Advance observation for the Uchiha risk plan.
When this index entry was transcribed into the Clan Meeting records, the Meeting Hall fell deathly silent.
The clan members had already seen fragments of the Final Handling Plan.
That alone had been enough to wound the Uchiha deeply.
But back then, some could still force themselves to say that perhaps it was an extreme contingency plan drawn up after the Night of the Nine-Tails, when the leadership's fears had intensified.
Now it was different.
The words "advance observation" pushed the timeline back.
Back to before the disaster.
Back to before the Uchiha had been completely weighed down by the shadow of the Night of the Nine-Tails.
Uchiha Jun's voice grew hoarse.
"So they'd been watching us all along?"
Fugaku raised a hand, quelling the unrest in the Meeting Hall.
"Break down the timeline."
By now, he said those words more steadily than anyone else.
The angrier they were, the more carefully they needed to break it down.
Che put the index timestamp, the old access point from a week before the Nine-Tails incident, the irregular sealing-wax requisition, and Morikawa Kai's testimony from the border into a single table.
Itachi was responsible for cross-checking the trail involving Shisui's eye.
Shisui examined the list of advance observation targets.
The list had no complete text.
Only index summaries.
But the summaries alone were enough to chill them.
The observation targets included Uchiha Fugaku.
They included some of the young core members of the Konoha Military Police Force.
They included young clan members prone to significant emotional fluctuations.
And they included individuals with special abilities, such as Shisui.
This was not a concern that had arisen on the spur of the moment.
This was systematic observation.
Itachi looked at the table, his voice very quiet.
"If