My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

"First, I don't want to hear any talk of rebellion from the clan in the future," Uchiha Touhuan solemnly announced.

"Huh?" The Uchiha youth who had just been so enthusiastic was suddenly stunned. Shisui and Itachi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Uchiha Touhuan still had his senses and knew that he could not rebel against his clan.

But the next moment, their hearts sank again.

"This village was founded by Lord Madara and the First Hokage. In a sense, our Uchiha clan should be one of the masters of this village. All we need to do is reclaim the rights that are rightfully ours."

"That's right! This village should have been part of our Uchiha clan!" Uchiha Inahi exclaimed fervently.

"The second thing is that the Security Department is short-handed. Starting tomorrow, we will recruit civilian ninjas. Within a week, I want to see the Security Department's manpower double. The salaries of these civilian ninjas should be at least at the level of a D-rank mission in the village. In addition, we will take out all the ninjutsu related to the Sharingan from our clan, including the spoils of war accumulated by our clan over the years, as rewards for ninjas with outstanding achievements." Uchiha Touhuan then dropped the second bombshell.

This time, the uproar was even greater, and even Shisui and Itachi were somewhat confused about Uchiha Touhuan's purpose.

If it was merely a nominal issue before, now Uchiha Tohkan's order is truly cutting into their own flesh.

"Quiet!" Uchiha Touhuan stepped forward after seeing that the commotion below had subsided. "Most of you here work in the police force. I think you've all encountered this situation before: even if we enforce the law impartially, some villagers still complain about us. The police force may seem powerful and influential, but they've built a thick wall between our Uchiha clan and the villagers. This is the trap that the inherently evil Senju-no-Kami set for our clan!"

"To reclaim our power, the first thing we need to do is to get closer to the villagers. The First Hokage was right when he said, 'It's not that you have to become Hokage to gain everyone's approval; it's that you have to gain everyone's approval to become Hokage!'"

"The Uchiha clan has been estranged from the villagers for too long. What we need to do now is to take the initiative to embrace them!" Uchiha Touhuan's voice was extremely infectious. His words made Shisui wonder if he had misunderstood Uchiha Touhuan. Wasn't what Uchiha Touhuan was doing exactly what he wanted to do?

"Recruiting commoner ninjas is understandable, but isn't ninjutsu a bit too expensive?" an elder asked doubtfully.

"The foundation of our clan is our bloodline limit, and these ninjutsu are better used as a bridge between us and the village than left to gather dust in the clan's warehouse," said Uchiha Tohkan.

"But, Touhuan, have you considered that recruiting so many civilian ninjas at once and demanding at least D-rank mission pay for them will not sustain the clan's funds for long? After all, what happened six years ago forced the clan to move away from the village center," Uchiha Fugaku reminded him from the side.

"Elder Fugaku, don't worry about that. I'll get the money for the clan." Uchiha Touhuan smiled calmly.

"It's good that you have an idea. Well then, according to family tradition, the patriarch will serve as the commander of the security force..."

"No, no, no," Uchiha Touhuan interrupted before Fugaku could finish speaking, "Elder Fugaku, please continue to serve as the commander of the security force. I have more important things to do."

"Something more important?" Fugaku Uchiha asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Of course, it's to complete the task assigned to me by the Third Hokage," Uchiha Touhuan said with a smile.

"Speaking of which, since you've taken on the task of investigating Danzo and Root, shouldn't we start the investigation as soon as possible?" an elder said.

"How can we start investigating now?" Uchiha Touhuan smiled meaningfully. "We need to give them some time."

A little time to destroy the evidence.

"Inahikawa, Zaito, starting tomorrow, you two will be with me and in charge of investigating this matter involving Root." Uchiha Touhuan didn't go into details, but instead turned to point out the names of the two Uchiha clansmen who had been following him all day.

"clear!"

"clear!"

Just as the Uchiha clan was holding a meeting, at the Root base in the village, Yamanaka Fu and Aburame Ryoma were directing their subordinates to destroy Root's documents without a moment's rest. The targets were Uchiha clan ninjas. Yamanaka Fu, whose abilities were naturally countered, was left at the base by Danzo, and Aburame Ryoma was in a similar situation. During the Third Shinobi World War, Danzo had sent him to attack Uchiha Touhuan, who had already made a name for himself. The two had fought before. The insects he cultivated would lose their way if they came near the electromagnetic field created by Uchiha Touhuan's Lightning Release ninjutsu. He had barely survived that attack.

So this time, Danzo left both of them at the base, but unexpectedly, they received news that Danzo had died.

Under Danzo's years of brainwashing, the few remaining ninjas in Root behaved like machines, collecting top-secret documents from the base and then destroying them all using Fire Release.

As the night passed and everything was almost settled, the two received news that Uchiha Touhuan had brought people to the Root base.

The two exchanged a glance, then looked at the remaining secret documents that hadn't been properly processed. They nodded to each other and walked out of the base together.

……

Uchiha Touhuan, accompanied by Inahisa and Zaito, walked leisurely toward the location of Root.

"This old bastard's den of bastards is pretty remote." After walking for a while, Uchiha Inahisa couldn't help but complain.

Uchiha Touhuan chuckled upon hearing this, then raised an eyebrow: "The bastard's here."

As soon as he finished speaking, blue lightning flashed from beside Uchiha Touhuan. Various kinds of insects appeared around the three of them and fell down with crackling sounds. The plants growing under their feet withered the moment they came into contact with these insects.

Upon seeing this, Uchiha Inahisa and Uchiha Zaito immediately took out kunai from their ninja tool pouches and assumed battle stances.

"You ninja from the Aburame clan, didn't you learn your lesson last time? These things have no effect on me," Uchiha Touhuan said loudly.

In response to Uchiha Touhuan, a series of shuriken were shot at him.

However, when these shuriken reached within a foot of Uchiha Tohsen, they all mysteriously hovered in mid-air.

With a bang, one of the shuriken exploded in a cloud of smoke, revealing Aburame Ryoma's figure, his kunai aimed straight for Uchiha Touken's throat.