The Great Hero Uchiha

You can do it, so come on!

Before Kurenai could speak, Asuma Sarutobi spoke first, saying, "I'm really fine. I just feel like I was too naive and impulsive before... I always thought that Kakashi was able to become a Chunin in a year because he leveled up quickly on the battlefield, and that I could be just as good as him if I went to the battlefield."

Now I understand.

Uchiha Miyuki curled his lip in disdain.

Although Kakashi was the brightest new star among the new generation in the village during this period, and no one could ignore the brilliance he radiated, Sarutobi Asuma always talked about Kakashi, not because Kakashi was particularly outstanding at this time, but entirely because Kurenai Yuhi admired Kakashi.

This battle not only spurred Sarutobi Asuma, but also Kurenai Yuhi.

The two of them made the most of every minute to carry out various training exercises. However, their training was not aimed at all-round development, but rather at targeted training based on the team's tactics. Genin and Chunin have limited strength and energy, so they cannot be as well-rounded as Jonin. Therefore, they always went into groups of three for each mission.

Uchiha Miyuki continued to hone his genjutsu talent through extreme training.

Incidentally, he was training his control over chakra in a very rigorous way. Since his total chakra reserves were too low to improve, he could only resort to this tactic of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao".

As for Fire Release?

The amount of chakra is too small, making training too strenuous, so it can only be put aside for the time being.

Physical techniques?

My energy is limited.

Even his favorite Uchiha throwing techniques have been temporarily put aside. Before mastering chakra form transformation, the power ceiling of shuriken is too low. He doesn't have much energy to train chakra form transformation right now. Moreover, even if he does master form transformation, without special ninjutsu to match with, his throwing techniques will only serve as a harassment when facing Kage-level powerhouses in the future.

These drawbacks can be addressed gradually as our strength increases.

Uchiha Miyuki's thinking is the normal path to advancement for an ordinary ninja; the only difference is that he is more extreme than others.

Ordinary ninjas combine the three body techniques with taijutsu during their genin years. Only after their total chakra reserves increase during their chunin years do they begin to focus on improving their ninjutsu. This way, they gradually increase their strength and reduce their weaknesses. Only super geniuses with extremely comprehensive talents like Kakashi and Itachi Uchiha, as well as those with cheat-like abilities, can ignore this rule.

10. Back to the village

Time flies, and a month has quietly passed.

The battle between Sunagakure and Konoha on the front lines has not changed at all because of the incident a year ago. Sunagakure plots to deplete Konoha's manpower by targeting Konoha's genin squads, and Konoha does the same. This is the norm on the front lines. Even if Sunagakure's operation was slightly larger in scale that time and caused considerable losses to Konoha, the situation would not have changed.

Both sides will work to maintain the current situation and prevent the war from escalating further.

The Sand Village was worried that if it went too far in its fight against the Leaf Village, it would attract the attention of other ninja villages who would take advantage of its misfortune.

Konoha needs to consider the situation in other war zones.

However, that incident still affected the lives of Uchiha Miyuki and his two companions. Perhaps it was Orochimaru, or perhaps it was the Third Hokage who felt they couldn't let them slack off too much, so patrol missions started to increase from this point on. During this time, they encountered two ambushes by Chunin squads from Sunagakure. Fortunately, Sarutobi Asuma and Yuhi Kurenai became very cautious under Uchiha Miyuki's influence, and each time they escaped unharmed.

Although Sarutobi Asuma's personality had become much more composed, he still sighed at this moment.

"Obito and Rin have both been promoted to Chunin."

Not only Obito and Rin, but many of the genin who graduated at the same time as them have been promoted to chunin, but the vast majority are still genin like them.

Compared to Sarutobi Asuma, Yuhi Kurenai wasn't as sensitive to this, so she simply responded with a nod.

Uchiha Miyuki nodded expressionlessly.

Whether he was a Chunin or not was completely unimportant. If he could, he'd want to remain a Genin for life, though his strength would at least reach Kage level, to avoid dying in the "Night of the Clan Massacre." Although, according to current information, the Night of the Clan Massacre was likely a staged death for the Uchiha clan to facilitate their transition from the open to the shadows and to appease their superiors—

He was still somewhat worried.

Currently, the Uchiha clan and Konoha do not have any major disagreements, and they have a great deal of influence in the village. In fact, if Uchiha Kagami, who served as a member of the Second Hokage's elite guard, had not died alongside the Second Hokage at the hands of the Gold and Silver Brothers in World War I, the position of Third Hokage might very well belong to the Uchiha clan.

but!

Whether things will remain the same after the Nine-Tails' attack is uncertain.

After all, Minato Namikaze was attacked by Obito Uchiha that night, and then he and the Third Hokage saw the Sharingan in the Nine-Tails' eyes.

It's not impossible that the relationship between the Uchiha clan and the village could deteriorate rapidly.

Seeing that his two teammates remained unmoved, the naturally competitive Sarutobi Asuma was somewhat frustrated, yet helpless. All three of them had already improved their strength to the level of elite genin during this year of training, but they were still some distance away from chunin. Although not by much, at the current pace, it would still take another year to improve their strength to the level of chunin.

This is without considering merit points. If one cannot accumulate enough merit points in the coming year, even with Chunin strength, one still cannot be promoted to Chunin.

After a moment of silence, Sarutobi Asuma finally spoke.

"I've decided to go back to the village."

In the past two years, the three of them only returned to the village twice. Konoha had just emerged from the shadow of World War II and hadn't even had a chance to catch their breath when Jiraiya and Tsunade left the world. They also had to face pressure from the other four ninja villages on the front lines and assign some elite Chunin to complete various missions.

