"Danzo-sama, the Sandaime-sama Hokage is calling a meeting with you and the advisors. It seems that there is an emergency in the village."
In the underground base of "Root", a ninja reported this to Danzo Shimura.
Although both are underground, the bases of Shadow Stream and "Root" give completely different first impressions. The scale of "Root" is much larger than that of Shadow Stream, so this underground space is more empty, solemn and dark.
The organization that Danzo controls now is a true ninja organization that is highly formalized and militarized, and adheres to absolute command and dogmatism... In the training of ninjas by the "Root", people will die, and it should be said that people will die frequently.
Relatively speaking, Shadow Stream is too gentle. In Danzo's opinion, it is just a child's play and will not amount to anything.
But in fact, there is no need for the Shadow Stream to train ninjas into emotionless killing machines. After all, the "Root" is training ninjas for the Anbu, and the Anbu emphasizes absolute obedience. The ninjas of the Anbu are required to do the dirty work without blinking an eye.
Even if they are companions who have been together for ten years, as long as there is an order, the Anbu ninja will stab them with a knife without any ambiguity.
From this perspective, the Anbu ninja are the real ninja, the absolutely loyal and elite force of a village.
However, the Shadow Stream does not undertake the same work as the Anbu, and has no power to take action against ninjas from the same village. Previously, in order to establish the organization, Hanyu proposed that the Shadow Stream would replace certain functions of the "Root" or the Anbu. However, he immediately abandoned this statement after the organization was established.
Now Shadow Stream has become a place where Uzumaki ninjas gather, and this cannot be hidden from Shimura Danzo. As a person who is good at conspiracy theories and likes to guess things, Danzo may have some vague guesses about the real reason for Shadow Stream's existence...
However, the most he could guess was that the establishment of the Shadow Stream was related to the Tailed Beasts. As for the specific plan to split the Nine-Tails, it was impossible for him to guess it.
The establishment of the Shadow Stream is related to the Tailed Beasts, and it has been recognized and supported by the Third Hokage. Danzo could have imagined these things. After all, the fact that the Third Hokage supported Hanyu to participate in the fight for the Two-Tails is enough to confirm some facts.
"I understand. I'll set off right away."
Danzo Shimura said he had heard the Hokage's call, and he stood up from behind a low table.
At this time, the Hokage called a new meeting, which should be related to Hanyu. The problem is that only three days have passed since Hanyu led the team to leave the village to carry out the mission.
If we receive the news now, then the possibility of failure and bad news is greater than success and "good news"... After all, capturing the tailed beast is not that easy.
Moreover, for Danzo, even if Hanyu really caught the two-tailed beast, it would not be good news. Kumogakure is a daring and radical ninja village. God knows what consequences will be caused by Konoha taking their tailed beasts... This is a variable, and Danzo does not like variables, whether it is a variable like Kumogakure or a variable like Hanyu.
Or was it the news that Hanyu had been killed? Thinking about it this way, Danzo was a little excited. After all, sometimes he felt that Hanyu was much more annoying than Kumogakure... It couldn't be said that it was sometimes, but it should be said that since Hanyu had scolded him a few days ago, his mentality had changed a little.
Konoha needs ninjas and combat power like Hanyu, and Danzo is very clear about this. However, reason is reason, and small likes and dislikes in emotions are emotions. After all, humans are emotional creatures. Even someone like Danzo who is becoming more and more expressionless is not without emotions. He just hides his emotions.
When Shimura Danzo hurried to the Hokage's office, the two consultants had already arrived. It must be said that since Homura and Koharu became consultants, although it is unknown whether their abilities as ninjas have increased or decreased, at least the two of them have become much faster.
Even though Danzo had some opinions about Hanyu, sometimes his ideas tended to be consistent with Hanyu, and he became more and more annoyed with these two consultants... Those two people were more or less "not good at anything, and eating is their first priority".
After seeing that everyone had arrived, the Third Hokage said simply, "Hanyu is back, and the mission was an unexpected success... He also brought back the Two-Tails."
"…"
Well, regardless, neither Danzo nor the remaining two advisors wanted to hear this good news.
Just when everyone expected Hanyu to mess things up, he succeeded, and achieved the greatest success in a very short period of time with very high efficiency... It can be said that Hanyu has never disappointed anyone when it comes to disappointing people.
In fact, even the Third Hokage did not expect Hanyu to act so quickly. Not only was the mission successful, but there were no casualties in the action team - after all, they captured the Two-Tails, not a wild cat.
"Then let's think carefully about how to deal with Kumogakure's reaction." said the Third Hokage.
At this point, there is no point in worrying about how Hanyu got things done. What we should consider now is how to deal with Kumogakure's reaction.
"As long as we can rule out the possibility of war, we can accept the rest of the situation. But the problem is that according to our previous discussion, there is a possibility that Kumogakure will start a war for the Two-Tails, and this possibility is not low... Hanyu should not have failed to reveal his identity as a Konoha ninja when capturing the tailed beast." said Utatane Koharu.
Of course it is impossible for Hanyu to hide his identity on the Konoha side. He is a ninja, not a god.
For Kumogakure, it should be said that the Two-Tails must not fall into the hands of Konoha. Konoha itself is the strongest, and once Konoha completely controls the Two-Tails, then the relatively balanced strength comparison between Konoha and Kumogakure will change to the extreme disadvantage of Kumogakure, which is something Kumogakure cannot accept in any way.
So they will definitely take action.
"I do have an idea. Perhaps... we should take the initiative to contact Kumogakure and make a gesture that the ownership of the two-tail is negotiable. As long as it is negotiable politically, then militarily we cannot immediately enter a hostile state."
At this time, the Third Hokage suddenly said this.
Instead of forcing Konoha to negotiate with it on the ownership of the Two-Tails after Kumogakure makes military moves, it would be better for Konoha to take the initiative in the talks. In this way, Kumogakure will not have to use military means first.
Konoha has the Two-Tails in its hands and is willing to take the initiative to negotiate, so isn't it easy to settle the right and wrong?... Out of international friendship, Konoha is willing to help Kumogakure capture the Two-Tails, and now Konoha wants to return the tailed beast, isn't that good?
However, Konoha suffered considerable losses during the capture operation, so Kumogakure will eventually have to make some compensation.
There is no ninja village in the world that is as dedicated as Konoha to maintaining the first Hokage's tailed beast system, but even if Konoha is "public-spirited" on the international stage, Kumogakure cannot let such international friends down, after all, they are still allies.
The Third Hokage's words almost made Danzo's expression collapse. This is so shameless... I didn't expect you to be such a Sarutobi Hiruzen.
Honestly speaking, this kind of strategic plan is totally unlike the Third Hokage's style, so either someone named Yu gave him the idea, or the Third Hokage had been in contact with people with bad character for a long time and was infected by them.
It is conceivable what a bad impression Hanyu left on the Konoha high-level officials.
Further speculation is that this bad impression is likely to continue to grow over time.
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