Facing the enraged Hiruzen, Danzō did not dare defy him in any way. He obediently shut the door and left—
Danzō understood that Hiruzen now completely trusted Akashi and no longer believed any of the disparaging things he had said about him.
Although Hiruzen Sarutobi was still furious with the Uchiha clan, he at least now believed that—Akashi Uchiha could become someone like Kagami Uchiha.
Danzō trusted Kagami as well, but—he absolutely did not believe Akashi and Kagami were the same kind of person!
But Hiruzen believed it, and so his support for the isolation policy had wavered once more. He still hoped that Akashi could someday become, like Kagami, a bridge and adhesive between the village and the Uchiha clan—
Naturally, Danzō was utterly indignant about this, but there was nothing he could do.
Danzō now had another matter to worry about—
Creating a fake Warring States Sealing History scroll!
Hiruzen now firmly believed that the item was still in his hands. If he kept denying it, Hiruzen would only grow more distant from him. Danzō could only swallow his broken teeth and bear it.
On June 10, Kagami Uchiha, who had gone on a diplomatic mission to Iwagakure, returned to Konoha. The moment he returned, he heard about everything that had recently happened.
That morning, Akashi ended his Immersion and returned home, intending to wash up. There, he found Kagami standing outside the gate of his small residence.
"Clan Elder Kagami?" Akashi asked in surprise—Was Clan Elder Kagami here to see me?
Though Kagami Uchiha was only in his early twenties, his seniority was the same as Jiancheng's and Lanyu's, and he was also a Clan Elder. Unlike Lanyu, however, Kagami rarely involved himself in clan affairs.
"Akashi, you went out for morning training so early? Not