I woke up at 6am; starting my day with the usual routine of cleaning my face and brushing my teeth.  Today was the day to confront Fū and his followers.

It is important to start the day right, even in my past life the morning was considered one of the most important periods of time.  The morning is the time adults prepare to work and kids prepare to go to school; it is the time period in which people eat their breakfast and get themselves motivated to work harder and have a productive day.

The breakfast was a traditional one; rice, miso soup, grilled fish and vegetables.  While this doesn't sound Akimichi enough, we have to understand that the type of miso soup and quantity of the food wasn't normal.  The miso soup was basically a heart attack melted and put into a bowl!  The amount of cholesterol that an Akimichi bowl will give you is enough to turn the man with the strongest metabolism into a diabetic fuck.  The rice, fishes and vegetables were normal, the problem is that they are provided in a larger quantity.

I might sound like I am disliking this breakfast, but I am actually not.  The breakfast contains a lot of calories which is a very good thing for people that know the Calorie Control technique of the Akimichi clan.

As the food was served, I made sure to eat as much as I can, which is almost as much as Choza ate!  Choji and the other youngsters in the clan were looking at me with shook clearly appearing in their face.

After the food I excused myself as it was time for me to pay my "family" a visit!  Choza tried to appoint me bodyguards but I believed I didn't need it.  By ninja standards, I should be around Chunin strength if the enemy knew all my cards, but if they didn't I am at least Jonin.

I went out of the Akimichi compound and started looking around the village just to coincidently meet Sans!

I approached him and then said "Hello teacher, how are you doing today?".  He turned around and saw me walking toward him, so he replied "Oh! Voidne!  My morning is going fantastically well!  How about your morning?".

The conversation continued on as Sans started asking me about my well-being and console me about what happened to my mother.  I knew that he knew that he did it, but he must be in denial right now, so I didn't tell him anything but asked him what he was doing here in order to pay time for me to delete his memories and manipulate it as if he was feeling guilty that he couldn't protect them.

Sans was shopping for his family, a wife and a daughter.  I ended up asking him to do me some favors such as going around the village to every store and check the prices of each product the store offers.  Including the hospital pills, the public bathrooms, the restaurants, ninja necessity stores and basically everything that you would pay money for!

With Sans collecting all the information I was already at an advantage!  First, the information will be very critical in aiding me proving myself more valuable than Fū.  Second, Sans will be busy the whole day, so the delusions I planted into his head will soon be reality to him, and there won't be any chance for anyone to suspect or inspect his memory, at least for today.

I knew it wasn't only me who was plotting, Danzo must be up to something otherwise he won't stop sending assassins to kill me.  I know that Inoichi starts seizing power in the clan again, and Santa became the intermediate between the two sides, now I only have to think about clever argument and don't give a chance for Fū to speak.

I arrived in front of the Yamanaka compound, it brought some nostalgia!  The clansmen faces varied; some were happy, some were disappointed.  "I am back home!" I proclaimed as my foot crossed the door stepping on the Yamanaka's compound.

Some replied "welcome back!", some put their heads down in shame while the others looked at me with pure hatred.  I started moving toward the main building, the one in which the elders meet in.  The crowd seemed to split into two as Inoichi and some elders following him started walking toward me to welcome me and guide me to the main building.

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I nodded toward Inoichi, but the time I made sure I move in front of him and the elders as I want to prove myself to be more important than Fū.  People soon started calling me arrogant and started saying that I lack manners.  Inoichi noticed it and tried to do something but I raised my hands gesturing not to worry.

We arrived at the main building, it was still around 8am and I didn't wait for anyone to sit as I sat first and said to the elders behind Inoichi "Issue a meeting, call all the elders and everyone included in the clan politics".

Some elder tried to refute by questioning my rights to order them, but his speech was cut as I said "I am Voidne Yamanaka, the son of Inoichi Yamanaka.  I am the one who created the technique in which reduced the casualties of the clan in the last 5 years by more than half!  I am not a genius, but a prodigy!  One is a trillion!  What rights do you have to question me and my contributions to the clan?  In one year I contributed a lot to the clan in which couldn't protect me, and in five years you managed to ruin the place I called home!  You have let me down twice, I won't allow you to let me down thrice!"

