(After 2 weeks...)

Everything had gone back to normal. Shisui had gone on a mission after a very long time; everyone decided to give him some time to sort out his feelings, and the same happened to Kakashi.

Kaida, Kakashi, and Shisui actually met once again that week. It was just a normal meeting Kaida arranged to see if both of them were doing fine or not. Since all three of them were not really friends, he decided to meet and was happy to see that Kakashi was also doing fine.

"Well, he already handled the worst of anything that could have happened to him. I don't think there is anything reality can throw at him that he will not be able to handle," Kaida thought.

Kakashi also started taking missions once again. Kaida started going back to the hospital for his medical jutsu training and then to Sora for his Fuinjutsu training. Yomi also started going for her sensor and tracking training.

Everything went normal for quite some time. Hae still took some time to get back to normal, and after 2 weeks, she decided to focus on work once again. She now started to make preparations to start the bathhouse.

Due to the sudden stop, some of the last stage development had to be halted in the middle. Now, some of the work will have to be redone, which will increase the duration to start the bathhouse by one more month, but no one had any problem with that.

With everything on track, one day Kakashi came to meet Kaida. It was Sunday, and Kaida was at his house training his Kenjutsu with Shisui, when

“Kaida, your friend is here to meet you,” Hae said from inside the house.

“Friend?” both Kaida and Shisui said and went inside, only to find Kakashi sitting in the hallway with his classic eye smile.

“Oh! What are you doing here, ‘friend’?” Kaida asked.

“Hahaha, I have something important I have to discuss,” Kakashi said.

“I’m listening,” Kaida said.

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“I know that by giving you some simple coordinates of the Root base, I have not done much. Rather, you have helped me much more, but I think you remember why I helped you in the first place,” Kakashi said.

Kaida’s eyes went wide when he remembered his first meeting with Kakashi. He had used Naruto as a bargaining chip to get Kakashi’s help. And now, even after 2 weeks, he had not even tried to look into how Naruto was living. For any other person, this would seem like he just used Naruto like others and tossed him aside as soon as his work was done.

“I am sorry, I was so busy in the last couple of weeks I almost forgot about that,” Kaida said.

“Forgot about what?” Shisui asked.

Kaida turned to Shisui and told him about Naruto.

“That poor boy, he has suffered so much at such a young age. I think I know more about him. He was thrown out of his orphanage with the absurd reason of him not behaving well.

For god’s sake, he was just 3 years old! If not for Lord Third making living arrangements for him, he would have been in a much worse condition,” Shisui said.

“That must also have been done on the order of that f**ker,” Kaida said.

“How old is he now?” Shisui asked.

“In 2 months, he will be 5 years old,” Kakashi said.

“This will be a problem,” Shisui said.

“What’s the problem?” Kakashi asked with furrowed brows.

“If he was a normal child, we could have easily taken him into our family without any external problem, but him being a Jinchuriki changes everything. Now, he is a symbol of power in Konoha,” Shisui said.

“And the clan which gets him will gain an increase in strength,” Kakashi said.

“And that will break the balance of power in Konoha’s clans. So if we try to take care of that boy, other clans will not allow that,” Shisui said.

“Luckily, we can somehow use our current situation for the best,” Kaida said with a smile.

“What do you mean, our current condition?” Shisui asked.

“Konoha has many clans, but the only one as powerful as the Uchiha clan is the Hyuga clan. Since they also have such a powerful Dojutsu as well as a similar number of Jonin, other than them,

If we want another force to rival the Uchiha, many clans would have to form an alliance to reach that level,” Kaida said.

Both Shisui and Kakashi nodded their heads.

“But they don’t have any S-rank ninja, and now we have two of them. One is brother himself, even though he can barely be considered Kage level, he is still young and has a bright future ahead of him. And then there is the Clan head.

Now that he has shown he has Mangekyo Sharingan, every other clan can’t refuse his Kage level strength. In one way or another, the power balance of Konoha’s clans is already broken, similar to how Konoha is the most powerful village. But this doesn’t mean that Konoha will have peace.

In our world, if you have more power than others, it will just make them insecure, which will result in others forming some alliance to attack the one who broke the power balance,” Kaida said.

“So adding Naruto will not change anything for us?” Shisui said after thinking about why Kaida was saying this.

“No, brother, that would simply mean that the Uchiha will have 3 Kage level ninja in the future, and no other clan head will want that. But then we also have Itachi, who shows more talent than his father.

So the Uchiha will keep on increasing their strength while other clans can only watch. This will make them wary of our increasing strength,” Kaida said.

Shisui and Kakashi went silent for some time. The things Kaida said were very heavy. This could result in extreme enmity between the clans and can even cause a civil war. Though it will be in the very distant future, the chance of that happening is not low.

“Do you know any solution to this problem?” Shisui asked.

“Yes and no. I mean, I have an idea, but whether it is possible or not is not up to me,” Kaida said.

“What is the solution?” Shisui asked with complete seriousness on his face.

“Simple. You leave the Uchiha clan and join Anbu.”

“…?”

“…?”

“…?”

“What?” Shisui shouted, and Kakashi was also shocked at the same level.