(Hokage's POV)

I smoked on my smoking pipe, as I looked over the village from the hokage building located at the center of the village. I closed my eyes contemplating what I should do now, setting my priorities, one after another. Being the Hokage isn't an easy task!

I called Danzo, and ask him to investigate the circumstances of the death of Fuji Uchiha, every ninjutsu, every taijutsu, everything should be investigated and reported to me.

I believe the only one who can heal Voidne is Tsunade, but now that she suffers from haemophobia, I am confident that she won't accept to treat him.

I sighed due to my lack of luck, The 4th hokage died very quickly, leaving after him a bothersome situation, and now one of the most promising youth in the village is in a critical condition.

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One day later, Inoichi came to me with a swollen face, asking me to block the visitation of Voidne from most of the people, even his clansmen, just to increase the stability of his clan. I agreed as I saw no harm in his request. But I didn't accept easily, I asked him to allow me to search the library that Voidne used to cage himself in to study the Yamanaka's ninjutsu. He agreed to my demand easily.

For the next month, we searched all Voidne's work. He has done a fascinating work! His theory development is very amazing, his imagination is very wild and unique! But his work looks similar to... Perhaps I am just thinking too much...

The ability that Voidne was developing was a new offensive variant of the Mind Body technique. It withers the bodies of the enemies proportional to the difference between the chakra inserted into the enemy's body and the total chakra of the specific organ that the user has targeted.

The technique is brilliant! The investigation that we did on Fuji Uchiha, showed that he was poisoned with Yin Poison in the third ninja war. If not for that, he might have been able to kill Voidne easily. Voidne's chakra control must be that of a chunin at least... but controlling too much affected him negatively. The side effects are showing on him right now. He has been knocked unconscious for a very long time, and only god knows when he will wake up.

We investigated the black fog around Voidne's body, but the moment we put a sword into it, the area that made contact with the fog turned rusted and turned to dust. The one who stuck the sword into the black fog got his hand frozen, and disabled forever.

The black fog has a very scary protective ability, but I never see it being mentioned in Voidne's research books. He might have triggered this ability coincidently, or maybe he was not going to share it to the clan. This ability should be considered a Kinjutsu; the way it affects the user is very damning!

The purity of the Yin energy produced by this Kinjutsu is on par with that of a tailed beast... But not like the energy of the tailed beasts, this Yin energy has no identity in it. The energy of a tailed beast will usually have the identity of the tailed beast that is emitting that chakra. The purity of this chakra alone would have made me believe that this was an act of a tailed beast, but I know for a fact that the Nine tailed fox is sealed in Minato's son, and this chakra has no tailed beast identity!

In conclusion, Voidne has used a Kinjutsu to make this fog around him to protect himself... But how did he learn it? I need to investigate more about that.

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Without noticing, 2 years have passed by. A lot have happened during those 2 years. I put Danzo in charge of investigating the relationship between Voidne and Orochimaru. Failing to find any concrete evidence, he put Fū Yamanaka forward into the struggle of power of the Yamanaka clan. At first I was against it, but the Yamanaka need to be controlled, because their course of actions in the last 2 years were harmful for the village.

The princess of the Hyuga was abducted last month. Hizashi Hyuga exchanged his life in his brother's stead. Meanwhile, the number of Uchiha's who support the idea of rebellion is raising substantially. Most of the increasing unrest among the Uchiha occurred during the humiliation they suffered under the joint force of the Yamanaka and the Nara and The Akimichi. Their humility has ran dry, enduring the humiliation for 2 years without retaliating.

I called the elders to a meeting, and we discussed the best way to react to the rebellious people from the Uchiha. At the end of the meeting, we agreed 2 to 1 to 1, that we will reward the Uchiha clan by giving them more freedom, and forcing the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance to stop attacking the Uchiha. Meanwhile, using the opportunity to plant spies inside the Uchiha clan. If they can't hide anything from us, then we will be able to see through their schemes and control them better.

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Another 2 years passed by very quickly. The Uchiha situation has deteriorated, we gave them a foot, and they took a mile. They started acting more arrogantly; asking for more benefits. Thankfully, we were successful in planting spies inside the Uchiha. The information we gathered confirms that most of the Uchiha clan have rebellious thoughts and wants to separate or take over the village. We started lowering their power by introducing harsh rules. We didn't want to punish them severely, not to alert them, but we can't continue in rewarding them, hence they will get very powerful for us to handle.

Meanwhile, the power struggle of the Yamanaka clan is nearing its end. Fū Yamanaka has almost half of the votes of the Yamanaka clansmen. Being able to control the Yamanaka, and teaching them Mind Body Withering Technique that Voidne created will prove a very good decision. Some of the clansmen started accepting that Fū is better than Voidne; which shows that Danzo's plan is working fine.

I will keep on supporting Fū for the benefits of the village!

(End of Hokage's POV)