The power struggle between clan power and shadow power, and the struggle for interests between ninjas of the ninja clan and civilian ninjas.
These are the two most important and fiercest conflicts in Konoha currently.
The ninja clan has its own internal system, whether it is the inheritance of secret techniques or the allocation of training resources, it has its own rules, and the rules or systems of the ninja clan often conflict with those of the ninja village.
As the supreme ruler of Konoha, the Hokage is nominally the commander-in-chief of all Konoha ninjas, but only the registered ninjas.
To be fair, the autonomy of the Ninja clan cannot be demonized, but it cannot be praised either. Although the Ninja clan does oppress and even exploit some clan members, the protection provided by the Ninja clan to ordinary clan members is correspondingly stronger than the protection provided by the village to civilians.
At least the Great Ninja Clan will not have one of their own children quietly snatched away by Genbe and his ilk.
It is this protection and relatively favorable training conditions based on common blood relationships that maintain the relative independence of the Ninja clan in Konoha.
And in addition to the Uchiha clan, each ninja clan in Konoha has more or less "family ninjas" trained by themselves to be driven by the family's senior leaders. These unregistered family ninjas directly obey the orders of the ninja leaders or elders and perform tasks for them that are inconvenient for others to know.
At the same time, some long-established ninja clans will also accept some special tasks issued by their long-term employers through special channels, including but not limited to spying, assassination, sabotage, etc.
Even if these tasks are contrary to the interests of the Ninja Village.
Therefore, the second generation set up a ninja school to train recruit-level genin on a large scale as a supplement. Through the numerical advantage, it diluted the ninja clan's monopoly on ninjutsu and ninja education. The ninja school only taught the basic knowledge of ninjas and the three body skills, so that The ninjas of the ninja clan can be bound to a certain extent through the role of leading ninjas and some talented civilian genin through the master-disciple relationship, so that the ninja clan acquiesces to the implementation of the ninja school and sends some clan members to the ninja school for education. Form a bond.
In addition, the "Will of Fire" education promoted by the Ninja School has also diluted the personal dependence within the Ninja clan to a certain extent, allowing more of the younger Ninja clan to lean towards the village instead of limiting their thinking to the family.
Generally speaking, in the conflict between family power and shadow power, the Hokage family is on the advantage side.
But the disputes between the ninja clan and civilians are relatively more diverse.
Level promotion, task acceptance, job competition and other aspects are full of contradictions and conflicts between the ninja clan and civilians.
Although the civilian ninjas are numerous and powerful, their overall quality varies greatly, and there is no unity at all. Among them are geniuses like Orochimaru and Jiraiya who were born as civilians, but most of them are middle-aged genin who only know how to throw kunai in the three body arts. In the competition with ninjas of the ninja clan, except for a very few talented people, People, most civilian ninjas have no competitiveness in front of ninja ninjas.
The Uchiha clan has obtained the qualification to issue a Genin certificate of the Police Department through the Police Preparatory School. At the same time, the Sanmagatama clan has also obtained the qualification to be directly awarded the Jonin certificate of the Police Department. This is already a naked act of separatism.
Both the ninjas and the civilians were extremely indignant about this on the surface.
Regardless of whether the Uchiha clan has infringed on their interests, the Uchiha have the power that I don't have, and their psychology is immediately unbalanced.
This psychological imbalance caused by the distribution of power, coupled with the police department's various retaliatory actions in the recent law enforcement process, prompted them to jointly complain about the matter to the police under the guidance of some thoughtful people. The jounin squad leader is Hatake Sakumochu, which contributed to the early convening of this jounin squad meeting.
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"What are you going to say at the Jonin Class meeting tomorrow?"
In Elder Setsuna's mansion, Uchiha Tokko and Elder Setsuna sat facing each other.
"In the past, whatever we defended has been twisted to mean something else, so this time I'm going to be direct..."
Uchiha Tokumitsu maintained appropriate respect, bowed his head slightly and said.
"Direct?"
When Elder Setsuna heard this, he suddenly became interested.
"Teach them how to behave in front of Uchiha based on their strength and status." Uchiha Tokumitsu's tone was still respectful, but the words he spoke were full of pride and unruliness.
"Since Uchiha is the most powerful ninja clan, he should have power commensurate with his strength. This is a matter of course." Uchiha Tokumitsu continued to say calmly, "You can't just think that they are justified just because they are weak, right?"
"Does the clan leader know about this?" Elder Setsuna was noncommittal.
