[The ranking has ended. The ranking of TOP--19 will continue tomorrow.]
"Shisui..." Obito guessed that Shisui must have chosen to sacrifice himself and give his only remaining Sharingan to Itachi. Honestly...
Torifu Akimichi, who served as a Hokage Advisor but rarely involved himself in political affairs, could no longer stand by and watch.
"Hiruzen, Shisui is Kagami's only grandson. Can you really live with yourself after Danzo acted so outrageously?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi knew that Torifu Akimichi was expressing dissatisfaction with his protection of Danzo. Other Uchiha were one thing, but Shisui was Kagami's descendant. As Kagami's former teammates, they naturally had to look after him.
Looking at the trouble Danzo had caused him, Hiruzen Sarutobi knew the matter could not be settled easily. He could only steel himself and remove Danzo from his position as Hokage Aide, along with merging Root into Root.
Fugaku had originally intended to ask Lord Hokage to keep Danzo under closer supervision, but when he thought of what the Uchiha Clan had revealed today, he could only swallow his anger.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was somewhat surprised to find that Fugaku did not pursue the matter. Still, these were only images of the future. As long as they prevented it, such a mistake surely would not happen again.
Meanwhile, upon learning that Shisui had chosen to give him his Sharingan, Itachi looked bewildered.
"Why would you choose to give me your eyes? You could have..."
Shisui interrupted him. "The village no longer trusts me. In that case, you're the only one who can change the Uchiha Clan's future."
Itachi was already a precocious child. Having witnessed the cruelty of war at the age of four, he understood that the Uchiha Clan could not keep drifting further away from the village, but the people in the clan did not seem to realize it.
Without the village, wouldn't the Uchiha Clan become rootless duckweed, drifting wherever the current carried it?
Even his father, whom he had always respected...
Fugaku had not expected that his little son had already begun to worry about the fate of the Uchiha Clan.
After the ranking ended, Hiruzen Sarutobi exercised his authority as Hokage to postpone the Chunin Ninja Exams. After all, the situation was no longer suitable for continuing the matches.
Meanwhile, in Iwagakure.
When Ōnoki saw the Susanoo of the boy named Shisui Uchiha, his thoughts seemed to return to the time he had faced Madara Uchiha alongside his master. The pressure Madara Uchiha had exerted back then was unimaginably greater than that of the boy named Shisui.
"Are we going to let Konoha lord it over us again?" Ōnoki muttered to himself.
At this point in the Shinobi World, Iwagakure had just used human-wave tactics to wear down the Third Raikage until he died. At the same time, Kumogakure had announced its withdrawal, leaving the situation suddenly uncertain. If they allowed Konoha to develop like this, the consequences would be unthinkable.
So Ōnoki picked up his pen and wrote separate secret letters to Kirigakure and Sunagakure.
A war that had originally been some time away in history instead broke out early because of the butterfly effect.
In the original history, after the Third Raikage died, the Third Tsuchikage had joined forces with Sunagakure and Kirigakure to launch a surprise attack on Konoha in order to curb its development. The unlucky Seven Mist Ninja Swordsmen had run into Might Duy and been reduced to three lucky survivors.
Iwagakure had done considerably better, directly leaving half of Obito's body crippled and indirectly creating the culprit behind the Fourth Shinobi World War.
And now, the culprit behind the Fourth Shinobi World War, the true perpetrator of the Uchiha Clan's massacre, the traitorous disciple who killed his master, our Obito-san, was undergoing special training with Minato. To help Obito become a Chunin, Minato had quite a headache.
"Hey, Obito, focus! If you keep spacing out, watch out for my iron fist, dattebayo!" As Minato helped Obito with his special training, that flash of red hair stood out.
"I know, Sister Kushina. I'll definitely become a Chunin," Obito Uchiha said confidently.
As he spoke, the Bloody Habanero's iron fist struck him again with a thump.
"Confidence is good, but don't get too full of yourself." With that, Kushina proudly waved her fist.
What the heck? Rin and Kakashi are both resting over there, and I'm the only one doing special training here. Besides, this so-called special training is just little tricks like Water Walking and tree climbing. I can definitely do them easily.
When will I awaken my Sharingan too? I could become a giant over ten meters tall, just like Shisui. The thought of awakening his Sharingan someday and thrashing Kakashi immediately lifted Obito's spirits.
Minato, meanwhile, looked at the obviously distracted Obito with some exasperation. The war was growing more serious, and he did not know when they would have to go to the battlefield. Obito could not go on like this; he had to find a way to improve his strength.