Chapter 322: Kurotsuchi's S-Rank Mission
Akiyama Makoto didn't have such a strong dislike for Ōnoki.
Because the other party had given him preferential treatment in previous simulations, and also adopted a wooing approach in the last simulation.
Once might be a coincidence, but twice or more meant that he and Ōnoki might be compatible.
Plus the people around Makoto had no grudges against the Rock Village, so Makoto naturally wouldn't push Ōnoki to death.
However, since even A had to be involved under Makoto's control, Ōnoki had to show something, otherwise Makoto could only treat Ōnoki as an invisible enemy.
Of course, the current situation probably wouldn't reach that point; Makoto just wanted to use A to put pressure on Ōnoki.
Subsequently, Makoto took A and the captured Cloud Village ninja back to the villa.
The faces of all the Cloud ninja were not good; almost everyone was injured, and some even had their chakra sealed directly.
Seeing their Kage coming over, everyone showed a look of surprise, but this look turned into uncertainty in the next second.
Did Makoto and A not determine a winner?
How come neither of them looked injured?
A's superficial injuries had been healed by Makoto, so he looked no different from the past except for his complexion.
Plus A's chocolate-colored skin, his pale face couldn't be seen either, so except for A's closest few people, everyone thought A was safe and sound at the moment.
A scanned everyone, confirmed that no one died, then breathed a sigh of relief, coughed lightly, and said, "Makoto and I became friends after a fight. Both sides felt there was no need to continue fighting."
"We have agreed on a cooperation agreement. In the future, Cloud Village ninja can come to the Land of Waves for recuperation, and the Land of Lightning and the Land of Waves can also conduct trade cooperation. Detailed issues can be discussed slowly later."
"How about this, Makoto, let your subordinates heal the people on our side, and the medical expenses will be calculated from the subsequent accounts."
Makoto smiled slightly and said, "No problem."
Although Makoto still wanted to ask for one billion ryō as war reparations from A, this compensation would not be sent to Makoto in the name of compensation.
In other words, A won himself a chance not to surrender on the surface, but would transport this money to the Land of Waves through various cooperative businesses within a year.
For this, A was even willing to help Makoto act fully next.
A got the dignity he wanted, and also felt that he won it himself.
Actually, this was also within Makoto's plan. He didn't want the Cloud Village to treat him as an enemy at this time.
It is worth mentioning that in the process of fighting A, Makoto killed another White Zetsu and disguised it as being affected by A and dying.
Although Makoto could control White Zetsu with Shisui's Sharingan, he hadn't done so yet.
Taking advantage of now, it was better to kill two more White Zetsu. Knowing that there were not many White Zetsu around Obito at this time, he must be feeling the pinch.
Back to the present, with Makoto's order, Sakura and several other girls who knew medical ninjutsu healed all the Cloud Village ninja.
Although their faces still didn't look good, standing behind A and watching their village's Kage talk pleasantly with Makoto, they could naturally only accept reality obediently.
Smart people had realized that the Cloud Village might have lost this time, but reached a decent agreement.
The most obvious evidence was that when C said something to Yugito, Yugito clenched her fist emotionally, and then slowly stood behind Makoto with a dim expression.
It was just that no one dared to ask or say anything more at this time.
A naturally felt humiliated all the time, but seeing the power of the girls around Makoto with his own eyes, plus talking about the details of cooperation with Makoto later, A's expression slowly became strange.
Because Makoto seemed to really intend to cooperate with the Land of Lightning and the Cloud Village, not just using these as a cover to take away the one billion ryō of war reparations.
A was a smart person, so he naturally understood how much profit this would create for both sides.
Thinking of the current situation of the Land of Waves, bitterness gradually appeared in A's voice. He realized that it seemed both sides could have achieved all this through peace talks originally?
Unfortunately—sigh, just treat it as compensation for the death of Hizashi Hyūga.
As the two sides talked more, the atmosphere gradually really eased up.
On the contrary, the atmosphere of the Rock Village team observing all this gradually became depressed.
Ōnoki originally wanted to reap the benefits, but now seeing Makoto and A shaking hands and making peace, he instantly felt pressure.
The Cloud Village and the Rock Village were mortal enemies, and the hatred between them was even greater than their hatred for Konoha.
