Chapter 240 — Replace Him?
Uchiha Yota lowered his head and spoke in a deliberately gloomy tone.
"My father… already passed away. It happened during a mission years ago."
His face was so swollen he could barely make any expression, but he forced out a sorrowful voice anyway.
Uchiha Ryoichi narrowed his eyes.
"Died…?"
The timing was far too convenient. The most important point — the person who supposedly knew all the secrets — just happened to be dead. Ryoichi's intuition told him something wasn't right.
He continued calmly,
"Do you have anyone else in your family?"
"I have a woman— no, my mother," Yota corrected himself quickly when he realized how disrespectful that sounded. "It's just the two of us. She's not a shinobi, only an ordinary villager. She doesn't know anything about this."
"I see."
Ryoichi nodded slightly. "Stay here. I will report to the Clan Head."
Yota's heart leapt with excitement.
He was finally going to meet Uchiha Fugaku.
All the beatings he endured — finally worth it.
But as soon as Ryoichi summoned a Shadow Clone beside him to watch over the boy, Yota's expression instantly darkened.
This bastard… he actually left a clone just to monitor me?! Afraid I'll run?
He sneered inwardly.
Run? If I run, I'm your grandson! Meeting Uchiha Fugaku is the whole point! And you— just wait. Once I earn his trust, I'll pay you back for every slap. A hundredfold. A thousandfold.
Unfortunately for him, he forgot that the Shadow Clone standing next to him had seen every bit of his sinister expression — and all those memories would return to the original.
Ryoichi stepped through the window into Fugaku's house and respectfully rang the small bell placed there.
"Come in," Fugaku's calm voice called.
Ryoichi entered the living room. As always, Fugaku was lying on the sofa after work, TV humming softly while he scrolled through his phone and leisurely ate fruit.
"Clan Head," Ryoichi greeted respectfully.
Without looking up, Fugaku asked lazily, "What's going on outside? All that slapping I heard?"
Of course he had heard it. Even with the house's strong insulation, both Fugaku and Itachi's senses were too sharp to miss it. But neither of them intervened.
They trusted Ryoichi completely — he had served the household loyally for years.
Ryoichi recounted the entire incident in detail, not hiding a single thing. He even described Yota's expressions and tone precisely.
At first, Fugaku listened casually, still tapping on his phone. But the deeper the report went, the more his attention shifted — until he finally lowered the device, brows gradually knitting together.
Something was off.
Very off.
This arrogant boy… his behavior was too strange.
A 13-year-old who couldn't even use a C-rank Fire Release like Phoenix Sage Fire? No talent, no discipline — yet unbearably arrogant. He addressed Fugaku by name, showing not a shred of respect to the Clan Head or the Fifth Hokage.
No real Uchiha child would ever behave like that.
But that wasn't the biggest problem.
The information he claimed to know — Orochimaru's two Kusanagi Swords, and the existence of the Box of Bliss in the Land of Grass — this wasn't something a random Chunin's son could ever know.
His father was supposedly a no-name Chunin. Such a person would never have access to top-secret intel known by perhaps five people in the entire village.
Absolutely impossible.
From these two points alone, Fugaku could make a nearly certain deduction:
This boy was a transmigrator.
Fugaku's face darkened.
Another one? Besides me? And this kid… he's clearly a soul-transmigrator too, taking over a native body. Just like I did.
A sense of danger tightened in his chest.
Yes, Fugaku was invincible now — but what if the other transmigrator had a cheat, a "system," just like him?
This brat already knew details from Naruto's plot.
And now he wanted to meet Fugaku personally.
Does he plan to replace me?
Fugaku's expression grew even sharper.
He had read plenty of fanfics before he transmigrated — stories where the protagonist arrived in the Naruto world, took over some minor Uchiha body, obtained a system, grew stronger, and eventually forced Uchiha Fugaku to step down, taking the position of Clan Head to "lead the clan to glory."
But that scenario had one problem:
The current Uchiha Fugaku was no longer the original Fugaku.
He was a transmigrator too.
And now some brat wants to pull that plot on me? Does he think I'll just accept being replaced?
Fugaku's eyes sharpened coldly.
The threat was real.
And it was sitting outside in his courtyard.
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