Escape From Konoha

More than ten hours have passed since Kirigakure's coup.

The battle in Kirigakure Village is not over yet, and the sound of fighting can still be heard occasionally from somewhere.

Although the main force of the Blood Mist Sect has been extinguished, there are still some die-hards who do not want to surrender and plan to fight to the end.

However, Yagura does not need to personally lead the team in the next battle. The Blood Mist Sect is about to be destroyed. The most important thing is the reconstruction of the village at the moment.

Because most of the Kirigakure area was previously shrouded in smoke, and many places were severely damaged due to the fighting, including important facilities such as the Mizukage Building.

Among them, the area where he fought with the Third Mizukage was the most serious disaster area. With the continuous large-scale destructive water escape techniques and the bombing of tailed beasts, all the buildings and streets were completely destroyed, leaving only Ruins like debris.

On the small reef island a little north of Kirigakure Village, the sea breeze blew slightly.

Yagura waved his left arm gently. This left arm was cut off by the Third Mizukage with the blade of water. At this moment, it has been completely connected to the shoulder and is intact as before.

"I didn't expect that your medical ninjutsu has reached this level. I was already prepared to use prosthetic limbs."

He looked at Shiraishi, who had used medical ninjutsu on him to reattach his left broken arm, with admiration in his tone.

He believed that even Tsunade Hime, one of the Sannin of Konoha, might not be able to do this.

Compared with Konoha's medical technology, Wuyin Village's medical technology is even less likely to reach this level.

Thinking that Shiraishi had also treated Lin Yuri's injury that had made many people feel helpless, Yagura had a more intuitive understanding of Shiraishi's medical ability.

Shiraishi watched Yagura swinging his newly recovered left arm, and struck a blow: "I advise you not to move that arm randomly in the next half month, otherwise I can't guarantee that the arm will not Falling down again. Moreover, the jutsu I used just now is essentially different from medical ninjutsu, it is the life-changing fairy art of the wet bone forest."

"The legendary slug fairy? I didn't expect you to sign a contract with Wetbone Forest."

Yagura was quite surprised.

But thinking that Shiraishi used to be one of Tsunade's students, maybe the contract with Shibone Forest was recommended by Tsunade, so I feel relieved.

Shiraishi didn't intend to explain more, because this kind of thing is irrelevant to the follow-up cooperation between himself and Yakura.

"Compared to this, you are the one who really surprised me."

"What?"

"You can control the three-tailed thing."

Shiraishi was really unexpected that Yakura controlled Mio and became the perfect Jinchuriki.

Because as far as he knew, Cloud Hidden Village in the Kingdom of Thunder was the ninja village that had the most thorough research on tailed beasts. Historically, Cloud Hidden Village had been the most complete in developing the power of tailed beasts.

Unexpectedly, Yagura was able to perfectly control the power of the three tails under the condition that the research on Kirigakure Village Tail Beast was not perfect.

It has to be said that this really surprised Shiraishi.

This also means that Yagura, who is a human being, and the Tailed Beast, who is hostile to humans and regards humans as despicable, have become best friends who can connect with each other.

"I don't want the intelligence system of Wuyin Village to be completely infiltrated by you like Konoha."

Yagura glanced at Shiraishi speechlessly.

No matter how long he had been hiding in secret for the sake of becoming the Fourth Mizukage and wiping out the Blood Mist Sect, if Shiraishi knew everything, he would be too inferior as the future Fourth Mizukage.

"I'm just collecting some information symbolically, just to prevent problems before they happen."

Shiraishi shrugged his shoulders, because he used to be a Konoha ninja, so he knew more about Konoha's power than Yakura.

There are indeed many problems in that village, but the flaws are not concealed, and the strength of Konoha is also genuine.

Whether it is a top ninja or an intermediate ninja, they must surpass other ninja villages.

Coupled with the abundant resources of the Fire Nation, sufficient development funds, and maintaining good cooperative relations with the Fire Nation's daimyo and other important national officials, Konoha's military strength has been steadily increasing in many cases, rather than regressing.

