The Fire Daimyō shook his head as his thoughts ran wild.
The “Senju Hashirama Threat Theory” had unconsciously sent the Fire Daimyō into a state of overthinking.
A man’s true intentions were often hidden behind humble appearances…
Who could have imagined that in this treacherous shinobi world, there would genuinely emerge a genuinely good person who possessed absolute power while also exercising strict restraint over himself?
There was no doubt about it…
Senju Hashirama was a good man!
As clan leader, all Senju Hashirama really needed to do was be strong enough to fight.
As for everything else, his external brain, Senju Tobirama, would naturally take care of it.
But Uchiha Makoto couldn’t let such a good-natured pushover off the hook.
In the vast majority of situations, good people could only be pushed around at gunpoint!
“Nobility comes with its own burdens; pragmatism often yields results.”
Uchiha Makoto felt that he was being just a tiny bit despicable…
But if anyone was to blame, then it could only be Senju Tobirama’s suspicious nature.
He just loved discriminating against other clans!
Right now!
He had to strike while the iron was hot and keep applying those eye drops!
…….
Listening to Uchiha Makoto’s words beside him, the Fire Daimyō’s expression became slightly gloomy.
His response was also clearly loaded with meaning.
“The Senju clan leader must have much greater ambitions than he lets on.”
“Your Highness is perceptive!”
Uchiha Makoto immediately seized the opening and worked hard to expand his gains.
The more cautious the daimyō became toward Senju Hashirama now, the greater Makoto’s future gains would be!
Keep going!
Keep going!!!
“Then, Your Highness, what do you think Senju Hashirama’s objective is after going to such lengths…
even being willing to stake his own life and give up the opportunity to kill Lord Madara in order to gain Lord Madara’s trust?”
The daimyō stroked his chin and thought for a moment.
Naturally, he couldn’t simply say what was really on his mind.
Senju Hashirama is trying to rebel!
What if…
What if Senju Hashirama really was planning a rebellion?
When America threatens you with weapons of mass destruction, you’d better actually have them.
The same logic applied here.
So the daimyō put on a thoughtful expression and said,
“To make the Senju clan and Uchiha clan make peace?”
“To make people believe that the Senju clan and Uchiha clan can make peace!”
Uchiha Makoto corrected the daimyō’s mistake.
“Make the Uchiha clan believe it?”
“Not the Uchiha clan.
Uchiha Madara!”
“The Uchiha clan already knows that it’s impossible!”
The Fire Daimyō’s eyes widened involuntarily, and he regarded Uchiha Makoto with even greater admiration.
This young Uchiha’s insight was remarkably sharp for someone his age.
In fact, even though this was only the first day the Fire Daimyō had met Uchiha Makoto, and he still hadn’t figured out Makoto’s personal tastes or preferences, he already felt an urge to marry his daughter to him.
After all, what was a daughter for, from the daimyō’s perspective?
The most important thing was to make use of her value in a political marriage and win people’s loyalty.
So what if Uchiha Makoto was a shinobi?
It was hardly unusual for nobles to arrange marriages with shinobi clans in order to coordinate their interests and form a community of shared interests.
Mutual interests…
If the daimyō’s family and the shinobi clans could establish such a relationship, the Fire Daimyō felt that he could sleep soundly in the future.
Even if something happened in the future…
He could simply change identities and start over under a new banner.
Besides…
Uchiha Makoto was an Uchiha, born into one of the shinobi world’s top kekkei-genkai clans.
He himself possessed a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Even if Uchiha Makoto somehow fooled around with the daimyō’s own wife, got her pregnant, and left the daimyō wearing an especially conspicuous green hat…
The Fire Daimyō suspected he could even magnanimously pretend he hadn’t noticed.
He would raise the child properly, too.
After all, there was nothing shameful about taking on such a situation!
There were countless nobles in this shinobi world who wished they could do the same.
They just didn’t have the connections to make it happen!
Because the kekkei-genkai clans had never been willing to give outsiders such opportunities. The source of this chapter is g.com.
