Oh, So That Was How It Was!

Not only that, Seiichi also went to the Konoha Military Police Force and issued new orders.

Effective immediately.

All Chunin and Jonin in the Konoha Military Police Force were to use Shadow Clones for all office work and patrol duties.

Chunin were to create one Shadow Clone a day, and Jonin two.

Their real bodies were to begin training. Even if they hit a bottleneck, they were to practice hand seals and familiarize themselves with casting the ninjutsu they had mastered. Every second they could shave off counted.

All Genin in the Konoha Military Police Force were to stop working and train.

Every bit of strength they could gain counted.

The gaps in staffing would be filled by the Shadow Clones of some Jonin and Chunin. After all, the work was very simple.

This included not only clan members in the Konoha Military Police Force, but also the clan's ninja who had not joined it.

They were all to be recalled to the village. Chunin and Jonin would be assigned to the Konoha Military Police Force, while Genin would receive unified training arrangements.

The clan would cover everyone's allowances and training resources.

All ninjutsu of B-Rank and below possessed by the clan would also be made fully available to every ninja of the Uchiha Clan.

As long as they wanted to learn, the clan would impose no restrictions.

B-Rank ninjutsu were not to be looked down on. These were precious techniques that civilian ninja had to risk their lives fighting on the battlefield for even a chance of obtaining.

Even ninja born into an elite clan like the Uchiha had previously needed contribution points.

Now, they could learn whatever they liked.

All benefits would take effect the following day, with their duration tentatively set at one year!

As for clan members unwilling to accept the clan's unified arrangements, they would not be entitled to these benefits.

Previously, Seiichi had confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others, taken down Shimura Danzō's Root, and made its personnel submit to investigation by the Konoha Military Police Force.

This had given the clan members in the Konoha Military Police Force, who had long suffered Root's bullying, a tremendous release for their pent-up anger.

As a result, Seiichi currently enjoyed very high prestige both within the Konoha Military Police Force and throughout the clan.

Besides, the Uchiha Clan had always revered strength. Now, they were being told to work with Shadow Clones while their real bodies trained, with the clan covering all training resources and opening up every ninjutsu below A-Rank to them.

For every ninja of the Uchiha Clan, this was nothing short of a windfall.

So, after Seiichi issued his orders, although the members of the Konoha Military Police Force did not quite understand his intentions, they still carried them out resolutely and with great enthusiasm.

As time passed, people noticed that all the Konoha Military Police Force members patrolling the streets were Shadow Clones.

Many Uchiha ninja who had been wandering outside also returned to the village one after another.

After inquiries by interested parties.

Seiichi's orders were finally uncovered.

This was also because Seiichi had never required any secrecy in the first place.

The Hokage's office.

"What is the Uchiha Clan trying to do? Rebel? Someone, notify Fugaku! Tell him to come see me!"

"Forget it. You may leave!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi waved at the Anbu who had entered, signaling for him to leave.

Then, in front of the other three, he crushed yet another newly purchased smoking pipe.

This move by the Uchiha had severely grated on Hiruzen Sarutobi's fragile nerves.

But he did not dare act. He truly did not.

Everyone could see the current situation clearly, whether it was the Uchiha Clan, the Hokage's faction, or even the other ninja clans.

Ever since that incident, the Hokage's faction, led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the Uchiha Clan had openly broken with each other.

Everyone knew that a battle between them was inevitable.

Now, it was only a question of who would start the war. Whoever moved first would be put on the back foot.

So everyone could actually understand why the Uchiha Clan was seizing this opportunity to build its strength.

But understanding was one thing. The ordinary villagers at the bottom had no idea what had happened. They merely felt that, for some inexplicable reason, the atmosphere in the village had grown somewhat tense again.

Seiichi had spent all this time training in the laboratory.

Thanks to his right eye, developing spatial ninjutsu had already been particularly smooth for him.

As Seiichi continued developing them without regard for the expenditure of ocular power, his control over space became increasingly effortless.

Seiichi seemed to sense something.

With a flicker, he instantly appeared in the room where Fugaku and the others were staying.

Upon entering, Seiichi discovered that Fugaku had already awakened and was now sitting on the bed in a daze.

Four girls were also tending to the other three.

"Father, you're awake. How do you feel?"

Seiichi's sudden appearance and words startled everyone else.

"Space-Time Ninjutsu?!"

Fugaku had actually caught sight of Seiichi's sudden appearance out of the corner of his eye.

However, he had never asked about Seiichi's Mangekyō Sharingan abilities before.

Seiichi nodded and glanced at the other three, finding that they were already on the verge of waking up.

"You must be tired too. Go rest if you want. I'll watch over them here. They're about to wake up."

Seeing the exhaustion on Yanning's, Lingfeng's, Mai's, and Yu's faces, Seiichi told them to rest.

The girls exchanged glances, then rose and said their goodbyes, heading home to rest.

Once the girls had left.

Seiichi set up a barrier.

"Father, my left Mangekyō Sharingan develops my own mental capacity, while my right eye provides Space-Time Ninjutsu."

Seiichi briefly explained his Mangekyō abilities to Fugaku.

Fugaku nodded.

"My left Mangekyō Sharingan grants Future Sight, while my right eye has a special kind of Mind Genjutsu."

"Mind Genjutsu?" Seiichi grew interested.

"Yes, Heart-Questioning Genjutsu. It allows a person to truly understand their own heart and discover what they really want.

"Even as the caster, I can't influence the outcome of this genjutsu. However, I generally used it as a restraining genjutsu before."

Hearing this, Seiichi gave Fugaku a somewhat strange look.

He seemed to have figured something out.

He remembered that in the original story, before Itachi chose to massacre the Uchiha Clan, he had been in tremendous anguish. Caught between his clan and his ninja village, he had never been able to find a point of balance between them. There had also been Shisui's dying request.

All of this had tormented Itachi.

Yet suddenly, for no apparent reason, Itachi had worked things out on his own. He had decided to strike ruthlessly and completely wipe out the Uchiha Clan, sparing only his younger brother Sasuke, thereby resolving the friction between the clan and the village.

Now, Seiichi felt as though he had found where the problem lay.

Fugaku had probably seen Itachi's dilemma and, taking something of a gamble, placed him under Heart-Questioning Genjutsu.

As for the result, everyone knew it.

He had lost his gamble, utterly and completely.

Judging by how the story developed afterward, he himself had known it too.

Fugaku had probably used his left eye immediately after his right, wanting to see the clan's future course.

But what he saw had instantly shattered his convictions.

And so, unable to find any way forward on either side, Fugaku had chosen to throw caution to the wind.

The final outcome had been that the couple willingly died beneath the blade of Itachi, their eldest son.

They became two of the sacrifices that awakened their younger son's One-Tomoe Sharingan.

"Um... Father, um... you'd better keep using that genjutsu as a restraining technique from now on. Don't cast it on our own people."