The Fifth village Hokage:Uchiha Douhuan

Chapter 238: The Sand Village is also Under Lockdown?

"Rules?" Ishiichi Seigaku's face darkened upon hearing this. "If we're really going to talk about rules, then Jonin Yashamaru, you don't even have the qualification to leave the village right now. After all, Lord Fourth's death is inextricably linked to you. The Jinchuriki's rampage happened when you were sent out to perform a test mission!"

"What does Lord Acting Kazekage intend to do?" At this moment, Baki also arrived at the village gate with the old guard of the Fourth Kazekage, confronting Ishiichi Seigaku. "The two elders have already made a final decision on this matter. The Jinchuriki's rampage has no relation whatsoever to Jonin Yashamaru!"

Seeing this, Ishiichi Seigaku's expression also became stiff. After Baki arrived with the former Fourth Kazekage's old guard, the situation at the scene became delicate. Although Ishiichi Seigaku had the Anbu and his Kage Guard, the number of Jonin Baki had brought already exceeded his own forces.

Moreover, he also realized at this time that targeting Yashamaru was a bad move.

After all, Yashamaru was one of the few medical-nin in the Sand Village, which was filled with poison masters, and his strength had reached the Jonin level. It could be said that most people in the Sand Village had received his kindness. Furthermore, he was the Fourth Kazekage's brother-in-law. Even the two elders had to give him some face. After Rasa died in the One-Tail's rampage, both Chiyo and Ebizō had immediately come forward to state that this matter had nothing to do with Yashamaru himself.

"I just want to arrest the rogue ninjas who might endanger the village's safety!" Ishiichi Seigaku glared resentfully at Baki. Before he became the Acting Kazekage, it was Baki and his group who had been obstructing him. Now that he was the Acting Kazekage, this group still didn't treat him as a leader?

"Even the two elders have not yet made a final decision on whether Temari and Kankurō are rogue ninjas. Why is Lord Acting Kazekage in such a hurry?" Baki said coldly, emphatically stressing the word "Acting" in his speech.

"But they have been away from the village for so long, and the village's Jinchuriki was lost because of it. They should at least be detained for investigation!" Ishiichi Seigaku said. "Who knows if that Jinchuriki who mysteriously appeared in our territory was called by them?"

After Baki's arrival, Ishiichi Seigaku knew it was unlikely he could take Temari and Kankurō away today. However, even if he couldn't directly convict Temari, Ishiichi Seigaku didn't want to miss the opportunity to sling mud at her. If he wanted to remove the "Acting" from his Kazekage title, then Temari, who had openly competed with him for the position of Kazekage before, was the biggest obstacle.

However, at this moment, Temari stepped forward, came before everyone, and looked at Ishiichi Seigaku with a burning gaze.

"Lord Acting Kazekage suspects that my brother and I colluded with outside forces to take away the village's Jinchuriki, but has Lord Acting Kazekage forgotten my identity? I am the child of the Fourth Kazekage. I grew up in this village, eating the same food and drinking the same water as everyone! My loyalty to the Sand Village can be witnessed by the sun and moon!" Temari said with righteous passion. "But now, you want to pin the hat of a rogue ninja on my head! My father once taught me! His power was bestowed upon him by every villager of the Sand Village. What the Kazekage represents is not just glory and power, but also a heavy responsibility and duty!"

"And you! Now you are pinning the title of rogue ninja on a comrade without any evidence for your own selfish gain. I want to ask, when did the Kazekage have such power? The residents of the Sand Village have never given the Kazekage such power! Not to mention you are just an Acting Kazekage!"

"You!" Temari's righteous words forced Ishiichi Seigaku to take half a step back. He pointed a finger at Temari but couldn't say a word. Ishiichi Seigaku's mouth twitched for a moment, and then he brought up the matter of Gaara again. "Don't you forget, Lord Fourth Kazekage died at the hands of that Jinchuriki brother of yours! Now that he has been rescued from the village's pursuit, you also bear an inescapable responsibility!"

"Gaara's rampage was just an accident!" Temari said without yielding an inch. "However, given the harm he has caused to the village, I will personally capture him and have him accept the village's judgment."

When Temari said this, her expression was extremely grave, perfectly performing the struggle of wanting to protect her brother but having to uphold justice because of the great wrong he had committed.

"Hmph, I hope you can do what you say!" Seeing this, Ishiichi Seigaku knew it was impossible to take down Temari today. So, he snorted coldly, turned, and left with his subordinates.

...

After returning to her residence, Temari let out a long sigh. At this time, from the ninja tool bag she had placed on the table, the communication snake slowly crawled out.

