Therefore, the sequence of events in their minds was that Danzō, displeased with the Uchiha Clan, had simply killed him.
A mad dog like Danzō was absolutely capable of doing such a thing.
However, Danzō wielded immense power; unless they had absolute proof, they would never dare to speak out and offend him.
"Bang!"
"What did you say? Uchiha Akito is missing?" Uchiha Tei slammed his hand on the table, standing up abruptly as he spoke with fury.
"That's right, we couldn't find Uchiha Akito."
"Danzō, it must be that old dog Danzō! He has long been dissatisfied with our Uchiha Clan and has been suppressing us at every turn. This must be his doing; the traces at the scene could never be faked."
Uchiha Tei gritted his teeth in hatred. If it had been a weak clan ninja who died, it might have been one thing, but Uchiha Akito was a pillar of their clan's strength.
"This matter cannot end like this. Shimura Danzō, you just wait." In his rage, Uchiha Tei's Three-Tomoe Sharingan flared to life.
"Clan Leader, what about that brat Hyuga Shin, and the traitor Mikoto Uchiha? Should we still..."
"Forget about them for now. You may leave! I am going to find Sarutobi Hiruzen and demand an explanation."
Uchiha Tei didn't even use the Hokage's title, addressing him directly by his name, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Leaving the Uchiha compound, Uchiha Tei stormed into the Hokage Building, but after a heated argument, the two sides parted on bad terms.
After Uchiha Tei left, Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, a look of distress appearing on his face.
"Danzō, oh Danzō! Look at the mess you've caused me."
Just moments ago, Uchiha Tei had demanded that Sarutobi Hiruzen hand over Danzō, but Sarutobi Hiruzen, who treated Danzō better than his own father, naturally refused, leading to an endless dispute.
In the end, Sarutobi Hiruzen had to pay a price, allowing the Uchiha Clan to take charge of an Anbu squad, only then convincing Uchiha Tei to leave.
Although Uchiha Tei remained dissatisfied, seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen's "take it or leave it" attitude, he had no choice but to swallow his pride and accept these meager gains.
The matter ended there, with Danzō acting as the scapegoat for Hyuga Shin.
For this, Sarutobi Hiruzen even warned Danzō to behave himself lately, not even glancing at Danzō's pitch-black expression afterward.
"Investigate! I want to see exactly who dares to frame me!" Danzō roared.
As the esteemed Advisor to the Hokage, the most powerful figure in all of Konoha besides Sarutobi Hiruzen, he couldn't believe someone had dumped this bucket of filth on his head.
Danzō could not tolerate this.
However, even if he turned all of Konoha upside down, he would find nothing, because no one would ever cast a suspicious eye toward Hyuga Shin.
Even Uchiha Tei never suspected Hyuga Shin, for no other reason than his age.
By all logic, for a child of five to kill an elite jonin was simply a fantasy; even a quasi-Kage would find it extremely difficult to kill an elite jonin.
Only a Kage-level ninja could quickly finish off an elite jonin, and could a little brat possibly be Kage-level?
They had no idea that Hyuga Shin was a cheater; he was already a jonin at such a young age, and cross-level challenges were as easy as eating and drinking for him.
Just like that, Danzō took the fall for Hyuga Shin, further souring the relationship between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha.
In any case, the Uchiha Clan now believed that Konoha didn't view them as people, leaving their hearts half-chilled.
Hyuga Shin didn't care about any of this. He had intended to frame Danzō from the start; even though Danzō hadn't provoked him, Hyuga Shin simply didn't like him and wanted to cause him some trouble.
After a picnic and some sightseeing with Mikoto, he returned home.
It was already evening when they arrived back. Mikoto went to prepare dinner, while Hyuga Shin locked himself in his room.
He took out the two Sharingan eyes stored in saline solution; at this moment, they had returned to their three-tomoe state.
"I wonder what kind of abilities these two Sharingan have, though holding onto them doesn't seem to be of much use to me."
To others, a Mangekyo Sharingan was a massive temptation, but to Hyuga Shin, it wasn't even worth calling a "chicken rib."
Possessing the Tenseigan, he didn't care for a Mangekyo, let alone an Eternal Mangekyo.
"The Tenseigan possesses the ability to control puppets; perhaps that will come in handy later."
Hyuga Shin hadn't forgotten the Tenseigan's puppet-controlling ability; it was a power that could make the puppeteers of Sunagakure cry in confusion.
He was still quite curious about the abilities of this pair of Mangekyo, as every pair was different, sometimes even manifesting extremely abnormal ocular techniques.
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Among the ocular techniques born from the Mangekyo, the most abnormal were those of Uchiha Shisui and Obito—one could alter another's will, and the other possessed space-time abilities; they were truly broken.
"I wonder if I can find out the abilities of this pair of Mangekyo through the system." Hyuga Shin acted on his thought and immediately entered the System Space.
He didn't call for the system, instead opening his attribute panel himself and finding the Mangekyo Sharingan under the equipment tab.
"Sure enough, it's there. I didn't expect it to be classified as equipment, but that makes sense; the Mangekyo Sharingan isn't truly my own ability."
He clicked on the Mangekyo Sharingan and found a line of very small text in the bottom corner; if one didn't look closely, it would be impossible to see.
This was something Hyuga Shin had discovered by accident. This line of small text read 'System Introduction'.
Hyuga Shin didn't know why the system made these four characters so small. If he hadn't had sharp eyes and seen them by chance, he really wouldn't have known the system had this function.
After clicking on the system introduction, a line of text appeared, displaying the ability description for this pair of Mangekyo.
One of them was Amaterasu, and seeing this ocular technique, Hyuga Shin couldn't help but want to complain.
This ocular technique had an incredibly high prestige, touted as the "strongest physical attack" and an "unavoidable strike."
Yet, its track record was somewhat appalling; it hadn't killed a single person, which was extremely embarrassing and practically a disgrace to its reputation.
The other one, however, was truly formidable.
Phantom Body: Can create an undetectable phantom body that possesses eighty percent of the original body's strength, and can swap places with the original body during combat.
This could be called a god-tier skill, with the only drawback being the massive chakra consumption; once the chakra is exhausted, the phantom body will vanish.
After finishing his review, Hyuga Shin exited the System Space, as Mikoto was almost done cooking, and if he didn't go out soon, she would start to worry.
After the meal, to Hyuga Shin's astonishment, Mikoto returned to her room to cultivate.
"Although Mikoto is very diligent in her cultivation, she shouldn't be this intense!" Hyuga Shin said, stunned.
Naturally, he didn't know that after seeing his powerful figure earlier, Mikoto had been spurred on, wanting to cultivate hard to keep pace with him.
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