What Does the Uchiha Clan Council Have to Do with Me, Tsunade?

"???"

Seeing his father suddenly fly into a rage, his face darkening as he slammed the table with force and shattered the poor thing into pieces, Itachi thought to himself:

Did Lord Hokage run into trouble in the Land of Iron?

No one knew a father better than his son. Itachi knew exactly what kind of person Fugaku was. Ordinary people would never be able to stir his emotions.

Especially not in front of his children.

For Fugaku to be this furious, something major must have happened. Perhaps he would soon lead people to the Land of Iron to support and protect Lord Hokage.

"Notify all the elders at once. Tell them to come to the clan head's compound for a meeting."

"Yes."

Itachi fell silent for a few seconds, then vanished from the courtyard to notify the clan elders.

Mikoto, who had been startled awake upstairs, draped a coat over herself and came downstairs. Worried, she asked, "Fugaku, did Lord Hokage encounter trouble in the Land of Iron?"

"I wish he had run into some trouble!!"

Beside himself with anger, Fugaku began speaking without thinking. Mikoto quickly tugged at him, telling him not to talk nonsense. If those words got out, they would cause trouble.

To say nothing of anything else, the Elder Council would definitely seize on it and refuse to let it go.

The clan elders would not stand by either. Even if you were Uchiha Fugaku, the clan head, you could not say such things.

"Hmph. See for yourself."

Fugaku snorted coldly, took several deep breaths in succession in an attempt to calm himself, then sat cross-legged on a cushion.

What could have happened to make the children's father this angry?

Filled with questions, Mikoto took the scroll and examined it carefully. Before long, her expression