The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

Winning allies

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

For a long time, the Uchiha clan stood on the top of the mountain of the Fire Country, overlooking countless ninja clans. Only the Senju clan can be compared with them.

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

In the past hundred years, even the Shimada clan has only the previous record of victory against the Uchiha clan.

The best result before was just to force Uchiha to retreat, and it was a tie.

More often, the Shimada clan was completely suppressed by Uchiha.

Therefore, when the second elder mentioned his 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 naturally lose 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.

"Small and Medium Ninja Alliance."

"What?" Uchiha Tajima thought he heard wrongly.

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

"Dividing" Uchiha Tajima suddenly understood.

In the small and medium ninja alliance, the most hostile to Uchiha are the remnants of the ninja who were intercepted before, and the ninja who are close to them.

The other small ninjas probably yelled at Uchiha out of the idea of ​​hurting their own kind.

As for the Sarutobi clan that dominates the alliance, the Inokacho clan and others actually don't want to start a war with Uchiha.

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

This idea has not necessarily changed until now.

The reason why the small and medium ninjas huddled together to keep warm was only for self-protection. In fact, this alliance model was not very competitive.

As for the benefits of destroying the Uchiha clan, families like the Sarutobi clan and Inokacho don't care too much.

These four families are different from ordinary ninja clans, they have their own fighting style and family inheritance.

Especially Inokacho, the battle against Uchiha was of no benefit to them at all, so they naturally didn't want to make unnecessary sacrifices.

If it weren't for taking care of the emotions of the little ninjas, the patriarch of the Nara clan 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."

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

For a while, except for the Qianshou Clan and the Shimada Clan, almost all other forces received requests for alliances from the two clans.

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

"Patriarch Sasuke."

In the alliance's joint residence, Nara Kamotomasa, the patriarch of the Nara clan, and Sasuke Sarutobi, the patriarch of the Sarutobi clan, met in private.

"The Uchiha clan and the Hagoromo clan have successively sent us requests for alliance. Chief Sasuke thinks which side we should stand on," Shikawato asked.

Although Shikamoto is only the patriarch of the Nara clan, he can fully represent the three clans of Inokacho and Butterfly.

Besides, the wisdom of the Nara clan is well-known in the ninja world, Sasuke Sarutobi naturally attaches great importance to the dialogue with Shikamoto.

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

Lu Yuan sighed immediately, and said: "Patriarch Sasuke, in a world of great struggle, 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? In the age of great strife?"

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

It's just because the strengths of all parties are relatively balanced that a false order is barely maintained.

Today, the power between the parties has been out of balance, and the Uchiha clan is just a fuse. This war between Uchiha and Yuyi is the real beginning of the era of chaos. "

Sarutobi Sasuke was silent for a long time after hearing the words, and 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 Yuyi clan can attack Uchiha today, and the annexation and attack of other ninja clans in the future will also be logical.

"Then the Shimada clan has done useless work this time. Shimada Shigenen wouldn't be so stupid." Sarutobi Sasuke said.

"Of course he is not stupid." Nara Shikamoto shook his head and said, "This time the Shimada Clan's victory over the Uchiha is not so much about maintaining the order of the Fire Nation, but rather pulling the daimyo into the Shimada Clan's chariot superior.

With the war between Uchiha and Yuyi, the age of war will inevitably begin. Only by relying on the Shimada clan can the daimyo guarantee their own safety, and the Shimada clan will receive financial aid from the daimyo. For the Shimada clan, it is absolutely big money. "

"I see." Sarutobi Sasuke understood, and then asked, "Then what does the Shikamoto clan leader think we should do in this war?"

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

"Both parties agreed" Sarutobi Sasuke was surprised again.

"That's right, we have agreed with the two clans on the time of the raid. We will not enter the arena when the time comes. We will see how they fight. Whoever has the upper hand, we will join the victor's side." Lu Yuan said somewhat insidiously.

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

Others don't know the reality of the alliance, but the people in power of the two of them know it well.

Don't look at the fact that there are thousands of ninjas in the alliance. In fact, the fighting power of a large number of small ninjas is really unsightly.

And there is no coordination with each other, and there are even some contradictions.

In order to reconcile the conflicts of these ninjas, Sasuke Sarutobi and Shikamoto Nara both bald a lot.

Counting on these thousands of ninjas and Shimada, Senshou, compared with such giants, it is foolishness.

Even compared with Uchiha, Hinata, and Yuromo, who are weaker today, there is still a gap.

If it is really a head-on confrontation with the Yuyi Clan or the Uchiha Clan, the reality of the alliance will be fully exposed.

It is better to join the victor's side when the victory and defeat are already divided, so as not to expose the weakness of the alliance.

After making a decision, the two also agreed on the details, large and small.

Lu Yuan looked at Sasuke Sarutobi who was sitting opposite, and finally said: "Patriarch Sasuke, paper can't wrap fire, we should also consider which side to fall to."

After that, he left alone.

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