Senju Kyogawa and the others' original plans had been completely disrupted.
For the moment, they had no idea what the Daimyo of the Land of Fire was up to.
In any case, this had come far too suddenly, and no one was in a good mood.
Even as an "outsider," Senju Kyogawa would never believe that this inexplicable invitation would bring any benefit to the Senju clan.
"Father, what exactly does the Daimyo of the Land of Fire want this time? Inviting us to his place as 'guests' for no reason at all—no matter how I think about it, something feels wrong..." Senju Tobirama asked Senju Butsuma with a grave expression. He feared that something the Senju clan had done had angered the Daimyo of the Land of Fire.
Yet Senju Butsuma was genuinely at a loss as well. He truly did not understand what the Daimyo of the Land of Fire was plotting.
In the past, ninjas and nobles had maintained a relatively stable balance—
Ninjas were the sharp blades in a daimyo's hand. When two nations went to war, ninjas were the first to take the field. Thus, the strength and standing of a nation's ninjas often represented the strength and standing of its daimyo and its country.
Meanwhile, the daimyo served as a great mountain that sheltered ninjas in these troubled times, providing them with a place to live and a foothold—though this was precisely what Senju Kyogawa could not understand. Why could ninjas, who wielded extraordinary ninjutsu and chakra, not break away from the daimyo? Why were they willing to become "blades" in the daimyo's hands?
No matter what, Senju Kyogawa had not grown up in this era, and his values had long since been shaped—he was a true successor of socialism. Thus, from beginning to