Madara Uchiha's path

"Suit yourself."

Before his rebirth, Madara Uchiha would never have allowed Neji Hyuga onto his Training Ground. He would not even have spared Hayato Hyuga a glance. But in this life, Madara Uchiha had decided to find a different way to bring peace to the world.

In his previous life, because Black Zetsu had altered the stone tablet, Madara Uchiha had naively believed that he could save the world from war by casting Infinite Tsukuyomi all on his own. In the end, reality had proven him disastrously wrong. Bringing peace to the world by taking a shortcut alone was utterly impossible.

The sight of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and the others joining forces to defeat Kaguya Otsutsuki at the end of his previous life also lingered in Madara Uchiha's mind. Could Madara alone have defeated the legendary mother of the Sage of Six Paths?

In this life, Madara Uchiha no longer put blind faith in individual strength. Like Hashirama Senju, he wanted to gather every force he could unite around him. Nor did he still dream of a solution that would bring lasting peace to the world once and for all. He would conquer this world step by step. Once he had enough followers who shared his ideals, the day would come when the entire world fell under the control of Madara Uchiha and his subordinates. Then, naturally, there would be no more conflict.

Perhaps war would return after Madara Uchiha and his followers died. But Hashirama had gathered the great clans to establish Konoha, inspiring other villages to follow suit and giving those clans the stability to endure for a hundred years without being wiped out. In much the same way, once someone united the world, those who came after him would naturally understand that they could do the