Negotiation

Land of Rain, Six Paths City.

After Orochimaru led his team into the city, they were quickly received by Ninshu.

Ninshu was, after all, the Land of Rain's official ninja force. Before Orochimaru and the others arrived, Hiruzen Sarutobi had already contacted Ninshu and expressed his desire to resolve the matter through negotiations.

However, the Konoha ninja on the negotiating team did not relax because of this.

They knew that Konoha's demands were somewhat excessive from Ninshu's perspective. Their objective guaranteed that these negotiations would not be easy.

Considering that Orochimaru and the others had traveled a long distance and were exhausted from the journey, Ninshu first had them taken to the reception area to rest and informed them of the specific time for the negotiations.

After resting for a while, Orochimaru gathered the members of the negotiating team for a meeting and reiterated several points that required attention.

"Our attitude must be firm. Show them the bearing of the strongest Ninja Village," Orochimaru said.

If they wanted Sōsuke to accept their terms, they had to apply enough pressure.

So even though Konoha could not easily deploy troops in reality, they had to project the attitude of, If you dare refuse, we'll send a massive force to crush you.

I wonder whether Ninshu in the original history was destroyed because of this, Shisui thought.

From the history Yamato had learned about in the future, aside from Mu Yue's death, there were three other major events worth noting: the Nine-Tails Attack that caused Konoha devastating losses, the brutal Uchiha Clan Massacre, and the evil Akatsuki that ran rampant through the ninja world.

According to their deductions, Mu Yue's death should have been changed.

As for the remaining three events, their intention was to change them if they could, doing their best