Chapter 46: Conversation with Elder Seiji
"This is the village you want to protect, Hashirama!" Madara murmured to himself, his tone filled with both love and hate.
"Send more White Zetsu clones to infiltrate the Hidden Leaf Village and gather information about the Uchiha clan. Find an Uchiha descendant who can bear my name as soon as possible. My body can't hold on for much longer," after a moment, Madara Uchiha, having composed himself, instructed the main White Zetsu.
"Lord Madara! There's one more thing. My clone in the Land of Lightning has gathered some information. The Third Mizukage wrote a letter to the Third Raikage, inviting the Cloud Village to jointly attack the Land of Whirlpools and seize their sealing techniques!" White Zetsu added.
"Land of Whirlpools, the Uzumaki clan?" Madara Uchiha muttered to himself. After thinking for a moment, he said to the main White Zetsu, "This clan, with both their sensory abilities and sealing techniques, might affect my plans later on. Since Nagato is already there to nurture my Rinnegan, it seems we should eliminate this damned clan first."
Whether Madara Uchiha was reminded of Senju Hashirama being taken away by Mito Uzumaki or truly believed that the Uzumaki clan would pose a threat to his plans, he similarly dispatched a large number of White Zetsu clones to the Land of Whirlpools to gather intelligence, preparing to follow behind the Hidden Mist and Hidden Cloud and attack the Land of Whirlpools together.
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The scene returns to Kiyoshi's side.
Kiyoshi returned home and immediately went to see Elder Seiji, preparing to discuss the matter of the Land of Whirlpools with him.
"Little Kiyoshi is back!" Elder Seiji looked very happy to see Kiyoshi return.
Although he was quite confident in Kiyoshi's strength, and Kiyoshi hadn't participated in a combat mission this time, it was after all his eldest grandson's first trip abroad, and Elder Seiji still had the worries of an old man for his younger family member traveling far away.
"Grandpa! I'm back!" Kiyoshi was also in a very good mood. After having Elder Seiji as family, this was the first time he had been away from home for so long.
After some heartwarming family time, the two began to talk about serious matters.
"Grandpa, do you know about Mizukage-sama's plans for the Land of Whirlpools?" Kiyoshi asked, wanting to first confirm if Elder Seiji knew about this. Although his grandfather Elder Seiji held a high position in the village, he hadn't been involved in village affairs for some time.
"Yes, actually, the suggestion for you to deliver the letter to the Cloud Village was made by me to Mizukage-sama," Elder Seiji replied with a smile. He knew what Kiyoshi wanted to ask.
"After the Second Mizukage and the Second Tsuchikage perished together, our Hidden Mist Village has no other top powerhouses besides the current Third Mizukage. Although there are still some Kage-level fighters, they are only ordinary Kage-level. What we lack are powerhouses who can make a decisive impact and change the tide of battle. Therefore, at Mizukage-sama's suggestion, we began experimenting with Jinchuriki," Elder Seiji continued to explain.
"However, our Hidden Mist Village lacks the inheritance of sealing techniques, and no strong individuals specializing in sealing techniques have ever emerged. Therefore, the progress of the experiments has been extremely unsuccessful. We have tried ninjas of various strength levels, but none have succeeded. No one has survived after borrowing the power of a tailed beast. Those who were lucky enough to survive after using the tailed beast's power would soon lose themselves in the tailed beast's rampage. Many excellent ninjas died without achieving anything," Elder Seiji said with a somewhat somber expression, letting out a long sigh, then continued, his tone filled with heaviness and unwillingness.
"The sealing techniques inherited by the Uzumaki clan of the Land of Whirlpools are something we urgently need, and seizing them in the upcoming Great Ninja War is our only chance to obtain the inheritance of sealing techniques. Otherwise, once the Hidden Leaf has spare capacity, we will have no chance of getting the sealing techniques. Although the Uzumaki clan is only a nominal ally of the Hidden Leaf, the Hidden Leaf will not allow other villages to get involved. And this is also the reason why Mizukage-sama proposed this plan."
"Grandpa, I wonder which two tailed beasts our Hidden Mist possesses?" Kiyoshi asked, as he was quite concerned about this and also somewhat curious.
Kiyoshi knew that the Sand Village possessed the One-Tail Shukaku, and the Hidden Leaf Village possessed the strongest Nine-Tail Kurama. During a mission recently, he learned that one of the Cloud Village's tailed beasts was the Eight-Tail Gyūki. As for the whereabouts of the other tailed beasts, even though he now controlled the underground exchange, he was still not very clear. After witnessing the scene of Nine-Tail Jinchuriki Mito Uzumaki's performance in the First Great Ninja War, the villages had already regarded tailed beasts as their strategic nuclear weapons and tightly controlled the information.
"Initially, the Hidden Leaf Village obtained eight tailed beasts. At the first Five Kage Summit, the First Hokage Lord Hashirama Senju sold the seven tailed beasts excluding the Nine-Tail to other villages. The Sand Village itself possessed the One-Tail, so they didn't want any other tailed beasts. The Stone Village obtained the Four-Tail and the Five-Tail. Our Hidden Mist Village received the Three-Tail and the Six-Tail. The Cloud Village got the Two-Tail and the Eight-Tail. As for the final Seven-Tail, it was given to the Waterfall Village, which also had strong overall strength at the time," Elder Seiji answered Kiyoshi's question in detail. After all, Kiyoshi was his beloved eldest grandson, and Kiyoshi's current strength was also strong enough. His Elite Jōnin strength was among the best in the Hidden Mist Village, so there was nothing he couldn't tell him about such confidential matters.
"The Three-Tail Isobu and the Six-Tail Saiken?" Kiyoshi thought to himself.
(Note: Tailed beasts were not initially hostile to humans. At first, the tailed beasts also maintained good relations with humans, but later they were gradually captured by certain people who pursued power. Although he didn't watch much Naruto in his previous life, Kiyoshi, who possessed the memories of a thousand years, clearly knew the names of each of the nine tailed beasts.)
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