"Rejected?!"
"Isn't that only natural? What village leader would go to another ninja village to buy insurance?" Lord Hanzō rolled his eyes and looked at Kusana with irritation. "For a ninja village, that's practically an insult!"
He paused thoughtfully. "What should we do now?" His tone became eager. "How about... taking down Sunagakure! We can replace them directly and become one of the Five Great Ninja Villages!"
However.
As soon as he finished speaking.
Kusana looked at Hanzō with a solemn expression. "What do you mean, 'take them down'? I need to criticize you properly here. We are a respectable ninja village.
At the same time, we are a good ninja village that loves peace and safeguards peace. And Sunagakure is currently our ally. We share a deep friendship. The relationship between Kusagakure and Sunagakure can be traced back to the early days of the ninja villages..."
"Isn't that Konoha?"
"Believe it or not, if we wanted to, Kusagakure could claim deep friendships with all Five Great Ninja Villages! Back then, we had close cooperation with every one of them!"
"..."
How could he say something so shameless?
Hanzō's eyelid twitched. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Then what should we do next?"
"What do we do? Do some business, of course!" Kusana looked at Hanzō. "We happen to have a batch of old-fashioned ninja tools in the village that needs clearing out."
Then he let out a sentimental sigh.
After the Nine-Tails Rebellion, they had acquired a huge batch, but they had not managed to sell it all. And over the past few years... Kusagakure had accumulated quite a few more old-fashioned ninja tools.
Fight!
If they did not fight... how could Kusagakure grow stronger and overthrow the Five Great Ninja Villages?
"While we're at it, ask Sunagakure