[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to-":3,"chapter-uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--chapter-324":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Uchiha in Konoha, Starting Off by Standing Up to Konoha!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2322521,4543,"Chapter 324","uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--chapter-324",324,"\u003Cp>Land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hokage’s Office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uchiha Jin, just starting his shift, wore the exhausted face of a subway elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the latest intelligence from the Northern Front, he even wondered if Tsunade was joking with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had only just planned for the Hidden Cloud to join the Hidden Leaf, and these people hadn’t even been settled yet—he hadn’t even considered the Hidden Stone, Hidden Mist, or Hidden Sand yet, yet all three had suddenly chosen to surrender?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First reaction: there’s a trap here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he calmed down and thought carefully, it actually made a strange kind of sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called major ninja villages, after the Akatsuki’s devastation, had undoubtedly suffered severe losses in strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless mid- and low-rank ninja had died; elite jonin-level fighters were severely depleted; every village’s Tailed Beast had vanished. Especially now that the Hidden Cloud had been the first to surrender, it must have shaken their morale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three shattered ninja villages were now weaker than they had been after the Great Ninja War.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what about the Hidden Leaf?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the chaos stirred by the Akatsuki, the Hidden Leaf had lost not a single ninja; on the contrary, bolstered by the power of those Edo Tensei warriors, it had reached its absolute peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this situation, what could the three villages fight with? Their heads?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They needed to worry about their own and their loved ones’ futures, to secure decent positions for their people—surrender now seemed like a reasonable choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if they surrendered, with the support of their ninja, they could still secure a respectable position in the future Hidden Leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if they kept resisting?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d be swallowed whole by the increasingly powerful Hidden Leaf, leaving not a single thing for their descendants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who reached the upper echelons of a ninja village was hardly an idiot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A wise man adapts to circumstances”—this wasn’t just empty rhetoric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just hadn’t expected it to happen so quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Uchiha Jin pondered, Konan blurted out in stunned disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This—how is this possible?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These major villages just surrendered? Why didn’t they even fight back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t they have any feeling for their own villages?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Konan didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she had once loved the Land of Rain deeply; Miyan , Nagato, and the original Akatsuki members had felt the same—even their childhoods had been miserable, with the Land of Rain giving them no joy whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what about the major ninja villages?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their civilians didn’t suffer the hardships of small, impoverished nations; those in power enjoyed privileges and wealth at the very top of the world…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such elite privileges, why would they surrender so easily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Konan’s impoverished imagination, the major villages should have fought to the death rather than yield to the Hidden Leaf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Leaf could at best have slowly nibbled away at them, waiting until only the most loyal remained, then crushing them in a final battle—only then could peace possibly return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hidden Cloud’s surrender had already shocked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Hidden Leaf had even finished settling the Hidden Cloud, the Hidden Sand, Hidden Stone, and Hidden Mist had all surrendered in succession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s the point of fighting anymore?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Konan, who wore a face of utter confusion, Uchiha Jin smiled and explained: “Of course they have feelings for their own villages—but in this world, everything has a price. Those who reach the top of a ninja village are political creatures; they weigh costs and benefits in every decision.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Their choice may seem absurd, but it’s a calculated one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know what Itachi’re thinking.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I tell Itachi this: even if the major villages died, they would never join the Akatsuki.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were firm, unyielding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Konan showed no discomfort at being read—instead, she pressed urgently: “Why? I beg Itachi, Hokage, explain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The reason is simple: no guarantees,” Uchiha Jin replied without hesitation, giving the most authoritative answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Konan still didn’t understand, he added: “The Hidden Leaf is a mature power structure with a well-established institutional system. Before any village joins, even if I haven’t made promises, they can reasonably predict their future based on their knowledge of the Hidden Leaf.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How much power will they retain? What will their lives be like?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They have a clear idea of these questions, so they aren’t terrified.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In a major village like the Hidden Leaf, unless it’s a coup or special circumstance, everyone follows the rules—even I won’t break them lightly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But what about the Akatsuki?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The biggest flaw of a newborn regime is instability—it has no trustworthy institutional framework; everything hinges on the leader’s word.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Itachi might treat me well today, but tomorrow, over some trivial matter, Itachi could kill me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This uncertainty is the most terrifying thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No basic guarantees. No mature power structure. No legal constraints…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Joining such an organization means betting on the leader’s character.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s far too unstable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if the leader is perfect in every way, what if he dies one day?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Will the new leader uphold the old policies?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is why, no matter how strong the Akatsuki was, no rational person would ever join it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On the contrary!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Major villages like the Hidden Leaf don’t face this problem. Even after a Kage’s death, the successor may introduce new rules—but only by modifying the old ones, never by tearing everything down at once.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The many ninja clans and elite jonin within the major villages would never allow it—and this ensures at least policy continuity, which is the most important reason others are willing to surrender.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Internal power is stable. Policies don’t change overnight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This ‘stability’ is precisely what the Akatsuki’s model can never offer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Mo spoke at length, clearly intrigued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly looked down on the Akatsuki—whether the true mastermind Black Zetsu, or later Uchiha Madara, Obito, Nagato…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them were trash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no idea how to run a power structure, and ended up gathering only rogue ninja to prop up their image.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Uchiha Madara had broad enough vision to see that unification was the inevitable trend, he could never have achieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even with vision, his ability was abysmal.\u003C\u002Fp>",1045,"2026-06-20T16:36:29.902Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c2fed85f34f220052ba7b5fd715859bac39efad7fd3e8f9c3ad34385cb6caf5e","uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--chapter-325","uchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--chapter-323",371,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fuchiha-in-konoha-starting-off-by-standing-up-to--cover.jpg"]