Land of Night 28 June.(Konoha 19)
The battlefields of Hidden Sand Village and Konoha were the first to see a turn for the better.
When the main force was unable to deal with Konoha before, Second Kazekage of Hidden Sand Village Shamon, since last year, has decisively charged "protection fees" from neighboring small countries in the name of protection. Finally, it withdrew from the battlefield with Konoha last month and retracted its defense line towards Land of Wind, which was a signal to Konoha to stop fighting.
Then came the battlefield where Iwagakure and Hidden Mist Village were located. In early June, the two sides signed a peace agreement and officially ceased fighting.
With all parties dead, only Konoha and Hidden Cloud Village are left in the Ninja Village that is still at war.
However, as Hidden Sand Village, Iwagakure, and Hidden Mist Village withdrew from the battlefield one after another, and Konoha and Hidden Cloud Village, who had been increasingly reluctant to fight since the beginning of this year, their senior leaders instantly realized that this was an excellent opportunity for negotiation.
After all, other countries and villages are standing aside at this time and continuing to fight. In the end, both sides will suffer, and others will only benefit in the end.
Especially Tobirama and Second A, who have been bent on promoting peace talks from beginning to end, are even more eager to stop this war.
Land of Hot Water, Konoha Camp.
On the fifth day after Iwagakure and Hidden Mist Village signed the armistice agreement, Tobirama received a handwritten letter from Hidden Cloud Village Second Raikage Ai.
In the letter, Second A did not exchange greetings or reminisce with Tobirama, but just got straight to the point.
There is only one core focus, which is to use this once-in-a-lifetime time and opportunity to promote peace talks between the two sides as soon as possible and end this war that has lasted for two and a half years.
Among all the countries and ninja villages participating in the war, Konoha and Hidden Cloud Village invested the most time and energy in this war, and countless ninjas died, but neither side achieved the strategic goals set at the beginning.
Konoha lost a group of elites, and even High-Level Advisors died heroically on the battlefield.
Hidden Cloud Village also suffered heavy losses, even more miserable than Konoha.
Second A saw all this, so he was always restless in his heart. However, because the power of the martial arts faction was too strong, and Kapui, the minister of Anbu who supported him, was also killed by Land of Night, he could only hold back and patiently wait for the opportunity to break the situation.
"Send this letter to Hidden Cloud Anbu and have them hand it over to Raikage in person."
Tobirama After reading the letter, there was no need for complex thinking and he quickly replied on the back of the paper.
After repackaging, the letter was placed in the hands of Anbu Ninja.
"Yes."
Anbu nodded solemnly and left with Body Flicker Technique.
After Anbu left, Tobirama picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, then casually picked up another piece of information to read.
Perhaps because he saw the dawn of armistice negotiations with Hidden Cloud Village, Tobirama is in a very good mood now.
He even couldn't help but think about what he should do when he returns to the village after the truce with Hidden Cloud Village.
The training of the next Hokage must be given top priority.
In addition, there are important ninja issues.
Although some redundant parts of the ninja clan have been eliminated a lot with the help of this war, there are still some stubborn elements who can only turn a blind eye for the time being because they have never been able to find excuses and opportunities.
The attack on these stubborn people must not be done halfway, but must be done in one go, without giving them any room to breathe.
Otherwise, it was fine when he was in office, but the next Hokage may not be able to suppress these stubborn forces.
Of course, the problem of Uchiha cannot be ignored.
During this war, many Uchiha ninjas awakened Sharingan during the battle, and there were also many Uchiha ninjas who entered the Three Tomoe stage.
Uchiha's sacrifice, instead of making them weaker, actually made them faintly stronger.
As Hokage, Tobirama did not feel happy about it.
Because he clearly felt that the temperament and eyes of some Uchiha new talents who had awakened Sharingan were completely different from before. They had become extremely cold, as if they had changed their core.
As a person from the Senju Clan, Tobirama is very aware of how terrifying Uchiha Clan is.
