I will traverse countless worlds and become a god entirely on my own!

Now, after Bai Ye finished speaking, everyone's eyes were on him.

It seems he's about to choose sides?

"Bai Ye, you speak."

A gentle smile appeared on Fugaku Uchiha's face. He also valued this genius, who was just like his own son.

He clearly has lost touch with how the Uchiha clan and Konoha interact now, otherwise he wouldn't keep holding clan meetings.

"I want to know, what exactly do you want?"

Byakuya could never understand one thing: after holding clan meetings for so long, what exactly was the Uchiha clan fighting for?

"What do we want? Peace, of course!"

"Bullshit! A humiliating peace! We want equality! We want Konoha to treat us equally!"

"No! Why can't the Uchiha clan become Hokage?"

One said they wanted peace, another said they wanted to fight for equality, and yet another said they wanted to become Hokage.

He said that peace was hard-won. Another person said that the Uchiha clan did not receive the treatment they deserved. Yet another person said that the Hokage has always belonged to the Senju lineage, and why the Uchiha clan was not qualified to become Hokage. It was the Senju and Uchiha who founded Konoha!

Today, the Hokage position in Konoha has always been held by the Senju clan, while the Uchiha clan, once the most powerful clan, is now relegated to the far corner of the village, under the watchful eyes of other ninjas.

After listening to the leaders finish speaking, Bai Ye shrugged and said, "Look, you don't even know what you want, how can you possibly argue your way out of this?"

They don't even know what they need, which clearly shows they are indecisive.

"So, what do you mean?"

A hint of amusement flashed in Uchiha Setsuna's eyes. It seemed that he had his own unique insights.

"Ultimately, the reason why the Uchiha clan has become like this is not only because we are being targeted by certain people, but also because we have done too many things that have offended people. The Konoha Police Force has offended a lot of civilians and civilian ninjas. In Konoha, large clans do not like to have contact with the Uchiha clan, and the same goes for small and medium-sized clans. Now they don't even want to associate with civilians and civilian ninjas. How can our current situation be good?"

Ultimately, the Uchiha clan was in a terrible predicament, on the verge of extermination, and not a single ninja stood up for them. This shows how unpopular they were in normal times.

Large clans are inherently in competition with the Uchiha clan. Konoha is a big cake; if the Uchiha take a big bite, others will have to take less. Naturally, the other side doesn't want to have contact with the Uchiha clan.

When the Uchiha clan, who were small and medium-sized clans, came into contact with them, they were incredibly arrogant. Byakuya, who was in the Uchiha clan, naturally knew how arrogant some of them were. They kept talking about the glory of their clan and looked at everyone with a sidelong glance. Naturally, they were not well-liked by other ninja clans.

Not to mention ordinary ninjas and civilians, the Uchiha clan had always offended them. In the security force, dealing with these matters every day meant that if you satisfied one person, another would naturally be dissatisfied.

If this continues, the Uchiha clan's reputation in Konoha will naturally not be very good.

"The security force is of no benefit to us at all. When the Second Hokage established the security force, it seemed to be giving the Uchiha clan power, but it was just a trap to keep the Uchiha clan completely away from the center of power."

Haven't you been asking why the Uchiha clan can't become Hokage?

It's very simple!!! It's because we've offended everyone we could. Who would support us as Hokage?

Deafening!

At this moment, everyone was somewhat dazed, carefully savoring every word Bai Ye had said.

Got it!

Teacher, they've figured it out!

"So, teacher—I mean, Byakuya—you think we should rebel, right?"

Uchiha Setsuna understood!

Bai Ye is trying to make them rebel!

I knew I hadn't misjudged you, Bai Ye. You really are a staunch radical!

Although they hid it before, are they finally going to show their fangs now?

"Are you out of your mind? Bai Ye's ideas are clearly those of us conservatives. Although they are slightly radical, he has never said anything about rebellion!"

Uchiha Tetsuya immediately lost his composure. He strongly disagreed with Uchiha Setsuna's statement that Byakuya was a radical!

Byakuya's constructive suggestion was to improve the relationship between the Uchiha clan and other clans in Konoha, as well as civilian ninjas and civilians, right?

How could it be that radical hawk?

"What did you say? Do you want to fight?"

"Bring it on! Who's afraid of who! Do you think we conservatives are made of rubber?!"

Is a fight about to break out?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 6: The Current Problems of the Uchiha Clan! (Please read further with monthly votes and recommendations)

"Bai Ye, which faction do you belong to?"

Uchiha Tetsu and Uchiha Setsuna argued for a long time before finally realizing something was wrong.

They said it was no use, and that we should listen to Bai Ye himself.

His words were partly biased towards the radicals, but also partly favorable to the conservatives.

It was somewhat ambiguous. Although Bai Ye had finally managed to express his attitude and the opinions he gave were considered very reasonable by the two elders and even the centrists, it would have been better if he could have been more specific.

“I don’t belong to any faction. I just think that whether you are conservatives or radicals, what you need to do now is to reform internally and change externally as well. At least in my opinion, the Uchiha clan would not have become like this if no one had targeted them. We must find out who is behind this and deal with them.”

