Chapter 57: Negotiation
Straightening my gray shirt in front of the mirror and examining all my things, checking in my mind what was where I reached out my right hand to my left wrist and tore off the bandages. Together with the bandages, the storage seal fell off and collapsed beyond repair. I did not think at all when I put it on again in the morning, as I did it instinctively. However, now, considering what strength I have, I no longer need so many shurikens and kunai. Throwing it into the nearest trash can, I looked back into the mirror.
Looking into my eyes in the mirror, I activated the mangekyou while lost in thought. Crimson eyes shone brightly in the dimly lit toilet. Thanking my father myself for the fact that he once accidentally showed me his eyes in childhood.
Indra's chakra, the eternal mangekyou, a reserve of chakra like Naruto's after assimilating souls with mine, the chakra of the nine-tailed after killing him and subsequent cleansing of the chakra. The chakra of the one-tailed and two-tailed is also cleared of the personalities of the tailed ones. Incomplete knowledge of the gates of youth, hundreds and hundreds of techniques that I learned by absorbing people's memories, advanced knowledge of fuinjutsu and kenjutsu, teleportation technique from the mountain of eagles, pills developed by Orochimaru himself to replenish chakra and soon my chakra sword will be in my hands that cuts through most alloys including kunai and tanto. And the natural chakra that formed the sage's body.
What do my enemies have?
Hagoromo.
Otsutsuki.
Madara.
Akatsuki.
Black snot.
And that bastard Obito.
Sighing, I hung my head. Even if I achieved all this through my luck or willpower, one stab in the back or one mistake of mine... and I'll be dead. Having finished with my thoughts, I went outside and found that the whole team was already waiting outside the restaurant under the shade of a tree.
There was a bell opening the door and going out into the heat, I slowly approached the others.
"And so, before we teleport there with your technique, there is something I have to say." - Sasuke stopped me feeling that I dispersed the chakra through the channels and body.
Stopping the use of technique, I listened.
"I don't know how you want to achieve your goals, so I will rely on you to talk to the village. As you know, the village declared me a ninja deserter and they will definitely try to dissuade me from revenge again and return me to the village. In any case, I trust you understand how I feel... how we feel about this rotten place."
Looking into his eyes, I silently nodded to him and held out my hands to the team. I had no plans to return to this place forever, create a home and live in peace. What a nonsense.
Looking at my hands, everyone hesitated but grabbed them. However, after a second, the ground under their feet disappeared and, as if falling into the abyss, they fell down and a second later fell in a heap to the ground near the tree on which there was a mark. Sasuke quickly got up and looked around and walked out onto the road nearby. Approaching him while the others stood up and moved away from the sudden transfer, I asked.
"Does it bring back any memories?"
Sasuke didn't answer, just nodded as he looked at the gates of the leaf village in the distance. I didn't ask any further because I already knew the answers.
Finally, when everyone gathered, and Suigetsu literally gathered from a panicking puddle back into a normal body, we slowly walked forward. A team of ordinary ninja and three genins who looked like they had just graduated from the school was walking towards the gate.
Cheerfully making noise, they fell silent when they noticed us, but did not stop, they just walked at the same pace. Jounin's hand moved imperceptibly, but how could I not notice and recognize how the Hyuga were kneading their joints before the battle. However, as the distance shortened, the face of the long-haired jōnin with white eyes paled to match the color of his eyes. Frozen without moving, he looked forward while an all-consuming chakra full of hatred pressed on his shoulders. His whole soul was shaking with horror when he felt how, after the crimson light flashed, his body was enveloped in terrible horror, squeezing every muscle and lung.
Walking past him and reaching the gate, I canceled the genjutsu on him and Hyuuga fell to his knees panting as the panicked genins who surrounded the teacher tried to protect him from the attack.
Which, however, did not follow, and none of our group reacted to this and only walked forward with a calm expression on their faces, as if they had just passed a stone. Having passed the gate mark, I noticed how 2 ninjas jumped up in the booth. However, before they could do anything, a second line of guards had already popped up from everywhere and a blue flare had gone up into the sky. Three men in black coats jumped out and surrounded our company.
