Naruto: Starting from Tsunade-san.

The other party is not blind, but has retained this habit due to years of practicing perception ninjutsu.

"Hokage-sama, you are here." The Third Mizukage spoke slowly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked knowingly, "Where is the Tsuchikage-sama?"

The Third Mizukage said calmly, "As for the Tsuchikage, he hasn't arrived yet..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded, his inner canthus narrowed, and he looked at the man silently, wondering why the other party appeared here.

He can still trace the Tsuchikage, but why would the Mizukage join this mess? Is there something in Konoha that the Mizukage covets?

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought as he found a random seat and sat down leisurely, waiting for the arrival of the Third Tsuchikage.

Although he looks casual, he is actually always alert. He does not want to repeat the mistakes of his mentor, but he pretends to be calm and composed in order to maintain the demeanor of a great country.

Unlike Sarutobi Hiruzen, his guards were extremely alert, not daring to breathe, and constantly observing every move around them, ready to retaliate immediately at the slightest sign of trouble.

The tragedy of the Second Hokage was still fresh in their minds, and these guards did not want the Third Hokage to repeat the same mistake.

No one in the room said much. For a moment, the atmosphere was so tense that you could hear a pin drop.

Fortunately, this atmosphere did not last long. Someone entered the room and broke the awkward feeling.

Everyone looked over and saw a short, middle-aged man with a distinct feature on his face.

He had a huge red rosacea, which made his originally decent facial features look even worse. Combined with his extremely short stature, it was really funny.

However, if you judge a person by his appearance, you will suffer a great loss. After all, the person in front of you is the Third Tsuchikage, Ohnoki, also known as the Two-Ninheira, who possesses a bloodline elimination that is extremely rare in the world and surpasses the bloodline limit.

Ohnoki looked at the people around him and said unconsciously, "It seems that I am the last one left."

After saying that, he floated onto the chair.

After a brief opening speech, Ohnoki got straight to the point: "Hokage, I called you two here mainly to discuss the alliance between the three nations of water, fire, and earth."

Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded. Forming an alliance was exactly what Konoha, which was currently suffering from war, wanted.

If we can form an alliance with the Water Kingdom and the Earth Kingdom, there will be no need to fight and the war can end instantly.

However, neither the Water Kingdom nor the Earth Kingdom has any connection with Konoha, and they even had a feud with each other in the past. It is obvious that the other party proposed this matter not for charity purposes, but for other intentions.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had already roughly guessed it, but he still asked specifically: "Sir Tsuchikage, what do you hope to gain from this alliance with Konoha?"

Seeing Sarutobi Hiruzen being so direct, Ōnoki stopped pretending and got straight to the point, stating his request directly: "It's actually not a big deal. I just want to take back something from your Konoha that belongs to our Land of Earth."

"What is that?" Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Five-tail."

Ōnoki was very short, but his attitude was very tough. Just these two words were full of the meaning that no compromise would be allowed.

As expected... Sarutobi Hiruzen showed a bitter look on his face: "Mr. Tsuchikage, you really are forcing me. You should know that if the tailed beast is removed, the Jinchūriki will die..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen doesn't like Aokiji very much now, but it is undeniable that Aokiji is now an indispensable fighting force for Konoha.

Without him, Konoha's overall strength would drop directly to a lower level.

"Of course I know about this kind of thing..."

Ohnoki's face was gloomy, and he lowered his voice. After saying the above, he raised his tone: "Of course, don't forget what you wanted me to promise you!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen:...

"You told me that Aokiji doesn't have a Sharingan."

"..."

"That's why I left the Five-Tails in your Konoha with peace of mind. But three years later, you gave me a huge surprise."

Everything Ōnoki said made sense, and Sarutobi Hiruzen found it difficult to refute it.

After a long pause, he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Actually, I only found out about Aokiji possessing the Sharingan half a year ago..."

