Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 550: Troublesome Maintenance Force

"Sure enough, it's another letter from Minato."

Inside Mizukage's office.

Jianchuan Ju put down the scroll in his hand helplessly and rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.

Just as he thought, this letter was still from Minato Namikaze, urging him to quickly form a "maintenance force".

At this time, more than a month had passed since the night of the Nine-Tailed Fox Rebellion.

Two months have passed since the Five Kage Summit, in which it was decided to form a maintenance force to "protect the peace of the ninja world" against the Zero Organization hidden in the dark.

However, finalizing the formation of a joint force and actually starting to build it are naturally not the same thing.

Preliminary preparations, allocation of resources, selection of locations, and selection of personnel to join the joint force.

Each of these things is not easy to finalize.

Especially since this time the maintenance and coordination force was jointly established by the five major ninja villages, the various matters involved are extremely complicated.

At present, except for Konoha Village, which has just experienced the Nine-Tails Rebellion and hates the Zero Organization to the core and has been sending letters to various villages to urge the establishment of maintenance forces, the remaining villages are basically still in the early stages of preparation, and there are many things to argue about.

It took more than a week to decide on the site for the military base.

Konoha wanted to set up its base within the territory of the Fire Country. The reason was simple: the Fire Country was located in the center of the Ninja World, making it very convenient for all parties to act.

But naturally, the other four companies would not agree to such a thing.

Jianchuan Ju actually never thought of setting up the base on his own land.

The geographical location of the Water Country is indeed inconvenient.

Whirlpool Island is not bad, but it is now almost becoming the most prosperous commercial city in the entire Water Kingdom. Jianchuan Tachibana doesn't want Obito's illness to cause any trouble and affect the income of the Hidden Mist Village.

After all the calculations, it might end up in the neutral territory of the Iron Kingdom.

However, the Iron Kingdom itself also has some opinions on this matter, so it has not been finalized yet.

Of course, these are actually small things.

At worst, Jianchuan Ju could forcefully "persuade" the other ninja villages to set up their bases near the Island of Whirlpools, and then leave some backup plans for the bases, and maybe even trick Uchiha Obito.

But there was another thing that also made Jianchuan Ju a little embarrassed.

"Ju, how about I go to that maintenance unit and sign up first?"

Seeing Jianchuan Ju having a headache, Qing couldn't help but persuade him.

However, Jianchuan Ju's answer was very firm.

"Don't even think about it! Teacher Qing, you should just stay in the village and help Elder Yuan handle official business. Don't run around anywhere!"

That’s right, another thing is that Minato Namikaze proposed that he hoped Ao, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, could personally join the maintenance force.

At the beginning, Namikaze Minato sent the letter in a private capacity, wanting to discuss with the Mizukage, Tachibana Kanegawa.

He also stated that if Qing could join the maintenance force, Konoha would fully support Qing as the commander of this force.

However, how could Jianchuan Ju and Elder Yuanshi not see what Konoha was thinking?
The proposal to let Qing, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, join was nothing more than wanting to use the Three-Tails as bait to actively lure out the big fish, the Zero Organization.

The fundamental reason is that the "Zero Organization" has been taking actions since the Joint Chunin Exam.

After the Nine-Tailed Fox Rebellion, he suddenly disappeared and there was no news of him since.

This not only made the revenge-hungry Konoha Village extremely anxious, but was also one of the reasons for the slowdown in the establishment of the maintenance force. However, even so, Jianchuan Ju would not let Qing go out to attract firepower.

He knew that his opponent would target the Jinchūriki, yet he still took the initiative to jump around in the ninja world.

Do you really think that zero organization will not engage in gang fights?

Although Qing's current strength, with the Byakugan, Samehada, and Three-Tails, is a trinity that can easily make him defeat an ordinary Kage-level warrior, he is not as strong as Jianchuan Ju, who can act recklessly.

Besides
"Right now, the daily office work is all supported by Elder Yuanshi and Teacher Qing. If Teacher Qing, who is an experienced person, wants to go out and hang around, then I will be too busy to death, right?"

But the current situation is.

After several private letters and negotiations with Tachibana Kanegawa were rejected, Minato Namikaze actually persuaded several other ninja villages to agree to this proposal, and they unanimously agreed that Aori would serve as the commander of the troops.

After all, it is one of the five major ninja villages.

Konoha only has half of the Nine-Tails left, Iwagakure only has one Five-Tails Jinchuriki left, Sand Village has only had one One-Tails Shukaku from beginning to end, and Kumogakure has only one
In short, the other four families all wished that Kirigakure would send their own tailed beast Jinchuriki out to fish.

As a result, Jianchuanju was forcibly lifted up.

"Damn it, if you make me angry, I will flip the table right now!"

Jianchuan Ju's eyes fixed, he had made up his mind, and turned to look at the Yuanshi elder beside him.

"Elder, send a reply to those four families, and tell them that we will send Hoshigaki Kisame to lead the initial establishment of our maintenance force this time."

"It's still the same rule. We will select the commander of the troops based on force. If the ninjas sent by the other four families can defeat Hoshigaki Kisame, then we from Kirigakure will not only send another Ao-sensei to cooperate, but will also voluntarily give up the competition for the commander this time."

"But if those rubbish they send out can't defeat Kisame, then all of you shut up!"

Upon hearing this, Elder Yuanshi was stunned for a moment, then a gratified smile gradually appeared on his face. He immediately leaned over and wrote the letter himself.

Instead, Qing, the person involved, asked with a slightly hesitant look on his face after hearing Jianchuan Ju's arrangement.

"Ju, isn't this a bit too harsh?"

Qing asked this question not because he was weak or wanted to compromise.

He had some understanding of both Jianchuan Ju's strength and his own Mizukage, who was good at "digging", and the foundation that Kirigakure had accumulated for the current generation.

However, this is slightly different from the original plan of the Hidden Mist Village to develop steadily and accumulate reputation with the help of the peacekeeping force.

As a high-ranking member of Kirigakure, it was necessary for him to express different opinions at a time like this to prevent his disciples from acting on impulse.

Naturally, Jianchuan Ju would not have any other thoughts because of Qing's hesitation.

He just shook his head slightly at Qing.

"It's okay, Mr. Qing. This is also to let other ninja villages see the strength of our new generation of Kirigakure ninjas."

Well, although it sounds a bit strange for him to call Hoshigaki Kisame, who is older than Jianchuan Tachibana, the 'new generation ninja'.

However, Qing could also understand what Jianchuanju meant.

The Hidden Mist Village now has the top fighting force of the Mizukage, Tachibana Kanegawa, and the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, Ao, who has demonstrated his strength in the three wars and is also intimidating.

The previous Chunin Exam was to show the future of Kirigakure to the ninja world.

Then, for Hoshigaki Kisame, a ninja who has followed in the footsteps of Jianchuan Tachibana and reached the level of Kage, it is time for the ninja world to change its view of him.

"But just in case, let's prepare some other means for Kisame!"

(End of this chapter)