"Lord Yin, we were discussing whether we should take advantage of Kirigakure's crisis to invade the Land of Water and attack the village," Fugaku and Hiashi said.
In front of outsiders, Fugaku addressed Uchiha Yin as "Lord Yin" too.
After killing the Fourth Kazekage and the Third Mizukage, Uchiha Yin's reputation had soared.
In Konoha, you might not know the current Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. You might not know Konoha's First, Hashirama Senju. But you could not possibly have missed the name Uchiha Yin.
That alone showed how far his fame had spread.
Even Minato Namikaze's reputation as the Yellow Flash fell a little short.
"Invade the Land of Water?"
A sharp gleam appeared in Uchiha Yin's eyes.
Why had Uchiha Yin come to the battlefield against the Mist Ninja in the first place? To vent his anger.
None of Madara's earlier schemes had posed a real threat to him, but they had certainly made his life miserable.
So of course Uchiha Yin wanted someone to take it out on.
With Black Zetsu and Madara Uchiha's ability to stay hidden, finding either of them directly seemed difficult.
But that did not matter. Based on Uchiha Yin's memories of his previous life and his own deductions, even though they had lost control of the Third Mizukage, they would not give up on controlling the Fourth Mizukage.
In other words, their plan called for Kirigakure to remain under their control.
If he attacked Kirigakure, he was bound to disrupt Madara Uchiha's plans.
Of course, those plans were not the most important ones. In the original story, their machinations in Kirigakure had been exposed by Mei Terumi, the future Fifth Mizukage, who at this point might have been only a little older than Kakashi and the others.
Yet Madara Uchiha's plans had not