He was silent. For a long time, Shisui was silent, his gaze focused on a pile of papers on Obito's desk. "Perhaps it is time to admit a new member into the council," he murmured. "An Uchiha on the council would even things out." That council was made of every single member of the team his father had belonged to, sans Akimichi Torifu. But Uchiha Kagami had never had a chance.

Perhaps an Uchiha elder would even things out now.

And should there be any disagreement amongst the existing members, they'd know where they stood, despite the Hokage being Uchiha himself. Shisui wasn't closed to the idea of someone from the inside working to put cracks and fissures in the walls of Konoha.