Konoha's lexicon of ninjas

Chapter 259 Please, Lord Mizukage, consider the bigger picture! (Please subscribe and vote!)

Zabuza Momochi's words were both harsh and realistic, making the expressions of the Mist Ninja present awkward.

Ao looked at Hoshino Shuichi, who was looking down and not saying a word, and suddenly realized something.

This ninja god's goal is probably the entire Hidden Mist Village!

Instantly, Ao's heart was filled with turmoil, then he looked at Mei Terumi: "It seems that the Fifth Mizukage also knew about his purpose, which is why..."

The meeting ended quickly.

But while Hoshino Shuichi, Momochi Zabuza, and Utakata were strolling around Kirigakure, the second meeting soon began.

After a moment of silence, Ao spoke up: "Fifth Mizukage, I think Zabuza Momochi's suggestion might be a good one."

Mei Terumi hadn't expected Ao to be the first to compromise, and coldly retorted, "Ao, you should be able to see that guy's goal is the entire village, right?"

Qing nodded and said in a deep voice, "Of course."

"With Hideaki's strength, it wouldn't be difficult for him to take over the village. Perhaps he didn't want to face the siege of the four great ninja villages at the same time, or perhaps there were other reasons, so he chose this method."

"But for us, we have no other cards to play, do we?"

The other high-ranking members of the Fog Shadow faction nodded in agreement.

Mei Terumi slammed her hand on the table: "I am the Mizukage!"

Ao quickly explained, "Lord Mizukage, what I meant was to buy some time."

"As long as we can delay until we defeat the Akatsuki and cultivate a suitable Sixth Mizukage, then you can marry into Konoha."

"That way, we can save the village without affecting your happiness."

"After all, a strongman like Lord Shuichi is worthy of you."

Mei Terumi was furious.

Although that guy is handsome and very strong, this method is just too humiliating.

At this moment, Ao stood up and bowed ninety degrees to Mei Terumi: "Lord Mizukage, for the future of the village, we have no choice but to sacrifice you for now."

The others also stood up and bowed, saying, "Please, Lord Mizukage, consider the greater good!"

……

When Hoshita Shuichi and his group returned to the dilapidated Mizukage Building, the newly appointed Fifth Mizukage had already compromised and been sold to Hoshita Shuichi by his subordinates.

With the marriage agreement reached, Utakata, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, went to Konoha for refuge, and Kirigakure and Konoha formed a further alliance.

Just like the Whirlpool Clan back then.

Although this analogy isn't very good, after all, the Uzumaki clan has already been wiped out.

Water Shadow's Temporary Office.

Mei Terumi had a sour look on her face and ignored Shuichi Hoshita, who was sitting at the desk. She buried herself in reading documents and learning about various previously unknown secrets.

Hoshita Shuichi looked at her and teased, "Hey, Mizukage-sama, that's not the right way for a fiancée to act."

Mei Terumi pretended not to hear.

Hoshita Shuichi immediately smiled and said, "Lord Mizukage, you wouldn't want me to save only you when the Akatsuki attacks, would you?"

Mei Terumi gritted her teeth, looked up at Shuichi Hoshita with a murderous glare: "Damn it... you don't act like a big shot at all!"

Hoshita Shuichi chuckled lightly: "I'm not some big shot."

"Don't forget, I'm only a few months older than you."

Mei Terumi's birthday is May 21st, the same year as him, and she is not yet 18 years old.

Mei Terumi frowned: "You don't really want Kirigakure and Konoha to merge, do you?"

Hoshino Shuichi's smile faded, and he nodded seriously: "Of course."

"Ending the era of one country and one village, and making the ninja world have only one ninja village. Although there will still be internal struggles within the ninja village, it won't be like now, with major wars breaking out every now and then."

"From the end of the Warring States period to now, in just a few decades, there have been three large-scale Shinobi World Wars, each of which was much larger in scale than the wars of the Warring States period."

"You're mine now, you won't not support me, will you?"

Mei Terumi scoffed, "I'm not yours yet."

