Uchiha's Blade

Mana actually understands Rasa's mood somewhat.

Ninjas have never known how to deal with nobles. This was the case in Senju Hashirama's era.

Nowadays, the number of countries on the ninja world's territory is more than half less than during the Warring States Period. Many small countries were destroyed and annexed by powerful countries, which made the big countries more powerful.

Also during this period, the major countries also tightened their control over the Ninja Village.

The ninjas still haven't learned the tricks of the nobles.

In the eyes of the nobles who consider themselves to represent literary fame and elegance, ninjas are not much different from barbarians who have not yet fully evolved, so the nobles have never looked down upon ninjas.

Naturally, the ninjas couldn't learn from the nobles. Fighting and surviving on weekdays were already exhausting enough.

Now that the ninja world has been at peace for many years, it is normal for the daimyo of the Wind Country not to want to spend money on Suna Ninja Village.

The strength of Suna Ninja Village is far inferior to that of Konoha. At least in the previous ninja wars, Konoha has never lost. The daimyo of the Fire Country naturally have a good impression of Konoha. It is inevitable that there are Sand Ninja among the nobles of the Wind Country. Ninjamura couldn't bear the idea of ​​taking on a big role.

However, Suna Ninja Village has a special geographical location. Unlike Konoha, which has vast forests and rich water and soil, it is not able to take care of itself to a certain extent. Suna Ninja Village has a strong dependence on the daimyo's funding.

When a big name appears who doesn't want to spend money for Suna Ninja Village, life in Suna Ninja Village naturally becomes particularly difficult.

In this regard, Mana feels that she is 100% grateful to Ubuyashiki Yōya from another world.

When Mana first understood that the root of the ninja war was the daimyo system and the ninja village system, she was actually a little confused.

She knew the shinobi village system very well, but she was almost blind when it came to daimyo, and Ubuyashiki Yoshiya, a member of the Ubuyashiki clan that had been inherited for thousands of years, and Mrs. Amane, who came from a family of priests for generations, perfectly helped Mana make up for this lesson.

There are unique rules for aristocratic interactions. If you don't understand the rules, they won't even bother to listen to what you have to say, and they may even have condescending contempt in their hearts. Naturally, there won't be any good communication.

Mana used the new knowledge she learned to successfully make the Fire Country Daimyo think that she was a person who 'understood the rules', so the letter of appointment recognizing her as Hokage was issued very smoothly.

The famous names in the Kingdom of Wind follow the same routine.

But this time, Mana also borrowed some momentum from the Daimyo of the Country of Fire. With the Daimyo of the Country of Fire recognizing her as "knowing the rules", her contact with the Daimyo of the Country of Wind became smoother.

As the leader of a ninja village in another country, she deceived the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind into listening to her and arranging the ninja village in her own country. Being able to do such a thing, even the daimyo of the Country of Fire would inevitably be dumbfounded after hearing the news. a feeling of.

For Luo Sha, the current Kazekage, this impact is even greater.

Originally, Luo Sha thought that Mana was asking for something from him, but now it seems...

Luo Sha clenched her fists tightly and took a long time before slowly exhaling.

Mana knew that he had taken the right step.

Luo Sha asked: "How did you do it?"

It's not like Luo Sha had never thought of persuading the daimyo of the Kingdom of Wind before, but the daimyo didn't listen at all. At first, he sent an envoy to explain the situation, and even wrote a letter to the daimyo himself to explain that he would provide enough funds to allow Suna Ninja Village to maintain its strength against the wind. How important the country is, but the first few times the name was heard, and then it was simply fooled. The position of the person receiving the reception was getting lower and lower. Luo Sha also knew that the name was determined and would never waver. .

Rasa had even been discussing with people the solution after the funding reduction, planning where to save some money. When she heard the news that Mana was coming to visit Suna Ninja Village, Rasa immediately agreed. It was not because of him. I particularly like Mana, but I hope I can get some money from Konoha to fill the funding gap of Suna Ninja Village.

