Chapter 237 The Way Out (Subscription Request)

Based on the attitude shown by Mei Terumi and others, although Kakashi and others found it incredible, they still brought them into the Konoha camp and placed them in the most central area, where they were monitored by several senior ninjas at all times.

The news about the arrival of the Kirigakure and others at the Konoha camp was also synchronized and passed to Jiraiya and Tsunade who were in the meeting.

There was no delay at all. Jiraiya and the others directly applied to interrupt the meeting and returned to the Konoha camp because there was something inconvenient to disclose in the camp.

When Jiraiya returned to the camp, Mei Terumi and others who had been unwilling to explain their intentions finally let go and explained the situation.

"The Kirigakure... no longer exists."

In the temporary tent, all the Konoha high-level officials who went out this time gathered here, including Uzumaki Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

The first sentence that Mei Terumi, who claimed to be the fifth generation Mizukage, said made Jiraiya and others frown deeply.

"In fact, our village's fourth generation Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, has been controlled by the top leaders of Akatsuki since a few years ago."

"Akatsuki treated the fourth generation Mizukage as a puppet, issued one incomprehensible order after another, and abruptly changed many policies of Kirigakure, including attacking your Konoha, closing the border, and even secretly inserting members of Akatsuki into the village."

"It was discovered that the Mizukage was controlled about two years ago. When the Hidden Rain Village was destroyed, Akatsuki showed some flaws, which we saw, but... it was too late."

After staring at Uzumaki Naruto for a while, Mei Terumi said with a cold face, "Maybe it's because of the rain. The headquarters of the Hidden Village was destroyed, and the Akatsuki organization used the Hidden Mist Village as a new base. "

"Although there are not many spies planted in the Hidden Mist Village, they use other methods to control the Fourth Mizukage, no longer the illusion, and further win over many people in the village."

"When we wanted to expose this matter in front of most of the Hidden Mist Ninjas, we found that the Fourth Mizukage was no longer confused by the illusion. He had his own consciousness and behavior, and even loudly announced that the Akatsuki organization was actually established by him, and wanted to lead the Hidden Mist and the Land of Water to become the most powerful country!"

Because of the intervention of the Akatsuki organization, a coup occurred in the Hidden Mist Village, which was divided into the Mizukage faction headed by the Fourth Mizukage and the Elders faction headed by the Master.

After the matter was made clear, the two sides fought, and the Fourth Mizukage, who was supported by the Akatsuki organization, won the victory without any surprise. As for the losers, they could only flee around the Land of Water under the pursuit of countless Hidden Mist, and look for opportunities to regain power again.

Because this was an internal dispute, they did not make it public, let alone "invite the wolf into the house" and seek help from other forces.

But it was precisely because of this that they missed some things.

"You have seen our number, there are only a few dozen."

Mei Terumi explained expressionlessly, "As the defeated party, even if the master is on our side, there are not many people in the village willing to leave with us."

"And from among them, we can only select those with sufficient combat power and experience, and only a few dozen can be gathered. The rest of those who are unable to follow us out will all lurk in the Hidden Mist Village, waiting to cooperate with us from inside and outside."

She paused here, "It is also because of our desire to regain power that we have ignored the outside world."

"The internal situation of the Land of Water is In order to prevent other countries from taking advantage of the war and sending troops to invade, they concealed the situation from other countries and blocked all ports that were open to the outside world. "

"Ordinary people did not come out, and we were determined to restore our country and had no intention of coming out. In this way... all the news was limited to the Land of Water. We did not know the true level of the Akatsuki organization, let alone that they were secretly collecting tailed beasts!"

"If it were not for the companions who stayed in the village to pass the news to us at the risk of their lives, we would not even know about the Five Kage Talks to discuss the attack on the Akatsuki organization!"

Soon, she explained the situation to the Konoha ninjas present.

But...

Jiraiya asked in confusion, "But why did you come to our Konoha first? Logically, shouldn't you contact the Iron Country to participate as an ally, and then explain the matter clearly at the meeting?"

"Because if we want to negotiate at the meeting, we need to waste a lot of time to confirm, and among the intelligence we have, there happens to be a very important message."

