Chapter 296: Miss Terumi Mei, You Also Wouldn't Want...
Terumi Mei blankly came back to her senses. After realizing her own situation, her instincts as a ninja made her begin to gather all the intelligence she could from her surroundings.
[There's no smell of the sea breeze, so this is no longer the Land of Water? And, such vast farmlands, could this be the Land of Fire?]
Seeing this, Terumi Mei's heart grew bitter. As a captive, sent to the heartland of the enemy country, could she possibly have a good ending?
But now, with her hands and feet bound and her chakra sealed, she had no way to even commit suicide. She could only lean helplessly against the prison cart, following it towards an unknown future.
Soon, Terumi Mei was brought to Konoha Village and then imprisoned. However, what Terumi Mei had not expected was that after arriving in Konoha, the first person she saw was a pink-haired young girl in a white coat, leading a group of children. The girl's features were very delicate, but two heavy dark circles and a prominent forehead exposed by a severely receding hairline perfectly ruined this beauty.
After the girl arrived, she directly began to treat the wounds on her body.
"All of you, watch carefully. The wound on this patient is a penetrating wound. Although the frontline medical-nin has already simply treated his wound, this kind of temporary treatment is not suitable for the patient's future recovery. So, further treatment is needed from the rear medical-nin. Now that the war situation has eased slightly, a large number of similar wounded will be sent back to the village during this period. You all must study seriously."
"Yes! Teacher Sakura!" the students behind her said in unison.
"Hey... you!" Just as Terumi Mei was about to speak, Sakura pressed her down on the hospital bed.
[Where does this little girl get so much strength?] Terumi Mei wanted to struggle, but found that in her current state, she had no way to struggle at all in front of Sakura.
Soon, Terumi Mei fell unconscious under the effect of the anesthetic. When she groggily woke up again, Terumi Mei found that the wounds on her body had been properly treated. The medical-nin who had operated was very skilled in the Mystical Palm Technique, not even leaving a scar.
Subsequently, Terumi Mei also discovered that the place she was in now was not the prison cell she had imagined, but a beautifully furnished room. And besides the chakra seal on her body, all her restraints had been removed.
Terumi Mei wanted to investigate the surrounding environment, but when she had just opened the door of the room, she saw two fully armed ninja guards standing there. If it were a normal day, Terumi Mei could have tried to deal with them and then escape. But now that her chakra was sealed, she had no way to deal with these guards who looked anything but weak, not to mention that the combat uniforms on both of them were embroidered with the Uchiha clan's crest.
"You're awake," one of the Uchiha clan members responsible for guarding Terumi Mei said upon seeing this. "Please wait a moment. Lord Hokage said to report to him as soon as you wake up."
With that, this Uchiha clan member picked up his walkie-talkie and spoke a few words.
Before long, Uchiha Inahi arrived here. After signaling the two clan members to stand down, he then said, "Miss Terumi Mei, Lord Hokage requests your presence."
"What does Uchiha Douhuan want with me?" Terumi Mei said coldly.
"Miss Terumi Mei, please pay attention to your wording. Do not address Lord Hokage by his name," Uchiha Inahi's eyes turned cold as he reminded her.
"Hmph, lead the way," Terumi Mei said after a cold snort.
Soon, Terumi Mei was taken to the Hokage's office by Uchiha Inahi. Only then did Terumi Mei notice that she seemed to have been in the Hokage Tower all along.
"Lord Hokage, Miss Terumi Mei has arrived," outside the office, Uchiha Inahi said respectfully.
"Come in," Uchiha Douhuan's voice sounded from inside the door. Uchiha Inahi, on the other hand, waited by the door, signaling for Terumi Mei to enter.
After a cold snort, Terumi Mei pushed open the door and entered the office.
The first thing that came into Terumi Mei's view was a piece of calligraphy with the four characters 'Clear Government, Harmonious People' written on it. On the sword rack placed directly below the calligraphy, Swift Thunder, which their Hidden Mist had once hated and feared the most, lay quietly.
And on the desk not far away, Uchiha Douhuan was looking through some documents one by one. At the same time, on the desk, there were also many messy papers filled with text.
