This is the Uchiha's Attitude

Over the course of half a month, the members of Sosuke Squad were finally preliminarily selected.

Counting Uchiha Shū from the very beginning, there were twelve members in total, all of whom had awakened the Sharingan and were ninjas with considerable skill in Lightning Release. There were plenty of other qualified clan members, but they couldn't join for various reasons at the moment.

"Shū, you're in charge of teaching Chidori." Sosuke directly dumped the work onto the youth.

Compared to the others, Uchiha Shū was the one he could trust more, and Sosuke had thoughts of grooming him into a right-hand man.

As for himself, once his injuries healed, he would naturally start taking on missions again.

[Name: Uchiha Sosuke] [Age: Eight] [Physical Strength: Genin] [Mental Strength: Jonin] [Chakra Amount: Chunin] [Special Abilities: Sharingan (Two Tomoe), Cursed Seal] [Ninja Tools: Short Sword] [Summoning Beast: None] [Points: 4790]

In the short term, it was hard for Sosuke's strength to change drastically. Even his strongest asset, mental strength, had slowed down significantly in its growth over the past few months. To achieve a major boost in power, the best method was to exchange for some special abilities.

For instance, the Cursed Seal allowed him to fight and kill a Jonin head-on with a Genin's body. The next stage of Flying Thunder God would grant unparalleled speed for raids and pursuits, using spatial coordinates to teleport, which would also diversify the tactics he could employ. Beyond that, to enhance combat power, he could also focus on ninja tools and Summoning Beasts.

Just like Fūma Masaki, if a Summoning Beast was used well, the threat it posed was no less than that of ninjutsu.

"As for Summoning Beasts, the best choice is still the Three Great Sage Regions. Through them, I can go learn Sage Mode."

In the end, the Cursed Seal was just a crude application of Nature Energy. In the future, he would inevitably have to learn Sage Mode. Mastering Sage Chakra would directly elevate him to the top tier of Clan Head-level experts, and by then, there would be few in the Land of Fire who could match him.

The path to becoming stronger was clear; what Sosuke lacked most right now was simply time.

The Uchiha's defeat made the other clans realize they weren't an invincible existence. Led by the ostensibly strongest, Fūma Eiichirō, seven or eight clans including the Sarutobi and Shimura jointly formed an offensive-defensive alliance that shook all factions.

No matter which faction it was, if it infringed on the alliance's interests, the eight families would turn their blades outward together. Their momentum was so overwhelming that even the Uchiha had to temporarily avoid their edge.

Over the past month or so, the number of missions the Western Army Corps received had plummeted, gradually showing signs of not covering expenses. For the sake of the clan's interests, Uchiha Shinya decided to endure for a while, not realizing that this was instead seen as weakness in others' eyes.

One day, the Fūma Clan suddenly spread word that Uchiha Sosuke had colluded with the Land of Whirlpools, intending to make huge profits through human trafficking. Afraid others wouldn't believe it, they produced a bunch of bogus evidence, including Sosuke's personal relationship with the Princess of the Land of Whirlpools.

In their words, if there weren't any secret dealings, how could an Uchiha youth possibly have gotten acquainted with the Princess of the Land of Whirlpools? It had to be said, this wave of incitement was handled quite well. Even though it had nothing to do with outsiders, those ordinary people acted like their tails had been stepped on, frantically spewing words.

Seeing the timing was right, the Fūma Clan finally revealed their true intentions, using the excuse of disrupting peace between the clans to demand that the Uchiha hand over the villain. If they refused, there would be no room left for the Uchiha in the western Land of Fire.

This move was very clever, because the enemy knew the Uchiha wouldn't simply comply. Now, they couldn't win in a fight, and both public opinion and the economy were suppressed. It was only a matter of time before the Western Army Corps collapsed.

According to their thinking, the Uchiha would next step up to refute the claims, then try to gather evidence to counter the accusations. But what happened? There was no movement at all from start to finish, as if the Uchiha had decided to completely abandon the Western War Zone.

Was that even possible? Most people refused to believe it, including several clan heads, who all understood this was likely the calm before the storm. In this tense moment, Corps Commander Uchiha Shinya never once left the camp. It was as if he had never even considered carrying out a retaliatory strike.

The Eight-Party Alliance was utterly baffled, and the most plausible conclusion they reached was that the Uchiha were waiting for reinforcements. But everyone had secretly calculated—currently, the entire Uchiha clan had no troops they could mobilize. Maybe Uchiha Tajima had some, but those ninjas had to stay on guard, ready for the Senju Clan to start a war at any moment.

In this tense atmosphere, a small squad suddenly raided the Shimura Clan's base.

"The Uchiha are retaliating." Everyone's spirits lifted, knowing that what was bound to come had finally arrived.

After repeated blows and slander against their reputation, if they chose not to strike back, they wouldn't be the Uchiha.

But no one could have imagined that the Uchiha's counterattack would be so fierce.

For three straight days, the Eight-Direction Family Alliance's strongholds suffered devastating strikes.

It was said that the attackers were a small squad, each member possessing formidable strength and capable of using a Lightning Style ninjutsu that sounded like a thousand birds chirping.

One family tried to encircle them, dispatching a large number of clansmen to set traps.

They did manage to catch them, but when the fighting actually began, they were stunned to realize that their own forces weren't even enough to be worth killing.

Against a team of thirteen, a single simple charge from the enemy would inflict severe casualties on their side.

A large force of over thirty men was completely annihilated in just two minutes, not a single survivor left.

The feast of slaughter ended, and the squad set fire to the enemy's corpses, taking the bait items as their spoils of war.

After this battle, the unit's reputation skyrocketed, becoming executioners that struck fear into every clan.

Later, people learned that the leader of the unit was none other than Uchiha Sosuke, and that ninjutsu like a thousand birds chirping was also his creation.

You slander them, and they retaliate with action.

That was the Uchiha's powerful response.

There is no word for surrender in our dictionary; if we can't survive, we'll drag everyone down with us.

The family that suffered the heaviest losses was the first to withdraw from the Eight-Party Alliance.

Seeing that the Uchiha didn't settle scores afterward, the other families also announced their withdrawal one after another, with some even taking the initiative to send gifts to the Uchiha's stronghold.

In the end, only the Fuma, Sarutobi, and Shimura families remained in a fragile alliance.

As for when it would collapse, even they themselves had no idea.