Using his father's death as the reason, Senju Wakama did not hold a grand wedding. The major ninja clans simply moved in and settled down in the new clan lands.
As Senju Wakama had expected, the Uchiha clan was still holding out, hoping Tsukuyo would marry Uchiha Madara.
But before Senju Butsuma passed away, he had spoken with Tsukuyo alone.
Afterward, one of Senju Butsuma's last wishes was that no one should meddle in Tsukuyo's marital affairs.
It was only then that his simple-minded older brother, Hashirama, realized Tsukuyo had no intention of marrying.
But just like in their youth, Hashirama was helpless against his younger sister; he couldn't even beat her in a fight.
However, Senju Wakama wasn't worried at all.
No matter what objections the ordinary Uchiha clan members had against Tsukuyo, Uchiha Madara would be placated by her.
With the major ninja clans merged, positions were quickly established.
The ninja village was still named Konoha;
the leader was still called the Hokage.
Just like in the anime's original plot, his older brother Hashirama wanted Uchiha Madara to serve as the first leader.
But that guy, Uchiha Madara, had been bewitched by Tsukuyo and had no interest in the Hokage position whatsoever.
In the end, Senju Hashirama took office as the First Hokage with an overwhelming victory.
At the same time, three Hokage Advisor positions were created, to be held by the Hyuga clan, the Uchiha clan, and the Nara clan, respectively.
The Hokage Advisors were akin to vice-Hokage, and below them were more detailed positions.
Senju Wakama didn't look into what positions others held, but he himself was appointed by Tsukuyo as the first principal of the Konoha Ninja Academy.
In fact, in the original plot, the Konoha Ninja Academy was supposed to have been built during the reign of the Second Hokage, Tobirama.
But Tsukuyo went all-in, establishing the school directly and sticking Senju Wakama in it.
Tsukuyo said that Senju Wakama should do his best to influence the new generation, brainwashing these children from a young age to love their family, love their village, and love their country.
Because the major ninja clans had, to varying degrees, conflicts with each other from the past,
this also meant Senju Wakama's burden was heavy.
These appointments were all arranged by Tsukuyo.
Her abilities were too formidable, so people usually had no objections to her proposals.
But she established a rule that most of those under her considered unfair.
She stipulated that the position of Hokage could only be held for five years, after which a successor must be chosen. Furthermore, only descendants of the Hyuga, Uchiha, and Senju clans could succeed to the position.
And on the day this set of rules was established,
the Hyuga, Uchiha, and Senju clans came to be known as Konoha's Three Noble Clans.
Senju Wakama knew very well that Tsukuyo had set such a rule out of necessity.
In this small world,
bloodline determined everything.
It was fundamentally a tragic history of the Ōtsutsuki family's siblings fighting amongst themselves.
Without a sufficiently powerful bloodline, things were too difficult.
Of course, anomalies like the yet-unborn Might Duy and Might Guy were exceptions, but how many Might Guys were there in the ninja world?
At the same time, to continue shearing the sheep, Tsukuyo had Senju Hashirama continue to cooperate with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
The Konoha ninja village was nominally subordinate to the Land of Fire and under the Daimyo's jurisdiction.
Senju Wakama knew this was because the village currently faced internal and external threats. She needed to first assimilate the other ninja clans, and then assimilate the entire Land of Fire.
Everything had to be done slowly.
According to Tsukuyo's plan, the Konoha ninja village would eventually have a falling out with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
But not yet.
Therefore, to maintain their bilateral relationship,
Senju Hashirama and the current Daimyo of the Land of Fire arranged a childhood engagement for their children,
hoping to form an eternal bond.
Tsukuyo also collaborated with the Daimyo. Konoha would provide personnel to help train the Daimyo's army of commoners. There was no need to teach them ninjutsu; they only needed to build up their physiques and practice taijutsu and kenjutsu.
In addition, Konoha would continue to pay taxes to the Daimyo and still required the protection of the Land of Fire's Daimyo.
Tsukuyo handled this matter flawlessly. The Konoha ninja village would be the Daimyo's biggest taxpayer and his army's training camp.
Tsukuyo also proposed that, to more quickly transport the Senju clan's crops to the Royal Capital for the nobles to enjoy, she would work with the Daimyo to build roads.
The Daimyo would provide the manpower, while Tsukuyo would be responsible for providing the designs and covering the workers' food and lodging.
In this mutually beneficial situation, even if the Daimyo of the Land of Fire had other ideas, he would suppress them for the time being.
