At this point...
Even Shikaku Nara could not help feeling a little wistful.
By rights...
As one of Konoha's founding clans...
The Uchiha Clan should have enjoyed the same status as the Senju Clan.
All right.
To put it plainly, this so-called "status" meant the "position of Hokage"!
In the village's early days...
The Senju Clan had produced the First Hokage.
By that logic...
There should have been no problem at all with the Uchiha Clan producing the Second Hokage.
Yet things had gone wrong...
The Uchiha Clan's leader at the time-Madara Uchiha-had been an absolute lunatic.
Even someone as intelligent as Shikaku Nara truly struggled to understand what Madara Uchiha had been thinking back then.
He had inexplicably abandoned his clan and left the village, then, even more inexplicably, brought the Nine-Tails back to attack Konoha!
To be honest...
After that stunt Madara Uchiha had pulled, the only reason Tobirama Senju had not wiped out the Uchiha Clan outright was that Hashirama Senju had stopped him quickly enough!
Then there had been Uchiha Setsuna, another lunatic...
And after that, the Nine-Tails' Attack...
Leaving wars aside, almost every major disaster in Konoha's history had been connected to the Uchiha Clan.
If the Uchiha Clan had not fought so desperately on the battlefield, shedding blood and sweat for the village and rendering outstanding service...
There would long since have been no place for the Uchiha Clan in Konoha!
"How has the Uchiha Clan been 'quiet for four generations'?"
Choza Akimichi shook his head, disagreeing with his old friend.
"The Uchiha Clan simply wasn't strong enough. They couldn't measure up!
"Never mind the First and Second Hokage.
"Anyone could see the gap between the Third and Kagami Uchiha.
"As for Yondaime-the Fourth Hokage...
"Compared to the Fourth Hokage, anyone would seem lacking."