Few years past on and the brothers, now 18, 13 and 8 respectively, were going on well with their training and mentoring in the academy. On one faithful day, Yagami was called to the Hokage's office. He wondered why the Hokage would call him all of a sudden; either he had failed to train the ANBUs to his expectations or he was going to be transferred to another section. As Yagami sat down, he patiently sat down and waited as the 3rd Hokage took a puff from his pipe before speaking, "Ah yes, Uchiha Yagami, I see you are performing well over the years, I have this letter for your brother Itachi, will you pass it to him for me please?"
"Yeah...sure...ok." As he took the envelope and exited the room. Back at the arena, Yagami instructed the ANBUs to carry on with their training. He sat at a corner and slowly opened the envelope. It was an ANBU application form and it was assigned to his brother Itachi. Yagami couldn't believe it, years of constant training and he became a Jounin in training ANBUs. But remembering his father's advice, Yagami contained his jealously and kept the envelope. When Yagami went home after a late session of extreme training of the ANBUs, he saw his father, along with Uchiha Tekka, Inabi and Yashiro, members of the Konoha military police force questioning his brother Itachi.
"What's going on here?" Tekka than explained the situation that they found Uchiha Shisui, Itachi's best friend, was found lying dead in the Nakano river of what appears to be suicide though they are suspecting it was murder. Yagami asked the shocked Itachi what really happened, all he replied was that he didn't know and that when he was walking home he saw Shisui's body.
"Liar! How can you be so coincidently at the time of his death?" Yashiro shouted. Yagami, protecting his brother, rebelled back. "You can't just go around accusing people of murder, and besides you don't have the evidence!"
"Brother, it's alright, they were just doing their job..." Itachi told Yagami before being reprimanded by him, "And you! Didn't I said to immediately return home and not roam about? Go home now." Seeing his brother running back, Yagami than tried to reason out with the police. Inabi assured Yagami that they will look into the matter. Back at home, while the family were having their dinner, Yagami kept staring at Itachi. For a moment Yagami thought to himself where had he screwed up in his training. And what about the death of Shisui? How was Itachi a suspect? Finishing his meal, he stood up from the table and took out the envelope handed to him earlier in the academy, handing it to Itachi before heading to the garden. As Itachi opened it, he slowly read the details before shouting out in excitement.
"Mom, Dad, I'm assigned to be an ANBU!" Fugaku, Mikoto and Sasuke all congratulated him but it was all short-lived when they heard Yagami shouting in frustration as he delievered a punchi to a large tree just outside their house. Their father calmed them down by saying, "Your brother is just tired from all that mentoring, he just needs to release all that stress." As Sasuke helped his mother wash up the dishes, Itachi went to Yagami. Looking at him continously punching the tree to the extent that his knuckles began to bleed, Itachi finally stopped his brother.
"I know why you're doing this, but it was my dream to become an ANBU, and to realize you are a mentor, to be trained under you is an honorable privilege."
"I hope you are proud of yourself. You even surprised Mom and Dad." Yagami sarcastically finished his speech as he left the house to the local ramen store where he saw his other teammate, Umino Iruka.
"Hey Yagami, didn't had a full meal?" Both shinobis slowly savoured the mouth-watering ramen before Iruka broke the silence. He told Yagami that the 3rd Hokage had gave a last minute order for transferring him to another section. Explaining further in detail, Yagami realized that the Hokage had gave him a very special mission; to travel to other villages and learn their Jutsus.
"That's great, but what about my training for the ANBUs?" Iruka than told him that he would be replaced with another trainer. With the mind of excelling further than his two younger brothers, Yagami did not hesistate in accepting the mission. The next morning Yagami told the news to his father. Fugaku was contented to hear the good news as he went to take out an ordinary box. Curious to find out what the contents were in it, Yagami slowly opened the box and it revealed a black suit.