All the elders gulped, they might not have been satisfied with my tone, but they knew what I said was true.  The elder that tried to talk against me lowered his head and went outside to call all the important characters in the clan into a meeting.

Inoichi was worried about my tone, so he asked me if everything was ok, in which I replied that everything was going phenomenally well!

Elders started appearing each one noticing that I am already seated before their arrival, but no one had the courage to speak up about it, at least until Fū and his supporters came inside and pointed out "Is that really who we take pride on having as our genius?  He lacks respect to the eld-" but I knew that to oppress someone is to not give them a platform to speak, so I interrupted "You should be the last one that speaks about morality and respect you venom spitting snake!  You ordered your people to assassinate my mother, hurt my sister, and kicked my father when he was grieving his loose.  You are the embodiment of immorality and dishonesty, so stop talking about morality because you have not a sliver of morality in your veins."

He tried to speak, but I stood up and acknowledged the elders which included Santa "Today marks my return to the Yamanaka clan from a long 5 years long coma.  The clan has been declining for the last 5 years, and I blame you all for not managing it well, but me blaming will not bring the clan back from its downfall nor will it pay all the clan's debts!".

Everyone looked at me and everyone seemed to have a serious look at their eyes so I continued "The clan has been going through this internal strife for a long period of time, and now we have to make a decision!  I suggest ending the strife as fast as possible and actually start working on recovering the clan!"

A lot of elders nodded and some started murmuring but I kept on going by asking Santa "Uncle Santa, I know what is best for the clan; what do you wish for?"

Santa seemed to think a little before replying "I wish what is best for the clan, if you have a suggestion please enlighten me as my colleagues and I couldn't stop the internal strife of the clan in a very long time!"

I replied with a confident smile "The one who should lead the clan is the most competent person in the clan!  I've looked into Fū's history and I don't believe he is more competent than I am."

Fū hearing that started refuting "Rich coming from the 'genius' that started the clan's fallout!  If you didn't get abducted the clan wouldn't have been in this state!  You ungrateful kid with no abilities whatsoever!"

I asked Fū "Are you done?" in which he didn't reply implying that he is, so I started countering his stupid argument "I killed a Chunin at the age of 1, meanwhile your most prideful jutsu is one that I've created.  Half of your achievements came from stealing my jutsu, and not only that, even stealing the flawed version!  You didn't improve it, nor did you create anything that complement it, you just used my work and then called yourself a genius!  If we were to fight I'd wipe the floor with you right now, but that wouldn't be a good indication to who is better, so what about a competition?"

Fū didn't know how to reply as all what I said was basically well known facts, but Santa seemed interested in the 'competition' so he asked "What kind of competition?"

I replied "We need to choose the most competent leader, so why don't we have a competition that evaluates the participants in both their economic management, political management and finally combat power!  Fū and his supporters are claiming that he is the best of my generation, if that so, he would be able to win this competition since it will be between him and me.  If he wins, he becomes the proves his point and becomes the clan head, but if he lost, I will take his head for what he done to my family and to the clan!"

The elders started discussing among themselves.  They waited for Fū to speak, in which he did "Be prepared to lose, and if you weren't taking this seriously and wasted the money of the clan, I will chop your head when I emerge victorious!"

I nodded with confidence and we started putting rules for the competition.  The rules filtered down to this:-

Each participant will start with the same amount of money in which they can create a business with.

Interfering in the other participant's business by sending assassins or using force is porhibited.

Each participant will be able to accept only a certain amount of money as a fund from different clans and if the participant takes more money, then the participant will be disqualified.

Each participant has to have a clear accounting paper updated daily showing their costs and revenues and profits.

Each participant will have to fight in the arena of the village 3 months later at the end of the competition.

All the elders agreed to the rules and shook hands, and now it was time to use the power of science and analytics to destroy this world's low standards forever!