Hoshita Shuichi immediately reached out and pulled Terumi Mei's hand into his arms, whispering in her ear, "What, do you want to become mine now?"

Mei Terumi immediately began to struggle in a panic.

Hoshita Shuichi released her, and Terumi Mei immediately straightened her clothes, glanced at the door, and then glared at Hoshita Shuichi: "This is the office!"

Hoshino Hideichi blinked: "Then I'll stay at your place tonight."

Mei Terumi ignored the shameless guy, sat down and said seriously, "It will be difficult for you to devour the village. They even sold me, the Fifth Mizukage, to you."

Mei Terumi's tone turned somewhat sarcastic at the end.

Hoshita Shuichi chuckled softly: "That's because I still have a compassionate heart."

"With my strength, taking down the other four major ninja villages wouldn't be a problem. I just don't want the Akatsuki and Madara Uchiha to benefit from this."

"Of course, it's also related to my not wanting to engage in endless killing."

"However, I wouldn't mind bleeding if necessary."

"After all, by then, I won't need to do it myself."

Mei Terumi's heart skipped a beat; she knew that Shuichi Hoshishita was expressing his determination to her.

With a furrowed brow, Mei Terumi said, "Ao and the others want to train the Sixth Mizukage as soon as possible so that he can take office after resolving the Eye of the Moon Project."

"Although it's naive, it also shows their attitude."

Hoshino Hideichi laughed and said, "Then let's change them."

"This is your responsibility as my wife."

Mei Terumi scoffed, "But I am also the Fifth Mizukage."

Hoshino Shuichi pinched the beauty's chin: "As the Mizukage, you are only temporary, but you will always be my wife."

"Besides, don't you agree with your man's lofty goals?"

Mei Terumi turned her head and said, "With your strength, even if you forcibly seize many tailed beasts, the other ninja villages would have no way to resist."

"Even if other ninja villages joined forces, they couldn't defeat you, but you didn't. Is it because you wanted to use the power of Akatsuki to weaken the other ninja villages... or to use the power of Akatsuki to force the other ninja villages to rely on Konoha?"

"You want to unify the ninja world through relatively peaceful means, rather than being afraid of the Akatsuki."

Hoshino Hideichi was surprised to hear this: "You're very perceptive."

"That's true."

"However, no matter what kind of appeasement methods are used, there will always be people who oppose it, so bloodshed is unavoidable."

Terumi Mei was silent.

Just like today, she knew that Hoshino Hideaki could have made a move much earlier, but he waited until the Fourth Mizukage died in battle, which naturally concealed a scheme.

But now she was one of Hoshino Shuichi's people, and also a beneficiary of the Fourth Mizukage's death, so her feelings were incredibly complicated.

……

After a busy day, Hoshino Shuichi decided to go home with Terumi Mei in the evening.

Mei Terumi went to wash up first. When she came out with her hair still wet and wearing a bathrobe, she blushed and said to Hideaki Hoshishita, "The hot water is ready."

Hideaki Hoshino was taken aback, not expecting Mei Terumi to do such a thing.

"Thanks!"

Hoshita Shuichi smiled and got up, while Terumi Mei followed behind him, blushing, and they went into the bathroom together.

Under Hoshita Shuichi's even more astonished gaze, Terumi Mei no longer resembled the Fifth Mizukage of the daytime; instead, she acted as a gentle wife, helping Hoshita Shuichi undress.

He has never enjoyed such treatment before.

Yecang never did these things; she always played hard to get, and he always had to serve her.

"I didn't expect you to be so traditional at heart?"

Hoshino Hideichi chuckled to himself, then sat in the bathtub and pressed his advantage: "I'm exhausted from today's battle, give me a massage."

"yes!"

Mei Terumi nodded shyly.

Such a huge contrast is infuriating.

An hour later.

Hoshita Shuichi carried the limp, mud-like Terumi Mei out of the bathroom.

While Hoshino and her group were enjoying Mei Terumi's contrasting gentleness, it was a sleepless night for Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure.

