After locking the study door from the inside, Uchiha Fugaku entered the secret chamber beneath it.
After someone had infiltrated his home, he had moved the valuable scrolls and weapons from the chamber to a backup chamber.
After having this chamber slightly renovated, he now used it as an indoor training room.
After turning on the lights in the chamber, he took out a Sealing Scroll and unsealed it.
"Pssh—"
Amid a puff of smoke, a massive scroll appeared in his hands. It was the Scroll of Seals he had stolen from the Hokage Building.
"What a complicated seal!"
Looking at the scroll, he saw an extremely intricate seal upon it.
Something as important as the Scroll of Seals naturally had seals placed on it.
Without knowing how to remove the seal, attempting to force it open would immediately trigger its self-destruction mechanism.
"I really wonder how Naruto Uzumaki managed to steal the Scroll of Seals and undo its seal."
Whenever he thought of Naruto Uzumaki stealing the Scroll of Seals, he could not help finding it absurd.
Naruto Uzumaki, who had only been a genin at the time, had somehow successfully stolen the Scroll of Seals from the scroll room. Not only that, he had successfully undone the seal on it.
If there had been no trickery involved, Fugaku would never believe it.
In his view, it had been a carefully arranged "setup."
The purpose had been to allow Naruto Uzumaki to "reasonably" come into contact with the sealing techniques and learn Forbidden Jutsu from the Scroll of Seals.
Otherwise, how could Naruto Uzumaki, who had only been a genin, possibly have succeeded in stealing the Scroll of Seals from the scroll room?
Even he, despite possessing Kage-level strength, had been discovered during the theft and had nearly failed.