Alliance

Mei was rubbing her forehead, this was such a nuisance.

" Must you attack him head on like this? You failed before, if you do this you will fail again. "

Looking at Zabuza with hope she exclaimed.

" If you can join us, together we will a have much better chance at taking down Yagura, than if we split our forces like this. "

Zabuza hummed, but didn't look moved, sitting with his legs spread wide and great sword leaning on his shoulder, he tilted his head as he spoke.

" I won't work under you, you don't have that strength. "

Though in hard power, Zabuza was indeed much weaker than Mei, but his decades in genjutsu and subsequent acceptance of his emotions had freed his mind, a fight with Mei wasn't always lose for Zabuza.

And that much was enough to make him deadly.

Even in the original story, Kakashi found out how Zabuza couldn't fight to his fullest potential because he was worried about Haku.

A free Zabuza was a strong Zabuza.

" Haaah.. Must you do this..? "

Mei was scratching her hair with frustration.

Zabuza didn't look moved as he told his conditions.

" I need you to back me up when I succeed, I don't want to waste time collecting heads. "

Mei clicked her tongue in annoyance as she told him.

" Alright, if that's how you want it, but know this, we already have a plan in place, we will attack Yagura ourselves, your help or not. "

Putting her finger forward she told him her condition.

" So we won't assist you in any way until you actually succeed. It would break all our carefully laid plans, I can't do that for one hothead decision. "

Zabuza didn't care about Mei's attempt to mock him, he was just a sword in Shin's hands, he cares not.

Getting up, Zabuza picked up his Kubokiribochu, as he looked at Mei with sharp eyes.

" As long as you keep your Ninja's out of my succession, just because I don't want to fight riff raff doesn't mean I can't. "

Mei smiled wryly, her attempts at riling up his pride also failed.

Alas, they cannot bet everything on Zabuza alone.

But if Zabuza really did pull this off, she won't hesitate to do what she said.

" You have my word, last thing I want is you going wild and we losing more Shinobi, if you get to Yagura, Mizukage position is yours, I will make sure there is no revolt from my end. "

Mei promised Zabuza as he nodded and left the hideout with Shin and Haku in tow.

As Zabuza left Ao asked Mei.

" Mei sama, are we really going to support Zabuza as Mizukage? "

Mei looked thoughtful as she slowly nodded.

" Zabuza is not stupid, if he came back again with only two more people with him, he has some confidence at least in taking down Yagura. "

Touching the table infront of her, she spoke.

" Zabuza might lose but he might win, if we see he has any chances of doing the impossible, we will immediately assist him. "

Ao nodded as he smiled at Mei's thoughtfulness.

" This is why we support you Mei sama, all you want is the betterment of Mist, you don't even care about the position of Mizukage. "

Mei laughed as she shook her head.

" Zabuza is as caring about Mist as I am, as we all are. "

Swiping away her haze, she smiled beautifully.

" And it's not like I don't want to be Mizukage, I will just be too busy with my married life! "

Ao twitched his lips, Mei sama was back at it again.

Married life needs to have someone to marry first, melting away and burning away any potential candidate isn't going to help.

' But maybe, it can be done.. Momochi Zabuza, he might just do it. '

Ao knew, only Zabuza was someone Mei couldn't just melt away, she seemed interested in him too.

' That's it, this is a good way to convince those who follow Mei sama. '

Ao had decided, Mei and Zabuza getting together was a good thing.

First is trying to convince Mei sama.

Looking at Mei glowing in the faint candle light, with deadly charm around her, Ao decided to bring up this matter sometime later.

Mei not aware that her long dream of marriage might come true after all, gave her orders to Ao.

" Assemble some troops to keep an eye on Yagura, have them spread out to not attract attention. "

Ao nodded, Mei continued.

" Tell everyone to be on standby, as long as the war looks possible to win with, we will attack as well. If not, we bide our time, Zabuza likely will hurt him more than he did in his previous assassination attempt. "

That will be when they will stirke back, be it a loss for Zabuza or a win for him, Mist will benifit from it nonetheless.