Mei Terumi looked at Jiraiya, "At the same time as we got the news of the Five Kage Talks, our companions in the village also passed us an important piece of information."

"The top leaders of the Akatsuki organization believe that since you already know that their target is the Jinchūriki, perhaps this time the Five Kage Talks will bring the controlled Jinchūriki with you."

As she said, she turned her gaze back to Naruto, who was frowning, "It seems that they guessed correctly. The Nine-Tails Jinchūriki is indeed here. I guess other countries will not place Jinchūriki in the village, so there will be such a large number of ninja troops outside."

Although they did not contact other forces, in order not to find the wrong person, they still confirmed the number of troops in each country when they came.

The number of ninja troops gathered in this small Iron Country has reached 30,000 to 40,000, and each of them has very good combat power, at least the combat power of a Chunin.

The ninjas in the tent all had bad thoughts about what Mei Terumi said.

"The Akatsuki organization no longer focuses solely on the tailed beasts, but plans to attack certain forces in the Five Kage Talks. Because this is a secret mission of the Akatsuki organization, our people have not been informed of the specific country they are targeting."

"But after thinking about it, the country that the Akatsuki organization is most likely to attack is definitely your Konoha."

"Although I don't want to admit it, the most powerful country among the five major countries is definitely the Fire Country."

"If they can take advantage of your absence this time to launch an attack on Konoha and destroy Konoha, the pressure they will face in the future will be much less."

As soon as Mei Terumi finished speaking,

Instantly, the entire tent was filled with a strong murderous aura.

Although the main fighting forces in Konoha have gathered here, preparing to launch an attack on Akatsuki after the meeting, their families and friends are still in Konoha Village.

This overwhelming murderous intent broke through the curtains, making the Kirigakure ninjas and Konoha ninjas outside a little tense.

However, there was no movement in the tent, so they were just on guard against each other, but did not really take action.

"Why do you tell us this? It doesn't seem to be good for your Kirigakure, right?"

After a long while, Jiraiya took a deep breath and spoke calmly, "If you conceal this news, we will still follow you to Kirigakure to conquer Akatsuki."

"And when Akatsuki is destroyed and withdraws from this chessboard, the remaining five countries will be ours again."

"It's not a good thing for Kirigakure to maintain our military strength and territory, right? How can I believe that the information you revealed is accurate, and not to distract our Konoha and make us lose interest in conquering Akatsuki?"

He has seen too many true and false, half-true and half-false news since he took office as the fifth Hokage.

Even if it involves national affairs, the people below may conceal something, so he doesn't intend to believe this information so easily. At least... he has to let them tell the corresponding purpose.

Originally, they are hostile countries, how can they be so kind.

"It must be in our interest, that's why we told you so simply."

Mei Terumi didn't beat around the bush, "Some of our ninjas from the Hidden Mist Village were sent to the Land of Fire as abandoned pawns to invade Konoha under the arrangement of the Akatsuki organization."

"Although we were defeated, many people were still captured and imprisoned by Konoha. As a reward for this information, shouldn't you release these people unconditionally? After all, if the information is true, we are also allies, right?"

"Just for this?"

Jiraiya looked into her eyes seriously.

"Whether you believe my information or not is up to you."

Mei Terumi did not retreat at all, and looked directly at Jiraiya, "According to the information, they will take action within this week."

"We have been traveling almost non-stop just to do you a favor in Konoha. If you don't accept it, I can't do anything."

"Besides, those people in our Kirigakure are now trapped in Konoha. If the Akatsuki organization really comes to your village, I don't want them to be implicated because of you. They have been betrayed once, and I want to take them home."

After that, she stopped talking, and she had said everything she needed to say.

Neither of them spoke again, and the people next to them did not make a sound to interrupt.

The atmosphere remained quiet for a long time, and finally Jiraiya broke it, "I understand. If your information is true, I will release the captives of Kirigakure."

After the invasion, a large number of Kirigakure ninjas were captured alive.

Originally, Konoha was planning to let the Land of Water pay a heavy price to redeem these ninjas, but because the Land of Water blocked the entire country afterwards, it showed no concern for these captured Kirigakure ninjas, so these ninjas were left in Konoha as slaves.

