If Uchiha Yi awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and became invincible, the Uchiha would hail him as the Family's hero. But what about Yi himself?
Word was that he had not even awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan yet. He was using only the Sharingan. He had grown up learning from Tsunade and Mito Uzumaki, with little education from the Uchiha Clan. Without question, he was following the same path as his father, Kagami Uchiha.
Yi's achievements gave the Uchiha Clan no grounds to share in his glory!
Aside from giving Yi Uchiha blood, what had the clan done for him? No one knew how much loyalty he felt toward the Family.
Uchiha Heitai certainly did not want to see his son overshadowed by Yi at every turn. His son could not beat Yi in a fight, but they could still resort to other tactics. Some within the Uchiha Clan remained obsessed with the Hokage's seat. Some even wanted to make Konoha Uchiha territory.
Others clamored that, since Yi was so powerful, he ought to obey the Family's orders, work for it, and become its tool.
Absurd as that sounded, many Uchiha truly believed it. It was practically an old clan tradition.
Just look at what happened to Uchiha Grandmother Uchiha Hikari. Even after awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, she had ended up as the Uchiha Clan's killing tool.
Even Uchiha Itachi, who would one day become the Young Clan Head, had people ordering him around and demanding that he do this and that.
It was a contradictory Family, and a deeply self-centered one.
Even now, people were building Yi up as a prodigy who rivaled or even surpassed Madara Uchiha. Yet the more they praised him, the more they wanted him to become the Family's lapdog, a useful tool. Some even thought that,