The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

"Shimada Shigenen, I'll give you an advantage this time. I hope you'll be so lucky next time."

Seeing that the tribe began to retreat, Uchiha Tajima signaled to Sarutobi Sasuke, and the two of them also began to retreat at the same time.

Seeing this, Chongnian did not pursue him and allowed the enemy to retreat.

On the other side, Madara, who was fighting Hanzo, obviously saw the signal to retreat.

A trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes, and then he directly distanced himself from Hanzo and said: "Next time, I will defeat you openly."

After saying that, he led the clan members to retreat.

Soon, the Uchiha clan disappeared into the night.

The Shimada clan stood still, turning their heads to look at Hyuga Kagahiko who was not far away.

At this time, he also looked tired and suffered serious injuries, but he still pushed his Byakugan to the limit.

After sensing it for a moment, Hinata Jinghiko nodded to Chongnian.

Chongnian finally breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Shimada belongs to you, rest where you are."

The Shimada ninja who was still fighting desperately was now staggering like a deflated ball.

One kind of elder didn't say much when he saw this.

After successive battles, even they felt exhausted and had experienced life and death, let alone these tribesmen with average strength.

After this battle, without a long period of repair, I am afraid that the Shimada clan will not be able to experience another war.

This is also a time for the tribesmen to relieve their psychological stress.

Otherwise, once a ninja becomes war-weary and refuses to go to the battlefield again, the ninja will be completely useless.

This does not work by relying on others' pressure. The battlefield will indeed cause psychological problems in people, and these problems can only be healed by time.

After resting for a while, the elders, including Hanzo and Genji, arrived near Chongnian.

But compared to the grand occasion of nearly thirty people before the war, the number of people sitting here is much smaller now.

Hanzo looked around and found that the Shimada clan was missing four elders.

Only five of the original ten elders of the Hyuga clan are sitting here.

In addition to the death of Hatake Teru, the Shimada clan lost ten jounin in this battle, including even two elite jounin.

Others had obviously noticed the situation before them. Zhongnian's eyes were dim, and Hyuga Kaghiko's face was even more ugly.

If the Jonin is like this, the clan members will probably suffer a lot of losses.

In this battle, the Shimada clan indeed suffered heavy losses.

After a long silence, Zhongnian suddenly said: "We suffered heavy losses in this battle, and the responsibility lies entirely with me. I should take the blame and resign as the clan leader..."

"No!"

"Clan leader, think twice!"

"The senior patriarch, why is this happening?"

Before Chunian could even finish his words, everyone started to object, even the somewhat resentful Hyuga Kagahiko spoke out against it.

Once Zhongnian resigns as the clan leader, the person who takes over will naturally be Hanzo.

It's not that these people don't recognize Hanzo. In fact, Hanzo's strength and dexterity in this battle made them admire him, and they all recognized his identity as heir.

However, Hanzo's age is really too young.

He is only thirteen years old.

If he died in battle, there is nothing wrong with Hanzo becoming the clan leader.

But since Chung-nian is still here, if Hanzo takes over the position of clan leader, the outside world will inevitably speculate that Chung-nian is seriously injured and may underestimate or even test the Shimada clan, causing a lot of trouble and not worth the gain.

Even members of my own family will have doubts.

Zhongnian saw the opposition, but said nothing and just looked at everyone silently.

This made everyone feel a little bad.

"The patriarch really wants to abdicate..."

This idea suddenly came to the minds of the elders.

Originally, they thought that the new year was just a show, but if they objected and gave the new year a step down, the responsibility this time would be taken away from them.

After all, it is difficult to hold anyone responsible for the defeat of the Ninja clan.

Even if it is the responsibility of a certain high-ranking person, would you still execute him and cut off his arms?

That's why Hatake Sakumo's suicide in later generations opened the eyes of the other four ninja villages. They didn't expect that political struggles could lead to breaking one's own arms.

Well, maybe except Kirigakure...

The elders couldn't help but feel a headache when they looked at Zhongnian, who seemed to be determined.

At this time, it was the Great Elder Hesong who spoke.

"Clan leader, how about this, let the young clan leader be responsible for the big and small decisions within the clan first, but you will still be the clan leader until the young clan leader reaches adulthood, how about that?"

"Yes, Patriarch, you can think about it."

"..."

All the elders also began to persuade him.

The great elder's method was indeed good. This time in Zhongnian, he was deeply hit and lost faith in his own decision-making.

However, some elders were worried that Hanzo becoming the clan leader too early would lead to a series of unpredictable consequences.

The great elder's arrangement was considered to take into account the ideas of both parties.

I was a little hesitant to see this in the new year.

The great elder took advantage of the victory and pursued the attack: "Clan leader, the young patriarch is still young. In addition to being responsible for big and small decisions, the position of patriarch also has some affairs to deal with. If it delays the young patriarch's cultivation, wouldn't it be a small loss but a big loss? You can also be considered as helping a group.

Young patriarch."

The great elder's words touched Zhongnian's heart, and he saw Zhongnian saying: "In that case, let's do it this way."

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look at Hanzo, who was sitting cross-legged.

Hanzo stared blankly at the scene in front of him. He had never expected that such a sudden change would occur in the new year.

He immediately realized that this was because he was deeply hit in the new year, and it was also recognition of his migration strategy.

Since Hanzo has obtained the decision-making power within the clan, he has the most important say in such important matters.

With the current family situation, as long as Hanzo proposes a migration strategy, it will be easy to pass.

"Since the elders and clan leaders are so kind to you, I will be disrespectful."

Hanzo didn't show any pretense, he stood up and bowed directly, then said: "I would like to ask you to discuss something now."

He looked around, and Zhongnian nodded to him encouragingly.

Hanzo took a deep breath and said word by word: "I want my family to move to the Kingdom of Water!"

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the elders were immediately in an uproar. Just like the new year, they had never considered the possibility of moving to other big countries.

In their impression, only dogs whose families have been destroyed will flee to other countries to avoid being hunted.

These are just individual actions and are not the same as the overall migration of a family.

Hanzo turned a blind eye to the elders' surprise and continued: "Everyone, now that the Senju and the Uchiha clan have formed an alliance, the Fire Country is already in a dead end for us.

Before this battle, the strength of the two-community alliance exceeded us by only 60 to 70%. We have tried it, and everyone has seen the results. Now the strength of the two-community alliance is nearly twice ours, are you confident in defeating it?"

Hanzo's words silenced everyone.

Indeed, in this battle, tactically, the Shimada clan had almost reached its limit, but the result was unsatisfactory.

It can be seen that the gap in absolute strength cannot be reversed by some tactics.

"But is it really feasible to move to the Kingdom of Water?"

The second elder raised everyone's questions.

Hanzo nodded and said: "Of course it is feasible. We have been collecting intelligence on the Kingdom of Water over the years.

The melee between the ninja clan within the Kingdom of Water is more intense than that of the Kingdom of Fire, and the conflicts are much deeper. With our arrival, the probability of them fighting for the skin of a tiger is greater than if they unite.

In addition, the daimyo of the Kingdom of Water have always been dissatisfied with the unscrupulous ninja clan. We can also cooperate with the daimyo and earn commissions. In addition, there are many unowned islands in the Kingdom of Water, so it is very convenient to find a place to stay."

Hanzo eloquently explained the benefits of relocation, then looked around and said, "Everyone, do you still have any concerns?"

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