The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze

"Going out to cause trouble? Are you tired of living?"

Fugaku slowly rose to his feet. Only when several blades neared the steps did he lift his eyes.

The moment he opened them, intricate Mangekyo patterns slowly spun within his gaze.

A terrifying ocular pressure, suffocating enough to steal one's breath, erupted from the main seat like a tangible tidal wave!

The scar-faced brute bore the brunt of it. His Short Sword clattered to the ground, and his legs gave out as he crashed to his knees.

The forty or fifty people behind him collapsed in succession as though their bones had been pulled out.

The shouts and threats inside the shrine vanished instantly. Dead silence fell over the entire place, and even the sound of breathing seemed to stop.

"I endured for years. That does not mean you can gamble the entire clan's lives to satisfy your ambitions."

Fugaku descended the steps one at a time, his Mangekyo locked tightly onto the trembling scar-faced brute. His voice was cold as ice.

"You think Madara is someone you can manipulate? He remained in Konoha only because Ye is here!"

"Anyone who dares use Madara's name to force the issue again will be treated as a traitor to the clan. There will be no mercy!"

Nearly a hundred Sharingan stared at Fugaku in unison, their eyes filled with ghostly shock.

No one had expected that their clan head, who had endured in silence for over a decade, had long since awakened the Mangekyo!

On an old tree outside the shrine, Ye leaned against the trunk with his hands in his pockets, a faint smile at the corner of his lips.

``` [Ding! Extreme Fear Points from the Uchiha Hawk faction as a group, +42000!]

[Ding! Collective Shock Points from the entire