Chapter 146

Ninjas want peace, but they have to go to war.

In this extremely contradictory thought, Black Zetsu will lead some ninjas into darkness.

Hinata now has a personal experience of this world.

Even Kakashi, the once genius ninja, has become numb now.

Before meeting Naruto, perhaps Kakashi's idea was to eat and wait for death, and do what a ninja should do.

When one day he can no longer work, he will retire from the ninja position and spend his old age in the village.

Hinata sometimes feels sorry for Kakashi.

The cruelty of the ninja world tortures all ninjas.

Hinata looked up at Kakashi and smiled softly: "The current teacher Kakashi seems to be a little different from the first you met."

Kakashi rolled his dead fish eyes and said weakly: "Maybe it's because I see a little hope!"

Asura's chakra has really begun to affect everyone around Naruto.

In this world full of hatred and killing, in this world where there is no future and hope, Naruto's appearance is like the only light in the darkness.

So everyone is willing to believe in Naruto, and at the same time they are looking forward to his growth.

"Some things... Actually, I know them very well in my heart, but it feels difficult to really do them."

Hinata was a little discouraged.

Once the resentment towards the Sand Village is established, it is really difficult to change it.

Even Hinata, who has a God's perspective, can't help but be hostile to the Sand Village after personally taking Konoha's position.

Not to mention those native ninjas.

Kakashi said calmly: "Let's go! When we get to the oasis ahead, we'll take a break."

Looking sideways at Hinata, Kakashi chuckled and said, "Hinata, don't think too much."

"The pattern of the ninja world has existed for a long time, and it will not change the world overnight. Even if you can let go of hatred, others may not be able to do it."

"But if the peace in the ninja world can continue, perhaps by the time of your next generation, there will not be so much hatred between villages!"

Hinata shook her head slightly and said softly: "I'm just thinking..."

Hinata's voice was almost inaudible when she spoke later.

The more she understood ninjas, the more Hinata could feel the sadness of ninjas.

So in order to avoid repeating the sadness of ninjas, Hinata decided not to call herself a 'ninja' in the future.

I, Otsutsuki Hinata... am a practitioner!

Chapter 218 The Darkness of Sand Village

In a top-secret meeting room in the Wind Shadow Building of Sand Village

All the high-ranking officials of the Sand Village sat around the round table. As the confidant of the fourth Kazekage and Gaara's teacher, Maki was naturally qualified to be here.

However, since returning to the Sand Village, Maki was relieved of his position as "Gaara's role as a jonin", and Gaara was also assigned to other departments.

The Jinchūriki of a ninja village can only be controlled by the "shadow".

And the means used by the "shadow" to control the Jinchūriki are also extremely dark.

The "shadow" will reveal the identity of the Jinchūriki when the Jinchūriki is young, making the whole village hostile to the Jinchūriki.

At the same time, in order to protect the secrets of the Jinchūriki, the "shadow" will also issue a gag order, so that no one can mention the matter of the Jinchūriki.

When the Jinchūriki faces the exclusion of the whole village and falls into endless loneliness and pain, the "shadow" will appear in front of the Jinchūriki as a relative, bringing a ray of light to the Jinchūriki.

This is the case with the AB combination of the Cloud Village, and the same is true for Naruto and the third generation of Konoha.

When the fourth Kazekage Rasa discovered that Gaara and Yashamaru had established a bond, he ordered Yashamaru to assassinate Gaara to ensure that Gaara could only be controlled by the Kazekage and use his father-son relationship with Gaara to continue to control Gaara.

Although the third generation seems to be a good guy in front of Naruto, he has never given Naruto much help in life.

Even the inheritance of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki seemed to have been confiscated by Konoha.

Before graduation, Naruto could only drink expired milk, and even his body was several centimeters shorter than Hinata due to malnutrition.

Because the more difficult the situation is, the more important the warmth of the third generation Hokage is to Naruto.

"Why do you have to give Konoha so much war compensation... If this money is used to develop the village, the village will recover in a short time."

Maki slammed the table and scolded everyone.

Even though the negotiations with Konoha have ended for several days, Maki still can't understand all this.

An elder said calmly: "After the war with Konoha ended, we received news that the Hidden Rock Village was ready to move at the border of the Wind Country, and even the Hidden Cloud Village was calling ninjas back to the village."

"If we don't form an alliance with Konoha, the Hidden Sand Village will immediately fall into crisis."

"Maki, you know what this means."

"If it is not handled well, the Konoha collapse plan will be the beginning of the Fourth Ninja World War!"

The Third Ninja World War can be said to be the key battle for the Hidden Sand Village to go from prosperity to decline.

At the beginning of the war, the Hidden Sand Village could still fight Konoha with great success even after losing the third generation Kazekage.

After being defeated by Konoha, the Hidden Sand Village fought against the Hidden Mist Village and the Hidden Rock Village one after another.

The fourth Kazekage Rasa even sacrificed the elite jonin of Sand Village, Yekura, who possessed the Scorch Release Kekkei Genkai, in order to fight the Iwagakure Village with all his strength.

Rasa sent Yekura to the Kirigakure Village to die, which ended the war between Sand Village and Kirigakure.

The three ninja wars were undoubtedly a shame for the Sand Village.

The Sand Village lost battle after battle and became the weakest village in the ninja world. Now it can't even choose a qualified Kage.

After the Konoha collapse plan, the Sand Village had to change from an ally of Konoha to a younger brother of Konoha, barely maintaining its influence as one of the five major ninja villages.

