"Bang!"
A slammed the table hard. "Hokage, you've gone too far! I wondered why the spies could easily complete any mission to fetch books, but could never complete any other missions. It turns out you were behind it."
"Don't take advantage and then complain. Just tell me, were those books useful to you or not? I haven't even charged you for them, yet you're taking me to task?"
"No matter what you say, I won't let you get your way this time."
"Suit yourself!"
Uchiha spread his hands, looking utterly unconcerned. "Great Qin and the Land of Water will do it anyway. It doesn't matter whether you follow suit."
Mei Terumi looked a little taken aback. "When did I say I'd follow suit?"
"Do you think you still have the final say?"
Uchiha Yan spoke calmly. "Ask Nagato if he's willing to let you become the Daimyō."
Mei Terumi turned to Nagato and Konan. "You don't agree? Because I'm a woman?"
"No!"
Nagato spoke calmly. "Because you're Yan's wife. We can't let one family dominate the Five Great Nations, so you can be the Mizukage, but another Daimyō must be chosen from within Kirigakure."
"Then I won't marry him!"
"That won't do! We watched Yan grow up, after all. We can't let him lose his wife over such a small matter."
"Then just kill me!"
"That won't do either! We said you're Yan's wife. Wouldn't killing you mean offending Yan? What if he started a war over you?"
"Then kill him too!"
"If we could kill him, we'd have done it long ago! If we really fought him, the terrain of the entire Shinobi World would change."
Mei Terumi's teeth ached a little. She knew Uchiha Yan's objective all too well. If she dared to marry him, the entire Land