Naruto: Yes, Uchiha-sama.

Chapter 176 This will be a story of a hero defeating a dragon. Tobirama Senju, do you want to be a dragon-slaying hero?

"It's not easy to come all this way to Akatsuki Village"

"Tobirama Senju, you insisted on coming to this place."

"This has really put me in a terrible situation!"

Makoto Uchiha muttered a complaint.

Although Uchiha Makoto was complaining, his face showed no sign of complaint; instead, he appeared quite pleased.

Yes—this is the Ninja Academy.

While strolling around Akatsuki Village, Makoto Uchiha and Tobirama Senju happened to pass by the Ninja Academy.

While passing by the ninja academy, Tobirama Senju suddenly had a whim to visit the Akatsuki ninja academy.

This isn't exactly a secret place.

Unlike the high-tech industrial park in Akatsuki Village, the Ninja Academy doesn't have many laboratories, and strangers aren't allowed to enter.

Even ordinary people from Akatsuki Village can occasionally enter the Ninja Academy to give the students clothes and food, so it wouldn't hurt to take Tobirama Senju on a tour.

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As soon as Makoto Uchiha entered the Ninja Academy, he was surrounded by students!
The Ninja Academy has a very interesting ceremony. Around 9:30 in the morning, all the teachers and students go to the school's playground and swear an oath in front of the portrait of Uchiha Makoto—to pledge their loyalty to the Kage!

Therefore, every student at the Ninja Academy knows Uchiha Makoto and regards him as their most revered idol. Because of Master Kage, they have the opportunity to live the life that once appeared in their dreams.

Therefore, Makoto Uchiha was surrounded by a large group of adorable students.

The students surrounded him, hoping to receive a pat on the head or a pinch on the cheek as a reward from Makoto Uchiha.

"Tch~ that wicked brat."

Senju Tobirama heard Uchiha Makoto's boastful voice, and he was quickly pushed to the edge of the crowd by the children, his face immediately showing displeasure.

The kids from Akatsuki Village are so rude... They should at least greet me.

However, he only disliked Uchiha Makoto, not the children. Tobirama Senju was not yet at the point of taking his anger out on children.

The displeasure quickly disappeared.

Looking at the rosy smiling face and the child's eyes shining.

A smile also appeared on his face.

This is precisely the original intention behind the founding of Konoha!
Hashirama Senju established ninja villages because he didn't want ninjas to kill each other forever. He hoped that children could one day go to school, play, and grow up under the protection of the ninja villages, instead of enduring the hardships of his generation and experiencing the cruelest battles as children.

Even someone as powerful as the First Hokage couldn't protect all his younger brothers, leaving only Tobirama Senju.

Madara Uchiha had no younger brothers left.

If even Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha were like this, what about others?

These battles are enough to destroy children's tender will and aspirations for the future, turning them into mindless zombies.

So Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju both "went crazy".

A perverted obsession with so-called peace, "protecting" for the sake of "protecting," ultimately "protected" nothing at all.

Another was deceived by Black Zetsu's clumsy Eye of the Moon plan and ultimately lived a tragic life.

Tobirama Senju was also a participant in the previous era. He fared slightly better; he didn't "go crazy," but instead became a racist.

Of course, he also knew how precious this scene was, even if the children in front of him were from Akatsuki Village.

This caused quite a delay.

Even after the school bell rang, the students were reluctant to leave.

It wasn't until the teachers at the Ninja Academy noticed something was wrong—the classroom, which should have been full of students, was completely empty—that they rushed out to check on the situation. They found Uchiha Makoto, and the group of students were eventually taken back to the classroom by the teachers.

"Ha, sorry, sorry, I came here without telling you today."

"Just do what you're supposed to do, don't let me disrupt the normal order."

Uchiha Makoto was gentle and only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing off the group of students and teachers.

Have you shown off enough?

Tobirama Senju regained his stern expression and spoke coldly to Makoto Uchiha, his tone filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"I wasn't showing off at all. I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming in."

"Hmph, with so many other paths to choose from, you had to take the one with the ninja academy. I think you did it on purpose. You knew I would..."