Is it useful to keep compromising?

It's completely useless!

The Third Hokage might be able to tolerate it, but Danzo would definitely not; he would only slowly erode the Uchiha clan's power.

After realizing that their power has been constantly eroded, the Uchiha clan will probably start to stir up trouble. Wouldn't that just lead to another night of annihilation?

Therefore, the most important thing to prevent the Uchiha clan from being wiped out is to eliminate the Konoha F4 led by Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.

"How should we reform internally? How should we change externally?"

A flicker of excitement crossed Fugaku Uchiha's eyes; finally, someone had offered a useful suggestion.

Unlike before, when radicals and conservatives had no other solutions besides arguing.

"First of all, the guard team. In the future, if we encounter any problems, we can just smooth things over. There's no need to offend anyone over some things. Anyway, it's not our business. Even if it goes to the village, it'll just be a matter of poor performance. If they want to remove our guard team from their posts, we can just let them do it. I doubt they'll dare to do it then, since no one wants to take over this kind of thing!"

Bai Ye truly didn't understand why the Uchiha clan would hold onto this hot potato, since they were just going to dawdle afterward anyway.

"But if that's the case, wouldn't it cause even greater conflict between the village and the Uchiha clan?"

Fugaku Uchiha started to worry again, which made Byakuya roll his eyes.

As expected, Fugaku was truly unsuitable to become the clan leader at this time.

His appointment as clan leader is tantamount to destroying the Uchiha clan.

"I'd like to ask, does the Uchiha clan or the village pay the security force?"

"We distribute money internally within the Uchiha clan."

Members of the guard unit receive salaries. During the Second Hokage's time, the village paid for these salaries, but this changed after the Second Shinobi World War, the Third Shinobi World War, and the Nine-Tails' attack.

The village then approached Fugaku Uchiha, citing economic difficulties, the need to recover from several major battles, and a lack of funds, to discuss whether the Uchiha clan could pay for the security forces internally.

At that time, Fugaku Uchiha was thinking about the Nine-Tails' rampage that he had just experienced.

Because many people saw the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' eyes, many people said that the Uchiha clan was preparing to rebel.

To avoid further discussion, and also considering that the amount of money wasn't much for the wealthy Uchiha clan, he decided to pay for it himself.

Therefore, the cost was changed from being borne by the village to being borne by the Uchiha clan themselves.

"You see, the village won't spend any money on us, so why are you so responsible for the village? You guys used to be too moral. If we didn't care about morality, then this matter wouldn't concern us anymore, right?"

"We've already made things this way, becoming an object of hatred for everyone in the village, why should we continue? The village reaps all the benefits, while the Uchiha clan bears all the blame—how can that be acceptable? Therefore, in my opinion, the first step to resolving our current predicament is to simply give up!"

That's right!

The best course of action is to simply give up!

Anyway, the village doesn't pay them, and they only get bad reviews for their work, which leads to complaints to the village.

After calming down the villagers, the Uchiha clan was scolded. As a result, the village gained the villagers' goodwill, while the Uchiha clan was scolded and resented by the villagers. All the benefits went to Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was full of anger. Wouldn't that lead to a rebellion?

Who doesn't want to be respected?

Every day I'm constantly being criticized and pointed at. When I try to do something, I can't do it fairly, and I can't do it unfairly either. Fine, then let's just stop playing this game and start the game altogether!

"I agree. Elder, although I am a conservative, I really don't want to put up with this nonsense anymore. Every day I'm either being scolded by one person or criticized for not doing my job well!"

Many of the conservatives behind Uchiha Tetsuya also strongly agree with this.

After all, he was working hard and wanted to change the villagers' impression of the Uchiha clan.

No one expected that this would be the outcome.

Of course, I wouldn't be happy about that either.

"But if I do that, I won't be able to say anything about it in the village afterwards."

Fugaku Uchiha was paralyzed.

Once he did that, he understood that he would likely have no room for maneuver in the village afterwards.

"What are you afraid of? Look at how the village is dealing with the Uchiha clan now. What's wrong with what we're doing?"

Uchiha Setsuna frowned, looking at Uchiha Fugaku with some displeasure. He used to think that Fugaku was a very good clan leader, but now, seeing how Fugaku handled things, he was getting more and more annoyed.

How can you make such a hesitant and indecisive decision?

"Chieftain, I think you should hold off on making a decision for now. I still have some things to say. Can we talk about them after I've finished speaking?"

Byakuya knew that Fugaku's indecisiveness had returned.

On one hand, he wanted to change the status quo within the Uchiha clan and hoped to take a tougher stance.

On the one hand, he feared that his tough stance would widen the rift between the Uchiha clan and Konoha, eventually leading to a direct conflict between the two sides.

It was this constant internal struggle between these two options that ultimately led to Fugaku Uchiha's death, along with his entire clan.

"it is good!"

Fugaku Uchiha thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

"Well then, let me first share my thoughts on the relationship between the Uchiha clan and Konoha, based on what I said before. You can go back and think about it carefully later."