Under the cover of night.
The Uchiha Clan Compound.
Uchiha Madara, clad in pure-black armor, had gathered the remaining members of the Uchiha Clan.
Not long ago, the battle between Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju had drawn to a close, which also meant that the struggle between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had officially been decided.
Unfortunately, Madara had lost, and the Uchiha Clan had lost with him.
Hashirama Senju, a freak with utterly overpowered stats, had defeated Uchiha Madara by a narrow margin. Going by the Senju Clan's usual methods, Uchiha Madara should have been mercilessly killed, while the remaining Uchiha would have been hunted down by the Senju like stray dogs.
Fortunately,
the current leader of the Senju Clan was Hashirama Senju. He had known Uchiha Madara since childhood. Even though the obstacles posed by their clans had driven them onto the battlefield, they had still forged a deep bond through battle after battle.
Hashirama Senju had not only spared the defeated Uchiha Madara, but also wanted to reclaim their childhood dream together—building the village they had always envisioned.
Uchiha Madara simply did not trust Hashirama Senju's words. He was determined to die, and for that reason, he posed a difficult question to Hashirama Senju.
"Reconciliation?"
"Return my brother's life first!"
"Hashirama, either kill your brother, Tobirama Senju, or commit suicide right now!"
Uchiha Madara believed that Hashirama Senju could never solve the dilemma he had thrown at him. In Madara's view, Hashirama Senju would never kill his own brother. As for suicide, Madara did not believe Hashirama Senju would choose to die for his sake either.
What Uchiha Madara had not expected was that Hashirama Senju would truly be willing to exchange his life for peace between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.
And then
Uchiha Madara was completely won over.
The Senju Succubus was terrifying indeed!
Uchiha Madara looked at the clansmen before him. After taking a deep breath, he slowly spoke in a slightly hoarse voice: "My clansmen, the battle between the Uchiha and the Senju ends here. I have decided to accept the Senju Clan's truce agreement and bring this conflict to an end."
"From now on, the Uchiha Clan will establish a ninja village together with the Senju Clan."
The atmosphere at the scene fell deathly silent. The Uchiha were all stunned by Uchiha Madara's decision.
Could a thousand years of blood feud really end just like that?
Before dying at the hands of the Senju Clan, those clansmen had still shouted that the Uchiha would completely destroy the Senju and avenge them.
Besides, what difference was this so-called truce agreement from a surrender agreement?!
"The proud Uchiha will never surrender!"
But ideals were full and reality was bony.
After their brief outburst of emotion, the Uchiha slowly regained their reason.
The Uchiha Clan had actually already lost. Uchiha Madara had been defeated by Hashirama Senju, and had survived only because of their bond from the past.
Hashirama Senju's peerless strength was enough to extinguish the resentment and thirst for revenge burning in the hearts of every Uchiha present.
At that very moment,
Uchiha Makoto stepped out from the listless crowd. Yes, he was a transmigrator. In his previous life, as a devoted anime fan, he had spent years frequenting Bilibili, Baidu Tieba, Zhihu, and various other websites, playing keyboard warrior online. Then one day, he received a truck's personal attention and came to this damned Naruto world.
Uchiha Makoto still remembered the excitement he had felt when he first transmigrated. He had crossed into another world, he was a cheat character, and he had a system backing him!
Then, very quickly,
his excitement turned into disappointment, or even despair.
The system was like this.
Ninja Village Prosperity System: The more prosperous and powerful the ninja village under your command becomes, the more generous the rewards Uchiha Makoto will receive. System Activation Requirement—Become the leader of a ninja village.
Damn it!
Become the leader of a ninja village?
What kind of trash system had an activation requirement like that?
Uchiha Makoto had transmigrated far too early in the timeline!
The Konoha forehead-protector village had not even been founded yet!
Uchiha Sasuke, Naruto Uzumaki, and Hinata Hyuga—the characters Uchiha Makoto had known so well in his previous life—had not even been born. All the supposed foresight he had gained from staying up late to follow the anime and its plot was completely useless in this timeline!
He had transmigrated into the Warring States Period!
The Warring States Period was so chaotic that it was not only the ninja who fought like mad—even ordinary people were practically beating each other senseless. He had survived until now entirely because he was cautious enough. Whenever he went on a mission, he did everything possible to gather intelligence and prepared his trump-card Explosive Tags and Ration Pills.
Of course, there was one point that mattered most of all!
Whenever danger appeared, he had to put his teammates in front of him first!
So what if he possessed the Three Tomoe Sharingan?
Izuna Uchiha had possessed the Mangekyō Sharingan as well, and had still been outmaneuvered to death by Tobirama Senju!
Besides,
why did he have to become the leader of a village?
According to the course of the story, Konoha would soon be founded.
Konoha's First Hokage would be Hashirama Senju.
The Second Hokage...
Without a doubt, it would be Tobirama Senju.
Even Uchiha Madara had failed to compete with Tobirama Senju, so there was even less reason to mention himself.
As for competing to become the Third Hokage, Uchiha Makoto believed he might have a chance against Hiruzen Sarutobi. But that would require waiting until Tobirama Senju died during peace negotiations between Konoha and Kumogakure, and that was many years away.
Uchiha Makoto did not think he could wait that long. It was fine to say, "Don't look down on the poor youth," but "Don't look down on the poor elderly" would not work!
The only way to activate the system was to find a way to establish himself independently!
Create his own ninja village!
Now was the perfect opportunity!
"Lord Madara, our Uchiha Clan is supposed to reconcile with the Senju Clan and make peace?"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Our dead clansmen are still waiting for us to avenge them! If we stop now, then did the clansmen who fought alongside us just recently die for nothing?"
"I absolutely cannot accept this!"
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Uchiha Makoto walked up to Uchiha Madara and spoke indignantly.
He knew that reconciliation between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan, followed by the joint establishment of Konoha, was inevitable. But if he wanted to establish himself independently, he had to find a way to separate himself from the Uchiha Clan.
And using the thousand-year blood feud between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan was the best excuse. Ideally, he could lead a small portion of the Uchiha away from the clan.
The emotions of the Uchiha present were stirred up by Uchiha Makoto once again, and they began cheering him on from behind.
Uchiha Makoto's words were highly infectious. If Uchiha Madara was willing to lead the Uchiha in one more charge, they were willing to follow him through life and death!
But Uchiha Madara felt terrible. A dark shadow appeared across his face.
He could understand what the Uchiha were thinking. But the clan had already shed too much blood.
A thousand years of blood feud meant that you killed me, I killed you, and the cycle continued through generation after generation. If he wanted to end it all, bloodshed might be unavoidable—even if the blood belonged to his own clansmen.
Yes, that's right!
I'm doing the right thing!
Most importantly... Hashirama.
Hashirama, if you were facing the Senju clansmen, you would probably make the same choice, right?
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