"They've gone too far!"
Fugaku returned home, seething after the meeting at the Hokage Building, and slammed his hand on the table.
"What's wrong?"
Mikoto entered the room with Sasuke in her arms.
"Who else but the Third Hokage! Still, there's nothing we can do. Too many people saw the Three-Tomoe Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' eyes."
Fugaku sighed.
The Night of the Nine-Tails had truly brought undeserved disaster upon the Uchiha!
The leader of the Hardliners was investigating too, but the real question was where this Uchiha capable of unleashing the Nine-Tails had come from.
As far as Fugaku knew, even he, the strongest Uchiha alive, couldn't claim he could definitely control the Nine-Tails.
Even if he could, there was no reason to do it.
He had been on fairly good terms with Minato, whose attitude toward the Uchiha had been nothing like the Third Hokage's and the others'.
Who could have imagined that Minato would die?
And the Nine-Tails had shown signs of being controlled by the Sharingan. Misfortunes really did come in pairs.
Then Fugaku stepped forward and took Sasuke from Mikoto's arms.
"There, Sasuke. Daddy's good boy."
Holding the sleeping Sasuke, Fugaku forced a faint smile.
Mikoto rolled her eyes at him.
She had suspected from the start that Fugaku had named their youngest son Sasuke to take a jab at the Third Hokage. After all, the Third Hokage's father, Sarutobi Sasuke, had been a famous ninja during the Warring States Period.
Of course, if they had known the name of Danzo's father, their youngest son would probably have been named after him instead.
The Third Hokage merely suspected the Uchiha, while Danzo spared no effort in suppressing them.
Watching Fugaku console himself with this imaginary victory, Mikoto took Sasuke back and handed him to Itachi, who