Uchiha Kaku sat cross-legged in the auditorium, gazing helplessly at the four people who had nearly set the Uchiha Clan Grounds ablaze.
Quite a few clan members had noticed at once the towering blaze surging straight into the sky.
Since the flames had come from the training ground, many clan members had assumed the Fire Release spiraling into a fiery tornado was some new ninjutsu.
Kaku, who had temporarily set aside his work to observe alongside the others, sensed that something was off. The unending fire tornado did not seem so pure; a howling gale was hidden within it.
It immediately reminded him of the Flame Gunbai the clan head had taken away, and he was the first to use the Body Flicker Technique and rush to the training ground.
Kaku studied the Basho Fan on the wooden board with mild curiosity, its surface covered in tree-like patterns, then asked the old man fiddling with his tobacco, "Is this your handiwork?"
"This old man forged it."
Maintaining the air of an expert, Kohei gave a slight nod. He instinctively raised a hand to stroke his beard, but the scorched smell rising from his chin froze the smug expression on his face. Quite a bit of the beard he had been so proud of had been singed by the wave of flames earlier.
Understanding flickered in Kaku's eyes. He looked toward Rikusei, wanting to reconstruct what had happened. "So it caused all that commotion just now as well?"
Rikusei, who had been staring at the tree patterns on the fan, looked up and met his gaze. Then he turned to the people beside him and described how it felt to use it. "The moment my Wind Release chakra struck the fan and was absorbed, I clearly saw the tree patterns glow