A week had passed since the night of the Nine-Tails' Rampage.
Reconstruction was in full swing in the village, but sorrow hung over every corner.
Many people had died in the Nine-Tails' Rampage.
The deaths of their loved ones had filled many villagers and ninja with resentment.
Some resented the Fourth Hokage for his lax oversight, which had given the mysterious man an opening to release the Nine-Tails.
If he had kept the jinchūriki under strict protection, how could something like this have happened?
No one knew who had spread the news that the Nine-Tails had been sealed inside the Fourth Hokage's wife.
The Nine-Tails had broken through the seal inside her body and devastated the village.
For a time, all fingers pointed at Kushina.
"If the Fourth's wife hadn't let the Nine-Tails break through the seal, our loved ones wouldn't have died that night."
"The house collapsed, and my wife and children were all buried under the rubble..."
Complaints erupted throughout the village.
Of course, Minato and his wife were not the only ones caught in the storm of public opinion. The Uchiha Clan had not escaped either.
Some ninja said that the Nine-Tails had been under genjutsu control when he appeared that night.
And the mysterious man who had released the Nine-Tails that night possessed the Sharingan.
The Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, genjutsu controlling a Tailed Beast.
"So it was the Uchiha Clan who released the Nine-Tails!"
"Damn them! Why would the Uchiha Clan do something like this?"
"So the Uchiha Clan killed my parents..."
"The inherently evil Uchiha Clan! We have to make Lord Hokage find the real culprit!"
"Let's go to the Uchiha Clan right now! We can't let the murderer escape."
An enormous crowd surged toward the Uchiha Clan Compound.
"Bastards!"
Upon learning what had happened,