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  Thanks to Gojo Kaigetsu's influehe Uchiha were nely accepted by the Konoha vilgers. Only a small fa of old-timers, still loyal to the Sed Hokage's ideology, held onto their deep-seated prejudice against the .

  To mahe increasing influx of "green card" holders into Konoha-individuals granted permission to reside within the vilge but not full citizenship-Fugaku, amidst this ging social ndscape, led the Uchiha forward with a bold move: expansion! The Konoha Military Police Force would now openly recruit a members from within the vilge.

  Previously, the Uchiha viewed the Police Force as their tral seat of power, a political foothold from which to challehe Hokage's fa.

  Now, however, the Police Force was to bee a bridge for peaceful iioween the Uchiha and the rest of the vilge. The goal was to ie more normal ninja, allowing them to experiehe Uchiha's prowess firsthand and essentially binding them to the Uchiha bandwagon.

  Any Konoha ninja who had graduated from the Academy and possessed a record was eligible to apply. Those who passed the sele process would secure a position within the Police Force, essentially nding an iron-cd job within Konoha.

  In just a few days, the Uchiha received hundreds of applications from civilian ninja, members of smaller s, and others. Being a ninja, after all, was just a profession-one earned by uaking dangerous missions in exge for payment.

  Many ninja within Konoha yearned for a peaceful life. Seg a position within the Police Force essentially meant disengaging from stant danger.

  After all, how dangerous could it be within the vilge itself? It wasn't as if a tailed beast would run rampant or a rice ty un attack. Powerful niering Konoha were handled by the ANBU, and if the sky were falling, the Hokage would hold it up. The Police Force simply maintained basic order, and that was that.

  Fugaku Uchiha paused mid-sip, his teacup h in the air. It took him a moment to fully digest the implications of Gojo Kaigetsu's words, and he shook his head with a chuckle.

  "Gojo-kun… your art of speech is being more scary."

  "However, I doubt you came to me simply to advocate for someone's pt within the Police Force, did you?"

  "Of course, Fugaku-kun, you uand me."

  Mentioning his promise to Kakashi was just an aside. Gojo Kaigetsu’s true purpose for visiting the Uchiha pound was to gauge Fugaku's strength. While he knew from the increase in Prosperity Points that Fugaku had awakehe Mangekyo Sharingan and asded to Kage-level, he o firm the specifics himself.

  To Make Konoha Great Again, he o kly what cards he held.

  Gojo Kaigetsu set down his teacup, his tone being cryptid deep. "Fugaku-kun… is there something you haven't told me?"

  Fugaku Uchiha's eyes narrowed, his expression unreadable as he tered, "I wonder what Gojo-kun is referring to? Please enlighten me."

  Gojo Kaigetsu raised a hand, tapping the er of his eye through the dark fabric c it. "Your eyes, your eyes~"

  "Don't uimate my informatiowork, Fugaku. You've awakehe legendary Mangekyo Sharingan, haven't you?"

  Nanii-!!

  Fugaku Uchiha’s pupils stricted sharply.

  How did Gojo-kun know? He had only revealed these eyes to his wife, Mikoto, and at the meeting to quell the elders’ dissent.

  Beyond that, Fugaku was fident in his secrecy. Even his colleagues in the Police Ford his eldest son, Itachi, were unaware.

  While he had inteo tell Gojo Kaigetsu eventually, the fact that Gojo-kun had brought it up first ged everything.

  He didn't suspect the elders or his wife, Mikoto. They were all pletely trustworthy. However, revealing the 's greatest trump card to an outsider without permission, even to Advisojo, ractically an act of betrayal.

  How did Gojo Kaigetsu learn of this?!

  He didn't mean to uimate Advisojo, but if even a in had discovered his secret, wouldn't the Hyuga with their Byakugan also know? And if the Hyuga knew, wouldn’t Danzo Shimura know as well?

  A cold sweat dampened Fugaku’s back.

  ‘I… I’ve been too careless!’

  "Ah… Fugaku-kun, you seem te's alright, rex. I'm the only one who knows."

  Gojo Kaigetsu broke the silence, seeing how startled Fugaku was. The man's chakra had bee erratic.

  Fugaku recovered, f a ugh. "I never imagined Gojo-kun would discover such a well-kept secret."

