Uchiha Kazuto was a bona fide Konoha villager with no black marks on his record. Until then, he'd been an utterly ordinary, unremarkable member of the Uchiha Clan who hadn't even awakened his Sharingan. Though he'd joined the Military Police Force, he mostly did odd jobs. He was nothing but a marginal figure.
Unmarried, he went to work and came home on time every day, never worked overtime, didn't smoke or drink, and had no bad habits. Every night before bed, he drank a cup of warm milk and never carried his exhaustion into the next day. His life was incredibly regular. He'd never had a falling-out with anyone—he was a model Konoha citizen.
But who would have guessed that this utterly ordinary, unremarkable Konoha citizen, who seemed to have nothing special about him, had been hiding so much? If he hadn't uncovered the conspiracy between Uchiha Fugaku and Shimura Danzō, the consequences would have been unthinkable if the Uchiha Clan had launched a Coup. With Uchiha Kazuto's power at their disposal, the fallout would have been disastrous.
"Danzo, why did you have to do this..."
Hiruzen Sarutobi set down the documents in his hands. His thoughts seemed to drift back to the days he'd spent with Danzo. Back then, they had been so young, and so close. When had Danzo come to hate him so much? How could he disregard the bond they'd once shared as comrades and try to kill him?
Meanwhile, Uchiha Kazuto was leading members of the Military Police Force toward Root at a rapid pace. When he entered, Root's members were busy burning all sorts of evidence and documents.
"Stop! Danzo is dead. Are you still going to resist to the bitter end?"
Seeing this, Uchiha Kazuto simply waved his hand. The Police Force members beside him immediately rushed forward and began violently suppressing them.
Before long, Root's members were dead, wounded, or in full retreat.
"Heh, what a haul!"
Uchiha Kazuto held some documents and studied them closely. They included data from all kinds of human experiments, records of Danzo's conspiracies, various Ninjutsu scrolls, and all sorts of experimental materials: First Generation Cells, Sharingan, and specimens of other Kekkei Genkai. Almost everything needed to build a new Konoha could be found here.
Soon, Uchiha Kazuto and his subordinates had searched every inch of Root and taken nearly everything they could carry. As for the Anbu, they politely greeted them and courteously turned them away. Some Military Police Force members kept them outside and wouldn't let them in at all.
"I've finally become the head of the Uchiha Clan. Now it's time to issue a new set of laws."
Uchiha Kazuto pondered within the Uchiha Clan.
Everything he was doing now was to become the head of the Uchiha Clan—the clan's leader and Commander, as well as the head of the Military Police Force.
Only by becoming the official administrator could he bring his power to bear to its fullest.
"Now, let me think about what clan laws I should issue..."
Uchiha Kazuto pondered. His Dojutsu required him to become the official administrator of a faction. At the very least, he had to hold considerable authority in name, with the power to enforce and enact laws, before he could use it.
There were no limits on the laws he could establish. In theory, he could make any law he wanted. But establishing a law didn't mean people would obey it. If he created a law that couldn't be enforced, he wouldn't gain anything. Only laws that could actually be enforced would earn him a return of power.
And different laws yielded different amounts of power.
For example, if an action had a major impact on a faction, then by enacting a law to prohibit it, he could continue to receive a large amount of power.
But if an action was very simple, even something people did every day, and he made a law governing it, he would still receive some power, but not much.
In short, the greater the impact of Uchiha Kazuto's laws on a faction, and the more serious the consequences of breaking them, the more power he would receive in return.
Just as Uchiha Kazuto was considering what laws to enact,
Uchiha Itachi finally learned what had happened within the Uchiha Clan.
It hadn't been a Coup. It had been a coup within the clan. His father, the clan head, had been ousted and branded a rogue ninja.
The claim that the Uchiha Clan had wanted to launch a Coup had all been a conspiracy between Uchiha Fugaku and Shimura Danzō.
That didn't sound right. Why hadn't he known anything about it before?
Something was wrong. Very wrong!
Uchiha Itachi went to see Hiruzen Sarutobi, but what he learned only made things seem more suspicious. There was definitely a conspiracy. Although he was glad the Uchiha Clan had abandoned the Coup, he felt that something about Uchiha Kazuto was very wrong.
He hurried back to the clan.
"Uchiha Kazuto, what exactly is going on?"
"Who are you? Who let you in?"
Uchiha Kazuto looked at Uchiha Itachi, who had appeared without warning, and frowned.
"I'm Uchiha Itachi. Uchiha Kazuto, what are you plotting?"
Uchiha Itachi stared fixedly at Uchiha Kazuto, speaking to him without the slightest courtesy, as if he were still the son of the clan head.
As a genius, Uchiha Itachi instinctively felt that something was off about Uchiha Kazuto. He simply couldn't believe his father would join forces with Lord Danzo to carry out some sort of conspiracy. There had to be a deeper scheme behind everything that had happened.
"Silence, Uchiha Itachi! Watch your tone. I'm the clan head now. As the son of a traitor, what gives you the right to show your face in front of me? Someone, drag this upstart out!"
Uchiha Kazuto frowned and shouted sternly.
The next moment, several Uchiha Clan shinobi rushed in.
"Forgive us, clan head!"
The shinobi bowed to Uchiha Kazuto in apology, then turned to Uchiha Itachi and immediately moved to drag the insolent upstart away.
Uchiha Itachi was no longer the clan head's son. Now he was a traitor's son. Even if the clan didn't punish him by association, he couldn't enjoy all the privileges he once had within the Uchiha Clan.
"Mm."
Uchiha Kazuto nodded.
As the shinobi approached Uchiha Itachi, he stepped back and avoided their grasp.
"Hm? What is it, Uchiha Itachi? What are you trying to do? Are you planning to attack me, your clan head? Do you still think you're the Uchiha Clan's clan heir?"
Seeing this, Uchiha Kazuto stepped forward, Chakra beginning to surge around him.
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