Chapter 184: Meeting Starts
"Considering the event that is going to take place in a few hours, I think we should postpone this until that settles," Kaida said with a simple smile.
"You know what's happening around these days?" Itachi asked. Though he masked most of his shock, Kaida could sense a little surprise in Itachi's voice.
"Due to some circumstances, I am the reason for these events," Kaida said with an awkward smile.
From this conversation, Kaida confirmed one thing: 'Fugaku hasn't even told his son about this plan. Is it for security reasons? Considering there's little Itachi could do to help in this situation since he also has around Jonin level strength at the moment, just like me and many others in the Uchiha clan.
Though impressive, or one can say utterly impressive feat to attain at his age, the feat in itself was nothing big. Fugaku could command more than a hundred Jonin level ninja; there's no way he's going to send his prodigious son on such a mission.'
"None of you is going anywhere for some time, so you guys don't have to hurry about that spar anyway," Mikoto said, trying to change the mood.
"Okay," Itachi said and then focused on his food. Kaida did the same, and no particularly interesting talk happened at the breakfast table other than Mikoto, Hae, and Yomi discussing something which Kaida didn't find the need to pay attention to.
The only thing on his mind was the council meeting that was going to happen soon. This was one of the easiest and most effective plans against Danzo, for which Kaida had even used one of Shisui's most powerful abilities.
If Danzo came out of this easily, then the only way to remove him would be to effectively kill him, because even after upgrades with the 3 tomoe Sharingan, Kaida couldn't find any other way to remove Danzo's power.
Since he wasn't strong enough to face an S-rank ninja yet, let alone an S-rank who had many Jonins under him, there was no way Kaida would be able to do anything against Danzo for some years. And since he had taken such a major step against Danzo, there was no way Danzo would wait four more years like in the anime to do something like the Uchiha massacre.
This meant this was the first and last chance to effectively take care of Danzo without any bloodshed. Kaida was understandably tense at the moment, and his increasingly analytical mind wasn't helping at all.
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Fugaku was fully prepared for the council meeting, but there was still visible stress as well as anger on his face. This was like declaring Danzo an enemy of the Uchiha and Aburame clans. Yes, they had also decided to become completely offensive after seeing the contents in the Root base.
If they succeeded this time, then it would be well and good, and if not, there would be a full-blown war against Danzo. But at least Fugaku didn't have to deal with going against the whole of Konoha like he was planning before.
Just Root was within the range of enemies the Uchiha alone could take care of. Heck, if not for those legendary Sannin, they could even go toe-to-toe against the whole village with enough preparation, of course.
So now there was no need for Fugaku to ignore the atrocities Danzo had committed against ninjas from his clan. Due to this, the anger he had suppressed till now erupted, and the current plan came into action. Because now, Fugaku was ready to kill Danzo even if he had to use his trump card, his Mangekyou Sharingan, which he had kept hidden till now.
After storing all the files related to the meeting in the storage seal, Fugaku went toward the Hokage building, only to find that most of the clan heads were already at the meeting hall, sitting in their respective positions.
Some of the clan heads were still not there, but Fugaku was sure that they would be here within the next 10 minutes, since this was not a normal council meeting. It was a feud resolution meeting, but it was not as simple as the name represented.
This type of meeting only took place when the only other option remaining was direct confrontation – a feud that would only end when one of the two parties was dead. Since directly going for the kill would destroy the peace within the village, Tobirama came up with this idea.
This meeting was called not only by one clan head but two, and both of them were from prominent clans of Konoha. That's why this had become a hot topic among Konoha's high-level shinobi, and even those clan heads who were not invited by Fugaku were also interested in this meeting and were already present.
The meeting hall contained a semi-circle made up of chairs with 3 chairs in between, all of them pointing toward a single chair in the room which was the grandest, most likely belonging to the Hokage himself.
Fugaku solemnly took his seat, and just after him, Shibi entered the hall, a little weary, most likely from not sleeping at all the previous night. But being an experienced ninja, he could easily shrug off not sleeping for a night or two. However, if the reason behind that was as horrific as seeing the remains of your close ones being defiled, the situation changes.
Mind and body get tired after trying to control oneself from not going to the perpetrator and submerging him with so many bugs that even in his afterlife, he'd be born with a fear of bugs.
Shibi didn't make any eye contact and just took the seat right next to Fugaku. Since it was they who had requested this meeting, they were given a single seat.
After every clan head arrived, Danzo made his appearance. Without making any eye contact himself, he also took his seat, which was opposite Fugaku's and Shibi's seats.
With his calm behavior and relaxed mood, no one would be able to tell that he was the person accused by two clan heads. But reality was a little different from what it appeared.
'Even after 4 hours, they were unable to find out why Shibi joined forces with the Uchiha against me,' Danzo was thinking, with his brain coming up with many theories and discarding them along the way.
Danzo was anything but calm. At first, one of his capable Jonin died on a simple mission, and even his body was unfound. The Uchiha took full advantage of his slip and went against him with a resolution meeting, and even the Aburame clan joined them for some reason.
But Danzo was sure that he wasn't going to receive any noteworthy punishment for this, like every other time.
While he was thinking these things, Hiruzen entered the room. But he wasn't the neighborhood grandpa type Hiruzen who usually talked with young ninja and tried to act like a grandpa.
No, this Hiruzen was the leader of thousands of trained ninja who was not only respected by each one of them but also feared for his strength.
When he entered the hall, it became quiet. Everyone could feel some type of pressure on their shoulders. Hiruzen took his seat and looked toward each and every clan head's face, ending with Danzo. After that, he looked toward Fugaku and said,
"Let's start the meeting."