  "I'm curious, how did you find out?"

  "It's a secret, a secret~"

  Gojo Kaigetsu wiggled his index finger, smiling enigmatically. Even with steadfast allies, it was best to maintain an air of mystery and a certain distance. He couldn't reveal everything.

  After all, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

  He nudged Fugaku with his elbow. "So, how is it? The Mangekyo Sharingan, not bad, right?"

  "Tell me, what's your Mangekyo ability?"

  Fugaku remained expressionless. "That's a secret."

  "Tsk, fine, be that way." Gojo Kaigetsu shrugged. "Since you're hesitant to disclose that, I'll ask something else."

  His tourned serious. "Hypothetically… if a jinchuriki were standing before you, or if a tailed beast were fully unleashed in your presence, Fugaku, could you trol them?"

  Gojo Kaigetsu, after all, was an outsider, not a Mangekyo Sharingan wielder.

  Judging by Madara and Obito's performance as "pilots," the Mangekyo Sharingan should possess i trol over tailed beasts. Even the scary ails couldn't break free from its genjutsu.

  This was also why Gojo Kaigetsu was happy to wele Yagura into the Private Hospital-it was essentially the Three-Tails retrieval pn.

  But he o be absolutely certain. There was ahearding Mangekyo trol: that Madara himself developed the beast-trollisu and ter passed it on to Obito. What if… the ability to trol tailed beasts wasn’t an i Mangekyo power? That would plicate matters.

  They could extract the Three-Tails from Yagura using sealing jutsu and reseal it, but that would damage their retions. Regardless of the prior honeymoon period between Konoha and Kirigakure, extrag the Three-Tails from Yagura would undoubtedly spark another Shinobi World War the very day.

  Alternatively, they could wait a decade or so for Shisui's Kotoamatsukami to forcibly trol Yagura, but using such a powerful genjutsu would remove its threat. Holding onto it was the safest course of a.

  Therefore, a living Yagura under genjutsu trol was the most valuable option.

  "Jinchuriki? A fully maed tailed beast?" Fugaku murmured these forbidden words in any vilge possessing a "nuclear" deterrent, his gaze being plex as he looked at Gojo Kaigetsu.

  sidering the retionship between Gojo and Minato… were these topics he should be discussing so casually?

  ‘Could it be that Advisojo intends to…’

  Fugaku set down his cup, his expression grave. "Gojo-kun, I advise you to abandon such thoughts. Personally, a friend's wife is off-limits. Officially, I anipute the vilge's ultimate on. While you are my friend and the Uchiha's Savior, I am also a part of this vilge and ot assist you in su endeavor."

  What a joke! Gojo Kaigetsu was backed by Minato Namikaze. It was this very e that initially gave Fugaku hope for peaceful coexisteween the d the vilge.

  Now, he was suggesting targeting the Hokage's wife, his own wife’s close friend? If even a whisper of this got out, the Uchiha would be annihited without hesitation by the vilge's formidable forces.

  This had nothing to do with personal retionships; it was an absolute taboo.

  “?”

  Wait a minute, what was Fugaku even talking about?

  "Hold on, Fugaku, how did you ect this to Kushina?"

  “Huh? Isn't that what you meant?”

  “Do I, Gojo Kaigetsu, look like that kind of dangerous person?”

  “…My apologies, I misuood. But Gojo-kun, why are you asking such a question?”

  “Kirigakure's Fourth Mizukage fell into a a during their internal flid has beely transferred to our Konoha Hospital for treatment. So now, Fugaku, tell me, you do it?!”

  The Fourth Mizukage!

  Uanding dawned on Fugaku. The sudden alliaween Konoha and Kirigakure now made sehe Fourth Mizukage's ust have beealyst.

  trolling the Mizukage… trolling Kirigakure's highest authority. Could he do it?!

  “Heh-Gojo-kun, since you’ve proposed This bold and audacious pn, I shall answer you directly.”

  Fugaku Uchiha slowly rose to his feet, his chakra surging, radiating a cold and potent energy. He widened his eyes, the tomoe in his Sharingan spinning rapidly, eg and evolving into the distinct pattern of the Mangekyo Sharingan:

  “Such a feat… iire shinobi world, I, Fugaku Uchiha, am perhaps the only one capable of aplishing it!”

