"Here, take this." Natsuki, seeing Naruto's smile, thought hard for a moment and then passed a coin to Naruto. Naruto unconsciously took the coin and examined it. Surprisingly, this coin was unlike any coin he had ever seen. The size of this coin was slightly bigger than usual, and on one side of the coin a banyan tree under a full moon was there. On the other side, the number 9 was written.
"What is this? Does this coin mean nine ryō?"
"No, you idiot. This coin symbolises your position as one of the shadows. We Uchiha have formed an organisation called Tengoku.
The organisation is headed by Ten shadows, with their ranking determining their hierarchy, with 0 being the leader of the organisation. I am Shadow numbered 1, just below Itachi-sama, and that idiot Sasuke is numbered 2. Currently, 5, 6, and 8 are still empty. From now on, you will be Shadow numbered 9."
"Ohhhh, so I am that awesome!!! Wait, how come I am lower than that idiot Sasuke, and even after that I should be number 5, right? Why the lowest?"
"That's because you are too weak. To be a shadow, you have to at least possess the strength of a genin, which you do not have. I only gave you the position no. 9 temporarily. If you aren't qualified and someone better comes, then you can say goodbye to that token." Naruto, hearing this, wasn't disappointed; it only made him even more excited.
"Then what is the goal of our organisation? Is it protecting Konoha from bad guys, or patrolling the streets, or world peace???" Naruto asked with a little bit of excess curiosity.
"Who would want to do those thankless tasks? Our organisation's only purpose is DOMINATION!!!!
WORLD DOMINATION!!!
"World domination?" Hearing this goal, Naruto instantly regretted joining this organisation, though he didn't apply to join it. Previously he had read a few story books, and in all those story books the bad guys always wanted to dominate the world and do their evil deeds. Now it seemed he had also become a bad guy. Then Naruto looked around him, people crying for their mother and father, understanding that he had become a bad guy when he chose to attack these people.
"Then, where is our headquarters?" Seeing that there was no other option, Naruto asked about the organisation's information with curiosity.
"It's in Death Forest. Tomorrow is our weekly meeting. Come to Sasuke's house at five pm tomorrow, and I will introduce you to the other members."
"Will big brother Itachi also come?"
"No, Itachi-sama will only attend annual meetings. Itachi-sama is numbered 0 shadow, which is a hidden shadow. He will only appear if the organisation is in danger; otherwise, everything is up to us."
"Okay, I will definitely arrive on time tomorrow."
After talking a few more things, Naruto finally left happily, as well as Natsuki, who was still in hesitation whether her decision to invite Naruto was right or wrong.
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Night— Uchiha Clan
"Hey Itachi, I heard that brat Naruto also joined your evil organisation? Pfthahahahah, now you are the leader of so many children. Pfthahahahah, maybe you can even defeat my Akatsuki." Obito sat on the chair laughing loudly, with tears falling from his eyes.
Shisui, Fugaku, and the other elders of the Uchiha clan also had smiles on their faces, but they didn't dare to laugh at Itachi. Itachi, on the other hand, glared at Obito, remembering to settle this grudge. Previously, a few months ago, Sasuke, along with other children, came to him with the idea of this organisation with the goal of world domination. He thought that they were just playing and agreed to become the leader of this organisation. But they were still playing this game for the past few months, and Obito would tease him from time to time because of this.
"Alright, enough with this nonsense. You said that you had some important information, so say that quickly. I need to sleep." Itachi, seeing that Obito still wanted to waste time, interrupted him.
"Okaaayyy, well there are three pieces of news. Which one do you want to hear? Good, bad, or neutral?"
"Say them one by one." By now, Itachi completely understood Obito. In normal times, Obito usually used his Tobi persona, and in serious moments he transformed into Madara. So by now, Itachi was used to Obito's antics, and it was indeed a change of taste in the usually bland Uchiha clan.
"Hmmm, the first news is that Sunagakure has assembled more than a thousand ninjas and has crossed the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Rivers. The entire unit is led by Ebizo and Chiyo. As for the Fourth Kazekage??? He is mining for gold in the desert and did not participate in the first stage of the war on the pretext of protecting the Land of Sand from surprise attacks."
