Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju, You've Shamed Your Ancestors for Eighteen Generations

You had thrown it all away!

Did ninja have ambitions?

Did ninja want to rebel?

Could their own rule truly be passed down unbroken for ten thousand generations?

These were all matters that deeply worried the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire. To preserve their rule, the Daimyo had racked their brains to prepare an ideological cage for ninja—the Ninja Tool Theory.

Ninja poisoned by this way of thinking would do everything possible to complete the tasks assigned by their employers, without considering the meaning behind those tasks.

Yet even though reality had already been twisted into the shape the Daimyo wished to see, it could not change their nature. They were nothing more than paper tigers. They seemed lofty and untouchable on the surface, but in truth, they possessed only power, not strength.

As long as there was a powerful ninja willing to defy the world, that alone would be enough to drag them down from their pedestal.

Even if Hashirama Senju had not done such a thing, as time passed, the Ninja Clan Era would eventually give way to the Ninja Village Era.

The authority of ninja leaders would become centralized and strengthened. The Kage could reduce the Daimyo to puppets, while a single rogue ninja who defected from a major ninja village could easily conquer a small country.

By then, ninja would naturally discover certain interesting things.

Uchiha Makoto knew very well where the future was headed, as well as what the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire was thinking now.

"Your Highness, the battle between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan has completely ended."

The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire's expression froze briefly before surprise appeared on his face. "It ended?"

"It has completely ended." Uchiha Makoto stressed his words.

"What exactly happened?"

As the Daimyo, he understood the relationship between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan very well. The Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had been sworn enemies for a thousand years, endlessly entangled in battle until now.

And now, the battle between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan had completely ended?

What kind of joke was this?!

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!!

"Could it be that the Uchiha Clan achieved final victory and wiped out the Senju Clan? Or was it the Senju Clan...?"

That was what the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire was thinking.

If the battle between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan could truly end completely, then there was only one possibility: one of the clans had vanished from the Ninja World.

From a certain perspective,

the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire was indeed not wrong.

After all, following Konoha's founding, the contest between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had never stopped. It merely became a deeper, more secretive struggle centered around the position of Hokage. Only when the Senju Clan was the first to perish did the Senju Clan's struggle come to an end. The Uchiha Clan, meanwhile, continued fighting the representatives of the Senju Clan's will until the Uchiha Clan itself was exterminated.

As for

the possibility that the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan would abandon their thousand-year feud and shake hands in reconciliation, it had never even entered the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire's mind.

Reconcile?

How could something like that possibly happen?!

But

it happened anyway.

It was a particularly dark joke.

Uchiha Makoto explained what had happened recently, leaving out the negative news that the Uchiha Clan had been completely suppressed by the Senju Clan.

After all, the Uchiha Clan had lost Izuna Uchiha, while that old schemer Tobirama Senju also had a special advantage against the Uchiha Clan. To maintain game balance, it was recommended that Tobirama Senju be banned outright!

The most important point, and the one worth emphasizing most, was that Senju Succubus—Hashirama Senju—had not hesitated to stab himself with a kunai and threaten death... finally making Uchiha Madara believe in his sincerity and achieving the century's great reconciliation between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan.

"To gain peace between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, Hashirama... stabbed himself with a kunai and tried to kill himself?"

"That's right!"

"Are you sure a kunai could really hurt Hashirama Senju?"

The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire had heard of Hashirama Senju's recovery abilities. They were inhuman levels of regeneration.

He had long grown sick of cliché staged stories like lying on ice to catch carp.

Thus, the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire was skeptical of Hashirama Senju's suicide attempt at the time. "Speak!!! Hashirama Senju, you thick-browed bastard, were you putting on a show?"

"Uh... at least Lord Madara believed it could."

Uchiha Makoto paused slightly. As for this question, he did not actually know either.

But this question was not important at all. It was like, a few days before your wedding, your girlfriend went to get a room with a strange man and stayed in that room for the entire night.

Did your girlfriend and that man actually do anything...?

Was that question important?

It was not!

What mattered was your attitude.

If you believed your girlfriend had remained pure, then even if something had happened and she had put a green hat on your head, you would not care. You would still marry your girlfriend.

But if you did not believe her,

then even if your girlfriend had remained pure, you would not marry her.

Believe in the power of belief!

Whether Hashirama Senju could kill himself with a kunai was not important. What mattered was that Uchiha Madara believed he could.

After Uchiha Makoto's explanation,

the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire was persuaded and no longer dwelled on the kunai issue.

"Th-this... this is truly cause for celebration."

The Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire stood there dumbly for a while, digesting Uchiha Makoto's news. After repeatedly confirming that it was true, he finally squeezed out those few words.

Yet inwardly, he was overwhelmed by a mixture of emotions and filled with bitterness.

The combined strength of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara was already enough to overturn the entire Ninja World's structure.

But this was not an unsolvable problem.

For so many years, the Ninja World had known endless warfare. Ninja clans constantly clashed and fought over resources and the number of available missions, while the Daimyo hoped to exploit that, making the ninja clans hate and exhaust one another... while they themselves hid behind the scenes without a care. The Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan were the clearest examples.

To solve the problem of Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, the best method was to let a hero deal with a hero, to let a champion deal with a champion. Let Uchiha Madara deal with Hashirama Senju.

If matters had continued with Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju carrying on their ancestors' fine tradition,

fighting endlessly until the final moment of their lives,

that would naturally have been ideal.

But the worst thing had happened.

Damn it, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had reconciled?

You actually reconciled?!

How could something like this be allowed?

To fulfill your childhood dreams, so the children would no longer have to go to the battlefield... and for peace in the Ninja World?

What kind of bullshit bloodline ninja clans were you?!

Peace in the Ninja World, just for peace in the Ninja World?

You two treated a slogan that we Daimyo had long played to death as if it were some priceless treasure!

You Senju Clan/Uchiha Clan bastards had shamed your ancestors for eighteen generations!