Konoha: Sage Body

Pulling Amegakure onto the chariot that is Konoha, that's what Kirito came here for this time.

"Although what you say makes sense, I'm not the Hokage after all, and I can't make an unauthorized decision to support your Amegakure."

Tsunade sighed when she saw that Kirito's ultimate goal was indeed to have Konoha support Amegakure.

To be honest, she was a bit moved by Kirito's words.

Indeed, Konoha's future rise to power was in need of allies to share the pressure from the other major ninja villages, and Amegakure was a good ally from the current point of view, as Amegakure now had two powerful Kage-Level powerhouses namely Hanzo of the Salamander and Hattori Masanari.

If Amegakure's population was not so low, and the number and strength of the genin and chunin class ninjas were not enough, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the sixth largest ninja village.

If Konoha could ally with Amegakure, the pressure it would face in the future from the other major ninja villages would definitely be greatly reduced.

Just that, no matter how much Hattori Masanari made the future of Konoha sound reasonable and drew a big and delicious pie, but that was all in the future, and once Konoha really decided to step in to support Amegakure, it would definitely be a huge investment of manpower and resources.

Maybe the war between Kumogakure and Sunagakure would start, and the promising future of peace would be shattered now that Konoha had completely defeated Sunagakure.

Thinking differently, with her understanding of that teacher of hers, nine times out of ten, he would not agree to send troops to support Amegakure.

"Princess of Konoha, you underestimate your own energy, if you are truly willing to step in and help us, Amegakure, I believe that that Makoto-sama will seriously consider it."

Kirito smiled when he saw that Tsunade was moved by his words.

He is now as the Hattori Masanari of Amegakure, directly go to the konoha to find Sandaime, that is definitely inappropriate, if you use this kind of approach to Tsunade to communicate with Sandaime, in nine out of ten cases, it will be seen by Sandaime as a kind of challenge to the Konoha, not to mention the success, and directly turn into an enemy.

Moreover, Sandaime is a kind-hearted person, in his eyes, the current Amegakure is a burden to Konoha, the probability of helping Amegakure will annoy Kumogakure, which will ultimately lead to a war between Konoha and Kumogakure, shattering the hope for peace.

Sandaime accepted Amegakure's surrender conditions without compensation has already made many people in konoha discontented, and this time in order to help Amegakure through the difficult times and provoke Kumogakure, causing Konoha to lose peaceful times, not surprisingly, this will certainly make more people resentful of him.

Obviously, this situation was not in Sandaime's interest at all.

He dared to conclude that if he went to see Sandaime under the identity of Hattori Masanari, even if he spoke these current sentences to Sandaime, the chances of getting Sandaime to agree to step in to support Amegakure would not be high.

Therefore, he needed to find someone who could convince Sandaime to step in to support Amegakure.

This person was Tsunade.

Tsunade's position in Konoha is not simple, she inherited the Senju clan's reputation in Konoha, not to mention that, because of the relationship between the top medical ninjas, many of Konoha's strongest people have avoided going to the Pure Land from her hands.

The favor of saving their lives is greater than the heavens.

As long as she was willing to ask, at least more than half of the jōnin in Konoha would be willing to help her.

Lastly, she now had a very powerful brother.

With all these factors combined, it was impossible for Sandaime to ignore Tsunade's opinion.

Because Tsunade currently had almost the ability to be able to lift the table, if Sandaime did not wish to fall out with Tsunade, he would definitely support her.

Unfortunately, this sister of his had always misunderstood the perception of her power in Konoha, and had never known how to utilize this amazing power.

"..."

Tsunade fell silent when she heard Kirito say that.

She was very intelligent and understood Kirito's meaning at once, she had to say that the other party's insight was very sharp, she did have the ability to influence that teacher of hers, as long as she made up her mind and used all the power she could mobilize in her hands, the probability was that she could get Sandaime to agree to go out and support Amegakure.

However, if she really did that, her relationship with Sandaime would also become more and more strained, also this time, the leading person of Konoha to go out to support Amegakure would definitely be her, after all, she was the initiator.

She had a premonition that once she did step in to help Amegakure through this, she herself would be forced to do something she didn't want to.