"Maybe I have a rough idea, but the Sifang clan leaders have no intention of interfering in this matter."
"You are the Assistant Chief of the Police Department, so it is appropriate for you to come forward." Elder Setsuna nodded, "But after all, this matter involves too much, so it is better not to be too public, but it must be impressive enough!"
"According to the meeting agenda notice of the Jonin class, there are sixty-eight other Jonin attending this Jonin meeting, so I plan to lead eighty-six Uchiha Jonin to attend the meeting."
"Very good!" Elder Setsuna said he was very satisfied with Uchiha Tokumitsu's preparation and attitude. "Remember, even if there is a conflict, you can't make the first move. You can do whatever else you want!"
"Understand, what I am best at is convincing people with reason!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu was as respectful as ever.
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The Jonin meeting was held as scheduled.
Thirty minutes before the meeting, sixty-eight Jonin arrived at the conference hall one after another.
However, even though all the participating Jonin had arrived, no one from the police department arrived at the venue.
This also aroused dissatisfaction among the participating Jonin.
"Uchiha... is indeed too arrogant!"
"Hmph! When you succeed, you become rampant. What kind of wealthy family can you be with such villainous behavior? It's far behind Hinata!"
"By the way...doesn't anyone from the Hyuga clan come to attend the meeting?"
A civilian jounin looked around and asked his question.
Since the meeting notice only listed the number of jounin participants and did not indicate their names, most of the jounin who had not been contacted in advance did not know the specific participants until they arrived.
"Not only Hinata, but Shimura and Aburame didn't come either..."
Hinata is one of the two most powerful families in Konoha, the Shimura family is the ninja family that receives the most attention from the police department, and the Aburame family is the ninja family that lost the most people in the battle of root destruction.
None of the three ninjas who had conflicts with Uchiha came to attend the meeting, which also made the jounin present feel a little uneasy.
Hatake Sakumo sat in the upper seat of the conference room, as silent as a clay puppet.
He looked up at the clock in the conference room. There were still three minutes left before the scheduled start time of the Jonin class meeting.
Just as he was about to start saying a few words to delay time, a jounin sitting at the window suddenly shouted: "Here he comes! Uchiha is here!"
Originally, it was normal for Uchiha to arrive late, but the ninja who shouted had an unusually surprised tone.
The Jonin who were near the window also leaned over to try to see what was going on.
"so many people……"
"Are they all jonin?"
Seeing the heavily armed and menacing Uchiha jounin marching forward, even the Konoha jounin who had experienced hundreds of battles couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Except during the war, when had so many Jonin appeared in Konoha Village?
What's more, he is a jounin of the Uchiha clan!
"This is a demonstration..."
The Nara jounin muttered to himself.
All the participating shoguns listened, with mixed feelings in their hearts.
Uchiha Tokumitsu calmly led five family jonins into the jounin conference hall. The other Uchiha jonins were on guard outside the door and expelled all irrelevant people.
The participating jounin even saw through the window that three Anbu who came over after hearing the news were surrounded by six Uchiha jounin, and they took the initiative to retreat after scolding each other.
In front of Uchiha, even ANBU flinched...
There were more Uchiha than the number of participants, surrounding the conference hall...
Even though they knew that Uchiha would not openly kill people in the village, under the gaze of the malicious Uchiha jounin outside the door, the participating jounin couldn't help but feel scared.
"Tokumitsu-kun, I'm sorry to trouble you."
Hatake Sakumo seemed unaware and calmly greeted Uchiha Tokumitsu.
Uchiha Tokumitsu sat down in the first row, agreed and said with a smile: "Supporting the jounin class to perform supervision is what the police department should do. Sakumo-kun is really too polite."
"Then...this Jonin meeting officially begins!"
Hatake Sakumo did not continue to be polite and took out a small hammer and knocked on the table.
The venue fell silent.
"The hearing meeting regarding the Jonin community's request to the Jonin class to perform their supervisory duties and question the police department's malicious law enforcement crackdown has now officially begun!"
Hatake Sakumo looked around at the participating jonin below, all of whom looked worried.
"The reasons for this meeting are stated in the meeting notice. I will not go into details here. Do you have anything to add?"
Before the meeting started, the jonins of the ninja clan who made all kinds of weird and ridiculous remarks kept shrinking like quails and remained silent.
"Is there no one to add to the agenda of this meeting?"
Hatake Sakumo asked again.
The venue remained silent.
"Then, please ask the Assistant Chief of the Police Department, Uchiha Tokumitsu Jounin, to respond and answer this question!"
