Ancestor Liao Wu?!
Mikoto was stunned. She knew perfectly well that Liao Wu was her cousin, younger even than Yashiro, and not an ancestor of the Uchiha Clan at all.
He had quite a twisted sense of humor.
Yashiro revealed what had happened with Madara. Madara's incitement of the Radical Faction had amounted to inciting Yashiro alone.
Fugaku had not even known Madara existed.
"That fellow Madara has completely written us off as traitors who betrayed him. He never once thought of looking after us."
Inabi was furious at what he heard. "Damn it! We used to make offerings to him during our clan rites, but that vicious ancestor doesn't care whether his descendants live or die."
"Stop making offerings to him!"
"Exactly! Forget him completely, and let him be nothing but a wandering ghost after he dies."
After everyone spent some time complaining about Madara's inhuman behavior, Yashiro addressed them. "Fugaku is dead, and we're all deeply saddened."
"But a nation cannot go a day without a ruler, nor a household a day without a head."
"Ancestor Liao Wu is a Sage. Sages stand apart from worldly affairs and rarely concern themselves with us mortals."
"So now we must choose a new leader to lead our clan."
Everyone nominated Yashiro. He held the highest position in the Police Force and was their elder. They all trusted him.
But Yashiro politely declined.
He said to Mikoto, "Mikoto, I want to nominate you!"
"Me?!"
Mikoto was somewhat bewildered, then waved her hands in refusal. "No, I've been retired for years. My combat skills are very rusty."
Being a ninja was a profession, not a species.
Without training for a long time, a ninja's fighting ability would decline drastically, until they eventually became no different from an ordinary person.
Mikoto had been