Ōnoki was happy to see A suffer, but absolutely unwilling to see A gain strong support.
Currently, although Makoto came from Konoha, his camp was undecided.
Assuming the two sides were on good terms, then it would be his and the Rock Village's turn to bear the pressure of facing a new Flash ninja.
As for Kurotsuchi at this time, she was staring at her grandfather with a resentful and annoyed look, her cheeks puffed up like a ball.
She specially ran to tell her grandfather that the Rock Village and Makoto could cooperate, both sides could profit, and Makoto was so strong, so they shouldn't conflict with Makoto.
But Ōnoki wanted to wait a bit longer. As a result, Makoto united with the Cloud Village. Now the Rock Village was about to face a huge crisis. She wanted to see what her grandfather would do.
Ōnoki wanted to wait for intelligence from his subordinates, but the next ones to appear were actually Karin and Temari.
The two of them carried the Rock Village spies, didn't say much, just dropped the people and left.
Before leaving, Temari even waved to Kurotsuchi and said, "Yo, Kurotsuchi, coming back for lunch at noon? Makoto-kun is holding a banquet today."
Kurotsuchi was pleasantly surprised, but also somewhat disappointed.
She didn't answer immediately, but looked at her grandfather, knowing that she could only listen to her grandfather at this time.
Now she began to envy Deidara, who was enjoying himself somewhere unknown. If she had known this, she shouldn't have come herself. How free it was to stay by Makoto's side!
Originally, Kurotsuchi had complaints about so many girls suddenly appearing around Makoto, but she had witnessed Makoto's strength just now.
Plus she didn't think about becoming Makoto's girlfriend or wife at this time, just feeling that staying by Makoto's side would be very happy, so she naturally showed a yearning look.
Looking at his granddaughter's appearance, how could Ōnoki not know what she was thinking?
Usually he would definitely be angry, but this time he said, "Kurotsuchi, I give you an S-rank mission. Return to Makoto's side now to determine his thoughts, how about it?"
Kurotsuchi's eyes lit up immediately.
Afraid that Ōnoki would go back on his word, she turned over and rushed towards Makoto's villa, then looked back and said, "Wait for my good news."
Seeing Kurotsuchi's appearance, Ōnoki rolled his eyes at Kitsuchi, as if saying: Look at the good daughter you gave birth to.
Kitsuchi chuckled. For such a lively daughter, this honest father really had no way.
Before long, Kurotsuchi returned to Makoto's villa.
Open-air tables had been set up here, and many maids and staff were placing various foods and drinks on them.
Even the Cloud Village people had changed into casual clothes instead of combat uniforms, only everyone's expressions were still not very good.
A put aside the feeling of humiliation for the time being, holding a wine glass and chatting enthusiastically with Makoto.
The girls surrounded Karin and Temari in the middle, asking curiously why their strength improved so fast.
For this, Makoto also thought of a reason, that is, Makoto mastered a method that could instill strength into others.
It was just that it needed to be used at intervals. Due to the urgent situation, Temari and Karin were improved.
The girls had no dissatisfaction with this, especially when they heard that this might affect future potential, they felt that improving their strength themselves was not bad.
Seeing Kurotsuchi arrive, the girls cast curious glances.
Kurotsuchi considered herself excellent and beautiful, especially her long legs already showing promise.
Unfortunately, in front of so many girls of different sizes but various charms, Kurotsuchi couldn't help but look nervous and had thoughts of stage fright.
But Ino came up actively, grabbed Kurotsuchi's wrist, brought Kurotsuchi back to the crowd, and asked curiously, "You are Kurotsuchi, right? Makoto-kun has already told us about you. It seems you and he are both peace-loving people."
Ino wasn't naturally congenial with Kurotsuchi, but came with a task to make Kurotsuchi everyone's friend.
Knowing that Makoto did this to win over the Rock Village's power, the girls naturally had no complaints.
Although they were Makoto's girlfriends, they were also ninja. Completing a task of this level was definitely easy.
Facing the enthusiasm and friendliness of so many girls, the little uneasiness in Kurotsuchi's heart disappeared quickly, and she chatted lively with everyone.
Then she even began to complain that her grandfather didn't listen to her advice and insisted on waiting a while before coming over, resulting in a delay.
