Chapter 136 Konoha Heroes' Monument
"Where did you learn all this?" The Nine-Tails, after its frenzied rampage, calmed down behind the cage and glared at him, asking.
"Does it matter?" Uchiha Touhuan, sporting a pair of Sharingan, smiled and said.
The Nine-Tails looked at Uchiha Touhuan's Sharingan. It knew that Uchiha with such eyes possessed some strange abilities; perhaps this was how he knew these long-hidden secrets.
After a moment of silence, the Nine-Tails spoke, "You mean, that brat was the boy the old man was talking about back then?"
"I did see you fighting side-by-side," Uchiha Touhuan said sincerely.
The Nine-Tails, capable of sensing good and evil, stared at Uchiha Touhuan. It could sense that although Uchiha Touhuan's intentions weren't entirely pure, he was genuinely honest and not lying when he said this.
"Hmph, that brat? He's worthy to fight alongside me?" The Nine-Tails raised its head, speaking disdainfully.
"Whether you believe it or not, how about let's make a deal?" Uchiha Douguang said with a smile.
"Deal?" Kyuubi hesitated.
"You should restrain your chakra from now on and don't interfere with Naruto's study. In exchange, Naruto will be the last Jinchūriki of Konoha." Uchiha Touhuan said.
"What do you mean?" Kyuubi asked confused.
"It's very simple. If you are willing to accompany Naruto throughout your life, I will set you free in the future and divide an area in the ninja world so that you and your eight brothers can live a good life. No one will bother you again in the future." Uchiha Touhuan said.
"Do you think I will believe what you humans say?" Kyuubi's eyes moved slightly, but he still gritted his teeth and said.
"Believe it or not, but now Naruto is my disciple. If he can't learn ninjutsu because of you, I will really come and beat you." Uchiha Touhuan said.
"Do you think I'm afraid of you?" Kyuubi growled, but his expression looked a bit stern.
Uchiha Touhuan said nothing, only releasing his complete Susanoo within the sealed space. Having evolved into the Eternal Eye, Uchiha Touhuan's Susanoo now possessed complete armor, covered in runes formed from flowing natural energy, and a true divine weapon at his waist—a longsword named Futsu-no-Mitama. Kurama looked at
Uchiha Touhuan's Susanoo with apprehension, his mind involuntarily recalling the two people who had toyed with him so easily decades ago.
However, after warning Kurama, Uchiha Touhuan voluntarily withdrew his Susanoo and said, "I hope you can get along well with my disciple in the future. I won't tell him your name for now. As for whether you want to tell him your name yourself later, that's your own choice; I won't interfere."
With that, Uchiha Touhuan turned, his figure slowly dissipating within the sealed space.
Kurama, inside the sealed space, had a flickering gaze after hearing Uchiha Touhuan's words.
[Does this Uchiha know the meaning of my name?] ...
After exiting the sealed space, Naruto slowly woke up.
Sasuke and Neji, seeing this, quickly came over, wanting to understand what had happened. "I saw a fox! It was this big!" Naruto said, gesturing with his hands to the two of them.
Sasuke and Neji were both bewildered. Although their status within their respective clans was not low, neither of them was old enough to understand what a Jinchūriki was. Therefore, they were completely baffled by the enormous fox Naruto had mentioned.
"Alright," Uchiha Touhuan said, waking up and patting Naruto's head. "Now that you know about the creature living inside your body, get along with it from now on."
"Okay!" Naruto nodded, then looked down at his stomach. "I never expected such a large fox to live inside me."
"For the next few days, all three of you will come to me after school to learn sealing techniques," Uchiha Touhuan said, looking at the three children. "Sasuke and Neji, while you don't need to rely on sealing techniques as your primary fighting method, learning some basic sealing techniques is still very necessary."
"Yes!" Sasuke and Neji nodded.
...
The next day, after formally accepting Naruto as his student, Uchiha Touhuan also spread the news that a Konoha Heroes Memorial Monument would be erected in the village.