The importance these clans placed upon their inherited bloodline abilities was beyond imagination.
Some bloodline clans had even taken things to unhealthy extremes…
Yes, that was right.
The Hyūga clan.
Even when a noble family and a kekkei-genkai clan entered into a political marriage, if the child born from that marriage displayed the clan’s inherited bloodline ability, the kekkei-genkai clan would immediately take the child back into the clan.
Even the daimyō couldn’t violate such a rule.
The more the Fire Daimyō looked at Uchiha Makoto, the more he liked him.
But Uchiha Makoto couldn’t read minds, so he had no idea what was going through the Fire Daimyō’s head.
At the moment, there was only one thing he wanted from the daimyō.
Money!
….
“It’s just a pity that the Uchiha clan trusts Lord Madara.”
“Sooner or later, the Uchiha clan will be led to ruin because of the Senju…”
Uchiha Makoto sighed.
His persona had to be established properly!
Everything he did in the future wasn’t for himself!
Everything was for the Uchiha clan!
Uchiha Makoto stood there sighing in anguish, his face filled with deep concern for the future of the Uchiha clan.
Cultivating his image as someone devoted to the Uchiha clan…
Uchiha Makoto was taking it very seriously!
With such a persona, poaching talent from Konoha in the future would become much easier.
The Fire Daimyō quietly observed Uchiha Makoto’s expression.
The worried look on Makoto’s face didn’t seem fake.
He genuinely seemed to believe that the Uchiha clan would eventually be destroyed because of the Senju clan…
Obviously…
That wasn’t an act at all!
Because in the future…
If everything in this world followed the original storyline, then decades from now, the Uchiha clan really could be heading toward extinction!
The entire Uchiha clan would be slaughtered by Uchiha Itachi, leaving behind only his younger brother, Uchiha Sasuke.
Growing an entire forest from a single sapling wasn’t easy.
Turning one survivor into an entire clan was even harder.
And Uchiha Sasuke wasn’t exactly doing his part, either.
If he wanted to revive the entire Uchiha clan, shouldn’t he have gone all out and built a harem?!
Instead, he married only Sakura.
Fine, he didn’t want a harem!
But at the very least, he should have been more productive!
Damn it…
He spent all day wandering around the shinobi world like a wandering ghost, completely neglecting the great task of restoring the Uchiha clan.
He was satisfied with having only one daughter!
He didn’t even have a son!
And that daughter would probably be whisked away by some blond brat from the Uzumaki family…
According to traditional Japanese customs, women changed their surnames to their husband’s surname after marriage.
Needless to say, their children would follow the same surname.
The Uchiha clan in the original story really was doomed!
Still…
Uchiha Sasuke was a pitiful victim, so it wasn’t fair to criticize him too harshly.
The true mastermind behind the tragedy was Uchiha Itachi!
That snakel…
It seemed he had never been taught what a clan was, what parents and family meant, or how to distinguish friend from foe.
Well…
Thinking about it carefully, perhaps nobody had ever taught him those things.
When Uchiha Itachi was only four years old, his supposedly “cowardly” father, Uchiha Fugaku, had already dragged him onto the battlefield and made him experience his first taste of killing.
In an environment that was practically hell on earth, the fact that he managed to survive at all was honestly quite remarkable.
After all, on the battlefield, kunai and shuriken had no eyes.
Even though Uchiha Itachi was Uchiha Fugaku’s eldest son and enjoyed an elevated status, with elite Uchiha shinobi secretly following him as bodyguards, there was still no guarantee that an accident wouldn’t happen.
Nawaki had been killed by an Explosive Tag.
There were simply too many accidents on a battlefield!
And that deadbeat father of his, Uchiha Fugaku, never gave Uchiha Itachi any psychological guidance.
The moment he saw Itachi awaken the Sharingan, he was so delighted that he completely forgot one crucial fact:
Itachi had awakened his Sharingan after personally witnessing the death of a comrade.
Instead, Fugaku simply left him to grow on his own, occasionally using the glory of the clan to pressure and manipulate him.
Hmph!
