The Great Hero Uchiha

Ninjas will eventually have to go to the battlefield, so naturally they need to experience the atmosphere of the battlefield in advance so that they won't die so easily on the battlefield in the future. However... this kind of education is too cruel.

Normally, I shouldn't get involved in this kind of thing, but after hesitating for a moment, I still spoke up.

"Let him go back to his tribe. The war won't last two years."

He actually wanted to say that no descendant of the clan should appear on the battlefield before the age of ten, but he swallowed his words back. No matter what, he was no longer the clan leader, and Uchiha Itachi was Uchiha Fugaku's son. From any perspective, this was not his place to interfere.

Even so, it was still a challenge to the authority of Uchiha Fugaku as the clan head.

Fugaku Uchiha was not angry. Instead, he stared at Miyuki Uchiha for a long time before letting Itachi Uchiha sit down beside him and speaking.

"I've heard about your ideas too."

"..."

Uchiha Miyuki didn't speak, he just stared calmly at Uchiha Fugaku.

"There are even quite a few of your supporters among the ninjas here."

After a pause, Fugaku Uchiha spoke up: "You've heard about the Guardian Clan from Nagasora, haven't you?"

Again?!

Do you really think I've wasted over a decade watching Naruto?!

In the four years since becoming a ninja, as his strength has increased and he has come into contact with more and more things, he has become more certain that the idea of ​​protecting the clan was just his father's personal view of the clan. He never expected that the clan head would bring it up again now.

134. So showy it's mind-boggling.

After Fugaku Uchiha used genjutsu to make Itachi Uchiha faint, he spoke to Miyuki Uchiha.

"The village was almost entirely built by our clan and the Senju clan together. At that time, there was some estrangement between our clan and the village. However, it was not irreparable at that time. It was only later, with the defection of Uchiha Madara, that the rift became even wider. In particular, the First Hokage died at the hands of Uchiha Madara, and the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, succeeded to the throne with this hatred."

The rift between the family and the village has widened to the point of near irreparable damage.

To be precise, the rift between us and the village leadership is widening. Our clan may seem to be doing well now, but in reality, we have been subjected to both overt and covert targeting by the village.

The family has been trying various methods to mend this rift.

The clan's ideology of protecting the clan was actually born in this process. However, no matter what concessions we make or how we change ourselves, this rift cannot be repaired and will not change. If the Fourth Hokage is still a successor of the Senju lineage, then the future Hokage position can only come from the Senju lineage, and our clan will eventually turn to the opposite side of the village because of this rift.

Our generation is more tolerant.

Your generation is also tolerant.

What about the next generation?

Uchiha Miyuki was a little stunned, not expecting that Uchiha Fugaku could see things so clearly.

After a pause, Fugaku Uchiha continued.

“Your father told you about the idea of ​​protecting the clan, so he must have also told you that some clansmen who lack talent would fake their deaths and disperse into smaller groups. That was just a compromise and a way to curry favor with the higher-ups. However… even though we have humbled ourselves so much, and even the clansman who was most likely to become Hokage died mysteriously without any investigation, the rift has not changed at all.”

So I had prepared for the worst and secretly used this strategy of breaking up the whole group into smaller parts to transfer a small group of people out of the village.

Even if one day, our lineage encounters some misfortune.

The Uchiha clan's bloodline will not be severed as a result.

Uchiha Miyuki didn't know if Uchiha Fugaku had made such a plan in the original work, but according to normal thinking, since Uchiha Fugaku was able to accept the annihilation of his clan, he must have had some backup plan beforehand.

however!

Based on the content of the original work—

This bloodline, which was transferred out, ultimately could not escape the pursuit of the Konoha leadership.

Fugaku Uchiha sighed and conveyed his last words to Miyuki Uchiha through his Sharingan: "If even you can't become Hokage, there's no hope of staying in the village any longer... Since this place can't accept us, then you should lead your clan to escape the village and find a new home."

"As long as you're here, the family can rebuild itself wherever it goes."

Uchiha Miyuki was at a loss for words and silently watched Uchiha Fugaku.

The two just stared at each other without saying a word.

Until Uchiha Miyuki silently nodded.

"I see."

Regardless of the true situation of the Uchiha clan, if someone with such high prestige cannot become Hokage, then there is no need for them to continue staying in Konoha.

Currently, the Land of Bears is not short of troops, but the Hidden Mist Village has always been precise in its timing, launching small-scale raids and then withdrawing, stretching the battle lines too far. No matter how many troops there are, it is impossible to encircle the entire coastline. They can only deploy troops in key areas to fight defensive counterattacks. As long as the Hidden Mist Village does not launch a large-scale attack, they will remain invincible.

Overall, the war in Kumogakure was relatively peaceful.

While developing new ninjutsu, Uchiha Miyuki also practiced Water Release techniques.

Water-based combat has a huge advantage.

