A pale fissure appeared outside the Uchiha's old security zone.
The scorch marks left by the Night of the Nine-Tails had long since been covered by new walls.
But the spatial coordinates lay hidden underground and had never truly vanished.
The first Sensor Ninja to arrive saw traces of the Sharingan and immediately sent an alarm to the Hokage Building.
Within minutes, two versions of the story were circulating through the village.
The Masked Man had returned.
The Uchiha had activated Space-Time Ninjutsu at the old Nine-Tails site again.
No one had seen the projection in full.
Yet familiar fear had already found its familiar target.
When Fugaku received his orders, he did not first convene a clan meeting to clear their name.
The Konoha Military Police Force sealed off three streets according to disaster procedures.
Residents evacuated through the south side.
The Medical Station was set up somewhere the fissure could not be seen.
All members with the Sharingan were divided into two groups.
The first group only observed the edges of the spatial disturbance.
The second handled ordinary evacuation without activating their ocular techniques.
Every activation time, direction of observation, and observed change was logged in real time by a non-Uchiha recorder.
Fugaku's own Sharingan was subject to the same records.
"Even the clan leader has to register?" a clansman asked.
"Especially me."
Disaster and the Uchiha's Eye Power had appeared together once again.
If the clan leader could bypass the records, even the most complete evidence everyone else left behind would be suspected of merely covering for him.
Fugaku did not demand that his clansmen endure every accusation.
He only required the Konoha Military Police Force to fulfill the duties it had already taken on first.
Anyone who spread unverified claims would be investigated afterward using the