Your suspicions are too horrifying

"Ling, Yashiro wants to see you. Something major has happened in the clan!"

Uchiha Inabi led Uchiha Ling to Uchiha Yashiro's tent.

Uchiha Tekka stood guard outside the tent, frowning at Uchiha Ling without moving.

Uchiha Inabi stepped forward and lifted the flap for Uchiha Ling. Tekka still refuses to accept him. What good does that do? Uchiha Ling has already earned himself the title of "Barbecue Mountain Man."

Uchiha Ling entered the tent and found Uchiha Yashiro looking deeply troubled.

"Yashiro, sir."

"Ling, you're here." Holding a scroll, Uchiha Yashiro motioned for Uchiha Ling to sit beside him. "Clan Head Fugaku sent a letter. The commanders-in-chief of both battlefields—Shimura Danzō on the Land of Waterfalls Battlefield and Mitokado Homura on the Land of Hot Water battlefield—have demanded that the Uchiha Clan send Sharingan users into battle.

"The clan head had no choice but to agree, but he suspects something fishy is going on.

"He wrote to ask me what exactly happened at the front, and why the two advisers suddenly broke with their usual practice to call up the Uchiha Clan."

Uchiha Ling immediately guessed what the higher-ups were planning.

Danzo was now in his fifties, and his physical capabilities were beginning to decline.

Even someone as powerful as Hiruzen Sarutobi had only a 6 in [Stamina], the stat representing his chakra amount, during the Chunin Ninja Exams. He had fallen to the same level as Kakashi, whose stamina was also 6.

In his youth, Hiruzen Sarutobi had been a veritable chakra artillery battery, with ninjutsu comparable to a Tailed Beast Bomb.

Both his Five-Style Great Combo and his taijutsu with the Adamantine Staff consumed enormous amounts of chakra.

During the Second Shinobi World War, Hiruzen Sarutobi had been around forty and had fought both the Third Tsuchikage and