"Did no one in the Uchiha Clan really want to leave with Madara Uchiha back then?" Uchiha Yi was curious about what had happened. By the time he was old enough to understand such things, Kagami Uchiha was gone, and Yohei Uchiha never brought them up. Madara Uchiha was a taboo subject not only in Konoha, but within the Uchiha Clan as well.
Even now, the Uchiha Clan Head was the most eager to smear Madara Uchiha, if only to justify his own position.
Yi and the others rarely discussed the Uchiha Clan's internal affairs with Mito Uzumaki. Even Madara Uchiha seldom came up.
After all, those events were what had left the Uchiha Clan at odds with Konoha.
Then again, if Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju had not become Hokage one after the other, would the Uchiha Clan have ended up like this?
The best outcome would have been Hashirama Senju as First and Madara Uchiha as Second Hokage. Unfortunately, Tobirama Senju had ruined that possibility.
Tobirama Senju really was the root of all evil. Many of Konoha's lingering troubles could be traced back to him.
Of course, if Tobirama Senju had not united Konoha after Hashirama Senju and turned it from a collection of clans into a true village, Konoha might not have stood together against the other villages during the First Shinobi World War. It might even have fallen apart.
"That? Madara walked straight out through the main gate. There may have been rumors within the Uchiha Clan, but Hashirama and I both thought the two of them had simply argued and Madara had gone off to clear his head.
"Who defects through the main gate? Besides, Madara may not have been Hokage, but he was one of Konoha's founders and its second most important figure.
"Who