Chapter 18: Tribal Assembly (Part 1) (Ch 18)

In the southern suburbs of Konoha Village, it is surrounded by green forests, gurgling streams, and full of vitality.
This place is sparsely populated, with only very few families.
Those who stay here are the old people who have stayed here since the founding of Konoha Village.
The Uchiha clan’s ancestral home, Nanga Shrine, is located in the center of this garden.
When Qingguang arrived here, only a few Uchiha gradually quickened their pace and rushed to the secret room under the shrine.
“Qingguang, you are finally here, come, come here.”
Fugaku had been staring at the staircase exit since he first arrived at the secret room.
Faced with Fugaku’s invitation, Haruki naturally would not refuse and sat down on the futon on Fugaku’s left.
By the way, say hello to the tribesmen around you.
But some tribesmen, sitting on both sides of the meeting room, looked at Qingguang with unfriendly eyes.
Qingguang just smiled and nodded as a greeting, but this action made them feel a little uncomfortable. They stiffened their faces and forced a smile in response.
After all, not all Uchiha want to join the police department. Some do so because their skills are not good enough, and more are dissatisfied with the neutral faction represented by the clan leader and Fugaku.
I think they are just a shit stirrer.
Click, click…
The clock on the wall ticked away, and at eight o’clock, everyone arrived, and the clan meeting began.
Matters related to the family account revenue were soon concluded.
For the Uchiha clan, this is the least important thing in the clan meeting and the thing they care least about. It has always been handed over to the cat lady of the allied ninja cat clan to handle. They just need to do a show and go through the process.
After all, the Uchiha clan is not good with money.
No one cared about the contents of the accounts.
The clan leader, Uchiha Togashi, put away the scroll recording the accounts and his expression began to become serious: “Everyone, according to the information given by the Hokage, the Hidden Rain Village has recently purchased a large amount of food from all over the ninja world, and other countries have also begun to gradually recall ninjas who were on missions outside.”
“Hokage-sama wants us to send someone to infiltrate the Rain Country and investigate the intelligence of the Hidden Rain Village.”
“Do you have any ideas or recommendations?”
It is well-known that the current situation in the ninja world is extremely unstable. However, the relationship between the Uchiha and the village has always been at odds, and almost no one expected that Sarutobi Hiruzen would give such important news to the Uchiha to handle.
According to past practice, this should have been carried out by the Aburame clan.
Sitting on the left side of the venue, the leader of the hawk faction, Elder Setsuna, sneered twice: “Let us Uchiha go to the Rain Country to investigate intelligence.”
“Has this Sarutobi Hiruzen become old and his brain is broken?”
“We Uchiha are good at fire escape. Going to a place full of rain to carry out intelligence missions, I think this is an attempt to take advantage of the opportunity to weaken the power of the family.”
“He might as well just let us Uchiha attack the Rain Country.”
Uchiha Setsuna had a grumpy look on his face and eyes full of hostility, and he scoffed at such a mission.
Togashi has long been accustomed to Setsuna’s behavior. Whenever anything related to the village’s top leaders is mentioned, this old man will always make sarcastic remarks and make veiled remarks.
After all, Setsuna was imprisoned for ten years after the failed coup in the Battle of Yomi. This shame has caused him to still resent the Konoha’s top leaders to this day.
He fixed his gaze on Fugaku.
As the future successor, Fugaku naturally understood what he meant. He nodded slightly and said, “Elder Setsuna, this is wrong. You should not be blinded by hatred because of past failures. This is a clan meeting. The family should be the most important thing and no personal feelings should be involved. I think this is the goodwill that the Hokage has shown to our Uchiha clan.”
“It’s just an intelligence gathering mission. We don’t need to fight there. Although the insect masters of the Aburame clan are good at this, the Uchiha Sharingan is not inferior at all.”
“Besides, with the Sharingan, even if a fight breaks out, in a one-on-one situation, the Uchiha will not lose. No matter how you think about it, this is an opportunity for us Uchiha to show our abilities.”
After years of guidance and training from his father, Fugaku’s ability to smooth things over has become even better than before.
While these words were only directed at Setsuna, they also took into account the face of other hawkish members.
Unfortunately, he ignored the group of diehard fans behind Setsuna, causing them to feel dissatisfied.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the dovish elder Uchiha Hanami who was sitting opposite Setsuna spoke.
“Fugaku, what you said is generally correct, but if the Uchiha took away the credit that originally belonged to the Aburame clan, wouldn’t this cause misunderstandings among other clans?”
“If we can snatch the mission from the Aburame clan today, we can snatch the Ino-Shika-Cho tomorrow, which will make other clans wary.”
“The current situation of our family is the best proof of this. Patriarch, I still think we should be more cautious.”
At the end, Hanami smiled and looked into Togashi’s eyes.
Regarding all this, Haruki just sat silently beside Fugaku, without any movement, as if he was just a passerby.
Even Sifang kept signaling with his eyes, but Qingguang began to pretend not to understand and just kept smiling.
[Qingguang, it’s already this late, you should take action quickly, use your invincible Kaleidoscope to suppress them all, and lead the clan. I have paved the way for you.]
【As long as you take action, others will cooperate and respond to your ideas. 】
This is what Qingguang interpreted from Uncle Sifang’s eyes.
Qingguang thought about it, but he couldn’t do it.
I can use the illusion of the Sharingan to deceive Uncle Sifang, but it is impossible for nearly a hundred people in the clan to use illusion to deceive, right?
Even if he really opened the kaleidoscope, it would probably be difficult, not to mention that he hasn’t opened the kaleidoscope yet.
I could only blink my eyes in response.
But in the eyes of everyone, this was understood to have a different meaning.
[Don’t worry, Uncle Sifang. Everything is in my plan. Now is not the right time yet. Just watch me perform.]
[It’s okay to let them jump around for a while, because I will take action. ]
After receiving Qingguang’s hint, the four of them felt relieved.
He had seen all the achievements this kid had made in the police department in recent months, and it was worth it for him to go out early and come back late to lobby for him.
He nodded with satisfaction, picked up the teacup beside him and took a sip.
Several elders and clan leaders were engaged in a heated argument, expressing their own ideas, and even their close associates were attacking and swearing at each other.
Until I heard the “whoosh~” sound of people drinking tea.
Everyone’s eyes looked in all directions.
Shanda’s face was full of displeasure, and his already gloomy and dark old face became even darker.
“Elder Sifang, we are all worried about the family’s affairs. How dare you sit here and drink tea?”
“Do you think we are singing opera?!”