Predicament

Suddenly he saw some of the shadow move, but before that person could go out of his range Shisui used body flicker jutsu and appeared right behind him

With a sword on the shadow's neck, Shisui said

"Who are you"

Since Hiruzen has called his Anbu ninja back the only person daring enough to Spy on a Uchiha in the Uchiha clan compound was Danzo

But the problem was unlike Anbu ninjas who were loyal to the village by their hearts, the root ninja was very much similar to slaves

Even though they were completely loyal to Danzo, unlike Anbu who had a choice to betray Hokage to save his life, root ninjas didn't have such privileges, their only choice when captured by the enemy was death

And since the root ninja who was spying on Kaida was only a chunin he didn't have any chance to fight against Shisui

So he did what he was trained for, swallowed the poison pill that was already present in his mouth, with foam coming out of his mouth his body quickly went limp

Shisui frowned when he saw that, already understanding who was behind this, As Root was no secret for the ninjas at a higher position

Leaving the body there Shisui flickered in front of Kaida and asked

"What did you get involved with?" Shisui asked with a frown on his face

Kaida was calm after hearing that, he already knew someone was keeping an eye on him, even when Anbu ninja was spying on him, but the reason he didn't do anything was because he was still not ready to move,

From the beginning, he thought that Danzo was spying on him, not Hiruzen, and he didn't want Danzo to be on more alert against him than he already was, So Kaida kept on focusing on increasing his strength for the last month

Now that both of his genjutsu and kenjutsu were Training areas the level of a jonin and his ninjutsu also got a qualitative increase due to investing so much time in the fire room, So Kaida decided that now was the perfect time to stop being so low-key

Because even though he was still not powerful enough to face many elite jonin by himself going against one will not be difficult

Root through powerful doesn't have many elite Jonin, as even the Uchiha clan which is present in Konoha from starting of village formation only has a dozen ninjas who could barely be considered elite Jonin

The strength of a little Jonin can't be taken lightly, they are just below kage-level ninjas like Hiruzen, Danzo, etc, and if a team of well-balanced elite Jonin wants they can even go toe to toe against a kage-level ninjas too

Since Kaida had already attained this strength, he decided he could be a little more open about his plans, though it was still not time to go against Danzo… not yet

 "Brother, have you gone out of the clan compound in the last couple of months?" Kaida asked

"No, but why are you trying to change the topic?" Shisui asked

"Don't worry brother I am going to tell you everything, a month ago I went back to my old orphanage

There I met with the caretaker of the orphanage, during our discussion he told me something interesting" Kaida said then looked toward Shisui

"Continue," Shisui said

"According to him, recently the image of the Uchiha clan was going down in the eyes of civilians and civilian ninjas

According to him, everyone was talking about how the Uchiha clan was behind the nine-tail attack, and we don't consider this village as our own" Kaida said

"Bullshit, if Uchiha was behind the nine-tail attack why would we help others during that time, also we are the founder of this village who consider this village their own more than us," Shisui said

"I know brother, but the problem was the civilians don't, and the attitude of Uchiha clan ninjas toward the civilians is not great which also fanned these rumors more," Kaida said

After thinking about this for some time Shisui nodded his head and said

"Okay, I understand this but that and this are related," Shisui said pointing toward the dead body in front of him

"Brother don't you think it is suspicious how after so many years from the tail attack such rumors got spread on their own

Obviously, someone had intentionally spread such rumors, but initially, I thought it was done by a small group who was dissatisfied with the Uchiha clan, So I started treating patients for free in the hospital, and during that time I intentionally tried to improve the image of Uchiha clan and remove those rumors from their mind

Due to that, those rumors started to die down, but during that time I started to feel someone was watching me, and no matter how much I tried I couldn't find that person, from somedays this even continued when I was in the clan"

"why the hell didn't you tell me about this then," Shisui asked angrily, he was apprehensive about the safety of his brother

"I am sorry brother, I was still thinking that this was the job of a small fraction and was thinking of doing it alone," Kaida said while bowing His head a little

sigh

"You know that was reckless on your part, right?" Shisui asked with a calm expression on his face

"Yes brother," Kaida said

"Then go back to the house and don't get involved in this matter anymore I will handle it from now on," Shisui said in a tone that completely said 'I am not going to take a no for an answer'

Kaida nodded his head and went back, when he turned Shisui said

"Don't tell mom and Yomi about this"

"I know brother," Kaida said and used wind instantaneous movement jutsu to go back

Shisui then thought for some time and then took that body directly to Hiruzen's office, obviously he didn't go inside through the main gate and had stored the body inside a storage scroll

"What happened Shisui why did you want to meet me suddenly?" Hiruzen asked

"Shisui didn't say anything and placed a storage scroll on the desk," Hiruzen understood that it was not something Shisui wanted others to listen to, he looked toward the ceiling and four Anbu ninjas left the office 

"What is in it?"

" Dead body of ninja who was spying on my brother, he committed suicide as soon as I caught him," Shisui said

Hiruzen understood what it meant, his voice became serious, he looked toward Shisui and asked

"Who else knows about this"

"TILL NOW, no one except me and Kaida," Shisui said

"Why didn't you go to Fugaku?" Hiruzen wanted to know what was in Shisui's mind