"Sis, you don't think they're really planning to..." Nawaki frowned.
He had thought the Uchiha could hardly stir up any trouble. But as the inauguration drew closer, he could not help growing tense.
The siblings had done everything they could lately to ease relations between the Uchiha and the villagers. After all that effort, things had still come to this.
Tsunade sighed deeply, her head throbbing. "The Konoha Military Police Force's work is bound to offend people. Just like Xuan Zhe said-the village and the Uchiha have been at odds since the village was founded."
She slumped over her desk like a deflated ball.
Tilting her head, she glanced at the calendar on the wall.
Five days remained until she stepped down.
Beneath the row of shady trees across from the Konoha Military Police Force.
With his Sharingan active, Shisui stared fixedly at the figure standing with his back to them at the police headquarters' entrance. Itachi stood beside him, his eyes likewise in their three-tomoe state.
"That's a Shadow Clone," Shisui said gravely.
"What?!" Itachi's voice cracked with shock.
He had not noticed at all.
Had his father discovered he was being watched long ago? Had he been fooling them with Shadow Clones all these days?
"Distributing chakra evenly among Shadow Clones makes it easier to fool the eyes. Your Sharingan only just developed its third tomoe. It's normal that you couldn't tell." Shisui's expression grew increasingly grim. "The Clan Head probably noticed you long ago. We're running out of time."
He abruptly turned toward Itachi. "Can you guess where the Clan Head might have gone?"
Itachi bit down on his lower lip, not even noticing when it bled.
He could not think of anywhere.
His mind was blank.
Just then, Itachi suddenly spotted someone-
Uchiha Tekka.
A senior