The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

Winning allies?

To be honest, the word ally has not appeared in high-level meetings of the Uchiha clan for a long time.

For a long time, the Uchiha clan has stood on the top of the mountain in the Land of Fire, overlooking countless ninja clans. The only one who can compare with them is the Senju clan.

This is not a boast of the Uchiha clan, but a fact.

In the past hundred years, even the Shimada clan only had a record of victory against the Uchiha clan once before.

The best result before was that the Uchiha were forced to retreat and the fight ended in a draw.

More often than not, the Shimada clan was actually completely suppressed by the Uchiha.

Therefore, when the second elder mentioned allies, Uchiha Tajima was in a trance for a moment.

However, Uchiha Tajima still knows how to assess the situation. When they have strength, Uchiha can be willful. Now that they have no strength, they have naturally lost the qualification to be willful.

"It is naturally best to win over allies, but in today's Fire Country, who can we win over?" Uchiha Tajima said helplessly.

"Alliance of small and medium-sized ninja clans."

"What?" Uchiha Tajima thought he heard wrongly.

"It's the alliance of small and medium-sized ninja clans!" the second elder repeated again, "Clan leader, this alliance is different from ordinary ninja clans. They can be divided."

"Differentiation..." Uchiha Tajima suddenly understood.

Among the small and medium-sized ninja clan alliances, those who are most hostile to Uchiha are the remnants of the ninja clan who were intercepted before and the ninja clan who are close to them.

The other small-scale ninjas probably shouted at Uchiha to kill them out of the desire to harm others.

As for the Sarutobi clan that leads the alliance, the Ino, Deer and Butterfly clan, and the three other clans actually do not want to start a war with Uchiha.

Otherwise, they would have gone out together with the Shimada clan before.

This idea may not have changed even now.

The reason why small and medium-sized ninja clans stick together to keep warm is just to protect themselves. In fact, this alliance model is not very competitive.

As for the benefits that can be gained from destroying the Uchiha clan, families like the Sarutobi clan and Inokacho don't care too much.

These four families are different from the general small ninja clan. They have their own fighting styles and family inheritance.

Especially for the Inoga Butterfly, fighting against the Uchiha would be of no benefit to them at all, and they naturally did not want to make unnecessary sacrifices.

If it weren't for taking care of the emotions of the little ninja clan, the Nara clan leader wouldn't even bother to discuss these things.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Tajima also had an idea and said to the second elder: "Second elder, you secretly sent a message to the Nara clan and the Sarutobi clan, saying that we have no intention of being hostile to them, and the Uchiha clan hopes to form an alliance with them."

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In the next few days, the Uchiha clan and the Hagoromo clan each showed their magical powers. Neither clan was sure of victory, so they naturally began to win over allies.

For a time, except for the Senju clan and the Shimada clan, almost all other factions received requests for alliance from the two clans.

However, compared to those smoke bombs, the center of the storm is still the alliance led by Sarutobi and Inokacho...

"Chief Sasuke."

In the alliance's joint headquarters, Nara Shika Motomasa, the leader of the Nara clan, and Sarutobi Sasuke, the leader of the Sarutobi clan, met privately.

"The Uchiha clan and the Hagoromo clan have successively sent us requests for alliance. Which side does Chief Sasuke think we should take?" Shikamoto asked.

Although Shikamoto is only the head of the Nara clan, he has full authority to represent the three Ino, Deer and Butterfly clans.

Moreover, the Nara clan is well-known in the ninja world for their wisdom, so Sarutobi Sasuke naturally attaches great importance to his dialogue with Shikamoto.

After thinking for a moment, Sarutobi Sasuke frowned and said, "Why do we want to get involved? Although there are many small ninjas in the alliance clamoring to attack Uchiha, it is not impossible to suppress them."

Lu Yuan immediately sighed and said: "Chief Sasuke, in this age of great strife, if you don't advance, you will retreat."

Sarutobi Sasuke was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "Didn't the Shimada clan already maintain the order of the Fire Country? Where did the world of great strife come from?"

"Order?" Lu Yuan smiled and said, "How can there be any order? If there is order, why do we need to form this alliance?

It's just that the strength of all parties is relatively balanced, so a false order is barely maintained.

Nowadays, the power between the parties has been imbalanced, and the Uchiha clan is just a trigger. This war between Uchiha and Hagoromo is the real beginning of the era of chaos."

Sarutobi Sasuke was silent for a long time after hearing this. Only then did he realize that the recent major events in the Land of Fire were not as simple as he thought.

It's right to think about it. The Hagoromo clan can take action against Uchiha today, and it will be logical for other ninja clans to annex and attack them in the future.

"Then the Shimada clan has made useless efforts this time? Shimada Shigenen cannot be so stupid, right?" Sarutobi Sasuke said.

"Of course he's not stupid." Nara Shikamoto shook his head and said, "The Shimada clan's victory over Uchiha this time is not so much about maintaining the order of the Fire Country, but it is more about dragging the Daimyo into the Shimada clan's chariot.

superior.

As Uchiha and Hagoromo go to war, the era of war will inevitably begin. The daimyo can only ensure its own safety by relying closely on the Shimada clan, and the Shimada clan will receive financial aid from the daimyo. For the Shimada clan, it is absolutely

Big profit."

"I see." Sarutobi Sasuke understood, and then asked, "What do you think, the leader of the Shikamoto clan, should we take sides in this war?"

Lu Yuan also frowned when he heard this, thought for a long time, and finally said: "Both of us agree."

"Both parties agree?" Sarutobi Sasuke was surprised again.

"That's right, we have agreed on a time for the raid with the two tribes. We will not enter the battlefield until then. We will see how they fight. Whoever has the upper hand, we will join the victor's side." Lu Yuan said somewhat sinisterly.

This is a typical behavior of a loser, but Sarutobi Sasuke has to say that this is the safest behavior.

Others don't know the reality of the alliance, but the leaders of the two families know it clearly.

Even though the alliance is overwhelmingly composed of thousands of ninjas, in fact the fighting power of the large number of small ninjas is really unsightly.

Moreover, there is little coordination between them, and there are even some conflicts.

In order to reconcile the conflicts between these ninja clans, Sarutobi Sasuke and Nara Shikamoto lost a lot of hair.

Expecting these thousands of ninjas to compare with giants like Shimada and Senju is just a pipe dream.

Even compared to Uchiha, Hinata and Hagoromo, who are now weaker, there is still a gap.

If we really have a head-on confrontation with the Hagoromo clan or the Uchiha clan, the true nature of the alliance will be exposed.

It is better to join the victor when the outcome is decided, so as not to expose the alliance's weakness.

After deciding on the plan, the two also agreed on the details, large and small.

Lu Yuan looked at Sarutobi Sasuke, who was sitting across from him, and finally said: "Chief Sasuke, paper cannot contain the fire. It is time for us to consider which side we will fall to."

After that, he left.

"Which side are you leaning towards..." Sarutobi Sasuke was also a little confused.