The Uchiha Clan member I beat up today had actually awakened his Sharingan?
Was it because... of Thousand Years of Death?
Toneri didn't doubt the truth of what Orochimaru had told him.
No wonder none of the Uchiha had come looking for trouble before he ended his Shadow Clone after skipping school.
The truth was, things were more complicated than he'd imagined.
Hiruzen Sarutobi and Orochimaru had simply kept the matter under wraps.
Because it had even alarmed the Uchiha Clan's clan head!
As everyone knew, the Uchiha Clan's strength was built, to a certain extent, on their "Red Eye disease"—the famous Kekkei Genkai known throughout the Shinobi World: the Sharingan!
But not every member of the Uchiha Clan could awaken the Sharingan. Those who could were indispensable fighting strength for the clan.
So how to help their clansmen awaken their eyes had always been a huge problem for the entire Uchiha Clan.
They couldn't pin down the conditions for awakening at all, and could only passively accept that the Sharingan awakened without much rhyme or reason.
But this time, after being stimulated by two rounds of Toneri's Nintaijutsu, Yoshinari Uchiha, who had shown no signs of awakening, had actually awakened his Sharingan.
The entire Uchiha Clan erupted.
So the current Uchiha Clan's clan head had personally gone to Hiruzen Sarutobi, hoping he could help the Uchiha Clan.
Although the Uchiha Clan had been excluded from the center of power in Konoha by the Konoha High Command, they were still Konoha's greatest Great Clan, and their hearts were with Konoha.
Besides, the Shinobi World was far from peaceful, and Konoha needed the Uchiha Clan's strength.
Hiruzen Sarutobi took the Uchiha Clan's clan head's request quite seriously.
But taking it seriously was one thing. If the Uchiha Clan really learned how