Uchiha Yi had no idea that Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were already considering whether he might become Hokage and head of the Uchiha Clan.
At the moment, countless accounts were driving him to distraction. He had studied this sort of thing before, but he had never actually worked as an accountant. Even a professional accountant would have gone mad facing this job: he had to examine Konoha's accounts from the past several years.
That meant Konoha's financial records were open to him. It also meant an enormous amount of work. Yi even thought it might be easier to go to the front lines and fight his way through Sunagakure and Iwagakure.
He wondered how miserable accountants felt when they checked the books at year's end. Apparently, a single misplaced decimal point could be enough to break someone.
Yi would not go that far. Still, if his mental strength had not grown so formidable and his mind so much sharper, he might truly have broken down.
Even the sharpest mind could only take so many accounts, though. Yi had no choice but to devote more and more of his energy to examining them.
Then Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed something surprising: Konoha seemed unusually peaceful for a while.
In other words, as long as Yi was not stirring things up, Konoha was relatively peaceful.
Of course, Yi could hardly be blamed. Those problems had existed all along; he had merely brought them to light.
"Yi, what have you been doing lately?" After two straight months of Yi leaving early and returning late, Kushina Uzumaki finally asked him when he came to Mito Uzumaki's place for a meal.
Kushina had asked Uchiha Mikoto before, but even Mikoto did not know what Yi was doing.
Kushina had thought that once Yi returned to Konoha,