Naruto: In Konoha Village, I awakened Wood Release at the start.

Leaf.

Inside the research hall.

"Little Tsunade!"

"You've grown so big?"

"Quick, did you bring any money?"

"Lend me some money, Grandpa! I'm going to the casino to win back my losses!"

He looked at Tsunade in front of him.

Hashirama Senju's eyes lit up, and he burst into laughter.

boom!

Tsunade punched Hashirama Senju on the head.

The First Hokage's head shattered into a pile of paper scraps, then slowly reassembled.

"You old gambler!"

"You just came back to life and you already want to gamble!"

Tsunade screamed in despair.

the other side.

A family reunion ceremony was also taking place at the same time.

Kakashi trembled as he walked up to Sakumo Hatake.

"Father……"

Looking at his grown-up son, Hatake Sakumo's eyes were filled with joy.

"Kakashi."

"You've grown up; you're a remarkable ninja now."

Might Guy went even further, grabbing Might Dai's leg and bursting into tears.

"dad!"

"This is what it means to reunite with youth!"

Uchiha Kagami looked at Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Fugaku who were walking over, his face full of emotion.

"How is the Uchiha clan doing now?"

Uchiha Fugaku bowed deeply, his voice filled with excitement.

"Kagami-senpai."

"The Uchiha clan is doing very well now, better than ever before!"

The hall was in complete chaos.

Chiba just watched them quietly, without making a sound to disturb them.

A good ten minutes or so passed.

The spirits' emotions calmed down a little.

Tobirama Senju keenly sensed something.

His gaze swept past the crowd and landed directly on Chiba, who was standing on the high platform.

This is an intuition that comes from the depths of one's blood.

"Such pure chakra..."

"This sense of oppression is even stronger than what my older brother felt back then!"

"Who are you?"

Tobirama Senju frowned deeply.

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly throughout the entire hall.

All the spirits fell silent instantly, turning their gazes to Chiba.

Chiba straightened up.

He walked down the steps one by one, and came directly to Hashirama and Tobirama.

The aura of a perfect immortal body was released without reservation.

The surrounding space was even slightly distorted by this chakra.

Hashirama Senju dropped his playful grin.

His expression was serious as he stared intently at Chiba.

"You have the scent of the Senju clan on you."

"But why is the aura of Wood Release so domineering?"

Chiba met the gaze of the First Generation, a smile playing on his lips.

Let me introduce myself.

"Senju Chiba".

"The current Fifth Hokage of Konoha."

These words were spoken.

Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju were both stunned.

The Fifth Hokage?

And he's a descendant of the Senju clan?

"Ha! Hahahaha!"

Hashirama Senju slapped his thigh and laughed so loudly it shook the heavens.

"Great! That's wonderful!"

"So it was one of our own people who became Hokage!"

"I knew it! Handing Konoha over to our Senju clan is absolutely no problem!"

Tobirama Senju nodded to himself.

With a member of the Senju clan in power, at least the core of the village will not deviate.

But he remained rational.

"The Godaime."

"Since you ordered us to be awakened, it must be something extremely important."

"Tell me, what crisis has the village encountered?"

"Is it that the other four great nations have joined forces to attack Konoha?"

Tobirama Senju's gaze was sharp as he stared directly into Chiba's eyes.

In his view, unless there was a crisis of annihilation of the village, it was absolutely impossible to use the Impure World Reincarnation technique.

Chiba looked at the group of Konoha's fallen heroes and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"The village is not in crisis."

"On the contrary, Konoha is now very wealthy and very powerful."

"I have awakened you only to inform you of one thing."

Chiba paused for a moment, his voice echoing in the hall.

"I will unify the ninja world."

Dead silence.

Deathly silence.

Whether it's Hashirama Senju or Sakumo Hatake.

All the spirits stared wide-eyed, as if they had heard something unbelievable.

Unify the ninja world?

These four words represent endless war and death!

Tsunade closed her eyes in pain.

Even though she had long understood Chiba's ambitions and expressed her support.

However, to say such things in front of the First Hokage is tantamount to betraying the one-country-one-village system established by the First Hokage.

"Fifth Generation, have you gone mad?"

Mito Uzumaki couldn't help but take a step forward.

"The ninja world has barely managed to maintain its fragile balance; are you going to tear it apart with your own hands?"

