I have a bunch of relatives who want to become Hokage.

"With the disappearance of the Iron Country, the samurai also disappeared." The subordinate's voice was filled with resentment.

"It's alright. Even if that day comes, we're just going ahead." Mifune was quite optimistic. "As long as we've done our best, the era of ninjas will end one day."

He stopped looking at the horrifying scene in the distance and turned to leave.

At this moment, the rock sphere embryo created by Uchiha Shingen and Uchiha Madara continued to rise.

With the combined power of the two, the process of shaping the new moon has become irreversible.

This man-made object is large enough to block out the sky; if it hadn't been rising, it would have already caused direct damage to the ground.

However, it is not entirely harmless now. The larger its size, the faster and wider it absorbs ground materials.

Both Uchiha Shingen and Uchiha Madara had stopped using their chakra.

They no longer need to maintain the procedure.

Then just let it run on its own.

The Naruto world will have a moon again.

However, from then on, the people of the Land of Fire had to look up at the moon from a different angle.

For the people on Earth, this wouldn't happen, because Earth's moon is a fraction of Earth's size. But in the Naruto world, even the moon created by Hagoromo and Hamura is quite small. In fact, the position of the moon when looking up at it in the Land of Fire is different from when looking up at it in other countries.

This chakra construct is stationary relative to the ground.

It's possible that once you leave this continent, you won't be able to see it at all.

After a while, the newborn moon stopped absorbing material from the Earth's surface. It rose higher and higher and disappeared into the clouds. However, people on the ground could still feel that above the sea of ​​clouds, a terrifying behemoth was slowly rising.

The ninjas from the four great ninja villages were so shocked by this "show of martial arts" that they were unable to move. The only reason they were able to stand still was because Uchiha Shingen had protected them with his chakra.

But they knew that the era of the Five Kage was over.

There will be no more Five Kage Summits in the future. At least, as long as Uchiha Shingen and Uchiha Madara are still alive, there will be no Five Kage.

We're already on completely different levels, so what kind of Five Kage are we?

Perhaps this is what Konoha wanted to convey to them.

There will never be another Hashirama Senju to play the "we're all family" game with everyone.

The two Susanoo vanished before everyone's eyes, and when Uchiha Shingen and Uchiha Madara stood before them again, everyone bowed their heads.

"Fifth Hokage, I'm going back now." Madara Uchiha didn't want to see these people at all. It wasn't that he had never recognized the Five Kage system from the beginning, but the current Kage disappointed him.

Although he criticized the First Kazekage, Madara Uchiha still regarded the First Hokage of that era as real people.

Yeah, treat it like a serious beating from life.

But now, he feels like he's wasting his chakra even when he's fighting.

"Alright, Clan Chief Madara, you go back first. I'll take care of the rest." Uchiha Shingen was very understanding of Uchiha Madara's eagerness to return home. This Konoha Asura really liked children, which was no secret in Konoha.

Madara Uchiha is the only Hokage-level ninja in Konoha to date who would accompany children to amusement parks. Even Hashirama Senju never did that; he specifically took his best friend to parade around in the streets.

Madara Uchiha nodded, then used Kamui to disappear from the spot.

His departure seemed to warm the air considerably.

Of course, this might have been Uchiha Shingen's imagination, because everyone else still felt a chill in their hearts and stared blankly at the sky.

They were still reeling from the moonrise ceremony.

Even a counterfeit celestial body is enough to cause a significant impact on the most powerful people in the world.

There are still quite a few people in this world who believe that the sky is flat and the earth is square.

It is a world forcibly matured by chakra, packaged with seemingly advanced production technology, yet it remains a feudal society.

Uchiha Shingen clapped his hands, waking them up.

"Everyone, stop staring. It's over." Uchiha Shingen once again showed his very approachable smile to these people. "Let's go back to the meeting room. For the future, our five great ninja villages must work together."

Chapter 153 No Regrets, The Grand Finale

When the new moon appears, the world is at peace.

This is not a joke, but a fact.

For the general public on this continent, it doesn't matter where the moon in the sky comes from or whether it is eternal. These people, who need to rely on hard work to earn a living, have no interest in exploring this. They only care about whether it exists or not.

Even if they look a little different, as long as they're there, that's enough. It proves that they're still living in their familiar world, and that alone is enough to put their minds at ease.

For the upper-class nobles who control the administration of various countries, this is also a very clear signal.

There have been invincible figures in this world before, and wherever such figures lived, that country would enjoy peace. War would only break out when they needed it.

But nobles read history, and they were also responsible for compiling it.

Therefore, it is clear to everyone that neither the Leaf Village's Shura, Uchiha Madara, nor the Fifth Hokage, Uchiha Shingen, were people like Senju Hashirama.

The God of Ninjas enjoys peace. As long as the ninjas stop fighting, he's fine with anything because he believes people yearn for peace, and he's willing to whitewash the truth for this reason.

Konoha Shura, on the other hand, is an extremely impatient person who hopes to finish all the battles in one go.

In contrast, the Fifth Hokage was a very secular ninja leader who did not have a fixed inclination.

When the new moon is in the sky, the undercurrents that swept across countries due to the disappearance of the old moon vanish completely, as if they had never existed.

The Land of Fire is ushering in an era of unprecedented prosperity since its founding.

The reason why samurai were eliminated by ninjas was not only due to the difference in their chakra techniques, but also because of their different attitudes toward national institutions.

