Clan Meeting

"Obito, come on. Come back with me first and tell me exactly what happened."

Fugaku took Obito by the arm and pulled him toward the clan compound.

The Uchiha elders and senior members Fugaku had brought followed behind, each expressing concern for Obito and asking him questions.

If Obito remembered correctly...

Uchiha Fugaku in the original story had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

He had simply let Itachi kill him rather than fight back.

In that case, I'll copy him again.

Obito made up his mind and activated the system's copying ability on Fugaku.

White light enveloped Fugaku, followed by a system notification sounding in Obito's mind.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! Copied Uchiha Fugaku's eye power value: +10]

Eye power value? I can copy that too?

Obito was a little startled. System, what exactly does increasing my eye power value do?

[The host's current eye power value is (10/1000).]

[Once the host's eye power value reaches (1000/1000), the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan can be awakened.]

Holy crap, that's incredible.

Obito immediately grew excited.

If that was how it worked, then after advancing to the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, the next stage should be the Rinnegan.

The system really was powerful.

The requirement of 1,000 points of eye power was rather high, but it was still manageable.

Without further hesitation, Obito used all his remaining copying attempts on Fugaku, one after another.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! Copied Uchiha Fugaku's eye power value: +20]

[Ding! Congratulations, host! Copied Uchiha Fugaku's eye power value: +10]

[Ding! Congratulations, host! Copied Uchiha Fugaku's Shuriken Throwing Technique. Understanding of shuriken throwing: +10]

Soon, the group arrived at Uchiha Fugaku's house.

Uchiha Mikoto welcomed Obito and sent him to their bathroom to take a bath.

After all, Obito was covered in blood and grime and needed to clean himself up.

If he went home and his grandmother saw him like that, the shock might make her ill.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Fugaku and the clan's senior members sat down in a meeting room.

They began discussing the Uchiha's unpopularity in the village, which remained the focus of their meeting.

They were also waiting for Obito to come out and explain in detail what had happened that day.

"Clan Head, why don't we give up our work in the Military Police Force? We settle disputes for the village, but all we ever get for our trouble is resentment."

"Exactly. Konoha's higher-ups are going too far. It's rare for our Uchiha Clan to produce a young genius like Obito, and they actually tried to assassinate him?"

"Don't jump to conclusions yet. Once Obito comes out, we'll ask him exactly what happened."

Obito had just finished bathing and followed Mikoto to the meeting room door when he heard the discussion inside.

Knock, knock, knock.

Mikoto raised her hand and knocked on the meeting room door.

Then she pushed the door open and led Obito inside.

The room was quite spacious, with more than a dozen Uchiha clan members seated in a circle on cushions.

"Obito, come sit here beside me." Fugaku beckoned to him.

"All right, Clan Head." Obito nodded and accepted without standing on ceremony.

As soon as Obito sat down, these Konoha higher-ups could no longer contain themselves and began questioning him.

Uchiha Tekka, the eldest elder's son, asked, "Obito, what exactly happened? Why did Root send people to assassinate you?"

Anger shone in the third elder's eyes as he said gravely, "Obito, tell us everything. Don't hide anything from us. We'll demand an explanation from the Third."

Another man chimed in, "That's right! We Uchiha won't let anyone push us around!"

The dozen or so senior members of the Uchiha Clan voiced their agreement one after another, filling the room with a noisy clamor.

Fugaku raised a hand to stop them. "Enough! Quiet down and let Obito explain what happened first."

Everyone turned to look at Obito.

"All right, here's what happened..." Obito nodded and had no choice but to give them a fairly detailed account.

However, he held back some details about his fight with the three Root members.

After all, he could not casually reveal that he had already awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

It was his current trump card, as well as a secret he would not let others learn lightly.

Uchiha Tekka angrily slammed his fist into the floor and shouted, "How shameless! The Third and Danzo are obviously working together. Does some junior member of the Shimura Clan have the authority to deploy Root's elite ninja?"

The third elder said gravely, "Exactly! They're clearly trying to cover this up."

Then he turned to Fugaku. "Clan Head, what should we do? The Uchiha Clan can't just let people push us around like this. Obito has a grudge with Danzo. They might try to hurt him again."

Uchiha Fugaku's brow furrowed deeply, and he sighed again and again.

Among the Uchiha Clan's senior members, hotheads like the third elder and Uchiha Tekka were far from uncommon.

Disputes over the Uchiha's heavy-handed law enforcement had even brought them close to fighting Konoha's ninja.

If Fugaku had not stopped them repeatedly, these men might already have suffered serious consequences.

It was not that Fugaku was a coward or refused to stand up to Konoha.

The Uchiha were merely one clan within Konoha. If a real conflict broke out, they would undoubtedly suffer badly in the end.

Fugaku said gravely, "I'm sure you all understand that this incident is no different from the previous ones."

"Obito suffered, but fortunately, he's all right."

"And we can't bring Danzo down over this incident alone."

"We don't have enough evidence to prove that Danzo sent those men."

"Even if we confront Konoha, nothing will come of it in the end."

The third elder let out a heavy sigh. "Are we just going to let it go? Are we supposed to keep bowing our heads and enduring it, like always? I really can't take much more!"

Quite a few others shared the third elder's resentment.

But everyone also understood that Fugaku had a point.

Without direct evidence or enough power to shake Konoha's High Command, confronting them would only bring trouble upon themselves.

In the end, the meeting broke up on a sour note, with everyone deeply upset over what had happened to Obito.

Standing outside Fugaku's front door, Obito glanced back into the house.

He seemed to have made up his mind about something. Gritting his teeth, he silently vowed:

Clan Head, don't worry. I will never let the Uchiha Clan be driven to destruction.

If Danzo makes another move against the Uchiha, I won't hesitate to go to Root and kill him!