37 Chapter 35 – The 3rd Hokage Abdicates!
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Makoto Uchiha looked at the two bonus skills with a pensive expression on his face.
"[Flash] feels like a low-profile version of the [Flying Thunder God] technique, but there is a large gap between them, which is its 5 seconds cool down. It consumes a little more Chakra as well, but its only advantage compared to the [Flying Thunder God] is that it does not require coordinates to teleport.
Generally speaking, it is quite a practical technique. At critical moments, it should be quite useful!"
Makoto Uchiha analysed himself as well, with his current strength, he is considered relatively strong. What's better is that he has fewer shortcomings compared to other Ninja, he is good at Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu, unlike other Ninja who may excel in only a single of these aspects.
He is also good in Kenjutsu/Swordsmanship which makes him even deadlier. Though this also gives away one of his weaknesses, which is that swordsmen like him, are generally more speed-orientated than other Ninja.
However, Makoto Uchiha who trained in the Eight Inner Gates can increase his speed further by removing his weights.
After opening the Eight Inners Gates, his Chakra circulation and speed will increase, but the violent Chakra will prevent from being accurate when he uses his sword styles, even if he uses [Mercury] to remove the negative effects, it would only last for 10 seconds.
The combination of Eight Inner Gates, his Swordsmanship and [Mercury] can only be used as a last resort or sneak attack, and not something he can use regularly.
Against those who are weaker than him, or about the same, his speed is naturally enough.
But he would be unable to fight and challenge those who are stronger than him.
No matter how fast he is, he cannot compare to those who have mastered Ninjutus involving space such as [Kamui] and [Flying Thunder God], the only thing which would allow him to do so, would be opening the Eight Gate of the Eight Inner Gates which can distort space itself.
[Flash] Although this skill has many limitations, it has greatly improved his powers and strength.
When dealing with the four Jonin of the Hidden Rock, if he had this skill, they would be much easier to deal with and wouldn't be so troublesome.
He could spot an opening, then appear behind the 4 Jonin through using [Flash] and then defeat them with one blow.
[Flash] This skill is equivalent to have increased Makoto's versatility and made his sword deadlier.
Also, while using Flash, he can use his sword (in his right hand) and attack his enemies by using Rasengan (which he created in his left hand).
After he learned Rasengan before, he has never used it, because he neither has skills that help him when using it such as [Flying Thunder God] and [shadow clones].
"The effect of [Stepping Slash] is to approach the enemy within 10 meters and attack them while ignoring everything else. Its cooldown is also 5 seconds, so if I practice it and [Flash] to perfection, I would be even stronger!" Makoto Uchiha inwardly muttered.
The second skill [Thunderbolt] greatly enhanced Makoto Uchiha's long-range attack ability.
Although Makoto Uchiha's commonly used [Wind Style·Vacuum Blade] which is an A-Class Ninjutsu, with a wide range of attack, this technique is mainly used to deal with opponents of similar strengths to oneself and those weaker than him.
For a single powerful Ninja, the effect of this technique is very weak.
As for the other B-Class and C-Class Ninjutsu, their effect is weaker.
The only positive thing is, his swordsmanship makes him quite strong in melee's so he won't be completely defenceless.
It's just that with this war, his name will become more and more famous.
When the enemy encounters him, they will stay as far away as possible to deal with him, just like the way they'd act when they encounter Minato.
This would then be a major weakness, [Flash] is only effective in a 50-meter range but thank the System for Heavenly Thunderbolt! It has no set range and can target anywhere so long as he has enough Chakra to put into the technique!
What's even better, is that since Heavenly Thunderbolt a Lightning Style Technique(Lightning techniques possess the strongest attack power among the five elemental styles), not only can it attack from a long distance away, but it also possesses a defensive effect, meaning this technique integrates offence and defence!
"Its attack effect may be weaker than Hidden Cloud's Ninjas who are good at Lightning Style Ninjutsu, especially the 4th Raikage, who is proficient in their [Lightning Style- Chakra Mode], its effect is definitely weaker.