The scale of this battle in Kirigakure surpassed that of the two battles fought by Hoshinobi in Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

……

In the Raikage's office, the Fourth Raikage appeared somewhat agitated: "Kirigakure... the Fourth Mizukage has been taken over by the Akatsuki!"

"In other words, the Akatsuki organization was previously hiding in Kirigakure."

Tsuchishiro nodded: "It seems that's the case at the moment."

"Specific information still needs to be obtained from Konoha, after all, it is Hideaki who is fighting against Akatsuki."

"However, the information that came back from Kirigakure indicates that the Akatsuki members possess Wood Release abilities that are no less powerful than those of the First Hokage of Konoha, and their Rinnegan abilities are also extremely terrifying."

"If the battlefield hadn't shifted outside the village, the entire village would have been destroyed. And even just the aftershocks have damaged a third of Kirigakure."

"As it stands, the Fourth Mizukage is dead, and the Three-Tails has been taken away by the Akatsuki."

Tsuchishiro's expression was grave: "I don't know where Akatsuki's next target will be, but no matter what, they will target us sooner or later."

The Fourth Raikage scoffed, "Konoha has kept information from us!"

"They should have notified us this time so we could join forces to wipe out the Akatsuki in Kirigakure."

Tsuchishiro pondered, "Lord Raikage, there are probably other hidden reasons behind this."

"The most important thing now is to join forces with Konoha to find the Akatsuki and eliminate them before they can take action against Yugito."

"Moreover, Kirigakure suffered heavy losses this time, and they will likely join the operation to wipe out Akatsuki."

The Fourth Raikage immediately said, "Then send someone to Konoha right away."

Tsuchishiro nodded: "Understood!"

……

Hidden Rock Village.

Even as he crawled out of bed, Onoki couldn't help but show a shocked expression upon hearing his son's report: "They actually controlled the Fourth Mizukage..."

Is this information accurate?

Huang Tu nodded: "The Hidden Mist Village did not hide this shameful information. After the great war, the Hidden Mist Village selected the Fifth Mizukage, who was Mei Terumi, a woman who simultaneously mastered two bloodline limits."

Onoki raised an eyebrow: "That woman, I think she's not even twenty years old?"

Huang Tu nodded, somewhat emotionally saying, "After several internal conflicts, only she is currently capable of shouldering this great responsibility in Kirigakure."

"Now it seems that the internal strife in Kirigakure was probably orchestrated by the Akatsuki."

"Father, we must be cautious about cooperating with the Akatsuki."

Onoki scoffed, "I am not the Fourth Mizukage."

"Iwagakure is not Kirigakure!"

"Konoha has already annexed Kusagakure, and the Land of Fire is determined to take over the Land of Grass. Hoshinobi Shuichi is very ambitious, just like Uchiha Madara back then."

"If we want to fight Konoha, cooperating with Akatsuki is a good option."

He had already witnessed Hoshino Shuichi's strength; he was no match for him at all.

But now that the Akatsuki organization can actually fight against Hoshino Shuichi, then they are a very good partner.

Of course, Onoki was well aware that the Akatsuki organization could only be used.

Currently, this is an extremely sharp knife; one careless move could easily injure you.

……

When Xingxia Xiu opened her eyes in the morning, the person next to her was no longer there.

She got up to wash up, only to find breakfast already prepared on the table, along with a note left by Terumi Mei.

"How virtuous she is..."

After washing up and going out to practice, when he returned for breakfast an hour later, Hoshino Shuichi realized that he had made a premature assessment.

Mei Terumi's breakfasts were far inferior to those of Yakushi Nonou and Asuka.

Of course, he still felt very happy.

It's not so easy for a woman to make breakfast for a man.

After breakfast, Hoshino Shizuka went out, and Momochi Zabuza immediately appeared behind him and followed closely.

Arriving at the still-under-repair Mizukage Building, Hoshino Shuichi entered the Mizukage's temporary office amidst repeated calls of "Shuichi-sama".

