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Chapter 604: Konoha destroys the Ninja Clan?

Shimura Danzo's reaction was beyond Hanzo's expectations.

He originally thought that the attitude he showed to the Root Ninjas would be enough to make Danzo Shimura give up.

But Danzo Shimura did not give up. Instead, he came to the Rain Country in person.

"Lord Hanzo, Danzo Shimura wants to see you." The Rain Ninja Anbu reported.

Hanzo frowned. Shimura Danzo's mobility was a bit abnormal.

He just left the Root Ninjas alone for a few days, but Danzo Shimura came to the Rain Country in person. Given Danzo Shimura's identity, this shouldn't have happened.

"Bring him here." Hanzo said.

After all, Danzo Shimura is the Hokage assistant who can represent Konoha.

Even though he felt uncomfortable hearing the name Shimura Danzo now, he couldn't treat Shimura Danzo like an ordinary Konoha jonin.

The Rain ninja ANBU nodded and quickly walked out of the office, soon bringing Shimura Danzo to Hanzo's office.

After bringing the person here, the Rain Ninja Anbu quietly left the office and closed the door.

Hanzo looked at Shimura Danzo expressionlessly.

Danzo Shimura's face was a little gloomy, and the one slender eye that was not covered by the bandage was staring at Hanzo.

Hanzo was unhappy, and Shimura Danzo was also unhappy.

The plan to surround and kill Sosuke in order to obtain the Rinnegan was something he did without telling Sarutobi Hiruzen. The longer he was out there, the more likely it was that he would be discovered by Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Danzo Shimura originally wanted to come to the Rain Country when the plan was only about to encircle and kill the enemy, but Hanzo's attitude forced him to come earlier.

"I wonder why Danzo came to the Rain Village?" Hanzo asked in a calm voice.

Danzo Shimura is the Hokage's assistant after all, so Hanzo can't really fight him.

Unless Hanzo is ready for war with Konoha.

"Of course I'm here to help you, Hanzo." Danzo Shimura replied with his expression much more relaxed.

Danzo Shimura felt that he was indeed helping Hanzo. If he were Hanzo, the Ninja Clan would never have survived to be established and would have been wiped out while traveling in the Rain Country.

What about traveling and lecturing? Shimura Danzo only saw that Sosuke had more and more followers and his fame was growing.

"Oh?" Hanzo looked at Shimura Danzo with some confusion.

Come and help him, come and help him die sooner.

"The Rain Village is in danger." Danzo Shimura sighed.

"Why do you say that?" Hanzo asked.

He wanted to see what tricks Shimura Danzo was up to.

"Sosuke is ambitious and uses all kinds of means to enhance the reputation of the Ninja Clan. Now when many ninjas mention the Rain Country, they no longer think of you, the demigod, or the Rain Village, but Ninja Master Sosuke and the Ninja Clan." Shimura Danzo continued.

"If this continues, the Ninja Clan will gradually erode the living space of Rain Village, and eventually replace Rain Village, making it a thing of the past."

Shimura Danzo is not talking nonsense. Ninjas do not engage in production, so where does their money come from?

There are two major parts, one is the military expenditure provided by the daimyo, and the other is the commission issued by the client.

If the Ninja Clan absorbs the commission from Rain Village, the decline of Rain Village is inevitable.

"Thank you for your warning, Danzo. I am ready to compete with the Ninja Clan. I believe that the ninjas of our Rain Village will not lose to those of the Ninja Clan." Hanzo said as if he was prepared.

Can the Rain Village really compete with the Ninja Clan? Hanzo is not very confident.

Sosuke is younger than him, and under him is Nagato, the greatest genius in the ninja world.

Nagato alone can ensure that the Ninja Clan will not be too bad for the next forty years.

Shimura Danzo narrowed his narrow eyes slightly. This Hanzo is not very sensible.

However, Shimura Danzo was mentally prepared to a certain extent. If it were that simple, he wouldn't have to come here in person.

"Hanzo, you are an upright person, but Sosuke may not necessarily compete with you fairly. As far as I know, the Ninja Clan has close ties with Iwagakure." Danzo Shimura was ready to give Hanzo one last chance.

If Hanzo still doesn't agree, then he's going to make things clear.

"Really? As far as I know, Sosuke is not a bad person." Hanzo retorted.

Sosuke is more than just a good person. He is also respected by a large number of Rain Ninjas even when there is a feud between the Rain Ninjas and the Ninja Clan.

After hearing these words, Danzo Shimura realized that the thing he was most worried about had happened.

The Ninja Clan's strategy to repair relations worked, and now the Rain Ninjas and the Ninja Clan are not as opposed to each other as before.

This made Danzo Shimura even more certain of the correctness and necessity of his plan.