The ninjas were overjoyed upon learning this. In the past, ninjas had always lived a profession shrouded in darkness. Now, Uchiha Touhuan had shown them that they too could become heroes standing in the sunlight.
The location of the monument was also significant—right in the large plaza in front of the Hokage Building, directly opposite it.
For the Konoha ninja community, this was like a bombshell dropped into their minds. In the following period, as the monument's construction officially began, the cohesion of the Konoha ninjas grew stronger day by day.
This was exactly the scene Uchiha Touhuan had envisioned.
Uchiha Touhuan knew that Konoha would inevitably face a war of one against four in the future. Although Konoha had won the previous Shinobi World Wars, each victory had been a Pyrrhic one.
The inability to expand their gains was partly due to Hiruzen Sarutobi's weakness, but Uchiha Touhuan believed that the village's logistics and the ninjas' fighting spirit could no longer keep up in the later stages of the war.
Before finalizing his plan, Uchiha Touhuan carefully investigated the conditions of the Land of Fire. Logically, although the Land of Fire was located in a region prone to conflict, its fertile land and favorable climate made it more than capable of unifying the ninja world.
However, under the leadership of nobles who weren't even qualified feudal lords, they couldn't even manage basic farming, completely wasting the Land of Fire's geographical advantages.
Even more ironically, despite consistently having the upper hand on the battlefield, it was always the Konoha ninjas who, towards the end of each war, first became pessimistic about the future.
The root cause of this problem was the current ninja system, which could only produce assassins, not qualified soldiers.
Therefore, if Uchiha Touhuan wanted to unify the ninja world, reforming this ninja system was imperative; a group of mercenaries paid for their services could not truly win a war.
However, changing this system is not something that can be done overnight. Most of the systems established by the Second Hokage have become deeply ingrained in people's minds over the past few decades.
The best way to change it is to start with the small things and gradually change people's perceptions.
And this monument project is Uchiha Touhuan's first step.
The monument to Konoha was under construction, and the village was thriving.
After the first batch of factories around Konoha were completed, the village's employment rate steadily increased. The large influx of civilians who had moved to the Land of Fire due to the capital relocation found jobs, earned money, and their lives improved.
The voices of those who had been sent to the Three Pure Ones Training Corps and harbored resentment towards Uchiha Touhuan were completely silenced.
Now, if they dared to say a bad word about Uchiha Touhuan, they wouldn't even need the ninjas to intervene; their neighbors would teach them a lesson.
While everything was developing steadily and positively, Uchiha Touhuan wore a mask of pain.
Every night, when teaching Naruto sealing techniques, Naruto's talent in this area truly amazed Uchiha Touhuan.
He finally understood why parents in his previous life would break down when helping their children with homework.
It was hard to imagine that the sons of Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato, two masters of sealing techniques in the ninja world, struggled so much to learn the Ryōgi Seal.
This sealing technique was something Uchiha Touhuan taught the three boys in class in a simple math lesson. After explaining what a quadratic function is and the characteristics of its graph, Sasuke and Neji quickly grasped the key points and could use it quite well.
But Naruto... it took Uchiha Touhuan two whole days just to get him to understand that the graph of a quadratic function is a parabola. Then there was the more abstract part: constructing a specific sealing technique formula to make chakra change under certain laws.
Naruto couldn't figure it out even after a whole week. Keep in mind that after Uchiha Touhuan's conversation with Kurama that day, Kurama had already restrained its chakra, minimizing its interference with Naruto's ninjutsu learning.
The reason Naruto found it so difficult was entirely because his little brain had absolutely no skill points allocated to mathematics.
It's foreseeable that the future head of the Uzumaki clan might be just like him, the Uchiha clan head who's completely clueless in his own area of expertise.
Uchiha Touhuan, with his bald head, stared at the jutsu Naruto had inscribed on the scroll. The scroll had torn due to a chakra surge caused by the chaotic parameters, and Touhuan sighed helplessly.
