The existence that both the Uchiha Clan and Konoha High Command had instinctively overlooked was none other than Might Guy, known as Konoha's Azure Beast!
Given his usual scatterbrained personality, everyone easily regarded him as an ordinary Jonin who only knew Taijutsu. Only when specifically reminded did a small number of people know that he possessed a life-for-life technique: the Eight Inner Gates!
Yet even the Eight Inner Gates did not receive much attention. After all, when his father, Might Duy, had opened all eight gates, he had merely driven back the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. A record of killing four and letting three escape was not particularly difficult for a Kage Level expert to achieve.
What was more, it was a one-time technique that required prolonged Taijutsu training and the price of one's life to use. Whether in terms of the time required or the final results, it simply was not worth it.
Thus, even after Might Duy achieved such impressive results, prompting Konoha to improve the treatment of Taijutsu ninja and giving ninja like Might Guy a chance at promotion, they still were not valued enough and were instinctively overlooked.
But Minagawa Uchiha, who had seen Kaiser Guy's terrifying speed and earth-shattering attack power when he fought Six Paths Madara in the Original Work, would not underestimate this seemingly unreliable Taijutsu Jonin as those people did.
If the man stood with the village high command during the final confrontation between the Uchiha and the village, then opened the Eight Inner Gates without regard for his life, the Uchiha's current excellent situation might be buried by him in an instant.
Although Might Guy was not as powerful as he would be eight years later, he was essentially fully developed at his current age. Therefore, there probably would