The Land of Fire was vast. Joint construction could buy them more time.
As for what time they were buying, it was naturally time before the inevitable break with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
The Daimyo of the Land of Fire, in collaboration with Tsukuyo, had annihilated the Fujiwara family, who had long controlled the imperial court.
This had happened just in recent years.
Beyond that, the Daimyo also actively used Tsukuyo's strategies to continuously gather the commoners of the Land of Fire under his banner.
Now, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire possessed land, prestige, and population.
But using the power of commoners to build up the vast Land of Fire would take a long time and be fraught with difficulties.
Tsukuyo's methods for construction were, naturally, far superior to those of the Land of Fire's Daimyo.
By meticulously constructing the new clan lands, besides making them comfortable to live in, Tsukuyo also intended to demonstrate her construction capabilities to the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
Once the new clan lands were fully built, all the clans would move in.
The Konoha ninja village needed to hold an inauguration ceremony for the Hokage and would need to invite the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and various nobles to attend.
It would be a perfect opportunity to showcase her architectural design concepts and abilities to them.
At that time, the collaboration between the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and Tsukuyo to build the Land of Fire's road infrastructure would surely come to pass.
To get rich, first build roads. Senju Wakama understood this point very clearly.
The initial construction of the clan lands.
After Tsukuyo finished her main tasks, she left the other matters for her brothers to implement.
As for herself, after the major ninja clans had moved in, she gathered all the young and able-bodied members of every clan and used her Sharingan's genjutsu to screen them for their talents.
Some were suited for agriculture, some for medicine, some for construction, and some for manufacturing chemical substances.
Tsukuyo strictly separated these people into groups and used her Sharingan's genjutsu on them, teaching them knowledge of agriculture, medicine, construction, and chemistry within the illusion.
Upon awakening, they would immediately use the knowledge they had learned to continue building the new ninja village.
The various ninja clans that had just merged with the Senju clan had no time to rest before being thrown into grueling labor by Tsukuyo.
Now, the members of the Senju clan could finally catch their breath.
But... it still wasn't enough.
In Tsukuyo's view, there still wasn't enough manpower; they needed to rest and recuperate.
Tsukuyo worked day and night to write a five-year plan, a ten-year plan, a fifteen-year plan, a twenty-year plan, a thirty-year plan, and a forty-year plan for Konoha, mapping out the entire future, and convened a meeting with the high-level officials.
Everyone came to understand Tsukuyo's philosophy and dream, but at the same time, they felt a heavy weight on their hearts.
Senju Tobirama completely understood Tsukuyo's thinking. He sealed her plans away, to be opened one by one according to the timeline.
After the ninja village was established, his older brother Senju Hashirama captured the legendary nine Tailed Beasts.
Originally, Hashirama wanted to sell the Tailed Beasts to the other major ninja villages to make some money.
But Tsukuyo was vehemently against it. She transformed eight of the Tailed Beasts into cute creatures and had them integrate into the Konoha ninja village, living together with the villagers.
Konoha became stronger than ever before.
After everything was ready, just as Brother Zetsu had predicted, Tsukuyo was going to begin her slumber.
The public announcement was that the princess had suddenly passed away from exhaustion. Internally, only Senju Wakama, his brothers, and Uchiha Madara knew the truth.
The brothers remained outside Tsukuyo's tomb to continue building the new ninja village.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara became the tomb's guardian.
Senju Wakama knew his chance had come.
After settling all his wives and children,
Senju Wakama left a long-prepared suicide note and, on a bright morning, slipped away from all his wives and children, disappearing from the ninja world.
He left his wives and children a great deal of wealth, enough that they would never have to worry about food or clothing for the rest of their lives.
But he could not stay with them.
Because Senju Wakama knew that in a few more years, everyone would notice something was wrong with him.
Like Tsukuyo, he did not age.
Moreover, Tsukuyo couldn't repair her system this way. Ultimately, she would need to use the soul of someone who loved her to forge the system.
Therefore, Tsukuyo would have to emerge from the tomb sooner or later.
Maybe in five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years...
Senju Wakama didn't dare to take the gamble. He couldn't just disappear while Tsukuyo was still active in the world.
He could only choose to 'die' while Tsukuyo was away.
Stepping out of the gate of light,
Senju Wakama once again stood atop the seaside skyscraper.
Standing on the thirtieth-something floor of the tall building, looking down at the sea and the highly developed city before him, Senju Wakama took a deep breath, a sad smile appearing on his face. 'Ninja world... farewell forever...'
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