"Princess Konoha, don't hesitate, as long as you step in to help Amegakure through this difficult time, Amegakure will sincerely be grateful to you, and you will gain my friendship with Amegakure, I can assure you that as long as I am in Amegakure, Amegakure will be Konoha's most loyal ally.

Also, we Amegakure will not let Konoha help us for nothing, it will be paid by us."

Kirito continued.

Tsunade remained silent.

She could only believe half of this Ame-Nin's words at best right now, she wasn't some little girl to be coaxed, and until she saw tangible benefits, there was no way she would trust this cunning and dangerous head of Amegakure intelligence.

"If you have any use for me in the future, such as dealing with the Root left behind by Danzo, I will definitely do my best to help, this is a little bit of my sincerity."

Seeing this, Kirito had no choice but to continue to raise the stakes.

As soon as the words left his mouth, a somewhat pale-skinned Hattori Masanari, Kirito's spore clone, drilled out of the ground in front of Tsunade's eyes.

He took out a summoning scroll from his body, and formed a seal to make the summoning technique - Releasing Technique, and took out the contents.

There were two items, one was a scroll and the other was a millstone-sized chunk of metal.

After the spore clone did this, the chakra in his body seemed to be completely depleted and he quickly turned into a pile of ashes.

Of the two things, Tsunade's eyes were first attracted to the metal block on the ground, for no other reason than the fact that it was a precious and incomparable piece of chakra metal, she picked it up with her hand to estimate its weight, and her breathing suddenly became slightly shortened.

This large piece of chakra metal at least half a ton weight, according to the normal market price to calculate, this piece of chakra metal at least worth seven or eight hundred million.

However, Chakra metal has always been priced without a market, if there is no stable channel, regular people want to buy it, usually only able to spend several times more expensive than the market price in the black market to be able to buy a little.

Therefore, if this piece of Chakra Metal in her hand was truly converted into money, it might be close to several billion dollars.

This was a true hard currency, the kind that was not at all worried about selling, and even if it was available, many people and forces were not willing to sell it because it was a very important strategic resource.

Iwagakure had quite a lot of chakra metal in their hands, but they would rather use it to keep it under storage than to sell more of it, the reason being that once these things were sold, they would most likely be turned into a sharp weapon used by other ninja villages to deal with them, the Iwagakure.

"I didn't realize that the Amegakure was actually so rich, possessing so much chakra metal in their hands."

Tsunade was inwardly surprised.

As a ninja, she was very clear about the weight contained in this piece of chakra metal in her hand, such a large piece of chakra metal was enough for Konoha to build a number of fine ninja tools, effectively enhancing the overall strength of Konoha ninja.

The sincerity of Amegakure in order to let konoha come out, she now see, and she now has such a big piece of chakra metal in her hand as a deposit, she considered to be some bottom line to let Sandaime come out to support Amegakure.

Fighting a war is all about money.

A big part of the reason why the people of Konoha were tired of war was that fighting was too much of a labor of passion.

Konoha fought with Amegakure and Sunagakure at the same time for seven or eight years, the previous accumulation of the fund has long been almost exhausted, Konoha village is now not much food left in the village.

It is because of this, Sandaime accepted Amegakure's surrender conditions without compensation in the first place will make many people in konoha dissatisfied, superficially because of the loss of face, in fact, it is that he moved the cake of many people in konoha.

Amegakure was indeed poor at the time after the defeat, but a rotten ship has three pounds of nails.

As long as Konoha completely defeated Amegakure and the Land of Rain was not overthrown, there was always a way to squeeze enough profit out of the Land of Rain.

After all, Land of Rain's location was so good that simply by collecting tolls was a significant amount of income.

"Princess Konoha, this is the last bit of our Amegakure's fortune, please make sure you convince that Hokage-sama to come out and support our Amegakure."

Soon, Tsunade's voice once again appeared in her mind, Hattori Masanari's voice carried a deep sense of reluctance.

Taking out so much chakra metal at once, to be honest, Kirito's heart was also very painful, these chakra metal was what he had managed to accumulate little by little from Iwagakure, originally intended to use it to make powerful puppets.

