"I'd barely reached the gate before the Military Police Force turned me back!"
The clansman before him spoke with a grim expression.
"That old fox, the Third Hokage!"
"He's completely cut off every way out for us!"
Setsuna Uchiha seethed.
The succession to the position of Fourth Hokage had been settled so abruptly that no one could have seen it coming.
Once the decision was final, the Uchiha's dreams would be utterly shattered.
"Elder Setsuna, what should we do now?"
The clansman asked.
"The Anbu are watching us from all sides. We can't do anything!"
"We can only wait for Clan Head Fugaku and Elder Xia Le to return!"
"You must do everything in your power to get word out of the village. Do you understand?"
"If you can't, the Uchiha are finished!"
Setsuna Uchiha said through gritted teeth.
This time, he had lost all faith in Konoha.
The faction ruling the village was filthy, its methods disgusting.
But since the Third Hokage had dared to decide the Hokage succession so abruptly, he must have already made thorough preparations.
The Uchiha's elite had all been sent to the battlefield. Those left in the clan were merely the group led by Setsuna Uchiha.
At the entrance to the Clan Grounds.
Uchiha Hikari narrowed his eyes, surveying both sides.
Three jet-black tomoe slowly revolved within his blood-red eyes.
"Did they announce Minato's succession so abruptly because they feared the threat the Uchiha Clan would pose once Lord Xia Le and Clan Head Fugaku returned?"
Hikaku murmured, his eyes bright.
After all these years, he had become an outstanding jōnin and mastered many of the Uchiha Clan's secret techniques.
His standing within the Uchiha Clan was far from low. He answered directly to Elder Xia Le, and a group of companions who trusted