"What are you doing here... danzo" Uchiha fugo asked warily.
"Don't be so stiff.. I am here to just lend a helping hand. " danzo replied calmly
" What do you mean? state your business clearly! " Fugo asked warily, danzo reputation wasn't good and his behavior was especially bad with the Uchihas.
"I am only here to remind you that the grand elder faction are starting to make a move. " danzo replied.
"What!! " Fugo was shocked, this was a very big matter which could possibly lead to a civil war inside the clan.
Uchiha Fugo calmed down, as he was the clan head, he know when to stay calm
" how do you know? and why are you telling me all this? " Fugo had his suspicions.
"I know this because my reach within this village is quite big, you see. " danzo looked towards the fallen ninja.
"Quite the gall you have to send someone to spy on me. I wonder how Hiruzen will react to it? " danzo replied in a calm tone.
"You-" Fugo was speechless. Sending someone to spy on one of konoha's big four was a serious offense. Even if he was able to get out unscathed using his reputation as the uchiha clan head, the village in turn will be against the uchihas and the hokage will get cautious of the uchiha which will lead to the uchihas getting more ostracized then it already is. If this trend continued then the uchiha might even get into an existential crises!
"What do you want. " Uchiha Fugo asked.
"I don't have any objective other then the safety of the village. If your clan got into an inner- strive or worse, a civil war then the other nations will not wait to attack konoha which will in turn lead to a 2nd great ninja war.
"
Uchiha Fugo nodded solemnly. He had experienced war before and naturally knows
the horror of it.
"What do you suggest? " Uchiha Fugo asked.
"Cleansing " Danzo replied solemnly.
"CLEANSING!! NO! even if they are wrong, they are still part of the uchihas!! " Even if there were some scruples between those parties.
still, he was the clan head and will naturally not allow the act of slaughtering his own clansman, especially the elders who have worked very hard for all those years for the clan just because of their opposition in electing his son as the successor.
"I don't care about your approval. The fact is that the other party has started preparing and soon will perform rallies and agendas to get the people support so that their acts can be more accepted. The grand elder's plan is not just limited to the seat of the successor! "
Danzo's voice was low but still very cold.
Fugo asked in a serious voice " Why should I trust you that the grand elder is plotting against me! " Fugo's voice was heavy.
"I have my men monitoring him since he poses a threat to the stability of the village.
His recent activities were suspicious and he rarely meet with that brat Rei he was supposed to support! He regularly meets with your clansmen but their talk isn't known since their security was too strong. To be honest I don't care about your clan. As I have said it before, I am only doing it for the safety of the village. Let me give you an advice, The grand elder was always after you but he could never
realized his dreams but the appearance of that uchiha Rei gave him the perfect reason
to weaken you and control the whole clan."
Danzo looked towards Uchiha Fugo and turned around and started to leave.
"It is better to be prepared even if you don't trust me. I will do my preparation and you do yours..." Danzo voice turned cold "but never send another spy at me or you won't walk off out of it. "
*whoosh*
Danzo disappeared into the darkness of the night.
"I can't trust his words. I should first check the authenticity of the information that he provided. " Uchiha Fugo contemplate.
"What if it is the truth clan leader. " a hoarse voice came out of the darkness.
"If it's true... then we will do what he suggested!!! " Fugo voice was firm.
"Those who rebel against the clan shall be exterminated! " Uchiha Fugo coldly replied.
"What about danzo's men currently spying at the uchiha members." the hoarse voice asked.
"Let them be for now, we can't fight danzo in our current state. Now go! " Uchiha Fugo ordered.
"Yes clan leader! "
....
A figure was quietly siting on a stone chair in a dark room located underground of the village.
It was the root headquarters but it wasn't completely build yet.
A ninja wearing a black cloak and an animal mask appeared and kneeled on one knee in front of danzo.
"Danzo-sama, the uchiha clan head had sent someone out just like you predicated. "
the voice was cold and devoid of any emotions. The root shinobis were brainwashed and trained to become the perfect weapon for danzo.
Danzo nodded slightly and the root shinobi disappeared.
'So the prey have taken the bait. ' Danzo revealed a malicious grin.
'Their trust in each other is so bad that even if they found something remotely suspicious, instead of clarifying it , they would blame each other and think that the other is rebelling against them. Their lack of trust in each other makes it extremely easy for me to control them and obtain my goal! '
Danzo stopped smiling and his face become the usual cold and stern.
After finding out that what danzo said was true, that the Grand elder rarely met with Uchiha Rei and that the grand elder regularly meet with the uchiha higher ups and elders.
Uchiha Fugo immediately started trusting Danzo's word and started doing the necessary preparations.
And since then, The clan head and The Grand elder regularly clashed during the clan meetings which soon led to the formation of three different factions.
The first one were the conservative or the clan head faction while the second were the radicals or the grand elder faction and the third were the neutral party who neither supported the radicals nor the conservatives.
The power distributed between the 2 factions, conservative and radical, were approximately
equal in number so both of the factions started drawing the neutral faction towards their own factions to gain the advantage in supporters and so, the political war between the factions started.
What initially started as just the selection of the future clan head soon turned into a full blown political war.
The clan head faction thinks that the grand elder faction are trying to rebel and the grand elder faction thinks that the clan head faction is trying to suppress them and bring the whole uchiha clan under their control which the radicals would never agree!
Just because of some misunderstandings, the once great uchiha clan were about to be divided all because of the conspiracy of a single person, Danzo!