Chapter 573 Formal Appointment
"Okay, everyone."
"I think the result of this duel is obvious, right?"
Kaito looked at the few Kages with unhappy faces with a smile, but the few present were all silent.
Perhaps because the cheers of the Kirigakure ninjas in the distance were a bit too harsh, the Kazekage Rasa snorted coldly, turned around and jumped off the ice wall where he was watching the battle.
On the contrary, the Tsuchikage Onoki, who had also been looking unhappy before, took a long breath and put a smile on his face again.
"The ninjas of Kirigakure are truly young and talented, and Mizukage, you also possess remarkable boldness!!"
"I hope that in the future, this unit can play its due role in the ninja world under the leadership of the Mizukage."
I don't know if it was intentional to provoke, but when Onoki spoke, he deliberately emphasized "the Mizukage led" and "play in the ninja world", which made the others look at him strangely.
"Kisame Hoshigaki is a well-deserved commander. The ninjas sent by Konoha will fully cooperate with his work in the Maintenance Force."
This was said by Namikaze Minato.
Since the result is a foregone conclusion, Namikaze Minato, who has a clear direction, will certainly not choose to deny it.
Instead, he made a very sincere promise to Kaito.
As for whether the Mizukage in front of him would believe his promise, Namikaze Minato did not care.
After the two Kages had given a positive answer, Kaito turned his sight to the Fourth Raikage Ai.
Speaking of this commander selection process, the Raikage has always been very calm.
Logically speaking, Kumogakure is the only village that has not been attacked by the Zero Organization at this time, and its two Jinchūriki are also "well protected".
It is normal not to pay much attention to this so-called "Maintenance Force" .
However.
'Obito didn't take the opportunity to cause trouble this time? He doesn't really think that retreating to Turtle Island will be safe, right?'
'What is he waiting for?'
He was guessing what the Zero Organization was planning, but on the surface, Kaito still looked at the Raikage Ai with a smile.
Ai was quite a bachelor, he nodded directly, and then jumped off the ice wall without saying a word, just like Rasa.
Things became much simpler afterwards.
Because Hoshigaki Kisame had restrained himself when cleaning up those weaker ninjas before.
Kaito directly released a large-scale "Wind of Revival" to treat all the injured ninjas.
Although the two oldest people, one was Konoha's Eternal Genin Maruboshi Kosuke, and the other was Konoha's Top Taijutsu Master, Chen, who had previously released the "Konoha Dragon God", both felt a little empty after receiving treatment.
However, others did not know the principle of the "Wind of Revival", and Kaito's move instead attracted a wave of goodwill to the Kirigakure Village.
Afterwards, the inauguration ceremony of Hoshigaki Kisame was also very simple. The representative of the small ninja village, Yahiko, and the five Kages issued a formal appointment.
In the following two years, Hoshigaki Kisame nominally held the supreme command of this Maintenance Force.
Then the leaders of the six ninja villages took this opportunity to discuss and define the general powers within this force.
Uchiha Fugaku became the vice commander of the Maintenance Force without any surprise.
The other three ninja villages' jonin were also symbolically assigned positions, such as staff officer, intelligence officer, and instructor, which were just nice to hear but actually useless.
On the contrary, the jonin "Pain", who was disguised as the representative of the Amegakure Village, was neutral because he did not belong to the five great ninja villages.
In the end, he was appointed as the logistics officer of the Maintenance Force, a position with relatively more power.
After a lot of work, the purpose of the Maintenance Force to fight against the Zero Organization was confirmed again, and the Kages of each village chose to return to their own villages.
Kaito himself wanted to stay for a few more days to see how Hoshigaki Kisame was going to train these ninjas from other ninja villages.
Unfortunately, he also had a lot of things to do in his own Kirigakure Village, so he simply chose to leave the base with several other Kages.
However, before leaving, Uchiha Fugaku and Yahiko still found an opportunity to use the "Phantom Body Technique" to contact Kaito privately.
Yahiko didn't have much to do. He mainly discussed the future development direction of the Amegakure Village with Kaito, the "senior village chief".
According to Yahiko's idea, he planned to reduce the support of some of the daimyos of the Land of Rain for the Amegakure Village.
Strengthen the intelligence capabilities of the Amegakure Village, and slowly make changes after finding out the views of other ninja villages on the Land of Rain, which has now become a neutral country.
Although Kaito didn't think it was necessary, this was after all an internal matter of the Amegakure Village. He just mentioned it a few times and didn't participate too much.
On the contrary, it was Uchiha Fugaku.
Through this spy, he explained to him why he took the initiative to show his Mangekyō Sharingan in this battle for commander.
It turned out that before the Konoha team set off this time, Namikaze Minato and Shimura Danzo took the initiative to find him.
Pointed out the existence of the Uchiha clan's Mangekyō Sharingan, and hoped that he could exert all his strength to win the position of commander of this unit for Konoha.
However, the reason why Konoha's high-level officials could guess that he had the Mangekyō Sharingan was actually because of the "death" of Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke, two sons that Uchiha Fugaku arranged himself.
As a disciple of the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, who has been watching the Uchiha clan all his life, Shimura Danzo already had a certain understanding of the Mangekyō Sharingan.
He even knew about the existence of Susanoo, the Mangekyō secret technique.
As a result, Uchiha Fugaku had to admit the fact that he had "just" awakened the Mangekyō.
However, even so, in the previous battle, Uchiha Fugaku did not use the exclusive ability of his Mangekyō Sharingan, and in fact he still had some reservations.
Of course, in Kaito's opinion, even if Uchiha Fugaku fought with full force, relying solely on his Mangekyō, which carried a heavy burden, he would most likely not be the opponent of Hoshigaki Kisame in Sage Mode.
After figuring out the whole story, Kaito could roughly guess why Namikaze Minato attached so much importance to the command of this unit, but he didn't care too much about Uchiha Fugaku's previous move.
On the contrary, it was because of his combat power that made Hoshigaki Kisame's victory more valuable.
After simply telling him to cooperate with Hoshigaki Kisame in the future and not to expose himself in Konoha, he officially set off on the journey back to the Kirigakure Village.
'From now on, it should be a peaceful time, right?'
(End of this chapter)