This Is for Peace (Third Update)

The spacious, brightly lit conference room.

Naruto was already seated in the seat of honor.

He still wore the Hokage Cloak from before, having merely set the Snow Shadow Hat aside. Standing behind him was Xinghuo, the strongest member of Naruto's Shadow Guard. Neji and Fushimi sat to his left and right. Aside from them, the vast conference room was empty. Before long, the representatives of the Five Great Shinobi Villages' delegations arrived one after another, led in by Snow Ninjas. The instant they stepped into the room, Naruto's calm expression met their eyes—and with it came a crushing pressure that seemed not to exist, yet felt impossibly heavy.

The representatives' expressions all shifted slightly.

In terms of individual strength, even the weakest among them—Ao, Shikaku, and Samui—were on the level of an ordinary Jonin. Kitsuchi, Darui, and Kakashi could all be said to have reached Kage Level. Setting aside Kakashi, the Copy Ninja who seemed able to go toe-to-toe with anyone, Kitsuchi and Darui were genuine Kage-level fighters. Kitsuchi especially: aside from Dust Release, he could do everything the Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, could do. As far back as ten years ago, Kitsuchi had been widely recognized in the Shinobi World as the next Tsuchikage. No one knew why Ōnoki still held on to the position.

But the other villages had all instinctively regarded Kitsuchi as the Fourth Tsuchikage.

It was a clear acknowledgment of Kitsuchi's strength!

Any one of these people would have been famous throughout the Shinobi World. (Samui might have been a little less well-known.) Yet now, facing Naruto—a boy not even fifteen years old—they felt a sudden unease deep within themselves.

Though the feeling was extremely faint,

it was still enough to make all their expressions change.

Naruto hadn't released any chakra, yet they could feel