Chapter 171 : Start of plan
"Uncle, I was serious about your appearance. You're looking way too exhausted. Since you're going to represent our clan tomorrow, you should focus on recovery too. You wouldn't want to look like that at the meeting," Shisui said.
Fugaku nodded his head in understanding. It wasn't like he hadn't looked at his face once in the last three days, but the sheer amount of work he had was overwhelming, which resulted in his state being like that.
"I'm going to take rest tonight," Fugaku said after looking at the mirror once again.
"Respectfully, uncle, a single night's sleep may not do much. I would recommend you take a bath at our new bathhouse, which is equipped with all the things necessary for your speedy recovery," Shisui said with a businessman-like smile.
"Hahaha, when did you become this good with business? Fine, I'll use it, but from what I know, it's still not opened, right?" Fugaku said, laughing at Shisui's attempt to help his family's business. He was truly not cut out for this job, but just the effort he put in showed how much he valued his family.
In the anime, Shisui was the most pitiful character. His father died during the Nine-Tails attack, and he had to kill his mother after 5-6 years due to the mission he was given.
Since his mother was suspected of running away with an enemy shinobi from another ninja village, Shisui was tasked with killing his mother to show his loyalty to the village.
Which, in the end, broke Shisui's mind and cheerful personality. If not for his friendship with Itachi, he would have remained in his depression all along.
But that didn't happen this time. Even though Hae was not the kind of woman to do anything like that, the mental strain of losing her husband and seeing her son falling into despair may have resulted in breaking her mentality, which a spy could have used to rope her in, or they may have used something like that.
But this time, she had a family, and Shisui was also not that depressed, so there was no chance of the same thing happening now. Shisui's family was safe, and he was trying to help them the best he could, just like his role model - his father.
"Even though the bathhouse is not open at the moment, we could easily give you a small sample of its effects," Shisui said with a smile.
"Have you asked your mom about this?" Fugaku asked the main question since he knew she was the one responsible for running Shisui's family's business, just like how his wife was responsible for all the businesses he ran.
Being a clan head doesn't mean you can use all the resources and money of the clan for yourself. You get something like a salary too, just the difference is that you get paid a percentage of what the clan makes.
That was done so that they will work for the clan not just because they are loyal to the clan but also because it will get them a better pay too.
This was a very good strategy for maintaining someone's loyal nature, like a person may be a patriot for a country that helped them grow as an adult without facing much difficulty, and they will continue to do so.
But just imagine if, in the future, the country decides to use its population to increase its military power, resulting in many deaths. Now, that person will lose their loyalty because they are not getting anything out of it. Maybe some people will still remain patriots so that their future generations will have a better life in a bigger country, but the number of such people is very low.
That's why the best way to maintain someone's loyalty was to tie their benefits with the benefits of the organization.
But this arrangement doesn't mean that the clan heads will be satisfied with the money they are getting from the clan, so they normally maintain side businesses, like owning many shops or hotels, etc., in their name too.
Listening to Fugaku's question, Shisui smiled and said, "She would be more than happy to give you a sample, uncle, but since the main bathhouse still needs some slight modifications, you'll have to bear with the smaller one."
"Fine, I'll notify you when I have any free time from all this," Fugaku said.
"Okay, Uncle. I would be waiting for your message," Shisui said and went back to Fugaku's house since there wasn't much for him to do there.
When Shisui went back, Yomi came to him and said, "Brother, Kaida had something important he wants to ask you."
"Oh, is he having any problem during his recovery?" Shisui asked, a little worried.
"No, brother. He's saying that he has already recovered enough. Only after Aunt scolded him did he agree to stay in his room resting," Yomi said with an awkward smile.
"Okay, I'll go to him," Shisui patted Yomi's head and went toward Kaida's room.
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"So, what do you want to ask?" Shisui asked as soon as he entered the room, since seeing Kaida's restless nature, he knew there was something gnawing at his mind.
"Brother, does the thing we talked about is in progress?" Kaida asked.
"You can talk freely, Kaida. This is the clan head's house; there is no way that Danzo can spy on this place," Shisui said with a smile.
"Is our plan against Danzo in motion?" Kaida asked once again.
"Yes, there is a meeting tomorrow where we would attack him with our full power," Shisui said.
"TOMORROW..." Kaida shouted.
'How the hell were they able to make all those preparations in just 3 days? Shit, my plan for using this will blow up if I don't move soon,' Kaida thought in his mind.
"Why are you so shocked? Wait..." Shisui eyed Kaida suspiciously.
"You're planning something?"
"Yes, brother. I want to use this opportunity to get a genius for our clan," Kaida said.
"I'm all ears," Shisui said.
"Brother, do you know about Kakashi Hatake?"
(A.N: One of my most favorite characters from Naruto, what about you guys?)