However, Amegakure's current situation is really precarious, not long ago subdued a large sum of money over the support of the Kiri-nin, there is not much money on hand, only able to take out these hard currency to attract the konoha to come out to support.

But it was all worth it, as long as Amegakure was preserved, he could rely on the Amegakure village to obtain more things in the future.

He had managed to cultivate Hattori Masanari, a Vestal, into the top echelon of Amegakure Village, and now his position was a little more favorable than Hanzo of the Salamander, and he didn't want to see Amegakure overthrown.

Tsunade sniffed and didn't say anything, she wasn't a person who made promises easily, she wouldn't make a promise just because Hattori Masanari was crying poor.

She put the chakra metal down, then that after picking up the scroll on the ground, opened it and her face quickly turned pale.

"Everything on this is true?"

Tsunade gripped the scroll in her hand tightly, her body trembling uncontrollably as she lost her voice.

"Naturally it's true, that Hokage-sama of yours isn't simple, if you don't believe me, I can take you there right now to verify it, within the Land of Rain there's the newest secret lab opened by these guys."

Kirito said in a cold voice.

What was recorded inside that scroll he had given Tsunade was exactly something buried in the darkness of the Wood Release program that the New Root and the Old Root were secretly working on.

In order to obtain the power of Wood Release, the New Root Division and the Old Root Division had been researching Hashirama cells and had already conducted many inhumane human experiments.

Human experiments like these with extremely high mortality rates, that of course could not have a large number of people volunteering to participate in them, many of the experimental subjects were secretly plundered by the Root from all over the Shinobi Realm, with ninjas and civilians from various countries being the targets of their plundering.

Not only that, they also set their sights on the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan.

This was because they found that the people of these two major ninja clans were far more adaptable to Hashirama cells than other people, and persisted in fusing Hashirama cells for a much longer period of time.

What's more, they didn't even spare children, the reason being that they found that children were even more advantageous than adults in fusing Hashirama cells.

Due to the recent outbreak of war between Amegakure and Kumogakure, many cities and villages in the Land of Rain have been destroyed and the people displaced, so these dastardly fellows took advantage of the fact that Amegakure had no time to care for him for the time being to target a large number of stragglers in the Land of Rain and use them for experiments.

He had already destroyed several Wood Release laboratories, but unfortunately, the people in these laboratories were pawns who carried out orders and knew very limited information, and he couldn't find many clues or evidence about Root.

However, some of the Wood Releases left behind in these labs that could not be disposed of in time could not fool those who really knew something about Wood Release.

"How could this be, how could he have fallen so far."

Tsunade heard Kirito's answer and her entire being became disoriented.

Although she doubted the authenticity of the contents on the scroll, Kirito had said so, and there was obviously solid evidence that Root's people were secretly conducting Wood Release experiments in the Land of Rain.

She looked at the top of the scroll about the sins created by the Wood Release experiments and her heart was cut to the core.

Wood Release was the power that her grandfather was proud of, but now someone was using his cells to conduct inhumane human experiments, even though she knew that it had nothing to do with her grandfather, who had passed away many years ago, she still blamed herself very much.

In the end, Hashirama's cells were taken from her grandfather, and now that these things had become harmful, this was never what her grandfather would have wanted to see.

If her grandfather knew about these things, he must have regretted not destroying his remains back then.

For a moment, Tsunade felt an emotion to destroy all Hashirama's cells.

Grandpa's cells shouldn't be the source of evil.

"Princess of Konoha, the danger of the Wood Release experiment, you surely know about it right, if this matter spreads out, Konoha will most likely become the public enemy of the Ninja world immediately, so I really hope that Konoha can get a new Hokage."

Kirito sighed as he saw Tsunade's current disoriented appearance from afar with Byakugan.

Tsunade was of course well aware of the dangers of Root conducting such inhumane experiments, once the matter was satiated, then Konoha's reputation in the Ninja World would be hit hard, and it would most likely incur an immediate siege from the other Ninja Villages.

"Are you threatening me?"

When Tsunade heard Kirito's words, her disoriented expression instantly turned frosty as she said in a cold voice.