"Do you know how many people will die this time?!"

The other undead also frowned.

Although they were ninjas, they did not want to see endless slaughter.

Chiba ignored Mito's accusations.

He simply looked calmly at Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.

"What do you two, the former Hokage, think?"

To everyone's surprise.

Hashirama did not fly into a rage, nor did he reprimand Chiba.

He just stood there quietly, his head bowed, his expression unreadable.

After a while.

Hashirama Senju raised his head and asked a very practical question.

"Chiba, tell me."

How many troops does Konoha have now?

Chiba answered fluently.

"There are more than 30,000 genin on the payroll."

"12,000 Chunin."

"Three thousand special Jonin."

"One thousand one hundred regular Jonin."

"With ample logistical supplies, Konoha's economy will not collapse even if we fight a ten-year war of attrition."

Upon hearing this string of numbers.

Tobirama Senju trembled all over.

This wasn't fear; it was trembling from extreme excitement!

He suddenly turned his head and looked at Hashirama Senju.

"Big brother!"

"We have enough troops!"

"We have enough administrative staff!"

Hashirama Senju let out a heavy sigh.

He raised his cracked arm and patted Chiba's shoulder hard.

"Good lad."

"Go for it!"

At that moment, the entire audience erupted in uproar.

Tsunade could hardly believe her ears.

"grandfather!"

"Are you crazy?!"

"Aren't you the one who yearns for peace the most?"

"Didn't you distribute the Tailed Beasts to the other ninja villages for the sake of peace?!"

It's not just Tsunade.

Kakashi, Hiashi Hyuga, and even Fugaku Uchiha all felt that their brains were not enough to keep up.

The God of Shinobi, the compassionate Hashirama Senju, actually agreed to unify the shinobi world?

"Shut up, Xiaogang."

Tobirama Senju let out a cold shout.

He walked up to the crowd, crossed his arms, and his eyes were filled with chilling coldness.

"You bunch of juniors..."

"Does he really think my older brother is some saint who talks about peace all the time?"

"Use your brains and think about it!"

"My older brother was once known as the God of Ninjas!"

"Was this title earned through mere reasoning?"

"They fought their way through!"

"The valley was filled with the corpses of enemies who died from Wood Release!"

"Why didn't we unify the ninja world back then?"

"Is it because you can't beat them?"

"fart!"

"If my eldest brother wanted to, he could single-handedly wipe out the four great nations!"

"But what happens after we take it down?"

Tobirama Senju's question went straight to the heart of the matter, striking everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer.

Everyone frowned, seemingly lost in thought.

"The Land of Wind is all desert, who will govern it?"

"The people of the Land of Thunder are known for their fierce and unruly nature; who will suppress them?"

"How can a water kingdom, isolated overseas, collect taxes?"

"Back then, Konoha had just been established, and we couldn't even muster a few hundred literate Chunin!"

"There are not enough administrative staff, and there is no complete tax system."

"Even if we conquer the entire country, it will fall apart within three years, plunging into an even more brutal warlord war!"

This is a manifestation of information asymmetry.

The younger generation has treated history like a fairy tale.

Those who truly create history are driven by nothing but naked self-interest and reality.

Tobirama Senju sneered repeatedly.

"That idiot, Madara Uchiha."

"He only knows how to intimidate with force; he doesn't understand governance at all!"

"Rule is not about killing, it's about household registration, provisions, and laws!"

"The reason our leader established the 'one country, one village' system and even voluntarily gave away tailed beasts wasn't for some bullshit 'balance'!"

"It's to buy Konoha time to develop!"

"Sending away tailed beasts is like planting a minefield for them, making them wary of each other and wear each other down."

"And we, Konoha, occupy the most fertile land. What we need to do is explode our population, explode our grassroots civil servants!"

"My elder brother waited his whole life."

"I've waited my whole life too."

"But we didn't live to see that day."

"Now, the fifth generation."

"You already have enough chips in your hand."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"This world should rightfully belong to our Senju clan!"

"..."

As Tobirama Senju finished speaking.

The hall was completely silent.

Uchiha Fugaku broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing this.

So this is... the true face of the Thousand Hands Brothers.

What is this "Will of Fire" and "For Peace"?

That was nothing more than a fig leaf to appease the common people.

In the eyes of a true politician, everything is paving the way for ultimate hegemony.