All the Water Release techniques below Rank B were replicated using the Sharingan. This included not only Water Release but also Fire Release and Lightning Release. For those above Rank B, only Water Release was trained for the time being.

This went on for a long time!

A full six months have passed.

The war between Kumogakure and Sunagakure ended, with Sunagakure ultimately repelling the Kumogakure invasion. Rasa became the Fourth Kazekage as a result. On another battlefield, the Third Raikage fought against as many as 10,000 Iwa ninja alone to allow his comrades to escape. He fought for three days and three nights before dying from exhaustion.

The previously favorable situation for Konoha has once again descended into chaos.

In order to redeem themselves from the previous failure of the Land of Rivers strategy, Sunagakure restarted the Land of Rivers battlefield after electing the Fourth Kazekage.

Seeing that Kumogakure did not respond, Iwagakure once again redeployed its forces to invade the Land of Grass and the Land of Waterfall, seeking revenge against Uchiha Miyuki.

In order to elect the Fourth Raikage, and because the new generation of the AB combination had not yet grown up and was not capable of avenging themselves against Iwagakure, Kumogakure temporarily put aside their grudge against the Third Raikage and focused their attention on Konoha, which was once again surrounded by the four great nations. They wanted to tear a piece of Konoha apart and elect the Fourth Raikage.

Even Kirigakure (Hidden Mist Village) is starting to stir.

Konoha lost a precious year that allowed it to escape the Third Shinobi World War!

When Uchiha Miyuki received this news, he was completely dumbfounded. How could they have had such a huge advantage before, and now the situation had turned back to this?!

Looking at this battle report.

I couldn't help but laugh at the antics of Konoha's higher-ups.

They're truly hopeless!

Anyone with a brain could take advantage of the favorable situation and make some preparations. They could simply transfer a large-scale military force from Iwagakure to Kumogakure and sit back and watch the two sides fight to the death. Alternatively, they could launch an attack while Kumogakure was engaged in a three-way conflict and cripple them. Wouldn't that eliminate one of their opponents?

They're geniuses to have managed to bring the situation back to its current state!

Upon realizing this, Uchiha Miyuki paused for a moment.

Could it be that the higher-ups want to erase his previous prestige and deliberately allow the situation to evolve back to its current state?

Danzo wanted to retrace the steps he had taken before.

Pingding the sand dunes? Drying up the rocky outcrops?

The Third Hokage wanted Minato Namikaze to gain more prestige in the war to suppress him.

—Awesome!

This is seriously amazing!

Uchiha Miyuki couldn't contain himself and burst into laughter. Fortunately, there was no one else around, otherwise everyone would have thought he had gone mad.

It took him a long time to suppress his laughter.

He calmly resumed practicing his ninjutsu, knowing that no matter what the future held, becoming stronger would give him more options to deal with it.

After returning to camp.

Fugaku Uchiha asked.

Did you receive the message?

"understood."

What are your thoughts?

Uchiha Miyuki gave an irrelevant answer.

"After testing the waters for so long, Kirigakure should be getting impatient soon."

Fugaku Uchiha was stunned for a moment. The answer to this situation was already very clear: the position of Fourth Hokage could not be held by the Uchiha clan. He had originally planned to discuss with Miyuki Uchiha where to relocate the clan, but Miyuki Uchiha gave this answer. After thinking about it for a moment, he understood that Miyuki Uchiha had not given up.

Fugaku Uchiha sighed.

If he could, he wouldn't want the situation to develop in the worst possible way. Who would want to leave their homeland unless forced to do so?

Version 134 has been updated; here's a brief overview.

I've exceeded the word limit, so I can't post this in the author's notes section.

Only one chapter can be published.

I didn't really want to say this, but seeing how seriously you're having this discussion, I'll share my thoughts.

Regarding the detonation tag issue.

Actually, I considered the feasibility of this tactic after seeing readers' suggestions.

It was ultimately rejected.

I have considered many possible scenarios in which this set of tactics could be used.

First of all, eighty meters is not the limit for a ninja; it's just that this ninja used the eighty-meter water depth to get close.

Secondly, this strategy has too many limitations. It is only suitable for surprise attacks and large-scale battles. It is too ineffective against single enemies. Even tens of thousands of explosive tags may not be enough to achieve a blockade.

The cost is too high.

After all, ninjas are highly mobile.

Even if the attack is carried out without the enemy noticing, such a commotion would alert the enemy.

In a group battle, each person used a ninjutsu to sweep away all the explosive tags, giving them no chance to sink into the sea. The surface explosions were not powerful enough to threaten the ninjas.

The only feasible method is to use Wind Release chakra to attach to each explosive tag kunai, thereby enhancing the kunai's mobility. This is one of the reasons why I mentioned Wind Release earlier.

However, even so, it's not very practical, and the protagonist doesn't have wind attributes.

And this doesn't even take into account whether the detonator can be at that depth underwater, or whether it can actually explode.