For the next hour or so they talked about what they were going to do, after which once they had finished their plans they adjourned the meeting until a fortnight from now, where they would finalise everything and sort any last minute details. Once that was sorted all the leaders of this coalition left to return to their respect villages or bases.
-An Hour Later in another room of the Underground Complex-
Sitting on his throne, Orochimaru was reading the rest of the report to what his spies in Konoha told him about what Jiraiya had learned about New Kumo, the Heavenly Alliance and The Raikage.
Although there was not much more to the report that he did not know already, there was still some interesting things he learned, one of them being that The Raikage was not native to Kumo or Kaminari no Kuni. Which both surprised and impressed Orochimaru greatly as he knew what the odds were in such a thing happening.
Soon after finishing reading the report, Kabuto entered the room, "You asked for me Orochimaru-sama?"
"Yes I did Kabuto, I have a mission for you", spoke Orochimaru.
"And if I may asked what is the mission?" replied Kabuto.
"I want you to negotiate and Alliance for me between us and the Heavenly Alliance or more importantly between us and New Kumo", said Orochimaru surprising Kabuto slightly. After which Orochimaru then went on to explain how upon first hearing of the event of Nami no Kuni and the Jiraiya failed infiltration mission, along with the failed talks in Konoha, Orochimaru sent his own letter in the hopes of gaining an Alliance with the Heavenly Alliance. He then went on to explain that just before his meeting with the Mizukage, Tsuchikage and the other leaders of his coalition. He received a replied stating that The Raikage will meet him to discuss a possible Alliance in a few days' time in a neutral location in the Ishi no Kuni (Stone Country), which was neutral between their forces and the Heavenly Alliance.
"If I may ask Orochimaru-sama, why don't you go there yourself, since surely the meeting would go better there if you were there?" asked Kabuto.
"AH well…..you see as you no doubt remember my reputation is not held in the highest regards when meeting with other leaders of villages. Considering how I killed that weakling fool the Yondaime Kazekage and took his place during our first attempt to destroy Konoha. Where if I go there myself The Raikage will be on guard and expect something to happen, hence he will not be in a negotiating mood, not to mention Jiraiya may hear about it and Konoha may use the chance to eliminate me", replied Orochimaru. Which Kabuto nodded to as it made sense, especially the fact with Orochimaru reputation in such matters as it took many years of hard effort and negotiating to gather this coalition together against Konoha.
"But if I may ask Orochimaru-sama, what would make you think that New Kumo and The Heavenly Alliance would be willing to join us against Konoha and Suna", asked Kabuto.
At this Orochimaru smirked and began to explain what happened in Konoha during the Talks with The Raikage. After hearing what happened and hearing what Orochimaru planned to offer New Kumo, Kabuto had to admit it could work, considering what happened there not to mention what Orochimaru was offering them in return for helping them.
"Interesting purposely Orochimaru-sama, but what about Kiri or more specifically Shiro, as I don't believe he will be too trilled with the idea of allying with The Raikage and his forces", spoke Kabuto.
"True but he can be easily dealt with, much like the Yondaime Kazekage was", replied Orochimaru with a sadistic smirk. Where Kabuto match it with an arrogant like smirk of his own, after which he nodded his head and went of to prepare for the meeting with The Raikage.
"SSSSoooooonnnnnnn, the Library of Benzaiten will be mine along with aaaaaallllllllllll iiiiittttttttssssss knowledge" thought Orochimaru with a smirk and started to chuckle alone in the room.
-Ten days Later-
Currently standing in the middle of a wide open plain surrounded by large standing stones, was Kabuto along with four masked Sound Ninja's wearing balaclavas and ANBU like armour. These masked Shinobi's were among Orochimaru's new fighting division to fight Konoha's ANBU and ROOT divisions. They were called SONIC, which stood for Strategic. Operations, Ninja, Intelligence, Combat and were basically his version of them as they were highly trained to fight them.
Soon enough The Raikage dressed in his Kage robes and hat along with his face mask appeared with Okatsu and Fū.
When Kabuto first saw The Raikage he felt the same aura of dominating authoritative power coming from The Raikage which he had become infamous for which nearly made everyone submissive to his presence. Both Kabuto and his men had to fight hard to fight the submissive urges they were having from The Raikage and to remain ineffective to it. Unfortunately Kabuto men were unable to hide their intimidated of the man as their body language showed they were intimidated by him, while Kabuto himself was just able to hide it, but just barely. As The Raikage came closer they could also feel the powerful essence about him which people described he had, which made both Kabuto and his men, feel a combination of fear and respect for The Raikage, something that Orochimaru himself often strived to have everyone feel when around him.
Quickly calming himself down Kabuto then quickly came up to The Raikage and bowed respectfully to the man, which was a sincere gesture. As his respect for the Kage's skill and power in recent years had earned Kabuto's respect, as he respected power and The Raikage had plenty of that.
"Greetings Raikage-denka it is an honour to finally met you in person, your fame and reputation is known to many in Otogakure including our leader Orochimaru and is well respected and revered. Although I must say finally meeting you in person, shows that the stories I have heard about you do not do you justice", spoke Kabuto. For although he knew he was laying it on thick with the complements, he had learned that often enough continuing praising a ruler power and presence often helped to smooth a ruler over and help him become more negotiable.
The Raikage simply nodded his thanks for Kabuto comments, not really caring what he was saying, after which he then spoke, "I was led to the understanding that Orochimaru himself would be coming here to speak about a possible Alliance".
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