After the three Team 7 reunited with Teacher Jiraiya, they took the original Kirigakure ship and started their return journey.
Not only the three Team 7, but also three businessmen from Land of Waves were also on board.
"From now on, Land of Waves can issue tasks to Konoha, and can also issue tasks to Kirigakure. There is no need to worry about any retaliation from regular Ninja Village." Torifu Akimichi said to the merchants of Land of Waves.
As for being deceived and led into an ambush before, Akimichi Clan didn't mention it at all.
After all, this kind of conflict is not decided by Land of Waves people at all. They will still be employers in the future.
"By the way, we have also returned your ship to Land of Waves. The pirates marked in the mission have been completely destroyed by us." Jiraiya emphasized in particular.
"Thank you so much. Konoha's ninja is indeed the most reliable! In the future... please take care of me!" After this experience, Land of Waves's businessman obviously trusts Konoha Ninja more.
After all, those guys at Kirigakure...
Not only are the pirates basically from Kirigakure, but they also almost use themselves as hostages and coercion objects!
After appeasing the three business representatives of Land of Waves, Jiraiya and Torifu Akimichi also learned from Team 7 what had happened at the Land of Whirlpools site in the past few days.
Afterwards...
Akaseki vividly described to Teacher Jiraiya and Akimichi Clan Jonin the stories of "one fire breaks eight waters", "bravely rescued Ranwu", "wisdom defeated Kaguya"...!
"Of course, thanks to Minato for discovering the enemy, and Ranwu... carrying my tactics behind my back." Akaseki added in the end.
Jiraiya:...
Good guy, I don't know if I thought that Minato is the telescope in your hand, Ranwu is your mount... They are all your invincible pendants, right?
Ranwu naturally glared at him, while Minato smiled and said nothing.
Jiraiya rubbed his head, and after roughly figuring out the real situation, he asked Akaseki: "Is your eye really okay?"
"Well, Dojutsu Power can recover to 80%, he is just injured." Akaseki nodded.
"That's good... I'll find Tsunade when you go back and give you some treatment." Jiraiya was completely relieved.
Ranwu bit his lip at this moment.
Speaking of this matter, Ranwu didn't bother complaining about Akaseki's Chunqiu calligraphy. Instead, he was more eager to return to the village quickly... and asked his cousin Medical Ninjutsu for advice!
Ranwu The reason why Medical Ninjutsu had not started before was certainly because of his lack of talent, but...
It's not that talent can't learn Medical Ninjutsu. In fact, Tsunade has always wanted to teach Ranwu - even if it can only heal itself, there is always more hope of saving one's life.
It's just because Ranwu's talent for Medical Ninjutsu... or rather his talent for "Yang Release Chakra transformation" is not as good as Water Style's talent for chakra transformation, so I have never been interested in Medical Ninjutsu.
However, after having actual combat experience, especially this kind of "battlefield experience", Ranwu suddenly realized that what sister Tsunade said makes sense!
Jiraiya and Akimichi Clan then asked Akaseki to find out more about the corpse he finally returned to Kirigakure.
"So that's it. He died at the hands of his teammates. Did the opponent still shout something like "Shinobi Clan's bastard" at that time..." Jiraiya wanted to say "well done", but thinking about Akaseki it was too Uchiha Clan and not positive enough, so he swallowed it back and changed his words: "Also respect the enemy, that's good."
Seeing Teacher Jiraiya pretending to be stupid, Akaseki didn't expose it, but couldn't help but ask, "Teacher Jiraiya, did you and Akimichi Clan Jonin encounter an ambush?"
"Well, so... when ninjas are on missions, they may encounter anything. Torifu and I were careless this time." Jiraiya is not afraid to use himself as a negative example.
"Then... how did you and Akimichi Clan Jonin escape and see Mizukage?" Akaseki asked curiously.
Jiraiya said while looking at the sky, "We were ambushed... but the ambush was not strong enough."
Akaseki:...
So...
The most important thing for a ninja is to be strong enough!
"We found that among the ninjas who ambush us, in addition to the traitorous ninjas of Kirigakure that we originally knew, there are also some who do not seem to be traitorous ninjas...
"Actually, we didn't see Mizukage, but after we captured them, when Yamanaka searched their memories, they inspired the Cursed Seal of "Water Mirror Technique" left by Mizukage, so through this Cursed Seal, we contacted Mizukage."
Sure enough, although Inoichi Yamanaka is only one year older than Akaseki, it can already directly search the target's memory!
Akaseki estimates that among those ninjas, there should be existences similar to "Kirigakure Anbu". They have Cursed Seal left by Mizukage in their minds. On the one hand, it is to prevent leaks. On the other hand, because of the effect of "Water Mirror Technique", they can use it to contact Mizukage.
The "consensus" mentioned by Torifu Akimichi and Jiraiya before was not just talk...
As two people, although they cannot reach an agreement directly with Mizukage, it is more than enough to obtain a preliminary consensus. They also understand Konoha and the current situation.
For Konoha, at this moment, it can "expand the scope of influence" and achieve the strategic goal. You can show Iwagakure and Kumogakure that Konoha is still the strongest hidden village!
As for Sunagakure...
There is no need to hold out hope, those poor people are already crazy poor.
However, if we really want to start a full-scale war with Kirigakure, it will undoubtedly not be in the interests of Konoha, so this is just fine now.
Unless Hidden Mist Village tears up the agreement and goes to war, a new peace agreement will be reached with Konoha based on this initial consensus.
"Teacher Jiraiya, Kirigakure, what is going on now? That Karatachi, do you know who he is?" Akaseki asked curiously.
"You can ask Yamanaka directly. This is not confidential information," Jiraiya said after looking at the Akimichi Clan.
Obviously, the information should have been collected by Inoichi Yamanaka.
Jiraiya and Torifu probably had other things to discuss. They entered the cabin, and then all Team 7 looked at Yamanaka curiously.
Although Kirigakure had a ninja battle before, Team 7 lacked the ability to obtain information, so we still don't know what happened.
Yamanaka saw the three people looking at him, because of what Jiraiya said before leaving, so he didn't hide it...
"Land of Water is now basically like Warring States Period before there was no Hidden Village. Third Mizukage is only in name, still occupying Kirigakure and serving as the ninja leader of Land of Water.
"But in fact, various places have begun to use families as units to attack each other. Basically, there are only Commoner Ninja in Kirigakure. There are also disputes between Kirigakure and other major families.
"Karatachi Genso is the newly powerful master Factions among Land of Water, and unlike other ninjas, he calls on Commoner Ninja and The Shinobi Clan ninjas coexist harmoniously and have impressed many Shinobi Clans. Many Commoner Ninjas in Kirigakures also support him. It is said that... he is about to become Third Mizukages.
"It's just that the current "Master Mizukage"... If he really had such a big heart, Land of Water wouldn't be what he is now, would he?" Yamanaka said the last word with some sarcasm.
This operation was carried out by Karatachi's subordinates. The rebel ninja who was recruited also defected to Karatachi, but...Yamanaka activated the Cursed Seal left by Mizukage in the mind of one of them. It can be seen that Mizukage was very wary of it and even sent people to lurk.