After all, Konoha looks rich.

But now, all his plans no longer make any sense.

Mana pretended not to see Rasa's ugly face. Listening to Rasa's questions, she even smiled and said as if the other party was praising her: "It's very simple. When dealing with daimyo and nobles, you can't use ninja skills." One set, they have their own rules, and once you figure that out, it’s a lot easier to talk.”

She even has a copycat version of Ubuyashiki's aura. Although she can't make people trust her as much as Ubuyashiki Yoya with just a few words and voice, it can be considered to be somewhat effective.

If Yoya Sanyashiki comes with this skill and can add 100 points of favorability, Mana needs to actively use it. The effect is a little less effective, but he can still get 50 points.

...Of course, this is just an analogy.

But in fact, the learning results in the world of Demon Slayer did give Mana a lot of help.

Now that she said this in such relaxed words, Luo Sha was so angry that she just wanted to roll her eyes.

Who doesn't know that ninjas don't work well in front of nobles and daimyo?But the problem is, they don’t know how to learn the tricks of the nobles. No one will teach them!

Who would want to talk to a ninja and take the trouble to teach someone who knows these things?

But at this time, Mana had the advantage. Rasa's momentum had been sluggish since Chiyo failed to show off his power to Konoha and was hit. Now he couldn't get up. He sighed and asked: "So, what does Naruto want to do?" Just say whatever you want."

He still doesn't know how much influence Mana has on the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, but at least he is certain that the influence must be greater than his.

Mana said: "I think the alliance between Konoha and Suna Ninja Village can be more solid. Besides... your one-tail jinchuriki is very good."

The first half of the sentence was okay, but the second half made Luo Sha frown: "What does Naruto mean?"

Mana said: "I see that your Jinchuuriki is young, but he is not happy in Suna Ninja Village. Why not let him live in Konoha for a while... Don't glare at me, since you have received the Wind Country document, why don’t you look at the appendix?”

Luo Sha's expression changed, and then he flipped through the document notice in his hand to the end, and then his expression became visibly ferocious.

"Confused!"

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind actually asked him to hand over the tailed beast...that is, the one-tailed Jinchūriki to Konoha's care.

Because the Jinchuuriki of Suna Ninja Village is so unstable, a large amount of money is spent every year to deal with the casualties and damage caused by Shukaku's rampage. On weekdays, there are a lot of Anbu who want to keep an eye on the Jinchuuriki and monitor him. Doesn't this cost money?

If all these people are released to do tasks, Suna Ninja Village can make money, and the Daimyo can give less funds.

If Luo Sha heard this, he would definitely have sneered, but the daimyo from the Kingdom of Wind was so dazzled by Mana's soft and harmless smile that he actually listened to her deception and thought this was a good idea.

Shukaku and all, it's the same with or without him.

Shukaku has never seen Suna Ninja Village achieve any good results for the Kingdom of Wind. On the other hand, Konoha Village never throws jinchuriki on the battlefield, but Konoha has never lost in all the ninja wars. It can be seen that Konoha has never lost. The word "beast" is just to scare people, but it doesn't mean much in practice.

Isn't it a good deal to throw away a Shukaku who has no use but to burn money?

This fallacy actually seemed as moving as the truth when said in Manai's mouth.

Mana smiled at Rasa: "Whether you want money or a Jinchuuriki, Kazekage can choose one by yourself, but... don't worry, I can guarantee that I will never take Shukaku from Gaara's body by force, nor will I give orders. Gaara attacks the Suna Ninja Village or the ninjas in the Suna Ninja Village, but not the other Ninja Villages."

Rasa sneered: "You are so troubled to get the jinchuriki back, and you don't want him to attack other villages or ninjas for you. Are you trying to use the jinchuriki as an ordinary ninja and let him do D-level tasks like walking dogs and pulling weeds? ?!”

