Konoha needed time to develop. It had only just stabilized the Land of Fire, and consolidating those gains would take time.
Besides, Konoha barely had enough trained people to manage the Land of Fire. Otherwise, Uchiha Yi could have wiped out the Land of Lightning and Kumogakure back then. Why would he have left them clinging to life?
Uchiha Yi had long been fed up with those thugs in Kumogakure.
Every last one of them was a bandit, either stealing other people's secret techniques or abducting talented children. Kumogakure even seemed to have played a part in the Uzumaki Clan's destruction.
No wonder the Uchiha Clan had looked down on the Land of Lightning back then.
The land Konoha occupied now had been donated by Madara Uchiha. Now that was true love!
Madara Uchiha had shown real devotion. If the Senju Clan cared so much, why didn't they hand over their clan lands to Konoha too?
Oh, wait. The Senju Clan actually had. When the clan disbanded, most of its lands were donated to Konoha, along with even its ancestral mines and other holdings.
Tsunade and the others had inherited some things, but compared with the true legacy of the thousand-year-old Senju Clan, it was a drop in the ocean.
The Uchiha Clan had once enjoyed a good relationship with the Land of Lightning. Some clansmen had even lived there for years, maintaining close ties and a long-standing working arrangement with the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning.
But that relationship had ended after Konoha was founded. The Uchiha had become Konoha Ninja, after all. How could the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning hire Konoha Ninja to work for him?
Naturally, he had to cultivate his own people!
Once Kumogakure was established, the Uchiha Clan all but severed its