"Alright, you can leave now."
The Third Kazekage watched Shimizu's figure as he walked out of the office, then reached out and pressed a bell on the desk.
"Swish!"
An Anbu ninja wearing a black uniform teleported in front of the Third Kazekage and knelt on one knee.
"What is Rasa doing right now?"
The Third Kazekage asked the Anbu.
"Lord Third, the Deputy Commander is currently following your instructions and entertaining the envoy from Kirigakure."
The Anbu lowered his head slightly and replied.
"Summon him here, I have some things I want to ask him."
The Third Kazekage tapped his finger on the desk and said.
Shimizu already has a perfect answer sheet.
The opportunity left for Rasa is only this last bit.
"Yes!"
The Anbu ninja responded and jumped out of the window in a flash.
At the same time, in the commercial city of Sunagakure's outer city, Rasa wore a faint smile on his face as he walked down the street with a fat man with long, brown-orange hair and a bandaged broadsword on his back, nearly two and a half meters tall.
"How is it, Kisame Hoshigaki? Sunagakure's prosperity should not be inferior to Kirigakure, right?"
Rasa said proudly to Kisame Hoshigaki, who looked like a small giant beside him.
"Sunagakure's prosperity is indeed far beyond my imagination."
Kisame Hoshigaki turned his head and, relying on his height and body length, could see every corner of the street more clearly.
Compared with Sunagakure, Kirigakure, which has implemented the Blood Mist Policy for many years, is really far behind.
But Kisame Hoshigaki couldn't directly say that in front of people from other villages.
"However, Sunagakure is indeed prosperous, but what does this have to do with you, Rasa-kun?"
Kisame Hoshigaki turned his head and said to Rasa with a smile that was not a smile.
Before he set off, he had done enough preparation work, and specially asked the intelligence team of Kirigakure to learn about the current situation of Sunagakure.
The opportunity for the Third Kazekage's disciple, the highly powerful Deputy Commander of the Sunagakure Anbu beside him, to become the Fourth Kazekage is getting smaller day by day.
People like Shimizu, who are both good at fighting and have a strategy and excellent governance ability, are rare among these ninjas who started killing with knives from the age of twelve, or even earlier.
In Master's mouth, the last person with this template was called Tobirama Senju.
Very good at fighting, very strong at governing the village, and various policies have been imitated by several major ninja villages, and he is also a scientific research master.
No one wants to see Sunagakure produce such a character like Tobirama Senju.
"I am a person from Sunagakure, how can Sunagakure's affairs have nothing to do with me? Kisame-kun, what do you mean?"
Rasa's face sank slightly.
"Is that so? Why did I hear that Sunagakure can become what it is now, and the greatest relationship is with your village's Jonin, Shimizu? Such an excellent person, presumably, will most likely become the next Kazekage of Sunagakure in the future."
Kisame Hoshigaki looked at Rasa with a pair of squinting eyes.
"That's not necessarily true, the Kage of a village can only be held by the strongest person in the village."
"Is that so? It seems that Rasa-kakka thinks that you are the strongest one in Sunagakure?"
Rasa did not answer.
Even if he was unconvinced in his heart, he also knew that Shimizu's strength was likely to be above him.
"It seems that Rasa-kakka is not very sure in his heart?"
Kisame Hoshigaki said with a smile.
… …
After coming out of the Kazekage Building, Shimizu went to the Puppet Force again.
Sasori is currently preparing to be promoted to Jonin and has gone out on a mission.
It's just that now is a non-wartime period. Although the amount of tasks will be much more than in the past peacetime, there are still not many high-level tasks that meet the requirements of Jonin.
In peacetime, the difficulty of wanting to be promoted to Jonin will naturally be higher than in wartime.
Even if Sasori is someone with a background, and his elders are high-level members of the village, he still has to go through the procedures that should be followed. At most, after meeting the conditions, he can be smoother than others and will not be stuck.
Shimizu estimates that Sasori will have to wait until the second half of this year, or even the beginning of next year, to barely accumulate enough merits.
That's not enough to break his own record.
Shimizu remembers that he became a Jonin just two years ago when he turned thirteen.