She now realized that this Amegakure intelligence head knew just a little too much, this was undoubtedly not good news for the Konoha, and she was a little worried that this Amegakure would choose to expose the Root's unfolding experiments with the Konoha once he failed to achieve his goal.

"By no means, I don't want to see Amegakure being wiped out by the konoha, don't worry, I'm the only one in the entire Amegakure who knows about this, I'll take this secret into my coffin, and I will absolutely not leak it out."

Kirito promised with conviction.

Tsunade sniffed and snorted coldly, then lowered her head in deep thought.

She understood Kirito's words, and the other party's implication was that if Amegakure was gone, he wouldn't mind dragging Konoha along with him.

Although the other party spoke politely and lowered his stance, the threatening intent did not diminish in the least.

"You win, I will do my best to help you Amegakure bring reinforcements from Konoha, but you'd better remember, Konoha doesn't accept threats, even if the Konoha experiments come to light in the future, Konoha will have the courage to bear this mistake."

Within moments, Tsunade made her decision, her eyes revealing a determined gaze that Kirito had never seen before.

"Your words, I take them to heart, Konoha has a woman of honor like you, I believe Konoha is capable of handling this matter, I will wait for your good news in the Amegakure Village, Princess of Konoha, but I hope to be able to see you again soon."

Kirito said pleasantly as he saw the change in Tsunade's eyes.

As a matter of fact, he took out the information about the Wood Release experiment, on one hand to use it as a bargaining chip to get Tsunade to help Amegakure, and on the other hand, he wanted to use it to stimulate Tsunade, to motivate her to fight, and to make her completely disappointed in Sandaime.

Regarding Root's Wood Release experiment, the information he currently controlled wasn't much.

But since this experiment was jointly organized by the new Root and the old Root, then Sandaime was definitely not involved, even if he himself may not be clear about it, but when things have developed to this point, it is difficult for him to defend himself.

From the current point of view, this good sister of his has already decided that the Wood Release experiment has something to do with Sandaime, his impression of Sandaime is getting worse and worse, and has already developed the determination to correct the mistakes of Konoha.

This was a good start.

"The Fourth Hokage is supposed to be you, my good sister."

At the peak of a hill seven or eight kilometers away from Tsunade's barracks, Kirito smiled as he controlled his White Zetsu clone to close his White Zetsu eyes.

...

Meanwhile, five or six kilometers away from the eastern part of the Amegakure village, in a heavily damaged town.

Thousands of ninjas were secretly gathering here, scattered all over the town, hiding noiselessly.

These thousands of ninja were none other than the Kirigakure ninja who had traveled thousands of miles from the sea.

Suddenly, a man shrouded in a black robe intruded into this abandoned town that was no longer populated, and seemingly oblivious to the Kirigakure ninjas hiding in the area, he just waltzed right through the place.

Kirigakure Yagura, who was now in charge of this group of Kirigakure ninjas, was shocked to see the black-robed man barge in.

Because he hadn't realized when the black-robed man had appeared, the other party had just suddenly appeared in the town.

Although he himself wasn't an outstanding perception-type ninja, his perception ability wasn't bad either.

And the black-robed man is now just one or two hundred meters away from him, such a short distance, he surprisingly only found the other party now.

What surprised him the most was that the jōnin beside him, who possessed excellent perception ability, actually didn't realize the black-robed man's appearance in advance.

From this, it could be seen that this black-robed man's strength was feared to be not simple, and the other party was obviously not passing through here by accident.

"Damn it, who is this guy? What does he want to do?"

As Yagura watched the black-robed man getting closer and closer, a feeling of impending catastrophe suddenly arose in his heart, and he secretly became vigilant and prepared for battle.

However, he did not act rashly, whether the black-robed man was an enemy or a friend was still unknown, and once he did, he might attract the attention of the nearby Kumo-Nin.

Soon, he finally saw the black-robed man's face clearly, to be precise, it was a white spiral mask, and only revealed one eye.

The moment he saw the mask on the black-robed man's face, Yagura locked eyes with the black-robed man's eye.

Then, he was stunned to realize that the black-robed man in front of him had disappeared.