Without any evidence, confronting the team of the hidden leaf was impossible. After all, they have come to the land of lightning as an escort team to an official mission of the Daimyo of a country.
With this blunder in place, Usagi and her team manage to spend the next week in peace.
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The peace talk and Tsunade's worry
// A few days ago
After the shadow clone which had left the main ship after the discovery of the summoning island reached the hidden leaf village, she was immediately taken to the custody of the torture and interrogation department. After all, Usagi had gone from a kid with a C, to a young adult with a G, surpassing even her biological mother Tsunade. It was obvious they would doubt her. But after getting the heads up that she is just a shadow clone and her main body is still doing the mission in the land of lightning, The torture and interrogation department treated her carefully. After her request the third hokage and Tsunade Senju were called to the T and I department.
"So, you are saying that it was an unknown jutsu ?" The third hokage asked the question.
"Yes. When the guy used it everything around us started to age rapidly. It was a purple greenish gas. He was at his last breath when he used it. He himself grew rapidly old until he died from old age. Even his summon was affected and died within a minute. My barrier somehow managed to slow down the effect so I managed to get away and became like this. It is as if I have aged rapidly. When I used diagnostic jutsu on myself I didn't find any abnormalities. Since my Chakra also grew rapidly, my control was a bit off and I couldn't do a thorough examination. That's why I came here." The shadow clone of Usagi explained to the hokage. This was the story she had come up with to justify her new body. As a shadow clone, Tsunade will not find any abnormality in Chakra if she scans her with the diagnostic jutsu. And her main body could easily fool Tsunade with the help of the great Sage.
So the story was just perfect.
After telling her story, The Shadow clone waited for the response of the others.
"Even if you are a shadow clone, let me just use the diagnostic jutsu to see if there is any abnormality in your Chakra." Tsunade stepped forward and went through a few hand seals to activate the diagnostic jutsu. She thoroughly checked her entire body before sighing in defeat.
"There is no abnormality in your Chakra flow. Your Chakra is completely fine as if nothing has happened to you. We will have to wait for your main body to return. Only then we can complete a full diagnosis of your condition." Tsunade told the shadow clone with a worried look on her face.
"Usagi chan, do you have any problem defending yourself due to your messed up Chakra control ? If there is any, then tell me now. I will give you the order to abort the mission and send someone else in your place to complete the mission." The old hokage told the shadow clone lightly.
"Well most of my barriers don't need this much Chakra control. So I will be fine. But I cannot use most of my medical ninjutsu. But I don't think that will be a problem. Thank you for worrying about me, grandpa hokage." The shadow clone mained the cheerful attitude of her original body.
"Alright then, let me collect your sample of this Shadow clone. I will further test it in the hospital lab." Tsunade told the shadow clone.
After giving her Chakra to Tsunade, the shadow clone vanished completely.
Tsunade sighed with a worried look on her face.
"This girl is really giving me a headache. First that book and now this." Tsunade muttered to herself.
"I think you will be just fine. You on the other hand might have to run after anyone who eyes her with a large stick." Hiruzen chuckled to himself.
"Hmph ! My fist will be just fine." Tsunade huffed. She was not expecting Usagi to turn into an adult so fast. So it definitely caught him off guard. Tsunade had made up his mind to tell her daughter the truth once she became a bit more mature. But even though her body has undergone extreme maturity, her mind was still the same. So Tsunade was at a loss for what to do. She was also worried how it may affect her growth.
But it was something she had no control over. She could only hope that the effect is temporary. Otherwise she will have to try to find a solution for the problem.
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// The day of the peace talk
At first the peace talk between the hidden stone village and the Hidden leaf village was about to happen in the land of Fire. And this information has reached many other countries. But at the last moment both the hidden leaf and the hidden stone decided to arrange the meeting in the land of iron. Since it was a peace talk, the general of the land of iron also agreed. On the day of the meeting both sides from the hidden leaf and from the hidden stone arrived in the land of iron. Like they had agreed earlier, each side brought only two other shinobi apart from the kage himself.
Mifune sat in the middle as a neutral observer as the third hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi took the seat to his left along with Minato and Jiraiya. The third Tsuchikage Onoki took the seat on the right side. By his side were, one of his sons, Kitsuchi and another elite Jonin named Akatsuki.
Both the parties had given their grievances and arguments to the general of the land of iron, Mifune, beforehand. So there will be no confusion during the discussion.
Among these grievances there are two parts. The first part contained facts that both of the parties agreed on. And the second part contained arguments of both the parties where both the parties were trying to blame the other side.
"Please place your hats in front of you, on the table." Mifune spoke first after both sides took their seats. After both Hiruzen and Onoki placed their hats in front of them, Mifune nodded and opened the scroll in his hands.
"Before the start of the peace talk let's recall some facts that both of the villages agreed on."
Mifune paused for a moment before continuing.
"The hidden stone village had declared War on the hidden leaf village.
The hidden stone village had sent a specialized squad of shinobi to sabotage the real supply line of the hidden leaf village. In this action all of the members of this squad were killed by the hidden leaf village.
The hidden leaf village had counter attacked and had pushed the hidden stone out of the land of forest. During this counter attack the Jinjuriki of the four tailed beast had tried to attack the rear of the hidden leaf while trying to buy time and had gotten captured inside the land of Fire."
After carefully reading out all the events both the villages had agreed on, Mifune closed the scroll. The place where these events happened held more importance than anything else.
Currently among the hidden leaf and the Hidden stone, the hidden leaf will be considered as the winner of the conflict. So through the negotiation the hidden leaf will get more support and weight compared to the hidden stone.
"Now start the negotiation." Mifune looked at the hokage to begin.
"The hidden leaf village wants nothing more than peace. More than a thousand of our shinobi have died in the conflict started by the hidden stone. We don't want to continue the war but if the hidden stone wants its Jinjuriki back then you will have to pay the proper price." Hiruzen Sarutobi stated firmly. At that moment he was not the secret boyfriend of Danzo or the benevolent hokage. He is the leader of the strongest Hidden Village of the shinobi world.
But the tsuchikage was expecting it.
"Tell me your terms hokage."
"5 billion ryos. This is the price of the hidden leaf for your four tails jinjuriki." Hiruzen got straight to the point.
Both of the parties knew that 5 billion ryos was an impossible number. Even as the Hidden Village of the richest Nation in the elemental Nations, the hidden leaf village only gets 3 billion ryos as its annual budget from the Daimyo.
But by applying this move the hidden leave wanted to extort money from the hidden stone. This way even if Onoki wanted, he would not relaunch a war recklessly. The higher ups of the hidden leave knew the problem. Along with Onoki, the Daimyo of the land of earth had also a strong desire for war. But by draining money, they would literally cripple them for the time being. It was not a permanent solution. But this solution was way better than Danzo's proposition about extracting the tailed beast and putting it into his chosen Jinjuriki.
Definitely a better option.
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Next chapter: Ending of the negotiation and starting of the war
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