As for Sasori, he will have his thirteenth birthday in two months, and the time to become a Jonin should be half a year later than when he was.
This is also a very bright achievement.
Now Sasori is definitely in the most core training sequence of Sunagakure, because this kind of genius, as long as he does not die young, will most likely grow into a Kage-level powerhouse in the future and become the mainstay of a large ninja village.
Even Maki, who will be one year later to become a Jonin, has now been recruited into the Anbu by the Third Kazekage, serving as the captain of a branch of the Anbu, and has been transferred to the Kazekage Guard Team.
Although entering the Anbu will inevitably be suppressed by Rasa, the Deputy Commander, Maki, as a member of the Kazekage Guard Team, can directly contact the Kazekage, and Rasa would not dare to be too obvious even if he has ideas.
As for himself and Yekura...
Basically, they can already be regarded as ninja of the mainstay level of the village. Even if Yekura's strength is a bit worse than most Kage-level powerhouses, at least she has the ability to deal with them, and the gap is even smaller with Rasa, a relatively weak Kage.
Back to the topic.
Because Sasori, the scientific research general, went to perform the task, and also took Jian Ye, the veteran main force who has experienced nearly three years of indoctrination in the new puppet technique, if you don't want to stop the research progress during this period, Shimizu needs to personally check on the puppet force.
To this day, the composition of the puppet force has changed a lot from the past.
The first five detachments are still the same as before, mainly composed of elite puppet masters, and are important elite combat troops of Sunagakure.
As for the sixth detachment, although it is also considered a combat force, compared with other detachments, it will undertake more fields such as puppet maintenance and logistics support.
Now, this has become the base camp for new puppet art research and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, more like a scientific research base than a combat team.
Therefore, Chiyo was also considering whether to build another Seventh Squad to share the original functions of the Sixth Squad, so that the Sixth Squad could specialize in the research of new puppet techniques.
However, this idea was temporarily shelved under Shimizu's persuasion, because he had other ideas.
It's just that the new puppet technique has been around for less than three years, which is not enough to build a perfect talent training mechanism. It can only rely on Sasori, a puppet technique genius who far exceeds others in progress, and Shimizu, a knowledge porter, to slowly lead.
After a few more years, when the talent system is perfected, Shimizu will be able to transfer part of his energy invested in it.
Shimizu spent the rest of the morning teaching and leading students in research.
Until the sun was in the middle of the sky, and it was past twelve noon.
Outside the Sand Village, on the main street of the commercial city.
Shimizu burped, put his hands behind his head, and took a walk with Pakura after lunch.
Lunch was found in a newly opened restaurant on the street. The owner moved from the Land of This. He was originally a cook serving the daimyo, but the newly appointed daimyo got tired of the dishes after only a few months and simply replaced a batch of cooks.
Shimizu thought it was pretty good. Some of the signature dishes were not inferior to the delicacies made by the top chefs from the Marvel and DC worlds who were incarnations of foodies.
No mistake, one song, one shot, one inside, one appearance, one at a time!
As for Pakura, there is no need to say more.
Having lived in the poor Sand Village since childhood, even the ninja class, whose life is much richer than the common people, spends all the remaining wealth on purchasing, maintaining, and allocating training resources for the ninja world, in addition to meeting the nutritional needs of ninja training. There is no extra money to enjoy. Only during festivals or after completing a rewarding mission can they indulge a little.
Not to mention that the Land of Wind is not rich in products. Although there are some local specialties, it cannot be compared with the prosperous Land of Fire.
It was only after the end of the war, the ninja level was raised, and the income increased, coupled with the huge changes brought to the Sand Village by the canal and the new puppet technique in the commercial and economic fields, that they were able to have this leisure and elegance.
Unknowingly, the two came to the gate of the outer city.
That person is…
Pakura looked at the entrance, a small giant with a bandaged sword on his back and a height of nearly two and a half meters, somewhat surprised.
Kisame Hoshigaki of the Hidden Mist?
As a member of the famous Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Kisame Hoshigaki is still quite famous.
It's an envoy sent by the Mizukage, and now he should be on his way back.