"By the way, I haven't had time to ask, what's the current situation on Konoha's side?"

Yagura suddenly remembered something and asked Shiraishi this question.

Due to internal strife, Kirigakure's strength has been greatly reduced, and it will be difficult to recover without a few years of development time.

For this reason, he needs a shield that can attract the attention of all parties and reduce Kirigakure's presence.

Konoha is the most suitable candidate.

"The Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato died. If Kumogakure does not change his strategy, I believe that within the next month, troops will be launched against Konoha again."

"Did you even sacrifice the Hokage himself? The noise you made this time was a bit too much."

Yagura was slightly startled, he didn't expect Shiraishi's hand would be so big.

With such a great reputation, Yellow Flash can be said to be the most popular ninja in the ninja world in recent years.

With the power of one person, he ended the Iwagakure battlefield.

Then, with thunderous speed, he blocked Yunyin in the Kingdom of Tang, making it impossible for Yunyin to enter the Kingdom of Fire, and he lost his troops and generals.

Yagura did not expect that such a legendary ninja, who was feared by all countries, would suddenly sacrifice like this.

"I have been looking for opportunities to deal with him, but I have never been able to find the right time. I didn't expect that this time I completed the task by mistake."

Minato, who is able to use time and space ninjutsu to a proficient level, will definitely be one of his greatest enemies in the future.

Now that Minato is dead, a big stone has fallen in Shiraishi's heart.

"It seems that Konoha doesn't have anything to worry about for the time being, and then it's up to Kumogakure to show its strength."

Yagura nodded.

"But before that, I also want to remind you something."

Shiraishi looked a little more serious.

"What's up?"

"I was not the one who used the Kyuubi this time to cause Namikaze Minato's death. I provided this information to a man named Nagato. He had joined an organization called 'Akatsuki' before. This time he was the one who acted. hand."

Shiraishi said.

"Akatsuki?" Yagura touched his chin and thought for a moment, looked into Shiraishi's eyes and said, "I seem to have heard of this organization somewhere. It is said to be a well-known organization in the Land of Rain. I paid attention to the rain a few years ago. I, who was in the country's war, made some intelligence summaries on this, and among them was the organization 'Akatsuki'."

"It's generally true. Although Amegakure Village has now become a vassal of Konoha, Akatsuki will not be disbanded because of this. It will definitely cause a bloody storm in the ninja world in the future."

Shiraishi said.

"Even so, it shouldn't have anything to do with me, right? I have no connection with Yugakure."

Yagura asked rhetorically.

The tragedy of Rain Country was caused by its special geographical environment, and it was ravaged by the ninjas of Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure.

But this has nothing to do with Kirigakure, who is alone overseas. In the previous wars in the Land of Rain, no Kirigakure ninjas were involved, so naturally they do not have deep relations with the Country of Rain.

"No, it has a lot to do with it. Nagato has the Rinnegan. If my guess is correct, his next purpose should be to secretly collect information about the tailed beasts of the five major countries and launch a plan to capture the tailed beasts. You have now become the three-tailed jinchuriki , sooner or later he will be targeted."

Hearing Shiraishi say this, Yagura's eyes suddenly widened.

Samsara Eye? Tailed beast?

If he hadn't been sure that Shiraishi wasn't the kind of person who makes random mistakes, Yagura would have thought that Shiraishi was telling a fairy tale.

He had always thought that the Six Paths Immortal's Samsara Eye was a myth and legend made out of nothing.

"This is some information about Nagato. Destroy it after reading it. According to the news I got recently, Nagato's subordinate Bai Zetsu is secretly collecting information about defecting ninjas from various countries. We don't know what they are doing specifically yet. , but most likely they want to use it to recruit defecting ninjas and gather the power of the defecting ninjas to help capture the tailed beasts."

Shiraishi took out a scroll and placed it in front of Yagura.

Yagura took the scroll and felt that things suddenly became troublesome.

He knew how powerful Shiraishi was, and even he paid close attention to Akatsuki's Nagato. Before he could eliminate this threat immediately, it already explained some problems.

