To tell you the truth, with all my past memories and foreknowledge of future events in this world I still, somehow, got it all wrong!

All this time I’ve tried to optimize my “conquest plan” in such a way, that there will be minimal reasons for conflict and bloodshed.

All according to first objective - to minimize future chances of my enslavement.

I never forgot how in “canon” version of Narutoverse history First Hokage, Hashirama, using his wife knowledge - Uzumaki seals, was able to seal almost all of the Bijous in a world and turn them into humanity’s most powerful weapons.

Work done by one man, could be repeated by another...

He did it for “peace”, to create power balance, based on possible mutual destruction.

Geopolitical system very similar to what was in 20-th century, during Cold War.

But it’s internally flawed: constant conflict and, as a result, constant improvement is deeply engraved instinct in all humankind.

You don’t create balance - it is impossible, you try to limit conflict and in doing so, you limit your rate of improvement, gaining better stability for the system, in short term.

For humanity as one - it was reasonable at that time - nuclear holocaust would have destroyed everyone.

But “balanced geopolitical system” is just another way of killing conservative opponent, just slowly, with minimal resources.

As example, from my first life - Soviet Union, it struggled and it had lost, all because it had more conservative system, with slower rate of improvement, compared to it’s opponent - US. That just meant that in a long run power balance will shift to US.

Same story happened in Narutoverse, but with magical powers, shinoby bloodlines and ancient demons.

Some villages were less conservative in RsD budgets, got more powerful magicians (chakra techniques users) and demanded more resources. Thats how First Shinoby War came to be.

As Naruto fan I always thought that Uchiha clan massacre - was a direct result of Second Hokage brother’s efforts, creator of Kage Bunchin no jutsu, Tobirama, saw a way how to slowly kill his opponents without wasting a lot of resources-isolate them, make them more conservative and in 50 years slaughter what’s left, or whatever.

He even indoctrinated hate of Uchiha into one of his pupils - Danzo Shimura, to make sure that his hateful opponents, during clan wars, will be properly dealt with. Quite thoughtful guy, in my opinion.

It was always said that he was true pillar for creation of Konoha, while concept was Hashirama’s and older brother did have godly levels of power, the younger one was the main character. “Shadow cardinal” I guess..

So I was always kind of filling anxious about part of my plan, where I “steal” Konoha initiative from Senju brothers and them I will have to use older one to recruit Madara...

A lot of risks there... In my previous life memories, integration of Senju and Uchiha started because of friendship between Hashirama and Madara. This friendship came to be when they were around 25 years old I guess.. I wasn’t sure, so decided to initiate with my visit to Hashirama’s 20-th birthday.

So imagine how I felt, when at age of 15 Hashirama, his brother Tobirama and Uchiha Madara with his brother Izuna came to visit.

I was so anxious that fox ears again appeared on my human form, I haven’t lost control like this for 100 years (yeah, yeah, first few decades my human form had fox ears, until my chakra control improved to the point, where I could change into red head human completely).

It turned out that I worried for nothing.

Let me stop here and tell you about my “3 Aburame projects” results: they were way more brilliant, than I could have ever imagined!

I never could have predicted, how much medieval people wanted living deity to make their life conditions better! I thought elites will compete with me for power and only carefully done deals with a lot of sharing power will give me more subordinate shinoby clans and city states..

But I was wrong! They were like waiting for me to make a move. To prevent famine, to save their children from diseases, radical improvement in quality of life, because of sharing knowledge in all sectors, huge rise to trade and infrastructure projects like paved roads, etc, etc..

They’ve never imagined it possible. Actually, they mostly wanted protection like Aburame and I gave them so much...

In ten years since start of my “Aburame projects” first city state officially asked me to rule them. Like with no conditions, just please come and rule.

5 years later I had no more adult Aburame members to send as my representatives to form local governments of future Republic...

I implemented ranking system inside Aburame clan(mostly copied from Hashiramas ideas):

First rank, Genin, can read and write, know calculation, chakra control on a level where one element is fully controlled, 3 basic jutsu, 2 types of hives inside the body and medical knowledge enough to use “healing palm” jutsu.

Second rank, Chunin, chakra control on a level, where two elements is fully studied, a lot of jutsus, profound knowledge in medical studies, pretty good competence in both Management and Marketing.

Third rank, Jounin, let’s just say there were only two Jounin-level chakra users in Aburame clan at the moment, when meeting with Hashirama and Madara took place. I will say, that in my classification Jounin-level of power is someone comparable to Tobirama.

It is hard to project, but i believe that in this Universe there will be at least 3 more ranks:

Fourth rank, Demi-God, where immortality starts, if wanted - it’s where I, with all my knowledge, Hashirama, Madara and other Narutoverse heavyweights stand.

Fifth rank, God-level, AI who gained personality and motivation to improve itself and went over technological singularity, goddess Kagyua in full strength... I don’t know, can only theoretically guess..

Sixth rank, Cosmic Being, i read some marvel novels, so if there is magic and immortality, that means some really incomprehensivly powerful beings are possible, like Doctor Manhattan, for example, or Thanos..

So, back to business with Senju-Madara coalition.

Everything was explained in Hashirama monologue...