Chapter 550 The Troublesome Maintenance Force
"Sure enough, it's another letter from Minato."
In the Mizukage's office.
Kaito put down the scroll in his hand helplessly and rubbed his brows with a headache.
Just as he thought, this letter was still sent by Namikaze Minato, urging the rapid establishment of the "Maintenance Force".
At this time, more than a month had passed since the night of the Nine-Tails Rebellion.
It had been two months since the Five Kage Talks to determine the establishment of a maintenance force to "protect the peace of the ninja world" against the Zero Organization hidden in the dark.
However, deciding to form a joint force and actually starting to establish it are naturally not the same thing.
The preliminary preparations, the allocation of resources, the selection of addresses, and the selection of people to participate in the joint force.
All of these things are not easy to finalize.
Especially this time, the maintenance force was jointly established by the five great ninja villages, and the various matters involved were extremely cumbersome.
At present, except for Konohagakure Village, which just experienced the Nine-Tails Rebellion and hates the Zero Organization to the core, and has been sending letters to various villages to urge the establishment of the maintenance and dispatching forces, the other villages are basically still in the early preparation process, and there are no shortage of things to argue about.
Just the site selection of the troop base has been dragged back and forth for more than a week and has not yet been decided.
Konohagakure wants to set up the base in the territory of the Land of Fire. The reason is simple. The Land of Fire is located in the center of the Ninja World, and it is very convenient for all parties to move.
But of course, the other four villages will not agree to this.
Kaito actually never thought of placing the base in his own territory.
The geographical location of the Land of Water is indeed inconvenient.
The Land of Whirlpools is not bad, but it is now almost the most prosperous city in the entire Land of Water. Kaito doesn't want Obito to be sick and cause trouble one day, affecting the income of the Kirigakure Village.
After all, it may end up in the neutral territory of the Land of Iron.
However, the Land of Iron itself also has some opinions on this matter, so it has not been finalized yet.
Of course, these are actually small matters.
At most, Kaito could forcefully "persuade" the other ninja villages to set up their bases near the Land of whirlpools, and then leave some backup plans for the bases, and maybe even do something to Uchiha Obito.
But there was another thing that also made Kaito a little embarrassed.
"Kaito, how about I go to the maintenance unit to register first?"
Ao saw Kaito's headache and couldn't help but persuade him.
However, Kaito's answer was very firm.
"Don't even think about it! Ao-sensei, you should stay in the village and help the elder Genji handle official business, and don't run around!"
That's right, another thing is that Namikaze Minato proposed that Ao, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, could personally join the maintenance unit.
At the beginning, Namikaze Minato sent a letter in a private capacity, wanting to discuss with Kaito, the Mizukage.
And said that if Ao could join the maintenance unit, Konohagakure would fully support Ao to be the commander of this unit.
However, how could Kaito and the elder Genji not see what Konohagakure was thinking?
The proposal to let Ao, the Three-Tails Jinchuriki, join was nothing more than to use the Three-Tails as bait to actively fish out the big fish of the Zero Organization.
The fundamental reason was that the "Zero Organization" had been making moves since the joint Chunin Exam.
After the Nine-Tails Rebellion, it suddenly disappeared and there was no news.
This not only made the revenge-hungry Konohagakure Village extremely anxious, but it was also one of the reasons for the slowdown in the establishment of the maintenance force.
However, even so, Kaito would not let Ao go out to attract firepower.
Knowing that the opponent would target the Jinchūriki, he took the initiative to jump around in the ninja world.
Does he really think that the Zero Organization will not engage in gang fights?
Ao's current strength, although he has the Byakugan, Samehada, and the Three-Tails, a trinity, can easily beat an ordinary Kage, but he is really not as strong as Kaito, who can be so careless.
Besides, the daily office now depends entirely on the support of the elder Genji and Ao. If Ao, an experienced person, wants to go out and wander around, then Kaito will be busy to death.
But the current situation is.
After several private letters and negotiations with Kaito were rejected, Namikaze Minato actually persuaded several other ninja villages to agree to this proposal, and unanimously agreed that Ao would be the commander of the troops.
After all, among the five great ninja villages.
Konohagakure only had half of the Nine-Tails left, Iwagakure only had one Five-Tails Jinchuriki left, Sunagakure Village only had one One-Tailed Shukaku from the beginning to the end, and Kumogakure two tails Jinchuriki was injured.
In short, the other four villages all wished that Kirigakure could send its own Tailed Beast Jinchuriki out to fish.
As a result, Kaito was forcibly put up.
"Damn it, if you get angry, I'll flip the table right now!"
Kaito's eyes condensed, and he had made up his mind, and turned to look at the elder Genji beside him.
"Elder, send a message to those four villages and tell them that we will send Hoshigaki Kisame to lead the initial establishment of our maintenance and dispatching forces."
"Still follow the original rules, select the commander of the forces according to the force. If the ninjas sent by the other four villages can defeat Hoshigaki Kisame, then our Kirigakure will not only send Ao-sensei to cooperate, but also voluntarily give up the competition for the commander this time."
"But if the rubbish they send can't beat Kisame, then all of them should shut up!"
Upon hearing this, the elder Genji was stunned for a moment, then a gratified smile gradually appeared on his face, and he immediately leaned over to write the letter himself.
On the contrary, Ao, who was the person involved, asked with a slightly hesitant look after hearing Kaito's arrangement.
"Kaito, isn't this a bit too tough?"
Ao asked this question not because he was weak and wanted to compromise.
Whether it was Kaito's strength or his own Mizukage who was good at "digging", he knew the foundation accumulated by Kirigakure today.
However, this is a little different from the original plan of Kirigakure's stable development and the accumulation of reputation with the help of the peacekeeping force.
As a senior member of Kirigakure, he needs to put forward different opinions at this time to prevent his disciples from acting on impulse.
Kaito naturally would not have any other ideas because of Ao's hesitation.
He just shook his head slightly at Ao.
"It's okay, Ao-sensei, this is also to let other ninja villages see the strength of our new generation of Kirigakure ninjas."
Well, although it sounds a bit strange to call Hoshigaki Kisame, who is older than Kaito, a 'new generation of ninja'.
But Ao can also understand Kaito's meaning.
Kirigakure's top combat power is now Kaito, the Mizukage, and Ao, the three-tailed Jinchuriki who has shown his strength in the Third Great Ninja War, is also a deterrent.
The previous Chunin Exam was to show the future of Kirigakure to the ninja world.
Then Hoshigaki Kisame, as a ninja who followed Kaito's footsteps and stepped into the level of Kage, it is time for the ninja world to change his view of him.
"But just in case, let's prepare some other means for Kisame!"
(End of this chapter)