"I understand. I will be careful about the reincarnation eye and strengthen the protective force around me."

If the opponent is someone that even Shiraishi must take seriously, Yagura believes that it is necessary to increase the protective power around him.

Because in the future he will not only be Kirigakure's three-tailed Jinchuuriki, but also Kirigakure's fourth generation Mizukage.

Seeing that Yagura was facing a formidable enemy, Shiraishi paused and smiled: "Of course, there is no need to be too nervous about this matter. When Nagato actually takes action, it will take a long time to prepare. Moreover, I still need him for the time being. Get Konoha's attention for me."

"..."

Yagura suddenly felt that as the strongest shinobi village Konoha in the five major countries, the situation was actually quite difficult.

Being targeted by a defecting ninja from his own village, and also being targeted by the holder of the Rinnegan Eye, should I say it is an honor or an unlucky thing?

There will be nothing to talk about after that. Further cooperation will have to wait until the situation in Kirigakure stabilizes before we can discuss it.

After bidding farewell to Yagura, the other party hurried back to Kirigakure Village not far away, leaving no extra time to discuss matters with Shiraishi.

"finished?"

Liuli came over at this time.

"It's over. It went more smoothly than expected. Next, we just have to wait for the news from Yunyin."

Shiraishi breathed a sigh of relief and won over Kirigakure. The future layout of the Kingdom of Demons in the ninja world will be much smoother.

"It is not that simple for a traditional ninja village to break away from the 'rule' of daimyo and nobles."

Liuli mentioned this.

Traditional ninjas do not engage in production. The wages most ninjas earn in daily life, after maintaining their ninja tools and purchasing training resources, can barely solve the problem of food and clothing.

Funds for the development of Ninja Village can only be provided by the daimyo and nobles of the country.

Once the daimyo and nobles cut off the supply of funds, the Ninja Village will have to 'lay off' and reduce the number of ninjas, which means that the Ninja Village's military strength will become weaker.

Kirigakure Village is a typical example of this, and a very bad example.

The fundamental reason for the blood mist is that the daimyo and nobles of the Kingdom of Water continue to reduce the military expenditure of Kirigakure Village, which prevents Kirigakure's military power from developing healthily.

As a Mizukage, the first priority is to hope that the Ninja Village will become more prosperous and developed.

For this reason, in order not to reduce the overall military strength of the village when military expenditures declined significantly, the elite line began to be adopted.

The so-called elite route is the prototype of the current ‘Blood Mist’.

Let the graduates kill each other and learn the essence of ninja fighting in advance.

Later, it was not just the ninja school, but also affected many classes outside the school, leaving Kirigakure Village filled with the smoke and blood of battle.

To a certain extent, it did strengthen the military power of Kirigakure Village, but it also left behind a very terrible curse.

The spirits of many Kirigakure ninjas have been strongly stimulated, and the suicide and defection rates have increased rapidly. Those who can maintain their sanity have encountered ostracism and various assassinations. In the end, they can only be stationed at the border to escape the persecution of the Blood Mist ninjas. .

Behind the scenes, there are also shadows of the daimyo and nobles of the Kingdom of Water. They hope that through the change of blood mist, they can turn Kirigakure Village into their own personal weapon, instead of just maintaining a 'cooperative' relationship.

"Because of this, it is necessary to cooperate with Yagura. In the final analysis, it was the daimyo of the Kingdom of Water and those nobles who pushed Yagura and Kirigakure to our side. I really want to thank them for this That overestimating ambition helped me a lot."

Kirigakure's matter is over, Shiraishi no longer needs to stay here, and returns to the Kingdom of Ghosts with Ruri.

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"sit."

After bidding farewell to Shiraishi, Yagura returned to the village and came to a relatively complete room.

Someone is already there waiting for me.

The other person was sitting on a loose chair, holding a snake-shaped crutch in his hand. He was the elder Yuanshi of Kirigakure Village.

