Chapter 9: "Don’t worry, the Konoha elders will kill him for us."

In the original story, the Hyūga kidnapping incident was the cause of Hyuga Hizash's death and collapse of the alliance recently formed by Kumogakure and Konohagakure.

This time around, Konoha took the initiative to comply with the cloud's demands and sacrificed the young Hinata preserving the alliance in the end.

However, the alliance didn't entail trade or anything. Rather it merely prevented them from trespassing onto each others land without consent.

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Of course, that was only on the surface. The fourth Raikage and Kumo as a whole was eager to try snagging the most fertile land in the Shinobi world.

However, only half a year after Hinata had become a civilian of the cloud, big news came from Konoha.

Orochimaru, one of the Sanin, who had made great contributions to Konoha became a S-class rebel and defected.

According to the information given by the spies they had planted in the Land of Fire, the reason was that Orochimaru had secretly been kidnapping children for human experiments.

The other Shinobi villages didn't care for what reason he defected but what they did know was that one now their adversary had lost one of their strongest fighters and commanders.

"Hahaha! Konoha is losing all their ninja one by one!"

On the Island turtle, the training ground of Kumogakure, the fourth Raikage laughed loudly and strode over to his cousin who was in the middle of doing finger push ups.

"What do you think? Now Konoha only has Sarutobi Hiruzen, who is in his 60s. We should take this chance to rally the troops."

Hachiro flipped around from his push up position and sat down.

Laying down on a flat stone beside him was a baby girl cheering him with every push up he completed.

"Woah! Woah!"

Hyūga Hinata…No, I meant "Raiden Hinata".

"So cute!"

Mabui's pupils turned into hearts, and she leaned forward to lift Hinata up.

However to her dismay she was slapped back by Hinata's chubby baby hands.

"All I want is a hug. No harm. I promise."

Mabui grieved and said,

"Cousin, what do you think?"

Seeing that he did not answer, the fourth Raikage could only ask again.

To be honest, in Kumogakure, aside from his brother Killer Bee the only one he had enough patience with to have a proper conversation was this cousin of his.

"I recently just got some information, Jiraiya was recalled by Hiruzen back to Konoha."

Hachiro cast a glance over to his lover Samui who was standing on the edge of the training ground.

Samui knew what he wanted as she handed over the small set of scrolls she had been tasked to bring.

The fourth Raikage took a look and give it a quick glance all over.

The Sanin, Jiraiya who was wandering about outside Konoha, returned upon hearing of Orochimaru's betrayal.

"These bastards! They're endless, one dies and another pops up from some hole in the ground!"

He angrily tore the scroll to pieces.

He was feeling both angry and jealous, Konoha seemed to be a breeding ground for geniuses.

What was worse was that God seemed to have some sort of favouritism towards Konoha.

One genius from Konoha dies, another is born. They were even more numerous than parasites.

And recently he had heard a lot about the rise of a kid called "Shisui Uchiha".

Since Konoha had formed an alliance with the Sand, Rock and Cloud shinobi villages at the beginning of the year, the only conflict that was still ongoing was in the Land of water.

Conflict creates opportunity for geniuses to reveal themselves. It was during the third ninja war when Minato Namikaze earned himself the title [Yellow Flash] by singlehandedly slaughtering a force of Iwagakure shinobi.

The conflict with the Mist revealed the up and coming prodigy Shisui Uchiha.

In as little as six months, Shisui's name resounded throughout the Shinobi world.

The fourth Raikage was jealous.

Was Konoha growing geniuses instead of crops?

"Don't worry about Jiraiya. He likes freedom so he won't stay in Konoha for long."

When Hachiro responded, he was closely observing his index finger and thumb on his right hand.

If you looked close enough you would realise that his fingertips had become shiny and reflective. This was Armament Haki!

He continued, " As for Shisui Uchiha... Just pretend he doesn't exist, he won't for much longer anyway. The konoha elders will kill him."

His words caused the others to feel puzzled.

What?

Why?

He has the potential to reach the Kage-level, which village wouldn't want to nurture him?

The Konoha elders are cowards in their own right, but why would they drive a potential Kage to their death?

The fourth Raikage didn't doubt that Hachiro was wrong so far his predictions weren't far off the mark.

Seeing the confusion of the fourth Raikage and his assistant, he smiled.

That's right, in general when a genius leaves a Ninja village, they have shadow guards to make sure they can survive their genin and chunin days. It was only after they become Jonin they reveal their real worth.

But the problem was Hiruzen's brain circuit works in weird and wonderful ways so much different from the norm.

To him, one less genius just means the next one will have to fill in for the last.

Previous examples could be the Hatake before their numbers thinned and as of right now, Shisui Uchiha.

"By the way, Hachiro, where did you get this news from anyway?"

The Raikage suddenly remembered and asked.

How did Hachiro get information that he didn't when he was the Raikage?

"From Orochimaru."

Hachiro replied dully,

Once again, everyone's eyes widened.

Note: I think there is a Chinese songy thingy in one of the next few chapters, I'm dreading it already.