Within Sunagakure, Kazekage Building.
As night fell, candlelight was lit in the conference room.
The conference room is large, the round table in the middle is even larger, and the dim lights are not enough to light up the entire conference room.
Baki noticed the dim conference room. He frowned slightly and cursed secretly that he hadn't been back for a few days. How could the ninja in the village be so lazy?
Seeing this, he reached out and grabbed the waiter who was passing by to light the candle, and asked, "Hey! Why don't you turn on the light?"
The ninja immediately recognized Baki and patiently explained in a low voice, "Master Baki, there is not much fuel in the village anymore, so we can only save a little."
"This"
Baki spoke after a pause, and his gloomy complexion suddenly relaxed, and he even felt a little ashamed.
Is the village's finances already in such dire straits? Do you need to save electricity even in conference rooms?
"Baki!" Chiyo from the opposite side called him.
Baki let the waiter go and looked back at the old-looking Grandmother Chiyo.
"Is Konoha's Uzumaki Naruto really that difficult to deal with?" Chiyo's cloudy old eyes stared at him, waiting for the answer to this question.
In an instant, more people looked over.
After the failure of [Konoha Collapse Plan] that day, Sunagakure couldn't even get any news. It was only in the next day's "Shinobi World Daily" that the plan failed.
By the way, I learned about the deeds of Uzumaki Naruto.
Defeated dozens of Sunagakure ninjas in an instant, defeated First Hokage and Second Hokage, and was named "Ninja God!"
Regarding the content of this news, in fact, Sunagakure's senior executives have more doubts. Even Chiyo, if her brother hadn't buried a secret clue and could get part of the information, she would not believe this kind of thing.
Even now, Chiyo finds it unbelievable.
Baki, as the leader of this attack on Konoha and a person who has witnessed it, naturally should know the most about Konoha and Uzumaki Naruto.
Therefore, everyone is eager to know what happened at the Chunin Ninja Exams scene at that time?
"This."
Being watched so eagerly by so many people, especially the elders of Kirigakure, Baki felt a little stressed for a while.
After a moment of relief, he chose to explain truthfully.
"I'm afraid. It's even harder to deal with than what's in the newspaper!"
As soon as the words came out, everyone in the senior management was a little in disbelief.
"Nani?"
"That kid is only twelve years old, is he really that strong?"
"How could there be someone who could defeat a strong man like First Hokage?"
Bang~~~
"That's enough!" Chiyo slammed the table and shouted loudly.
Those old eyes scanned the surroundings coldly, and the discussion suddenly became smaller and smaller, until it finally disappeared.
Phew~
Chiyo took a deep breath, soothing the dull chest that was almost out of breath. She was not a good-tempered person to begin with, and even had a bad temper.
She has already reached the age of retirement. Because of the death of her son and daughter-in-law and the defection of her grandson, she does not want to get involved in the management of Sunagakure.
However, reality had to force her to this step.
Just hearing Baki's answer almost made her breathless.
"What else? Tell me more specifically about the situation at that time." Chiyo's old eyes flashed sharply.
"The situation was extremely critical at that time. We originally planned to have One-Tail from Gaara take the lead, but the situation was beyond our expectations." Baki described the situation in detail.
Everyone around was listening quietly.
What a petite body, but he beat One-Tail Shukaku with his fists.
Just listening to the scene described, everyone present was speechless and in disbelief.
Is this guy still a human being?
"Later, Uchiha Obito suddenly escaped. In order to win, I could only choose to lead as many people as possible to attack Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. At that time, we had more than fifty ninjas and a dozen Jonin all attacking Uzumaki Naruto. Unexpectedly."
Baki sighed deeply, even if he recalled the original scene again at this moment, he still had lingering fear.
The low voice took a deep breath to suppress the panic and continued, "I didn't expect that Uzumaki Naruto in the center would instantly kill all of us with a flash of light."
"Until now, I had no idea what was going on."
Baki, who had lowered his head to explain, suddenly raised his head, his eyes extremely sincere.
"Grandmother Chiyo, Uzumaki Naruto are really too strong. They are simply too powerful to defeat. Unless..."
