Shinobi World.
Land of Fire.
As the succession ceremony of Konoha Fifth Hokage gets closer, the entire Konoha atmosphere becomes lively, and Shinobi World's eyes are also focused.
But unlike the stormy tranquility before, Fugaku's actions are as high-profile as ever, holding fireworks celebrations basically every night, determined to let everyone remember the great day when he officially took office.
As Rasa of Sunagakure, Ōnoki of Iwagakure, and Ai of Kumogakure arrived at Konoha one after another, the atmosphere of the entire celebration was pushed to a climax.
In order to show his magnanimity, Fugaku rarely personally received the shadows from each village and welcomed their arrival.
Just like what he said, when people come, no matter what the reason is, Fugaku just assumes that they are here to participate in the celebration to give him face. As the organizer, he has to do his best to show off his appearance.
Ōnoki and the others did not find fault. After arriving at Konoha, they calmly waited for the celebration to begin. They did not even meet in private like they did when they came to sign the treaty.
Without him,
What should be discussed, what Should Not should discuss, had already been discussed when they gathered at Land of Fire Daimyo Estate.
Except that the newly appointed Mizukage didn't know the plan for Sun God Country, they already knew how to control the situation. They even felt that it didn't matter if Mizukage participated this time. If Kirigakure didn't join, they might get more benefits.
Now, even A, who had been beaten many times, showed an aura of having everything under control when he came to Konoha, completely losing the decadent feeling before.
This time, they stood up again!
But they are also curious, after losing the personal protection of Hyuga Hitoshi, what trump card can Hyuga Clan use to fight against their common power Five Great Nations?
Yes.
After Kirigakure and Konoha misfired and ignored Daimyo of their own country, Land of Water's Daimyo and In order to show his stance, Daimyo of Land of Fire also secretly hired rebellious ninjas like Akatsuki, and joined forces with other ninja villages, intending to avenge and retaliate.
Among them, the one who paid the most was the newly appointed Land of Fire Daimyo. He hated Hyuga Clan so much that he even collected taxes and fees in advance this time and issued a huge reward on the black market.
Moreover, the newly appointed Land of Fire Daimyo himself also came to Konoha in person.
Nothing else!
He just wanted to see if the person who killed his father was capable, and he also wanted to have a good talk with Konoha's Hokage in person to try to reach a settlement.
As Fugaku and Hyuga Hitoshi said, after losing the right to dictate to Konoha and losing the support of the Ninja Village, Land of Fire Daimyo's life was not easy. Even Guardian Ninja was taken back by Konoha. Now personal safety is a problem.
He also thought about supporting a separate ninja village to check and balance Konoha.
But everything takes time, and he doesn't have the confidence to build a village of ninja under Konoha's nose without being discovered. If something goes wrong at that time, it is very likely that Konoha will go completely crazy and his Daimyo will be destroyed.
So this time when we came here, Land of Fire Daimyo was prepared.
First, tentatively reconcile with Konoha, but it is absolutely impossible to make him bow his head and apologize as Fifth Hokage said.
Second, he plans to secretly form a force outside Land of Fire, and then forcefully announce that Land of Fire has established a new ninja village when it is almost developed. He has already thought of a name, and it will be called Flame Hidden Village!
Although the name is somewhat similar to Iwagakure, it highlights the characteristics of Land of Fire. The problem is not big. It all depends on whether Konoha understands it or not.
In short, as more and more people came to Konoha, the atmosphere in the village began to become weird.
Everyone has evil intentions, and they are all Shinobi World Hidden Dragon and Young Phoenix.
The situation in the village is quite complicated at the moment. I'm afraid Fugaku himself didn't expect that Konoha would attract so many clowns after reconstruction.
"My dad is really nothing! He still doesn't stop even after being laid off."
Konoha In the corner of the street, Sarutobi Asuma looked unhappy and his tone was full of confusion. After speaking, he took out a cigarette and handed it to Uchiha Itachi.
no way.
His old father, who had behaved quite calmly after being laid off, had been inadvertently spreading negative news about the Uchiha Clan for some reason recently.
However, Asuma didn't know that he had actually wronged his father. After all, it was Konoha's Second and Sarutobi Hiruzen who were now responsible for commanding the battle. It doesn't matter, and although Sarutobi himself knows that spreading negative news about Uchiha is useless, he doesn't dare to refute his mentor, nor does he dare to tell his mentor that he has used these methods himself.
