Hiruzen Sarutobi flew toward the northwest with a dark expression, his mind full of doubts and unease.
Had the Uchiha really prepared to stage a coup?
Or was everything Shimura Danzō's doing, with even the Anbu monitoring the Uchiha kept in the dark?
After Anbu shinobi detected a large number of people moving around the Uchiha Clan Compound, their habitual assumptions misled them into believing that the Uchiha clan was preparing to stage a coup.
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Without time to investigate further, they reported the news to Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Upon learning of the Uchiha's movements, Hiruzen Sarutobi reached the same conclusion as the Anbu.
Still, he couldn't help suspecting that Danzō might be involved.
"Mobilize the Third, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Anbu Squads. Then relay the intelligence that the Uchiha are staging a coup to the Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, Kurama, Inuzuka, and other clans, and have them send their elite shinobi to support us."
"Understood."
Whether or not Danzō was involved, it didn't matter.
Once the Uchiha fired the first shot and made the coup an objective reality, he would have no choice but to mobilize his forces and fight them.
As he'd said before, if Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to annihilate the Uchiha clan with the fewest losses, he needed the help of the other clans.
The Uchiha didn't have the strength to stand against all of Konoha.
The only thing he needed to be wary of was the strange and unpredictable ocular powers of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
But wariness was all it was. It wasn't enough to make him hesitate.
The Mangekyō was terrifying, but it wasn't invincible.
Otherwise, there would've been no reason for Uchiha Fugaku to endure for so long.
On the way, Hiruzen Sarutobi met up with