Sarutobi Hiruzen said nothing this time, meeting the remark with silence. Clearly, he agreed.
"Uchiha Clan members shouldn't be sent to the battlefield unless it's absolutely necessary." After leaving them with those parting words, Danzo turned and walked away.
This time, Sarutobi Hiruzen agreed with Danzo as well. Unless it was necessary, he really didn't want to send the Uchiha Clan to the battlefield.
After a war, every clan would be weakened. Only the Uchiha Clan would grow stronger with every battle.
During wartime, the chances of the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan awakening were far too high. So unless the situation was truly desperate, Sarutobi Hiruzen would never send the Uchiha Clan to the battlefield.
During the First Shinobi World War, Tobirama Senju had never sent the Uchiha Clan to the battlefield. It wasn't because he was looking out for them; he was simply afraid that if the Uchiha Clan grew too powerful, they would become a threat to the village.
Tobirama Senju had fought the Uchiha Clan since the Sengoku period, so he understood them extremely well.
What Tobirama Senju hadn't expected was that the Uchiha would ultimately be fine, while the Senju Clan, once considered one of the two strongest clans of the Sengoku period alongside the Uchiha, would instead fall into decline. He'd miscalculated—an old horse stumbling at the final hurdle!
The next day, Sarutobi Hiruzen left the two advisors, Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu, in temporary charge of Konoha while he began assembling the shinobi.
Every clan's shinobi except the Uchiha Clan gathered. Sarutobi Hiruzen had no time to make a speech to rally them for war; he led the shinobi forces straight to the border at full speed.
Hyuga Shin and the others were among them. They'd only just moved the day before when someone informed