Chapter 224 This Is the Village We Once Protected Together! (Subscribe)

In the Land of Rain, there was a dead silence in the large tent used as a temporary meeting place. Even the extremely subtle breathing of the crowd was clear.

Outside, the ninja troops stationed by various forces were also very quiet.

Just now, a group of them watched a young official who was not very old nodded respectfully to Hyuga Iroha and invited him in.

What does this mean? The representatives of the major forces are having a meeting, why do they ask the Hyuga family to come in?

Except for the Hyuga people, everyone else, including Konoha, was puzzled.

In the tent,

Everyone first looked at Hyuga Iroha standing next to Kusanagi Ake with a strange look on their faces, and then turned their eyes to Utane Koharu sitting at the conference table.

"Hyuga Iroha, what do you mean?"

With a frown on her face, Utatane Koharu could no longer sit still. She stood up and stared at the pale face not far away with an ugly expression, "Can you take responsibility for what you said today?"

She was very angry in her heart, but more panicked.

"I can't be responsible for my words."

Standing not far away from her, Hyuga Iroha shook his head calmly, "But this is the intention of the head of the family. The head of the family's order represents Hyuga. This is the decision of all the senior leaders of Hyuga."

As he said, he wrote a letter and handed it to Utatane Koharu.

When Iroha received this letter, he was also a little surprised and doubtful. The first thing he did was to suspect that the letter was fake.

As a senior leader, he certainly understood the arrangements that the clan had made all along.

It was really hard for Iroha to give up the accumulation of Konoha for so many years and turn to this barren country.

But in fact, this letter is of course true.

The ninja beast responsible for communication was trained by the intelligence agency of the clan and only recognized the blood of Hyuga.

There is also a unique pattern seal of the clan leader on the letter. These two materials are enough to prove that the letter is true.

There should be changes in the clan, but the specific situation is not convenient to explain through the letter.

Iroha looked at Koharu Utatane who snatched the letter, and he probably had an idea in his mind.

"... I think this meeting needs to be suspended for a while. I need to confirm the authenticity of this news."

The face was extremely ugly, but Koharu Utatane did not show the irritability before this time, but calmly looked at the others around, "Give me three days to confirm the authenticity of this news."

That was originally pretended. In front of outsiders, she was still relatively calm.

Regardless of whether this news is true or false, it is definitely more important than the application of the Rain Country to join the alliance.

Hyuga is not an ordinary ninja family. As the top family of Konoha, it is also a famous family in the thousands of years of history of the ninja world. Their influence is extremely terrifying.

Now they want to leave Konoha and the Land of Fire and move to the Land of Rain. This has a profound impact on all parties.

"Indeed, I also need to report the situation to the Daimyo again."

The representative of the Land of Fire, Tokugawa Tani, also looked very unhappy.

In response, representatives of other forces also nodded. They also need to negotiate with the forces behind them about the follow-up of Hyuga leaving Konoha and moving to the Land of Rain.

Regardless of Hyuga's intentions in this,

Now that the Land of Rain has Hyuga, it is no longer a soft persimmon. Their application to join the Allied Nations and the specific conditions do need to be re-negotiated.

With a gloomy face, after the representatives of other forces nodded in agreement, Utatane Koharu ignored the strange looks of others and came directly to Iroha, "I need to talk to you alone!"

And Tokugawa Tani also came to Iroha's side, "I think I should also participate!"

"It's useless for you to talk to me about this matter."

But Hyuga Iroha shook his head and said very disrespectfully, "You should send the message back to Konoha and let the people of Konoha talk to our head of the family."

"I just acted according to orders. I don't know about other things."

In fact, as a senior member of Hyuga, he certainly didn't know everything.

After accepting that the news was true, Hyuga Iroha probably guessed that the clan might have made new progress in the affairs of the other world, so they needed to be so eager to be independent.

But due to his identity, he was unwilling to explain more to Utatane Koharu and others, and there was no need to explain.

Say nothing, is the most clear approach.

"..."

And for his disrespect, Utatane Koharu's wrinkled face was a little stiff, she was suppressing the anger in her heart.

Turning her head, she looked at the other people watching the show in the tent, "Please leave here first, we have something to learn about in the Land of Fire!"

