As he strolled along the edge of the Uchiha Clan Compound, where it lay closer to the forest and felt all the more desolate, Cang closed his eyes. He did not rely entirely on sight, but let his mind sink into a more subtle realm. Ever since his Double Tomoe Sharingan had unexpectedly brushed against the mysteries of the Mangekyou during the brutal battles at the end of the Warring States period, he had gained a unique ability: to sense and weakly interfere with the invisible "Causality Threads" between people and events.
At that moment, in his "perception," the new Konoha was not a golden glow of flourishing prosperity, but a tangle of countless threads, colliding and winding around one another, their colors varied, their brightness and darkness in constant flux.
The threads representing the Senju Clan were mostly bright and sturdy. Centered on the Hokage Building, they radiated throughout the village, carrying an unquestionable force of order and cohesion. They were woven from Hashirama's dream and Tobirama's system. Yet amid that brightness, Cang could clearly distinguish the part that belonged to Tobirama: icy, sharp, calculating silver-blue threads, extending and weaving with purpose, seeking to regulate or even bind all the others.
The threads representing the Uchiha, by contrast, clustered in this outlying area, a repressed, restless dark red. They were powerful, yet seemed constrained by invisible barriers, unable to truly merge with the bright web at the village's center. Many dark red threads tried to reach outward, only to be deftly guided aside by the silver-blue threads, deflected, or sent bouncing back. The clan members' hopes for a new life and appreciation of peace were tangled with their ingrained pride, unease over the status quo, and the humiliation brought by outside pressure, leaving their Causality Threads chaotic and taut.