Well, even Sarutobi Hiruzen himself didn't quite believe what he said.

Sure enough, hearing this, Ohnoki felt his intelligence was insulted and flew into a rage, calling out his name: "Sarutobi Hiruzen, do you think that because I'm short, my brain capacity is also small?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen quickly denied: "That's not what I meant."

Ohnoki was aggressive, his eyes looking murderous: "What do you mean?"

"..."

Ohnoki said angrily: "Do you think I'm stupid? Aokiji has the Sharingan, and you, as a Hokage, don't you know it?"

"..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was in tears and could not even swallow the bitter pill.

He really doesn't know.

God knows that Aokiji has kept the fact that he has the Sharingan a secret for so long.

Ohnoki's attitude was very tough: "In short, if you don't return the Five-Tails to me, I will lead the Iwagakure Village to attack your Konoha. If you don't give it to me, I will take it away by force!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen was not easily frightened. He gritted his teeth and said in a rough voice, "Ohnoki, don't go too far! What do you mean by return? After all, your Five Tails were originally given to you by our Shodaime. Not only the Five Tails, but in fact all four of your Tails belong to us Konoha."

Ohnoki said coldly, "You mean to go to war with our Iwagakure Village for the sake of the Jinchūriki, right?"

"I didn't say that. You were just being too aggressive."

Sarutobi Hiruzen snorted coldly, "But if you continue to push your limits, we in Konoha will not be afraid of having another Iwagakure village of you."

He protected Aokiji not for Aokiji's sake, but for the overall interests of Konoha.

This is also the reason why, no matter how much he dislikes Aokiji, he has to send Aokiji to the battlefield to gain military merits.

Aokiji is too strong. Wherever he stands, he can reduce a lot of losses for Konoha. The enemy country is concerned about his strength and dare not act recklessly.

Sarutobi Hiruzen is not so stupid as to hand over Aokiji now without intending to cut off his own arm.

And even if I pay, what's the reason?

Do you really think Aokiji would stick his neck out for nothing and not resist?

And the family behind Aokiji will not just watch him die.

Not to mention, Aokiji is Tsunade's boyfriend, and Lady Mito and the Uzumaki clan she represents are very optimistic about her.

Aokiji can't just move whenever he wants now, he also has to consider the strength behind him.

Therefore, he would rather attack the entire Iwagakure Village than hand over Aokiji.

It seemed that neither side was willing to give in, the air was filled with tension, and even the guards on both sides seemed ready to fight at any time.

At this time, the Third Mizukage stepped out to smooth things over: "Alright, alright, calm down."

"I've always been calm."

Ohnoki snorted coldly and went down the stairs.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at the Third Mizukage and said politely, "Mitsuko-sama, you appeared here on purpose, not just to listen to our quarrel, did you?"

The Third Mizukage gave a mysterious smile and said, "Could you two, considering your age, please listen to what I have to say first?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at him, his face confused: "Go ahead."

The Third Mizukage crossed his palms and rested them on his chin: "It is true that directly handing over the Five-Tails is a huge blow to Konoha. How about this, we, the Water Country, come forward and give some compensation."

Sarutobi Hiruzen was even more confused. He didn't understand what the other party was up to. How could the affairs of their two countries be related to the Water Country?

"How about you return the Five-Tails to the Hidden Rock Village, and we from the Hidden Mist Village compensate you with a new tailed beast from Konoha?"

"What!?"

"How's Vulpix?"

"W-what..." Sarutobi Hiruzen was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

If you want to reduce the number of tails, you have to have one more than the Five-Tails~" The Third Mizukage said in a teasing voice.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes widened: "What on earth do you want to do?"

"The Iwagakure Village wants the Five-Tails from Aokiji, and we in the Kirigakure Village want Aokiji."

"W-what."

"To be precise, just the corpse will do."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 297 Betrayal

Chapter 297 Betrayal

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked surprised. After the brief shock, he frowned deeply and expressed confusion: "I don't quite understand your intention of doing this."

