Naruto: I traveled through time with the Samsara Eye.

For the Wind Country, which has to buy most of its food, war will only lead to rising prices of materials, causing most people to live in difficult circumstances.

"Let them go."

Orochimaru doesn't care what these people are planning.

Regardless of whether the war ends through peace talks or not, Orochimaru's contributions are there and no one can take them away.

Therefore, it makes little difference to Orochimaru whether to defeat the Sand Village directly or to end the war through peace talks between the two villages.

He already had what he wanted.

Even if there is no peace talks and the fighting continues, Orochimaru believes that the Sand Village will not be able to hold out for much longer.

So Orochimaru did not make things difficult for the envoys and chose to let them go.

Of course, after they are released, someone will be sent to follow the envoys to the Daimyo Prefecture in order to prevent these people from tearing off the identities of the envoys after entering the Land of Fire and causing trouble everywhere.

Do you want to inform the old man?

If he doesn't notify them, the old man will probably be pissed to death when the people from the Sand Village come close to negotiate.

Although I really want to see the old man get furious...

Orochimaru thought about it and decided to send a message to Konoha to inform the Third Hokage that the Sand Village wanted to negotiate, but there was bad news, because the Sand Village did not intend to negotiate directly with Konoha, but instead planned to go through the Daimyo's mansion to negotiate.

Prepare yourself mentally.

If we take the Daimyofu route, if successful it will mean that Konoha will face considerable losses.

It would be difficult to extract a large amount of war reparations from the Sand Village.

After all, peace talks and negotiations after defeat are not the same concept.

He did what he was supposed to do. As for the rest, it was not something Orochimaru could consider. Anyway, the war had not ended for a day, so he had to continue fighting. Even if the peace talks were successful the next day and both sides stopped the war, they would still fight the same way as they did the day before.

The news spread quickly, and the Ninja Hawk flew to Konoha that night.

The Third Hokage successfully received the message sent by Orochimaru.

"Damn!!"

After reading the message sent by Orochimaru, the Third Hokage was so shocked that he stood up and couldn't help but swear.

The Sand Village does not want to fight this war, and the Third Hokage is mentally prepared for this, because the war has been going on for almost three years, and the Sand Village's foundation has been almost exhausted. In addition, the New Year is approaching, and the Third Kazekage will face exponential pressure.

It is normal to want to end the war.

However, the Third Hokage did not expect that the Third Kazekage was so cunning. He wanted to end the war but did not want to admit his defeat, so he took the route of peace talks with the Daimyo Prefecture.

Knowing that if they took Konoha's route to negotiate, Konoha would not offer very harsh conditions, the Sand Village directly took the Daming Road route.

Are you stupid? I want to end the war, but I won't talk to you about it.

At this moment, the Third Hokage felt like he was being bullied and felt extremely depressed.

But he couldn't stop the Sand Village envoys from going to the Daimyo's Mansion, because the other party did not go to the Daimyo's Mansion under the banner of peace talks, but only said that they were going to meet the Daimyo of the Fire Country with greetings from the Daimyo of the Wind Country.

Even if you in Konoha want to stop this, aren't you meddling too much?

Besides, everything is just speculation. Without solid evidence, why should you stop others?

It's so frustrating!!

He knew very well that the other party was going to negotiate with the daimyo, but the key was that he couldn't stop them. The Third Hokage felt a lump in his chest and felt very uncomfortable.

"Go and notify Xiaochun and Menyan to come over. Oh, and the fat guy Akimichi Toukou, and Tsunade. Wait, Tsunade is not necessary. Tell Hinata Shizukachi instead."

The Sand Village has already shown signs of peace talks, so the village must make corresponding preparations.

A high-level meeting is inevitable.

But when the personnel were being notified, Tsunade was replaced by Shizue.

Tsunade has been staying in Konoha Hospital for some time recently, so it would be better to go directly to Shizuka instead of looking for her.

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

At the Hokage's command, the Hokage's guards immediately got busy.

The Anbu squad in the Hokage's office building, which used to be an assistant, seemed to be protecting the Hokage's safety, but in fact they were helping to escape. Now, the job of escaping has all fallen on the shoulders of the Hokage's guards.

"The Hokage's office wants you."

Shizue pushed Tsunade.

Tsunade, who had her eyes open in the previous second, closed her eyes in the next second, turned her body and rolled herself in the quilt, and then snoring sounds came from under the blanket.

Jingyi: “..........”

Wow, you fell asleep in seconds, right?

you are hopeless.

Standing up, he kicked Tsunade, who was curled up on the sofa, then put on his coat silently and left home with an unhappy look on his face.

"Sister Tsunade, it's so late, what does the Hokage want to see you about?"

Kushina put down the book in her hands and yawned loudly.

Tsunade, who was snoring just now, sat up and pinched Kushina's face with a grin:

"You are wrong. You are looking for Shizuoichi, not me. Didn't you hear what the Hokage's guards said? Master Shizuoichi, the Hokage wants to see you."

Looking at Tsunade who was imitating the speech of the ninja from the Hokage Guard, Kushina distanced herself a little with disgust.

It sounds awful.

You stupid girl, you still despise me, right?

I don’t care about you anymore, go to sleep!

Tsunade was so sleepy that she didn't even bother to go back to her room and just fell asleep on the sofa.

Back in the room, Kushina sat on the bed and said distressedly:

"Big fox, when do you think I can help Jingyi? Compared to Jingyi, I feel so weak."

"Little devil, as long as you seal... um."

The foul-mouthed Nine-Tailed Fox was just about to say, "As long as you remove the seal, I can increase your strength," but just as he opened his mouth, he found that the chains on his body began to tighten.

So Jiuwei quickly changed his words: "As long as you follow the method I told you and train hard, your strength will improve soon."

"Kushina brat, you are very talented. Don't underestimate yourself. Don't forget that I am here to help you."

"You just want to trick me and run away."

Kushina stared at the Kyuubi expressionlessly.

Nine-Tailed Fox: “…”

Damn, it’s so hard to fool kids nowadays.

"Kid, don't you want my power? I am the Nine-Tails, the strongest tailed beast!"

Seeing that coaxing failed, Kyuubi began to roar loudly.

Unfortunately, this trick is useless against Kushina, at least it has no effect on Kushina now, because Kushina has become immune to it. She knows that this big fox can only roar a few times but can't actually do anything.

"I want to, too, but you won't cooperate. Jingyi said that as long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I will definitely be able to use your power with peace of mind."

"Big Fox, let's negotiate."

Kushina looked up and spoke seriously to the Nine-Tails.