Chapter 168 Uchiha Suffers Injustice
Konoha Ninja Village.

Two weeks have passed since the Nine-Tailed Fox Rebellion.

It took two weeks for the villagers and ninjas of Konoha to get out of the shadow of the turmoil, but after a period of rest and recuperation, Konoha seemed to have regained its former prosperity and tranquility, just like it was a few months ago.

But the cold names on the memorial tablet and the rebuilt streets in the village told them that the era of the Fourth Hokage had ended and the commoner-born Hokage had completely disappeared.

However, the villagers and ninjas had no objection to the Sandaime resuming the post of Hokage.

The Third Hokage has been in charge of Konoha for decades, and even during the reign of the Fourth Hokage, he still had a significant influence.

Now it is just a continuation of the rule of the third generation, and there is not much difference from before.

The only other person who was dissatisfied besides the Uchiha was Danzo, the leader of the Root organization.

Although Danzo knew in advance that Sarutobi Hiruzen would stay in the position of acting Hokage for a long time, he was still extremely angry when he saw that Sarutobi Hiruzen had not yet nominated the next Hokage.

He had no choice but to tolerate Sarutobi Hiruzen continuing to be the Hokage, but he also had no way of running for the position of Hokage.

In order to run for the position of Hokage, in addition to having great influence in the village, one must also be recommended by the elders. Although he has very high qualifications, he cannot recommend himself.

Moreover, he also sent people to Daming Prefecture to inquire these days.

The Daimyo of the Land of Fire did not support his idea and chose to maintain the status quo, allowing Sarutobi Hiruzen to continue serving as the Hokage of Konoha.

Orochimaru is also a loser who spends all day hiding in the laboratory studying Wood Release Ninja.

We haven't seen much experimental results, but the funds consumed are very high, almost accounting for one-fifth of the Root's budget. I hope Orochimaru can really train a qualified Wood Release ninja.

After sighing softly, Danzo pushed open the door of the conference room with his crutches.

A clan leaders' meeting regarding land distribution is being held today, which will directly determine the location of the future clan lands of the major ninja villages in Konoha.

Looking at the heads of the major ninja clans sitting in front of him, Danzo cursed the Third Hokage in his heart.

Normally, he was never allowed to directly carry out the work of appeasing people, but once such a task involved the distribution of interests and offended a large number of ninjas, it would be his turn to carry out the task.

Do you really want to let yourself be stigmatized and lose the chance to run for the Fifth Hokage?

Although he complained in his heart, after taking a seat at the main table in the conference room, Danzo began to carry out the land distribution work seriously, and in the meantime gave his people some benefits.

Even if it is bound to offend some ninja clans, it is better to take the opportunity to gain more benefits.

Faced with the Ino-Shika-Chou family who held core positions in the village, Danzo was assigned the core area near the Hokage Building. If he wanted to become Hokage in the future, he would definitely need their assistance.

Then there are the smaller families like the Inuzuka and Aburame.

These small families can become helpers of the roots in the future, and it is not impossible for them to be allocated better land, but their lifeblood must be controlled in our hands before we can allocate it with confidence.

After the distribution, the small and medium-sized ninja clans basically got the land, and the only ones left were the three large clans of Sarutobi, Hyuga and Uchiha.

The Sarutobi clan cannot be too bad, but also not too good, so Danzo allocated them more ordinary land.

As for the Hyuga and Uchiha clans, Danzo first looked at the two clan leaders, Hyuga Hiashi and Uchiha Fugaku, and then said in a deep voice:

"This area near the downtown area will be allocated to Hinata."

"As for the Uchiha, you should continue to stay near the Nanga River. That place is your ancestral land, and it is also convenient for you to gather and so on."

After hearing Danzo's distribution, Hinata Hiashi naturally had no objection.

The Hyuga clan has always maintained neutrality and never chosen to fight for any faction in the village. Although the land they are currently allocated is not a core area, it is already pretty good compared to the Uchiha clan.

As for whether he would be isolated by other ninja clans, Hyuga Hiashi never worried about this problem.

As long as they have the Gentle Fist and the Byakugan, the Hyuga ninja will never lack ninjas to form a team. This is the core competitiveness of the Hyuga clan.

In contrast to Hyuga Hiashi, Uchiha Fugaku frowned and could not help but speak:
"Master Danzo, the Uchiha clan's territory is far away from the city. You have arranged the Uchiha to the edge of the city this time. How should the security forces carry out their work?"