Jinchuuriki can't be let out like ordinary ninjas and run around. If something happens, it will be troublesome.

Mana wants a jinchūriki but doesn't need it, so does he really plan to help Suna Ninja Village raise Shukaku for nothing?

Luo Sha doesn’t believe this!

Mana said: "You think Shukaku is a good thing that everyone covets, but I don't look down on him. Shukaku's combat power can only deal with ordinary ninjas, which is completely meaningless for my level. "

She glanced at Luo Sha: "Not to mention one Shukaku, even if you have ten Shukakus, if you really want to use your hands, I will still hold them down and beat them."

There is no difference between beating the Kyuubi with thousands of hands and beating a chick, let alone Shukaku, a one-bill whose strength is far inferior to that of the Kyuubi?

These words made Luo Sha furious, but he couldn't refute her.

In the end, he had to say firmly: "Hokage is very confident in his own strength!"

Mana said: "Young people like you don't understand. If you experienced that era personally, you would understand that tailed beasts are really not something worth mentioning."

Luo Sha: "..."

I'm really sorry for not being born in the same era as the first Hokage.

After a long silence, Rasa finally said: "I can agree to let you take care of the One-Tail Jinchuuriki for a period of time, but if Shukaku is not under control during this period, Suna Ninja Village will not be responsible for any damage caused to Konoha. .”

Luo Sha knew very well that these words seemed tough, but in fact they were just trying to save some face for herself.

Between the jinchūriki and the village, he chose the village after all.

Even if losing the Jinchuriki is a blow to the village, at least after accepting the current conditions, the village can die slower and later.

Not to mention that he had other ideas in mind.

"While Ichibi is under the care of Konoha, the funds of the Suna Ninja Village must not be reduced."

In this way, it is equivalent to using a Jinchuuriki, which had little actual effect, in exchange for development opportunities for the village.

As long as there is enough money, Sand Ninja Village can train more ninjas, accept more missions, and gradually become stronger.

...Sooner or later, the Sand Ninja Village will no longer be under the control of Konoha.

Mana didn't care about Rasa's little calculation. Anyway, for her plan, Rasa's little plan was not important, so she quickly agreed: "I will try my best to ensure the funding supply of Suna Ninja Village. But the statement 'not to be reduced' is too general. How about we agree on a standard so that Suna Ninja Village's funding will not be lower than the standard?"

Luo Sha thought for a while and agreed.

Other than that, the other content seems quite boring. After all, even the jinchūriki of the village have been given away, and it is difficult for other places to be truly tough.

A few days after the meeting, Luo Sha looked back at the agreement reached with Jinna. He found that there were many areas where he could have gone further, but in the atmosphere at the time, he failed to stick to it.

Starting from suppressing Chiyo, Mana oppressed him step by step, constantly creating pressure on him, and finally made him make such a weak concession.

This made Luo Sha couldn't help but sigh: "Is this the strength of the first generation Hokage disciple? From this point of view, Tsunade is called a princess in vain..."

Although Tsunade is also a top powerhouse, compared with Uchiha Mana, she is indeed not worthy of the title of successor to the first Hokage.

At this time, Mana had returned to Konoha, and brought Gaara with him along with him.

In the eyes of the ninjas in Suna Ninja Village, the jinchuriki was extremely fierce, but next to Mana, he was like a soft dumpling.

Mana asked Kakashi to arrange a place for Gaara, and then went to see Itachi Uchiha to learn about what happened in the village during her absence.

During Mana's absence, Uchiha Itachi had already started the newspaper Mana requested.

According to Mana's request, he did not put words like 'Konoha' or 'Hokage' with clear camps and too strong political meanings. Instead, he chose a name that was tacky but easy to remember.

"Peace Daily?"

This name is extremely simple and straightforward, but it also does not carry any political affiliation.

Zhenna thought for a while and nodded: "It's a good name."

