Take the three major villages of Konoha, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure, for example.
They had now been bound into a single rope.
There was absolutely no chance of those three villages fighting one another anytime soon.
And the person holding that rope was Hatake Xuanzhe.
Would he seize the opportunity, with three villages in his grasp, to attack the remaining two?
No one could say for sure.
But one thing was certain.
Rasa and Ōnoki were definitely in for a rough time.
As for that perpetually carefree idiot Naruto...
He had paid no mind whatsoever to the major news that had shaken the entire Shinobi World.
The only thing that had excited him for several days was his dad becoming Hokage.
But even that had only lasted a few days.
After all, he had grown up under Kushina's iron-fisted discipline.
He wasn't someone like Bo Benwei, who was asking for a beating. He wouldn't strut around the village just because his old man was Hokage.
However, the state of his archrival, Sasuke Uchiha, did catch Naruto's attention.
That kid had always liked wearing a sour expression.
But now, he gave off a completely different impression.
Only later did Naruto hear from others that something terrible had happened to the Uchiha Clan.
And just as Shisui and Itachi had planned...
After the incident, the villagers really did gossip less about the Uchiha.
Their former hatred gradually turned to sympathy.
But thinking about it carefully, there didn't seem to be much fundamental difference.
"How about moving to Kumogakure?"
Shisui Uchiha's brows drew together slightly when he heard this.
"If you can't stay in Konoha, why not start over somewhere else? The last time my brother-in-law led troops against Kumogakure, he wiped out nearly half their fighting strength. If the Uchiha voluntarily joined