"Don't move, one more step and we will be forced to attack." - looking at me with cold-blooded eyes, one of the ANBU said rudely to me.
Although, after a long pause, my hands itched to dance with someone, but crossing my arms, I continued to wait for what would happen. Seeing my reaction, Taka's group also calmed down and waited. However, Suigetsu put his hand on the hilt of his sword anyway.
After about ten seconds, reinforcements arrived and we were already taken into a more serious formation, but that didn't scare me, since Sussano was an absolute defense against any tricks, these ninjas would throw at me.
Finally, the one I was waiting for arrived. Alas, it was not the Hokage, but it was a person who decided the life or death of many people. In a white cloak, standing up after landing, he looked at me through the mask of an owl.
"I am a current ANBU captain. Who are you and what is your purpose for coming to the village."
"Tsunade is not in the village, I can't feel her. Where is she?" I calmly asked him and saw how his eyes narrowed under the mask. He clearly understood that I am a powerful sensor. Well after absorbing half of the nine tails I could feel people's emotions and with combination of natural energy, I could feel every chakra in the entire village. I once met Tsunade , so I remember how her chakra felt.
"Hokage-sama is busy right now, if you came with bad intentions for our Hokage I will be forced to stop you." - after his words, he pulled his kunai from his sleeve to his hand and catch it, but did not raise his hands.
"At first I thought talking to your village about common problems was the right thing to do, but now I seem to realize that it was a mistake." I sighed.
If Tsunade isn't in the village, then she's already gone to the Kage meeting and I'm late. And given that I don't know where it happens, I have to either destroy the village and torture every ninja i see, or forget about this business and try something else to find Akatsuki.
"If you really came to negotiate, we will inform Hokage-sama immediately. Until then, Renjiro Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha, I ask you to follow me." - by the look of the ANBU, he really wanted to follow the rules and capture the fugitive ninja name Sasuke Uchiha. But deep inside him, I could feel he is scared of something. But not for his life, for something else. Given that he wasn't looking at anyone else but me with cold eyes I understood they somehow know about my strength. And after my fight with Hagoromo, I knew I would be another God of the shinobi world in their eyes, more powerful than any Kage. But still, I was too weak back then and lost to this old fucker.
If only I aimed for his head...
"That's how it is. We'll wait half a day. If she doesn't come until then, the negotiations are over." - I could stay with them. However, I had other plans. After releasing the one-tailed chakra, I enveloped the unresisting team and teleported us to our old home. For a second it seemed to me that there were two Sasukes in the village, but after checking again, I felt only one chakra and calmed down.
"Where are we?" - Karin asked looking around the dark wooden corridor.
There was dust everywhere and the sun barely made its way through the hung curtains. While Sasuke was explaining what this place was, I went ahead to check the electricity. As expected, there was no water supply and no electricity. Sighing, I decided to make tea from what I had with me. As a ninja fugitive without good food, I could go crazy with hunger, and feeding on herbs and mushrooms from the forests I would just starve to death.
While we were sitting in the living room, heating the kettle, I began to pour tea for everyone in mugs that I found in the cupboard.
"Are you really going to wait half a day? Such a waste of precious time." - Sasuke asked while holding a hot cup.
"Why not. If there was a third Hokage at the post right now, I would just burst into the village and kill him and his clan. And then I would take what I want. However, Tsunade is different from the previous Hokage, being the granddaughter of the First Hokage, she was a more suitable village leader then others. And knowing what happened to the rest of the senju, I can only sympathize with her position."
"Huh? I know that she is the last of her clan, and also that the rest of the Senju died in the war. But you clearly mean something else. I knew their backstory of how someone destroyed an entire clan of redheads, but I didn't really care back then so I didn't know about Senju much also. You know something?" - Suigetsu asked sprawled on the sofa.
"Her clan was destroyed by the village itself. Danzō and the Third Hokage teamed up feeling their positions threatened, as the Senju were descendants of the First Hokage and had a higher reputation than the Sarutobi clan. And just as Danzo dreamed of becoming Hokage instead of the third, he also saw them as rivals. Therefore, one rigged mission after another, leaking information to the villages, and now only Tsunade remained from the clan. However, as I understand it, they wanted to get rid of her, but she was lucky that she had no desire to become Hokage and did not show herself in this regard."
