Naruto: Making Konoha Great Again!
Year 41 of Konoha. The Second Shinobi World War has barely cooled, and peace already feels like a lie.
Inside the village, factions whisper in the dark and old loyalties start to crack. Outside the walls, the other four great hidden villages are rearming, watching Konoha like wolves circling a wounded lion, just waiting for the right moment to strike.
Then a hard-bitten political veteran wakes up in a body that shouldn’t be his: Hiruzen Sarutobi.
And he isn’t alone in his own head. A single page appears in his mind like an official report, cold and clinical, listing five measures that will decide everything: authority, diplomacy, military strength, the economy, and education. Raise them, and Konoha rises with him. Fail, and the village goes down with the Third.
So Hiruzen does what he’s always done best: he takes control.
It starts with the biggest ticking bomb on his doorstep. “Orochimaru,” he tells him, steady and certain, “you’ve always been the student I’m proudest of.”
From there, the plan only grows sharper, faster, more ruthless.
Does he believe in the Will of Fire? He does now. Because Konoha isn’t going to survive by coasting.
Recruit the geniuses. Overhaul the system. Turn “miracle” health tonics into a weapon that bleeds the nobles and bankrolls the village. Make Konoha the shinobi world’s beacon. Pull the Hyuga and Uchiha into one direction instead of letting them tear the village apart.
Support the civilians. Push technology forward. Develop a universal “Hashirama vaccine.” Even the impossible starts sounding like policy.
Revive Tobirama in an Uchiha body?
If it keeps Konoha standing, it’s on the table.
When Hiruzen steps onto the Hokage Tower and looks down at the sea of faces, the roar that rises up could crack stone.
“In the name of the Hokage,” he declares, “we’re making Konoha great again.”
