Chapter 49 The Eve of the 5 Shadows Talks

After a week of unremitting efforts, Shenwei finally resolved the backlog of documents.

Shenwei can finally return to his previous state, a leisurely life of drinking tea, going to and from get off work on time, and patrolling the streets with a team when he gets tired of sitting.

It has been a week since Kamui returned to Konoha Village, but he has never seen Izuna.

Kamui guessed that the Anbu were quite busy with their work.

In fact, Izuna's job in the Anbu is just to train newcomers. Apart from that, there is basically no task that requires him, the Anbu Minister, to go out in person. But recently, the Uzushio Village in the Land of Whirlpools has formed an alliance with the Konoha Village, and in exchange for the scroll of sealing techniques, they arranged for the village's ninja to enter Konoha and make him the link between the two villages. This task should have been arranged for Kamui to complete. Kamui is the younger brother of Naruto's Madara, and is also the Minister of Police of Konoha Village. He gives great respect to the Uzushio Village in terms of his identity. And he has Mito as his wife, so he just took this opportunity to take Mito home to visit. But at that time, Kamui was outside capturing the tailed beasts and was not in the village, so this task naturally fell on Izuna. Izuna is also the younger brother of Naruto's Madara, and the Anbu Minister of Konoha. His status is not inferior to Kamui, and he also gives great respect to the Uzushio Village. Therefore, when Kamui is not there, Izuna is the best candidate.

The Uzumaki Village in the Whirlpool Country is a village built by the Uzumaki clan themselves.

The Uzumaki clan is the maiden family of Kamui's wife Mito. As early as the establishment of Konoha, Kamui and Mito invited the Uzumaki clan to join Konoha, but were later rejected by the Uzumaki clan. Later, as the ninja village model became popular, the Uzumaki clan took the opportunity to establish the Uzushio Village in the Land of Whirlpools. Now the Uzushio Village has proposed to form an alliance with Konoha Village, and Konoha Village naturally will not refuse.

Shenwei had been sitting in the office for a week and was no longer able to sit idle, so he took a team of tribesmen to patrol the streets.

The villagers they met on the road all gave way and looked at the Uchiha clan from the police department with unspoken disgust in their eyes.

Shenwei casually asked the tribesmen who were patrolling the streets together: "Why are the villagers afraid of the police?"

The Uchiha clan member who was asked had a strange look on his face, thinking: What's going on? Don't you know what's going on? Who spread the prank to the whole village? Then you became the head of the police department. The villagers hate you and the police department naturally does things that offend people. Is the villagers' attitude strange?

The Uchiha clan member who was asked could not speak out his thoughts, of course, and only replied: "Maybe the clan members are a bit tough when enforcing the law."

Kamui seemed to be thinking about something, thinking about how to improve the laws of Konoha Village. At the same time, it was time to absorb some ninjas from other families and civilian ninjas. The Uchiha clan could no longer dominate the police department.

If the Uchiha clan continues like this, it is very likely that they will follow the same path as in the original work, being hated by the entire village and eventually being exterminated.

"Shenwei, you skipped work again?" Banjian said.

"Who skipped work? I'm working. I'm patrolling the streets. Can't you see the team of police officers behind me?" Shenwei said while trying to cover up after his little thoughts were exposed.

"You always have a reason." Banjian said helplessly.

"By the way, didn't you go to serve as the daimyo's bodyguard? You performed poorly and were fired?" Shenwei teased.

"What do you mean by dismissal? Can't you just hope for something good from me?" Banjian said with a little excitement.

"The mission of escorting the daimyo has been completed. This time I came back with an important message that I need to tell the Hokage." Itama said with a serious look on his face.

Kamui arranged for the police officers around him to continue patrolling the streets, and went to the Hokage Building with Itama.

Kamui and Itama saw Madara working hard at his desk.

Madara heard two footsteps and looked up to see who it was.

"Shenwei, how dare you appear in front of me." Ban Yu said angrily.

"It's been a week and you still haven't forgotten it." Shenwei complained.

"Hmph." Madara responded proudly.

"Itama, how is the daimyo's protection work going?" Madara asked.

"On the whole, nothing much happened. We encountered two or three groups of bandits and stray ninjas on the way, but we dealt with them all, and the Daimyo made it back to the Land of Fire safely," Itama said casually.

"Very good, well done. It's much less troublesome than someone else." While praising Itama, Madara did not forget to discredit Kamui.

"During this meeting between the daimyo, the development of the ninja village was mentioned. The specific matters require face-to-face talks between the kages of each village." Itama said with a serious face.

Kamui thought to himself: The Five Kage Summit is about to begin. In the original work, the First Hokage, the Oshima, distributed the tailed beasts at this Five Kage Summit. Now the nine tailed beasts are also in Konoha. They are left for the successor to protect the village. This has been unanimously recognized by the Konoha high-level officials. The First Hokage, Madara, will most likely propose with a tough attitude in this meeting that other ninja villages should submit to Konoha, and then they can prepare for the first ninja war.

"When and where will the talks be held?" asked Madara.

Madara's words brought Kamui back to reality.

"The daimyo will formally notify you of the specific circumstances," Itama replied.

