Uchiha.
Uchiha was not a common surname. It could even be called exceedingly rare. In the entire country, only the Uchiha Clan, whose ancestral home lay in rural Shizuoka Prefecture, bore that surname. Their numbers were so few they could be counted on one hand.
Throughout Uchiha Naruto's childhood, whenever he gave his surname, outsiders reacted only with curiosity about its rarity, rather than their expressions changing dramatically as they exclaimed, "The strongest clan in the Shinobi World!"
After all, this world was neither the Shinobi World nor the world of his previous life, but another parallel world.
"Uchiha Senmon is indeed my father. Do you know him, Yamanashi?" Uchiha Naruto asked after a moment of silence.
"Uncle Uchiha..." Yamanashi Inaba stopped halfway through and abruptly corrected herself. "Uncle Senmon is the student my grandfather admires most. Uncle Senmon won the National Police Kendo Championships."
"He also looked after me quite a bit when I was little."
Uchiha Naruto glanced at Matsudaira Chiyo, giving her a questioning look. Only after her eyes shifted did she understand, and she said with a smile:
"Yamanashi's grandfather is the chief kendo instructor at the Metropolitan Police Department. His students are practically everywhere."
The Metropolitan Police Department's chief kendo instructor-in other words, the chief baton instructor for Tokyo's forty thousand police officers.
Even now, in the twenty-first century, Japan's police system placed great importance on kendo. National police kendo tournaments were held every year, and police kendo was also the largest force in the kendo world today.
Superintendent General Kawaji Toshiaki, the father of the Japanese police, had written Swordsmanship and Further Discussion, repeatedly emphasizing the practical value of swordsmanship. In the twelfth year of the Meiji era, the Metropolitan Police Department selected a large contingent of outstanding swordsmen to instruct its officers, drawing