However, the effect of this technique's [Thunder Armour] can reduce damage by 90%, which is powerful! "
Makoto Uchiha could foresee that for a long period in the future, [Heavenly Thunderbolt] will be one of his strongest attack methods.
Thinking of this, he could not help but want to try the effect of this new skill.
Makoto Uchiha got up from the bathtub and changed into set clean clothes.
He found that his mother still had not returned, so he left a note and went out.
As Jonin, he needs to report to the Third Hokage when he comes back.
Therefore, Makoto Uchiha went to meet the Third Hokage first, and after receiving a few words of encouragement from the Third Hokage, Makoto Uchiha went to Konoha Hospital again to visit Uchiha Ryosuke and the others.
This time the Uchiha Clan sent 31 people to the battlefield, and only 16 people returned, only half of the Team.
Before they returned to the village, the Yellow Flash killed dozens of Hidden Rock elites in one blow, and the deeds of Makoto Uchiha sweeping through the army quickly spread in Konoha, and then throughout the Ninja World.
In the evening, the Clan prepared a welcoming banquet for the returning Uchiha.
The elders who were normally rarely seen were all there.
As for whether they are here to welcome the returning hero, or if they have other plans, Makoto Uchiha doesn't care.
Anyway, he responded vaguely to all of them and soon after the banquet started, he found an excuse to leave.
The Uchiha Clan is a Clan that advocates power, and he has proved himself with his strength.
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Three days have passed since Uchiha Makoto's return.
In the past few days, he has not relaxed at all and hastened to familiarize himself with his newly acquired skills.
And because of his extra Lightning Affinity, he began to practice Lightning Ninjutsu again.
With his current status, he can look through the Ninjutsu scrolls in the Clan at will. This was personally approved by the Patriarch, Uchiha Fugaku.
Lighting Affinity Chakra can stimulate the body, even if he does not have the technique [Lightning Style-Chakra Mode], he can still speed up his reaction speed and movement speed which Makoto liked very much.
...
While Makoto Uchiha was enjoying training, the atmosphere in the Hokage Meeting was a bit solemn.
The four Senior Konoha Leaders including Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, Homura Mitokado, and Shimura Danzo were all present.
The Third Hokage sat on the sofa with a serious expression, he carefully checked the scroll in his hand. After a while, he put down the scroll and said in a deep voice:
"We have set the date to ally with Hidden Rock, it is 15 days from now."
"I see." Homura Mitokado nodded.
Koharu turned to the others, looked relaxed, and said: "This way we can finally breathe a sigh of relief."
Danzo on the side looked gloomy, he was angry and unwilling, he stated: "Does this treaty satisfy you?! Obtaining no compensation for the war is the same as losing the war! "
As he spoke, Danzo stared at the Third Hokage with his uncovered left eye.
"Hiruzen, what do you think?" Mitokado Homura looked at Third Hokage and asked him about it.
The Third Hokage sat on the main seat and said: "Continuing the war is fatal to Konoha now. To unify opinions and obtain peace, it is necessary to make necessary concessions!"
Bang!
As soon as the Third Hokage's voices fell, Danzo's fist hit the table in front of him heavily.
"Many allies died in this war. Wouldn't they have died in vain!"
Faced with Danzo's questioning, the Third Hokage looked solemn and said, "The responsibility lies with me, the Hokage."
"If this is the case, how are you going to be responsible?!" Danzo's heart moved as soon as the Third Hokage finished speaking, and continued to ask.
The Third Hokage of Hokage narrowed his eyes and looked at Danzo. He knew what Danzo was paying attention to, but he had already had a countermeasure.
"I plan to resign as the 3rd Hokage, I will let the 4th Hokage lead the village!"
Chapter 36 – The 4th Hokage, Minato Namikaze!
