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Chapter 303: There's No Need to Train the Sharingan!
🕑 Added 2025-09-30 12:31:53 +0000 UTCChapter 303: There's No Need to Train the Sharingan!
The Hidden Leaf Village issued a series of statements over several days:
Day One: The Land of Fire's Daimyo has been abducted. Orochimaru or the Akatsuki are suspected. The preliminary judgment is that the motive was to plunder wealth.
Day Two: The Daimyo's body has been found, suspected to have been killed by Orochimaru's sword style. It is judged that the motive was perhaps to incite civil war in the Land of Fire.
Day Three: The Land of Fire has officially entered the Konoha Era. All governmental affairs from all regions are to be submitted to the Hidden Leaf Village. Konoha ninjas have begun to deploy to various towns.
Two other pieces of news interspersed within were not given much attention. The first was that Konoha's Hokage Advisor, Danzo Shimura, had been dismissed once again…
He was an old advisor.
His career was always full of ups and downs: promoted for meritorious service, dismissed for making mistakes. At first, no one paid it any mind, until later someone discovered that the Darkness of Konoha, Danzo Shimura, had from this point on completely left the core of Konoha's power, never again having the opportunity to touch a high-level position.
The ninja world's historians attributed the case of the Land of Fire Daimyo's disappearance to Danzo, because there were a considerable number of materials or interview records proving that this was indeed one of Danzo's many crimes.
Those historians called this a gravely mistaken decision on Danzo's part, because after this case, Danzo was completely suppressed by Fugaku Uchiha and his son…
In later generations, there were also many ninjas who spoke up for Danzo. These advocates, who believed that ninjas were walkers in the darkness, published a large number of articles criticizing the Hokage, believing that Danzo's actions were actually him taking the blame for others.
Danzo was also jokingly referred to by the ninja world as the 'Scapegoat Kage of a Generation'.
At the same time, Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been in charge of Konoha for decades, finally completely grasped the military and political power of the Land of Fire. The Third Hokage's power finally reached its peak, and from there it began to decline rapidly, precisely because he missed a major event that followed.
As for the other piece of news, it was that the Hidden Mist Village had initiated a Five Kage Summit to jointly search for the Akatsuki, which had gone to ground in the ninja world. In the end, it came to nothing.
Because no great nation's ninja village was willing to cooperate in confronting a mercenary organization. After recapturing the Tailed Beasts, how would they be distributed?
This time, there was no fair and just Hashirama Senju!
And the ones who had lost the most Tailed Beasts were the Hidden Mist and Iwagakure. They were also the most anxious to track down the Akatsuki! Yet these two villages, despite their borders not even touching, were sworn enemies… The Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage had taken each other out!
The only one who could possibly come forward to preside over a Five Kage Summit, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had rejected the Hidden Mist's request to hold one. All his energy was focused on stabilizing the situation in the Land of Fire. How could he be in the mood to attend a Five Kage Summit!
The ninja world's historians believe that Hiruzen's failure to respond to the Five Kage Summit initiated by the Mist caused the Mist to no longer rely on the Third Hokage, but to turn to supporting the Hokage candidate, Itachi Uchiha.
Itachi Uchiha, this rising young political star, had single-handedly maintained the alliance between the two great ninja villages and had taken the opportunity to gain a lot of political capital.
There was also a portion of people who believed that the Hidden Mist had long since fallen under Itachi Uchiha's command, and that all of this was a conspiracy of the Naka Shrine. There was a lot of data showing that the Naka Sage Clan frequently appeared in the Land of Water, and that the two sides might have reached a secret agreement long ago…
The Third Hokage had chosen not to participate in the Five Kage Summit really because he was very busy. His workload was increasing, and he was a relatively diligent Hokage, not like the Daimyo who ignored political affairs. Therefore, all the major and minor affairs of the Land of Fire were piled up in his office.
Hiruzen rubbed his old back. "I'm really getting old… Just sitting for this short while, I feel my energy is failing."
"Then hurry up and abdicate!"
Tsunade retorted impatiently. Because she was the Hokage's Assistant, she also had to help with some political affairs. She disliked sitting in an office the most, and next to her was Jiraiya, who would slack off from time to time.
Since Danzo had been dismissed for assassinating the Land of Fire Daimyo, his position as Hokage Advisor was now vacant. At this moment, only Fugaku Uchiha was assisting in sorting through the official documents.
Hearing Tsunade's words, the old father's eyes twitched, and his gaze fell on his well-behaved son who was dealing with official business by his side…
The father and son pair said nothing, a tacit understanding between them.
After the ninja villages in various countries replaced the Daimyo, the situation in the ninja world had strangely begun to stabilize, perhaps because they had all grasped both military and political power, and could supply their ninjas with resources and money.
And the Akatsuki had also gradually disappeared, and there had been no more news of Orochimaru. This kind of calm was strangely tense.
When summer came, Izumi Uchiha and Hana Inuzuka graduated. It was just that their contemporary, Itachi Uchiha, had already graduated six years ago…
It was a bit awkward.
Faced with the Third Hokage's request, Itachi Uchiha's will was very firm. "I am not suitable to be a supervising Jonin, and I am not good at teaching disciples… What's more, Izumi is my contemporary."
"That little girl is also a good prospect for training the Sharingan. I hear she has already awakened a three-tomoe Sharingan…" Hiruzen held his pipe, his voice heavy with age. "In the entire Uchiha clan, only you are the most suitable."
Shisui Uchiha had imprisoned himself in the Naka Shrine.
Fugaku Uchiha was working three jobs to support his family.
Itachi Uchiha was the last Mangekyo Sharingan user. It was unknown what the Third Hokage was thinking. The Uchiha had one more Mangekyo; how could he be happy?
Itachi shook his head awkwardly. "Never mind the Mangekyo, I can count on one hand the number of times I've used even a normal three-tomoe Sharingan…"
This was indeed an embarrassing matter.
He was clearly recognized as the strongest Uchiha in Konoha, yet he was one who didn't like to fight using his Sharingan. When he encountered a strong enemy, the crow by his side could also smooth everything over for him.
"…"
Hiruzen was choked. He was a little at a loss. He had no choice but to turn his head and look at Fugaku, whose face was ashen. "Does your clan have any arrangements?"
He wanted to let Fugaku help choose a supervising Jonin for Izumi. That little girl was indeed a rare genius.
To have a three-tomoe Sharingan at the age of twelve, and to have held the top spot in the Ninja Academy for a long time, this level was very high…
"We will leave it to Lord Hokage's discretion…"
Fugaku Uchiha sat in his seat, glared at his son, and continued, "After Izumi is promoted to Chunin, we will reassign her!"
At that time, it was estimated that Izumi Uchiha would be assigned to the Military Police Force or the Defense Department, then rack up some important missions, and then be promoted to Jonin.
This was also the fastest promotion path for the Uchiha clan at present…
If Itachi Uchiha were to succeed as Hokage, the ninjas in the clan would probably also compete to go to the ANBU for a tour of duty.
The Hokage candidate, however, glanced strangely at his father. We're having a proper conversation, so why did you suddenly glare at me? I should have been behaving quite well at home recently…
After Fugaku finished talking with Hiruzen, he turned his head to look at his prized eldest son. "Starting tomorrow, you will learn to train your dōjutsu with me…"
"…Is there really a need for that?"
Itachi Uchiha spread his hands helplessly. His Sage Mode was so refined, and more and more ninjas in the clan were researching sage arts. The power of the jutsu was also great. He didn't really need the power of the Mangekyo!
