Minato was taken aback. "The Hyuga clan's main family's eldest daughter? They're supporting her being with Naruto?" Minato naturally understood the significance of the Hyuga clan's main family's eldest daughter.
However, the Hyuga clan rarely marries outside, let alone the main family's eldest daughter. Yoruha chuckled and said, "It's supported by the Hokage, and now Naruto is one of the most outstanding youths in Konoha, second only to Sasuke. Of course, the Hyuga clan's leader would support his daughter being with Naruto."
"Moreover, because the Hyuga clan's leader has two daughters and doesn't want his daughter to be marked with the Caged Bird Seal, and since his eldest daughter indeed lacks the talent to be a ninja, marrying her to Naruto is a better choice to prevent her from becoming part of the branch family and being marked with the Caged Bird Seal."
With Yoruha's explanation, Minato understood why Hiashi Hyuga would support Hinata being with Naruto. "As long as Naruto is doing well, that's good." "However, it seems Sasuke is truly exceptional; you've mentioned him many times."
The Third Hokage also approached, looking at Yoruha. He was quite concerned about Sasuke as well. After all, if Sasuke were to learn the truth about the Uchiha clan's massacre, who knows what he might do. Yoruha thought for a moment and explained, "Sasuke is currently praised in the ninja world, considered by many as the undisputed strongest in the ninja world."
"Some veteran ninjas even feel that Sasuke's strength is comparable to that of Madara in his prime." The Third Hokage was stunned. Although he had high hopes for Sasuke's future, believing he wouldn't be inferior to Itachi Uchiha, he never expected Yoruha to say he was comparable to Madara.
If that were true, it didn't take long for the Third Hokage to come to his senses. He looked at Yoruha and thought, right, with Yoruha around, even if Sasuke really was as strong as Madara, so what?
With Yoruha here, Sasuke couldn't pose any threat to Konoha. Yoruha, who could even defeat Hashirama, would render any potential threat from Sasuke moot, even if he reached Madara's level. Minato also pondered this. "From what you've said, Yoruha, it seems like you're actually the strongest in the ninja world?"
"Why does it seem like you're relatively unknown in the ninja world?" If people believed Sasuke was the strongest, then what about Yoruha? Minato couldn't believe that Sasuke's strength hadn't reached Madara's level, while Yoruha could defeat Hashirama, who could definitely suppress Madara.
Yet people still thought Sasuke was the strongest in the ninja world, which seemed contradictory.
The Third Hokage also looked at Yoruha with some confusion. Yoruha explained, "Because ever since I became the Hokage's guard, I haven't really taken on many missions. It's just that this year, with so many things happening and the village being short-handed, Lady Tsunade sent me out to help with some tasks."
"In the past three years, I've only completed a few low-level missions. However, in recent years, I've been known in the village as the 'Medical Sage,' and my medical ninjutsu is quite popular."
Minato understood, but he looked at Yoruha and sighed, "Since you're so powerful, you should take on more missions for the village. Also, only by accumulating a large number of missions will you have the support needed to become Hokage in the future."
He understood what kind of person Yoruha was. Probably someone with a personality similar to Tsunade's.
Yoruha explained, "Lady Tsunade did indeed say that, but I really have no interest in becoming Hokage. It's Naruto who's always shouting about wanting to be Hokage." "Now, Lady Tsunade wants to groom Sasuke to become the Sixth Hokage." The Third Hokage was taken aback, and even Minato was somewhat surprised.
"Groom Sasuke to become the Sixth Hokage? Did Tsunade say that?" the Third Hokage asked.
Yoruha nodded, "Yeah, and Sasuke indeed has the capability and the prestige for it." The Third Hokage thought for a moment and sighed, "She probably wanted you to be the Sixth Hokage, but you didn't want to, right?"
The Third Hokage understood Yoruha's personality well enough to guess that it was because Yoruha refused to become the Sixth Hokage, leaving Tsunade with no choice but to turn to Sasuke.
Yoruha didn't refute. The Third Hokage continued, "Well, I just hope that Sasuke can remain calm after learning the truth." Yoruha looked at the Third Hokage and deliberately asked, "The truth? What truth?" Minato also looked at the Third Hokage. Since he died during the Nine-Tails incident, he wasn't aware of the Uchiha clan massacre that happened afterward.
The Third Hokage glanced at Minato and Yoruha, then decided to reveal the truth about the Uchiha clan massacre. After he finished, Minato fell silent. He found it hard to imagine that such an event could occur in Konoha after his death.
Annihilating an entire clan, while not uncommon in the ninja world, was something unprecedented in Konoha. Yoruha also fell silent. Although he knew the truth about the Uchiha clan's massacre, he wasn't aware of the details. After all, the original story didn't delve into such specifics.
After learning the details, Yoruha was somewhat speechless. "Lord Third, your handling of this situation, how should I put it, to be blunt, was really foolish."
The Third Hokage looked at Yoruha and gave a bitter smile, "I didn't expect Danzo to give Itachi such an order, and the key point is that Itachi didn't inform me before executing it." "By the time I found out, it was too late to stop it."
Minato, feeling somewhat guilty, said, "If I hadn't died sealing the Nine-Tails back then, the Uchiha clan might not have faced such a fate."
This was indeed true. If Minato hadn't died, he could have at least clarified that it wasn't the Uchiha clan controlling the Nine-Tails that caused the destruction in Konoha.
Moreover, because of his good relationship with Fugaku Uchiha, the Uchiha clan wouldn't have been oppressed so harshly. In reality, they wouldn't have wanted to stage a coup.
The Uchiha clan wasn't a bunch of war-crazed maniacs. Ninjas like Obito and Madara were rare exceptions. Even if, as Tobirama Senju said, their Sharingan awakened through intense emotional fluctuations, the Uchiha clan was a family that would be content with just a little compromise.
After all, the Uchiha clan's situation in Konoha wasn't great, being guarded against by other clans.
The claims that the Uchiha clan would harm Konoha, as Tobirama Senju said, had never happened in the decades since Konoha's founding. Not even once. Their extreme method of awakening the Sharingan was an internal matter, affecting only their own members.
What did it have to do with the rest of the village? Over the years, the Uchiha clan hadn't caused any trouble. Even when pushed to the brink, all they thought of was staging a coup to regain their rightful power, not waging war against the village.
In essence, they wanted a bloodless coup to reclaim their rightful authority. Their target was Konoha's leadership, never the other clans or the village's other ninjas. Compared to the Uchiha clan's leadership, Konoha's leadership was the truly extreme one.
They were quick to consider annihilating an entire clan, as if the ordinary Uchiha people, those who would never awaken the Sharingan in their lifetime, and those who had no part in the clan's high-level conspiracies, weren't even human.