Following the Blood Pond Clan incident, the massive Uchiha Clan once again fell into a state of leaderlessness. Facing accusations from the higher-ups, strange looks from the villagers, and various aftermath and reconstruction tasks, they urgently needed a leader to guide them through this difficult time.
This matter was difficult to handle.
The difficulty didn't lie in the lack of a backbone, but rather... there were simply too many so-called "backbones."
After the death of the former Clan Head, the already turbulent atmosphere immediately turned into a raging storm. Many individuals with both strength and reputation were eyeing the Clan Head position. They divided into factions, organized their own forces and teams, and no one was willing to submit to anyone else.
Everyone stopped pretending, and the infighting was brought to the surface, directly starting an open struggle.
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In the silence, that deathmatch battle was once again tacitly regarded as the only way to compete for the Clan Head position.
But one person couldn't sit still.
Uchiha Chiri, the Hidden Leaf Police Force Captain, as the most valued Uchiha in the village today, used her appeal to convene an emergency meeting within the clan. All members attended, the scale of which was comparable to the night Uchiha Madara left Hidden Leaf Village more than 20 years ago.
At the meeting, Uchiha Chiri denounced this infighting behavior. She said that now was the time to stick together for warmth. Continuing to fight among themselves at this time, turning their swords against their own clan members for personal gain, was simply courting death and utterly foolish!
She stated her view that only by working together and twisting all their strength into one rope could they revive the Uchiha's prestige.
Soon, someone raised a question.
"Captain Zhi Li, everyone understands the dàolǐ you're saying, but only battle can prove one's true strength. I won't accept a Clan Head with weak strength."
"That's right, strength is the only standard for testing prestige. If I'm forced to submit, I'd rather die in battle!"
"Since Captain Zhi Li opposes this plan, there's nothing we can do. After all, you're kind-hearted, and no one here is more popular with the village than you... but I wonder, Captain, do you have a better way?" someone asked with veiled sarcasm.
Of course, Zhi Li was prepared for this.
She looked around the room, her voice firm, "We can hold a voting system, just like the village's election for Hokage. All clan members have the right to vote. The one with the most votes represents the companion recognized by the majority, fair, just, and open. Isn't this method better?"
As soon as these words came out, the venue immediately fell into dead silence.
After a long silence, a deep voice broke the silence:
"Lady Zhi Li's approach seems a bit... demanding, doesn't it?"
Zhi Li frowned slightly, "How is it demanding?"
"Hmph, if we want to achieve fairness and justice, why should the minority obey the majority? Just because we are fewer in number, must we listen to you?"
Immediately, voices of agreement came from below: "That's right, that's right, if we can't follow the strongest person we admire, what kind of Uchiha Clan is that!"
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Zhi Li's proposal was quickly drowned out by a chorus of rejections.
The Uchiha were generally biased and warlike. Because of this, no one would recognize other candidates except for the Clan Head they supported.
Suddenly, a young voice popped out unexpectedly, like a signal flare rising into the sky, drowning out all other sounds.
"I support Captain Zhi Li's view!"
Zhi Li was slightly stunned. Following everyone's gaze, she looked over. It was a handsome young man with a forehead protector, his short black hair spread to both sides.
This young man was named Uchiha Naka. Like Zhi Li, he was a member of the Hidden Leaf Police Force and the strongest after her.
"Is deathmatch the only way to prove strength? By doing this, you are personally slaughtering clan members, a disguised form of internal friction. Even if you win the battle, you are nothing more than a sinner with blood on your hands!" Naka said in a deep voice.
"Hmph! You're just a kid who hasn't even lost his baby fat, what do you know!???"
...
The meeting went from morning to afternoon. This group of people argued from the first light of dawn until dusk, and in the end, not only did they fail to reach a consensus, but their contradictions intensified.
A few days later, at the gate of the Ninja Academy.
As school let out, Uchiha Nen walked out of the classroom at a leisurely pace with his worn-out shoulder bag, heading back to the Clan Territory as usual.
Suddenly, he noticed a familiar figure leaning against the stone lion at the school gate, staring blankly at the sky, seemingly waiting for him.
"Tong Ren?" Nen tilted his head, taking two steps at a time to walk over.
Tong Ren noticed him and immediately looked up, "School's out?"
"As you can see." Nen raised his backpack and made a circle in front of him, "What's up? I don't think you're here to pick me up from school, right?"
Tong Ren squeezed out a bitter smile and waved his hand, "No, I was just feeling down and wanted to take a walk with a friend. Orochimaru isn't around, so I can only wait for you to get out of school."
"How novel, there's actually something in this world that can bother you." Nen said sarcastically with a straight face, but he had already guessed the reason for Tong Ren's unhappiness.
The two chatted and strolled along the way. Tong Ren absentmindedly kicked pebbles, and under Nen's careful questioning, Tong Ren finally revealed the reason for his worries.
It turned out that ever since that Clan meeting, Zhi Li had been in a state of anxiety, frowning all day long. It was the first time Tong Ren had seen his sister's delicate eyebrows furrow so deeply.
The struggle for the Clan Head position continued, and Zhi Li wanted to stop it, but ultimately found it difficult to shake the general trend.
Emotions are contagious, especially to those you care about. Thinking what they think and caring what they care about has become the norm.
Tong Ren was soon influenced by his sister's negative emotions and fell into unease as well.
He didn't actually have such grand ideals as his sister. Rather than revitalizing the Uchiha Clan, he hoped that his sister could be happy every day. Seeing his sister's happy smile was the meaning of his life.
Therefore, he had always unconditionally supported what Zhi Li wanted to do, and tried his best to help his sister, wanting to contribute.
But recently, his sister... seemed to be wavering.
The reason was that one night after the Clan meeting, Uchiha Naka found Zhi Li and proposed a bold plan.
Since persuasion was fruitless, then join the deathmatch and become the only winner, using strength to awaken them!
With Zhi Li's strength and status in the village and the Clan, coupled with Uchiha Naka's assistance, the two could easily ascend to the Clan Head position if they joined forces. By then, there would be no opponents in the Clan, and the so-called disputes could naturally be quelled.
In fact, the position of Uchiha Clan Head has never been hereditary. The reason why Madara became the Clan Head was not because he was the son of the previous Clan Head Uchiha Tajima, but because of his powerful and terrifying strength, suppressing all the petty people who dared not act rashly!
And Naka wanted to emulate Uchiha Madara of that year and walk the invincible path again.
Zhi Li was a little puzzled. There were actually quite a few experts in the Clan. Just in terms of Ninja who had opened their Sharingan to the "Three-Tomoe Sharingan", there were many.
"Okay, now that things have come to this, there's no need to hide it anymore."
Uchiha Naka took a deep breath and activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan. In Zhi Li's shocked beautiful eyes, the tomoe in his eyes moved little by little, forming a blood-red triangular boomerang in the very center.
"This is... the Mangekyo Sharingan!"
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