If Sarutobi knew that he was hated by his son because he followed the teacher's orders, he would probably feel aggrieved.
Taking a puff of the cigarette, Brother Asuma's tone was full of hatred that iron cannot be transformed into steel.
"Can't he know something? There is nothing wrong with the village now!"
This is not entirely true, Brother Asuma.
Uchiha Itachi, who was squatting next to him, took the cigarette, lit it for himself skillfully, and squinted his eyes.
Since becoming familiar with Brother Asuma, he has instilled a lot of ethnic and village ideas into this man. He believes that Asuma has also listened to it and has been supervising the only remaining Sarutobi Clan. The look he looks at the Sarutobi Clan is exactly the same as the look he looks at Uchiha.
Asuma, on the other hand, reciprocated Uchiha Itachi's kindness by making his best friend learn to smoke and drink, half-coercively.
In this regard, although Uchiha Itachi is young, he is a man who can be rebellious enough to kill his own parents. It is not a big deal to learn these things. After all, he has been recognized by Asuma, and this second-hand smoke is really not as good as the first hand.
"You can't blame Lord Third entirely."
In the conscience of heaven and earth, God Wise Itachi is still honoring Sarutobi as Lord Third at this moment.
"My father is really a little too much. No matter how you look at it, the scale of Inauguration Ceremony this time is a bit supermodel. With my father's achievements, he is not qualified to hold such a grand celebration."
It is an extremely luxurious extravagance. If this money is used to build the village, it will surely make the previous reconstruction project better?
Uchiha Itachi sighed slightly, feeling that his father was too selfish and always enjoyed himself without caring about the village.
The future of Hokage village with such people is worrying.
"I object to this."
Asuma pondered for a moment and gave a different opinion.
Although he was transformed into a weasel and skunk, Asuma learned methods to target his own people, so the two of them often disagreed about the village and often discussed together.
"The village has just been rebuilt. It's not a big deal to hold a ceremony. It's all about clearing away the previous bad luck and combining Inauguration Ceremony with the reconstruction celebration. Haven't you seen that the villagers are smiling more recently?"
This is a good thing.
and
"And didn't Fifth Hokage come up with this money out of his own pocket? It didn't use the village's resources."
This is where Asuma recognizes Master Fugaku!
It was as if nothing could trouble him.
"That money."
Itachi scratched his head in embarrassment when he heard this. He almost blurted out that his father had sold a lot of land to buy it, converting Daimyo's land into money, and then used it to hold an unprecedented Hokage succession ceremony. This does not look like what a wise Hokage should do.
One thing to say. If the money was used to build a village, he wouldn't really have a big problem with it.
"Forget it, don't mention them."
Shaking his head and seeing Itachi's slightly embarrassed expression, the considerate Asuma said he would not discuss this issue again.
Anyway, he was unhappy with his father, and Itachi was unhappy with Itachi's father, so they were truly close friends and people of the same mind!
"Speaking of which, today seems to be the day that Mizukage arrives."
Standing up, Asuma dropped the cigarette butt, a trace of curiosity flashed in his eyes.
"This is the first time that Mizukage from Kirigakure has come to Konoha. This is considered a breakthrough. And I heard that the new Mizukage is a woman?"
Regardless of male or female, anyone who can become a movie should be respected except my father.
Itachi nodded and followed Brother Asuma to Village Entrance.
But what surprised both Asuma and Itachi was that the current scene seemed a bit grand compared to when they had previously welcomed Kage from other villages.
Ninja villages naturally have their own rules.
For example, Five Great Ninja Villages's shadow, because it gave Fugaku face, so Fugaku also chose to come out to greet him. As for the unimportant Small Ninja Village leaders, they just asked their subordinates to take care of them.
With the level of Mizukage, it was nothing for Fugaku to come to greet Village Entrance. He just looked around, and Itachi couldn't help but frowned.
Most of the village's top officials were here, and the guests who were supposed to be waiting in the village were all standing at Village Entrance, waiting for Mizukage's arrival.
This is very wrong.
It is impossible for Mizukage alone to have such a big reputation!