On October 12, 47 Years after Konoha's establishment, Konoha officially signed an alliance treaty with Hidden Rock Village.
The Third Hokage, having completed what he wished, took with him his Advisors along with the Anbu and Konoha's think tank, Shikaku Nara to the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
That evening, Makoto Uchiha returned from Training Field 10 after training.
He walked leisurely on the road in a very comfortable mood.
He had no Mission for a while so he has plenty of time to train.
Recently, the Fourth Gate f the Eight Inner Gates showed signs of breaking through to the Fifth Inner Gate; after training [Flash] and [Heavenly Thunderbolt] he could be considered proficient with them.
The only pity is that training [Stepping Slash] from the [Imperial Wind Sword Style] is more difficult than he thought.
However, it was only a matter of time before he will be able to learn it, so he was not in a hurry.
After this battle, he spent a short time digesting the rewards of the Mission.
During this time, he has been able to skillfully use his 3 Tomoe Sharingan.
The evolution of his Sharingan has further increased his chakra, his Spiritual Power has also improved, making the lethality and power of his Genjutsu increase sharply, making it more convenient to use.
Also, after all his Attributes increased by 1, he quickly became familiar with the changes in his body.
His Lightning Style Ninjutsu training is also on the right track. The Lightning Affiintiy talent awarded by the System is stronger and thicker than his innate affinity for Wind and Fire. Enabling him to train and progress in Lightning Style faster than the other Styles.
According to this progress, it will not take long for him to complete the nature transformation of his Lightning Attribute Chakra.
The only thing that Makoto Uchiha did not touch was his 6,666 Gold Coins.
Now his strength is enough to protect himself, and he is still improving rapidly.
He is not in a rush to spend these Gold Coins in a short time, he will save them, maybe there will be a time in the future where they are necessary.
Besides, he hasn't checked out the new items in the System's Store, when he last did, he found they were all expensive, each item was 4,000 or 5,000 Gold Coins, and since he doesn't know which item to buy, it would best to save his Coins first.
And Makoto Uchiha has also seen that any [BUFF] in the Store starts with 10,000 Gold Coins.
[Four Pirates BUFF·Second Tier] is even more expensive, it is priced at 50,000 Gold Coins, making his scalp numb.
Although the things in the System Store are more expensive, their functions will not disappoint him.
Although he does not know what effect the Second-Tier BUFF will have, he thinks it will be more powerful than his current Tier.
Therefore, saving money is necessary!
As for the 10 Basic Equipment obtained in the battle, Makoto Uchiha has only used four of them, he has used the [Golden Shovel].
[Golden Shovel + Golden Shovel = Force of Nature]
Makoto Uchiha directly synthesized two pieces [Force of Nature: the holder's maximum Equipment Slot by +1, and the upper limit of the Inventory +1 (this Equipment does not occupy the Equipment Slot and the and the Inventory Space Slot)]
To deal with the battle with Hidden Rock, Makoto Uchiha combined all the Basic Equipment he had, and he discovered a problem at that time.
His Maximum Equipment Slots is 10, and he has 13 Equipment, except for one [Guardian Angel] which is still in a cooldown, and the other two [Guardian Angels] which he needs and therefore he has equipped (after all, every means which can save his life is necessary, no one would frown at having more than one!).
There are 12 pieces of Equipment left, 2 of which can be placed in the System Inventory.
Fortunately, his [Redemption] and [Mercury] two pieces of Equipment can be activated actively, and they have a 24-hour cool down after release.
For the other 10 pieces of Equipment, except for two [Guardian Angels] which have a cooldown after use, but can be passively activated, the other 8 pieces of Equipment are passive skills without cooldown, which are the most helpful for continuous combat.
Therefore, Makoto Uchiha initially put the weaker [Dragon Fang] and [Thorn Armor] into his Inventory from his.
When the effects of [Redemption] and [Mercury] disappear, he would drop them in the Inventory and replace them with [Dragon Fang] and [Thorn armour].
