Chapter 596: Thoroughly Resolving the Uchiha's Legacy Issues
The monks of the Fire Temple did not get a promise, let alone any benefits.
So they just stayed and refused to leave.
They sat in twos and threes in the corners of the village streets, chanting scriptures.
Asuma's good friend, Abbot Chiriku, had been injured by Deidara. It was said that he was seriously injured and in a coma. The one in charge of daily affairs now was Master Senshi.
In reality, hehe, this was obviously just an excuse. It was just a classic case of good cop, bad cop.
The Fire Temple was very dissatisfied, but Konoha didn't care.
When facing the militarily powerful Hidden Cloud, the Third Hokage would adopt a policy of appeasement and take the opportunity to suppress the Hyuga clan's influence.
But he would not bow his head to the Fire Temple. A single temple with only three to five hundred ninja monks, did he need to compromise? No!
The current Konoha needed to care even less about the Fire Temple's attitude.
In this day and age, there was no harmony between major powers. If you eat more, I naturally eat less. Conflicts were everywhere. As a military group, at this time, they would definitely be united against outsiders. Let alone the fact that it wasn't Ino who did it, even if it was her, they had to support her.
Want an explanation? Not a chance.
If you want to sunbathe in the village, then so be it.
Anyway, you have to pay for food and lodging. To some extent, the arrival of these monks even boosted the village's GDP.
Zetsu had thoroughly brainwashed Sora and then brought this young ninja monk, who was burning with a thirst for revenge, to see Madara.
Sora's constitution was not as good as Naruto's, but he could withstand a portion of the Nine-Tails' chakra. This was not something an ordinary person could do.
His value was not as great as Obito's, but he could still be used.
Madara had temporarily suspended his plan to revive the Ten-Tails in an incomplete state. He extracted the Nine-Tails' chakra from Kinkaku's body and, while Sora was asleep, injected this portion of chakra into his body, giving him a power-up.
The effect was good. The previous Sora was at most a chunin. Now he looked a bit like a jonin.
Unfortunately, he didn't know where Ginkaku's body was. Otherwise, he could have boosted this pawn's strength even more.
Madara was indeed arrogant, but his ability to lie was also top-notch.
"Boy, your destiny was already set from the beginning, just like when I met Hashirama back then..." Madara reminisced about the bitter past and the sweet present, recounting the story of how he and the First Hokage had founded Konoha and then turned against each other.
In his story, the founding of Konoha was full of conspiracies and deceit. The fact that a founder like him was forced to leave was very telling.
"But... Lord Madara, what should I do?"
Madara pointed at his chest. "That's a question you have to ask yourself."
Did he have a plan? Sora, who had been chanting scriptures and meditating since he was a child, didn't have much of a plan. He couldn't help but recall some of his own father Kazuma's ideas.
Destroy Konoha! How to destroy it?
When Kazuma had left the Land of Fire back then, he had secretly made a lot of plans.
Sora bid farewell to Madara and returned to the ruin-like Fire Temple. After learning that it was "Ino Yamanaka" who had destroyed the temple, the malice in his heart grew even stronger.
Master Senshi, who was in charge of daily affairs, expressed his support and hinted that the Fire Temple and several other major temples were his strong backing.
Sora, through the Fire Temple's channels, secretly met with a confidant of the Feudal Lord.
The result was very disappointing. The new Feudal Lord, Enishi, had no intention of confronting Konoha at all. He spent all day drinking and making merry in his castle.
With the Feudal Lord's path blocked, Sora went to the Land of Iron alone. He wanted to persuade the samurai group, hoping that the samurai and the ninja monks would join forces to crusade against the evil ninja villages!
The former Root ninja were extremely efficient. Ten days later, Ino had completely made up for her previous "debt" and had even sent more than ten extra life stakes to her old pal, the Shinigami, for backup.
The friendship between the two "people" had once again reached its peak.
Ino took the opportunity to make a request: to borrow the Shinigami's newly completed "house" to complete a meeting that spanned a thousand years of the underworld.
Tsunade, with two medical teams, had been busy for over a month and had finally cleaned up the mass grave-like remains of the Uchiha clan.
After confirming their identities one by one, they were cremated, placed in urns, and buried as Konoha ninja.
Minato had done a lot of work in this regard. He had persuaded Koharu and Homura and had also negotiated with the major ninja clans in the village. In the end, he had come up with a solution that was more or less satisfactory to all parties.
The Uchiha clan had indeed committed treason. That was true, but not the entire clan had intended to.
Inabi Uchiha, Tekka Uchiha, and Yashiro Uchiha—these radicals had put the plan of treason into action.
When Itachi Uchiha raised his long sword, those who had not resisted, like Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha, should be distinguished from the radicals.
And the ones who sold rice crackers in the village, Tesha and Kome... they were not ninja, just ordinary people.
They just had the title of Uchiha and sold a couple of rice crackers from time to time. Could they also commit treason?
Some ninja who had rendered meritorious service to the village, from Kagami Uchiha and Shisui Uchiha to Itachi and Izumi, had their reputations restored. They were loyal to the village and should not be discussed together with those radicals.
Minato had screened all the Uchiha. Those with merit had their status recognized and enjoyed the treatment of heroes. Those who were ambiguous were all buried according to the specifications of Konoha ninja. And those radicals were dealt with as rogue ninja.
Among them, the father and son who had both awakened Amaterasu and had dreamed of burning down Konoha, Fugaku and Itachi Uchiha, were recognized as loyal Konoha ninja, the perfect inheritors of the Will of Fire.
The Uchiha clan issue was no longer treated with a one-size-fits-all approach.
The village held a funeral for Fugaku, Mikoto, and the others. Even a part of Shisui's remains, which had fallen into the Naka River, were found through the efforts of the Inuzuka clan's ninja.
The Uchiha clan's popularity was really not that good.
Ino had put up a 50% discount sign at the entrance of her flower shop, but by the time the funeral was about to begin, not a single flower had been sold.
"Sigh! The world is so cold, and people's hearts are not what they used to be!" she lamented.
It was the funeral of the Uchiha clan, not the Hokage's funeral. Attendance was entirely voluntary.
And with that, no one went.
In the end, it was Shikaku who came forward and contacted the major ninja clans. Everyone came together to pay their respects, create a bit of atmosphere, and also give the Hokage some face.
"Lady Yamanaka, the Hokage requests that you use Plan B," an ANBU ninja suddenly appeared beside Ino.
She looked up at the sky. The sun was shining brightly. This weather was indeed not suitable for a funeral.
She nodded. "I know."
Nagato had been using the "Rain Tiger at Will Technique" to force rain in the Hidden Rain Village.
Ino had also obtained this ninjutsu when she was cleaning up the remnants of the Hidden Rain. This move had a very high requirement for the level of Water Release. Currently, only she in Konoha could use it.
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