The ANBU marked the dividing line between elite ninja and ordinary squads. Every ANBU member was among Konoha's finest. Whether on the battlefield or behind enemy lines, the ANBU could be called a pillar of any ninja village.
Konoha's ANBU had an extremely high threshold. Just how high was it?
Even Might Guy couldn't get in through connections... His blazing enthusiasm simply wasn't suited to the ANBU.
One could also say that Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō were rather afraid the Youth Club would spread its membership contagiously...
The Uchiha clan had even less chance of entering the ANBU.
Since the village's founding, despite the Uchiha's vast number of ninja, only Kagami Uchiha had ever been taken as Tobirama Senju's disciple and permitted to join the ANBU and the Hokage Guard.
At present, the only one who might enter the ANBU was Kagami's junior, Uchiha Shisui... And because a certain crow had orchestrated an attack on the ANBU, Shisui's appointment had been temporarily postponed by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
After all, because Shisui had stopped Kakashi from killing the crow, the conflict among Konoha's upper ranks had been exposed before the Uchiha clan head, forcing Hiruzen Sarutobi to yield to Fugaku.
Originally, he could have simply bundled up the Uchiha clan and the Konoha Police Force and tossed them into some corner of Konoha. But to make Fugaku keep quiet, the Third Hokage could only allow the police force to remain as it was.
In truth, Uchiha Shisui's actions would soon be proven to have been a tremendous favor to Kakashi, and even to all of Konoha...
"Father, is Shisui awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan really that important to the Uchiha clan?"
Uchiha Itachi had solemnly declared that he would definitely join the ANBU. After the brief warmth between father and son, the