After stopping Kakashi from gouging out his left eye.
Dan turned to the gathered clan members and spoke:
"Kakashi's a pitiful man.
His father was a hero of Konoha, stronger than the Sannin, and was envied and ostracized by the Konoha high command because of it. Once they got hold of his failure on a mission, they spread rumors far and wide, slandering Hatake Sakumo until they drove him to take his own life.
Doesn't what Hatake Sakumo went through resemble the situation our Uchiha are facing now?"
His words left the Uchiha Clan Members and Kakashi stunned.
Setsuna was the first to react. Seeing that even Dan had put it that way, he quickly changed his tune:
"Dan is right!
I know a thing or two about Hatake Sakumo's story.
Like Shisui, he was once an idealist who firmly believed in the Will of Fire. So when he saw the Konoha high command's hypocritical true nature and realized that the so-called Will of Fire was a lie, his spirit crumbled.
Unable to accept the collapse of his ideals, Hatake Sakumo abandoned his son and used suicide to escape it all."
Setsuna spoke with such conviction that anyone who didn't know better might have thought he'd been Hatake Sakumo's closest friend.
But what he'd said was certainly one possible explanation for Hatake Sakumo's death.
Hearing this, the Uchiha Clan Members couldn't help feeling sympathy, regret, and anger over the death of Konoha's White Fang.
That's right, anger.
"Our Uchiha must never end up like Hatake Sakumo, meekly enduring the Konoha high command's oppression until they drive us to our deaths. We must rise up and fight back, defending the Uchiha's reputation and rights!"
Inohi raised his arm and shouted.
"That's right!" the clan members cried out in agreement, their emotions