BBQ Restaurant!
An establishment owned by the Akimichi Clan and also one of the most profitable businesses on Konoha's commercial street.
Shikaku Nara invited the clan heads and elite jounin of the various major clans in Konoha to gather at the BBQ restaurant to jointly discuss the candidate for the new Hokage.
Why not talk business in the Hokage's conference room? Because he was neither the Hokage nor a Hokage advisor, and using the conference room privately carried the suspicion of overstepping his bounds.
Why not discuss things within his own clan? He was afraid that if talks broke down, his own home would get smashed to pieces.
Discussing matters at the BBQ restaurant meant Shikaku Nara didn't have to worry about them smashing the place up.
The Akimichi Clan wasn't worried either; if the shop got wrecked, as long as clan members weren't injured or killed, they could simply demand compensation for the damage.
Konoha had a large number of jounin, but the ones Shikaku Nara had summoned this time were elite jounin and ninja clan heads, so the BBQ restaurant's rooms were easily able to hold them.
The negotiations were proceeding very poorly. With three distinct factions, it was extremely difficult for them to reach a consensus in their ideology.
However,
Shikaku Nara's goal had already been achieved.
Could he not have known that it would be impossible to achieve a unified opinion this time?
His primary purpose for this discussion was to express his own attitude, as well as the attitudes of others.
The moment Shikaku Nara directly stated that as long as they could produce a plan to appease the Uchiha Clan, he didn't care about anyone's rhetoric regarding who would ascend to the position, both the Senju faction and the Sarutobi faction fell silent.
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