"You've broken the rules between shinobi clans, Senju Butsuma!"
Uchiha Tajima looked at Senju Butsuma with disdain and continued to taunt him.
In truth, Uchiha Tajima wasn't wrong.
At their core, both the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan were privately owned armed forces centered around their families.
Although shinobi had no real moral code, and the clans could fight one another and use any means necessary, that wasn't the issue.
Ever since the concept of shinobi clans had come into being, all clans had silently upheld one rule.
No matter which clan it was, it must never join forces with the authorities to slaughter other clans. Any clan that did would be wiped out by the others working together.
Why was there such a rule that everyone silently upheld?
The reason was simple: compared to samurai, there were far fewer shinobi.
Even if you added up every shinobi on the continent, their number probably wouldn't amount to even one ten-thousandth of the total population.
And that was without even considering the shinobi who belonged to clans.
So if a clan joined forces with the authorities to slaughter a rival clan,
then with the authorities involved, that clan's destruction would be all but certain.
Besides, the damage this would do to the shinobi world could be catastrophic. It would be tantamount to cutting off the roots of the shinobi themselves.
That was why any clan head with the slightest foresight would never allow such a clan to exist.
And what the Senju Clan had done in the Battle of the Canyon some time ago amounted to willingly breaking this rule.
Why were the Hagoromo Clan and the Ino-Shika-Cho Clans considering a strategic alliance with the Uchiha Clan?
One reason was that the Uchiha Clan was indeed powerful. The other was