Uchiha Makoto stood there, sighing in regret, his face filled with concern for the future of the Uchiha Clan.
Uchiha Makoto took the task of building himself an image as someone wholeheartedly devoted to the Uchiha Clan very seriously!
With such an image in place, it would be much easier for him to poach Konoha's people in the future.
The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire quietly observed Uchiha Makoto's expression.
The worried look on Uchiha Makoto's face did not seem feigned. He appeared to genuinely believe that the Uchiha Clan would one day perish because of the Senju Clan!
Of course it was not an act!
Because in the future...
If everything in this world followed the original plotline, the Uchiha Clan really could be driven to extinction several decades later!
The entire Uchiha Clan would be slaughtered by Uchiha Itachi! Only his younger brother, Second Pillar, would remain.
For a single sapling to grow into a forest, for one person to develop into a clan, was no simple matter.
And Second Pillar was not even ambitious enough. If he wanted to revive the entire Uchiha Clan, why did he not do everything he could to build a harem?!
He only married one woman—Sakura.
Not having a harem was one thing!
But at the very least, he should have planted his seed diligently.
Damn it, he spent all day drifting through the Ninja World like a lonely ghost, neglecting the Uchiha Clan's great cause.
He was satisfied with having only one daughter!
He did not even have a son!
That daughter would probably be snatched away by the little blondie from the Uzumaki Family. According to the customs of that island nation, women changed their surnames to follow their husbands after marriage.
As for the children they bore, there was even less need to mention it.
The Uchiha Clan in the original story was probably doomed sooner or later!
Still, Second Pillar was a pitiful victim, so he could not be blamed too harshly.
The greatest butcher was still Uchiha Itachi!
That weasel—damn it, it seemed no one had ever taught him what family was, what parents and relatives were, or how to distinguish friend from foe. Hmm... thinking about it carefully, it really did seem that no one had taught him those things.
When Uchiha Itachi was four years old, his "cowardly" father, Uchiha Fugaku, had dragged him onto the battlefield to get his first taste of killing.
In such a hellish environment, it was honestly not easy for him to survive. On the battlefield, kunai and shuriken had no eyes. Even though Uchiha Itachi was Uchiha Fugaku's eldest son and held an honored position, with elite Uchiha Clan ninja secretly following him as bodyguards, no one could guarantee that accidents would not happen. Nawaki had been blown to death by an Explosive Tag. There were simply too many accidents on the battlefield!
His damned father, Uchiha Fugaku, never gave Uchiha Itachi any psychological guidance. The moment he saw that Uchiha Itachi had awakened the Sharingan, he was so delighted that he forgot everything. He completely forgot that Uchiha Itachi had awakened it after witnessing a comrade's death. He merely left him to fend for himself, occasionally using the clan's glory to PUA Uchiha Itachi.
Hmph! At least that old man Hiruzen Sarutobi praised Uchiha Itachi for possessing the thinking of a Hokage at such a young age.
With the Uchiha Clan's uniquely bitter and brooding temperament, plus all sorts of other factors, Uchiha Itachi had begun pondering the relationship between the clan and the village at an age when he should have been pissing himself and playing with mud.
And what was the thinking of a Hokage?
It was the Hokage's stance, damn it!
Yet Uchiha Fugaku had been smug, thinking his son possessed the bearing of a Hokage!
Uchiha Itachi's stance and loyalties were already crooked, so there was nothing more to discuss!
Of course.
All the tragedies that would befall the Uchiha Clan in the future could be traced back to the present!
Was Uchiha Madara at fault?
He merely wanted to "live together as a pair" with Hashirama Senju and fulfill the childhood dream they had made together—to bring peace to the Ninja World!
It was all the fault of that Naturally Evil Tobirama Senju!
At the very beginning of Konoha's founding, Tobirama Senju had single-handedly created anti-Jew—no, Anti-Uchihaism!
That was why Uchiha Revivalism would flourish within the Uchiha Clan in the future!
The Uchiha Clan had suffered systematic oppression from Konoha!
"Makoto, you are too nervous!"
"Your Uchiha Clan is a bloodline ninja clan that has endured in the Ninja World for a thousand years. As long as your Uchiha Clan abandons its illusions, faces reality, and begins to struggle!"
"Then even the Senju Clan will not be able to make your Uchiha Clan perish!"
The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire still wore a smile, gently offering Uchiha Makoto consolation.
What he said was indeed correct.
As long as the Uchiha Clan abandoned its illusions, faced reality, and continued to struggle!
Then the Uchiha Clan would certainly be able to escape its fate of extinction.
Especially Uchiha Madara.
If he wanted to preserve the Uchiha Clan, he still had many options.
After all, Uchiha Madara merely could not defeat Hashirama Senju head-on. Against the other Senju Clan members, he could crush them unilaterally.
At worst, he could specifically hunt down the other members of the Senju Clan until Hashirama Senju compromised—
"The Senju Clan will not deploy Hashirama Senju, and the Uchiha Clan will certainly not deploy Uchiha Madara."
Without Hashirama Senju.
All that remained was a mere Tobirama Senju. No matter how powerful he was individually, he could not establish any fundamental advantage over the Uchiha Clan.
For the Uchiha Clan, this situation could even be said to put the advantage on their side.
The Uchiha Clan's Sharingan was naturally suited to awakening in the brutal and harsh environment of the Warring States Era.
The harsher the environment, the stronger the Uchiha Clan could become. This was an advantage the Senju Clan could never catch up to.
Moreover, the Uchiha Clan's Three Tomoe Sharingan could wield two exceptionally terrifying ocular techniques—Izanagi and Izanami!
Izanagi was an ocular technique that displayed the Uchiha Clan's ultimate Yin Release. Its activation requirements were harsh: it required sacrificing one Three Tomoe Sharingan, but it possessed the tremendous power to distort and rewrite reality. Simply put, it was a revival token—and if used properly, it could even function as a group revival token!
Izanami was equally costly to use, likewise requiring the sacrifice of one Three Tomoe Sharingan. When cast in battle, it could pull an enemy into a Genjutsu space the instant their eyes met. Unless the enemy recognized their own mistakes and saw reality clearly, they would remain trapped within that Genjutsu space. Its effect was practically a miniature Infinite Tsukuyomi!
With these two ultimate forbidden techniques, how could the Uchiha Clan possibly lose?!
Even if Tobirama Senju had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, he could still easily be killed on their first encounter!
The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire continued comforting Uchiha Makoto, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages for him.
But—
These seemingly consoling words were actually fanning the flames!
How could the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan abandon their thousand-year blood feud and make peace?!
They had to fight! They absolutely had to fight!
I want to see blood flow like a river, damn it!
It would be best if Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju fought until the sky darkened and the earth dimmed, until they perished together!
If you two bastards do not die, how am I supposed to sleep?!
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