Konoha’s Thief Hand

"What happened outside the courtyard just now?" Hyuga Hiashi casually asked the tribe.

"Clan Chief, it was a Cloud Shinobi who came in by mistake and had some quarrel with our guards, but it has been resolved." The clan member answered truthfully.

"Well, let's go down." Hyuga Hiashi nodded slightly, but after the tribe left, he said, "Cloud Shinobi, is it a coincidence?"

The scene of yesterday’s dinner could not help appearing in his mind. Although Natsuki Matsuzaki seemed to just mention it casually, in fact, even the Hyuga clan had no room to intervene, so the problem that night was just Whatever the topic was casually talked about during the dinner.

But at this moment, he heard the name of the Cloud Shinobi mission again, but it made him have some different ideas.

"As that person, what you say casually may be closely related to my clan."

After thinking for a while, Hyuga Hiashi turned and walked towards the courtyard where the chief elder of the clan was located, thinking in his heart that no matter what the situation is, paying attention to always take the lead, so as not to be caught off guard when something really happens.

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Time passed quietly, and in a blink of an eye it was already seven days later.

And these few days of waiting seemed to finally make the Cloud Shinobi mission anxious, and instead of visiting Konoha Village, they urged Mitokado Homura, who was in charge of receiving the mission, to discuss the signing of a truce agreement several times.

Just for this, Mitokado Homura also expressed helplessness, because Hokage sent back a letter telling him that his return time was delayed for a few days due to things, so he could only take the Cloud Shinobi mission to meet the former Hokage-Sarutobi Hiruzen, and he Discuss this on behalf of Tsunade.

Hokage building, in the meeting room.

Sarutobi Hiruzen smoked his pipe and stood alone in front of the window swallowing mist.

The door was opened with a click, and Utatane Koharu walked in, greeted him at random and took his seat.

The tobacco in the pipe burned out quickly, and the scorching red soot only wafted out of smoke, which was no longer worth taking another breath.

"What does Tsunade think, Cloud Shinobi has been hanging out for several days, and yet he still doesn't show up?" Utatane Koharu asked Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"She is mad at me. I feel that Cloud Shinobi is so anxious about the truce this time. If I were to be tougher, I might be able to gain more benefits." Sarutobi Hiruzen knocked off the embers of the pipe and said with a wry smile.

"Huh! Let alone her, even I think so." Speaking of this, Utatane Koharu also has a lot of dissatisfaction with Sarutobi Hiruzen's approach. Excellent, if you stick to it and be tough, Konoha will definitely get more, not as agreed in the truce agreement to be signed now."

"This is the end of the matter, don't worry about these little things, Koharu." Sarutobi Hiruzen could only persuade with a smile.

"Small things? Unless Konoha was in the rich fire country, you would never say such a thing." Utatane Koharu curled his lips.

"Hehe, this is also our advantage." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a smile.

Filling the pipe with tobacco, he looked out from the window.

I saw that the villagers on the street came and went as usual. I didn't know that the village was about to sign a truce agreement with the former enemy country. From this perspective, the villagers and the village were undoubtedly separated.

After all, it is not the larger number of villagers that decides the direction of a Shinobu village, but a few or even one leader.

And this truth Sarutobi Hiruzen has already understood very thoroughly when he took over the heavy responsibility of Konoha Village, and what he is doing now is also carried out in accordance with this principle.

"Homura hasn't brought the Cloud Shinobi mission?" Utatane Koharu asked Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was standing in front of the window.

"Nothing yet." Sarutobi Hiruzen said without lighting his pipe, standing with his back on his back and looking into the distance.

"Yeah." Utatane Koharu responded, and then said again: "About what Homura speculated, Hiruzen, what do you think?"

"Let's watch the changes." When it came to this, Sarutobi Hiruzen groaned for a moment and sighed.

"This may be an opportunity." Utatane Koharu said seriously, "At least Danzo must think so."

"Hehe, you were wrong this time." After hearing Danzo mentioned through this incident, Sarutobi Hiruzen turned around with a smile and looked at Utatane Koharu and said: "Danzo came to talk to me before about how to deal with Uchiha's recent Under the circumstances, he no longer insists on his original opinion."

"Oh? This is a rare thing." Utatane Koharu asked suspiciously.

"I'll talk about it later." Without waiting for Utatane Koharu to ask, Sarutobi Hiruzen waved his hand sideways, looked at the street outside the window and said, "Homura is here with the Cloud Shinobi mission."

Hearing this, Utatane Koharu suppressed his curiosity and waited quietly.

After a while, Mitokado Homura withdrew from the door of the meeting room, and raised his hand sideways, asking the one-eyed boss and the accompanying Cloud Shinobi to enter.

"I saw Master Third Hokage, turn to the elder." After the one-eyed boss walked in, he politely saluted Sarutobi Hiruzen and Utatane Koharu.

"Well, Konoha has already felt the friendly attitude conveyed by Raikage-sama's letter. It was only because Hokage had something to go out recently that the signing of the truce agreement was delayed. Please forgive me." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a smile.

"Master Hokage is serious." The one-eyed boss quickly pretended to panic.

"This matter is Konoha's fault. Undoubtedly, it's just that the signing of the truce agreement must be signed by Hokage, so I hope you will wait a few days." Sarutobi Hiruzen said gently, "but the time is right now. It won’t be wasted. We can just discuss the trivial matters. If everything is satisfied by both parties, then we only need to wait for Hokage to come back to sign the agreement.”

"Listen to your orders." The one-eyed boss said without any doubt.

Utatane Koharu, who was on the sidelines, raised his eyelids and did not insert any mouth. He just glanced at his old partner Mitokado Homura. The tacit understanding developed over a long period of time allowed them to instantly see the hidden meaning in each other’s eyes. Obviously They all felt that this Cloud Shinobi visitor was a bit too talkative, and it was in the case of Sarutobi Hiruzen's soft attitude.

According to past experience, the people of Cloud Shinobi are reckless and irritable. Whenever they see any benefits to grab, they will definitely make an inch of it, greedy and even not thinking about retreat.

However, the situation at this time is completely different from this understanding. The so-called abnormal things must have demons. Behind the advance and retreat of the Cloud Shinobi mission, there must be other conspiracies hidden, and the biggest possibility is Mitokado Homura's speculation.

However, for Sarutobi Hiruzen, this matter may not necessarily be considered from another angle. After all, Cloud Shinobi, who lives in the plateau, does need to sign a truce agreement to open up business routes to purchase materials from the country of fire, and now bear it. In a peaceful environment in the world, Cloud Shinobi has no other choice, and it is not incomprehensible to change its usual style.

All tragedies do not reach the last moment, and there are always people who have chances, and when everything happens, those who die are often like this.

Sarutobi Hiruzen obviously doesn't understand this.

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