But this is just a temporary solution.
In the future, as the enemies he encounters are stronger and stronger, he would need more Equipment.
Although it only takes a few seconds to change the Equipment he is using in battle, battles between experts are determined by seconds.
Therefore, when Makoto Uchiha obtained four [Golden Shovel's], he immediately thought of synthesizing them into [Force of Nature].
Now he has exactly 12 Equipment Slots.
Except for one [Guardian Angel] which is in a cool down, he put all 12 pieces of Equipment in his Inventory.
In the future, as long as he bursts out [Golden Shovel], or when he really needs to buy [Golden Shovel] with his Gold Coins, his priority would be to synthesise them into [Force of Nature].
After all, although he has many passive Equipment, they are still precious and can raise his combat power.
As for the remaining 6 pieces of Basic Equipment this time, Makoto Uchiha has not yet figured out how to use them.
He did not know, maybe it's because he has more Gold Coins or other reasons.
He also found out that things can be purchased from the System's Store as well as sold as well.
Makoto Uchiha was able to sell his Basic Equipment and complete sets to the Store, but the price they were sold at was only 1/5 of their original price.
Although this is a pitfall, he will have to use it sooner or later, if he wants to maximize utilising his equipment.
Anyway, he won't sell anything else for the time being.
Also, the equipment he had, he may not wish to use anymore, but he can give them to Warwick.
Warwick also has 6 Equipment Slots.
Warwick has two Equipment of his own and he can also equip 4 pieces of Equipment of Makoto's.
Makoto Uchiha prepared to combine the remaining 6 pieces of Basic Equipment according to the situation and give them to Warwick after synthesising them.
In the battle, Warwick still played a huge role and he must strengthen him as well.
However, the only pity is that Makoto Uchiha's combined Equipment can only be used by him, or Warwick, who has a contract with him, and they cannot be used by others.
After the Battle of Kikyo Pass, when he returned to the village, he had thought of giving one of his [Resurrection Armours] to Reika Uchiha, but the System indicated that this was not possible.
Forcing him to give up that idea.
Besides, Reika stays at Konoha where the danger is minimal.
Moreover, although [Resurrection Armour] could save her life, with Reika's strength, it would useful even if she has one more life but if there is no one there to help her get out of danger after resurrecting then it would be useless.
So to ensure she does not fall into danger and such a thing does not happen, he must strengthen himself so no one can hurt his family.
...
Makoto Uchiha walked around and came to the Dango shop.
Eating Dangos is one of his hobbies.
After each training session, he will reward himself with a bunch of Dango.
As soon as he walked into the Dango Shop, he met many acquaintances.
Kurenai Yuhi, Sarutobi Asuma, Kamizuki Izumo, Mitarashi Anko, Might Guy and Kotetsu Hagane is also there.
But what surprised Uchiha Makoto most was Uchiha Shingetsu sitting on the innermost table, she was unexpectedly also here!
As for why he was surprised, is because he had never seen her at the Dango Shop, ever!
He has eaten Dango's for so many years, but he has never seen Uchiha Shingetsu eat them or even come to the shop before!
"Makoto! There is a place here!" Seeing Makoto Uchiha approaching the Dango shop, Uchiha Shingetsu's eyes lit up and she waved at him with joy.
"Makoto, you are here too!" Might Guy, who was whispering to a friend, found Makoto Uchiha and greeted him.
"Hello, Guy." Uchiha smiled and nodded.
He glanced around and found that only Uchiha Shingetsu's table had an empty seat, there was no other choice but to sit at her table.
Seeing Might Guy greet Makoto Uchiha, Kamizuki Izumo on the side was curious and asked in a low voice: "Guy, Makoto-senpai has not even spoken to me, but why do you seem to be familiar with him?"
"I often train together with Makoto, before, out of 10 Matches, he would win 5 and I would win 5, but now, I am no longer his opponent!" Might Guy explained while eating the Dango.