"You mentioned it once, now I remember." Sasuke nodded.
"What about Uzumaki?" Karin asked uncertainly.
An awkward silence hung in the air as everyone understood that Karin already knew after many years of working for Orochimaru what happened to her clan. But now that I knew so much, Karin hoped I would tell her more. On reflection, I decided not to hide information from her.
"Honestly, the information about this clan and its end is not complete, I can only guess. First, I suspect that the clan was betrayed from within. Otherwise, how could a clan of fuinjutsu geniuses be destroyed so easily. The second is that the clan was betrayed by its own allies. I can't say that Danzō helped what happened, but the Third Hokage refused to go to war for fear that his little world would collapse. Clan members with even diluted blood had too much strength and were feared. They could use techniques capable of suppressing the tailed beasts like childrens. They could control demons and gods. It is not surprising that they were so frightened that many of the five nations united and attacked. Who knows how many Uzumaki are left in the world now. I can only say about four at the moment."
Karin's eyes lit up strangely.
"And who are they?"
"Oh, well, you already know everything about the first one. The infamous Naruto. Then you Karin. The current kage of Sand Village. And finally, the one who now leads the Akatsuki."
Sasuke wasn't surprised since he already knew about it, but the others couldn't help but be surprised and looked in shock to learn something more about the potential enemy.
"If you really were among them, tell me, against Kisame, what are my chances?" Suigetsu suddenly asked.
I couldn't help but smile. From what I knew about Kisame...
"You don't stand a chance at all. Kisame has many techniques that can destroy you. I once heard he has a soul-devouring technique. It only needs to touch you, that's all."
Nodding Suigetsu did not expect such an answer and somehow changed his face. The look turned cold and there was a determination to achieve something in his eyes.
Talking about Karin's life and Suigetsu's past, we sat until the evening when Karin and I finally felt two chakras approaching the house. Having learned both, I immediately realized that the sensors found out where we were at the same moment as we came home, but decided not to touch us. Finally, Tsunade and Jiraiya arrived.
"Come in." Calling them loudly before they could knock, I dragged two chairs to a small table with chakra threads.
"I'm really surprised that you finally decided to return to the village. I'm sorry for the delay, I had to leave the village for training our new chunins." - Tsunade said happily playing her happy person role.
"We just came to talk. What our relationship will be like after all of this depends entirely on you." - having examined Jiraiya who unceremoniously sat down and began to examine everyone with just nodding his head, I thought about where to start.
"I understand your point of view, Renjiro, but it's not just up to me, is it."
"First, I want to return my sword that I once left with you." I wanted to start, but I immediately noticed that Jiraiya took out a scroll and handed it to me. Blinking, I tried not to betray surprise, but slowly took it and opened it.
Taking the blade out of its sheath, I noticed how all eyes focused on the blade. Not noticing damage or foreign elements, I decided to postpone checking the blade until later, as I was already convinced that it was my blade.
"It was unexpected." - I could not say less.
"I became Hokage for a reason. We return this blade to you in the hope that you will not use it against our village." Tsunade nodded.
Looking into her eyes, I noticed that she was too focused on Karin's hair, but did not ask anything.
"Our group is called Taka. Me, my brother, Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo." Sasuke introduced everyone.
"As you all know, I am the current Hokage of the Leaf Village, Tsunade Senju. And this is one of the sannins of our village, Jiraiya. Sasuke, what is the purpose of you coming to the village considering that a couple of weeks ago you were ready to kill our chuunin and jounins that stood in your way?"
Before everyone's mood changed, I talked.
"I insisted on it. At the moment I am no longer a fugitive of the village and you took off the bounty for me, not quite sure what exactly you were chasing after this, but it's good for you and for me. However, tell me what is a deserter ninja, a village renegade?"
Expecting a trick, Tsunade immediately spoke as if from a textbook.
"A renegade from the village, this is a ninja who goes against the goals and ideals of the village, capable of only harming the village and its inhabitants."