Kurenai, as the eldest sister among the women at this time, patted Kurotsuchi's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, here we only talk about peace and trade. Even A has to do business honestly."
"If your grandfather is still willing to come over, we welcome him with open arms."
"Really?"
Surprise flashed in Kurotsuchi's eyes, and Kurenai nodded.
Not far away, Mei Terumī, drinking alone, watched all this and couldn't help shaking her head slightly.
She and Makoto had a direct political transaction. Kurotsuchi should have been the same.
But it seemed that because Kurotsuchi was young and easy to fool, Makoto adopted a gentle approach, and now it seemed the effect was also significant.
This even made Mei Terumī faintly envious, because she had forever lost the opportunity to obtain pure feelings in front of Makoto.
However, when Kurotsuchi knew she was deceived, would she be sad and painful?
Thinking of this, the red wine on the corner of Mei Terumī's mouth also became sweeter.
She still wanted to savor the sadness of being alone, but Anko jumped out, put her arm around her shoulder, and said, "It seems you are good at drinking. Want to have a competition?"
Mei Terumī didn't think Anko came to compete in drinking, but thought she had something to say, so she nodded and agreed.
Half an hour later, Mei Terumī, dizzy from drinking, looked at Anko laughing with a wine bottle in front of her, and suddenly felt miscalculated.
This woman really came to compete in drinking!
But it was fine. After getting drunk, she could set off for the Land of Water to solve the problems in the village when she woke up.
So Mei Terumī hugged Anko's shoulder and drank freely with Anko.
The atmosphere at the banquet was gradually infected by the two. Yugito and Samui sat at the end of the Cloud Village seats. The two looked at each other and smiled, also raising their glasses to drink together, mourning for their fate.
Until this time, Ōnoki arrived late.
Makoto looked at Ōnoki. This was the first time he saw this little old man with his own eyes in reality.
Because he was too short, he used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to float most of the time.
Now facing A and Makoto, he did the same, floating to the same height as the two before approaching slowly.
Seeing Ōnoki arrive, A laughed even happier and said, "Isn't this the Tsuchikage? Why are you here?"
"But no matter why you came, you are late. Our Cloud Village and Makoto-kun are already firm allies."
A simply put his arm around Makoto's neck and patted Makoto's shoulder hard at the same time.
This force would be enough to break the bones of an average person, but only Makoto could stand nonchalantly.
Ōnoki frowned slightly, looked at Makoto, and said, "Nice to meet you, Makoto-kun. I am the Tsuchikage, Ōnoki of Both Scales."
"I've heard a lot about you, Tsuchikage-sama. I am Akiyama Makoto, a commoner."
Makoto extended his hand and shook hands with Ōnoki.
Ōnoki looked at Makoto seriously, then laughed and said, "A commoner with strength comparable to a Kage of a village? And so young. No wonder Kurotsuchi can't forget you."
"Grandpa!"
Kurotsuchi, secretly watching this side, blushed slightly when hearing Ōnoki's words.
She understood that Ōnoki was using her as an introduction to open the conversation, but the problem was that she was surrounded by Makoto's girlfriends now.
Sure enough, the next second Kurotsuchi suffered scrutinizing gazes. Seeing Kurotsuchi blushing, she had an impulse to run away.
Unfortunately, the girls had tasks, so how could they let her run away? Instead, they pulled her more enthusiastically, wanting to dig out her experiences and heartfelt thoughts these days.
Ōnoki glanced at his granddaughter surrounded by beautiful girls and didn't think much, after all, only girls surrounded Kurotsuchi.
He continued to exchange pleasantries with Makoto for a few sentences before saying, "Previously, Rock Village spies strayed into the Land of Waves. This was our mistake. The Rock Village is willing to redeem them at the exchange price, and is willing to accept mission commissions from the people of the Land of Waves at a 10% discount later."
"I wonder what Makoto-kun thinks of this condition?"
Ōnoki said this obviously with sincerity, at least not wanting to conflict with Makoto.
Although the money he offered wasn't much, compared to A's previous behavior, it already appeared extremely approachable.
Unfortunately, A sneered and said, "Not much."
"Ōnoki, we took out 500 million ryō. You want to redeem people with a few million ryō. Isn't that looking down on Makoto-kun's strength too much?"
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