If the Rain Ninjas and the Ninja Clan unite, they might be able to create a force that is powerful enough to threaten the larger Ninja Village.

"That's just the appearance you see." Shimura Danzo refuted Hanzo's rebuttal.

"The crisis of Rain Village lies not only in the competition with the Ninja Clan, but also in the Rain Country itself."

"Hanzo, you don't want the Rain Country to see a repeat of the scene of the last Ninja World War, do you?" Danzo Shimura said sinisterly.

call!
Wow! !
Hanzo's chakra exploded, and the powerful and terrifying aura rapidly rose to the extreme that Hanzo could reach, creating a gust of air that blew away the papers on Hanzo's desk.

"Shimura Danzo, what do you mean?" Hanzo's eyes became extremely sharp, as if they wanted to penetrate Shimura Danzo's body.

The Second Ninja World War was the greatest pain in Hanzo's life. He wanted to seek more benefits for the Rain Country and wanted to lead the Rain Country to break the order of the five major countries.

But he overestimated the strength of the Rain Village and underestimated the strength of those big ninja villages.

This ultimately led to the destruction of all people in the Rain Kingdom, and the entire country was plunged into war. Instead of developing, it became even more backward.

Before the defeat in the Second Ninja World War, the entire Rain Village was a fan of Hanzo, and most of them were fanatical fans.

After the defeat, many rebel ninjas emerged in the Rain Village, which shows the impact of the Second Ninja World War on the Rain Country and the Rain Village.

Shimura Danzo's words really touched Hanzo's bottom line.

"Hehe." Danzo Shimura sneered in his heart and did not care about Hanzo's terrifying aura that seemed to want to kill people.

He has fought hard for his current power and status. He is a ninja who has walked out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the battlefield. How could this possibly scare him?

"What the Ninja Clan has done has touched Konoha's bottom line. It is a threat that Konoha must eliminate. Some unavoidable damage will inevitably be caused in the process." Shimura Danzo said in a deep voice, as if the Ninja Clan had done something unforgivable.

The Ninja Clan had touched his bottom line as the Hokage's assistant, and it also touched Konoha's bottom line. Hanzo frowned, Shimura Danzo's words were too harsh, and the tone was as if Konoha would send out ninja troops to destroy the Ninja Clan in a few days.

This was a little beyond Hanzo's expectations. What did the Ninja Clan do that made Konoha want to destroy it so much?

Because of Shimura Danzo's words and identity, Hanzo subconsciously regarded Shimura Danzo's attitude as Konoha's attitude.

After all, it is impossible for Danzo Shimura, a high-ranking official of Konoha, to act in the name of Konoha for some personal matters.

"What did the Ninja Clan do?" Hanzo couldn't help but ask.

He was really curious about what the Ninja Clan had done to Konoha.

Given Sosuke's personality and wisdom, would he offend Konoha for no reason?

"This involves the secrets of our Konoha. I can only tell you that it is related to Iwagakure." Danzo Shimura answered with a riddle-like look.

There's nothing we can do if he doesn't tell the riddle. He can't just say it's for Sosuke's Ninja Clan inheritance and Nagato's Rinnegan.

And if the Iwagakure Village is brought into the picture, it would become a confrontation between two big ninja villages, which would be difficult for Hanzo to verify.

"Iwagakure..." Hanzo looked thoughtful.

Before, when Iwagakure stepped in as a middleman to negotiate peace between the Ninja Clan and the Rain Village, Hanzo felt that the Iwagakure Village was plotting something. Later, Iwagakure had been with the Ninja Clan for so long, so it was normal for there to be something going on between the two sides.

"Could it be related to the war in the Land of Grass?" Hanzo remembered the war between Konoha and Iwagakure in the Land of Grass some time ago.

Both sides won one battle, but in the end Konoha was superior and drove Iwagakure out of the Rain Country.

If it is about participating in a war between great powers, then Konoha's attitude makes sense. After all, this is one of the most taboo things for the five major ninja villages.

"Since it is a conflict between the Ninja Clan and Konoha, what does it have to do with my Rain Village?" Hanzo asked after thinking for a while.

Danzo Shimura said so much, but he didn't mention anything about his Rain Village.

After all, the Ninja Clan and the Rain Village have a cooperative relationship. Even if the Ninja Clan is really involved in the game between major powers, the Rain Village will at most not help, rather than help Konoha to step on the Ninja Clan.

Shimura Danzo sighed, pretending to be a pacifist:
"I know that you are a peace-loving ninja, Hanzo. The Land of Rain is also a peace-loving country. Letting such a country fall into war is not something I want to see."

"So I argued for my rights and got a plan that was more beneficial to both parties, which was to kill only the main culprit.

Except for Sosuke and Nagato, the others can be regarded as ninjas bewitched by Sosuke, and Konoha will let them go."

