"You'll make a worthy Clan Head, Shisui."
Uchiha Mikoto smiled gently.
"Goodbye, Shisui. I'll train with everything I've got. Sooner or later, I'll kill that bastard myself."
Sasuke said goodbye quietly at first, then his voice filled with murderous intent.
Something flickered in Shisui's eyes, but in the end, he said nothing and turned to leave.
Peace had finally come to the Shinobi World.
That was what many ordinary people had come to believe after Year 56 of Konoha.
Three of the Five Great Shinobi Villages-Konoha, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure-had long since become firmly bound together.
And Hatake Xuanzhe was the key holding that chain together.
As long as he didn't fall, war would have a hard time breaking out in the Shinobi World.
As for the other two great shinobi villages...
Sunagakure, which had consistently ranked dead last since the end of the Warring States Period, was a village no one took seriously.
Iwagakure couldn't stir up much trouble either, with the three powerful villages suppressing it together.
Strategists in quite a few shinobi villages reckoned that...
As long as Hatake Xuanzhe had no intention of stirring up trouble, the Shinobi World could enjoy at least twenty-odd years of peace, until the day he died.
But life in Sunagakure was genuinely hard.
Worst of all, the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had become utterly convinced that his youngest son, Gaara, the current Shukaku Jinchūriki, was a failure.
He had already sent his shinobi to ** Gaara several times.
On top of that, the Land of Fire was growing ever more prosperous.
When wealthy merchants, nobles, and other major clients from various countries chose whom to commission, they all went to Konoha.
As a result, revenue in Sunagakure, and even the entire Land of Wind, shrank dramatically.
By Year 58 of Konoha, the