At the Uchiha home, Minato Namikaze arrived with his wife. It was a bit of wife-to-wife diplomacy.
Kushina Uzumaki and Uchiha Mikoto, both pregnant, exchanged advice about what to keep in mind during pregnancy.
The men, who should have taken the opportunity to enjoy a lively conversation, sat facing each other in silence.
"Tea!"
"Mm!"
Those had been Fugaku and Minato's most frequent words to each other lately.
Minato was annoyed. The Third was holding a Summer Festival to honor the ninjas who had died fighting for Konoha, but the more than one hundred people slaughtered by the Uchiha weren't included.
Minato had argued with the Third, but the old man still insisted that those ninjas hadn't died for Konoha and didn't deserve to be honored.
Minato couldn't accept that reasoning. He knew the real reason was that the Uchiha Clan elders Kaku and Setsuna would be leading their people in the ceremony.
The Third had to consider the two Uchiha's feelings and stamp out any excuse that might be taken as a provocation before it could take root.
From Minato's point of view, he would have thought Fugaku was pressuring the Third.
But he didn't know that Fugaku was annoyed about this too.
Damn it, the Uchiha were getting more and more out of hand.
He could let Uchiha Kei do whatever he wanted without consulting him, since the man's strength spoke for itself. But Kaku and Setsuna, you two useless old fools—how dare you defy my instructions and keep cozying up to the Third at a time like this?
"It's time to make a choice. If I don't kill those two, Uchiha Kei will wipe out their entire families. That would be a huge loss for the Uchiha."
Fugaku couldn't help thinking that this was all the result