White Fang of Konoha Became My Sidekick

Sakumo fell silent.

He looked at the ripples on the river, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

The Will of Fire he had once believed in so firmly felt incomparably hollow at that moment.

Where leaves danced, fire lived on without end.

It sounded beautiful.

But the reality was that those leaves had no idea why they were dancing.

They were merely carried along by the wind.

When the wind stopped, they fell into the mud.

When the wind rose, they slapped against someone else's face.

"Qian Ye."

Sakumo suddenly spoke, fatigue evident in his voice.

"Were the things you told me in the cell true?"

Qian Ye raised an eyebrow.

"Which part?"

"You said you wanted to smash these old rules and build a New World without daimyo or the oppression of ninja villages."

Sakumo looked at the twelve-year-old boy.

He had initially thought it was merely a child's unrealistic fantasy.

But after what had happened today, he suddenly realized that this rotten world truly needed change.

"Can the world you described really be achieved?"

Hope colored Sakumo's voice.

He needed a reason to keep living.

A reason more meaningful than being Danzo's assassin.

Qian Ye laughed.

He walked to the riverbank and looked at his reflection in the water.

"Of course it can."

"As long as we drag down all those high-and-mighty lords."

"And cut off every hand that controls the direction of the wind."

Qian Ye turned around and extended his right hand to Sakumo.

"One person's strength definitely isn't enough."

"But if we work together, there will be nothing we can't smash."

"Hidden Leaf's roots have already rotted. We don't need to trim its branches and leaves."

"What we need to do is pull it out by the roots and plant a new tree."

Sakumo looked