Time flew like an arrow, and the days and months slipped past.
Half a month had passed since Danzo ascended the throne.
The Fourth-and-a-Half had already warmed the Hokage's seat, yet the Third Generation was still fast asleep.
He seemed determined to make up for half a lifetime of lost sleep.
After becoming Acting Hokage, Danzo hadn't sat idle for a moment either. Fighting had broken out directly with Kumogakure in the northeast. Demanding things from Konoha? Who did those barbarians think they were?
Rumor also had it that he and Orochimaru had gotten into a huge argument in the Hokage Office.
The two had come to blows and even smashed the Hokage's desk.
In the end, Danzo and a group of Root operatives had subdued Orochimaru. Where Orochimaru had gone to enjoy himself afterward, no one knew.
The next day, a new Hokage's desk was carried into the Hokage Building.
Up to that point, things still sounded fairly normal.
But what happened next made Gua sense danger.
In his capacity as Acting Hokage, Danzo began mustering troops, calling all the major ninja clans in for a meeting.
All except... the Hyuga and the Uchiha...
"Let's run!"
The moment Gua heard the news, he said that to his parents.
The Uchiha and the Hyuga had no chance of winning a fight against Konoha right now.
There was nothing to gain by staying. Better to preserve a spark of the Uchiha Clan for another day...
Fortunes rise and fall!
I, Gua, will be back!!
That very night, Gua slipped out of the Uchiha Clan Compound with his parents.
Barely had the three left when a group of shadowy figures began keeping watch from the dark corners of the Uchiha Clan Compound.
The Hyuga Clan was in the same predicament.
Gua had