Years later... inside the Hokage Office.
Wearing the Hokage hat, Oto Uchiha gazed at the stack of documents on her desk, furrowing her brow as she reviewed and corrected them with a troubled expression on her face.
After the war that swept through the entire Shinobi World concluded, due to her merits during the conflict, Oto was successfully nominated as a candidate for the Fifth Hokage, defeating the other candidates in the Jonin vote and getting elected as the Fifth Hokage.
At that time, upon learning of this news, the Uchiha Clan plunged into a frenzy, their aspirations of several decades finally coming to fruition.
Soon, however, the Uchiha discovered that after Oto was elected Hokage, the clan was subjected to even stricter restraints.
Oto, who was both the clan head and the Hokage, inherited the Senju lineage's approach of suppressing ninja clans and promoting commoners.
The suppressed ninja clans held unspoken grievances, but constrained by Oto's strength, they could only bury those feelings in their hearts and subtly make changes to adapt to the Fifth Hokage's rule.
What the ninja clans did not know was that Kekkei Genkai were not exclusive to ninja clans, and through surgery, they could still be transplanted.
The birth of Scientific Ninja Tools turned secret techniques that previously required ninja clans a great deal of time to master into conventional weapons. All the ninja clans possessed left was their advantage in family education, which, however, was not worth mentioning in the face of the number of commoner ninja.
Stamping a document with the Hokage seal, Oto stretched lazily and looked out the window at her own Kage Rock sculpture.
It was only after becoming the Hokage that she learned how tedious a Hokage's life truly was, spending every day doing nothing but reading documents,