The sky is vast, the sky is clear and blue, and there is not a single white cloud in sight.

The border between the two countries of thunder and fire!
The ninja troops from Konoha Village and Kumogakure Village have been stationed here for two days.

Although they have been here for two days, both sides have been very restrained in their actions, except for being very arrogant in their words.

Today, both armies gathered together at the same time and confronted each other on the border fully armed.

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The station of the Kumogakure Ninja Army.

The Raikage tent.

Inside the spacious tent, the Fourth Raikage Ai, who had yellow hair, dark yellow skin, and muscular body, was exercising with a special dumbbell in one hand while listening to his secretary's work report.

"Lord Raikage!"

"We already have an absolute advantage, so why do we still need to invite that old cripple Danzo Shimura to negotiate?" The beautiful secretary with a healthy wheat-colored skin asked in a soft and respectful tone, holding a notebook in her hands.

Raikage Aimu looked at the huge map hanging in the tent and said in a low voice: "Because we can't fight!"

The beautiful secretary was puzzled: "Can't fight?"

Raikage Ai said slowly: "We can receive information about the civil unrest in Konoha, so the old Tsuchikage Ohnoki must have also received the information. If he knows about it, he will definitely not do nothing."

"Konoha has certainly become corrupt under the rule of the Third Sarutobi, but it's not so easy to swallow it up. Once we start a fight with the Fire Nation, that old man Ōnoki will only take advantage."

The beautiful secretary suddenly came to her senses after hearing this.

"and……"

"Even if Ohnoki doesn't take advantage of the situation, we can't really attack Konoha." A trace of worry flashed in the eyes of Raikage Ai as he looked at the map.

"Ah~~" The beautiful secretary was stunned and became even more confused.

The Raikage turned his head and took a look at the beautiful secretary who had just been promoted. He continued patiently, "The weakness of Konoha at this moment is entirely due to the conflict that broke out among the Senju Sarutobi clan, who hold the power of Hokage and are unwilling to let others get involved."

"The internal strife that broke out when several generations of Uchiha people were eager for the position of Hokage but could not get it."

"If we attack Konoha with all our strength right now, it will inevitably cause the mutually hostile Uchiha and Hokage factions to temporarily put aside their differences and point their weapons at us."

"I started the war this time just to get some benefits from Konoha, but I didn't fight them to the death, thus giving Konoha the opportunity to transform internal conflicts into external conflicts." Raikage Ai said seriously.

When ordinary people first see the well-developed muscles of the Raikage and his tendency to slam the table when he gets angry, they think that the Raikage is a brainless and reckless man.

In fact, Raikage Ai's political skills are not bad, and his brain is also very useful. His only shortcoming is that he is emotional.

Very easy to get angry.

When he is not angry, the Fourth Raikage Ai is a very wise leader. The entire Kumogakure has a great sense of identification and respect for the Fourth Raikage Ai.

"I see." The beautiful secretary looked at Raikage Ai with shining eyes.

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Konoha Ninja Army Headquarters.

Shimura Danzo had a bandage wrapped around his head, with only half of his face showing. His black clothes were taken off, revealing his right arm, which was usually hidden inside his clothes.

It was an extremely disgusting-looking arm. The color of the arm was nothing like the skin color of a living person. It was a pale white color, as if it had been soaked in water for many days.

At the same time, there were several scarlet eyeballs rotating on the arms, which made ordinary people feel a tingling sensation on their scalps when they saw this scene.

"Lord Danzo, if you completely remove the seal, your body may be eroded by Hashirama's cells. Will you really not leave one or two seals?" A masked Root ninja who was proficient in sealing techniques suggested to Danzo.

Danzo shook his head slowly and said, "No need!" "The strength of the Fourth Raikage Ai is very strong. If I am restricted by the seal, I may be defeated by the Raikage Ai."

After hearing this, the Root Ninja of the Sealing Squad didn't know how to continue to persuade them. They just silently picked up the golden metal seal on the ground and slowly left the tent.

The young ninja with short black hair and a black mask covering half of his face asked Danzo: "Danzo-sama! If it is so dangerous, why do you take this risk?"

Danzo glanced at the ninja who was speaking. This ninja was the Aburame Token, whom he had taken from the Aburame clan in the form of a threat from Aburame Shiwei.

Danzo values ​​​​Aburame Togen extremely much, even more than Sai who possesses the Super Beast Ninjutsu, because Aburame Togen is born to belong to the Root.

There are special parasitic insects living in the body of the Oil Girl. They are nano-scale poisonous insects. Their destructive power is one of the most powerful among all the insects cultivated by the entire Oil Girl family, and they are also the most uncontrollable poisonous insects.

If Aburame Tone were to touch any living being without any protection on his body, he would immediately be infected by the poisonous insects in his body and die.

Such a Aburame Tokonoma cannot receive normal treatment in the outside world, so in Danzo's eyes, Aburame Tokonoma is his best successor.

"Get the roots! I must take this risk."

"The Kumogakure are just a bunch of shameless robbers who want to snatch anything they see."

"This time, the Raikage Ai started the uprising because he saw that Konoha was weak due to internal strife, so he wanted to come and blackmail us.

They don’t even dare to actually start a war against us.”

"Not to mention that he started a war against us. Would it arouse the Uchiha group of red-eyed people to unite against a common enemy and abandon their narrow family concepts to fight against the invasion of Kumogakure?"

"Even the Third Tsuchikage, Ohnoki, would never sit idly by and watch Kumogakure grow bigger."

"You know, the Fourth Raikage Ai's father, the Third Raikage, died from the backstab of the Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki."

"With such a huge hatred, how could Ohnoki dare to let Kumogakure become more powerful?"

Aburame Tsuchiya became even more confused after hearing this: "Since the Raikage Ai doesn't dare to really attack us, then Lord Danzo, you don't need to take any risks, right?"

Shimura Danzo shook his head and turned to look at Shan Zhongfeng: "Tell me, why would I take this risk?"

Yamanaka Fu, who was about the same age as Aburame Tone, immediately analyzed slowly after hearing what Danzo said: "Because Kumogakure is a greedy robber."

"The Fourth Raikage Ai is an even more hot-tempered and reckless man."

"When Raikage Ai made the plan, he probably really wanted to extort some benefits from us and then withdraw his troops."

"But if we show weakness, then the greedy desire will inevitably make the Raikage Ai go from intimidation to actually launching a war."

"So, Lord Danzo is going here to intimidate the Raikage Ai and put an end to his ambition that is about to rise."

Danzo Shimura nodded with satisfaction. Aburame Tone's thinking was a little simple, but the partner Danzo assigned to him, Yamanaka Fuu, was enough to make up for this shortcoming.

Yamanaka Wind doesn't have enough fighting power, and Aburame Togen doesn't have enough IQ, but the two together are a perfect combination.

Just at this time, Aburame Ryoma walked into the tent.

"Lord Danzo!"

"The agreed time has come, and the Raikage has left the tent and is heading towards the target location."

Hearing this, Danzo took a deep breath, put on his black robe, and hid his right hand inside the robe. Then he took the cane and went to the appointment accompanied by Aburame Togen and Yamanaka Kaze. (End of this chapter)