Will of Yang

Waterproof, dustproof boxes, or other forms of sealed containers—Sealing Scrolls, sealing cards... all of them were extremely high-end storage tools.

The cheapest probably started at a million ryo. As for the most advanced ones, he had never even seen them in the ninja tool shops on Konohagakure's streets.

Following the clues his parents had left behind, he had found a total of five such hidden caches.

The safest place in the Uchiha Clan Grounds—and perhaps the safest place in all of Konohagakure—was the basement beneath Naka Shrine.

After all, even after Planetary Devastation and Shinra Tensei, the basement had remained completely intact.

For concealment, or perhaps as a fallback—a safehouse of sorts—he had never gone inside before. This time, he was worried that whatever emerged after the Release Seal would make too much commotion for his blanket to hide, so he decided to sneak into the shrine's Secret Room.

The entrance beneath the tatami required the special Pupil Power gained after awakening the Sharingan to open. He descended the stairs. A uniform layer of dust covered the floor, and the air was stale, proving that no one had entered this place.

There was a stone tablet carved with harmful rumors. On its face, it recorded some history of the Uchiha and Senju Clans—how ancient they were, how the Sixth was supposedly their ancestor, and so on. There was more fraudulent information, but with his tiny Two Tomoe, he could not make it out.

Aside from a small banner bearing the surname "Uchiha" and a little brazier for lighting, there was nothing else. The rest was one vast, empty area.

Time to unpack the "package"!

Uchiha ocular techniques and secret arts, several ninjutsu scrolls, historical records, gold, an estimated three hundred million ryo in cash, a large number of Explosive Tags, all kinds of ninja tools...

For one person, the quantity of Blade Tools was somewhat terrifying. According to the inventory list that came with the supplies, these were stockpiles from before the Uchiha rebellion, and only part of them at that. The rest were in the hands of several other Uchiha elders. Finding them now would probably be difficult.

It was unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable. After all, Dad had been the clan head, and he had known of Itachi's betrayal. Even if he had not raised an army to destroy Konoha, he could not possibly have let Konoha take all those supplies for free.

There were also the various seemingly useless property deeds belonging to the Uchiha Clan.

He was rich.

If the ninja world did not go to war, and he did not strive to improve himself, he had more than enough to live out his life in comfort.

Unfortunately, he could not think of any way to avoid the wars to come. They would even be fighting aliens. Most Likely, he would Still need to step up, or an entire planet would be raised like livestock by aliens.

It was not that he wanted to be a hero and save people. He just needed somewhere peaceful to retire.

He had money now, but he did not feel much different.

An ordinary man was innocent, but possessing a treasure made him guilty. A family fortune of several million ryo might have been just right for an Uchiha orphan who was not even a genin.

But bringing out more than three hundred million ryo would be far too conspicuous.

For a village, tens of billions or even hundreds of billions might not be much.

The Allied Forces had over eighty thousand people. As the big brother, Konoha had to have at least twenty thousand or so, right?

Genin were practically interns. Not to mention half a year or a year—even in two or three years, they should have advanced to chunin. During these peaceful years, the number of trained ninja had not been large to begin with. Graduation into genin and promotion from genin to chunin were also more strictly controlled. But the ninja who had been selected in excess to deal with wars in the past—who knew how many years ago that had been? They should have become chunin long ago.

Leaving jonin aside for now, chunin definitely made up the bulk of those twenty thousand ninja. He would count them all as chunin for the time being.

The average price of A- and B-rank missions ranged from over a hundred thousand ryo to several hundred thousand ryo. At the very least, they had to complete two or three missions a month. Even by the lowest estimate, Konoha's monthly revenue flow started at two billion ryo. Taking a twenty-percent commission, its official net income would be roughly four hundred million ryo a month.

For more than three hundred million ryo, leaders like Sarutobi and Danzo would probably have to work hard falsifying accounts and embezzling for several months to get that much.

If they discovered his money, even he would find it hard not to make a move in their position. They would definitely strip a little nobody like him clean—whoever acted first got it, whoever acted late got nothing. After all, they had only promised Itachi to spare his life and help manage his New Year's money while he was underage. That did not count as breaking their word.

In the second half of this year, he would enter the third grade. It would also be the first ninja world joint examination since his rebirth.

En'yo Village's fallback—so many Explosive Tags. Naturally, detonating them during the joint examination, when outsiders from other villages would be visiting, would be the best way to make that old dog, the Third Hokage, lose face.

Over nearly a year, he had quietly found several linked trigger wires for Explosive Tags throughout the village. All that remained was to decide when to act.

But one problem troubled him.

If the Villagers did not have homes to live in for the time being, where would they stay?

The undeveloped areas on Konoha's map, the areas awaiting development that were slowly being built up, and the "Uchiha Luxury Suburban Villa District," where only one person remained alive.

If he were the Third Hokage and Konoha suffered a terrorist attack while foreign guests were present, then perhaps, out of consideration for the Uchiha orphan's dignity, he would come over to discuss the Will of Fire and the spirit of dedication.

If they did not care, they would simply arrange for people to move in openly and without hesitation. As for whether they would withdraw after repairs within the village were completed... hehe.

If he could think of something and would certainly do it himself, he had no expectation that Hiruzen Sarutobi would react any differently.

Demolish them. The second purpose of tearing down houses in the Clan Grounds was to first reduce the Uchiha Clan Grounds to an unrecognizable mess. Aside from his own home, it would be best if none of the houses were fit to live in.

Just wait and see. It would not take long.

As for swallowing the Uchiha inheritance, that blame would not reach Tsunade. Before Hiruzen died, he would make him experience En'yo Village's "Will of Yang"—thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river.

Demolishing houses was one thing, but he had to do it one building at a time. Konoha needed time to get used to it. He needed to show where the materials from the demolished houses went and provide a reasonable explanation.

Otherwise, suddenly tearing down houses for no reason would definitely make people overthink things and question his motives. Even if nothing else seemed abnormal at the time, once the demolition plan began shortly afterward and they needed places to resettle refugees, linking his actions to it would be no different from walking into a trap.

Judging by how efficiently he had torn down several houses so far, it was unlikely to be carried out within the next year or two.

Without the Byakugan, he could only continuously release Chakra and explore step by step, like sweeping for mines. Whenever he sensed a special substance that Chakra could extend along, he would dig open the ground or building to check whether there was an Explosive Tag trap.

Of course, once Sasuke discovered something unusual, he could not dig it up. That would be far too suspicious. Someone was bound to be watching him. The moment he left, they would come inspect it, and then he truly would have no way to explain himself.

"Those evil Uchiha have been plotting this for a long time."

"The Uchiha have never given up their ambition to destroy Konoha."

"Even if we must perish together with that Uchiha rogue ninja, this child absolutely cannot be spared!"

Yeah, his death would definitely be miserable. If he were Hokage, he would not even be able to come up with a suitable excuse before the other three members of F4.

Something about a seed of disaster left behind by the Uchiha? Then why had Sasuke searched for such things instead of reporting them? He must have discovered some final words from his parents, grown resentful, and prepared to inherit the evil Uchiha will to take revenge on Konoha.

Thinking so badly of the Konoha High Command from a subjective standpoint, imagining all sorts of grudges between himself and Konoha, seemed rather laughable.

But the Uchiha massacre was a fact.

The disappearance of so much Uchiha property was also a fact.

Truth or False, in everyone else's eyes, he was Uchiha.

If these disasters truly descended upon him once again, it would not be funny at all.