Her tone was very cold, and she no longer maintained the demeanor of an old man.

Although she had not personally experienced a life-and-death battle for many years after taking power, Utatane Koharu did not lose her claws because of this.

On the contrary, she was somewhat arrogant because of her years of power.

Showing her former superiority as the No. 1 force in the ninja world, she forcefully called away the people from other forces in the tent.

Although the representatives of other forces were angry, they dared not speak out. After all, Konoha was the No. 1 force in the alliance.

If the Sand Village was present, they might have a chance to hide behind the Sand Village and refute, but unfortunately, the Sand Village and the Wind Country have left the Rain Country because of the tailed beasts being taken away, so they have no chance to speak.

Others left one after another, and Hyuga Iroha also planned to follow.

But Utatane Koharu directly blocked him in front of him, "I now suspect that you have secretly communicated with the top leaders of the Rain Country and passed on false information."

She looked at Iroha and Kusanagi Azuki with an expressionless face.

Beside Utatane Koharu, Tokugawa Tani also stayed.

This is not only a matter of Konoha, but also a matter of their Fire Country.

At this time, there were only four of them left in the tent, standing opposite each other.

"The letter has the family head's emblem on it."

Although Hyuga Iroha was stopped, his voice was still very calm, "You can pass on the authenticity of this information to Konoha and let the people in Konoha confirm it."

He always refused to communicate directly with Utatane Koharu and others.

"Your purpose is to mess up this meeting. You are from the Sand Village."

But Utatane Koharu shook his head with a cold face, "Because the conditions of the Rain Country are not favorable to them, the Sand Village and the Wind Country have opposed it for a long time."

"But because the tailed beasts were captured by the Akatsuki organization, they had to leave. Before leaving, they either gave you or you Hyuga generous conditions. You pretended to pass on the message to settle in the Rain Country, but in fact you were trying to delay time."

"I don't know if you betrayed your Hyuga, or if you Hyuga received the reward from the Wind Country together, but this meeting is not allowed to be disrupted! You deserve to die!"

A few words directly solidified the atmosphere in the tent.

The murderous aura gushed out from her, and even ordinary people like Kusanagi and Tokugawa Tani could feel it and took a few steps back unconsciously.

Is she going to attack directly?

They had no chance to think about the meaning of those words, and they were just ready to open the tent and run outside as soon as the two people in front of them started to attack.

But for a long time, the two people who were less than two meters apart did not move at all.

"What a despicable method."

In the end, it was Iroha who broke the stalemate, "Are you going to paralyze me with poison and then get rid of me quietly?"

"Advisor Utatane Koharu, although you have not participated in the frontal battlefield for many years, our clan has a lot of information about you. You are an excellent medical ninja and a ninja proficient in poison techniques. Do you think I will not be on guard against you?"

As he said, he casually moved a chair and sat down.

Since he was stopped from leaving, he was not in a hurry to leave.

Iroha seemed very calm. After losing the suppression of status and reputation,

The old Hokage advisor, Utatane Koharu, was actually nothing special to him. He also had a lot of experience brought by age, and was definitely better than the other party in combat ability.

Poisoning?

Kusanagi Ake and Tokugawa Tani's faces froze, and they held their breath unconsciously.

"Don't worry, her poisoning method is very clever, and it targets me alone."

Hinata Iroha seemed to have noticed that something was wrong with the two of them, and explained softly: "If I hadn't prepared in advance, I might have been hit."

While speaking, he had already opened his Byakugan and locked onto the silent Utatane Koharu in front of him.

Although he had always been on guard, he really didn't expect the other party to take action directly, so he didn't open his Byakugan at the beginning and entered a state of alert.

"Perhaps you plan to get rid of me first, and then blame my death on the Rain Country?"

Seeing that Utatane Koharu remained silent, Iroha asked tentatively, "Even... you don't plan to let go of the other tribesmen I brought with me. You want to keep all the Hyuga here, and only let other forces in the allied countries spread the news."

"You have given up the Rain Country. What you want to do should be to disrupt our Hyuga's entry into the Rain Country."

"In fact, you know very well that the content of the letter is true, and it was an order issued by the head of the Hyuga Hiashi family himself."