Being praised by admirers brought a smile to Uchiha Itachi's lips: "We have published several issues before, but we have less discussions on some more serious topics. We mainly publish some entertainment content. Please come. I also wrote a few short stories and posted them."

Mana nodded: "That's good. If you post those things at the beginning, it won't be easily accepted by ordinary villagers and middle- and low-level ninjas."

Most people are not interested in serious things and cannot understand them. Therefore, if it gives people an impression of being too serious at first, it will make everyone subconsciously avoid this newspaper in the future. But now it can become a newspaper for everyone. Something I would look at after dinner.

As for those serious topics, it’s not too late to deal with them later.

In addition to this, Peace Daily also provides new employment.

Konoha actually takes in many orphans. They usually live on the village's relief fund, but this can only guarantee the lowest level of life and cannot provide them with better conditions. But now, they can take on some tasks of delivering newspapers every day. .

This kind of mission can be done even if you are not an official ninja.

The daily income is not high, but it is enough to eat three meals of meat-based ramen at Ichiraku Ramen. With careful planning of this money, and coupled with the monthly relief provided by Konoha, their quality of life will be greatly improved.

This gave Peace Daily a broad base among Konoha's future shinobi community from the very beginning.

It can be said that it achieves multiple things with one stone.

Because she didn’t plan to let Heping Daily publish anything too serious for the time being, Mana didn’t care too much, but she thought about it and said: “Publishing only entertainment gossip may not attract many ninjas to subscribe, and it will be difficult to form a good reputation among ninjas. By greater influence, I mean opening a separate column dedicated to writing content related to ninjas. Not only can you interview famous ninjas, but you can even publish some training techniques."

Just like shuriken throwing, at the level of Mana or Uchiha Itachi, even if they don't reveal the Uchiha clan's secret shuriken skills, they can become middle and low-level by relying only on some experiences they have accumulated during their training. A valuable learning material for ninjas.

Ninja schools don't teach these things.

Uchiha Itachi immediately understood that this was an extremely clever move.

This kind of content may not be viewed favorably by big families, but it has great appeal to small families and civilian ninjas, especially the latter, and it is easy to win their favor.

In this way, when everyone classifies Heping Daily as 'one of their own' in advance, then no matter what Heping Daily says in the future, it will be easier for them to recognize it than others.

Zhenna said: "I'll write a note. You can take it to Monkey and the two former advisers, especially Monkey. Tell him not to be lazy."

It was a waste of time for Mana to write about this kind of basic training article. As Hokage, she couldn't spend too much time on this, so she simply left it to the retired third generation.

Not only does it give him something to do in his boring retirement life, but it also allows him to earn some royalties. How great!

Besides, doesn't the Third Hokage have the title of Ninjutsu Professor?It is very simple for him to write some basic ninjutsu training theories and techniques.

A small article a day can be written for several years without repeating it.

After the simple arrangements were made, Uchiha Itachi asked again: "How do you plan to arrange the jinchuriki of Sand Ninja Village?"

Uchiha Itachi said: "Do you want him to go to ninja school?"

We have brought the Jinchuriki back, of course we can't just leave him alone and give him some food and drink.

Mana had previously felt that Rasa's education method was problematic.

She naturally has plans for Gaara: "Gaara's control over Shukaku is not stable enough, and we cannot just let him go to the ninja school."

If Gaara's sand attacks his classmates again, not only the classmates at school will be injured, but Gaara will also be sad for a long time.

Mana could see through this child's little hedgehog-like appearance that he had a sensitive and soft heart.

She finally decided: "Let Gaara follow me for the time being, and let Yamato take the teacher's certificate exam as soon as possible. Doesn't he know how to use Wood Release? Wood Release has a suppressive effect on tailed beasts. After the exam, let him teach Gaara." go."

Uchiha Itachi was a little confused: "Teacher's certificate?"

Isn't that something that only teachers at Konoha Elementary School have to take the test?Ninja school has never heard of this stuff.