It prevented Yagura from further rioting and allowed him and the Third Mizukage to stop, preventing Kirigakure from falling into even worse chaos.

"Most of the people in the Blood Mist Sect have surrendered, and only a few stubborn forces are still resisting. I believe that the unrest will be completely quelled before sunset today."

Yakura sat opposite to Master Yuan and spoke first.

Master Yuan nodded and said: "Restoring the development of the village as soon as possible is the most critical thing at the moment. To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the village can't find a suitable candidate now, I would never support you to become the fourth generation, even if You have mastered the three tails, and the result is the same."

Yagura's biggest problem is that he is not in the right position. After this incident, the controversy in the village will become more and more serious.

Supporting Yagura to become the Fourth Mizukage, Genshi is also under tremendous pressure from public opinion.

The most important point, and just as Genshi said, among all the ninjas under the age of forty in the village, there is no jounin who can surpass Yagura in ability and strength.

Moreover, Yagura had many subordinates. Genshi suspected that Yagura had already secretly controlled all the garrison troops in the Kingdom of Water. Including the ninjas in the village, there were at least thousands of them.

If Yagura is not designated as the next generation Mizukage, once those people are dissatisfied and protest, it will turn into a very terrible situation.

Instead of doing this, it is better to follow the trend, which not only fills the vacancy of the Fourth Mizukage's position, but also appeases many of Yagura's subordinates, giving them reassurance and proving that the higher-ups will not settle accounts with them in the future.

"It's just a last resort. If you, Genshi, want to train a new Mizukage, you won't be able to do it in less than ten years."

Yagura also knew that Genshi supported him because of the overall interests of Kirigakure, rather than because he really liked him and became Kirigakure's fourth Mizukage.

In this regard, Yagura still has self-knowledge.

"Before that, Mizukage's position will be temporarily stored with you. Your way of dealing with things is too chaotic. Please pay more attention in the future and don't use violence to solve problems."

Genshi's tone sounded quite dissatisfied with Yagura's previous behavior.

Because follow-up processing is very troublesome, and once problems arise, it may cause more chaos.

If Mizukage takes over in this way, in the name of orthodoxy, he will be greatly provoked and will set a very bad example for future generations.

And this power of example was brought by Yakura.

"Gentleness is not suitable for today's Kirigakure. To target the Blood Mist Sect, strong medicine must be administered. Genshi, don't you also know that they are secretly colluding with Kumogakure's ninjas? In fact, without me taking action, you would have At the meeting, make a proposal to oppose the Watermelon Mountain Fugu Oni ​​becoming the Fourth Mizukage.”

Yagura understood why.

It's just that unlike Master Yuan, he didn't take the overall situation into consideration, but chose to take the wrong path.

Failure will result in death, but victory will usher in a new era for Kirigakure.

As for whether this new era will be good or bad for Kirigakure's future, Yagura can't see clearly.

But there is no other way to go but this one.

Over the years, he has been constantly observing the governance system of the Kingdom of Demons, because the daimyo and nobles of the Kingdom of Water are no longer trustworthy, and Kirigakure must find another way out.

However, the era of one country, one village has gone through decades of ups and downs, and has received the full support of most countries and ninja villages. After all, the name of the person who created this era is called Senju Hashirama.

It's the Ninja God!

It is still very rare for a ruling class like the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Water to dig their own graves and ignore contracts and rules.

The evolution of Kirigakure's blood mist is just an accidental mutation in the historical evolutionary path of ninjas, and cannot be regarded as a universal significance.

Of course, you can also lead Kirigakure again and make peace with the ruling class of the Kingdom of Water...but once something is broken, it is difficult to reunite.

It takes ten or decades for both parties to build trust, but losing trust often only happens in an instant.

"Since you have this awareness, just lead Kirigakure to become stronger. However, I will also monitor your every move behind the scenes and will not let you mess around in this village again."

Master Yuan sighed.

Yagura was not his favorite candidate for the Fourth Mizukage.

The Third Mizukage has been hiding his ambitions for many years, and has been involved in the village's Three-Tails without anyone noticing, and despite the incomplete research on the Kirigakure Tailed Beast, he has become a perfect Jinchuuriki by training himself.

