"The Elder Tenshu is right. Rather than fighting over this little Military Police Force stall Tobirama Senju handed us, we might as well expand it and divide it fairly," said Uchiha Asuka, the new Second Elder, in wholehearted agreement.
He did not look down on Uchiha Tenshu for his young age. On the contrary, he eagerly moved closer to him.
Clearly, he knew exactly who had enabled him to leap across the ranks and become an elder.
It could be said that, regardless of the past and looking only toward the future, he would be the only one in the Uchiha clan to bypass the elders' own descendants and inherit an elder's position.
In the days to come, only the descendants of elders would be able to continue serving as elders, rather than anyone else.
Therefore, Uchiha Asuka, knowing that he had risen to the heavens in a single step and benefited all his relatives and friends, was naturally grateful to Uchiha Tenshu, the man behind it all. Without Uchiha Tenshu's arrangements, the Second Elder would still be Uchiha Ming. How could it possibly have fallen to Uchiha Asuka to become a clan elder?
So the moment Uchiha Tenshu spoke, he immediately supported him, without caring about anything else.
That made Uchiha Tenshu view him in a new light.
Although Uchiha Asuka belonged to Uchiha Ming's branch, he did not share the latter's endlessly bootlicking attitude toward Tobirama Senju. Rather, it was precisely because he had the Uchiha clan's interests at heart that he gained everyone's support, bypassing Uchiha Kei, that traitor's son, to become the Uchiha clan's new elder.
*Uchiha Asuka has good instincts. I can draw him to my side in the future. We've both only just risen to our positions; only by joining forces can we gain