"That's just sophistry. Fine, I'll use a transformation spell then. Even though class has started, it's still annoying to have outdoor students constantly surrounded."

Makoto Uchiha had no intention of arguing with the completely unreasonable Tobirama Senju about these pointless issues.

After all, there was a reason why Tobirama Senju was making things difficult for him.

He originally had a good reputation in the village, but because of Uchiha Makoto.

His reputation in the village became mixed.

The higher-ups in Konoha knew how difficult it was for Tobirama Senju. As the village's nominal second-in-command, but in reality the third-in-command, he had already done an excellent job.

However, it's difficult for others to understand the intricacies of the situation. In any case, the Uchiha kids probably didn't like Tobirama Senju very much.

So Makoto Uchiha immediately used his transformation technique to quickly end the conversation, fearing that Tobirama Senju would become angry and pull out a kunai.

It would be extremely unseemly if the two of them got into a fight at school!
Tobirama Senju may be shameless, but he is!

The two then wandered around the school for a while, choosing not to disturb the students who were having classes indoors, and came to a huge square area.

The sun was shining brightly at that moment.

At a glance, many students are having outdoor classes in this place.

Looking at the students, Tobirama Senju skillfully estimated the number of students gathered in the area to be approximately four hundred.

This is truly a terrifying number.

The latest class of Konoha Ninja Academy has only enrolled a little over 600, close to 700 students.

Students already make up the majority of them.

At the same time, it was almost subconscious.

Tobirama Senju then recalled the information about Akatsuki Village.

The number of students at the Akatsuki Ninja Academy has remained at a frighteningly high level since its second year, starting from an initial three thousand students. Last year and the year before, enrollment continued to expand, and this year saw another large-scale expansion. Regardless, this is terrible news.

The situation is extremely serious.

The only good news is that the number of students Akatsuki initially enrolled was actually about the same as that of Konoha, and shouldn't have been less than Konoha's.

The students who were subsequently enrolled through continuous expansion were actually a bunch of useless people.

It means "useless" literally.

These types of students are usually considered trash by the ninja academies of the ninja villages, the kind that they would rather expel on the spot. They are completely unnecessary to train and would only waste precious educational resources. These students will never become qualified ninjas; they would barely be able to become genin.

At first, Tobirama Senju thought that Makoto Uchiha had gone mad again, and even gloated – maintaining such a large number of students would be a considerable burden on the finances of a ninja village, and the Akatsuki village's finances might be dragged down as a result.

But as the two gradually became more familiar with each other...

Tobirama Senju already knew that Makoto Uchiha was notoriously cunning and never did anything that would lose money.

Since he insists on recruiting a large number of students who are unlikely to become qualified ninjas and spends such a huge amount of resources, there must be a reason for it.

"Why do you have to deal with these useless students? Tobirama, your words are still as unpleasant as ever."

"Since you have asked so sincerely, I will mercifully answer you: In order to prevent the world from being destroyed, to protect the peace of the ninja world, and to uphold the evil of love and truth."

"Speak like a human being, damn it!"

Tobirama Senju frowned.

He knew that Uchiha Makoto sometimes liked to say things that were hard to understand.

That's what happened when he and Makoto Uchiha were discussing the future of the ninja world that day.

"Perhaps one day we ninjas will venture into the stars. At that time, we may encounter far more problems than we do now, for example..."

"If slaves are unhappy, how can we make them happy?"

Why are forced labor and processing mutually exclusive?

"Why is the output of criminals entirely negative? Don't they pay taxes?"

"If there are too many unemployed people, can the Human Federation just wipe out its own planet?"

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All of this left Tobirama Senju with a feeling that he couldn't understand at all, yet also found it very impressive.

This feeling is very unpleasant.

This made Tobirama Senju feel like he was acting like a fool in front of Makoto Uchiha.

"Well, to put it simply, remember what I told you about making ninjutsu more practical?"

“I remember, but you don’t really expect these students to help you achieve these things, do you? They probably can’t even use a D-rank ninjutsu very well.”

"That's true, but that's enough."

Makoto Uchiha pointed to a student not far away who was diligently forming hand seals.

The hand seal takes up to three minutes to form.

