Losing a Jonin was a huge loss, even during wartime. No matter how many ninja Konoha had, Jonin were not in abundance; they were the peak of power among ninjas, just below Kage-level ninjas. Very few could reach that level in their lifetime.
'Something doesn't feel right. I feel like I'm missing something,' Danzo thought, but he still refused to believe that a nine-year-old could kill his Root ninjas.
'Well, it will be worth it if we can recruit that boy into Root. Though I have to hide him from both Hiruzen and the Uchihas, but when the time comes for me to make a move for the Hokage position, he will be a trump card for me,' Danzo thought, as from what he had read,
Kaida had the potential of becoming an Elite Jonin. Even becoming Kage-level was not off-limits for him.
So, getting his hands on such a perfect tool at the cost of a Jonin was acceptable for him, but he still couldn't shake off the bad feeling he was getting.
Due to that, he once again called a Root ninja and said, "Increase the surveillance of the Uchiha clan by twofold for now."
"But sir, we don't have many ninjas who specialize in stealth to the extent that they can be deployed to the Uchiha clan compounds," the Root ninja said.
"It doesn't matter if you have to call some of them back from other clan compounds, but for the next week, I want to know every detail of everything that happens in that compound, no matter how small it is."
"Yes, sir," the Root ninja said and went on his way to follow the order he had received.
...
Shisui went back to Konoha in just 2 hours, then he stealthily went back to his house while hiding from the spy who was keeping an eye on his house.
This was the reason the Uchiha had left the spies in their territory even after knowing about their identity.
Since feeding wrong information to the enemy is much easier that way, after some time, Shisui went toward the clan headquarters. He went to the reception and said,
"I want to talk to the clan head about my three shops. Can you please ask him if he is free or not?" Shisui said this with a smile on his face, like he wasn't in any hurry and had some casual business with the clan head.
The receptionist nodded and went to Fugaku's office to ask him this. As soon as Fugaku heard that Shisui wanted to talk about his three shops, which was a code word for something important, especially related to Root,
he said, "I am free right now. Ask him to come to my office," and then went back to his paperwork.
The receptionist relayed the order back to Shisui, and he went to Fugaku's office.
"What happened?" Fugaku asked as soon as Shisui entered the office, while he also activated the concealment seal in his office, making spying on them impossible.
"Kaida went out to complete some bandit extermination mission, but he was attacked by Root ninjas: one Jonin and six Chunin."
"I want all the details. Don't leave anything out of your report," Fugaku said. He was not worried that something had happened to Kaida because he could see that Shisui, though angry, was not sad.
Shisui nodded his head and told Fugaku everything that had happened, from Kaida's plan to lure the attackers and Shisui following him, hiding to keep him safe,
as well as him killing the Jonin and Kaida killing three Chunin while capturing three more, who are now kept at one of their bases.
"That boy is both talented and smart. Many young ninjas will let power get to their heads if they reach the stage he has reached so early.
Since he has captured three of them, we can easily pin the blame on Danzo."
"But he can easily deny our claim and say that we attacked his ninjas without any reason."
"That would be the case if we didn't have someone under our custody, but now we have three of his ninjas captured. We can just ask him to remove his seal and let us read their memory to make things clear."
"We tried this one more time, and he just said that those ninjas know top secrets of the village, and he can't allow anyone to know them.
And if by chance we are able to use this to corner him, Lord Third will just give him some light punishment and dismiss this matter like always," Shisui said.
"Then what do you want us to do, directly attack Danzo?" Fugaku said with a little annoyance and anger in his voice.
"Fugaku-sama, I think we just needed to think out of the box. We always had a simple solution for our problems," Shisui said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Fugaku became confused, hearing Shisui's words.
"This is the letter given to me by my nine-year-old brother for you when I told him about Danzo," Shisui said, giving Fugaku a letter.
Fugaku took the letter and began reading it.
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"Good evening, Fugaku-sama.
Even though I am not as knowledgeable as you, I came up with a basic understanding of our situation from our brother.
From what I could understand, Root is trying to make us the enemy of Konoha, firstly by accusing us of the Nine-Tails attack, then spreading bad rumours about us in the whole of Konoha.
If things went according to their plan, they would have made the Uchiha's reputation hit rock bottom in a span of a few months or at most some years.
When that would have happened, we would have been discriminated against in our own village, and no matter how powerful we are,
I don't think we can go against the whole village just by ourselves. And since Lord Third is on Danzo's side, we couldn't do anything against him either...
But brother said that we had a trump card up our sleeves with which we could easily change the mind of a person, their thoughts, even their personality could be changed…
…
Reading this, Fugaku's eyes went wide open, and he asked, "You told him about Kotoamatsukami?"
"Of course not, I promised not to share about my Mangekyo ability unless absolutely necessary to my father. Till this date, you are the only person who knows about my Mangekyo ability other than my father," Shisui said.