The Avengers of the Uzumaki Family

Unlike the five great ninja villages, which each have their own iconic "Kage Building", Takigakure did not have the resources to build an overly luxurious building. The government affairs hall was where successive leaders handled government affairs and received foreign guests. The office was located at the back, and the reception hall was at the front.

The buildings surrounding the government affairs hall were almost all offices for key positions in various departments of the village.

The garrison was located in a two-story building to the left of the government hall.

Menma still looked like the young man he had been before as he stepped into the house.

"Lord Fangfang!"

One of the ninjas from Takigakure, who was in charge of security at the very front, immediately bowed and greeted him.

This is a Takigakure ninja who witnessed Menma's overwhelming dominance some time ago. In addition, Menma's current status and identity far exceed those of ordinary Takigakure ninjas, so these ordinary Takigakure ninjas naturally have to bow to Menma when they see him.

Mianma smiled and nodded in response.

We walked straight through the lobby, went up the stairs, and arrived at the second floor.

“Ajun-san”.

The person sitting in the main seat is none other than Jun, the squad leader who now commands three or four hundred garrison troops of Takigakure Village.

"Oh! It's Yifang-san. Didn't the chief give Yifang-san a few extra days to settle in? Why are you here today?"

I saw Mianma's figure.

Ah Jun also stood up from his seat immediately, and looked at Mianma with a smile on his face.

Menma, disguised as Accelerator, joined Takigakure Village.

Ah Jun couldn't say he was particularly hostile or suspicious.

Unlike other Takigakure ninja, as Shibuki's absolute confidant, he naturally had access to more information. Apart from Menma's true identity, A-Jun knew everything else, including the endorsement given by the deceased Elder Mizuno Satoru for Menma's joining. Based on this, A-Jun had a certain degree of trust in Menma.

But definitely not many.

After all, Menma is an outsider.

He was an outsider who joined halfway through.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 228 Intervention

Not to mention that their Takigakure village had just experienced a rebellion, led by a veteran Takigakure ninja like Suien. In addition, their leader's personality has always been on the softer, gentler side. Even though it seems to have changed recently, A-Jun still felt that they had to be more careful and vigilant than before.

Of course, all of this can only be kept in one's heart, and must not be revealed in the slightest on the surface, as that would be detrimental to the stability of the village. Moreover, Menma has done a favor for Takigakure and is also the daimyo representing the Land of Fire (this is still the identity that A-Jun has misunderstood. At this stage, only Shibuki and Fu know Menma's true identity in Takigakure).

"Hehe, I've had enough rest, and things are mostly settled at home. It's not appropriate to just sit around at home anymore; I should start fulfilling my responsibilities."

Mianma smiled gently and replied.

"You're exaggerating, Mr. Yifang."

Ah Jun smiled seemingly casually, but at that moment a faint hint of suspicion flickered in his eyes.

He always felt that Mianma's enthusiasm and helpfulness might have some ulterior motive.

But Ah Jun immediately shook his head inwardly, banishing the thought from his mind. It's acceptable to be vigilant, but it's inappropriate to suspect others without restraint or reason. After all, they are companions endorsed by Elder Wu and personally authorized by Chief Shemu. One should be cautious in one's attitude and not make random guesses or suspicions.

"Since you're so interested, this is the scope of work you'll be responsible for. Please familiarize yourself with it first."

Ah Jun pulled out a portion of the documents from a pile on the left and handed them to Mian Ma. He then pointed to a pile of scrolls on another table and said softly.

There are many important administrative functions in a ninja village.

However, among these administrative matters, the defense of the village is definitely the top priority. If a ninja village or a powerful group cannot even guarantee its own safety, then that group cannot possibly have any cohesion.

The reason why ninja villages have such a large scale of power is to enable people to better band together and protect each other. This is true for the five great ninja villages and Takigakure Village as well.

Unlike the five great ninja villages, which can extend their sphere of influence to the borders of their respective countries and the defense scale of surrounding smaller countries.

The defenses of other small ninja villages are generally limited to the vicinity of the village.

Villages like Takigakure, Kusagakure, and Amegakure, which are slightly stronger, can expand their influence further, but they are also subject to many restrictions. The Five Great Nations do not allow other villages to extend their influence to too many areas, as this is not in their interest.

Therefore, the area that Takigakure can operate in is only within the Land of Waterfall, near the important borders of the major powers. These areas are guarded by ninjas from Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure. In the past few decades, when the three Shinobi World Wars broke out, these places became battlegrounds fought over by the three major powers. Takigakure's position is relatively far back, unlike Kusagakure and Amegakure, which are almost at the core of the struggle between the major powers.

Takigakure still retains some degree of autonomy and self-defense capabilities.

But that's all there is to it.

That's how difficult things are for small countries.

As the main person in charge of the garrison, A-Jun was in charge of the overall garrison work of Takigakure in a broad sense, but basically he was only responsible for the security of the area around the ninja village. The garrison assignment of Takigakure at the border was basically handled and arranged by the leader himself.

The garrison duties that A-jun has now assigned to Mianma are the summarization and organization of the different information transmitted by the garrison personnel every day.

This task is indeed very important.

However, it is a relatively unimportant part of the overall defensive work.