"I think since the Five Kage Summit is such a big matter, we should invite Izuna, Hashirama, and Tobirama to discuss it together," Kamui suggested.

"The Five Kage Summit, this name is very appropriate. Let's put the discussion on hold for the time being. Izuna is not in the village right now. He is currently on a mission in Uzushio Village. He will be back in a few days. We can then discuss it when everyone is gathered." Madara made reasonable arrangements.

"In that case, I will return to the mission department to continue working." Itama said as he left the Hokage's office.

"Then I'll leave too. The Police Department still has a lot of work to do." Shenwei also made an excuse to leave.

"Kamui, please stay for a moment. I have something to ask you." Madara asked to stop Kamui.

Shenwei stayed reluctantly.

Madara stood up and walked to the door of the Hokage's office. After looking around and seeing that there was no one around, he closed the door and looked at Kamui with scrutiny.

"Even if you close the door, I can still slip out." Kamui said weakly under Madara's gaze.

"Kamui, it's just a Five Kage meeting. Do we need to gather all the Konoha high-level officials for a meeting?" Madara asked puzzledly.

"Then let me ask you, how do you plan to talk?" Shenwei asked back.

"Of course, let them submit to Konoha." Madara said as a matter of course.

Kamui covered his head and said, "As expected, you can't sit down calmly and discuss the future development of the ninja village."

"The unification of the ninja world is the future of the ninja village." Madara said as a matter of course.

"Madara, your method can only trigger the First Ninja World War." Kamui reminded.

"The First Ninja World War is a matter of time. We should welcome the arrival of the Ninja World War while Konoha is still the strongest, instead of leaving the mess to our successors. Are you so sure that our successors will be better than our generation?" Madara said with foresight.

"Madara, do you remember the meeting before we decided to capture the tailed beasts?" Kamui asked.

"Kamui, you mean to send the tailed beasts into the war and quickly win the First Ninja World War." Madara blurted out.

"That's not what I want to say. What I want to say is that Konoha must never be the initiator of a war. Konoha participated in the First Ninja World War as a peacemaker, mediating the conflicts among the various ninja villages fairly and impartially and preventing them from launching wars. Over time, Konoha will naturally become the leader of various ninja villages." Kamui said righteously.

"The First Ninja World War is inevitable. It is always better to solve the problem peacefully than to start a war." Kamui continued.

"You have a narrow vision, Madara. You are the Kage of a village now. Can't you think about the problem from the perspective of a Kage?" Kamui criticized.

"Hmph." Madara turned his head away and did not refute Kamui.

Kamui could see that Madara had listened to what he said, and he also knew that if he continued, Madara would most likely fight him to death, so he said goodbye, saying that he had something to deal with in the police department.

"Get out of here, don't stay here and get in the way." Ban shouted to drive them away.

After Kamui left, Madara sat behind his desk, thinking about what Kamui said, and began to reflect on whether he was qualified enough to be Hokage.

When Kamui returned to the Police Department, he remembered that he had forgotten to talk to Madara about improving Konoha's laws and absorbing civilian ninjas into the Police Department. He wanted to find Madara to propose it, but looking at the teacup in his hand and thinking about the conversation just now, he decided to talk about it the next time they met.

That night, Itama told Ohashira and Tobirama about the Five Kage Summit. Ohashira was worried about Madara, fearing that he would have the idea of ​​conquering other ninja villages by force again, so he wanted to find Madara to argue with him.

Tobirama stopped Daibashi and said, "Brother, we will have time to discuss it after Izuna comes back."

Dazhuzi felt that what Tobirama said made sense, so he resisted the urge to immediately go find Madara to argue with him.

"The other four major ninja villages are located in remote areas and are short of resources. At this Five Kage Summit, the four major ninja villages may join forces to put pressure on Konoha and force Konoha to compromise. Madara is too tough and may very likely go to war with them directly. This is what I am most worried about." Tobirama analyzed reasonably.

"Starting a war directly is indeed in line with Madara's character. At that time, I will be an escort and attend the Five Kage Summit with Madara to stop him at the critical moment." Daibashi said solemnly.

"Brother, you are too naive. You and Madara are at opposite ends of the spectrum. It is very likely that you mean well but end up doing something bad. You are not the best candidate for an escort." Tobirama retorted.

"The accompanying personnel not only need to give advice to the Kage at the Five Kage Summit, but also need to serve as a buffer between the Kage so as not to embarrass the other party." Tobirama explained.

The Great Pillar was disappointed again and asked, "Is it really true that I can't attend the Five Kage Summit?"

Tobirama didn't say anything, Itama looked away, and the topic was dropped.

"Izuna, from now on our two families will be allies. This scroll contains the sealing technique of our Uzumaki clan. Take it back and give it to the Hokage. When you meet Mito, tell her that Uzushio Village will always be her home and ask her to come back when she is free. Also tell that brat Kamui that if he dares to bully Mito, Uzushio Village will definitely use the entire village's strength to attack Konoha and demand an explanation from Mito." Mito's father, the Kage of Uzushio Village, the patriarch of the Uzumaki clan, said solemnly.