"Now after everything you and I have learned about Danzō and the Third Hokage, tell me who is the biggest nuisance to the village?"
Tsunade fell silent at this. I could clearly see that she hoped that we would avoid these topics.
"Nevertheless, after the village contributed to the demise of the Uchiha clan, you are still after Sasuke. This is one of my goals today. Stop following him. He is not just Sasuke, but also the last of the Uchiha clan. Let there be two of us at the moment, but we are the remnants of the clan that carries the will of our ancestors. And if someone gets in our way to take revenge on the traitor of our clan, I will kill him without hesitation."
Before Tsunade said anything, I continued.
"I'm talking about Itachi. He betrayed our clan and if I hear some nonsense about the fact that revenge will lead to the path of violence and pain and will lead to nothing ... "
"Still, Itachi is a deserter from our village as well. He betrayed the village and we are also looking for him to bring him to justice."
"Justice? Something tells me you are looking more for Sasuke then for Itachi and his new best friends".
"If SOMEONE we both know shared information about Akatsuki, I think OUR success in finding Itachi and the one who killed your mother on the day of the attack of the nine-tails was crowned with success." - she finally started to get pissed off.
How do they know about it? A thought flashed through my head.
"If I told you everything, you would have tried to escape from this planet a long time ago." I chuckled.
Tsunade's eyebrows went up.
"Tell me Tsunade do you accept the two of us as Hokage that we are still a clan, and not only individuals that left the village? That it's not a Sasuke and Renjiro who left. But a Uchiha clan. " I asked looking into her eyes. However, Jiraiya asked back.
"And do you have enough strength to support the clan and ensure its expansion?"
"Do you believe that I can destroy this village without getting up?" - bored I asked him.
The atmosphere immediately dropped when the threat was made. Fear grew up in both of their hurts. Tsunade and the pervert overreacted and tensed up. Although if you think about it, they might recognize my recent battle by the color of Sussano and take the threat to seriously.
"I believe that even if there are two of you, you can still revive the clan. However, Renjiro, the Uchiha are not your only connections to the village. You may not know, but your mother was from..."
"I know. They abandoned her and took away her last name when she married an Uchiha. Nothing binds me to this shameless clan and will not bind me in the future again. I will NOT have any connections with them ever."
"Understood." Tsunade sighed sadly. "We are ready to stop chasing Sasuke until he commits a crime against the leaf village. Then as Hokage, I will be forced will take action."
"Once the Leaf Village commits a crime against our clan, I will take the most severe measures in the same way. You don't have to worry so much about this Tsunade." I grinned back at her.
"You're not going to stay in the village are you?" Tsunade asked a rhetorical question.
"I have business outside the village and I'm not going to stay here." Sasuke said coldly.
"Same here." - I leaned back on my chair.
The rest of the trio sat in silence as the drama unfolded. And since they had nothing to do with what was happening, they just listened.
"What do you want in exchange for information, Renjiro?" Tsunade asked. Her eyes directly drilled into me as if she was saying that after all these ledges that i gave you, you won't give me something, I'll drill your ass.
"I don't even know to be honest. Why do you need this information so badly about some group of apostate weak ninja?" I made an ignorant face.
Jiraiya decided to take over the conversation as he realized that Tsunade was tired of all this and with a dumb laugh decided to tell his point of view as we didn't know this before..
"Honestly, it's very simple. In the first, Itachi was a traitor to the village and your clan. And also because they collect tailed ones. The fact that we have three of the tailed ones puts a bit of a target on our backs. Just like you yourself saw the village hidden in the clouds was destroyed by Akatsuki. So many victims became a catalyst for an internal war in the country of lightning, and now the remainings of the village have merged with ours because something strange is happening in the country. It began to pursue a closed policy and none of the spies sent there returned. Later, I'm going to go there myself as we suspect it was Akatsuki who did this.." Jiraiya frowned.
Apparently this news was also for Tsunade, which was instantly surprised.
"What are you talking about! If there really is an Akatsuki base, then climbing into the lair of the enemy is suicide!