Hatake Sakumo knocked on the table again.
The bodies of the jounin present could not help but tremble.
Uchiha Tokko stood up and walked slowly to the front desk.
Wherever he looked, all the jounin in attendance lowered their heads.
"The Police Department was established at the suggestion of Lord Senju Tobirama, the second generation, and is run by the Uchiha clan. I believe everyone here is familiar with this period of history."
Uchiha Demitsu said calmly.
"Since its establishment, the Police Department under the leadership of Uchiha has regarded 'loyalty to duty, strict self-discipline, defending justice, and protecting Konoha' as the most fundamental work policy. It is not afraid of difficulties and sacrifices, and firmly performs its due duties. Responsibilities.”
"but!"
Uchiha Tokko changed the topic and his tone became extremely harsh.
“The Police Department’s upholding of justice will definitely offend a few people with evil intentions, and these people are trying their best to slander the Police Department’s just actions! Destroy the glorious image of the Police Department!”
The participating jounin looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to say.
According to this, the police department is brilliant and flawless, but the Jonin who raised the objection is guilty!
Even the Hokage-sama might not be able to say such shameless words!
This is as ridiculous as Danzo claiming that he is a pacifist!
Even though they were timid, Uchiha Tokumitsu's words made the participating jounin involuntarily show dissatisfaction on their faces.
Since we have already brought so many people to suppress the situation, why not say a few vague words to deal with it, and then we can just let things go and let the matter be settled in peace, wouldn't it be beautiful?
Why do you have to be so aggressive and make everyone lose face?
The participating jounin communicated with each other with their eyes, and their dissatisfaction became more and more intense.
"Of course, in the process of the police department performing its official duties, some inappropriate behaviors have occurred when dealing with some die-hard elements, which have caused a certain negative impact on the villagers, but these are all for the purpose of better safeguarding the woodland. Please understand what Ye Zhian did as a last resort."
Uchiha Tokko changed the subject again, his tone and words softened.
The participating jounin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"The Police Department set up a ninja school and registered ninjas on its own. Does it exceed the scope of the department's powers and responsibilities?"
A fat-headed Nara jounin stood up.
"The establishment of the Police Preparatory School was approved by Hokage-sama and open to enrollment. If you have any objections to this, please ask Hokage-sama for the reasons."
Uchiha Tokumitsu glanced at the Nara jounin who was acting as the leader, and said slowly.
"Of course, even if I don't say it, I believe everyone knows the reason why this restructuring of the Police Department has been fully approved..."
"So, what about Uchiha directly obtaining the title of Jonin through the Police Department? Is this also the responsibility of the Police Department?"
Another jonin stood up and asked loudly.
"First of all, ninjas do not treat guests to dinner, nor are they as leisurely and polite as daimyo nobles painting and drinking tea. Ninjas want to kill people..."
Uchiha Demitsu said solemnly: "In this case, based on strength, there is absolutely no problem for the Uchiha clan members who have awakened the three magatama bloodline limits to be rated as jounin. If you feel there is a problem, you can report it to the police department of the three magatama Shinobu asked for a challenge, and I believe that if he can win, Hokage-sama would not mind giving the challenger the title of Jonin."
The jounin stopped talking.
I'm talking about laws and regulations with you, what about strength? Who doesn't know that Sanmagatama's Uchiha strength is equivalent to the Jonin level! But what about the power and meaning behind jounin?
Jonin is not only strength, but also represents the right to speak!
"Furthermore, the reason why the Uchiha clan gained such rights was due to their illustrious military exploits forged with blood and fire on the battlefields of Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Sandgakure, and the final battle of the Cauldron was In one battle, I killed Danzo Shimura, a high-ranking official who was trying to frame ninjas from the same village, and destroyed the root of the conspiracy. Such a record should be familiar to everyone here!"
Uchiha Tokumitsu said proudly again, "There are eighty-six Uchiha jounin who arrived at the venue today, and these are just a part of the Uchiha jounin community! Do you think the strength of the Uchiha clan can match this? power!"
The unabashedly sinister words and the blood leaking from them made all the jounin tremble.
Although everyone knows the cause of Danzo's death, it does not mean that this sentence can be brought to the table. Uchiha Tokumitsu's words almost made it clear that the power of the police department was obtained by killing Danzo and forcing the Hokage to give in.
"That's all I have to say. Who agrees and who opposes!"
"If you have any objections, please feel free to raise them!"
(End of chapter)