Tobirama Senju was dumbfounded, forming over a hundred hand seals, while his Water Dragon Bullet only had forty-four.

Even Tobirama Senju felt that the hand seals for the Water Dragon Bullet were too complicated and needed further improvement.

Otherwise, in ninja battles, it is very easy for the enemy to interrupt the release of ninjutsu, causing it to fail.

However, the ninjutsu was ultimately successfully activated.

However, the effect of the ninjutsu was very ordinary. In Tobirama Senju's opinion, it could not even be called ninjutsu. It was completely devoid of any offensive capabilities. It only created a slight damage to the land, which was about two meters wide and more than twenty meters long, as if it had been plowed over.

So Tobirama Senju gave me a "that's it" look—I thought you were going to show me something big, but you just pulled out a huge one.

What's the use of this ninjutsu?!
"Still don't understand?"

"As we all know, in order to achieve victory in battle, ninjas usually simplify the number of hand seals to speed up the activation of ninjutsu. However, this is a test of the user's chakra control and chakra consumption. On the contrary, the more hand seals there are, the lower the requirements for the user, which can greatly improve the stability and operability of the technique, and also greatly reduce chakra consumption. This technique is used to develop agriculture. Even an ordinary person with talent can master it as long as they practice diligently. There are also other corresponding infrastructure ninjutsu. Building a small road is no problem."

"Perhaps they cannot participate in ninja battles, but they can truly change the ninja world, which has such low productivity."

"Think about it, every year thousands of ninjas like those you just called trash will graduate from the Ninja Academy and change the world!"

"This is the responsibility that ninjas should bear, instead of going to great lengths for those high-ranking figures with kunai, killing complete strangers and creating endless killing and hatred, as the ninjas of the past did."

"The ninja world shouldn't be like this!"

Makoto Uchiha's persuasive skills have reached a level of perfection. The ultimate romance for a man is—the world shouldn't be like this!

Even Tobirama Senju was deeply moved upon hearing this. He had thought that Makoto Uchiha's boastful words in front of him were just empty talk, but he never expected that Makoto would actually put his ninja way into practice.

He has already mobilized the new generation of ninjas!
But the next second, Uchiha Makoto's demeanor changed: "So, sooner or later, I'm going to slaughter all the daimyo and nobles of the ninja world!"

Tobirama Senju's expression changed; the slight goodwill he had just developed towards Makoto Uchiha vanished.

"This is far too extreme. I can support the action you just mentioned, but killing all the daimyo and nobles? You're simply insane!"

"I want ninjas to dominate the ninja world. They are the stumbling blocks to the ninja class. What's wrong with kicking them away? This is not a dinner party. It's a brutal, life-or-death struggle."

"Are daimyo and nobles more noble than us ninjas? Do they possess Hashirama-sama's Sage Mode or the powerful Sharingan of the Uchiha clan? They have nothing!"

These are things that have always been forbidden to say; they are taboo.

Even Tobirama Senju only occasionally thought about these things in his mind, but he never said them out loud or took any action. The relationship between ninjas, daimyo, and nobles was very delicate and not a simple one of cooperation and dependence.

But Uchiha Makoto wasn't afraid; this was his territory!

And even if the Daimyo of the Land of Fire hears about it, so what!
Even if the Daimyo could storm into Akatsuki Village and put Uchiha Makoto on trial, he couldn't do anything!
This only proves that the Akatsuki Village enjoys freedom of speech!
In this free ninja village, ninjas and ordinary people are free to vent their dissatisfaction with the actions of daimyo and nobles!
Tobirama Senju covered his head.

He genuinely had no way of answering Uchiha Makoto's question.

The constraints of traditional ninja thinking made him think that Uchiha Makoto was a madman.

He had seen far too many Uchiha like this, shouting that the ninja world was wrong, then going on a killing spree, ultimately making a mess of things, harming both themselves and others.

But Makoto Uchiha is different. Although he sometimes goes crazy, he is genuinely doing things to change the ninja world and make it develop in a better direction.

Therefore, it is probably true that Tobirama Senju's inner voice responded to Makoto Uchiha.

(End of this chapter)