Retrieving the Mangekyō Sharingan!

"Toki-sama, Kakashi has gone alone to the memorial stone," a guard reported quietly. Toki nodded.

"Come, follow me."

At that moment, in front of Konoha's memorial stone, Kakashi, dressed in ANBU attire, stood contemplating in front of the towering statue of the Will of Fire. Suddenly, he furrowed his brows and looked behind him to find Shimura, with his right eye bandaged, standing there.

"You're Kakashi Hatake, right?" Danzo took a few steps forward.

Kakashi frowned and returned the greeting. "Shimura-sama."

Danzo, expressionless, spoke to him. "How about it? Would you like to work under me?"

Kakashi was taken aback. "But I am a student of Minato-sensei..."

"The Fourth Hokage, who sent you to the ANBU, is no longer in this world. At this rate, you might end up back in the Third Hokage's Konoha Military Police Force. Do you want to continue working for him?" Danzo's voice was cold.

"As a pacifist, the Third Hokage delayed the war and caused the deaths of Obito and Rin. Also, on the night of the Nine-Tails' attack, because of the Third Hokage's orders, neither you nor the Uchiha clan nor I could join the battle against the Nine-Tails. You should know that, right?"

"The Fourth Hokage lost his life because of this. Although I don't hope that it was a scheme he designed for his return to the position of Hokage, the Uchiha clan's coup has indeed happened, and the chaos of the Nine-Tails incident was very likely orchestrated by them."

"Now both the Sarutobi clan and the Uchiha clan want to control Konoha. They even don't hesitate to start a civil war. The future of Konoha Village must not be handed over to such people."

Kakashi was caught in a dilemma. "Who are we?"

Toki's voice appeared beside them. Both Danzo and Kakashi's pupils contracted, turning to look at Toki.

Toki looked coldly at Danzo and asked indifferently,

"Who are we, the Uchiha clan? Retreat from the battlefield? Misjudge while on Konoha patrol duty? As the assistant to the former Hokage, you only know how to talk behind people's backs. With your caliber, you still want to become Hokage? Dream on. No wonder Hiruzen doesn't even take you seriously."

Danzo's pretentious face suddenly became fierce.

"What did you say? Don't think that you can get away with it just because you're being covert. When the evidence linking the Uchiha clan to the chaos of the Nine-Tails is found, let's see how you Uchiha clan defend yourselves!"

Toki disdainfully glanced at Shimura.

"For a leader, being upright wins, using cunning wins. The Hokage is the spiritual symbol of Konoha. If you don't even know how to do a face project, do you still want to run for Hokage? Even as a mascot, you wouldn't be chosen."

Danzo sneered.

"You can boast, but when I send your people to the front line, I want to see how many Uchiha clan members can die."

After saying that, Danzo sunshine away. He was afraid that if he stayed here, he would not be able to help fighting with Toki.

Anyway, the purpose of sowing the seeds here with Kakashi had been achieved. He had seen the darkness in Kakashi's heart and was sure to gain a general this time!

Toki looked coldly at Danzo's departure. Then he turned to Kakashi, who was covering his left eye with a forehead protector.

Kakashi, looking up at Toki, couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Although his position was also a high-ranking ninja, he knew very well that his position as a high-ranking ninja was absurdly empty because of the heavy losses in the Third Great Shinobi War, and it was forcibly promoted to boost morale.

He was only a high-ranking ninja in terms of position, but his strength was at most on par with ANBU. After getting the Sharingan, he could barely be considered a high-ranking ninja. Facing Toki, a veteran Uchiha high-ranking ninja, he had no chance of winning.

Kakashi looked at this newly promoted Uchiha clan leader, who had stirred up chaos in Konoha, and asked hesitantly, "What does Clan head Toki want?"

Toki, looking down at Kakashi, spoke directly, "I'm here to reclaim your Sharingan."

Kakashi's expression changed, and he looked at Toki with an unpleasant expression.

"This was a gift from Obito to me. You have no right..."

As Kakashi met Toki's icy gaze, his voice gradually faded. Each ninja clan had its own secret retrieval team, so even if it was a gift from Obito himself, it didn't hold much weight in reality.

The former clan leader, Fugaku Uchiha, had allowed Kakashi to keep the Sharingan as a gesture of goodwill, not wanting to stir up trouble just after the Third Great Shinobi War. But according to the management of bloodline limits by each clan, the Uchiha clan definitely had the right to reclaim Kakashi's Sharingan.

However, Kakashi was a hundred percent unwilling to return his eye.

Apart from being the only bond to his dear friend, losing the dynamic vision of the Sharingan would plummet his accuracy with the Chidori, and his strength would definitely drop back to being an elite chuunin.

Toki calmly looked at Kakashi, who had bowed his head, and said, "It seems you understand now. First, this isn't a negotiation with you. It's a decision of our Uchiha clan. The Sharingan is the bloodline limit of the Uchiha clan, containing many of our clan's secrets, which cannot be handed over to an outsider."

 "Second, I will tell you some information as compensation,"

Toki paused.

"About Uchiha Obito."