Shimizu said, looking at Kisame Hoshigaki's back.
Pakura saw that Shimizu seemed to know something, and looked at the two Anbu ninjas following Kisame Hoshigaki, but didn't say anything more.
Kisame Hoshigaki stood in front of the Sand Village gate, his face not very good.
The Third Kazekage rejected the Fourth Mizukage's proposal to form an alliance to attack Konoha, saying that now was not the time.
However, the Third Kazekage was also happy to let the Hidden Mist delay Konoha's recovery speed, saying that if the Hidden Mist must go to war with Konoha, then the Sand Village could provide assistance to the Hidden Mist in terms of ninja tools and other materials, just needing a little money, absolutely good quality and cheap price.
In short, as long as the Sand Village is not allowed to send troops, everything else can be discussed.
However, the Fourth Mizukage's task for Kisame Hoshigaki was to persuade the Third Kazekage to send troops…
Ever since Yagura became the Three-Tailed Jinchuriki and took the position of Mizukage, he has become a little moody. I don't know if there will be any punishment after going back this time, alas…
Kisame Hoshigaki was a little worried, sighed, and felt some movement from the Samehada sword behind him.
Hmm?
Turning his head, Kisame Hoshigaki looked at the location where Shimizu and Pakura were.
You want their chakra?
Kisame Hoshigaki retracted his gaze, turned his head, and reached out to hold the hilt of the Samehada sword on his back.
What do you want to do? Kisame Hoshigaki.
Following Kisame Hoshigaki's side, an Anbu ninja couldn't help but turn his gaze and stared at the former.
It's nothing, it just so happens that Samehada is a little hungry, I'll feed it some chakra.
A portion of chakra condensed from Kisame Hoshigaki's hand and fed to the Samehada sword.
This fat man knew that those two were not easy to mess with.
Even if the quality of the chakra on them was very high, and the type was something Samehada had never tasted before, it was not something he could afford to provoke.
Let's go quickly, we will **** you out of the Land of Wind within two days. I don't know if you plan to go by land or by sea.
The Anbu ninja looked in the direction of Kisame Hoshigaki's gaze, and said, while feeling relieved in his heart.
With Shimizu and Pakura, two high-end combat forces, even if Kisame Hoshigaki wants to cause trouble at the entrance of the village, he won't be able to make waves.
As long as he is safely sent out of the Land of Wind afterwards, it will have nothing to do with their Sand Village.
Let's go by sea, it's safer. I still need to avoid the Land of Fire and send a letter to the Raikage in the Hidden Cloud Village.
Kisame Hoshigaki said with a smile, while seeing several chakra energy vehicles driving towards here on the road ahead today, and then avoided the road and left the gate of Sand Village with the two Anbu.
The chakra energy vehicle slowly stopped, and a red-haired boy with a handsome face and indifferent expression, carrying two bundles of sealing scrolls on his back, walked out.
Following him down were Hayate, and two Chunin who Shimizu had seen several times in the puppet troops.
Rarely, it's actually your turn to wait for me.
Sasori saw the two people not far away on the street, quickly glanced at Pakura, looked at Shimizu, then walked over and said.
Ah… Ah, yes! Was this mission successful?
Shimizu almost didn't react, and hurriedly said.
He and Pakura were just taking a walk after dinner and accidentally ran into each other, not waiting at all.
In his estimation, he only estimated that Sasori would probably return today, but he didn't expect to meet him by chance.
It's okay, the daimyo of the Land of Snow is indeed a capable and visionary person, and he also sent his younger brother here, wanting to discuss cooperation with the village with the Third Kazekage.
Sasori reached out and pointed to a big-nosed young man who walked down from the chakra energy vehicle.
Fūka Dotō, carrying a piece of clothing, looked at the crowds at the Sand Village gate, only to feel that the Sand Village was much more prosperous than the Land of Snow.
Shimizu also glanced at Fūka Dotō.
The daimyo brothers of the Land of Snow seem to be good scientific research talents. The elder brother, Fūka Kazehana, invented the magical technology that can turn the snowfield into spring, and the latter also created chakra armor and other items.
It can be considered to be tricked over.