Itachi God looked solemn. Based on the previous rumors that Sun God Country Lord was about to visit, he had a guess.
Sure enough.
When Mizukage's luxury car appeared slowly from the end of the road, everyone's expressions changed subtly.
Nothing else.
On both sides of the car, in addition to the pattern representing Kirigakure, there were also strange tattoos of the family emblem of the Hyuga Clan!
Along with bursts of exclamations, the crowd gathered by Village Entrance also began a heated discussion.
The clan emblem of the Hyuga Clan has now been confirmed as the new totem of Sun God Country.
Engraving this thing on Mizukage's travel car, unless the person who made this thing is crazy, or the two parties have reached some kind of cooperation!
What's even more incomprehensible is that the Sun God Country mark is actually much larger than the Kirigakure symbol, so big that you can clearly see the priority at a glance!
"No wonder Hyuga Hitoshi is so confident, it turns out he hooked up with Kirigakure, one of Five Great Ninja Villages!"
"Kirigakure has been dormant for many years. Since the last invasion of Land of Fire failed, I heard that the Blood Mist era has begun. Regardless of the impact, just in terms of combat effectiveness and bloodthirsty, it is indeed not weak."
"So Sun God Country has reached a cooperation with Kirigakure? Does he plan to accept Land of Water's asylum in the future?"
"I don't know, if that's the case, what's the difference between this and Hyuga Hitoshi leading Hyuga Clan to join Kirigakure? What's the point of him recruiting small countries? Does he want all small countries to join Kirigakure? Isn't this funny?"
"I don't know what's going on yet, so I won't comment, but if Sun God Country can only show Kirigakure's trump card, it will be really disappointing."
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People who thought they had the truth started whispering.
On the other hand, Ōnoki, Rasa, and Raikage A remained silent.
Kirigakure rebelled. This was one of the conclusions that had been guessed during the previous discussion on Land of Fire Daimyo Estate. Daimyo of Land of Water had extremely weak control over Kirigakure. After posting several messages to Mizukage without getting a response, he directly chose to hire rebels to cooperate with the actions of other major powers.
This was news they had received several days ago.
But unfortunately, since then, there has been no news from Land of Water Daimyo, and the support mentioned was not in place at all. In the end, it was Land of Fire Daimyo who gave the part of Land of Water.
As for why this happened, now that they saw the scene where Sun God Country was suspected of being "protected" by Kirigakure, they also made a judgment in their minds.
Land of Water Daimyo has probably been poisoned. The madman from the Hyuga Clan must have attacked Land of Water Daimyo again!
And the reality is pretty much what they thought.
Hyuga Hitoshi did not tell outsiders that this luxurious and extravagant carriage for Mizukage's travel was built after Land of Water Daimyo Estate was robbed.
Of course, considering Land of Water Daimyo Estate's wealth, Hyuga Hitoshi was able to find Fugaku and buy a lot of Land of Fire's territory in one go.
Now, looking at the entire map, Land of Rice Fields and Land of Grass above Land of Fire, and Land of Rivers in the southwest form a triangle, and then the purchased Land of Fire territory is connected to form a new boundary line.
Simply put.
Originally, because Land of Rice Fields and Land of Demons were too far apart, there was no boundary line connecting them. Now there is a connection point, and what connects them is a large area of Land of Fire that has been cut off. In the future, it will all become the land of Sun God Country, which also includes a passage to the moon.
From the perspective of territorial scope, Sun God Country has reached the minimum standard for becoming a great power!
However, for the Hyuga Clan, these land areas are enough for the time being. He needs time to manage these places well. If he wants to expand further, it may cause problems such as shortage of manpower. If it affects the development of Sun God Country, the gain will outweigh the loss.
certainly.
Regarding the issue of purchasing the territory of Land of Fire, after meeting Fugaku later, a formal contract will be signed. At that time, Fugaku will also announce this matter on Inauguration Ceremony, and Fugaku intends to use this matter to test Land of Fire Daimyo's courage.
If Land of Fire Daimyo says that Fugaku did nothing wrong, then he will repair the relationship with the Daimyo's Mansion on behalf of Konoha and restore the previous status. However, if Daimyo disagrees, then he has no choice but to send the guest away.
"Coming."
Finally.
