"Little Chuan, are you just playing around, or do you seriously support Minato and Kushina?" After Minato left, Fugaku Uchiha's smile faded. His expression turned solemn as he fixed his gaze on Uchiha Chuan, seemingly trying to read something from his face.
Uchiha Chuan shrugged and said casually, "Of course I'm seriously playing around. It'd be best if Kushina became Hokage, but if she doesn't, we won't lose anything. Either way, the Uchiha Clan won't come out worse for it."
"While that is true, there's no doubt the Third and the others will hate us even more." Fugaku Uchiha frowned, a trace of concern in his voice.
"They don't exactly hate us any less now." Uchiha Chuan smiled dismissively, then raised a hand and condensed a ball of water in his palm. Two scenes appeared within it: one showed Uchiha Tieyue secretly meeting with Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, while the other showed Shimura Danzō inviting Uchiha Shanhuo over.
"That's Uchiha Shanhuo? Even he sided with the village higher-ups?" Fugaku Uchiha's eyes widened at the scenes in the water ball, his face full of astonishment.
"Shimura Danzō knows quite a lot." Uchiha Chuan sneered mockingly. "He even knows that excessive Mangekyō Sharingan eye-power consumption leads to blindness, and that exchanging eye power can grant one the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Unfortunately, he doesn't know that it requires the matching Sharingan of biological brothers. Most likely, he guessed it himself and doesn't know the specific details."
"Damn it, Shimura Danzō really has been studying our Uchiha!" Fugaku Uchiha clenched his fists, anger flashing in his eyes.
"As for Uchiha Tieyue, he didn't awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan through his own abilities." Uchiha Chuan continued, his tone calm but faintly cold. "If I'm right, he chose to awaken it by killing a relative. That's