The arduous and trivial task of properly settling and managing the more than 200 Uchiha clan members who were rescued and joined the [Cinder] organization fell almost entirely on Hizashi and Shisui, who busied themselves with it from start to finish.
Although Menma felt a bit guilty about dumping all the burden on them, he was truly at a loss.
This was because Menma was completely clueless about how to manage an organization of over two hundred people, allocate resources, soothe emotions, plan for the future, and other such matters.
Moreover, the Menma appearing here was always just a Shadow Clone and couldn't maintain his presence at the Land of Hot Springs base for long. Therefore, he continued to comfortably act as a hands-off boss, only giving instructions on major directions.
As the second core combat member of the [Cinder] organization, Shisui proactively took on important responsibilities. Using his understanding of the Uchiha and his past Konoha Anbu experience, he carefully selected a group of young adults from these clan members who had outstanding ninja talent and relatively reliable temperaments.
Following Menma's instruction that "we need to build our own armed forces," Shisui reorganized and rigorously trained these selected Uchiha ninja, forming an elite unit loyal to the [Cinder] organization, with equipment and training methods modeled after the Konoha Anbu.
Naturally, in addition to his identity as the second combatant of the [Cinder] organization, Shisui gained a new title—Captain of the [Cinder] Anbu.
He was responsible for commanding this nascent force, guarding the base, collecting intelligence, and potentially executing special missions in the future.
As for the Uchiha civilians who had not awakened their Sharingan or had no ninja talent, and their families, Hizashi leveraged his connections and influence cultivated over many years in the Land of Hot Springs, skillfully integrating them in batches into various industries in the bustling hot spring town of the Land of Hot Springs.
Some went to work as waitstaff in inns, some went to learn cooking in restaurants, and others were responsible for material transportation and management... allowing them to remain with their families and start new lives in a foreign land in a relatively peaceful and stable manner.
Fortunately, the Uchiha clan members rescued this time were mostly peace-loving doves and civilians who sought a quiet life.
After learning the truth about the clan massacre and the darkness of the Konoha higher-ups from Shisui, they felt immense anger and heartbreak, but also gratitude for the [Cinder] organization's helping hand and a desire to stay away from conflict and live peacefully.
There were no extremists who, upon learning the truth, clamored for revenge against Konoha and the destruction of everything; perhaps those with such thoughts had all died that night.
Then there was Kakuzu, this "old fossil" from the era of the First Hokage, whose activities took an unexpected turn in the years after joining the [Cinder] organization.
Can doing business really be this profitable…
This was almost Kakuzu's most genuine and shocking realization over the past few years. Although he was a bounty hunter with the formidable strength of a Kage-level ninja, he was not inherently a bloodthirsty or warlike individual. For him, combat and killing were merely means to accumulate wealth.
As long as he could earn massive amounts of money stably and efficiently, he was not averse to changing his line of work.
When he first saw the staggering quarterly profit report submitted by Hizashi regarding the Land of Hot Springs's hot spring town and its associated industries, his green eyes widened in rare astonishment!
To personally control and experience the pleasure of seemingly mass-producing money, this nearly century-old Ninja World renegade, for the first time ever, seriously began to learn business management and financial investment from scratch!
With his extraordinary learning ability and insights accumulated over a long life, he quickly demonstrated astonishing talent in this area.
In addition to proactively taking over the management of the organization's increasingly vast businesses, he also "naturally" and almost domineeringly took it upon himself to manage the entire [Cinder] organization's cash flow.
Initially, Hizashi was deeply concerned about this, constantly worrying whether this financial manager with a "record" might one day suddenly abscond with all the funds.
However, as time passed, Kakuzu's almost obsessive professionalism, meticulousness, and even stinginess in "making money" and "managing money" utterly shocked Hizashi.
He meticulously accounted for the flow of every single coin, managed the organization's finances in perfect order, and even continuously increased the capital through various investment methods.
In this way, the burden on Hizashi's shoulders was significantly lightened... except that whenever he needed to apply for funds for certain projects, facing Kakuzu's reluctant and heartbroken expression, as if his flesh were being cut and his blood drained, even emanating faint traces of danger, still made Hizashi's scalp tingle.
By now, Kakuzu seemed to feel that merely managing money was not enough to fully expend his excess energy.
Perhaps also to better "protect" the organization's assets and ensure that these expensive "combat tools" were worth their value, he added a new task for himself—training the Uchiha clan members of the [Cinder] Anbu.
His justification was: "Only ninja who survive and can complete missions are valuable and worth every penny the organization spends on them!"
Furthermore, regarding the special room deep within the [Cinder] organization's underground base, meticulously guarded by multiple barriers and physical mechanisms... there lay Menma's most astonishing "harvest" from the Uchiha clan massacre night.
The room was dimly lit, with only rows of specialized nutrient tanks emitting a faint green glow. Inside each tank, a crimson eye with black tomoe silently floated—these were dozens of Sharingan with tomoe taken from the Uchiha hawk faction members.
However, what was truly unsettling were the three even more exquisite and luxurious containers, isolated in the very center of the room.
They contained three pairs of existences that could be called treasures of the Ninja World—three pairs of Mangekyo Sharingan.
They belonged to Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku, and... Uchiha Mikoto, who had unexpectedly awakened and then lost hers.
These three pairs of eyes varied in form, with complex and eerie patterns, and even separated from their original bodies, they still emitted powerful Yin Release Chakra fluctuations.
Naruto had a clear plan for these three treasures. First, their primary use was to prepare for Satsuki's potential future need for an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan evolution.
Of course, he was not stingy. He knew very well that awakening an Eternal Mangekyo only required one pair of Mangekyo from a blood relative as "nourishment." Therefore, he explicitly told Shisui that he could choose one pair from these three Mangekyo that best suited him or that he most wanted to use.
Naruto himself did not possess Uchiha blood and could not truly unleash the full power of the Mangekyo Sharingan. In his opinion, using resources on a top Uchiha combatant like Shisui was the optimal solution for "spending money where it counts."
As for the most special and dangerous pair, containing Kotoamatsukami, Shisui's own Mangekyo Sharingan, it was never placed in this collection room.
It had always been personally kept by Naruto, sealed within a specialized, small scroll. He had applied layers upon layers of extremely complex sealing jutsu to this scroll.
Under the isolation of these multiple seals, even Shisui himself, at such a close distance, could not perceive the fluctuations of the ocular power that originated from him.