[Wait a minute, why do these documents look so familiar?] The more Terumi Mei looked at the papers in Uchiha Douhuan's hand, the more familiar they seemed. Taking a closer look, wasn't this the notes she had made when she was studying Uchiha Douhuan's actions and intentions?
In almost an instant, Terumi Mei's face turned red and then white. Her notes on studying someone else's actions and intentions were discovered by the person himself. Was there anything more socially fatal in this world than this?
"Miss Terumi Mei seems to enjoy studying me very much," at this time, Uchiha Douhuan put down the notes in his hand, looked up at the other party with a half-smile, and at the same time said. "To be honest, even I didn't know that some of my actions sometimes had such deep meaning."
"I just wanted to find your weakness and then kill you," Terumi Mei said through gritted teeth.
Uchiha Douhuan did not care about Terumi Mei's stubbornness and offense, but said on his own, "You wanted to find a way to save your Hidden Mist from my behavior patterns, right? But it's a pity. Those who learn from me live, those who imitate me die. If you act just by imitating me, you will only lead your subordinates further and further astray."
Terumi Mei's expression changed for a moment. From gritting her teeth and wanting to argue at the beginning, to finally lowering her head and accepting her fate, saying nothing. Uchiha Douhuan was right. She had indeed led her comrades in the Mist further and further astray. Her comrades had fallen one by one in the war, and even she herself had become a captive.
"Lord Hokage, are you telling me all this to humiliate me in person? If that's the case, you might as well just kill me," after a moment of silence, Terumi Mei raised her head and said.
"How could that be?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh. "After the war is over, I still want you to help develop the Land of Water."
"You want me to help develop the Land of Water?" Terumi Mei suspected that she might have misheard. "Takagi Shōban is already your dog. Isn't our Land of Water already at your mercy to be shaped as you please?"
"Heh heh, Miss Terumi Mei, what kind of person do you think Takagi Shōban is?" Uchiha Douhuan said with a laugh.
"What kind of person Takagi Shōban is, do you still need to ask me?" Terumi Mei said with a cold laugh. "A traitor with no bottom line, who would even sell out his own country and his own people for his own benefit."
"Then that's that," Uchiha Douhuan spread his hands with a smile. "I supported him before because he would sell the interests of your Mist and the Land of Water to me. But now that the Land of Water is under my command, if I use him again, he will be selling my Land of Water."
"You..." Terumi Mei was at a loss for words by Uchiha Douhuan's reasoning.
"The people of the Land of Water have been exhausted by the mess made by your generations of Mizukage and Daimyō. There is still a long way to go to restore the people's livelihood. The policies I formulate in the future must have someone familiar with the Land of Water to be responsible for the specific implementation," Uchiha Douhuan said.
"Why me?" Terumi Mei asked, puzzled.
"Of course, it's because you love that land enough, love the people living on that land," Uchiha Douhuan's face carried a light smile, but for Terumi Mei, it was no different from the devil's whisper. "Miss Terumi Mei, you also wouldn't want the people of your country to continue living in misery, would you?"
Terumi Mei didn't know what kind of mood she was in when she left the Hokage's office. However, at the same time, in a secret room in Iwagakure.
By the thick stone table, the lights were dim. Onoki's short body floated on a special seat, his hands crossed, supporting his chin. The Fourth Raikage A stood like an iron tower, his arms crossed, his face showing an irrepressible anger and impatience.
After a long silence, A slammed his fist on the thick stone table, making a dull loud noise, and stone chips splashed slightly, "Damn it! Tsuchikage! The elites of our two villages were all out, yet we still suffered such a major setback in front of Konoha!"
Onoki slowly raised his eyelids and said in a low and hoarse voice, "Hmph... Raikage boy, anger can't solve the problem. This old man has lived for so long, it's not that I haven't lost a battle, but this time... it is indeed unusual. It seems we have no chance of winning at all. The current Konoha is no longer like it was in the last great ninja war."
"Are we just going to sit and wait for death then?" A said with a cold snort. "Old fellow, stop beating around the bush! You called me here, not to listen to your sighs, right? Tell me, what's your idea? As long as we can get rid of that guy, my Cloud Village is willing to pay the price!" A said.