"Sorry, teacher, I'll try again," Naruto said awkwardly, scratching his head and grinning sheepishly.
"Naruto, you must get along well with the big fox inside you from now on, understand?" Uchiha Touhuan said, rubbing his forehead.
"By the way, teacher, I think I entered the place where that big fox was again yesterday," Naruto quickly changed the subject.
"Really?" Uchiha Touhuan chuckled. "So, how did your chat go?"
"That fox's personality is awful," Naruto pouted, then said, "Yesterday I told it my name was Uzumaki Naruto, and asked it what its name was, but it just yelled at me and kicked me out."
"Don't be discouraged," Uchiha Touhuan smiled. "That fox isn't one to just tell anyone its name. But I believe you can definitely become friends with it."
"Yes! I'll try my best!" Naruto replied, his spirits lifting again.
...
Two weeks later, the Konoha Heroes Monument was officially completed.
The monument stands 35 meters tall and 50 meters wide. The top is adorned with reliefs carved by the same sculptor who usually carves the Hokage Rocks, depicting major events in Konoha's history since the village's founding, beginning with the oath sworn by Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha on the banks of the Naka River. Of course, some events, such as the battle between Madara Uchiha and the First Hokage at the Valley of the End, are omitted.
The monument also bears the names of every ninja who sacrificed their lives for the village since its inception.
On the day of the unveiling, Touhuan Uchiha held a grand ceremony. Besides himself and Hiruzen Sarutobi, the two Hokage, even the Daimyo Minamoto no Miyako, who had recently been engrossed in cricket fighting with Konohamaru, was invited to the event.
Furthermore, the heads of the village's various ninja clans stood prominently at the unveiling ceremony, including Naruto, who wore a formal suit embroidered with the Uzumaki clan crest.
The villagers who came to participate in the ceremony were all extremely surprised to see Naruto in that position.
"Why is that demon fox brat there?" a first-term student of the Sanqing Training Team whispered in the crowd.
"Do you want to die?" At this moment, a companion next to him covered the man's mouth. "This is the young master of the guard captain's family!"
"So what? The evil guard team and the evil demon fox brat are in cahoots, neither of them are..."
Before the man could finish speaking, he was locked by several unfriendly gazes around him and shut his mouth in a huff.
Soon, the unveiling ceremony officially began. After the ceremony began, the invited master of ceremonies began to introduce the identities of the people on the stage.
When it was Naruto's turn, the master of ceremonies' words surprised everyone: "The head of the Uzumaki clan, Uzumaki Naruto."
Naruto stood up and waved to everyone with a silly grin on his face.
"The Uzumaki clan? Is there such a ninja clan in the village?" Not only the commoners, but even some ninjas began to whisper among themselves.
After the unveiling ceremony of the Konoha Heroes Memorial was officially completed, at Uchiha Touhuan's behest, the history of the Uzumaki clan, which had been concealed by the village, began to circulate within the village.
Everyone then realized that the village once had a powerful clan as an ally, comparable to the Senju and Uchiha clans. However, due to certain events, this clan disappeared into the annals of history, and Naruto was now the only remaining bloodline of this clan in the village.
At this point, the rumors about Naruto being a demon fox demon completely vanished from the village. After all, under the control of the security forces, slandering and bullying an "ordinary" orphan was completely different from bullying and slandering the head of a meritorious clan, even if Naruto was now the only one left in the clan.
A few days later, Uchiha Touhuan, in the name of the Fifth Hokage, issued a notice to all the countries of the ninja world.
Konoha will protect all Uzumaki survivors. All Uzumaki clan survivors in the ninja world are welcome to come to Konoha for protection. Furthermore, any other forces in the ninja world willing to provide clues about the Uzumaki clan will receive Konoha's friendship. Conversely, any force that dares to harm a member of the Uzumaki clan will be pursued relentlessly by Konoha.
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