After Kagami and Shisui recognized each other, the high-level members of the Uchiha Clan Police Force all rushed over.
Torifu explained the matter of Edo Tensei to the Uchiha Clan, telling the Shinobi who didn't know about Edo Tensei that this was not a haunting.
Yashiro was the oldest in the Uchiha Clan Police Force, but he was still a few years younger than Kagami.
Yashiro was very angry at the high command's actions: "Kagami, I didn't expect the high command to actually rob your grave and disturb your peace."
"Let's go, we must go and demand an explanation!"
"That's right, the Third Hokage should give us an answer!"
"That damn Orochimaru, to dare rob our Uchiha Clan's mausoleum, he clearly doesn't hold us in any regard. We must take him down!"
The Shinobi of the Uchiha Clan's hawk faction were all filled with righteous indignation.
Although the Uchiha Clan was arrogant, they were a clan of love, and they deeply cherished the companions and clansmen around them.
Kagami had passed away as a hero of Konoha, so future generations should not have disturbed his peace.
Digging up someone's ancestral grave was an irreconcilable feud.
Kagami stopped the angry Uchiha Clan: "Don't be impulsive, this is also for the sake of fighting for Konoha!"
"Besides, I am very grateful to Hiruzen's disciple, that guy named Orochimaru, for giving me a chance to return to the world of the living."
Hearing Kagami's words, the people of the Uchiha Clan were no longer in a hurry. Since Kagami himself had started to feel grateful to Orochimaru, what else could they say?
Upon careful reflection.
If someone dug up your ancestral grave and brought a long-lost ancestor back to life.
This is a good thing!
Put that way, their Uchiha Clan might even need to go to Orochimaru's residence to express their gratitude.
Fugaku expressed his regrets to Kagami: "Senior Kagami, if you hadn't died young, the Uchiha Clan wouldn't have been so passive!"
Kagami was a member of the Second Hokage Tobirama's guard unit and one of the few Uchiha Clan members that Tobirama trusted.
Tobirama evaluated him as having broken through the limitations of clan-centrism, an Uchiha Clan member who possessed the Will of Fire.
If he hadn't died in battle back then, he would very likely have become the Captain of the Uchiha Police Force or a major decision-maker for the Uchiha Clan, easing the relationship between the Uchiha and the Senju Clan.
In terms of connections, the high-level officials of Konoha like the Third Hokage, Danzo, Koharu, and Homura were all Kagami's former comrades-in-arms.
In the anime, Danzo had praised Kagami many times for saving his life.
If Kagami were here, no matter how much of a beast Danzo was, he would have had to consider Kagami's kindness when targeting the Uchiha.
Kagami was the only person in the Uchiha Clan who could communicate harmoniously with the high command.
If he hadn't died, the Uchiha Clan at least wouldn't have become so passive as they were before.
Kagami said: "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. The clan should also try to understand the Village's difficulties. I see Hiruzen has two dark circles under his eyes."
"I guess he hasn't slept for a long time since Lord Madara was resurrected!"
"By the way, what's going on with Little Ryou? Wasn't he born weak?"
"How did he become a threat second only to Lord Madara now?"
Kagami had met Ryou.
Ryou was from the same generation as Tsunade, older than Fugaku and the others.
When Kagami died in the First Shinobi World War, Ryou, Tsunade, and the others had already graduated from the Shinobi Academy and were accepting missions.
Moreover, Kagami had shown kindness to Ryou.
Back then, the clan wouldn't let Ryou, who had poor physical fitness, attend the Shinobi Academy. Ryou was simply not suited to be a Shinobi; living honestly as an ordinary person would have been quite comfortable.
Ryou went to beg Kagami. Kagami didn't agree at first, but Ryou often brought gifts, or dragged his weak body to hoe weeds in Kagami's vegetable garden.
Seeing Ryou's desperate efforts to improve, Kagami softened and personally wrote a letter to Tobirama, letting Ryou use connections to enter the Shinobi Academy.
