Why did Uchiha Fugaku suddenly want me to become Itachi's teacher?
And Minato Namikaze had also asked me to agree to some of the Uchiha's requests? On top of that, there was my current status as acting Hokage assistant...
What was Minato Namikaze planning here? And what had Uchiha Fugaku sensed in Minato Namikaze's plans that made him humble himself so much to ask me to become Itachi's teacher...
There was something more to this...
Sure enough, once politics was involved, everything became much more complicated.
After leaving the Uchiha Clan compound, Chiba walked along the road home. He glanced at the sun hanging low in the west and furrowed his brow.
Scenes from his conversation with Uchiha Fugaku kept replaying in his mind, and he could not help but feel this way.
Clearly, the preferential treatment Minato Namikaze had offered the Uchiha Clan was not merely that concession. There were deeper implications behind it.
The manifestation of those implications was what he had said before Chiba came here: "Agree to some of the Uchiha's requests." And now, it seemed that request was Uchiha Fugaku's request for him to take Uchiha Itachi under his wing.
Chiba could tell that Uchiha Fugaku had not humbly asked him to take in Uchiha Itachi simply because he thought Chiba was strong, or because Itachi liked him.
There was definitely a political reason behind it.
That reason was likely Chiba's current position and his status as a hero. Though he did not fully know what Uchiha Fugaku was plotting or what Minato Namikaze intended by this, based on what Chiba understood now, having his eldest son become the disciple of a Hokage confidant would essentially allow him to enter the Hokage's inner circle. Regardless of what his son might achieve in the future, with