To ordinary people, this incident was a case of the Uchiha Clan courting disaster and then backing down. All the consequences that followed were entirely their own fault. Ninjas dying or going missing during missions was hardly rare. Was there really any reason to suspect Konoha?
In truth, the Uchiha Clan was rather aggrieved. Danzo was clearly the one stirring up trouble, so their suspicions were justified.
However, weighing the strength of the Uchiha Clan against Konoha, one had to say that Uchiha Fugaku had made the right decision by suppressing his clansmen with reason instead of letting emotion drive them into creating a major incident. For other ninja clans, that was merely the most basic quality required of a clan head. For the Uchiha, though, it meant Uchiha Fugaku's intelligence was truly exceptional.
The newborn baby dispelled the tense atmosphere surrounding the incident while also displaying Uchiha Fugaku's response strategy... Your clansman went missing, so what are you afraid of? Just have more children. Didn't I just make up the difference for you? All right, that was a joke. In any case, after venting their emotions, the Uchiha Clan calmed down under Fugaku's control.
The conflict had been dissolved without a trace, which was certainly a good thing. But it also revealed a hidden danger... Fugaku could suppress the Uchiha once, twice—but what about the third time?
...That was Shimura Danzō's mode of thought, which was why he had to stay prepared at all times.
Yet despite being the one who had caused the incident, he ended up concluding that the Uchiha Clan was unruly, unwilling to submit to Konoha's control, and bound to cause a major disturbance sooner or later. It seemed he had already forgotten that the missing Uchiha had been kidnapped by him.
Danzo's way of