His approximate hearing range allowed him to take in sounds within a radius of two kilometers, and he could even hear things further away, though not very clearly and the sounds were intermittent.
Uchiha Bing withdrew his attention and watched Kogoro running over.
“Ah-Bing, the Clan Head is calling you to the main hall, saying he wants to announce post-graduation assignment matters.”
Uchiha Kogoro ran all the way over, exhausting himself thoroughly.
He lacked the talent of a Ninja and could not independently refine Chakra, and his physical strength was a bit lower compared to a Ninja’s, so he could only do what was within his power under the protection of the clan, such as running errands and the like.
Uchiha Bing stood up, supported Kogoro, patted his back, and waited for him to catch his breath before speaking.
“Aren’t Ninja graduation assignment matters always decided by the Village?
We Ninjas only need to follow orders, what else is there for the Clan Head to announce?”
Kogoro and Uchiha Bing had played together bare-assed since childhood, so the two of them had no taboos when talking and didn’t need to hide anything.
“Hey, look at what you’re saying.
Our Uchiha Clan manages the Konoha Military Police Force, so naturally, we have the right to choose fresh blood from the graduating fresh graduates to join the Konoha Military Police Force.
This is called having a say.”
Uchiha Bing rolled his eyes and retorted irritably, “What’s wrong?
Did our Lord Clan Head take the wrong medicine?
He agreed to let other non-Uchiha Ninjas join the Konoha Military Police Force?”
“You brat, speak more politely to Lord Clan Head.”
Kogoro covered Uchiha Bing’s mouth with one hand, looked left and right, and finding no one around, lowered his voice to say, “This meeting is, of course, to decide which of our Uchiha Clan’s graduating fresh graduates will enter the Konoha Military Police Force.”
“Aren’t they just those same people?
What’s there to have a meeting about?
Wouldn’t it be fine if they quietly took up their posts when the time comes?”
Uchiha Bing was left speechless.
Kogoro shook his head and whispered, “What you’re talking about are things that have already been decided, needless for you to say.
Aren’t there still things that haven’t been decided yet?”
“What is it?”
Uchiha Bing scratched his head; besides this, what else could be discussed?
Kogoro spoke stealthily, “For you Uchihas who didn’t enter the Police Force, the Clan Head has also specially arranged Jonin as team leaders.”
That was indeed very good.
Excluding the foundations of various clans, among the active-duty Jonin, very few were willing to take apprentices—perhaps only twenty or thirty.
These twenty or thirty Ninjas were basically newly-promoted Jonin.
Firstly, their strength was not yet sufficient to rival veteran Ninjas; secondly, according to seniority, it was their turn to work.
Thus, they could only honestly take on apprentices, improving their own strength while training them.
Once the newly-promoted Jonin were strong enough and had successfully trained their apprentices, they would be just in time to execute more dangerous missions.
This was the inheritance of the Will of Fire.
Most ordinary Ninjas, even upon graduation, were assigned team-leading teachers of the Chunin level.
Only as members of a bloodline limit clan did they have the right to choose a Jonin as a team-leading teacher.
Of course, on the surface, it was still up to the Jonin to independently choose their apprentices.
In fact, Jonin were also more willing to take children from Ninja clans.
Children from Ninja clans had been influenced by their environment since childhood, making them much less worrisome than children from ordinary civilian backgrounds in terms of strength and other aspects, and they were not as easy to die, unlike children from civilian backgrounds who might accidentally be blown to death by explosive tags.
Moreover, Jonin had children too.
If you made things convenient for others, others would naturally make things convenient for you.
There were also quite a few Jonin born into Ninja families, and they also needed to be team leaders, so they would consider this aspect more when the time came.
This was—mutual benefit.
“The Clan Head has finally done something decent.”
The Third Shinobi World War was coming up in these few years, and the clan being able to equip him with a Jonin teacher truly greatly increased his chances of survival.
Kogoro pulled Uchiha Bing.
The two of them were now close to the vicinity of the Clan Head’s house and could encounter Ninjas at any time, so they couldn’t talk nonsense.
Uchiha Bing knew Kogoro meant well.
He dared to speak because he had heard that there was no one else nearby; he wasn’t a brainless retard.
Seeing Kogoro so nervous, he simply shut his mouth.
The two of them came all the way to the Konoha Military Police Force beside the Clan Head’s house and walked into the main hall.
At this time, many members of the Uchiha Clan had already gathered here.
Kogoro led Uchiha Bing inside, bowed to the Clan Head, and scampered out in a flash.
In an internal meeting of the Uchiha Clan, a fellow like him who wasn’t even a Ninja was not qualified to listen.
The pressure for ordinary people here was truly a bit too high, and if they weren’t careful and weren’t protected by someone nearby, they might die.
Once almost everyone had arrived, the Clan Head, Uchiha Fugaku, began to preside over the work.
Having just become Clan Head at the age of twenty this year, he was full of enthusiasm for his work.
As a leader, the thing they liked most to do was hold meetings, because during meetings, they made decisions.
This thing called power, which controlled the destinies of others, made them feel incomparably exhilarated.
Unsurprisingly, Uchiha Bing heard that that brat Uchiha Homura had been approved to join the Konoha Military Police Force.
He even deliberately turned his head and stuck out his tongue smugly at Uchiha Bing.
“So childish, truly a kid.”
Uchiha Bing rolled his eyes, holding Uchiha Homura’s provocation in disdain.
The Uchiha Clan had a large estate and a flourishing population.
There were a dozen or so students graduating in the same period as Uchiha Bing, and half of these people were arranged to enter the Konoha Military Police Force.
The upper echelons of the Uchiha Clan were content with the status quo and couldn’t bear to let their own children take risks and engage in life-or-death battles.
Otherwise, given the characteristics of the Sharingan, if a few more relatives and friends died, a single war could yield several more pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan.
One could only say that back when the Uchiha Clan joined Konoha, their mindset had changed.
During the reign of the Second Hokage, the radical faction led by Uchiha Setsuna rebelled and was directly wiped out by Senju Tobirama.
From then on, all who survived were conservatives, or rather, conservatives among conservatives.
After all, the only true radical of the Uchiha Clan was Uchiha Madara, and his true love was Senju Hashirama.
With no bloodline passed down, it was only natural that the younger generation of Uchihas had increasingly softer bones.
“——Uchiha Bing’s team-leading Jonin has also been determined.
He is a newly-promoted Jonin named Hiruko.
He is a classmate of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha and also a good friend of theirs.
Bing, you should get along well with each other.”
As Uchiha Fugaku’s words fell, Uchiha Bing’s brow furrowed.
The name Hiruko sounded very unfamiliar, but upon hearing that he was a classmate of the Sannin, Uchiha Bing immediately remembered who this person was.
A theater boss born from a civilian Ninja, a Chinese-dubbed version of Orochimaru, who defected from the Village because he conducted human experiments, and later died at the hands of Uzumaki Naruto.