Mei Terumi, who was browsing the documents, only slightly raised her head before lowering it again to continue her work.

She needs to gather all the information and intelligence a Mizukage should have within three days, and then, together with Hoshino Shuichi, lead the Six-Tails Jinchuriki to Konoha.

This is also the difference between Kirigakure and Konoha.

Konoha needs the Hokage to handle many things, but Kirigakure doesn't; most of the affairs are actually handled by the so-called elder council.

As the Mizukage, anyone who is the strongest will suffice.

Therefore, the Mizukage's departure from the village does not affect the operation of Kirigakure.

Of course, Mei Terumi's reason for going to Konoha with him, besides her relationship with Shuichi Hoshino, was also because, as the Fifth Mizukage, she needed to discuss further alliances with Konoha.

Kirigakure aims to forge a closer alliance with Konoha than Konoha and Sunagakure do, and to cooperate in more areas.

This was a plan discussed by Hoshinobi Shuichi and Terumi Mei. Konoha couldn't devour Kirigakure in one fell swoop like they did with Kusagakure; they had to assimilate it gradually.

Three days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Amidst the farewells of many Kirigakure ninja, Hoshinobi Shuichi and Terumi Mei departed Kirigakure.

There were four people behind them.

Zabuza Momochi, Utakata, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, Ao, and Chukichi, a ninja with a bloodline limit from Kirigakure.

Nakaji is a fat man with red glasses and blue stripes on his face. His bloodline limit is Dark Release. This time, he is going to Konoha as a bodyguard for the Mizukage, Mei Terumi.

As for Ao, he was both a bodyguard and an assistant to the Mizukage as he went to Konoha.

After leaving Kirigakure, Hoshinobu stopped and looked at Zabuza Momochi and the others, saying, "Get ready, I'll use space-time ninjutsu to teleport you to Konoha!"

Ao was startled: "Is it the Fourth Hokage's Body Flicker Technique?"

Hoshino nodded: "This technique was actually developed by the Second Hokage."

After he finished speaking, golden chakra appeared on his body, transforming into an outer garment similar to his previous Fire Release chakra mode, and then chakra arms extended out and landed on the shoulders of Ao and the others.

As for Mei Terumi, she is completely unnecessary.

Because Mei Terumi also has his Star Curse Mark on her body.

Swish!

After making preparations, Hoshino Shuichi led everyone away from where they were.

After several transfers, in less than 10 seconds, Hoshino Hideichi and the others appeared at the gate of Konoha Village.

Mei Terumi and the others were stunned as they received such treatment for the first time.

too fast.

It wasn't until the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, arrived with his men that Mei Terumi and the others came to their senses, and then the two sides met at the main gate.

After exchanging pleasantries, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, personally welcomed Mei Terumi and the others into Konoha.

at the same time.

The Land of Fields, Orochimaru's experimental base.

The combined form of Black Zetsu and White Zetsu looked at Orochimaru and laughed, "Prepare a sacrifice. If it can bring enough surprises, then the subsequent cooperation will not disappoint you."

"I always manage to surprise people."

Orochimaru smiled expectantly, then led Zetsu to a place where experimental subjects were being held. Pointing to a person in a cell, he said, "This is a Magnet Release ninja from Kumogakure. He's quite strong; that should be enough!"

White Zetsu nodded: "That's enough!"

After saying that, he used the Spore Technique to allow his spores to reside in the bodies of the Cloud Ninja, and then grow rapidly using the Cloud Ninja's chakra as nourishment.

When the two spores fully matured into complete White Zetsu, the Cloud Ninja were also forcibly killed because their chakra was completely drained.

Orochimaru's pupils contracted, and his smile widened: "What an interesting ability."

Black Zetsu said, "Although it's just a defective product among the defective imitations of Hashirama, you should still have Hashirama cells, right? Strengthening yourself shouldn't be too difficult for you."

Orochimaru replied confidently, "Of course."

Bai Jue laughed and said, "Then, let's see what your performance is like next."

Orochimaru stuck out his tongue: "As you wish."

(End of this chapter)