"Haha! I am the strongest ninja of the Leaf Village, Sanin! What can some robbers do to me?" Jiraiya grinned like an idiot.
I called him an idiot to myself. Akatsuki was located in another country and he would not achieve anything by getting there. If your spies didn't return all I can do is question their capabilities. However, the fact that a sudden upheaval occurred and the country closed its borders was strange. It was as if someone was behind it and quite strong.
"I heard there will be a five great Kage summit soon… oh four great villages?" I asked.
"This is true. After our reunion with the remnants of the village hidden in the clouds and the acquisition of the three tailed ones, the balance was upside down. At the moment we are the strongest village. This is the main theme. I'm sure these bastards will try to steal tailed ones like peace pies." Tsunade sighed saddly.
"I'm ready to tell you something Tsunade. But in exchange, hire our group to protect you during the Kage Summit."
Tsunade's eyes narrowed in surprise.
"Then information ahead. And I will think about your proposal after you say your goal at the samite."
"Once I give you the information, you yourself will understand our goal. Akatsuki will be at the summit. More precisely, one of its leaders, I'm sure of this."
"Who?"
"He calls himself Toby. Perhaps you know him. He is our target. There is also a possibility that other Akatsuki will be with him."
Tsunade rested her chin in thought. She clearly met him already and knew about this member of Akatsuki.
"Where is the information from?" she asked after some thought.
This question interested everyone as they looked at me and my group was wondering if I would tell them that I was a mercenary. Unfolding my arms, I shrugged.
"Everyone has their ways."
"Understandably. We're leaving for the summit tomorrow and I hope I'm not making a mistake in hiring your group. Renjiro, I hope that our relationship will be built on mutual trust without knives in the back. I will release Sasuke from the persecution, but that also means that he is in a foreign for the village and no longer associated with it. The village is ready to unite with you against common enemies, and after that, we can discuss further actions about everything else." - holding out her hand for a handshake with a serious face, she looked into my eyes. She was not very surprised that I did not tell her, but seriously believed this information.
Shaking hands, I wondered what to do now until tomorrow. We will have plenty of time to talk about everything else, like Naruto-who-loves-Sasuke. Or his Ex-Love-Uselles-Pink-Bi..Girl.
"We'll go to the hotel, for now, this house is not intended for habitation. By the way, why hasn't it been sold or destroyed yet?"
"It is the property of the Hokage now, as I thought your untouched house would be helpful in negotiations. As you can see, I was not wrong. Till tomorrow." - after examining the photographs with smile on the wall of three playing and smiling children, she went out with the pervert Sanin.
"Then what will we do if the Akatsuki don't come?" Jugo asked a minute later when the Hokage left leaving the ANBU around the house.
"We will find another way to draw them out. However, despite my strength, I do not want to attack their base. Akatsuki is not the only force in this world that is a deterrent. And if I destroy this group, another one more dangerous and secretive and with more dangerous goals for all mankind will come out.
"What is this group?"
"Now there is no point in worrying about it. Probably. However, if they interfere in our affairs, I will have to take action against planted spies in all villages by giving them a sign that I care about them and I want to find them."
"And how many of them?"
Chuckling, I did not say the exact number. However, some of them will even be at the summit. What can I say. Turning to the door, I left the house and, under the singing of crickets and watching ANBU went to the hotel to rent rooms for the team.
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In the meantime group of ninjas in black closes were investigating paths that Hokage will be taking tomorrow. Little did they know that all of this was useless and they will die not even in the hands of their target and enemy.
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Sup bois!
I finally can write again as usual. The updates will be sooner, but my life is still in the pile of shit so I will take my time crawling out. But I finally feel that I can write again!
If you have any ideas about the story let me know. I actually almost forgot what this story is about lmao.
Next chapter I will make a meeting with Akatsuki at the meeting of Kage, and after that let our MC deal with Danzo. But maybe only after a few deaths of the main characters?
Or maybe I should kill first Hagoromo hm -_-
Just kidding!
The death of Hagoromo will be special...
I know that there are a lot of mistakes in ranobe and I will fix them for sure.
Now, where's my shovel...
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