Board Thread:Fanon Canon 2/@comment-2185383-20140924182221/@comment-24384232-20140928021206

he Yondaime sacrificed his own son knowing he would be treated like shit in the village. He did that for the greater good, for the good of his village. He sacrificed any semblance of a normal childhood his own son could have had. And he did this knowingly.

Ninja at the very core of it are mercenary's. They are paid by contract to perform a service. Do you think that these contracts aren't unsavory? Sometimes ninja of a village are required to assassinate, frame, butcher and ruin the lives of perfectly good and innocent people simply because someone with the money wanted it to happen. Kage are Kage because they did these missions for the village. They killed more people. They destroyed so many lives all for the "good" of their village.

A Kage is expected to make decisions like this every day. They may be required to send their subordinates into a dangerous situation knowing they are going to die. Hiruzen is old, one of the oldest Kage's in the series. Are you implying that he was able to avoid having to make any of these kinds of choices during the entire time he led Konoha through not one but three wars?

He had a choice. Konoha or the Uchiha Clan. He chose Konoha, and allowed an 11 year old boy to execute his entire family save for one. Because the alternative was war and the possible eradication of Konoha.