Bastard! The Akatsuki actually refused! Are they that rich right now?
The Raikage, A, slammed his fan-sized palm onto the desk with a loud bang, leaving a clear handprint indented directly into the solid wood.
"Can you calm down, A!" Tsunade's forehead throbbed with bulging veins. "This Long-Distance Telescope Technique was passed down from the Third! Smash my furniture and I'll go to the Land of Lightning and tear down your Raikage Office!"
"Calm down my ass!" A was so furious his hair stood straight up, lightning crackling and flashing violently all around his body.
"I finally hoped this bounty would patch the hole in our military budget, and those Akatsuki rogue ninja actually turned it down? Were they raised on northwest wind?"
Meanwhile, in the Land of Earth!
"Damn it, what kind of joke is this? Did they grow a brain?"
He muttered in dissatisfaction, pounding his cane heavily against the ground. "Didn't they say there was a guy who loved money so much he'd flip through a dead man's wallet three times? Is that guy dead?"
"In my opinion, it's that the Akatsuki are afraid of the Empire of Heaven!" Kazekage Gaara spoke coldly, sand flowing slowly around him. "Destroying two nations in ten days—such speed is something even we Five Great Nations might not be able to achieve."
"Afraid? What do they have to do to be afraid!"
A struck his chest, making the desk rattle from the shock. "Isn't it just a newly established small country? With me here, I can punch that so-called leader's head right off!"
"That's right, that's right!!"
The Jonin beside the Raikage immediately hurried over to butter him up, bending his waist like a dried shrimp. "Lord Raikage, you are the strongest man in the Ninja World! Back then, you punched