Hearing this, Danzo looked at Uchiha Fugaku and then said:

"You Uchiha have a large population. If you don't place them in the marginal areas, they will occupy at least three or four clans of other ninja clans. I also consider everyone's interests. Can't the Uchiha be sacrificed a little?"

After a pause, Danzo said meaningfully: "Besides, the speed of dispatching the security forces is very slow. It doesn't make any difference to deploy them in remote areas. They are useless anyway."

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the surrounding jonin fell on Fugaku.

What Danzo said made sense. If the Uchiha occupied the core area, they, the ninja clan, would be squeezed to remote areas and would have little chance of turning things around.

Besides, aren’t you Uchiha on good terms with the Yondaime?

Why didn't we see the security forces coming to support during the Nine-Tails Rebellion? After the rebellion, you Uchiha had the least number of injured ninjas, without even a single sacrifice.

It's hard not to suspect that you have deserted the battlefield and abandoned the safety of the village.

Being stared at like that, Fugaku suddenly felt pressured. He couldn't explain that he had received orders from the Hokage at that time and it was the Hokage who told them to stay put.

As to whether it was the Fourth Hokage or the Third Hokage who gave the order, there is no way of knowing.

At the moment, he could not produce the Hokage's order, nor could he withstand the pressure from so many people to forcibly demand the land in the core area. It seemed that he could only endure temporarily and accept the arrangements from the village.

Thinking of this, Fugaku looked at Danzo with a gloomy face and lowered his proud head.

After Fugaku no longer raised any objections, Danzo quickly arranged the land for all the ninja clans. After the meeting, he deliberately looked at Fugaku's back a few more times.

He thought that Uchiha Fugaku would take the initiative to reveal what happened on the day of the Nine-Tails Rebellion and then confront him.

I didn't expect Fugaku to be so cowardly that he didn't even dare to say that he was blocked in the clan territory by himself. Was he afraid of the power of the Hokage, or did he have other intentions?

The Hokage line is now in great decline, and it is impossible for the Uchiha to be afraid of the Third Hokage.

Then there is only one possibility left, that the Uchiha clan is really related to the Nine-Tails Rebellion. If he had not led the Root clan to block the security forces that day, the Uchiha clan's plan would have succeeded.

I have indeed seen further than Sarutobi Hiruzen. If it weren't for me, the Uchiha would have already usurped the throne. ...

After the high-level meeting, the Uchiha clan also held their own clan meeting at the Nanga Shrine.

The unfair distribution of land and Danzo's words triggered unprecedented resentment among the Uchiha. It was not that they did not want to leave the clan to provide support, but they were blocked outside the clan by Danzo.

If clan leader Fugaku had not stopped them, they would have been in a fight with the Root ninjas.

Now that the Nine-Tails Rebellion is over, Danzo has begun to blame the security forces for not going to support him. This is really too much.

One of the Uchiha spoke up, "Captain Fugaku, we are going to the Hokage building to protest and reveal everything that happened that day."

Another Uchiha stepped out to stop them, saying, "It's useless to protest in the Hokage Building. Danzo can't possibly fake an order. This must be the Third Hokage's intention. We must become Hokage immediately."

At this time, the other Uchiha also echoed: "Captain Fugaku, we can't continue to be patient. If we can't become Hokage, the Uchiha will continue to be bullied like this!"

After hearing the tribesmen's speeches, Fugaku shook his head and sighed softly:
"Everyone, we don't have the strength to compete for the position of Hokage at the moment. Danzo has even used the land to win over the other ninja clans. No matter how strong the Uchiha are, they can't deal with other ninja clans at the same time."

"Fortunately, the Uchiha didn't suffer many losses during the Nine-Tails Rebellion, so let them talk."

After Fugaku comforted them with a few words, the tribesmen's emotions were almost calmed down. They had suffered injustice this time, but their overall strength had not suffered much loss.

The rest of the ninja clans lost a lot of jonin, and the chuunin and genin suffered countless casualties.

If Uchiha stood up at this time, he would definitely cause opposition from other ninja clans. Those people would not care about the truth. They only cared that Uchiha did not take part in the Nine-Tails Rebellion.

Most Uchiha wanted to live a peaceful life and were obsessed with the position of Hokage, but they would not launch a coup. At most, they would just complain a few words at the clan meeting.