This is a family that becomes more crazy and terrifying the more they engage in battle.
The deeper you love and then lose, the stronger the power of Sharingan.
Then... some special individuals will be born with Mangekyō Sharingan whose darkness and eye power far exceed ordinary Sharingan!
In Tobirama's opinion, this family's problem is the biggest among all the ninja clan Konoha.
No, Konoha's combined problems for all the ninjas may not be as big as Uchiha Clan's problems.
'Five years to govern the rest of the ninja clan, and five years to govern Uchiha, a total of ten years, should be almost enough...'
Tobirama was murmuring to himself, thinking about the work he would do in the next ten years.
Although he had many ideas he wanted to implement, the outbreak of the war disrupted many of his rhythms, resulting in fewer things he could do in the future.
Therefore, he can only identify Konoha's most difficult problems at present and deal with them during his tenure.
Even if it cannot be handled, the time when the problem occurs must be greatly delayed so that subsequent successors have enough room for error.
This is his responsibility as Hokage.
Fortunately, the next Hokage--Hiruzen Sarutobi he favored was a ninja with excellent strength and character.
When the other party takes office ten years later, I will be able to live a peaceful retirement.
With such a relaxed mood, Tobirama continued to look through the intelligence documents sent from various places.
It wasn't until he saw the news about Land of Night and Land of Fields that he stopped moving again.
"Land of Fields's big purge really has his style."
Tobirama was not surprised at all when he saw the information from Land of Fields.
Starting last month, Land of Fields administrative staff in many places have been replaced with administrative officials trained by Land of Night.
Land of Night's ninjas and Samurai troops once again sent an additional thousand people to the territory of Land of Fields.
Land of Night no longer intends to perform this kind of gesture, and officially controls all areas of Land of Fields.
And some aristocratic forces that resisted to the end could not even make a splash, and were quietly annihilated by Land of Night's Assault Department.
When Land of Fields arrives here, it is completely in name only. After a while, no one will even mention his name.
As for the Land of Night, the most information is about the Great Snow Mountain that was renovated in October last year.
The puppet army composed of thousands of puppets is constructing there in a mighty manner and cannot be concealed at all.
According to the latest news, the outline of the towering palace wall began to appear on the top of the Great Snow Mountain.
Not surprisingly, Land of Night will build an unprecedented huge palace in a place with harsh weather and environment.
"Huh..."
Tobirama sighed, frowning tightly and saying nothing.
To be honest, this was both unexpected and expected.
But he didn't think that Yayoi built such a large palace in that kind of place just for pleasure or to show his power.
There must be a deeper reason pushing him to do this.
As for what the reason is, Tobirama is at a loss.
As for sending Anbu to infiltrate, this idea was rejected by Tobirama as soon as it came up.
Observation from a distance is still within the acceptable range of Yayoi, which is also the limit that Yayoi acquiesces to being known, but if it comes close... Tobirama dares to believe that Yayoi really dares to kill all Konoha Anbu who come close.
The more Yayoi kept it secret, the more Tobirama felt something was wrong, and the more he wanted to explore the secret.
Thinking of this, Tobirama's good mood, which was originally about to negotiate peace with Hidden Cloud Village, became heavy again.
The more I get to know Land of Night about this country, the more Tobirama feels it is out of place, and sometimes I feel a sense of trembling and horror for no reason.
Therefore, his attitude towards Land of Night is both vigilant and wanting to find out the other party's background through in-depth cooperation.
If he doesn't understand this, he won't even be able to eat and sleep well in the future.
"No matter what, that guy Oda will never waste so much time and resources on such a meaningless thing. But the most important thing now is the peace talks with Hidden Cloud Village. It seems that this secret can only be figured out later..."
In desperation, Tobirama stopped thinking about the matter, stood up and walked to the conference room, preparing to hold a meeting, and first confirm the matters for peace talks with Hidden Cloud Village.