In the Sand Village without a 'Kage', all major events must be discussed and decided by the village's top leaders.

However, in the ninja world, democracy is not a good thing.

Ninjas regard intelligence as king. If everything needs to be discussed, then the opportunity will be fleeting.

A middle-aged senior executive said: "Let's not talk about this for now..."

"What do you think about the trainees sent to Konoha?"

Maki sneered: "Do our opinions matter? Konoha sent people to the Sand Village to retrieve the war compensation, perhaps to observe us..."

The middle-aged retorted: "Konoha has its own attitude, and we have our own ideas."

"The Sand Village is our territory, and everything that the people of Konoha see is what we want them to see."

"Learning Konoha's talent training system and medical ninja training system are all beneficial to our Sand Village..."

"This is also our reason The main reason for compensating Konoha with a large sum of money. "

Maki sneered: "You really know how to make excuses for your incompetence!"

Someone scolded: "Maki, your attitude is not conducive to the unity of Sand Village and Konoha... Trust needs to be built gradually. We made such a big concession this time, and Konoha also intends to let us learn their advanced system. "

"We do this to let the outside world see that our Sand Village and Konoha are still allies who trust each other."

"Because only in this way can the ninja world maintain the hard-won peace and buy time for the development of our Sand Village..."

Maki's face was gloomy, so gloomy that water could almost drip.

However, the high-level officials of Sand Village did not even raise their eyelids, with expressionless faces, and did not take Maki's attitude seriously at all.

Someone said lightly: "Wrong judgment of the situation will put the village into an irretrievable place."

"Our Sand Village has experienced this kind of pain, so... Maki, put down your pride in your heart. What Sand Village needs now is not strength, but survival!"

Maki's face changed several times. After a while, he seemed to have lost all his strength and sat in his seat without saying a word.

Maki is a close confidant of Rasa and is deeply influenced by him.

It is undeniable that Rasa loves his village very much. In order to protect the Sand Village, Rasa even let his son become a Jinchūriki.

However, Rasa also has an unshirkable responsibility for the Sand Village to be what it is today.

Someone said, "The envoys from Konoha are coming soon... Maki, you are familiar with them, so you will be responsible for leading Kanjiro and Temari to welcome them."

"You are also a veteran jonin in the village, you should know what to do!"

Maki said expressionlessly, "I know!"

An old man suddenly suggested, "Since the village is in trouble, why don't we invite those two to take charge of the situation?"

"..."

There was silence in the meeting room for a moment, and a slightly younger senior said, "Elder Chiyo and Elder Ebizo have not been involved in worldly affairs for many years. The current situation in the village is not the most dangerous, so it is better for us to handle it ourselves."

"We can't always trouble the elders in the village for everything!"

"In that case, wouldn't we young people seem to have accomplished nothing?"

Maki has seen through these so-called seniors, they are just for their own interests.

Anyway, the ninja world is still peaceful, and the Sand Village may not need the leadership of the Kage now.

Maki has made up his mind that after the people from Konoha leave, he will ask Chiyo and Ebizo to come out and preside over the overall situation of Sand Village.

In any case, at least the fifth generation Kazekage must be elected to lead the village to continue to develop.

Nowadays, the decision-making of all parties seems democratic, but because of the different interests of all parties, few people can think about the problem from the perspective of the village.

Position determines thinking.

These people are not Kazekage, and all their decisions are based on their own interests.

Just like the war compensation paid to Konoha this time.

Although Maki doesn't know how much money the Daimyo of the Wind Country has paid, this money is not only used to compensate Konoha's losses, but more of it is used for the development of Sand Village itself.

But this money may have been divided equally by these people in front of him!

Chapter 219 Our Konoha's money is being targeted

In a small town closest to Sand Village, Hinata and Kakashi stayed in the hotel and didn't go out of the door or the second door.

Kakashi decided to rest here for one night and go to Sand Village early the next morning.

The reason why they stayed in the hotel was because Hinata and Kakashi both wore Konoha ninja forehead protectors, and the civilians of the Wind Country really had no good feelings towards Konoha ninjas.

Hinata and Kakashi walked all the way to the town, and they were met with cold eyes and rejection.

Even staying in the hotel was made difficult by the owner of the hotel.

Kakashi also kept Hinata tolerant, because once there was a conflict with the civilians, it would have a great impact on Konoha's reputation.

The God of Wind and the God of Thunder were sent to another room.

Kakashi sat on the windowsill and read a book, the same book "Intimate Paradise".

I don't know how many books Jiraiya has written, but I guess Kakashi has read it over and over again.

He is tired of the story. What Kakashi really wants to read is the beliefs and ideas that Jiraiya expounds in the book.

After Minato Namikaze died, perhaps it was Jiraiya's book that has been guiding Kakashi's life path.

Hinata came to play with Kakashi, but Kakashi ignored her, so Hinata could only lie on the bed and roll around alone.

"Teacher Kakashi, do you think the Sand Village will send someone to pick us up tomorrow?"

Kakashi said indifferently: "I think so!"

Hinata muttered: "But the attitude of the Sand Village is obviously to give us a warning. What should we do tomorrow?"

"Uh..."

Kakashi put "Intimate Paradise" back into the ninja tool bag. He felt that he had to change Hinata's concept, otherwise some irreversible major changes might happen tomorrow.

Although Naruto was not around, the Sand Village still had a One-Tail after all.