"The condition is that the Rain Village must help and help Konoha kill Sosuke."

In fact, Danzo Shimura originally wanted the Root ninjas to disguise themselves as Shinobi clan ninjas and attack the Rain ninjas, and then disguise themselves as Rain ninjas and attack the Shinobi clan ninjas, to provoke conflicts between the two sides and then lure Hanzo to surround and kill Sosuke.

This can be said to be Shimura Danzo's usual method of provoking conflicts.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Danzo Shimura found that this plan was not applicable to the current Ninja Clan and Rain Village.

The Rain Village and the Shinobi Clan are ninja forces from the same country and have signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation. If the person who died was not an important figure, both sides would definitely remain calm and settle the accounts first.

But killing important people is not an option either, because there are too few powerful ninjas in the Ninja Clan and the Rain Country is too small, making it difficult to disguise and frame them.

In addition, whenever something happens between the Ninja Clan and the Rain Village, Danzo Shimura will come knocking on the door, so any Hanzo who is not stupid will become suspicious.

If Shimura Danzo had enough time, this plan would be successful. Giving Shimura Danzo one or two years, he would definitely be able to arrange it perfectly.

But Uchiha Madara gave him too little time to act.

That's why Danzo Shimura used the strategy of using force to overwhelm others, borrowing the deterrent power of Konoha to threaten Hanzo with war. If he didn't want the Rain Country to become a battlefield, he would kill Sosuke together with him.

This plan would be a perfect one as long as it is not discovered by Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"If we kill Sosuke, the Land of the Rain can avoid war..." Hanzo understood what Shimura Danzo meant.

However, Hanzo was not naive enough to think that this was a benefit that Danzo Shimura had fought for them. He just thought that Konoha did not want to consume too much energy.

Sosuke represents the present of the Shinobi Clan, while Nagato represents its future. If both of them die, the Shinobi Clan will be no different from being destroyed directly.

It’s not that Hanzo looks down on Kakuzu, it’s just that Kakuzu really can’t compare to Sosuke, whether in strength or other aspects.

"Hanzo, you won't forget the shame that Sosuke brought upon you, right? After Sosuke's death, everyone will only remember the living demigod Hanzo, and not the dead ninja master Sosuke." Shimura Danzo reminded him lightly.

Nowadays, Hanzo no longer has the reputation of a demigod. When people talk about Hanzo, they think of Sosuke and the Fire Dragon Dance, which is known as the strongest fire escape technique.

Hanzo said nothing.

Did Sosuke bring shame to him? Probably, because thanks to Sosuke, all the ninjas in the ninja world knew that Hanzo was defeated by the reverse attribute.

Will Hanzo agree to Shimura Danzo's plan to kill Sosuke? Yes, but not much.

It is impossible for him, a demigod Hanzo, to not feel resentment towards Sosuke for falling to this state.

But the remaining pride in Hanzo's heart prevented him from blaming everything on Sosuke.

Did he lose to Sosuke because Sosuke used some dirty tricks? No, it was because he himself was not as strong as Sosuke.

Even the reason for the fight with Sosuke was due to a misunderstanding caused by his misjudgment.

How could Hanzo have the nerve to blame everything on Sosuke and have the reckless intention to kill him?

"Without Sosuke, not only will Konoha not attack the Rain Country, but the Rain Country will also be able to avoid civil war. This is a rare opportunity for peace." Shimura Danzo continued to use threats and inducements.

Danzo Shimura didn't know what Hanzo was hesitating about. If you put yourself in Hanzo's shoes, he would definitely agree.

It is true that he is plotting to seize the Rinnegan and the Ninja Clan's inheritance, but this matter is indeed beneficial to the Rain Village.

"This is a serious matter. I need to think about it for some time and discuss it with other senior executives." Hanzo finally replied. He neither agreed nor refused.

Hanzo's request was reasonable, and Shimura Danzo did not refute it. However, in order to prevent Hanzo from being indecisive, Shimura Danzo said meaningfully:
“Although my proposal was approved, there are still objections from senior management. If it takes too long, I can’t guarantee what will happen.”

A threat, a barely veiled threat.

Hanzo looked deeply at Shimura Danzo and said nothing.

The defeat in the Second Ninja World War made him realize the power of the five major ninja villages.

Danzo Shimura is very arrogant, but he does have the capital to be arrogant. Among the five powerful ninja villages, Konoha is also the strongest one.

After Danzo Shimura left, Hanzo pretended to convene a high-level meeting of the Rain Ninjas.

However, he did not mention Sosuke's matter at the meeting, but made other resolutions.

When it comes to making the most important decisions, Hanzo always makes them alone.

At night, Hanzo disguised himself and left the Hidden Rain Village.

(End of this chapter)