After Yanbai stopped stirring things up, he kept feeling that all the aggravating things came knocking because he wasn't busy enough.
So Yanbai decided to stir something up.
Ever since becoming Hokage, Yanbai had found life terribly boring. The position was as boring as ever.
Besides, Yanbai had scared the other shinobi villages shitless.
All these years had passed, and the Third Shinobi World War still hadn't broken out.
No, perhaps the Third Shinobi World War had already been fought.
It was just that Konoha and the Land of Fire had been kicked out of the war and become the shinobi world's "Land of Spectators."
If he kept waiting like this, the other shinobi villages would be too intimidated by Konoha's relentless drive to act.
But just because they wouldn't act, did that mean Yanbai wouldn't show up at their doors "asking for a beating"?
And so, today.
After spending less than an hour finishing the day's business.
Yanbai suddenly asked, "Shikaku, how has Sunagakure been doing lately?"
Shikaku Nara opened a file, considered his wording, and said quietly, "Sunagakure... is very poor."
Yanbai wore a peculiar expression.
Then Shikaku Nara continued, "Especially these past few years. It's gotten even poorer."
"The Daimyo of the Land of Wind is harsher than the daimyo of the other three countries. He demands that Sunagakure pursue an elite-force strategy, concentrate its resources on individual shinobi, and drastically reduce its forces. He keeps cutting its annual funding. Sunagakure is in dire poverty."
"All right, I understand." Yanbai rolled his eyes.
Sunagakure had always been like this. In the original course of events, its poverty was precisely why it kept wanting to raid Konoha Shinobi Village.
Then, while Shikaku Nara remained utterly baffled, Yanbai never stopped smiling benevolently with the light behind him.
Yanbai wrote