After a pause, he shook his head again, "But in fact, no matter what you plan to do, since the Hyuga has already started to leave Konoha, it will inevitably happen."

"Even if the target is not the Rain Country, there will be many forces that will open their doors to the Hyuga. There is no point in you doing this. On the contrary, it will affect the friendship between the Hyuga and Konoha."

"You can't erase all traces of what happened. The Hyuga will definitely find out the truth."

Although Utatane Koharu poisoned him first and wanted to kill him,

Hyuga Iroha did not intend to fight back. He didn't want to do it at all.

Even if they, the Hyuga, intend to leave Konoha, at this moment, in this situation, killing Utatane Koharu because of a momentary impulse is not a good thing for the family.

Not far away, Utatane Koharu remained silent.

After a long time, she turned around and left directly,

Neither answering Hyuga Iroha's guess nor refuting his empty words.

In fact, after poisoning in a hurry, she also realized that her approach was a bit inappropriate, but Hyuga is very important to Konoha now!

Since this matter cannot be solved on her side, Utatane Koharu can only pass the news back to Konoha as soon as possible, and let the Fifth Hokage and Mitomon En who are far away in Konoha go to negotiate with Hyuga.

"Hiashi, I still remember when we went to the battlefield together, you were still a naive kid, and you would be timid when facing the enemy. I didn't expect that you are now the head of the family."

In the center of the Hyuga clan, in the ancestral house where the main family is located,

Jiraiya came alone and visited the Hyuga family as a friend.

At this time in the reception room,

Sitting opposite Jiraiya was only Hyuga Hiashi, Ryosuke and Hinata were not present, they all had their own things to do.

"Isn't Jiraiya just a young boy back then?"

And Hyuga Hiashi's face, which had always been stern, also showed a look of nostalgia.

Jiraiya was a generation older than him, so when he just graduated and went to the battlefield, Jiraiya was already his senior and had seen many of his embarrassing things.

Some embarrassing things, if brought up, may make people disgusted,

but some things may have been very embarrassing back then, but now that they are old, they miss the feeling of youthful vigor.

"Yes, I had just graduated from Sarutobi's team and had the ability to carry out tasks independently."

Jiraiya laughed at first, but then sighed, "We once went to the battlefield together to protect Konoha, and now there are not many old guys alive."

"You don't know that the young generation now has not really experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. They are clamoring to fight, vying to go to the battlefield, to defend their country, and to become famous."

"They don't know how much we paid to protect this village back then."

"Really..."

The nostalgia on Hinata Hiashi's face never faded, "It's good this way. Their innocence shows that the era of peace has come. "Yes, the era of peace has arrived." Jiraiya nodded with a complicated look, "Then...Hinata is not going to enjoy this hard-won peace with us, and abandon this village that we once protected together and leave the Land of Fire?" The nostalgic look on his face slowly subsided, and Hyuga Hiashi looked at Jiraiya in front of him calmly, "...Hokage-sama is well-informed." His gentle face remained unchanged, and Jiraiya did not explain much, "Haven't you already started to take action and plan to settle in the Land of Rain? For this reason, you also participated in the matter of the Land of Rain joining the alliance and supported them." Before leaving, he gave Koharu Utatane a small toad so that she could pass on important things through the toad. So it is not a time-consuming thing to pass the news from the Land of Rain back to Konoha, at least it does not take nearly a month to travel. But for this matter, his heart is a little heavy. The relationship between Hyuga and Konoha is very complicated. They Konoha needs the power of Hyuga, but they are also afraid of the power of Hyuga. "Hiashi, just call me Jiraiya. I'm here to see you as a friend this time."

He then continued, "Is this matter really irreversible? After so many years of hard work, you have left so many ties in this village. Are you really willing to abandon everything and go far away?"

"People want to move forward, and so does Hyuga."

Hyuga Hiashi replied regretfully: "Hyuga's development needs a bigger stage. The stage of the Land of Fire belongs to Konoha, and we don't intend to be enemies with Konoha, so we can only look for another place."

"But we, Hyuga, will never forget the strong partners and friendship we made in this village. As long as Konoha doesn't forget Hinata, Hinata will always be Konoha's friend."