Onoki pondered for a moment, then a cold arc appeared at the corner of his mouth, and his voice became even lower, "A price? There is an excellent opportunity right now that can let us join forces 'justifiably,' and with the smallest price, completely solve this great threat."
A's brows furrowed upon hearing this, his face full of suspicion.
Onoki nodded slightly, his fingers tapping gently on the tabletop, "Let's initiate a Five Kage Summit. Uchiha Douhuan has just won a great victory, his prestige is at its peak. It is precisely when he is most complacent and most likely to let his guard down. He will definitely attend in person. Taking advantage of the prestige of victory, he will ask for benefits from us. The Land of Iron is neutral, and its guard force is limited... this is our only chance."
A grinned ferociously, Lightning Release chakra unconsciously flowing on the surface of his body, making a sizzling sound, "Old fellow, have you finally made up your mind? I told you long ago, even if his eyes are strange, as long as your Dust Release can break his Susanoo's turtle shell, my One-Finger Nukite can pierce his heart."
Onoki let out a long sigh, "Don't underestimate him, Raikage! Even if the two of us join forces, I have at most a fifty percent certainty. At the same time, we also need to arrange for the elite Anbu of our two villages to disguise themselves as Land of Iron guards or attendants, create chaos on the periphery of the venue, and snipe his guard captain and those few troublesome kids at the first possible moment! Inside the venue, only you and I will act. The others... are just a burden!"
A's eyes burned with a raging fighting spirit and killing intent, "Good! A pincer attack from inside and out! Old fellow, let's do it like that! After it's done, Konoha will be leaderless, and we'll..."
Upon hearing this, Onoki immediately raised his hand to stop A from continuing, "Raikage! Be careful with your words! At this moment, we only talk about 'eliminating the threat,' not other things! We are for the 'balance' and 'safety' of the ninja world. Remember, this is just an accident, a legitimate self-defense against a heinous Hokage who threatens the peace of the ninja world."
A snorted heavily, but also understood Onoki's meaning. He forcibly suppressed the desire to discuss other benefits and said, "Hmph! Understood! For the sake of peace in the ninja world... I'll play this part with you this time! Uchiha Douhuan... his head, I've reserved it! But, old fellow, what about the Land of Iron's side? Those samurai have always prided themselves on being neutral. It won't be easy for us to arrange our people among them."
Onoki slowly descended from his floating chair, "Everything Konoha has done in the Land of Water has already exposed their ambition. Mifune shouldn't fail to see that that Uchiha Douhuan is aiming to eliminate the other countries in the ninja world. In this situation, can he still maintain a neutral stance?"
"You're right," the Raikage nodded. "Then, old man, see you at the Five Kage Summit."
Soon, Uchiha Douhuan received the invitation from the Land of Iron for a Five Kage Summit. After seeing this invitation, Uchiha Douhuan threw the invitation on the table with a cold laugh, "This is an invitation with no good intentions, a feast with no good purpose."
However, Uchiha Douhuan still called for Uchiha Inahi, had him prepare the Hokage's honor guard, and also had him go and notify Neji, who was recovering from his injuries in the village, to come over and serve as the captain of his Kage Guard this time.
In this aspect, among the successive Hokage, Uchiha Douhuan was undoubtedly an anomaly. Even someone as strong as Senju Hashirama had a Kage Guard. On the contrary, Uchiha Douhuan, after becoming the Fifth Hokage, had never settled on his own Kage Guard. The last time he visited Iwagakure, he had temporarily used the Kage Guard left by the Fourth to make up the numbers.
Uchiha Douhuan had no intention of relying on the Kage Guard for anything. After all, this Kage Guard he was planning to temporarily form now, besides Neji, the others would probably have to rely on him for protection if something really happened. However, since it was a formal occasion like attending a Five Kage Summit, he, the Hokage, should also put on the proper display.
Soon, Uchiha Inahi had made the arrangements. However, Kakashi and a group of other Konoha high-level officials came to find him at this time, expressing their opposition to Uchiha Douhuan's idea of making a trip to the Land of Iron.
Kakashi even bluntly said, "With A's and Onoki's credit, where they'd need to pay a deposit to borrow a lighter, I don't believe for a second that they don't have some conspiracy."
(End of chapter)
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