And because it would be a pity to kill them directly,

So these captives were used as laborers by Konoha after the war to pay for the sins committed during the invasion, which also supplemented the manpower that Konoha lacked at the time. Even the reconstruction of the village later had the help of these laborers.

After so many years of exploitation, although they could not pay off the sins of the Konoha ninjas they had killed,

but the losses in financial and material resources were paid off early, so releasing them to go home at this time was not a loss.

Without further delay, Jiraiya quickly communicated with Konoha, which was several countries away, through the special channel of spiritualism at a very fast speed to explain the matter.

He asked Maruboshi Kosuke, who was currently serving as the acting Hokage in Konoha Village, to deploy defense and evacuation within the village to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the Akatsuki organization.

In Konoha Village,

Maruboshi Kosuke, who received Jiraiya's message, did not pretend, but directly evacuated the people and secretly dispersed them to other villages around Konoha Village, hiding among the civilians.

No matter how mad the Akatsuki organization is, it would not attack helpless civilians.

Based on Jiraiya's impression of the village's original two consultants, he would certainly not keep Utatane Koharu and Mitokado En as the acting Hokage, but recalled Maruboshi Kosuke, who was in charge of the border defense affairs of the Land of Fire, and let him serve as the acting Hokage.

Although Maruboshi Kosuke was only a Genin, his record, merits and even qualifications were fully sufficient to serve as the Hokage.

If it was him, even Utatane Koharu and Mitokado En would not have any objections. In a sense, they were also brothers from the same school.

Konoha urgently deployed the actions of the Akatsuki organization.

In the Land of Iron, after layers of notifications and appointments, the formal meeting finally started again.

The originally vacant position of Mizukage was also occupied by a charming woman wearing a Mizukage hat.

Behind her, there were two people standing on the left and right.

One was a master who was so old that he had no teeth, and the other was Qing who had only one eye exposed.

"This is what happened. What we can be sure of now is that the main members of Akatsuki are concentrated in Kirigakure, and even the Fourth Mizukage, who is also the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, is in their hands."

After Mei Terumi once again introduced the information they had, Jiraiya looked at the others solemnly, "We are now facing not only the members of Akatsuki, but also the remaining Rain Ninjas, and... the bewitched Kirigakure Ninjas."

"Please wait a moment."

But before Jiraiya could continue speaking, the Fifth Raikage Darui suddenly spoke and interrupted his speech.

He looked at Mei Terumi seriously, "The Fifth Mizukage, the information you got about the Five Kage Talks was provided by your informants who risked their lives in the village, so... does this also mean that the people of Akatsuki already know that their base has been exposed?"

"That's right."

Mei Terumi nodded and turned her gaze to the others, "So we have to leave as soon as possible."

"With the distance from the Iron Country to the Water Country, even if our ninja army is huge, as long as we set out now, we can arrive within a month."

"One month, unless the people of Akatsuki abandon everything they have worked so hard for, Leave, otherwise it is impossible to evacuate in a month. "

After a pause, she looked around solemnly, "Here we, the Kirigakure Village, make a statement. Once the crusade plan begins, except for those companions who have agreed to cooperate with us in the village, we will regard all other people in the Kirigakure Village as enemies. "

"Don't worry that we will show mercy or betray the coalition because we were once companions. From the moment they chose not to trust us, the team has been separated. "

The words were extremely ruthless, and they didn't even consider the status of their Kirigakure Village in the ninja world after the war.

In fact, Mei Terumi and others had discussed it very clearly on the way here.

Since the Akatsuki organization chose them to invade, and they dragged it out for several years before discovering it, their Kirigakure Village's status has been lost.

In the past few years, the Akatsuki organization has made the village a mess, many blood-related families have been destroyed, and elite jonins such as those holding the Seven Ninja Swords have been forced to betray the village...

From that time on, Kirigakure Village is actually no longer the Kirigakure Village it used to be.

And now that it is being attacked as the center of the war, this village can no longer return to its former appearance and status.

They have already considered a way out, this village where they have lived for decades... they can only be forced to abandon it.