Sanada

In his sleep, Fugaku had a long dream. The hopelessly tangled Formula of the Four Symbols Seal kept drifting before his eyes, and he had no idea what many of its parts meant.

Even when annotations appeared beside them, they made no sense at all. He slept straight through until noon.

He patted his still-foggy head and took a cold shower, which finally woke him up. He hadn't seen his three disciples in Half a Month, so he decided to check on their training today.

He left home and walked down a main road in the Uchiha compound. Someone approached from the opposite direction.

It was Aida Uchiha, the second clansman he had stimulated. Fugaku had spent the past Half a Month studying Kekkei Genkai, but he hadn't forgotten his plan to form a secret team.

During that time, he had also placed three more Uchiha clansmen under deep hypnosis.

All three had advanced from One Tomoe to Two-Tomoe. Fugaku had yet to experiment with stimulating a clansman who already had Two-Tomoe into awakening the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

Still, he had plenty of confidence in his own Mangekyo Sharingan. The leap from the Three-Tomoe Sharingan to the Mangekyo Sharingan was a fundamental change. He wouldn't attempt it lightly, though. If someone awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, too many things could go wrong. Now wasn't the time for another Uchiha to possess it.

All five members now had Two-Tomoe Sharingan, but their strength still needed work. As far as Fugaku was concerned, Genin and less capable Ninja could only handle work like gathering intelligence during missions.

After all, the people he considered obstacles to the Uchiha's progress were either powerful figures in the Shinobi World or formidable fighters. Ordinary Ninja weren't worth his attention.

Aida Uchiha came up to him. "Fugaku, sorry to