Chapter 36: Quietly Building Reputation
"Alright, let's discuss the specific tactics later. Now that we've decided on the strategy, we must completely prevent the Hyuga clan from breaking out."
His eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice, "Prepare to use the Uchiha Sanction Order!"
"Uchiha Sanction Order?"
Kaito said in slight puzzlement. This was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
"Tell all the ninja clans in the ninja world that if they see Hyuga clan ninjas active outside, they can come to our Uchiha clan to receive a reward of 1,000 for killing one Hyuga genin, 5,000 for killing one chunin, and 10,000 for killing one special jonin."
Uchiha Tajima paused slightly, suddenly exuding a murderous aura: "Then, for killing one Hyuga jonin, the reward is 100,000, for an elite jonin, the reward is 500,000, for a peak jonin..." At this point, he paused, gritted his teeth, and continued, "...the reward is 1,000,000, Hyuga Tenji and Hyuga Sojin, well...let's forget about these two."
"Is the Uchiha clan so rich?" Listening to Uchiha Tajima's offer, Kaito secretly clicked his tongue. How much money would you need to offer such a bounty?
In fact, he also knew that the ninjas that the ninja clans could actually kill would at most be jonin-level, and not too many. Once they reached the elite jonin level, most ninjas in the Warring States Period could only look up to them. As for the peak jonin, it was estimated that Uchiha Tajima was just quoting a price, and didn't expect anyone to actually come to claim the reward. Of course, if someone really took the head of a peak jonin of the Hyuga clan, he would be happy to pay.
After discussing some details, Uchiha Tajima announced the end of the meeting.
Kaito, like most people, got up and left, while Madara was called by Uchiha Tajima to go to the back hall with several of the strongest peak jonin, presumably to discuss the tactics against the Hyuga in detail.
After leaving the hall, Kaito touched the long sword in his hand, thought for a while, and went to the right side of the clan land, where the Uchiha clan's training ground was. Most of the Uchiha clan's children spent most of their time practicing ninjutsu or sparring with each other there. Kaito and Madara used to spar there often, but they hadn't been there for more than two months now.
Since he answered the origin of his ninjutsu today, he knew that he was getting further and further away from the core of the Uchiha clan. Uchiha Tajima couldn't trust him, and as long as Uchiha Tajima was in power, he would never be able to become a high-level member of the Uchiha clan. Taking today's plan as an example, the reason why he let Madara go up was largely because he knew the result of him going up.
Perhaps Uchiha Tajima and the others would adopt this plan, but they would definitely not keep him to continue discussing the next steps in detail. This had nothing to do with strength, or intelligence, but only with people's hearts.
Therefore, a vague plan emerged in Kaito's mind. It was just an idea now, but he firmly believed that he would realize this plan. It didn't matter that Uchiha Tajima didn't trust him, Madara was on good terms with him, and Madara's personality wouldn't care about such trivial matters as the origin of ninjutsu. It would be a win-win situation for him to become the clan leader.
Kaito originally thought that he was a very generous person, but the events of yesterday made him more and more angry, and he realized that he was actually very narrow-minded. Therefore, whether it was the Hyuga or Uchiha Tajima, he had quietly remembered them in his heart. The days ahead were long, and sooner or later, he would use Susanoo to blow them up.
That's just how petty I am, Uchiha Kaito thought in his heart.
Arriving in front of the training ground, he walked in directly. Many Uchiha clan children were sparring with each other, and some were practicing shuriken or fire ninjutsu, in various ways.
Kaito patted his face, putting a warm smile on his face, and walked to a child who was practicing fire ninjutsu.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
The child spat out a large fireball towards the front. After a while, the flames went out, and he covered his upper lip, crying out in pain, "I burned myself again, what's wrong?"
Kaito said with a smile, "When you were making the Tiger hand seal, your left index finger was bent, which will cause the chakra flame of the Fireball Jutsu to rise slightly, making it easy to burn yourself."
The child was shocked, only then did he realize that there was someone next to him. He turned his head and saw Kaito looking at him with a smile, and was immediately excited and said, "Kaito... Lord Kaito."
Uchiha Kaito and Uchiha Madara were the two most prestigious people in the new generation of the Uchiha, especially after they joined forces to kill the Hyuga jonin and save everyone that night, their prestige reached its peak, and they were worshiped by the new generation. However, since that time, Kaito and Madara had rarely come to the training ground.
Kaito smiled very gently and said, "Don't call me Lord, we are all of the same generation, you can call me Kaito or Brother Kaito, I'll demonstrate the hand seals of the Fireball Jutsu to you, watch carefully."
Saying that, Kaito stretched out his hands, and the six hand seals of Snake-Horse-Monkey-Boar-Ox-Tiger were completed one after another. In order to let the other party see clearly, he deliberately made the hand seals very slowly, taking a full five seconds to complete.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
A fireball that was many times larger than the child's just now spurted out, howling and falling into the distant lake. Because the Uchiha clan mainly used fire ninjutsu, they naturally dug an artificial lake in the training ground, specifically for the children in the clan to use when practicing fire ninjutsu.
"So...so amazing!" The child looked at Kaito with worship in his eyes.
"It's Lord Kaito, Lord Kaito is at the training ground!" A little loli with sharp eyes noticed the situation here, and immediately all the Uchiha children in the training ground stopped practicing and quickly gathered around.
"Lord Kaito, my name is Uchiha Rin, please give me your guidance." The little loli's cheeks were slightly red, and she said excitedly.
"Don't call me Lord, we are all of the same generation, please give me your guidance too." Kaito replied with a smile, making her even more excited, feeling that Lord Kaito was really approachable, completely different from Madara.
"Lord Kaito, there are things I don't understand about the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, how exactly can I control their trajectory?"
"This requires first exercising the control of chakra, there is no shortcut."
"Lord Kaito, I have always been unable to hit the bullseye with kunai and shuriken throws, are there any techniques?"
"Uh, your posture for exerting force is not right, let me help you correct it."
"Lord Kaito..."
One question after another, Kaito did not show any irritability, and explained them in detail.
Kaito did this naturally for his own purposes. Uchiha Tajima's strength was too strong, and his prestige at the top was too great. Only if he didn't let go, even if he became an elite jonin, it would be difficult to enter the core circle of power.
But these were not important. The next generation was actually the backbone of the future. He only needed to establish prestige among these children and give them some favors, and they would remember his benefits.
In this way, subtly, he would reach the peak of prestige among them sooner or later. And in the Warring States Period, these children could actually become the backbone of the family quickly. By then, without their noticing, he would become the most influential figure in the Uchiha clan, even Uchiha Madara could not compare to him.
Kaito promoted Uchiha Madara for this purpose as well, letting him attract attention in the front, so that he could quietly turn the next generation of clansmen into his own help. In the future, the Uchiha clan would definitely be controlled by me, Uchiha Kaito.
Kaito smiled and continued to explain the difficult problems of various ninjutsu to them.