"That Fourth Hokage was you, Uncle Jiuming. You sealed the Nine-Tails inside me."
Naruto Uzumaki's words struck like a bolt from the blue, leaving everyone present speechless. Uzumaki Jiuming stood frozen, staring blankly at Naruto.
"W-what did you say? Before I died, I sealed the Nine-Tails inside you?"
"I died young?"
Jiuming's reaction was different from everyone else's. When Uchiha Fugaku heard this, he grabbed Jiuming's arm excitedly and shouted, "Hey, hey, Jiuming, you were the Hokage! You were the Fourth Hokage!"
"If you become Hokage someday, you have to treat the Uchiha Clan well."
"If I become clan head someday, I'll follow your lead."
After saying this, Uchiha Fugaku burst out laughing. He slapped Jiuming on the shoulder and asked Naruto, "Hey, kid, tell me—when Jiuming became Hokage, did our Uchiha Clan rise to a high position in Konoha?"
"I'm sure the Konoha Military Police Force wasn't staffed exclusively by our clan anymore, right?"
Uchiha Fugaku looked at Naruto with complete confidence, smiling as he waited for an answer. As far as he was concerned, he and Uzumaki Jiuming were brothers who had faced death together in battle. He had already begun to get involved in the village's politics, and knew that although the Uchiha Clan seemed prosperous, a rift had already formed between them and the Third Hokage.
The Uchiha Clan had also been constantly pushed aside by the Konoha High Command. It wasn't obvious, but Fugaku could feel it now.
So when he heard Naruto say that Uzumaki Jiuming had become the Fourth Hokage, his heart filled with joy. Given Jiuming's relationship with him, the Uchiha shouldn't have to keep suffering the Konoha High Command's discrimination.
"The Uchiha? Are they Sasuke's clan?"
"I know, I know! Later, the Uchiha Clan was wiped out by Uchiha Itachi. Sasuke