The Shimada Family's Ninja Journey

Hanzo, who was far away in Konoha, didn't know much about Sunagakure's plan.

But in fact, even if he knew it, he would feel it was completely indifferent.

Ordinary people may think that tailed beasts have unlimited chakra, combined with their huge size, are very powerful, and ordinary ninjas cannot compete with them.

But that's because they don't know anything about restraining the limits of tailed beast blood inheritance.

In fact, among current ninjas, almost no one knows how Wood Release and Mangekyō Sharingan can restrain tailed beasts.

Whether it is the Chakra absorption and sealing effects of Wood Release, or the control of the Mangekyou Sharingan, they are all fatal to the tailed beasts.

Moreover, even without the above two blood inheritance limits, Hanzo is completely unafraid of just one person relying on his own hard power.

Therefore, Sunagakure's plan is destined to be in vain, but they don't know it themselves.

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"Hokage-sama."

In Konoha Hokage's office, an ANBU team leader was kneeling on one knee in front of his desk, while Hashirama and Madara were sitting on the sofa next to them.

"You were investigating the news in the Land of Rain and the Land of Grass. Did you find anything unusual?" Hanzo asked the ANBU in front of him.

After Kumogakure was officially established earlier, Hanzo sent most of Konoha's ANBU to the border of Fire Country and the surrounding buffer countries to detect information, and at the same time captured intelligence officers and spies from other ninja villages.

The Country of Rain and the Country of Grass are two small countries sandwiched between the Country of Fire and the Country of Earth.

Among them, the Country of Grass is a small country adjacent to only Fire and Earth.

The Kingdom of Rain is sandwiched between the three kingdoms of Fire, Wind and Earth.

Of course, in addition to this, there is also the Kingdom of Taki sandwiched between the Kingdom of Fire and the Kingdom of Earth.

However, given the location of the Earth Kingdom, the most convenient way to get to the Fire Kingdom is to pass through the Rain Kingdom or the Grass Kingdom, while the Taki Kingdom is relatively detoured.

Although the ANBU had a large number of people, they were somewhat stretched after they were sent to various borders at the same time.

Therefore, when the ANBU did not have sufficient manpower, Hanzo sent not many ninjas to the country of Taki.

As for the ANBU teams dispatched to the Kingdom of Rain and the Kingdom of Grass, their mission is to focus on monitoring the actions of the Kingdom of Earth, and by the way, pay attention to the movements of the Kingdom of Wind.

After hearing Hanzo's words, the ANBU team leader saluted and then said: "Hokage-sama, according to our investigation, there are indeed ninjas in Iwagakure operating in the Country of Grass and the Country of Rain, but there is no movement to cross the border into the Country of Fire for the time being.

, so we didn’t rush to alert the enemy.”

Hanzo nodded when he heard this and said: "Okay, you can go down now. You and your team are on vacation for the time being. Someone will notify you when there are new tasks."

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

The ANBU team leader bowed to Hanzo, Hashirama and Madara, and then disappeared into the Hokage's office.

"Look, Madara, Iwagakure has no ill intentions towards us, so why should we be aggressive?" After the ANBU left, Hashirama, who was sitting on the sofa, couldn't help but said to Madara next to him.

"Hmph! Hashirama, do you believe this?" Madara snorted disdainfully and said: "The people of Iwagakure just didn't cross the border, but they sent ninjas to the Country of Grass and the Country of Rain. Are they preparing for it?

Who, I guess I don’t need to say more.”

Speaking of which, Madara actually has a grudge against the Earth Country Iwagakure Village.

He and Hanzo were seriously injured after the battle in the Valley of the End. On their way back to their family, they were robbed and killed by the ninjas of the Earth Country headed by Wu. If Izumi and Kazuya hadn't tried their best to protect him, I'm afraid it would have been him.

The dignified Madara Uchiha is about to capsize in the gutter.

After such an experience, Madara would naturally not have a good impression of Iwagakure.

Therefore, now facing this situation, Madara just wants to settle his old and new grudges together.

However, Hanzo and Hashirama were not clear about these things. Hearing Madara's words, Hashirama was immediately suffocated.

Seeing the two of them arguing about this issue again, Hanzo also felt very headache.

In order to prevent the two from starting an endless quarrel, Hanzo quickly opened his mouth to make peace.

"Okay, okay, Iwagakure sent ninjas to the Land of Rain and the Land of Grass, it must be to guard against us, but this doesn't mean anything. After all, they didn't cross the border, and the Tsuchikage didn't have the guts to come." Hanzo smiled.

said.

When Hanzo said this, he considered the opinions of both people at the same time. Even if they were not satisfied, they could only nod reluctantly, but the atmosphere in the office became more and more awkward.

Just when Hanzo was at a loss, the door to the Hokage's office was pushed open.

Kazuya Uchiha walked in.

"Hokage-sama, are you looking for me?"

Seeing Kazuya, Hanzo suddenly seemed to see a savior and said quickly: "Yes, Elder Kazuya... This morning, news came from Kirigakure that they planned to talk to us about cross-border missions and business issues.

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With that said, Hanzo picked up a document from the desk and handed it to Uchiha Kazuya.

Regarding cross-border escort missions and cross-border trade issues, Hanzo had raised them with Kirigakure a long time ago.

However, in the past six months or so, Konoha's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been nothing more than a mere empty frame, so Hanzo put this matter on hold for the time being.

Now that the time has come, Hanzo gave a little hint to the Kingdom of Water through the Daming Palace. Kirigakure heard the sound of the string and knew what it meant, and immediately sent an envoy to visit Konoha.

Seeing that Uchiha Kazuya browsed the document from beginning to end, Hanzo continued: "Currently, Kirigakure has sent an elders to lead a delegation to visit Konoha, and they will arrive in Konoha in about two days.

The reception and negotiation of the Kirigakure mission will be left to your Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Regarding business and trade, you can also ask Elder Katsumoto for help."

"Understood, Hokage-sama."

Uchiha Kazuya immediately responded.

"Okay, you go down and get ready first. If there's anything you can't decide, you can tell me." Hanzo nodded.

After hearing this, Uchiha Kazuya immediately left the Hokage's office.

Madara and Hashirama next to them also had different expressions after hearing Hanzo's arrangement.

Hashirama couldn't help but look surprised.

In his opinion, since Hanzo is willing to send the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with Kirigakure, at least Hanzo has no intention of starting a war with the Land of Water.

This also means that Hanzo does not agree with Madara's idea of ​​launching a preventive war against various countries.

Hashirama was naturally surprised.

Madara's face showed a mixture of displeasure and helplessness.

What Hashirama could think of, he could naturally think of, but unlike Iwagakure, according to ANBU news, Kirigakure didn't even have any ninjas set foot on the mainland, and Kirigakure was also related by marriage to Hanzo, and there was also one among Kirigakure.

A branch of the Shimada family.

Therefore, both publicly and privately, Hanzo would probably not take a radical attitude towards Kirigakure.

Fortunately, Iwagakure attracted hatred, and Madara reluctantly accepted Hanzo's attitude.

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