Almost as soon as Mianma sat down and looked through the contents of the scroll, he could roughly understand Ajun's intentions.

However, this is a very normal development. Any outsider who enters a group must go through such a process. Even someone with outstanding charisma cannot immediately gain everyone's recognition and trust.

With a surge of domineering aura, everyone bowed down in reverence.

That's not reality, it's a fairy tale.

Therefore, Mianma is quite satisfied with the current progress. One must eat one bite at a time, and walk one step at a time.

At least at this stage, Menma has neither the right nor the intention to seize power. He hasn't even established basic prestige and trust, so how can he talk about seizing power?

You can only move on to the next step once someone believes you.

and so.

For Menma, the most important thing to do now is to strengthen his presence in the village and gain as much recognition and trust as possible from people in Takigakure, such as Jun.

The most direct approach is to bring benefits to Takigakure Village and bring about visible development and changes.

Coincidentally, while there aren't many other ideas about this, most of them are still just theoretical or in the preparation stage.

But there is one idea that can be put into practice directly.

That concerns the defense of the village.

Of course, we still need to see how to implement it in practice to avoid any misunderstandings.

"Ah Jun, may I take a look at the defense layout of our village? And also the personnel allocation?"

After spending more than an hour browsing through the information stored on his desktop, and not finding the information he wanted, Menma looked up at Ajun, who was sitting at the head of the table, and asked directly.

There's no question of whether it's presumptuous or not.

As the deputy squad leader of the guard platoon personally arranged by Shibuki, Menma has such authority. However, a normal person who has just joined the village would not easily ask such sensitive questions at the beginning.

Even if it's within the scope of authority.

We will wait for a while and become more familiar with the process before doing it.

This was brought up directly on the first day.

It's easy for others to become suspicious.

Clearly, when Ah Jun heard Mianma's request, his expression paused slightly, but only for a moment.

Ah Jun's mind was also filled with the instructions that Shibuki had given him. He took a deep breath and swallowed back the words of refusal that he had initially wanted to say. He looked back at Menma, smiled and nodded, and said, "Yes, no problem. I was planning to let Yifang-san familiarize himself with it later, since Yifang-san will be needed to lead the team for the corresponding defense work in the future."

As he spoke, he took out another scroll from the drawer below and threw it in the direction where Mianma was.

Then, he caught the scroll with his other hand.

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Mianma's mouth.

'It seems to be much better than expected!'

Mianma was prepared for Ajun-san to politely decline her offer.

The defensive layout and personnel configuration of a ninja village are basically top secrets. Generally speaking, if an enemy finds out, the entire ninja village will be in a very dangerous situation.

Not to mention special ninja villages like Takigakure.

In the entire ninja village, only Shibuki, A-Jun, the recently deceased Elder Mizuno Satoru, and the executed Mizuki were qualified to know.

It's understandable that Ah Jun won't tell you for now.

Menma wanted to find out from Shibuki. He didn't have any malicious intent; he just wanted to improve the village's defenses by understanding this information. However, Menma didn't say it directly. One reason was that he wanted to see if his intentions could be achieved to avoid problems. The other reason was that he wanted to test how much A-Jun trusted him.

It seems alright now.

It's much better than expected.

One's true identity will eventually be revealed, but before that, it needs to be revealed little by little in a small circle. One can't keep using the false identity of "Accelerator" forever!

Ah Jun is clearly the most suitable and qualified third person in Takigakure to learn his true identity.

Now that Ah Jun has a higher level of trust in himself than expected, the pace of taking the next step can be accelerated.

The defense intelligence scroll was received.

After reading it carefully once.

Based on the previous information, Menma also had a general understanding of the defenses of Takigakure. It must be said that the decline of Takigakure was not unjustified at all; it was a complete degeneration. With this defensive configuration and strength, it was really no match for the existence that was almost hailed as the sixth great ninja village decades ago.

Based on the information I learned from Orochimaru, Takigakure at its peak, while still quite a distance from the weakest villages of the time, Sunagakure and Kirigakure, had an absolutely overwhelming advantage when facing other ninja villages.

Otherwise, why should Takigakure receive a share of a tailed beast, and not Amegakure, Yugakure, or Kusagakure?

In that era, being able to obtain a tailed beast was itself a demonstration of strength.

Don't forget what the First Hokage's original intention was in distributing the Tailed Beasts.

Isn't it all so that the most powerful ninja villages in the ninja world can each obtain enough power to check and balance each other, and thus bring peace to the entire ninja world?

If Takigakure were truly weak, Hashirama Senju would never have assigned the Seven-Tails to Takigakure!

This isn't a matter of whether or not you have money.

Not to mention, under the special system of ninjas and ninja villages, having money itself represents great power!

A weak ninja and a weak ninja village are neither worthy nor able to acquire enormous wealth.

To put it bluntly, if Takigakure had tried a little harder and taken another step forward at that time, it certainly wouldn't have been able to rival Konoha, but it would have been fine to challenge Sunagakure.

If we could just produce one top-tier Kage-level ninja to improve the quality and quantity of Takigakure, Takigakure could become the sixth largest country, and the leader of Takigakure could be called the Takigakure Kage!