Chapter 104: Intimidation
"Let me see... this should be how it works. Ranwu, lower him." Reading the instructions, Akaseki placed the "Uchiha Happy Chair," covered in iron thorns and crisscrossing shackles designed to contort people into bizarre positions, beneath the two suspended Grass Ninja.
"Does that thing even work?" Ranwu asked with a frown.
"Are you kidding? Back then, our Uchiha Clan used this thing and nearly uncovered the truth behind the Second Kazekage's assassination!" Akaseki said as though it were obvious.
Aside from his hawkish approach to governing, the Second Kazekage, Shamon, had a great deal in common with the Second Hokage, Tobirama. Both had taken over after the death of a first-generation leader of overwhelming power, both were skilled at diplomacy, and... both had introduced many innovations and developed numerous secret techniques!
In terms of innovation, Shamon naturally fell short of Tobirama. After all, both the Ninja Academy and the Anbu had been Tobirama's creations, and they had since become models of governance for all the major hidden villages.
Still, Shamon was no slouch. He had founded the Puppet Technique and developed numerous secret techniques for manipulating sand. In terms of changing the way his village fought, he had arguably gone even further than Tobirama.
Tobirama had created many secret techniques, but plenty had become "forbidden techniques." Even those that weren't forbidden mostly had very high learning requirements. Besides, Konoha already possessed the greatest range of inherited techniques and the richest variety of methods, so a few additional secret techniques hardly constituted a sweeping change.
If one had to name a technique that changed how Konoha fought, the "Shadow Clone Technique" would come first, though it had only changed their intelligence-gathering capabilities.
After Shamon improved the Puppet Technique, however, it became a widely used skill in Sunagakure. Where