Hearing that a Kage wasn't even able to participate in war and had to mine gold for the village, everyone sighed in pity. Although Rasa was a bastard, not deserving to be a father or husband, and even sold the village's hero to end the war, at the end of the day everything he did was for the village, unlike some hypocritical half-Hokage.
"What's the second news?"
"Hmm, White Zetsu, who was monitoring the Daimyo of the Land of Fire, reported that in the past few days he had several meetings with some mysterious ninjas and even had some meetings with ninjas from other ninja villages. The final outcome is not known, but Sarutobi Asuma returned to Konoha today with a smile."
"What's the third news?"
"The third and only good news is that Kisame has joined Akatsuki, and currently Kisame and Kakuzu are in the Land of Fire. We can use them to help us do some dirty things."
Itachi, hearing about the joining of Kisame, nodded in satisfaction. Kisame is the epitome of an honest ninja in this world, and having him means the addition of a Kage-level fighter for the Uchiha clan.
Then Obito passed a bunch of documents to everyone, recording the information of the Sand shinobi, their route, and the resources they carried as well the activities of Daimyo and the ninjas he had talk with.
"How about this—we will ignore the attack of the Hidden Sand Village for now. If I guess it correctly, they will attack Mount Kikyo tomorrow at the time when we are holding a meeting in the Hokage Office.
The village hasn't had any unusual movement in the past few days, which means they are unaware of the movements of the Hidden Sand Village. Maybe they are really distracted by us or have a misconception that other ninja villages wouldn't attack us before they give a reply to the ultimatum. Whatever happens, we can suck a few more drops of blood from Konoha."
"But, Itachi, if the Hidden Sand Village succeeds in their raid, then other ninja villages would definitely raid the Land of Fire the next day. Aren't we inviting wolves to our house?" Just then Shisui asked Itachi with concern. Although he was now hundred percent Uchiha faction, he didn't want Konoha to suffer like that.
"That's why we need to add another instability to prevent them from uniting. If we observe the previous three Great Ninja Wars, we can find that Konoha won these wars only because at the last moment those great nations betrayed each other.
In the First Great Ninja War, Second Tsuchikage perished with the Second Mizukage significantly damaging both Ninja Villages. In the Second Great Ninja War, Sunagakure, suffering defeats from Hatake Sakumo, chose to attack Iwagakure to loot their supplies at the last moment before withdrawing from the war. Iwagakure, on the other hand, was ambushed by Kumogakure, which forced them to leave the war as well, leaving the final battlefield in Amegakure to the Sannin and Hanzo. In the Third Great Ninja War, Iwagakure ambushed Kumogakure in revenge and took their Raikage, losing thousands of their own ninjas, leaving both with much weaker combat power letting Konoha benefit from the situation. We just have to do the same."
"So how do we do it?" Setsuna asked with curiosity.
"Simple. Since the Daimyo is jumping so much, we kill him. Tomorrow, the moment Sunagakure attacks Mount Kikyo, we kill the Daimyo leaving some traces of Sunagakure. Then Sunagakure can't escape the blame of killing the ruler of a great nation, even if they do everything. The death of a Daimyo will be a powerful reminder to other Daimyo that they can also be killed in future wars, unlike in previous wars where only village Kage perished. Then they will try their best to attack Sunagakure to make an example to other ninja villages so that they don't dare to attack the Daimyo next time. Then we can assassinate a few important personnel of other ninja villages as well. This will make sure that Konoha isn't destroyed but also not too powerful and also consume the power of other Ninja Villages."
Hearing Itachi planning to kill the Daimyo, everyone was shaken, but after a few moments everyone recovered. They were just killing an ordinary person; it didn't matter whether that ordinary person was the ruler of their nation.
"Then who will kill him? I heard that his twelve guardian shinobi are quite powerful, and we have to leave some traces of Sunagakure as well. I do not know any signature Justu of Sunagakure." Obito, seeing that the world would be in chaos, asked with excitement.
"My mirror clone can take care of all this. During the few months I left Konoha, I met a few Sunagakure rebel ninjas and learned a little bit of their puppetry."
"With Itachi's personal action, I am rest assured," Fugaku, who was silent all along, finally spoke.
"Then, let's discuss about tomorrow's meeting.
Tomm..."
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