It is not easy to fully explain the affairs of the Uchiha family, as its origins can be traced back to the time when Konoha Village was just established.
Several decades have passed, and there is no one in the ninja world who can still remember what happened back then, except for Black Zetsu, who is no longer human.
Mizuki felt no psychological pressure at all when recounting the merits and demerits of Konoha's predecessors.
But in order to explain these things completely to Uchiha Sasuke, I still need to sort out the wording.
Konoha Village was built on the ruins of the Warring States Period.
The birth of two talented heroes in the same era may not be a blessing for the ninja world.
If there is only one, whether it is Uchiha Madara or Senju Hashirama, they both have the ability to lead their respective families to conquer the entire ninja world and realize the desire for peace.
The reality is that neither the Uchiha clan nor the Senju clan could subdue the other. After a long war, the devastated ninja world had to stop and recuperate.
At this time, the friendship between the two people since childhood began to play a role.
After many twists and turns, Konoha Village was finally born, and the balance maintaining the current one country and one village situation officially came into effect.
Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.
The childhood dreams of the two young boys and the order of the ninja world they built still fell apart in the cruel reality.
Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama had a very serious disagreement, the consequence of which was a great battle in the Valley of the End, which ended with Uchiha Madara's death and disappearance, and Senju Hashirama returning to Konoha Village and also dying shortly afterwards.
Things should have ended there.
But this is an unacceptable consequence for the descendants of the Uchiha family and the Senju family.
The two families began to become less harmonious than before, and an irreparable rift developed between the two founding families of the village.
From then on, the members, descendants, students, and disciples of the Senju family have held the power of Hokage.
The Uchiha clan members were constantly excluded.
The Konoha Village, which was originally established with the same conditions, has seen a serious imbalance in its status due to the distribution of power.
This was unacceptable to the Uchiha Clan.
But the next person to inherit the position of Hokage was Tobirama Senju, who had a prejudice against the Uchiha family.
With the establishment of the Security Department, the Uchiha family was fully responsible for the security of Konoha Village, and thus completely parted ways with the top leaders of Konoha Village.
It is only natural that the relationship will drift apart.
Mizuki concisely told Sasuke the causes and consequences of the establishment of Konoha Village, the situation of the Uchiha family, and the series of consequences that had already occurred.
"The bud of suspicion should have been picked at the beginning. In the end, it was not picked, and the bud grew stronger day by day, and it grew up and blossomed. This is a flower of evil. Many people clearly saw the rift between the Uchiha family and the village, but they had already lost the opportunity to completely resolve it."
Unlike other ninja clans that joined passively or were conquered, the Uchiha clan, as the founding family of Konoha Village, isolated itself from the villagers and power center of Konoha Village because it could not see clearly the development of the situation in Konoha Village.
Such a family will sooner or later be destroyed because of its arrogance.
Uchiha Sasuke listened quietly to Mizuki's explanation.
The development and consequences of the Uchiha family since the establishment of Konoha Village were presented to Sasuke in its entirety.
"The bud of sin finally blossomed and bore fruit. But I don't quite understand. If a bud wants to thrive, it must have a suitable environment, sunlight, water and enough nutrients to grow, right? What happened that made decades of time fail to erase the original cracks?"
Shuimu nodded with relief:
"You have asked the key to the matter. Without careful nurturing, even if there are problems, the entire Uchiha family should not be destroyed."
"So, there are enemies hiding behind the scenes?"
"It's not wrong to say that they are enemies..."
Mizuki turned and looked at Sasuke.
"The villagers of Konoha don't have a good impression of the Uchiha Clan. It's normal for them to dislike the Uchiha Clan when facing the Security Department. But they are just a bunch of poor bastards who are being used. When the Uchiha Clan moved their clan land away from the center of Konoha and prohibited outsiders from entering, the consequences were irreversible."
Uchiha Sasuke nodded, not quite understanding.
Mizuki didn't care whether Sasuke really understood or was just pretending to understand:
"Back then, the first Hokage, Senju Hashirama, died shortly after the battle with Uchiha Madara, which made many people resent the Uchiha clan. This was also the beginning of the incident. After the second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, succeeded to the throne, he continued to suppress the Uchiha clan. Although he deliberately tried to win over some people in the Uchiha clan, he was too cautious about the entire Uchiha clan. The establishment of the security department and the relocation of the clan's land to a location far away from the center of Konoha were all driven by this idea."
"The real reason that led to the extermination of the Uchiha clan was actually the Nine-Tails attack on the village more than ten years ago..."
"The Nine-Tailed Fox attacks the village?"
Uchiha Sasuke asked in surprise.
"The Nine-Tails Jinchuriki is not Uzumaki Naruto, could he also be involved in this matter?"
"Naruto's mother, Uzumaki Kushina, was the previous Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and his father was the Fourth Hokage, Namikaze Minato. When the Nine-Tails attacked the village, both of Naruto's parents died in the battle, and Naruto became the next Nine-Tails Jinchuriki."
"The son of the Yondaime Hokage!"
Uchiha Sasuke never expected that Naruto had such a background.
"But if that's the case, why didn't Uzumaki Naruto have a good childhood?"
Mizuki sneered and replied:
"What a bad nature of ignorant human beings! Without enough strength to protect themselves, they can only vent their anger on weak children to cover up their own meanness and shallowness."
Talking about monsters and hatred is just an excuse to bully a child.
Of course, at this time, Uchiha Sasuke had no intention of discussing the philosophy of life with Mizuki.
"But what does the Kyuubi attack on the village have to do with the Uchiha clan?"
"In the ninja world, besides sealing techniques, the most effective means to control the tailed beasts is Hashirama Senju's Wood Release and the Uchiha family's Mangekyō Sharingan. Unfortunately, Wood Release had already disappeared from the ninja world at that time. The only thing that could control the tailed beasts was the Sharingan!"
"This is just a random suspicion without any reason, right?"
"Suspicion?"
Mizuki looked at Uchiha Sasuke meaningfully.
"It's not just suspicion. At that time, there was a very obvious projection of the power of the Sharingan in the eyes of the Nine-Tails. I can tell you clearly that this incident was indeed done by the Uchiha clan..."