"But we cannot rule out that there might be a traitor in the Uchiha clan." said Danzo with a cold look in his eyes.
Hearing that Fugaku looked at Danzo coldly and said "You are saying we have traitor but what proof do you have, to say that?. You don't even know if it was being controlled or not. Because of your incompetence you have let the perpetrator go away and now you accuse us of having a traitor."
Hearing that Fugaku is calling them incompetent infront of everyone Hiruzen's eyes become cold. Danzo become enraged as someone who wasn't even born when he was a ninja calling him incompetent was something he couldn't take.
Everyone looked at Fugaku with different thoughts but one thing they have common is anger.
Shikaku who was the brain of hokage was the one who looked at this as matter of fact. As he knew denying the fact and putting the blame without any proof is like asking to get your face slapped.
"Yes I know that we let the man go away but that doesn't mean we are incompetent. We were trying to save civilians as they couldn't save themself. " said Inoichi with some anger in voice.
"Then you don't have the right to suspect us as you don't have any proof that it was controlled by a sharingan. Kyuubi could have been controlled by other method or he simply wanted to destroy the village and the perpetrator took advantage of that and tried to kill Fourth Hokage." said Fugaku still looking coldly at Danzo.
Hearing that Hiruzen looked at Fugaku coldly and said "Even if that was the case, we still have some suspension that there might be a spy in your clan and I want you to comply with the investigation."
Fugaku looked at Hiruzen and thought about what he said and replied back "I will comply with the investigation but that doesn't mean you can arbitrarily take my clansmen to satisfy your whim. We are the founding members of the village and we are not like Senju clan members who will take everything lying down. If you want to question my clan member than do so but don't try to put the blame on us without any proof, as you being incompetent is not my fault." At last of his sentence he looked at Danzo and Hiruzen.
Even if Fugaku didn't want to rebel he couldn't take the suspicion of others in the face. He maybe a peace lover but if someone accuse arbitrarily he can't lie down.
Hiruzen was seething with anger as he was called incompetent again. His wife was killed in the attack and he still couldn't find the attacker and here is someone putting salt in the wound once again.
Danzo is angered in another thing as he didn't participate in the fight and there was no one in his family to get hurt. He was angered that Hiruzen who was hokage couldn't even say anything to shut up Fugaku. < I was right Hiruzen is incompetent to become a hokage, as someone can insult him in the face in front of everyone. >
Shikaku who was the only one with cool head responded "That is good that you have complied with the request. And now that the matter is cleared we don't need to think much and just continue with our search."
Hiruzen got his anger under control as he couldn't burst with anger and mess up the meeting. Getting in a heated argument is not good for the current moment so he didn't comment when Fugaku said.
"Okay that conclude today's meeting. Everyone can take their live." hearing that everyone walked out of the office each with their own thoughts.
Reaching the clan compound Fugaku called a clan meeting in naka shrine. Seeing everyone took their seat he started the meeting by saying what happened at the village council meeting.
Listening to Fugaku the elders started their same old speech of rebelling.
"Okay we will start preparing for the rebellion but not now as this time the surveillance will be strong. We will begin preparing slowly so that village elders will not know of our motive. When they knew of our motive it will be already to late for them to react to anything. " Fugaku ordered the clan members.
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" I hope they find something from the boy. If not then we will have no way to reconcile with Uchiha." said Hiruzen to himself. Then he started to prepare for his journey to Daimyo as he had to notify him that he retook the position of hokage and their situation.
Without the Daimyo Konoha will not be able to do business as they are the main investor and loaded with money.
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Misako and Shinji along with their Jonin leader who are waiting in ambush stared at the position where Ryuzaki was staying. It was already night and they haven't completed their mission but as they are ninja they didn't complained about the situation.
"It's looks like today is not the meeting day you all should sleep for some time while I keep watch and rotate 5 hours after." said the jonin leader
Complying to their leader they found a place to sleep for the night. And the Jonin stayed vigilant of their surroundings.
They have their rations so they weren't worried that the mission will take long to complete. They just didn't know that their staying on watch is going to be futile as Ryuzaki wasn't meeting anyone.
If Ryuzaki knew they were watching him then he would have laughed as they are too paranoid to even distinguish between a kid from a spy.
As Ryuzaki had thought even if he stayed outside of conflict he will get entangled with them and have conflict as their ideology is too different from him. And truth be told Ryuzaki was expecting to have some conflict that he will not admit.
Despite saying that he wants to live carefree life without anything to do like a vagabond deep inside his true feelings are different from his speech.
In some ways Ryuzaki is perfect for the shinobi world as he is a little psychopath.