All these things show that Yagura is a ninja whose aggressiveness is more terrifying than that of the Watermelon Mountain Fugu Oni.

It's just that all his radical thinking in the past was covered up by his harmless face.

If Yagura hadn't initiated the coup this time, it would be hard for him to believe that there were such outstanding 'ninjas' in Kirigakure.

He failed to detect Yagura's plan in advance and only focused his attention on the Blood Mist Sect. Genshi believed that this was his dereliction of duty.

Otherwise, he could discuss with Yagura in advance and use a gentler method to subvert the ninjas of the Blood Mist faction.

"Being personally monitored by you, the most respected person in the village, is really stressful. However, this is also the consequence of my own fault. As for the next generation of Mizukage, I already have a good candidate. In fact, I also know that I This fourth generation Mizukage will not sit for a long time, and it is impossible for him to retire when he is sixty or seventy years old like the third generation did."

No matter how much you cover up the matter of improper positioning, you will still be criticized.

Even in the position of the Fourth Mizukage, whether he can work until he is forty is still a question.

"who is it?"

Genshi opened his eyes slightly and stared at Yagura's baby-like smiling face.

"Mei Terumi among the ANBU, she is absolutely loyal to Kirigakure, and has not been swayed by the bad habits of the Blood Mist Sect. She is proficient in the changes of the four chakra attributes of fire, thunder, earth, and water, and has both melting and boiling escapes. If you focus on cultivating the bloodline, you can become the stronghold of the village."

Yagura recommended this candidate to Master Yuan.

Genshi nodded slightly. Terumi Mei knew that he was an extremely rare double-blooded ninja in the ninja world. He was already a jounin in the village at a young age and was very powerful.

In fact, he paid a lot of attention to the younger generation of Kirigakure ninjas.

His original intention was to leave the position of the Fourth Mizukage vacant, let himself take the helm of Kirigakure, slowly squeeze out the Blood Mist policy, and then start training the younger generation of ninjas, waiting for the right opportunity to elect the Fourth Mizukage.

However, all this was disrupted by Yagura, forcing him to change his plan.

"I will train her myself."

The snake-shaped crutch in Yuan Shizuo's hand is more like some kind of unquestionable attitude.

"Of course, it is her honor to be trained by you personally, Master Yuan. I believe she will be an excellent Mizukage in the future."

Yagura smiled slightly.

Standing up from his seat, the conversation was almost over, and Yagura walked outside.

"Has your arm recovered yet?"

Master Yuan's voice came from behind.

Yagura stopped, nodded, and said without looking back: "Yes, I was cured by a very close friend."

"Is Ringo Uyuri too?"

"yes."

"It seems that you still have many unknown secrets. According to what my informants witnessed, yesterday, on the sea not far from the village, overwhelming thunderclouds appeared out of thin air, and five hundred Kumogakure elites were swept away. Ninjas surrounded us. After the thundercloud dissipated, the five hundred Kumogakure ninjas also disappeared, leaving only some traces of the battle."

Yagura just nodded silently and didn't say much.

Before the showdown with Genshi, if his cooperation with Shiraishi is exposed, Genshi will definitely oppose it because of Shiraishi's identity as a rebellious ninja, causing him to change his mind and vacate the position of the Fourth Mizukage.

When he completely takes control of the village and restores Kirigakure's power, it won't be too late to have a showdown with the Genshi at that time.

Even if Master Yuan wanted to object at that time, his position as Mizukage would not be shaken.

"I won't go into details about your friend, but don't provoke Konoha like the Watermelon Mountain Puffer Ghost. The power of that village is beyond the reach of our Kirigakure."

There was a rare hint of helplessness and avoidance in Master Yuan's tone.

Because many institutions in Kirigakure Village, such as the important ninja schools and ANBU systems, were modeled after Konoha, the military power of Kirigakure Village has soared.

The more this happens, the more the Yuanshi understands how powerful and terrifying Konoha is.

