After finishing the day's work, Shisui left the Uzushio Village office and headed toward the new clan compound.
Calling it a clan compound was a bit of a stretch. It was merely a dozen or so buildings clustered together, with no clearly defined boundaries. The area was only called a clan compound to make communication among clan members more convenient.
As for why they had not marked out any specific boundaries, one reason was that they were outsiders in Uzushio Village.
The other was that the Uchiha had some resistance to the idea of a designated clan compound. Back when they had been in Konoha, the Konoha High Command had assigned the Uchiha a compound far from the village center and sent Anbu to monitor them...
If he had not "returned from the dead" and led the clan out of Konoha,
the clan would most likely have been wiped out by Itachi and the high command, vanishing from the ninja world forever.
With a soft sigh, Shisui encountered quite a few clan members who had just gotten off work as he walked home. Upon seeing him, they warmly greeted him and invited him to visit their homes.
Shisui politely declined their invitations, a faint smile on his face.
Though the clan members looked exhausted, there was light in their eyes. Their gazes were filled with longing for a brighter future, allowing Shisui to feel that hope still existed.
And aside from leaving Konoha, which had targeted the Uchiha, there was also a reason within the Uchiha themselves.
Lord Menma had once said that the Uchiha had suffered exclusion from the villagers not only because of the high command's deliberate suppression, but also because the Uchiha had stubbornly monopolized the Military Police Force.
The Military Police Force was a department that