Mana said: "Actually, it's not about the teacher's certificate. The main thing is that Yamato used to be an ANBU. Before that, he worked for Danzo. It seems that he never learned the subject of how to educate children, right? Let him learn One study.”

Uchiha Itachi nodded: "I understand."

After saying this, he said to Mana: "Except for those, the ANBU ninjas have recently figured out the problem about the children brought back from Orochimaru."

Mana didn't pay much attention to this matter and left it to Uchiha Itachi.

At this time, she asked with great interest: "Why, is there really a secret?"

She still remembered Kimimaro's expression when he couldn't wait to leave Konoha.

Uchiha Itachi nodded: "It's a curse seal. Orochimaru's curse seal is not just about transforming the user's body and bringing more powerful power to the user."

He took out a folder, opened it and handed it to Mana: "All the relevant information is here. In addition, I finally attached a list. Among the scrolls brought back from Orochimaru's base, I also sorted out all the scrolls related to the curse seal. Well, relevant personnel have been arranged to conduct research."

Mana can do this faster. She can now ignore the burden of multiple shadow clones and body techniques to a certain extent, and can distribute a large amount of sex at once.

But that's never how things work.

In the Demon Slayer world, Mana can do this because she doesn't care about the final research level of the Demon Slayer Corps, nor does she care whether the Demon Slayer Corps develops in a balanced way, nor does she consider the word 'future'.

But for Konoha, she would never take all the burdens on herself.

Konoha needs more talents and more ninjas to grow up. She alone is not enough.

Therefore, for Konoha, there are some things that Mana will not interfere with. Unless other people encounter difficulties that are beyond their ability, she will help them as Hokage.

This can be considered a normal village, something a normal Hokage should do.

With this thought, Mana quickly read through the contents of the folder.

Then even Mana had to sigh.

Orochimaru is really a genius!

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, he has gone astray, even Mana feels so, but from a purely scientific perspective, Orochimaru has never deviated.

Mana felt that, in a way, Orochimaru told her how terrible it would be for a genius scientist to lose his restraints.

This made her think of the Thousand Hands Tobirama of the past.

Judging from the various research materials left behind by Senju Hashirama, as well as the large number of terrible forbidden arts sealed by Konoha that came from him, if there had not been Senju Hashirama back then, Mana thought about it and found that even if it was her It is impossible to estimate what Senju Tobirama will become.

She sighed and put down the folder in her hand: "Then all we have to do is wait."

Uchiha Itachi asked: "Aren't you going to stop it?"

Now that Orochimaru's secret has been glimpsed from these materials, doesn't Mana plan to take action in advance?

This is not like Mana's usual style.

Mana said: "There is still the unresolved matter of Uchiha Obito."

Uchiha Itachi thought for a while: "Do you plan to solve these two things together?"

Mana said: "I took away Nagato and Konan, Uchiha Obito suffered heavy losses, and the Akatsuki organization also experienced a chaos. Now he is reorganizing the Akatsuki organization. Why do you think he can stabilize the situation so quickly?"

Mana's voice was a little cold: "Because Uchiha Obito still controls the Mizukage!"

Even Uchiha Itachi couldn't maintain his composure after hearing this answer: "Mizukage?!"

Mana said: "The information comes from a person who will never deceive me. It is completely credible. But don't worry. Since Uchiha Obito relies on controlling the water shadow to quickly recover this time, his arrangements in the Kingdom of Water will inevitably have to be replaced." Being used on a large scale, as long as he uses it, I can dig them all out!"

That's why she hasn't been in a hurry to deal with Uchiha Obito.

Although Uchiha Madara provided her with a lot of information, Uchiha Madara had also been dead for many years. After his death, what Uchiha Obito did was not something that Uchiha Madara could fully control.

Mana only waited for Uchiha Obito to use up the line in the Kingdom of Water, and then she completely destroyed that line.

As a result, Uchiha Obito would have to concentrate all the power he could control in order to fight against her.