Otherwise, with Ryou's body, it would have been impossible to pass the physical fitness selection of the Shinobi Academy.
Fugaku immediately explained to Kagami about Ryou researching Forbidden Jutsu, being discovered, and defecting.
Kagami listened carefully, feeling somewhat helpless and heartbroken: "Little Ryou was too strong-willed. I could see the deep unwillingness revealed in his eyes back then."
"Someone like him is either a great success or a great failure!"
"Sigh... I was originally planning to take him to see the Second Hokage after the war ended, but alas—"
Everyone sighed, not expecting there to be such a past story.
If Kagami could have survived, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.
But history has no "ifs".
Those who should die will die, and those who shouldn't die will also die.
Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs!
Just as Kagami was about to say something, a shout suddenly came from the Uchiha Clan Shinobi patrolling outside.
"Enemy forces... enemy forces have appeared!"
"What?!"
Wahhh—
A sharp alarm suddenly sounded in the military camp, and the originally quiet Shinobi camp instantly exploded into chaos.
Footsteps were hurried, Shinobi dogs barked wildly, big dogs, big dogs barking, barking, barking.
The Shinobi prepared their Shinobi tools, put on their armor, and rushed out of the camp to confront the enemy forces.
There was a large river on the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Fire, and the river was thirty meters wide.
The current was rapid, the water was muddy yellow, churning and rushing downstream.
Although it wasn't extremely wide, it was enough to block ordinary footsteps, but for a Shinobi, it was just a matter of a Body Flicker.
When the Uchiha Clan's elites arrived, they found that the Third Hokage, the Fourth Raikage, and others had already rushed to this place.
The Elite Jonin were the fastest, rushing towards the enemy forces at the first moment.
But it was messy, not at all like a disciplined samurai army.
For example, the army composed of samurai from the Land of Iron would gather towards their officers the moment they heard the enemy forces were mobilized.
But the Shinobi, who were fine when lining up before, exposed their true nature when the critical moment really arrived.
One by one, they used Body Flicker and ran towards the riverbank.
Shinobi are essentially suited for small-scale individual combat and are not adapted to large-scale army operations.
Even individual combat relies on sneak attacks, pretending, and backstabbing.
Kagami wore a hood and a mask, hiding himself tightly. One or two Anbu guarded Kagami's side, releasing Ninjutsu to prevent Kagami from being detected.
The matter of Edo Tensei was a secret, a fatal blow against Madara, and could not be publicized.
Kagami and Torifu looked at the opposite side and were suddenly stunned.
The enemy army from the Land of Rain was not the thousands of troops and horses, banners flying in the wind as imagined; on the contrary, it made people unable to hold back their laughter.
Because the enemies opposite were a group of Shinobi Cats, the Shinobi Cats from the Cat City. The largest were as big as humans, and the smallest were like domestic kittens.
Ranked at the very front were Shinobi Cats wearing armor. They were the cat soldiers of the Cat City, the cat soldiers led by the Shinobi Cat boss, Nekomata.
Their military posture was actually okay, and one could see some shadows of elite troops.
But Hachimi are Hachimi after all. Being able to speak human language and hold weapons just makes them a minor nuisance.
A Genin could go in and kill a whole bunch.
The Shinobi Cats behind the cat soldiers were even more outrageous.
Some were sleeping, making trouble, licking their fur, connecting...
They were all monsters and ghosts!
Kagami recognized them: "These are the Shinobi Cats from the City of Nekomata, right! What's going on? How did the Uchiha Clan's Shinobi Cats end up on the opposite side of the Shinobi Allied Forces?"
Fugaku said very dejectedly: "Senior Kagami, Ryou said that as long as they go, they will be Jonin, with all the dried fish and cat food they can eat, and he also plays cat videos for them to watch."
"The Shinobi Cats of Sora-ku couldn't resist the temptation and all defected. Now, only Cat Granny is left in Sora-ku holding things down!"