At the very least, that old Sarutobi Hiruzen would praise Uchiha Itachi…
Saying that he possessed the mindset of a Hokage despite his young age. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
Uchiha Itachi’s naturally grim and burdened personality, combined with all sorts of other factors…
led him to start contemplating the relationship between the clan and the village while he was still barely old enough to be playing in the dirt.
And what did “the mindset of a Hokage” actually mean?
It meant the Hokage’s position!
Uchiha Fugaku was still smugly delighted, thinking his son possessed the qualities of a Hokage!
But Uchiha Itachi’s position was already fundamentally skewed.
There was nothing more to discuss!
Of course…
All the tragedies that would eventually befall the Uchiha clan could be traced back to what was happening now!
Was Uchiha Madara at fault?
He merely wanted to live happily ever after with Senju Hashirama and fulfill the ideal they had dreamed of together as children—to bring peace to the shinobi world!
This was all the fault of Senju Tobirama’s suspicious nature!
When Konoha was first established, Senju Tobirama single-handedly created—
Anti-Uchiha sentiment!
That’s why, in the future, the ideology of Uchiha revival would become so widespread within the Uchiha clan!
The Uchiha clan had suffered systematic oppression at the hands of Konoha!
…..
“Makoto, you’re worrying too much.”
“Your Uchiha clan is a kekkei-genkai clan that has been passed down for a thousand years throughout the shinobi world…”
“Even the Senju clan couldn’t possibly destroy the Uchiha clan.”
The Fire Daimyō still wore a warm smile as he gently reassured Uchiha Makoto.
What he said was indeed true.
For a thousand years, the Senju clan hadn’t managed to destroy the Uchiha clan.
And now they had Uchiha Madara.
If Madara wanted to preserve the Uchiha clan, there were still plenty of ways to do so.
After all, Uchiha Madara only couldn’t overpower Senju Hashirama head-on.
Against the other members of the Senju clan, he could crush them one-sidedly.
At worst, he could specifically target the other Senju clan members and kill them one by one until Senju Hashirama finally gave in.
“Unless Senju Hashirama personally takes the field, the Uchiha clan won’t deploy Uchiha Madara either.”
Remove Senju Hashirama from the equation.
Then all that remained was a mere Senju Tobirama.
No matter how powerful he was individually, he couldn’t create a decisive advantage against the Uchiha clan.
In fact…
For the Uchiha clan, one could even say that the advantage was entirely on their side.
The Uchiha’s Sharingan was naturally suited to awakening in the cruel and brutal environment of the Warring States Period.
The harsher the environment, the stronger the Uchiha clan could become.
That was an advantage the Senju clan couldn’t overcome.
Moreover, the Uchiha clan’s Three-Tomoe Sharingan could supposedly unleash two extraordinarily terrifying dōjutsu—
Izanagi and Izanami!
Izanagi was a dōjutsu that demonstrated the Uchiha clan’s mastery of Yin Release to its extreme.
Its activation conditions were harsh.
By sacrificing a Sharingan, it possessed the terrifying power to distort and rewrite reality.
Put simply, it was a resurrection token.
And if used properly, it could even function as an area-of-effect resurrection token!
Izanami was similarly costly.
It also required sacrificing a Sharingan.
When activated during battle, once the conditions were met, the enemy could be trapped within a genjutsu space.
They would remain trapped until they acknowledged their own mistakes and accepted reality.
Otherwise, they would remain imprisoned within the genjutsu space forever…
Its effect was practically a miniature Infinite Tsukuyomi!
With these two trump cards of forbidden jutsu…
How could the Uchiha clan possibly lose?!
Even if Senju Tobirama had mastered the Flying Thunder Technique Technique, he could easily be killed in a first-encounter surprise attack!
…..
The Fire Daimyō continued reassuring Uchiha Makoto, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the situation for him.
But…
Those seemingly comforting words were actually serving to fan the flames!
How could the Uchiha and Senju clans possibly abandon their thousand-year blood feud and make peace?!
They had to fight!
They had to fight each other!
I want to see the battlefield run red with blood!