Fugaku folded his arms and looked down at the Kirigakure elders before him.
The commotion had alarmed everyone in Kirigakure. Countless ninja stared into the distance and swallowed hard.
Cold sweat broke out on many foreheads. None of them had imagined Susanoo could be this powerful.
"I'll give you three days to think it over. If your answer doesn't satisfy me, Kirigakure has no reason to exist."
The Black Long Sword slid back into its sheath. Wings beat behind the enormous Susanoo, and it shot skyward, flying over Kirigakure.
Its massive body nearly brushed the village's taller buildings. Most of the villagers below hardly dared breathe, terrified by its sheer size.
Susanoo loomed over Kirigakure, plunging nearly half the village into shadow. Anyone who looked up saw a black barrier overhead.
That crushing presence was a powerful warning, even more persuasive than watching him cut through the Mountain.
After a few breaths, Fugaku cleared Kirigakure. The wings behind him kept beating as he soared toward the Capital of the Land of Water.
Only when Susanoo vanished from sight did Kirigakure come back to life. Many ninja who had been eager to take revenge on Konoha fell silent.
"What was that? How could a ninja that terrifying exist?"
"So that's Fugaku Uchiha's power? Everything we did before was a joke."
Ten minutes later, Kirigakure's Senior Officials gathered in the Small Conference Room of the Mizukage Building. Representatives of several great families with Kekkei Genkai had come as well.
Despite the crowd, the room was quiet. Everything that had happened that day had overturned their understanding of the Shinobi World and their judgment of Konoha and the Uchiha.
One ninja had subdued a Great Ninja Village with ease. At the time the villages were founded, only Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha could