Natsu: Rise with Me, or Fall Beneath the Uchiha Clan
Madara Uchiha finally understood that it is impossible for people to truly let go of the prejudices accumulated over generations.
He chose to leave Konoha to find another path to peace.
However, no one knows what he went through. When he returned, he was determined to end everything in the most extreme way.
He clashed with Hashirama Senju again in the place that was later named ' Valley of the End ', and their battle changed the terrain of the entire valley.
But at the last moment, he realized that he was still the same Madara Uchiha, while Hashirama Senju was no longer the Hashirama Senju.
Hashirama Senju plunged Kunai into his heart from behind.
Before falling, Madara Uchiha left only one sentence. "You killed me for the sake of Konoha, but one day, Konoha will also be destroyed by war."
Hashirama Senju was also severely injured in this battle and died soon after.
Just as Madara Uchiha predicted, after the deaths of the two, Tobirama Senju became the Second Hokage.
He witnessed the threat the Uchiha Clan posed to the Senju Clan clan from a young age, and as an adult, he saw Madara Uchiha nearly destroy Konoha. His hostility towards the Uchiha Clan was irreversible.
However, the Uchiha were one of the founding ninja clans of Konoha, and their strength was terrifying. Even with Tobirama Senju in charge, a hasty war would be enough to severely damage Konoha.
Thus, Tobirama Senju began his own scheme.
He used the Konoha Military Police Force as bait to relocate the Uchiha Clan to the edge of the village, isolating them from other ninja clans.
He used rumors and the power in his hands as weapons to erode the foundation of the Uchiha Clan year after year.
He secretly recruited the most talented young people in the Uchiha clan, using the Will of Fire to turn them against him and exacerbate internal conflicts.
The Ninja World War officially broke out during his tenure, and he himself perished in that war.
"But his will was not buried, and his disciple Hiruzen Sarutobi took over the Hokage Position."
The Third Hokage inherited Tobirama Senju's mantle and his methods were even superior to his teacher's.
His close friend Shimura Danzō even more direct—he viewed the Uchiha Clan as a source of trouble and wished he could eliminate them as soon as possible.
From the First Hokage to the Third Hokage, over fifty years, the Uchiha Clan gradually declined due to suppression, exclusion, and exploitation by the Konoha higher-ups.
At its peak, the Uchiha had tens of thousands of members, but just over two years ago, their population had dwindled to less than 20,000.
The once most powerful clan in the Ninja World, capable of sending thousands of ninjas to the battlefield, now has only a little over a thousand ninjas left who can fight.
Public opinion and the Hokage's deliberate manipulation have led to the Uchiha being almost completely isolated by the entire Konoha.
"Until two years ago, the conflict reached a breaking point. I sensed something was wrong and used some extraordinary means to lead the Uchiha Clan across the spatial barrier to this ocean."
Listening to Uchiha Natsu's narration, Newgate and the other two fell into a long silence. For a moment, the only sounds in the side hall were the sound of Shuriken from the Training Ground outside the window, and the sobbing of the sea breeze through the wooden lattice window.
No one could have imagined that the Uchiha Clan, now so powerful that the World Government had to back down and relinquish the entire West Blue, had such a past.
Thousands of years of war, decades of exclusion and suppression, and the repeated cruel tricks of fate. A once powerful and prestigious family, which had thrived for a thousand years, was almost wiped out.
"Natsu, kid..."
Newgate looked at the boy in front of him, who was not yet fifteen years old, his throat moved, wanting to say something, but he didn't know what to say.
He knew better than anyone the pain of losing his homeland—the thing he cherished most in his life was the impoverished village that had raised him, and even after becoming one of the Four Emperors, he continued to secretly send money and grain there year after year.
The Uchiha Clan did not leave their homeland; they were forcibly uprooted from their native land and thrown into a completely unfamiliar ocean.
Natsu looked at Newgate's somber face, but her tone remained calm, as if she were stating a pre-written ending.
"From that day on, I made a decision! I will make the Uchiha Clan a true God Race! I will make the Uchiha Clan the supreme rulers of the entire world!"
Not like those parasitic rulers like the Celestial Dragons! I want to be the supreme ruler who upholds all the rules of the entire world! I want to establish an order belonging to the Uchiha.
In that world, everyone except the Uchiha Clan was equal! There were no other nobles, no distinction between high and low.
The Uchiha Clan will become the enforcers of the regulations! Everyone will be able to live peacefully and equally on this land!
The Uchiha Clan are the rule-makers and the rule-keepers. People only need to worship the Uchiha Clan and they don't need to worry about anything else!
War, conflict, vendettas—all will cease to exist. The Uchiha Clan will protect everyone living in this world!
The prerequisite is that anyone who disobeys the Uchiha must disappear.
He slowly stood up, his crimson Sharingan looking down at Newgate, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his tone as cold as frozen seawater. "As a friend, I am willing to give the Whitebeard Pirates certain preferential treatment."
Newgate! If you want to stop me, then you can leave the West Blue Whitebeard Pirates right now! I won't stop you.
However, from this day forward, the Uchiha Clan and the Whitebeard Pirates will no longer have any friendship!
See you on the battlefield in the future; the Uchiha will not hold back.
However, if you have the right to do so, I can allow the Whitebeard Pirates to live on Spirit Awakening Island!
You and your sons will receive the same treatment as the Uchiha Clan.
However, only current members of the Whitebeard Pirates are allowed!
In addition, any member of the Whitebeard Pirates or their descendant will have the opportunity to enter Origin Island for further study once in the future, based on the certificate.
This is the highest level of treatment I can offer you!
"Then, Newgate! Tell me your decision! To rise alongside my Uchiha Clan! Or! Someday in the future! To fall beneath the blade of the Uchiha Clan!"
Ace clenched his fists, and Marco's expression turned somewhat grim.
On the contrary, Newgate, looking at the young man who was not even as tall as Marco but whose aura already overwhelmed everyone in the side hall, had an undisguised appreciation flash in his turbid old eyes that had seen all the world's affairs.
He has met countless people in his life.
Roger's carefree spirit, Rocks's madness, Garp's stubbornness, and Sengoku's wisdom.
But he had never met anyone like Uchiha Natsu.
The spirit and ambition possessed by this boy who was not yet fifteen years old made even the old man, who was known as the "strongest" in the world, feel a sense of admiration in his heart.
This chapter is a bonus. The previous three chapters were a bit filler, but for the sake of the characters! Nobody's allowed to speak!
Awoo~~~