  “While I’m unsure how Gojo-kun learned of the power these eyes hold, I assure you, I trol the Three-Tails. I trol the Three-Tails jinchuriki, Yagura Karatachi!”

  A decration brimming with fidence.

  Seeing his unwaveriainty, Gojo Kaigetsu felt reassured. Kirigakure was truly finished now.

  Under Madara and Obito's trol, they'd endure a few years of the Bloody Mist. But under his, Gojo-sama’s, trol… the vilge would bee nothing more than Konoha’s seaside resort and a source of funding.

  “Then… I’ll leave it to you, Fugaku-kun.”

  “I’ll tact you when Kirigakure starts to get suspicious. I’ll revive Yagura, and the task of being the Fourth Mizukage's ‘pilot’ will fall to you.”

  “From now on, Kirigakure belongs to Konoha! From now on, the Mizukage belongs to Konoha!”

  Excitement surged through Fugaku Uchiha. This was Gojo Kaigetsu’s way of thinking! With just a few words, he had secured Kirigakure's tax revenue for decades to e.

  If it were him, the most he would have sidered was using the Mangekyo Sharingan as a trump card, revealing it during war or persecution to obliterate his oppos!

  But Gojo Kaigetsu? He inteo use these eyes to manipute the internal affairs of another vilge, effectively holding aire vilge hostage as his trump card, a fn aid!

  With this strategy, the Uchiha was invincible. He could even manipute Yagura into iating with Konoha: Kirigakure’s eternal subservien exge for Danzo Shimura’s death!

  The thought was exhirating.

  However… it remained just a thought. Within their small Konoha group, Gojo Kaigetsu was the mastermind, while he, Fugaku, and Minato were the bdes.

  While the Mizukage would be under his trol, the specifistrus would e from Gojo Kaigetsu to maximize their gains.

  pletely lost in his future fantasies, Fugaku deactivated his Mangekyo Sharingan and called out to his wife, Mikoto, bustling i:

  “Mikoto, prepare a few extra dishes tonight, and make a batch of dumplings. Tonight, Advisojo and I will drink until we drop!”

  Oher side of the Uchiha pound, Guy was deep in self-doubt.

  Were all Uchiha children this extraordinary? He learhrough introdus that this Academy student before him, Uchiha Shisui, was o years old!

  During their just-cluded youthful petition, they had chosen a test of leg strength, something both could participate in.

  The result? In terms of pure speed, the eight-year-old Shisui was evenly matched with Guy in his base form.

  This dealt another heavy blow to Guy's already battered ninja way.

  This future colleague seemed even more exceptional than Kakashi, a true genius…

  It took Guy a while to recover from his self-doubt. Geniuses only fueled his fighting spirit; they couldn’t defeat him! Feeling pressured by a genius seven years his junior meant he o double his training.

  Havi his best friend and the Uchiha prodigy, Guy felt the soreness in his muscles vanish, repced by a rapid recovery.

  He fshed a brilliant smile at the three young Uchiha. "What a youthful dispy!"

  “But I won’t give up! Since my hand is injured, I’ll focus oraining tomorrow! Then, Shisui, I’ll challenge you to another speed duel!”

  Shisui Uchiha wiped the sweat from his brow. His greatest pride, his speed, was matched by normal taijutsu user.

  It seemed he had been sg off tely.

  He replied, “Anytime! When it es to speed, I won’t lose!”

  Five-year-old Itachi observed Guy silently, a question f in his mind.

  In his still-developing worldview, Advisojo's recruitment of him, Shisui, and Izumi as his personal guard was a gesture of goodwill, perhaps reizing their potential as ninja.

  But… what was the deal with this strange man in green spandex?

  He showed no signs of ninjutsu prowess, and his taijutsu, while impressive, was just that-impressive, not superior to Shisui’s. Oachi started his ninjutsu training seriously, he wouldn't be any slower than Might Guy.

  So, was there a deeper meaning behind Advisoj this guard unit?

  ‘Or am I uimating Guy-san’s strength?’

  Big questions swirled in Itachi’s small head. Despite being only five, he was already pting the shinobi world from his own perspective.

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