Gen knew who was behind that mask.
But he could not say it.
This was more frustrating than many battles.
An Uchiha boy who had died at Kannabi Bridge had suddenly become the mastermind behind the Night of the Nine-Tails.
The moment he said that aloud, it would provoke three kinds of reactions.
Some would think the Uchiha were shirking responsibility.
Some would think the Uchiha were using the dead to fabricate a conspiracy.
Others would turn the question back on Gen and ask why he knew all this.
None of those questions could be answered with the evidence they currently had.
So he had to keep the name to himself.
Even though it had already surfaced in Gen's mind over and over.
In the Clan Leader's office, Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, and Gen gathered around an old map.
Marked on it were Kannabi Bridge, the area where the Night of the Nine-Tails had erupted, spatial rifts on Konoha's outskirts, and several old archive sites that Root had once sealed.
Looking at Kannabi Bridge's location, Shisui said quietly, "If that spatial ability is connected to this place, we can't avoid looking into Kakashi's Sharingan."
Fugaku frowned.
"Kakashi isn't an Uchiha clansman."
"That's precisely why he matters more," Gen said.
Kakashi had one Sharingan.
That eye had come from Obito Uchiha.
Many people in Konoha knew that.
But no one had ever truly connected it to the Night of the Nine-Tails.
For one thing, Obito had already been declared killed in action.
For another, Kakashi had never displayed the same ability as the outside mastermind behind the Night of the Nine-Tails.
But Gen knew the issue was not whether Kakashi understood that ability.
The issue was that Sharingan from the same source might leave matching traces.
If they could prove some connection