Yes.
Uehara Naraku chose to join the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads.
This situation indeed posed a threat to the independent status of the Uehara Race, but it also eased the relationship between the Uehara Race and the high command of Quiet Spirit Court, momentarily elevating the power and influence of the Uehara Race to unprecedented heights!
If all this is just Uehara Naraku's facade...
Then the so-called integration into Quiet Spirit Court might just be a bait thrown by Uehara Naraku!
Over the years, Central 46 and the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads believed they could gradually incorporate the Uehara Race, never denying any requests from the Uehara Race, any conflicts between Quiet Spirit Court and the Uehara Race were resolved through the concessions of Central 46...
Central 46 and the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads were always yielding.
Yet within these concessions, the Uehara Race continued to make increasingly excessive demands.
Central 46 and the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads were almost always paying the price, while the Uehara Race only offered a patriarch who claimed to want to join the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads...
Central 46 and the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads lost their sight.
Because the performance of this patriarch was so exceptional that every high-ranking member and Captain of the Shinigami were inclined to believe that under his leadership, the Uehara Race would absolutely integrate into Quiet Spirit Court...
However...
All this was merely an illusion.
Whenever a conflict arose that harmed the interests of the Uehara Race, those Thirteen Deadguard Seat Officers would step in, like steadfast opposition, preventing their patriarch Uehara Naraku from making those concessions to Central 46...
The ultimate result was...
Central 46 was forced to yield in the presence of these Deadguard Seat Officers.
Uehara Naraku, with a lighthearted remark that he couldn't defy the name of the Deadguard Seat Officers, forgave him, hoping that Uehara Naraku would grow to command power...
Indeed, it's very interesting...
What Aizen found bizarre was...
This happened more times than not.
Yet Central 46 and the Guardian Court Thirteen Squads were ceaselessly deceived by Uehara Naraku, because he behaved like a naive yet kind-hearted little guy!
No one ever doubted.
Even Aizen Sousuke never doubted this point.
If not for today when the Hogyoku showed fear towards the name of Uehara Naraku, Aizen Sousuke would not have thought to doubt Uehara Naraku...
Clearly, that guy's performance was so clumsy!
Clearly, that guy only put on a cowardly appearance that didn't match his identity!
Yet precisely because of that cowardly appearance, everyone lost their judgment!
The patriarch of the foremost noble family in Soul Society, capable of unbridled behavior in the entire Quiet Spirit Court, how could he possibly appear so timid?
Everyone resented his lack of progress!
Yet no one, any one person tried to question them!
Because they all believed that Uehara Naraku had the backing of the entire Uehara Race, so there was no need to do so, yet he had always been disguising himself!
Of course.
If we were to simply define Uehara Naraku as someone who loves to disguise himself just because of his ability to hide his power, it would be rather hasty...
However, the character setting of Uehara Naraku is too likable, and it absolutely does not include hiding one's power, so everything about him is a disguise!
Aizen Sousuke's brain raced through thoughts.
Every incident that once occurred between them resurfaced in Aizen Sousuke's mind, now thinking back, it was filled with flaws at the time!
Why did Uehara Naraku show mercy when facing Hollows?
Was it due to his cowardice, or his kindness?
No, it was because his strength was powerful enough that he simply didn't need to care about the life and death of Hollows!
Even back then, the power Uehara Naraku displayed was already enough to kill any Hollow that tried to assassinate him... let alone the power he still had hidden!
The various Secret Techniques used by the Deadguard Seat Officers of the Uehara Race...
Yet Uehara Naraku almost never used them, he seldom even took action, because he simply didn't need to, or couldn't be bothered to act!
Once he took action, the chances of exposing himself were too high!
And the most recent time Uehara Naraku took action in combat was when he seized the Hogyoku within Rukia, at that moment, he only used one Mirage Zanpakuto... a Zanpakuto that's quite dangerous yet possesses considerable self-protection ability!
That little guy didn't stop him from taking the Hogyoku...
Aizen Sousuke glanced at the Hogyoku in his hand.
In such a short moment, Aizen Sousuke seemed to see through the Hogyoku and saw Uehara Naraku's disdain towards the Hogyoku, had his power grown so strong that he disregarded the Hogyoku?
No wonder...
Even the Hogyoku possessed fear towards Uehara Naraku.
Thinking this way, what exactly is Uehara Naraku's true objective?
Aizen Sousuke instantly dispelled this thought and almost immediately decided on two answers.
Uehara Naraku wants to become the god of Soul Society.
Uehara Naraku wants to rule the entire Soul Society.
Aside from these answers, there seem to be no other explanations, right? After all, what others have been striving to obtain all their lives, Uehara Naraku can easily acquire...
And it's only these.
That could make Uehara Naraku willingly tarnish his reputation to hide himself.
Yet it doesn't tarnish his reputation.
Because as long as Uehara Naraku can achieve it, everything he's done before was just his playful enjoyment with the Soul Society as a god.