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Hidden under the huge waterfall in the Land of Waterfalls, Takigakure Village has always been a peaceful village. However, precisely because it does not participate much in competition, the village has not developed very well in the most important aspect of military force. It is basically supported by a tailed beast and has the "poor mountains and bad waters" BUFF that has saved it from being destroyed.

This village is also a miracle in a sense, as it was lucky enough to get a Seven-Tails when the first Hokage divided the tailed beasts, and this tailed beast coincidentally was a 'non-active' type, so even though the strength of the leader of Takigakure Village is not even up to Konoha's elite jonin, he can still live his life in peace and stability.

But his comfortable little life came to an end today.

"Takigakure Village! I, Kakuzu, am back to hand in my mission!"

It was a sound ninjutsu, not very powerful, and the difficulty level was not even D-level. The only effect was to amplify one's own voice, but the leader of Takigakure Village started sweating as soon as he heard the name Kakuzu.

It is true that Kakuzu is an S-rank rebel ninja of Takigakure Village, but Takigakure Village does not actually have the ability to hunt down Kakuzu, unless they carry the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki with them to smash the Tailed Beast Ball at Kakuzu, but this involves another problem.

They, the Takigakure Village, do not have a perfect Jinchūriki. In this situation, if they want to use the Tailed Beast Ball, the Jinchūriki himself must have very strong strength. However, no one in the Takigakure Village can reach this threshold now. Even the current Seven-Tails Jinchūriki can only be said to have barely reached the level of a jonin.

"But, what does it mean to hand in a mission?" The leader of Takigakure didn't quite understand what Kakuzu meant by that. "Could it be that Kakuzu became a traitor because the previous leader of Takigakure sent him on a mission?"

Thinking of this, the leader of Takigakure Village found that he was not as scared as before.

Since the town road planning of Takigakure Village had not changed much in decades, Kakuzu arrived at the office of the leader of Takigakure Village easily. His speed was so fast that the Takigakure Village side had not even gathered its manpower.

"I deliberately gave you ten minutes, but in the end, there are only such a few people gathered around you? And that doesn't include the Jinchūriki." Kakuzu sighed as he looked at the group of Takigakure elites in front of him, whose strength could only be described as rotten fish and shrimp.

This quality was far inferior to the Takigakure Village when he was young. Of course, he had not forgotten that those Takigakure Village elites who were of higher quality than now were killed by him, Kakuzu himself.

"S-rank rebel Kakuzu, if there is any hidden secret about what happened to you back then, please find another way to communicate with Takigakure. If you continue to approach me, I have reason to suspect that you are attacking Takigakure."

Although the leader of Takigakure Village was thinking about good things, he did not really pin all his hopes on luck. He still had his subordinates, the village, and the jinchūriki who had not yet arrived.

"Attack Takigakure Village? I don't have that idea. After all, I took my revenge decades ago. If I didn't have something important to do, I wouldn't come back here."

When the leader of Takigakure heard this, he immediately felt that his guess was most likely correct. He thought about it carefully and said, "Yes, Kakuzu is a ninja with the strength comparable to the Kage of a large ninja village, but he has not returned to retaliate against the village for decades. This shows that there must be something fishy about his defection and wanted order."

In fact, there was no hidden reason behind Kakuzu's defection. The fundamental reason for his defection was not because the top leaders of Takigakure Village were bad, but simply because the top leaders of Takigakure Village were stupid.

In that era, which big power's top leaders would not know the strength of Senju Hashirama? But they still sent Kakuzu to assassinate the First Hokage. It's just that they didn't intend to kill Kakuzu, because they were really angry because Kakuzu failed to assassinate the First Hokage. They also severely reprimanded him and gave him a heavy punishment, but they didn't want to execute him.

When Kakuzu went to assassinate Hashirama Senju, he was loyal to the village and was willing to sacrifice for the village. However, when he came back, his own superiors scolded, convicted, and severely punished him in one go, which made Kakuzu furious on the spot. After taking away the secret technique of Earth Grudge and quickly learning it, Kakuzu killed the superiors of his own village and then defected. From then on, he never had any connection with this village again.

"So, what is the business you are talking about?"

"Didn't I just say it? Hand in the task." Kakuzu took out a brand new scroll and slowly spread it out and threw it to the leader of Takigakure Village.

"As you can see, the target of my mission back then - the First Hokage - has died after I assassinated him. According to the reward for that mission at that time, Takigakure Village needs to pay me one million in the currency of that era. According to the purchasing power conversion based on the amount of gold that can be purchased, that money is equivalent to about 500 million taels in modern currency. At the same time, you also need to pay me interest. I won't take advantage of you. The loan interest rate table of the Fire Country Bank in recent years is here. The annual interest rate has been taken out and calculated one by one. I can be sure that I didn't ask for a tael more..."

“???” The leader of Takigakure Village was confused. He felt that Kakuzu must have something wrong with his brain, but he didn’t dare to speak loudly. He couldn’t even think of from what angle he should refute.

Is the first Hokage dead? He is indeed dead.

Did the first Hokage die after being assassinated by Kakuzu? Yes, but the span is a bit long, but the mission back then did not specify the mission time.

But can this be said to be "the first Hokage died after being stabbed by Kakuzu"? Normally, it is definitely not possible. The meaning of this sentence is obviously that Kakuzu killed the first Hokage, but this is obviously not true. But if you say this is wrong, the first Hokage really died after being stabbed by Kakuzu.

Just when the leader of Takigakure Village was about to say "Are you awake?", he heard Kakuzu say:

"When I left Takigakure, regardless of whether my actions were correct or just, I did kill ten jonin from Takigakure. Considering that there were no relatively complete war reparations rules at the time, I will use these ten jonin as compensation of 100 million ryo to Takigakure. Based on the interest rate calculated at the time this clause was introduced, I will need to pay you some additional interest. Based on what Takigakure owed me, you only need to pay me... 790 million ryo."

Upon hearing this data, all the Takigakure ninjas present gasped. They wanted to refute, but found that Kakuzu's words were almost flawless. They wanted to resist, but they were frightened by the murderous intent and aura that Kakuzu exuded and dared not move.

The quality of the Takigakure ninjas is completely incomparable to that of the ninjas from large ninja villages. In this situation, most of the ninjas from Konoha, Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Kumogakure dared to rush towards Kakuzu, but not a single one from Takigakure dared to take action.

Finally, the leader of Takigakure said in a trembling voice: "But, you are obviously a traitor, how can you accept..."

"There is no rule that says that rebel ninjas can't submit and settle missions in their original village, they just can't accept them."

If a traitor ninja accepted a mission from his original village, he would naturally no longer be a traitor ninja, and as for the submission and settlement... it was obvious that Kakuzu was taking advantage of the loopholes in the system, but even with such an act that was almost deliberately looking for trouble, the leader of Takigakure Village found that he could only swallow his anger after thinking it over again and again.

Reasoning? I can't argue with him, because the other party is obviously a professional.

Fight with force? You can't win, even with the information about Di Yuanyu.

Release the tailed beast? Don't be ridiculous. This is Takigakure Village. What do they want to do by releasing the tailed beast? Are they going to destroy Takigakure on behalf of the invaders?

"Kakuzu, we can discuss something..." The leader of Takigakure Village felt as uncomfortable as Akaashi, but he had to speak nicely.

Such a large sum of money was obviously not easy to handle, but the leader of Takigakure Village was eventually forced to agree to Kakuzu's request.

After obtaining the contract, Kakuzu also set out on the journey to Konoha.

"Konoha, I hope they really have the courage to accept me."

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