Konoha High Command conference room.
Smack!
Shimura Danzō slammed a dossier heavily onto the table.
"Hiruzen, you two as well, take a look."
"This is the most detailed intelligence Root risked their lives to bring back about that brat called Uchiha Yao."
The two advisers, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, immediately turned their attention to the dossier.
"Uchiha Yao: Threat Assessment—Extreme Danger."
"A young man under twenty crushed Fugaku, who had activated his Mangekyō Sharingan."
Danzō's finger tapped against the report again and again.
"While he was fighting Fugaku, nearly all the spies Root had infiltrated were killed. Only two escaped back to the Root base."
"As for your ANBU, Hiruzen, they were thrown out of the Uchiha Clan Compound like garbage."
"He declared the Uchiha Clan Compound a restricted zone. Any observer would be killed without mercy!"
"This isn't a warning, Hiruzen!"
Danzō's voice was filled with undisguised killing intent.
"This is a declaration of war!"
"A trampling of your authority as Hokage!"
"An open betrayal of the entire village of Konoha!"
"Under that brat's leadership, the Uchiha were no longer the proud yet controllable clan we knew."
Utatane Koharu's expression darkened.
"Danzō is right, Hiruzen. The Uchiha Clan's power is already out of control. That boy, Uchiha Yao—there isn't the slightest reverence for the village in his eyes."
Mitokado Homura also added in a grave voice.
"The power of the Sharingan has always been ominous. Fugaku was indecisive enough, but this Uchiha Yao is a tiger through and through, one that does not know how to restrain its fangs."
Hiruzen Sarutobi remained silent.
He lifted his pipe and took another deep drag.
Uproot them?
With what?
Use the entire ANBU to fight the Uchiha, to fight Uchiha Yao's Susanoo?
That would not be war.
That would be throwing