"You are sounding more and more like a businessman. Are you pnning on stopping being a ninja and starting to focus on business?" Fugaku asked with a smile.

  "Not for now, Uncle," Shisui replied.

  Then Shisui guided Fugaku to the bath that his and Kaida's e had prepared. They had arrahe most luxurious pool ihhouse faku.

  After showing him the location, Shisui came out of the pool and took a seat at the hall ihhouse, pg a map oable in front of him.

  Fugaku had been w non-stop for 3 days. The fatigue from that hard work hit him like a train wheered the pool, which tained a highly trated mixture of all herbs that would help in physical aal recovery.

  'Hah! This is actually quite good. Maybe I should use this bathhouse occasionally when it officially opens,' Fugaku thought while all the muscles in his body, along with his brain, rexed.

  After taking a short nap ih, Fugaku came out, only to find Shisui sitting at the table with a map opened in front of him.

  "You want to discuss it here?" Fugaku easily uood that Shisui had something important to discuss.

  "With five Uchiha Jonin guarding this bathhouse, and you and me inside, do you think any spy had the guts to try and spy on this versation?" Shisui said, raising his eyebrows a little.

  "Fine, what do you want to discuss?" Fugaku said, sitting in front of Shisui.

  "Just how amazing my brother is," Shisui said. Fugaku didn't say anything and waited for Shisui to tinue.

  "Do you remember Kakashi Hatake?"

  "Of course. If not for those foolish elders, I would have loved to help that boy. He was sidered a genius on par with you for a reason," Fugaku said.

  "Well, he is older than me, so I should be the one pared to him, not the other way around. But that's not important at the moment. The thing is, my brother was somehow able to rope him in on our side against Danzo, using the living dition of his sensei's son as a reason," Shisui expined.

  "How was Kaida able to prove that it was Danzo's doing?" Fugaku asked.

  "Nothing fancy. He just used the fact that Kakashi was a genius. He just gave him some clues about who could be behind it all, and Kakashi himself found out that Danzo was behind Naruto's miserable life. Si was Kakashi who found out that information himself, there was nothing to prove," Shisui said. Fugaku nodded his head and waited for Shisui to tinue.

  "After roping him in, Kaida proposed a deal. We will somehow let Naruto have better living ditions from now on, and he will provide us the address of the Root bases where the experiments may be happening."

  Fugaku was visibly happy hearing that. It was a jackpot at the moment.

  "But since Kakashi was never a true member of Root, he was not allowed to know the deep secrets of Root, like the location of those bases. But being the genius he was, he was able to deduce the actual true location and two most likely locations where these experimental bases of Root may be in Konoha using his memories.

  That's why Kaida wants to use the expertise of an Aburame member and spy on those three bases, and use them for..." Shisui then began to expin the pn Kaida and he had e up with to Fugaku.

  "This is a good backup pn, though I would o make some big preparations and arrange quite a few Jonin. I'm sure it will be worth it. But we would not use this uhe ce of removing Danzo from his position bees slim, as doing this will reduce the civilian trust in their own vilge shinobi," Fugaku said.

  'Truly a peace-loving leader,' Shisui thought in his head, as from his experience, Fugaku had left many opportuo seriously harm Root because it may lead to an all-out war against Danzo. He chose peace over resources many times.

  But now that Danzo had begun targeting the shinobi, the wicked eye Fugaku was going to take charge of things on his own hand, and the peaceful Fugaku was going to take a back seat for some time.

  ...

  While Shisui and Fugaku were discussing their backup pn against Danzo, the person the pn was against was not sitting idle at all.

  "You're saying that all of the spies in the Uchiha are still giving the same report, nothing unusual?" Danzo said after reading the report in front of him, which had beeed an ho by the spies.

  One of the Root ninjas in front of him bowed and said, "Yes, Danzo-sama, but there is an unusual event. I tried to call a spy out to check if he was under some genjutsu, but when he was about to reach the meetiination, two Jonin suddenly attacked him for being a spy in the Uchiha pound and took him with them. They even tried to look for the Root ninja waiting at the meeting location, but he was able to flee in time."

  "When did this happen? Why am I only knowing such important information now?" Danzo said, his face visibly a few shades darker.

  "This i happened just half an ho, Danzo-sama. I had tried to call one more spy out, but apparently, the Uchiha pound is locked until a search for all spies is pleted."

  "I k; those bastards from that cursed were up to something. There's no way they wouldn't do something after that f**king brat came back g about the attack," Danzo said while his braihrough various pns the Uchihas might have made against him.

  "There ort about many heads visiting the Uchiha , right?" Danzo said.

  "Yes, sir, it was about a trade fenjutsu scrolls with elemental jutsu scrolls," the Root ninja said, sihese types of meetings were quite on, it didn't ring any danger bell in that ninja's mind at that moment.

  But Danzo was different. He khis couldn't be a normal meeting.

  'Huh, so they're pnning to rile up all of the s against me, quite a bold move for that peace-loving head. There will most likely be a cil meeting tomorrow, and I will most likely fae setbacks. Fine, if you want a war, we will have a war,' Danzo thought, easily getting most of Fugaku's pn with so little clue.

  This was the reason many heads, including Fugaku, never actually went against Danzo. Aside from having the full support of the Hokage, he was also the best schemer in Konoha or one could say in the Ninja world if you exclude two or three people from the list.

  After 'uanding' the Uchiha pn, Danzo turo the Root ninja and said, "This is an S-rank order. Send the message to all the Jonins under me: target all Uchihas out of the vilge; none of them should return home tomorrow." Danzo said.

  Though it would be gringly obvious that Danzo was behind this i, no one would be able to put the bme on him, not even Hiruzen, and this would be a perfect message for those red rats and other heads not to mess with him again - or so Danzo was thinking.

  ...

  Though it was true that Danzo was the best schemer in Konoha and would e up with perfect schemes and solutions for schemes against him after processing all the variables in his hands, this time he got it wrong.

  It was true that he would make perfect solutions with all of the variables ated for, but this time he missed one of the most dangerous variables from his calcutions - Shisui Uchiha.

  There was a reason in the ahat Danzo killed Shisui as soon as he knew about his Kotoamatsukami. This was the variable that had the power to fuck all his schemes in the most brutal ossible, which it had done now. He had taken Hiruzen's blind favor for him franted in his schemes, which is why he thought he wouldn't get any punishment and would be able to do anything he wanted after the meeting ended...