Ninjas don't participate in these things at all; they are only interested in the military system. Samurai, on the other hand, are far more interested in politics than in military matters. They engage in all sorts of things, such as overthrowing superiors, usurping the throne, respecting the emperor and expelling barbarians, and even using organizational succession to carry out peaceful evolution. The more chaotic the Warring States period was, the more elaborate the samurai's games became.

Indeed, human affairs change, the past and present come and go, the landscape retains its scenic spots, and we, the younger generation, ascend to them once again.

The Ninja Village era brought good days to the ninjas and was also a boon to the lords. They no longer had to worry about waking up one day to find their property taken away. They willingly paid a large sum of money to the ninja village every year, euphemistically called government funding. In the past, even if they paid money, they did not necessarily feel safe, as they could be threatened with rebellion by their generals one day.

Freed from military affairs, the lords had ample energy to devote to developing their territories, which in turn made the country wealthy.

Except for those small countries sandwiched between major powers and used specifically to fight for supremacy, everyone is satisfied.

The radiance of the new moon could even reach small countries, and no one in the world dared to speak lightly of war, because the opposition only needed to point to the sky.

Moreover, when everyone starts licking Konoha, licking Konoha is no longer a shameful thing, but a very normal thing, just like people need to eat and drink. People who don't lick Konoha are the freaks.

"A raging fire and splendid flowers" perfectly describes the current state of Konoha.

Alone and desolate, this perfectly describes the other ninja villages today.

In the third year since the new moon began to hang in the sky, Konoha, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure began to formally absorb the remaining forces of Amegakure.

Uchiha Shingen personally went to the Land of Rain.

A few days later, the Akatsuki organization, which had persisted for several years, announced its disbandment.

Having lost Akatsuki, the last influential banner, the Land of Rain withdrew from the ranks of ninja nations. The ninjas within its borders scattered in all directions, mainly joining the three major ninja villages of Konoha, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure.

When Uchiha Shingen returned to Konoha, he brought back a group of former ninja from the Land of Rain, including Nagato and Konan, as well as a coffin containing Yahiko.

A slightly older Jiraiya greeted Nagato and Konan. Looking at Yahiko's coffin, he thought of how the young man had dared to ask him for food, and thanked Uchiha Shingen with mixed feelings.

Nagato and Konan joined the Uzumaki clan. At the same time, the Uzumaki and Uchiha clans made a pact that the Rinnegan would be returned to the Uchiha clan after Nagato's death.

No one dares to embezzle this money; the original owner of this body is living a perfectly good life.

In fact, Nagato, who had been overdrawing his body, would have died from exhaustion if it weren't for Isshiki Otsutsuki implanting a Karma seal in his body and modifying it to some extent.

Uchiha Shingen pulled him out of his fate as a vessel, and he used the technique taught to him by Otsutsuki Kaguya to transfer the Karma on Nagato's body to... a passing wild boar.

Then he slapped the wild boar to death with a backhand.

The last trace of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in this world was also erased.

As for Nagato, he was completely disheartened or rather, he gave up, because the world was now at peace thanks to the power of Uchiha Shingen and Uchiha Madara. In the end, at Konan's urging, he disbanded Akatsuki and went to Konoha with Uchiha Shingen.

It's much better than what happened to him in his original timeline.

Having settled the last unstable element, Uchiha Shingen never left Konoha again.

In the blink of an eye, another decade has passed.

That year, the ninja world's attitude of following Konoha's lead had become a common practice for everyone.

After the formation of a dominant power structure, the way the various ninja villages interacted with Konoha also changed.

Genuine communication has replaced the previous open and covert struggles and even mutual probing.

Techniques from different ninja villages were also introduced to Konoha.

The application of electricity by Kumogakure and the chakra mechanisms by Sunagakure were first implemented in Konoha Village under these circumstances.

The Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Sand Village had no choice. At least after they contributed a portion of their technology, the Hidden Leaf Village would give them a share of the profits in accordance with the rules. In the words of the Fifth Hokage, they were contributing technology as equity.

This is an important supplement for the two ninja villages that lost many mission slots due to Konoha's strong ability to generate revenue. After all, they can also use the technological achievements resulting from this, but they will have to pay Konoha a fee in proportion.

In this situation, some people jokingly say that each ninja village has almost become a branch of Konoha, because their ninjas would rather partner with Konoha ninjas to make money than compete with Konoha ninjas for missions.

"So, I guess I've succeeded?"

On the Hokage Rock, a person sat cross-legged on the head of the great Second Hokage in a rather unrefined posture.

Sitting here, looking down at Konoha Village, it looks very different from what it did ten years ago.

The Hidden Leaf Village of today is truly the most prosperous and developed city in the world.

The mechanical technology derived from puppetry has replaced animal power in many places, and electricity has been applied to all aspects of the city.

The person sitting on the second-generation fire image has a thermos and a stack of nuts at their feet.

He picked up the thermos, opened the lid, smelled the aroma of tea inside, and took a satisfied sip.

Then he casually grabbed a few nuts, threw them into his mouth, chewed them a few times, and frowned.

"This one doesn't taste good at all," he muttered, then grabbed another handful without stopping.

People kept passing by the viewing platform under the image of the fire spirit. Most of these people were residents of Konoha Village. After seeing the person sitting on the image of the fire spirit, they would pretend not to see him and not disturb him.

Only a few tourists were stunned by what they saw. When they notified the nearby Konoha ninja and were told who the person was, they were completely dumbfounded.

Then join the ranks of those who say, "I didn't see anyone up there."

Those who were essentially ignored by everyone else watched with great interest, occasionally muttering things like, "Aren't the people from the Land of Wind hot wearing such thick clothes?" and "Wow, that girl from the Land of Earth has such pretty clothes."