Mitarashi Anko on the side looked back at Uchiha Makoto who was sitting on the oblique rear table but was unexpectedly seen by Uchiha Shingetsu who looked at her vigilantly.
Seeing this, Mitarashi Anko turned her head and said: "I heard Lord Orochimaru mentioned him before, saying that he was special, though I can't see anything special about him apart from him being very handsome!"
"I heard that Makoto-Senpai was very brave in the front lines and that he frightened the enemy a lot. He is not even that older than us but he is so much stronger!" Kamizuki Izumo showed admiration.
"Guy, didn't you often train with Makoto-Senpai before? Is he that powerful?" Kotetsu Hagane said with some doubts.
Might Guy nodded, "I haven't trained with Makoto for a long time, but more than two months ago, I heard Kakashi say that he would not more than 10 minutes against Makoto."
"So strong?!"
Both Mitarashi Anko and Kurenai Yuhi's eyes lit up, and they unconsciously cast their eyes to Makoto Uchiha who was sitting diagonally behind them.
"I heard that Makoto-Senpai's nickname, 'Imperial Wind Sword Saint' has spread throughout the Land of Earth!" Kamizuki Izumo added.
Although everyone was talking in a very low voice, Makoto Uchiha heard them.
However, when he was in school, he had attracted the attention of the girls mainly because of his looks, and he found it normal for them to talk about him, so he wasn't flustered when they were praising him right in front of him.
Only when he heard the title 'Imperial Wind Sword Saint', the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He found it awkward when he heard other people say this!
At this moment, Might Guy, who was eating his Dango, suddenly shouted at a white-haired boy outside: "Hey! Kakashi! Come in and eat some Dango! Everyone is here!"
Makoto Uchiha looked back, only to see Kakashi wearing a slanted Forehead Protector, he had a listless look with no youthful vigour, he looked like an old man.
However, Makoto Uchiha can also understand that he took lives and that he saw his friend Obito 'die' at Kannabi Bridge, and not long after that, Nohara Rin died as well.
In the beginning, his relationship with his two teammates was average. When he was teammates, he would be bored, but over time, he warmed up to them and developed a good relationship with them. But he lost them in the end.
And why was that? Because the plot and timeline of the World required it to be so, and Makoto Uchiha, who knew this, felt his originally relaxed mood, become heavy.
"It seems that the Kyuubi's attack is unavoidable. How can I change what happens after that though?"
(T/N: He is referring to the Uchiha Massacre)
Although even if Minato Namikaze died, there would still be 7-8 Years before the Massacre occurs, enough time for Makoto to grow up and become stronger.
But he does not have time to plot and think about the future, nor does he want to betray Konoha.
Most of the Uchiha and other Ninjas who defected in the original, defected only when they couldn't stay in the village.
Makoto Uchiha did not want to leave.
Even if he could not save Minato, he was not going to leave Konoha.
Why should he leave Konoha?
It makes no sense at all!
The better action would be to find a chance to kill the higher-ups like the 3 Hokage Advisors and Danzo!
After that, he will recast Konoha.
At that time, it would depend on the situation to draw in and train Uchiha Shisui and Itachi.
If it does not work, then he will kill these two inner demons first!
(T/N: He is calling them Inner Demons as they were directly or indirectly related to or caused the fall of the Uchiha Clan and its Massacre)
Of course, these are things for later, the current goal would be to protect Minato.
Even if it is not something of his interest, Makoto Uchiha will save Minato.
After all, Minato is a friend and half a teacher.
Out of his own emotions, he has to do his best to save him, to leave no regrets behind.
...
A day later, the Senior Advisors and Leaders lead by the Third Hokage returned from the Capital of the Land of Fire. After returning to the village, Danzo was quiet.
At noon that day, the Third Hokage summoned Minato Namikaze.
On the second day, news that the Third Hokage was about to step down and that he would be succeeded by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze was made public.