The Third Mizukage smiled and said: You should know that the corpses of powerful ninjas are of great research value, especially precious materials like him with three blood inheritance limits. "

Admittedly, what the other party said made sense, but it was still a bit difficult for Hiruzen Sarutobi to understand. He could understand it in exchange for other things, but after all, they were precious tailed beasts, and any one of them had the ability to destroy the world.

Seemingly sensing Sarutobi Hiruzen's thoughts, the Third Mizukage continued: "For you, that may be a precious corpse, but it is of great significance to us, Kirigakure Village."

After finishing speaking, he paused and said in a deep voice: "The power of tailed beasts is too difficult for ordinary people to control. Instead of investing precious talents in this every year, and even risking going wild, it would be more valuable to invest in it. On to something more secure.”

Sarutobi Hiruzen narrowed his eyes and probably guessed something.

"When it comes to the blood inheritance limit of Ice Escape, our Hidden Mist Village is the birthplace. I just don't know why there is such a big gap between both Ice Escape and Ice Escape."

The third Mizukage had a self-deprecating smile on his face: "Compared with Aokiji's ice escape, I sometimes wonder if the ice escape blood inheritance limit in our village is fake..."

Sarutobi Hiruzen remained silent.

Qing Pheasant's ice escape is indeed a bit different from ordinary ice escape.

The third Mizukage's goal was probably to study Aokiji's body and why his ice attack was so powerful, so as to increase the number of ice attack ninjas in the village.

The Third Mizukage followed suit and said, "How's it going? My proposal is pretty good, isn't it?"

"I'm sorry, it's difficult to obey."

There were guards watching by his side, so it was impossible for Hiruzen Sarutobi to agree directly no matter what.

"Are you afraid that I will change my mind midway?"

The Third Mizukage touched his chin: "Let's see, if you agree, I can give you the Six-Tails in advance."

"W-what?"

The Third Mizukage's answer far exceeded Hiruzen Sarutobi's expectations.

"I think I should be sincere."

The Third Mizukage looked calm and added: "Oh~ By the way, I think the Hokage, if he accepts the Vulpix then, he shouldn't regret it midway."

Sarutobi Hiruzen's eyes alternated between the shadow of earth and the shadow of water.

He now understood the reason why the Tsuchikage didn't immediately go to Konoha to ask for the Five-Tails when Aokiji's ability was exposed to the Sharingan. It turned out that he secretly hooked up with the Mizukage. "

"What are you two going to do if I don't accept it?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen asked tentatively.

The Third Mizukage suppressed his smile and looked grim: "Then our village will join forces with Iwagakure to attack Konoha."

Sarutobi Hiruzen frowned, feeling very troubled.

"You have to know, as long as Wuyin Village and Yanyin Village come to an end, what do you think will happen to Yunyin Village?" The third generation of water shadows said with a smile, and threatened:

"When the time comes, I think even if we are as strong as Konoha, it will be difficult to face so many opponents at once."

Hearing this threat that was directly on the table, Sarutobi Hiruzen broke into a cold sweat down his spine.

I faced four of them at once, plus a bunch of small countries. They were even stronger than Konoha and couldn't withstand them.

Sarutobi Hiruzen took a deep breath, the huge pressure almost made him unable to breathe.

Just when he was in a dilemma, the Third Mizukage then said: "Well, you don't have to answer in such a hurry."

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked solemn and looked warily.

The Third Mizukage held the wisdom pearl in hand: "After all, it is a very important decision. If you think about it from your perspective, I can somewhat understand your difficulties. To show my sincerity, I can give you time to go back to the village and discuss it with other senior officials."

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up, turned around and left without saying a word. At this point, there was no need to continue talking. The top priority was to quickly return to the village and find Danzo and the others to discuss the matter.

"Oh, by the way, there's something I forgot to tell you."