“That battle, in the end, was still lost by Madara-sama.”
The old man didn’t talk in detail about that earth-shattering Final Valley battle, only telling him the final result: “Madara-sama died in battle.”
Died in battle?
Chen Yue wanted to say that if nothing unexpected happened, Uchiha Madara should still be alive and well now.
“Speaking of which, did Uchiha Madara’s eyes evolve into Rinnegan at this time?”
Chen Yue couldn’t help but secretly calculate: “He should have already evolved into Rinnegan, but now, the Rinnegan should be with Nagato.”
Nagato awakened the Rinnegan during the Second Shinobi World War, and now it is already Konohagakure 41, and the Second Shinobi World War has already ended.
Unfortunately, he can’t do anything now, otherwise…
Here, Uchiha Huohe continued: “Madara-sama was killed by Hashirama-sama, but child, don’t feel dissatisfied with the First Hokage because of this!”
“Perhaps from the current situation, Madara-sama’s initial plan to unify the Shinobi World by force was right, but, after he decided to destroy Konohagakure, he has become our enemy.”
“Konohagakure is the home we built together by the Uchiha and Senju, and it is the existence that our Uchiha clan must protect. Anyone who wants to destroy this is our enemy, even if this person was once the leader of our Uchiha clan.”
When the old man said this, the look he gave Chen Yue became unusually serious.
“Yes, I understand, Great-Grandfather.” Seeing this, Chen Yue immediately nodded honestly in response.
He wouldn’t hate Senju Hashirama just because he ‘killed’ Uchiha Madara, even though he did agree with Uchiha Madara’s initial idea of ‘unifying the Shinobi World’.
However, Chen Yue was a little surprised by his great-grandfather’s attitude.
For Uchiha Madara, the clan leader who awakened Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, a genius who was only seen once in a hundred years in the clan, his great-grandfather didn’t seem to approve of him very much.
This was a bit different from what he knew, the Uchiha clan worshiping the strong, worshiping the power of the Sharingan.
Moreover, compared to Uchiha Madara, the old man obviously approved of Senju Hashirama more.
It seemed that, as the old man said, the Uchiha clan, which had suffered from the slaughter of the Warring States Period, truly cherished the hard-earned peace, so they approved of Senju Hashirama who brought peace, and opposed Uchiha Madara who wanted to break the peace.
This kind of thinking should have been the mainstream thinking of the Uchiha clan when Konohagakure was first established.
It was under this kind of thinking that when Uchiha Madara left Konohagakure, no one from the clan followed him, and when Uchiha Madara attacked Konohagakure with the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, no one responded.
“Hashirama-sama is undoubtedly a great ninja, powerful and kind, and because of Madara-sama’s actions, the clan was worried that they would be implicated.”
Uchiha Huohe continued to tell Chen Yue: “But in the end, Hashirama-sama didn’t intend to punish our clan, saying that the truly wrong person was only Madara-sama.”
“Although this is indeed the truth, there should only be Hashirama-sama who could be so discerning, right!”
Honestly, if they were facing the same situation, facing the Senju clan, would they, the Uchiha clan, be able to do the same thing, just holding the main culprit accountable, without implicating anyone else?
“This is indeed something Senju Hashirama would do.”
Chen Yue nodded secretly upon hearing this, the image of the First Hokage described by the old man matched his memory of Senju Hashirama in his previous life.
Senju Hashirama’s character was indeed kind, even a little too good.
Although he eventually killed Uchiha Madara, compared to Senju Tobirama, and the current Konohagakure’s upper echelons, Senju Hashirama was truly above reproach when it came to the Uchiha clan.
There were at least two times when Senju Hashirama could have greatly weakened, even seriously injured, the Uchiha, the Senju clan’s millennium-old enemy, once was the final battle between the two clans before the establishment of Konohagakure, and once was when Uchiha Madara returned to Konohagakure after its establishment.
But Senju Hashirama gave up both opportunities.
This kind of kindness and benevolence conquered the hearts of the Uchiha clan, making them, with their pride, willingly and wholeheartedly respect him.
“We admire Hashirama-sama, and we have no objection to the First Hokage being Hashirama-sama, even though there was an agreement that the First Hokage would be Madara-sama back then.”
The old man looked at Chen Yue and explained to him: “Even if we don’t consider the opposition from other clans at the time, and Madara-sama’s future actions to break the peace, Hashirama-sama was also more suitable to be the First Hokage, because Madara-sama lost that battle back then.”
The battle here refers to the final battle between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan before the establishment of Konohagakure, in which Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara fought a one-on-one duel, known as the First Final Valley Battle.
The result of that battle was well known: Senju Hashirama won.
From then on, the Uchiha clan never thought that the position of the First Hokage would fall to Uchiha Madara.
Because, for the Uchiha clan who worshiped strength, the highest position would undoubtedly belong to the victor, the strongest.
And at that time, Uchiha Madara, compared to Senju Hashirama, was clearly not the strongest, nor was he the victor.
Therefore, the Uchiha clan had no objections to Senju Hashirama becoming the First Hokage, even Uchiha Madara himself could accept it, who told him that he was not strong enough!
However, this was only while Senju Hashirama was alive, what about after Senju Hashirama died?
As proud Uchiha, as one of the initial founders of Konohagakure, would they truly have no thoughts about the position of the Hokage?
The answer was obviously no!
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