Just imitating can make Kirigakure's power grow by leaps and bounds. As the founder of the ninja school and ANBU system, Konoha's power can be imagined.

If a war breaks out between the two sides, it will definitely end in Kirigakure's disastrous defeat.

Sand Hidden, Rock Hidden, and Cloud Hidden are examples.

All the ninja villages that fought against Konoha were defeated without exception, and the number one position in the ninja world was unshakable.

"Don't worry, what Kirigakure needs now is recovery, and there are no major internal conflicts that need to be transferred to foreign wars."

At least now he won't attack Konoha.

As for the future, let the future judge.

Ending the era of one country and one village established by the God of Ninja sounds quite exciting. Yagura thought to himself.

Genshi is already old. Although he is considering the overall interests of Kirigakure, his thinking is too conservative after all.

But unlike me, I am still very young and have enough time to develop Kirigakure.

Rather than talking about meaningless nice words, Yagura prefers to use practical actions to prove his strength.

If even Kage loses his ambition to make progress, Yagura feels that this is the real source of Kirigakure's sorrow.

At this point, he still admired Yunyin's strong mind that was unyielding and constantly looking for ways to become stronger.

"This is best. The third generation has retired. Don't attack him again. Let him spend his old age in peace. I will send someone to watch him and won't let him affect you."

The Third Mizukage and Yagura had deep conflicts due to the previous incident. The Third Mizukage, who had lost the support of a large number of Kirigakure ninjas, had become a loner in the village. Genshi was very worried that Yagura would secretly arrange an unfavorable plan against the Third Mizukage. .

"This is the best. I don't want to be charged with killing my boss."

Yagura dropped these words and left the room.

Walking outside, Terumi Mei, wearing an Anbu uniform, had been waiting there for a long time.

"Yakura-sama."

"Have the battle damage statistics been calculated?"

Yagura asked.

"Yes. There are more than 2,300 people killed in the battle, more than 600 people seriously injured, and more than 3,000 people lightly injured. As for the damaged buildings and facilities... countless."

Terumi Mei answered truthfully.

When Yagura heard this number, he couldn't help but fell silent.

"After I succeed the Fourth Mizukage, let's go and see the daimyo. Kirigakure Village has suffered such heavy damage, so there should be something to express. Have you prepared all the materials?"

Terumi Mei nodded, and all the correspondence between the Blood Mist Sect and the daimyo and nobles of the Kingdom of Water, as well as other evidence materials, were ready.

Not only the physical evidence, but also all the witnesses were in place, and many big fish were caught.

Kirigakure Village is now in dire straits. To restore funds, the only option is to use disgraceful blackmail threats from the daimyo.

The Ninja Village and the country's rulers, who are supposed to help each other, can now only obtain funds through extortion. I have to say that this is sad.

Mei Terumi believes that the relationship between Kirigakure and the Kingdom of Water has completely entered the twilight stage, and darkness must not be far away.

"But what if they refuse to admit it?"

Terumi Mei asked worriedly.

"At this point, it doesn't matter whether they admit it or not. I don't need them to admit it. As long as I can shut up their stinky mouths and continue to provide Kirigakure funds. Unlike the third generation, I will not be used to it. them."

Yagura's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Seeing this, Mei Terumi had no doubt that when the time came, Yagura would personally lead the Kirigakure ninjas all the way to the capital of the Land of Water, and personally twist off the heads of daimyo and nobles who interfered with Kirigakure's internal affairs.

(PS: In the original manga, it was mentioned that Kirigakure had a very bad relationship with the ruling class of the Kingdom of Water. During the Five Kage Conference, the Daimyo of the Kingdom of Water publicly stated that he did not believe in the ninjas of Kirigakure. When they formed the Ninja Alliance, they also expressed their disbelief. The face is forced, this content is on the first page of the 488th chapter of the manga. During the period of the second Mizukage Demon Demon Moon, through imitating Konoha's ninja school and ANBU system, the military strength has advanced by leaps and bounds, and there are traces to follow.)