The meeting notice lay on the table.
The paper was the grayish white stock commonly used in the Hokage Building.
Faint anti-counterfeit patterns marked its corners.
Even the wording resembled documents from the Hokage Office.
If they hadn't just established the High-Risk Mission Witness Registration, Shisui would probably have already tucked it into his sleeve, ready to arrive on time the next day.
That was what he had always done.
When the Hokage Building needed him,
he went.
When the clan needed him,
he went, too.
The more ambiguous a matter was, the more it needed someone who could get both sides willing to talk.
Shisui had always believed that was his responsibility.
But now, the sheet on the table silenced everyone in the room.
Uchiha Gen checked the signatory first.
Hokage Building Special Affairs Records Group.
Those words weren't entirely unfamiliar.
The Hokage Building did have temporary affairs records teams.
Post-disaster reconstruction, logistics reviews, resettlement coordination-clerks had been temporarily assigned to form records teams for all of them.
But the name "Special Affairs Records Group" was too broad.
Broad enough to sound real.
And broad enough to encompass anything.
Uchiha Gen pushed the notice toward Uchiha Makoto.
"Make a copy first. Don't touch the original."
Uchiha Makoto immediately put on thin gloves and secured the corners with clamps.
Itachi stood to one side, his eyes on the middle of the notice.
"The content is too vague."
Fugaku looked at him.
"Explain."
Itachi pointed at the line.
"To discuss matters concerning Uchiha stability."
He said, "No specific subject, no initiator, no witness, and no meeting reference number."
Uchiha Toru frowned.
"Aren't meeting notices always written like that?"
Itachi shook his head.
"If it's just routine questioning, it can be kept simple. But this concerns Uchiha stability and specifically names Shisui,