Thinking of Uchiha Obito who escaped, Baki stopped talking.
He sincerely felt that with such a powerful Uzumaki Naruto, and subsequent victories over Orochimaru and First Hokage Second Hokage, even if Uchiha Obito came, the result would not be certain.
"This is today's latest newspaper, take a look." Chiyo asked the waiter to hand the newspaper in her hand to Baki.
This is a copy of "Shinobi World Daily".
After taking it, the title above caught Baki's eyes.
"Uzumaki Naruto was defeated?" His expression was extremely shocked, and he couldn't stop opening his mouth.
How could a strong man like Uzumaki Naruto be defeated by others? It's unbelievable!
"That's right, defeated by Itachi Uchiha. Even though it was just a miserable defeat!"
Chiyo's vicissitudes of voice sounded, "Although [Konoha Collapse Plan] failed this time, our plan did not go wrong, but there were some unexpected changes. We did not expect that Uchiha Obito would betray us."
"Have we issued a reward for the traitor Obito?" Baki asked.
Chiyo glared at him and pursed his lips.
They Sunagakure are already so poor that they are heartbroken, how can they still have the money to post Uchiha Obito's bounty?
If we have this money, why not light up the conference room?
This Baki!
No wonder Jonin has only been able to serve as a team leader for many years.
"We'll talk about this later."
Glancing at the crowd, Chiyo said again, "This person Uzumaki Naruto has become the biggest threat to Shinobi World's peace!"
"Unless this person is removed, Shinobi World will not be able to have true peace. We Sunagakure will have no future, and Shinobi World will have no future!
Regarding this, I will write a secret letter to other Three Great Nations shadows, so that we can try to reach an agreement. "
Chiyo sharply pointed out, "If you want to get rid of this person, you cannot do it with Sunagakure's power alone, unless you have the support of foreign aid."
"According to the intelligence, this person Itachi Uchiha is a member of Akatsuki Organization and accepted the task of employment, but"
Having said this, Chiyo paused while tapping his finger on the newspaper, "Everyone here at Sunagakure should know about our situation. The most important problem at the moment is that the village's money is no longer enough for us Sunagakure to continue operating."
In this case, Chiyo even made some beautifications.
The actual situation is more critical.
Only after Chiyo came to power did we learn about Sunagakure's financial difficulties.
It was okay when Rasa was there before. Rasa could sell the Gold Dust extracted through the desert to help the village's financial crisis. But after this [Konoha Collapse Plan], Rasa died tragically and a large number of Sunagakure's ninjas were captured.
The ransom and compensation have made Sunagakure's finances miserable, and it is already on the verge of collapse.
Sunagakure's finances have been in bad shape ever since the relationship with Daimyo of the Land of Wind broke down, but it's rare that it could collapse at any time like now.
Chiyo knows very well: As one of Five Great Shinobi Villages, Sunagakure may cease to exist if you are not careful!
This was really hard for her to accept!
After working hard for Sunagakure all your life, when you get old, you have to watch Sunagakure become an unknown little shinobi village?
Hearing Chiyo's words, everyone present nodded silently. Except for a few ninjas, they all knew the economic situation of Sunagakure at this time.
Village! Going bankrupt soon!
Because Sunagakure is too poor, it is relatively harmonious internally and there are not many factions.
Therefore, after a frank meeting and in-depth exchanges with Sunagakure's senior management, they finally agreed on a unified opinion: the hatred of Konoha and Uzumaki Naruto should be put aside first.
After all, Uzumaki Naruto is in the limelight at the moment, and Sunagakure is prepared to avoid its edge and ambush first.
The current goal is to gather the strength of the whole village to make money.
As for how to make money?
Gold Dust Sell it if you can!
Iron Sand Sell it if you can!
Of course, the above are only temporary relief methods, the most important thing is to grab it! Go and plunder!
Target?
Naturally, Shinobi World is the richest, but Land of Lightning no longer has 'nuclear weapons'!
What morality?
What reputation?
It's not as important as filling your stomach!