When the radicals in the tribe saw this scene, they temporarily gave up the idea of ​​launching a coup.

They are not fools. They know the difference in strength between the Uchiha and the village. They shout a few words to show their presence and express their dissatisfaction.

However, whenever I think of the Nine-Tailed Fox being controlled by the attacker that day, special thoughts always arise in my mind.

At that time, the Nine-Tails was not moving flexibly and looked like it was controlled by an illusion. As far as they could remember, the only ninjas who had the ability to control the Nine-Tails with illusions were Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama.

But Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha have been dead for more than ten years, and it is impossible for them to be resurrected at this time.

Could it be that besides them, there are other Uchiha in the ninja world, and they have also opened the Mangekyō Sharingan and launched the Nine-Tails Rebellion?

In the crowd, Uchiha Shisui silently watched the quarrel among his clansmen.

Not only at this clan meeting, but also at other clan meetings, the clan members were always arguing about whether or not to run for Hokage, and complaining about the injustice from the Hokage Building and other clan members.

He was already used to this, and knew that the Uchiha's hopes of becoming Hokage were very slim.

More than thirty years ago, Uchiha Madara, one of the founders of Konoha, failed and became a rebel ninja who attacked the village, and his name became a taboo in the clan.

More than 20 years ago, his grandfather Uchiha Kagami became a subordinate of the Second Hokage and had the opportunity to participate in the Hokage election in the future, but he died in a secret mission.

A year ago, Captain Fugaku also planned to run for Hokage, but he was not even qualified for nomination.

Repeated failures have made the Uchiha further and further away from the position of Hokage, and have also made the clan members increasingly distant from the village. If they continue like this, they will sooner or later launch an attack on the Hokage Building.

It was a pity that he was out on a mission on the day of the Nine-Tails Rebellion. Otherwise, he might have been able to use the opportunity of the Nine-Tails Rebellion to mend the rift between him and the villagers, and even save the Fourth Hokage.

Thinking of this, Shisui sighed softly and quietly left Nanga Shrine.

……

After leaving Nanga Shrine, Shisui wandered around for a while, then with mixed feelings he came to a nearby grove, heard the sound of whooshing through the air, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

After entering the grove, Shisui found Uchiha Itachi training in a clearing in the forest.

Itachi also noticed Shisui at this time, put away the kunai in his hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Shisui, you are here, if you have nothing to do, can you be my sparring partner?"

Shisui picked up the kunai on the ground and nodded slightly.

After signing the Seal of Opposition, the two quickly disappeared from the spot and began a pure physical contest. The air was occasionally filled with the sound of limbs colliding.

After blocking Uchiha Itachi's kick with his hand, Shisui seemed to remember something and asked, "Itachi, I remember today is a school day, why did you sneak out of school?"

Uchiha Itachi said expressionlessly:
"The school curriculum is too boring. I have mastered all the academic and physical education courses. The senior students are no match for me. I can't find a reason to stay there."

Shisui frowned slightly and said, "I know that Ninja School is very boring, but if you don't attend classes, you won't be able to graduate from Ninja School and successfully become a Ninja!"

"It's okay, I used the Shadow Clone Technique. Those ninja school teachers who are only at the level of Chunin can't see through the Shadow Clone Technique!"

Uchiha Itachi said absentmindedly, his mind was on attacking Shisui.

Hearing this, Shisui nodded and said, "If we use the Shadow Clone Technique, there will be no problem. Let's continue training. Actual combat is much more useful than those theories!"

In just a few words, Uchiha Itachi and Shisui had completed their battle practice.

While sitting on the ground and drinking water to rest, Shisui seemed to remember something and suddenly asked, "By the way, Itachi, what is your dream?"

"my dream?"

Uchiha Itachi was stunned for a moment, then said: "Maybe it is to resolve the conflicts between the family and the village and make the world peaceful forever. Perhaps it can only be done after becoming Hokage."

"However, whether it's father or brother Shisui, the probability of you becoming Hokage is greater than mine."

After hearing Uchiha Itachi's dream, Shisui was stunned. He already knew Itachi's answer before asking the question.

Itachi is so outstanding, his dream in the future must be to become Hokage.

But after actually hearing Itachi's dream, Shisui remembered what Byakuya once said: If an Uchiha's dream is to become a Hokage, then he is not far from destruction.

He didn't believe this sentence before, but now he has begun to waver.

(End of this chapter)