Chapter 6
Five months later
Mikoto Uchiha escorted a 14-year-old genin into her husband’s home office. “Fugaku, this is Iruka Umino. He says he has something for us.”
Fugaku tried not to let his anger at the disturbance show to his wife. She was under the same amount of stress that he was under.
Ever since the disappearance of Naruto Uzumaki and the death of Danzo Shimura, the distrust of the Uchiha had gotten worse. Sarutobi had the Uchiha district searched from top to bottom looking for the boy even though most of the evidence showed that the people who had falsely claimed Mizuno Clan origins had taken him.
Uchiha shinobi were getting fewer and fewer missions. Branch families were already coming to the Main Branch asking for support.
He took a deep breath, released it then spoke. “Why do you need to see us, Umino-kun?”
The tanned boy with a scar across his nose smiled, bowed, and held out a scroll.
Fugaku took it from him.
Mikoto gasped and Fugaku’s hands shook at the sight of the blue wax seal.
It was stamped in the shape of a spiral. The same spiral that was on every chuunin and jonin vest in Konoha.
The couple raised shocked eyes to the boy in front of them. He smiled again.
“The Uzukage wishes to invite the Uchiha Clan to come live in Uzushio. She especially wants the godparents of Naruto Uzumaki to know their godson, her nephew.”