Killing an Uchiha Obito is a bit troublesome, but it is not impossible, but dealing with the follow-up problems must be a huge and complicated matter that can give Mana a headache.

She doesn't have so much time to spend on this kind of thing now. It's better to let Uchiha Obito concentrate his power, and then she can defeat it in one fell swoop and completely solve the trouble.

Orochimaru was once a member of Akatsuki. If Orochimaru is resurrected, no matter how you think about it, his best partner is Uchiha Obito.

Mana didn't think Orochimaru would dare to face her alone after what happened last time.

After understanding Mana's thoughts, Uchiha Itachi said: "I understand. Next, I will strengthen the intelligence work on the Kingdom of Water. In addition, Orochimaru will also send more people to keep an eye on it."

Zhenna always felt at ease with him when doing things, so she didn't say anything else.

In the following days, Konoha entered a relatively peaceful period.

Mana even took the time to write an article about chakra property changing techniques and published it in the Peace Daily News. Now that the sales of the newspaper have been rising, Mana has also received a large amount of royalties.

Other than that, it’s just about teaching Gaara on a daily basis.

Mana is more experienced than Rasa in dealing with Shukaku.

She went into the seal to chat with Shukaku, and sure enough, she saw Shukaku shivering in the corner with his chubby body, so the subsequent negotiations went very smoothly.

Gaara found that he could actually sleep peacefully without worrying about Shukaku running out.

No, instead of worrying about Shukaku running out, he should be more worried about Shukaku becoming autistic.

Shukaku didn't take the initiative to speak for a long time.

But Gaara didn't care what Shukaku thought. Living with Mana made him feel very happy, as if he had returned to the days before Yashamaru was ordered to kill him.

Gaara also met Uzumaki Naruto. The two children who had suffered a lot because of their status as jinchuriki had a lot to say.

Sasuke wasn't too happy about this.

He felt that his teacher had been robbed, and he had agreed to only officially accept him as a disciple?He actually went to teach Gaara, hmph!

But Sasuke couldn't be angry with Gaara.

This kid has become incredibly soft since he put away his thorns. Even if Sasuke hummed at him, he would still ask him softly if he wanted to eat meatballs.

How could he do this!

Sasuke surrendered shamefully.

Life in Konoha is so happy, Gaara is even more grateful to Mana.

He knew that it must be a very difficult task to take the jinchuriki out of the village, but Mana did it for him.

The child was so moved when he thought of this, he just wanted to do something for Mana, but the only thing he could do was fight, and Mana didn't even need him to fight.

Gaara had no choice but to ask his friends, but Sasuke and Naruto didn't think about this question either.

Naruto looked stupid and said: "What does Mana-san like? Ah, I haven't thought about this problem, but we can't help her in the first place. Hey, when I grow up and become Hokage, I can help her." She’s gone!”

Gaara felt that this answer was useless, and he couldn't be Hokage.

And becoming Hokage would only happen many years later, so he looked at Sasuke again.

Sasuke didn't want to lose face in front of his friends, and he didn't want to be regarded as a guy on the same level as that idiot Naruto, so he thought about it and said, "My brother is someone who is valued very much by Mr. Mana, and he works for her every day. , He must know what Mr. Mana wants!"

Therefore, when Uchiha Itachi came, the three children who were doing homework dropped their homework and eagerly asked him this question.

Uchiha Itachi couldn't resist Sasuke's expectant eyes at all.

He thought for a while and said to Gaara: "Ms. Mana is a great person. She doesn't have much desire for power or money."

Gaara asked: "Then what does she want? As long as it's something I can do!"

He also wants to do his part to make Mana happy.

Uchiha Itachi had answered this question before, and he said it smoothly this time.

He said with conviction: "Mana-sama wants to be everyone's father."

So when Mana came back, before she could say anything, Gaara rushed out and was very affectionate towards her and even called out shyly.

"father!"

Mana: "..."