Under the spotlight, Mizukage's luxury car stopped at the entrance of Konoha.
And when Hyuga Hitoshi got off the carriage, there were unexpected exclamations on the field.
Nothing else.
But from the Mizukage cloak this man is wearing, as well as his somewhat messy clothes and the lipstick mark on his neck, it can be clearly seen that this man's relationship with Mizukage is not simple.
What's more, some even speculate that Hyuga Hitoshi is Mizukage himself!
"I really miss it."
Standing at Village Entrance and watching, Hyuga Hitoshi sighed inwardly.
Although it has not been that long since I left with the Hyuga Clan and gave Fugaku as Hokage, it is only half a year, but Hyuga Hitoshi still feels like yesterday.
I have done a lot since leaving Konoha Hitoshi Clan Head, but this village seems to have stopped moving forward and has been resting in place. Even though the streets and houses have been rebuilt and look new, the lifeless feeling of being old and lifeless has not dissipated, but has become stronger.
It was undoubtedly the right choice for him to leave at that time. This village was a real Caged Bird Curse Mark-like prison for the Hyuga Clan.
After all, he has broken through the cage now.
"Oh my! Brother, brother! You are finally here!"
Finally, the emotion of being immersed in the past was interrupted by the warm and hospitable Fugaku. He jogged over kindly, and then gave Hyuga Hitoshi a hug excitedly.
"Brother, I miss you so much!"
They haven't met since the land transaction. A few days ago, he sold the land directly to Sun God Country. The matter was done by Kakashi and Uchiha Satoshi, so he had no chance to go over.
Now seeing Hitoshi Brother looking at his career outside, Fugaku is quite excited.
"Hey, blame me, I haven't taken the time to come back and take a look. Let's do it later. I'll come back for a walk when I have time."
That's a good feeling!
Fugaku smiled slightly and leaned into Hyuga Hitoshi's ear mysteriously:
"Brother, the Uchiha clan Beauty Pageant is coming to an end soon. I'll go back and see with my brother. Whichever one you see in the photo is your third sister-in-law. You can take her away at any time!"
It has to be you, Fugaku.
Hitoshi Brother's face was full of emotion, and he was just about to say something. Seeing that Mei Terumi had already gotten off the carriage, he quickly buckled the Mizukage cloak that he accidentally brought down on her, then pulled her over and pointed at Fugaku.
"This is Konoha, the noble Fifth Hokage. Just follow me and call it Fugaku."
Are these new siblings?
Fugaku nodded politely and did not dare to look around at all. His sensible look has not changed at all over the years.
"Fugaku."
Mei Terumi said hello obediently.
But Fugaku couldn't bear it, so he had to let Mei Terumi call him Brother Fugaku no matter what. In the end, Mei Terumi was so kind that he could only agree.
After some conversation, Fifth Hokage and Sun God Country Lord hadn't seen each other for a long time. The Konoha people who ignored Village Entrance and watched the theater reminisced about old times with the leaders of various countries. Everyone looked at this scene with big eyes and small eyes, not knowing what to do.
Only Second Hokage, wearing retro Forehead Protector and Senju Clan armor, frowned while standing on a certain house.
Nothing else.
In fact, what he saw in Village Entrance was a bit informative.
That person is a member of the Hyuga Clan tribe.
But Clan Head of the Uchiha Clan and Acting Hokage, the fifth generation of Konoha, went over to compliment her like a licking dog. Mizukage, who should have been received grandly, was like an obedient cat, listening silently on the side, as if the man Hyuga Clan should be more noble than her.
This is very problematic!
Hyuga and Uchiha are doing everything. This is really difficult to handle. No wonder the monkey abdicated.
After all, Hyuga was underestimated.
Sure enough, that Hyuga Hitoshi is the real mastermind behind the scenes.
"Evil Hyuga Clan imp!"
Tobirama Senju stared at the man coldly, as if looking at a black sheep.
But what surprised him was that even though the distance was not close, his gaze still caught the man's attention. After seeing him, the man raised his eyebrows first, and then suddenly Grinned grabbed Fugaku's hand next to him.
And then.
He controlled Uchiha Fugaku from a distance and raised his middle finger towards Second.
OK.
Second Hokage laughed angrily.
I accept your challenge!
Ten thousand per day.