Yesterday, someone might call the Uchiha clan evil.
Today, I could just as easily make the same unfair claim about the Senju clan.
It all comes down to selfish desires, political groups, rivalries between groups and clans...
No matter the real reason, if you want to condemn someone, you can always find an excuse.
Sarutobi Ryo's words made Senju Tobirama's face freeze over.
He realized that this young man's thinking had become twisted, leading him down a dark path.
He actually believed, so simply...
That he was on the side of what he thought was right.
He just didn't understand what the Uchiha clan truly was.
Just like his older brother, Senju Hashirama, had been so naive in the past!
"You think... that while you're alive, you're strong enough to control the Uchiha, and that this will continue forever even after you die?!"
Senju Tobirama understood Sarutobi Ryo's way of thinking, which was similar to his brother's.
When he was alive, Senju Hashirama was known as the God of Shinobi. He could even defeat Uchiha Madara.
But when his brother died, the Uchiha clan, like an unstable bomb, would cause huge problems for future generations.
Senju Hashirama could handle any issue with the Uchiha clan.
After all, he had defeated Uchiha Madara countless times.
But what about the future?
How many people could be as strong as his brother, Senju Hashirama?
Senju Tobirama strongly criticized Sarutobi Ryo.
He accused him of being careless and not thinking about the future.
Yes, while you are alive, the Uchiha clan will not rebel.
But who can guarantee that this will never happen?
And after you, Sarutobi Ryo, are gone, what terrible things will the Uchiha do to Konoha and the Ninja World if they awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan, or even the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, when they have no connection to you?
Your kindness towards the Uchiha will bring pain to those who come after you!
This is not how a leader should act!
"The Ninja World is a place where the strong rule the weak; that's your idea, Senju Tobirama... Then, if another clan becomes stronger than the Uchiha clan one day, wouldn't that be normal?"
Sarutobi Ryo didn't back down, directly arguing against him.
You think the law of the jungle is right.
Then, if a strong person appears in the Uchiha clan and takes charge, that would be in accordance with your rules.
Whose fault is it that the others are weak?
"But as far as I'm concerned, my ideas don't go far enough!"
Senju Tobirama: "Hmm?!"
Senju Tobirama simply didn't know what was happening with the Uchiha clan.
The Uchiha clan was quickly becoming a part of the Village.
Uchiha clan members were working in various departments.
This meant that... big changes were coming in the future.
And before that future arrived, someone had already started to create a new future.
That person...
Was named Uchiha Hazuki!
"Uchiha Hazuki is an ordinary Uchiha villager..."
The number of ninjas compared to regular people is higher in the Uchiha clan than in other clans.
But regular people are still the majority.
Most Uchiha clan members are just ordinary people who want a stable life, with three meals a day.
They will not become the threat that Senju Tobirama talks about.
Among them was a villager woman named Uchiha Hazuki.
Several years ago, during the Third Shinobi World War, she fell in love with an ordinary Konoha ninja.
The two had a daughter... who was about half a year older than Itachi.
Her name was... Uchiha Izumi.
Uchiha Izumi was the first mixed-blood in the Uchiha clan.
Her birth was celebrated by everyone.
Uchiha Izumi's existence meant that... if the Uchiha clan continued, more and more mixed-race children would be born.
More mixed-race children meant a way to become part of the Village.
In another ten, twenty, thirty years... during my lifetime.
I will see the Uchiha clan break down.
From the start, branching out and spreading, becoming Uchiha mixed-blood ninjas and villagers everywhere.
At that time, there will be no Uchiha clan as it is now.
But Konoha's Uchiha!
This is the bright future that Senju Tobirama hasn't seen or imagined!
And I have helped to create this future and made important contributions to it.
The birth of Uchiha... no, Sarutobi Sasuke... is proof.
When Sasuke, who has the greatest potential in the future, is a mixed-blood, then the future of the Uchiha clan is naturally bright.
The number of regular ninjas began to be greater than the number of clan ninjas decades ago.
The breakdown of the clan is inevitable.
Therefore... the arrival of the time of great unity is the future of Konoha!
"..."
After hearing Sarutobi Ryo's idea, Senju Tobirama was silent.
He understood how this idea could work as soon as he heard it.
However, what he couldn't accept was... the existence of the Uchiha clan itself.
The very existence of this bloodline is a kind of evil.
Let alone letting them completely become part of Konoha and spread out.
"Whether you can accept it is your problem; whether I want to do it is my problem,"
Sarutobi Ryo said directly.
Accept it or not, it's up to you.
"If you don't accept it, then let's pick a place and fight. Or use the schemes and political attacks you are so good at..."
But I, Sarutobi Ryo, will not play your game.
"If you decide to be my enemy, I will call the Senju clan evil. Then I will wipe them all out!"
"You dare?!" Hearing Sarutobi Ryo openly say that he would destroy the Senju, Senju Tobirama showed his killing intent.
"Don't get me wrong."
Facing the killing intent, Sarutobi Ryo slowly shook his head.
"I won't be the one doing it..."
What does he mean?
Choose a suitable ninja from within the Senju clan.
Brainwash them.
Then, let him wipe out his entire Senju clan family overnight.
Then the Konoha leaders announce that this person is crazy and wiped out his entire Senju clan family overnight...
Then let this person leave and become an S-rank rogue ninja, hiding his achievement...
Use the Uchiha to deal with the Uchiha.
Isn't this the method you, Senju Tobirama, used back then? I, Sarutobi Ryo, can do it too.
Use the Senju clan to deal with the Senju clan.
What will you do then?
Sarutobi Ryo completely copied Senju Tobirama's methods, turning the situation around and giving him a taste of his own medicine.
Or, you could say, using their own tricks against them.
I'll use your methods to kill your entire Clan, and you won't be able to stop it.
Someone with nothing to lose isn't afraid of someone who has something to protect.
I... Sarutobi Ryo, have no weaknesses!
Anyway, you don't even know that Neji is my child.
Nor do you know that Sasuke is also my child!
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