The number of ninjas at each level has been insufficient, a situation that has only improved in the last two years.

Otherwise, they might not be able to return to the village even once every two years, let alone now that Sarutobi Asuma has said that Ou has taken the initiative to apply to return to the village.

Faced with such a proposal, Uchiha Miyuki immediately chimed in in agreement.

"Yes, that's right, I also want to go back and rest for a while."

No matter how low the danger level on the front line is, it's still safer to stay in the village. Besides, he also needs to go back and deal with the spoils he's collected over the past year, as well as select a few ninja crows with strong chakra.

The two had already made up their minds, and Kurenai Yuhi naturally had no objections.

The three submitted their applications, which were approved the following day. As he left the front lines, he encountered Orochimaru for the first time in two years.

Do not!

To be precise, it was their first meeting outside of the battlefield.

Long black hair draped over his body, covering half of his face, revealing only the right side of his face, showing his long, golden pupils.

At this time, Orochimaru did not appear as sinister as he would later become. He was only slightly gloomy and had a very strong aura, but there was nothing particularly special about him. All the Konoha ninjas around him, including Sarutobi Asuma and Kurenai Yuhi, respected Orochimaru very much. This made Uchiha Miyuki very suspicious of whether Orochimaru had completely turned to the dark side at this stage.

He was staring at Orochimaru, but Orochimaru didn't look back at him with any reciprocation.

The three of them had just graduated from the Ninja Academy and their strength was barely enough to qualify as Genin. However, after two years of training, they had all reached a level close to Chunin. Originally, it would have taken them three days to get back to the village, but now they only took two days. If they had marched at full speed, they could have gotten back to the village in half a day.

If Uchiha Miyuki's taijutsu hadn't been so poor, this speed could have been even faster.

Of course, the reason I was able to get back so quickly was thanks to the help of a large spirit beast; otherwise, it would have taken at least a week to get back to the village on foot.

Standing at the village entrance, waiting for the screening to begin.

Uchiha Miyuki couldn't help but sigh.

"It's been so long—"

Sarutobi Asuma immediately echoed his sentiment with a sigh.

"Yes."

Red sunset.

"The village has changed so much."

Konoha has changed a lot in the past two years. When they left, the village was very desolate, with only two or three out of ten shops open. Now, the streets are full of vendors and there are more pedestrians.

The management of Konoha nowadays is not as strange as it is in later generations. Every ninja has to report their missions to the Hokage, and even if Sarutobi Asuma is in the team, they do not have such privileges.

The three chatted briefly on the street before parting ways and going their separate ways home.

Within the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Miyuki remained almost invisible, attracting virtually no attention.

"You're back."

"Ah."

How long will you rest after you get back?

"Asuma's main purpose in coming back this time is to have the Third Hokage guide his training. There haven't been any changes at the front lines, and he won't be back until at least a month later."

Uchihachi Hakoku nodded upon hearing this.

"You did a great job on this mission. Take two days off and then report to the police department."

"Oh."

Uchiha Miyuki had no questions.

The Uchiha clan now not only has to allocate troops to support the front line, but also has to support the entire police department in managing the security of Konoha. The first two times he came back, he only rested for two days, and even spent one day working at the police department, dealing with some trivial disputes among the people and various security issues, which gave him a headache all day.

11. The origin of the D-rank and C-rank quests in the village

Naruto depicts the story of a group of people, but in reality, there are many more than just that group of people.

In fact, Konoha has nearly 400,000 square meters of living space, nearly 70,000 permanent residents, and nearly 30,000 transient residents.

From the moment Uchiha Miyuki arrived at the police department to report for duty, he was so busy he couldn't stop.

Lost cats, lost dogs, wild boars harassing the fields... all these kinds of incidents were handed over to the administration department to issue D and C-level missions, which were then handled by those genin who had just graduated from the academy. Uchiha Miyuki felt like a civil servant sitting in an office, not a ninja at all.

As for the other Uchiha clan members?

Arrogance and conceit in the face of the poor? Self-righteousness? Pride?

None of that was there. All he saw were rows of civil servants running themselves ragged, and he couldn't discern any conflict between the police department and ordinary people.

He was already immune to this, after all, he was a mature Uchiha who had awakened his will to protect.

These are actually not difficult to understand.

If the Uchiha clan were truly as one-sided as depicted in the manga, there would be no Madara Uchiha, no Konoha as it is today, no place where they could have taken root, and the police department would not have been able to operate normally under the control of the Uchiha clan for decades.

"There's a fight going on, Yuyuki, go and take care of it."

"Oh."

Uchiha Miyuki straightened his uniform and headed to the crime scene.

"Sir, this person not only doesn't watch where he's going and stepped on my foot, but he also didn't apologize and even hit me!"

"Sir, don't listen to his nonsense. I did accidentally step on his foot and apologized immediately, but he started swearing at me. I was so angry that I hit him."

Uchiha Miyuki glanced at the two of them and then spoke directly.

"Come on, follow me to the police department."

In fights where both sides have conflicting accounts, there's little evidence, and no major problems have arisen, the police department usually takes both individuals to the station first and waits until they've calmed down before resolving the situation. Unless they encounter thugs or hooligans, these fights are generally resolved perfectly in the end.

Upon hearing that they were to go to the police department, both of them panicked a little, but both felt that they had been wronged and that they were in the right.

After returning to the police department and leaving the two in the mediation room, Uchiha Miyuki went to deal with other public security issues.

By the end of the day, Uchiha Miyuki had resolved five fights and brawls, three cases of missing children, and compiled sixteen D-rank missions and one C-rank mission, which he then handed over to the administration department.