Does anyone still think that we are also qualified to run for the position of Hokage? At that time, what is the difference between our Uchiha clan and other big and small ninja clans who later joined Konoha? "

"This is based on the assumption that the Fourth Hokage does not suppress us. What if he inherits the ideas of the Third Hokage and continues to suppress us? Are we going to be like the Senju clan? The clansmen dispersed and all our proud bloodlines were integrated into the common people of Konoha Village?"

"Can you accept this kind of thing!? I absolutely cannot accept it anyway! And as long as we take a step back this time, the entire family will be split up and dismantled by Konoha's top management, and it will become inevitable for us. s future!"

Yuki Uchiha's speech was obviously well prepared, but no matter how impassioned and exciting he said it, people present could not ignore the issue they were still talking about just now, that is, they did not have enough senior management in Konoha to discuss it. There are masters who can talk to each other on an equal footing, and if there is no master who possesses the Mangekyō Sharingan, then the Uchiha clan will not be any stronger than the Hyuga clan.

Is the Hyuga clan capable of resisting the pressure from Konoha's top management in such a severe situation? No.

In the same way, neither can the Uchiha clan.

The biggest premise for everyone's heated discussion here is the existence of the Uchiha clan.

Everything is for existence, and existence is everything.

Before being pushed to the limit, even the most radical people among the radicals would not say such treasonous words in public as "Overthrow the tyranny of the Hokage, Konoha belongs to the Uchiha".

"How about... while we deal with Konoha, we send someone to secretly go to Kirigakure and contact Shisui?"

Seeing that the atmosphere in the scene had reached a deadlock, a female Jounin sitting in the neutral faction spoke softly:

"Since Shisui can reach the position of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen on Kirigakure's side, then the Fourth Mizukage's opinion of our Uchiha clan should be pretty good, right? In addition, the hatred between us and Kirigakure It’s not particularly deep, just get in touch with them and leave a way out for yourself..."

"Seal her memory and throw her out!"

"Shut up Ayato! Do you know what you are talking about!?"

"Are you people from the neutral faction crazy?! How dare you bring such a lunatic guy to the clan meeting!?"

People from the three major factions: radical, neutral, and conservative all looked at Uchiha Ayato with horror, confusion, or shock because of her speech. Then, the participants from the three major factions took action at the same time, planning to When he dealt with her, who might not be so clear-headed, and threw her out, Uchiha Fugaku, who had been listening with his eyes closed in the position of the clan leader, slowly opened his eyes.

"Ayato, forget the fact that you are here to attend the clan meeting today, go back and rest by yourself."

"Huh? Uh, oh..."

Hearing Uchiha Fugaku suddenly call her name, Uchiha Ayato subconsciously raised her head to meet the clan leader's gaze. Then, her eyes quickly became hollow and blurred, like a puppet on strings. After nodding towards Uchiha Fugaku, she gently pushed away the Uchiha clan members who had gathered around her, and left the clan meeting on her own.

"Fugaku!? You..."

Uchiha Nanto subconsciously wanted to scold Uchiha Fugaku for being too risky, but when he met Uchiha Fugaku's eyes, his eyes suddenly widened, and the black pupils in his eyes quickly turned into The three-magatama Sharingan looked like one with a look of disbelief on his face, and asked with a trembling voice:

"You, you already have the Mangekyo Sharingan!?"

As soon as these words came out, all the eyes of the Uchiha tribe turned to Uchiha Fugaku, to the Mangekyo Sharingan in his pupils that had formed a pattern completely different from the three magatama, and to their unparalleled aura. Such a high-spirited clan leader.

"Ah, I was lucky enough to open these eyes."

Uchiha Fugaku nodded, admitting this, but before the radical Uchiha Nanto and others showed ecstatic expressions and said "Uchiha should fight to the end", Uchiha Fugaku said calmly. said:

"But unfortunately, I do not intend to implement the plan mentioned by Elder Nandou. In this turmoil, in addition to drawing a clear line between Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Shisui, the Uchiha clan should also have some influence on Konoha." "I have made some concessions, but I will try my best to keep this concession within the scope of the police force's authority."

"Why!?" Uchiha Yushu jumped up with excitement, pointed at Uchiha Fugaku and said emotionally: "You, don't you know that giving in to Konoha's top management once will only make them do it again and again? And do the three places want us to make more concessions?"

"Because I'm the only one in Uchiha now, and it's not enough for Konoha's top brass to completely stop suppressing us."

"We need to wait, wait for the second and third Mangekyou Sharingan owners in the clan to grow up. Only then will we be able to completely break away from the shackles imposed on us by the Senju and the Third Hokage line and become The true master of Konoha becomes the Fifth Hokage!"

"The second and...the third?"

Hearing Uchiha Fugaku say such words with such confidence, all the Uchiha clan members present looked at each other and saw incomprehensible and unbelievable expressions on each other's faces. Then, Yu and Uchiha Fugaku had the best relationship. Uchiha Kaito opened his mouth and carefully asked Uchiha Fugaku:

"Um, Fugaku? Who are the holders of the second and third kaleidoscope you mentioned? And what gave you such strong confidence?"

"Because my eyes have already seen the future."

Uchiha Fugaku took a deep breath and went all out to face all the Uchiha people present. He activated the pupil technique in his Mangekyo Sharingan - Self-consciousness, and stared at his clan members. People are all brought into the world of illusions that are deduced and developed based on the information they already know.

"Welcome to the future seen with the Eye Technique and Self-consciousness inhabited by the Mangekyou Sharingan."

Standing under the Konoha rock wall where the two brothers Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke were carved, Uchiha Fugaku raised his hands and spoke calmly to the shocked Uchiha people.

Originally, I was thinking of cutting this chapter into two chapters.

But as I was writing it, I found it difficult to cut it into words, so I just wrote it into one chapter.

Today is still a day to protect the glory of Quanqin (An Xin)