"Well done just now," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh. "It has to be this way. If you want to establish your dominance and become the Kazekage, then you can't hide this kind of thinking. Your direct confrontation with that fellow just now can also send a signal to those in your village who are still wavering, that even if the other party is the Acting Kazekage now, you can withstand the pressure from this guy. At this time, your identity as the princess of the Sand Village can play its role. After all, everyone who follows you in a coup is putting their life on the line for a shot at wealth and honor. You have to give them confidence, and only then will they follow you."

"I understand," Temari sighed. "But, this way, Ishiichi Seigaku and I have completely torn off all pretenses."

"Heh heh, is that important? Or rather, this is the effect we wanted," Uchiha Douhuan laughed. "You occupy the moral high ground of your identity, while the other party only has a certain advantage due to good luck. You've already seen the scene just now. Don't mind that he is the Acting Kazekage now. Within the Sand Village, the ninjas who support you because of your father are in the majority. Under such circumstances, the more assertive you appear, the greater the chance he will show a flaw."

"Is that so? Then what should I do now?" Temari asked.

"Just wait," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh. "If my judgment is correct, your Sand Village's current financial situation, after losing your father's support, should already be very poor, right?"

Temari's pupils shrank as she looked at the communication snake. She had not provided this information to Uchiha Douhuan.

"Don't look at me with that kind of gaze. The fact that your Sand Village's mission requests, especially the low-level ones, have been shifting to our Konoha year after year is something anyone in the ninja world with a little bit of attentiveness can find out," Uchiha Douhuan laughed. "The reason your Sand could hold on until now is largely due to the gold panned by your father's Magnet Release ninjutsu. Without your father, your Sand would have run out of funds about 5 years ago."

Temari pursed her lips. What Uchiha Douhuan said was all true.

"So, can you learn your father's Magnet Release?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.

"I didn't inherit my father's Kekkei Genkai," Temari shook her head. "If I could use Magnet Release, I could have directly inherited the position of Fifth Kazekage. Why would I need to do all this?"

"This makes things a bit troublesome," Uchiha Douhuan said. "If you can't solve this problem, then even if you succeed in the coup, it will be very difficult for you to overthrow the two elders of your village in a short time. Your supporters will also quickly leave you, because you can't deliver on the promises you made."

"Then... what should I do?" Temari turned her head to look at a photo in the room of her 3-year-old self holding the newborn Gaara, with Kankurō, who had just learned to walk, on her back, and asked in a daze.

"Heh heh, since that kid Naruto asked me to help you, then I might as well go all the way," Uchiha Douhuan said with a light laugh. "After you officially take power, Konoha will subcontract a portion of the existing C-rank and lower missions to your Sand Village. We will only take a 10% commission."

Hearing this, Temari looked at Uchiha Douhuan with incredulous eyes.

"Don't look at me like that. This is also a mutually beneficial matter. The number of low-level missions in Konoha now far exceeds the number of genin in the village. To complete these missions, some Chunin and Jonin are needed to do things like catching cats, finding dogs, and picking up trash, which greatly wastes the village's ninja resources. Subcontracting them to you is also a mutually beneficial good deed," Uchiha Douhuan said. "Our Konoha and your Sand are friendly neighbors with an alliance treaty, don't you agree?"

After this period of preparation, Uchiha Douhuan and Konoha were ready for the reform of the ninja system. Now only some minor details remained to be resolved, among which was the problem of the surplus of D-rank missions in the village, which were used for newly graduated genin to practice, after the system reform. If he simply cut this part of the missions, it would more or less affect the reputation of Konoha and Uchiha Douhuan in the entire ninja world. Compared to the reputation of the Raikage and Tsuchikage, which in Uchiha Douhuan's previous life probably couldn't even unlock a shared bike, the reputation of Konoha and the Hokage was something that successive Hokages since the First had carefully maintained. Uchiha Douhuan didn't want this tradition to be broken by him.

And now, if these piled-up missions could be subcontracted to the Sand Village, their Konoha could solve the problem and at the same time earn a little, which was a win-win situation.

"Then, thank you very much, Lord Hokage," Temari said after taking a deep breath. Although she didn't know why Uchiha Douhuan, the Hokage, would help her so much, right now, if she wanted to take the position of Kazekage to save Gaara's life, she could only rely on him.

...

In the Kazekage's office. After Ishiichi Seigaku returned, he first looked up at the photos of the successive Kazekage hanging in the office. Originally, after being appointed as the Acting Kazekage last night, he wanted to hang his own photo up, but was rejected by Elder Chiyo on the grounds that he was not yet the official Kazekage.

And what happened at the village gate today had made him lose a lot of face.

Therefore, Ishiichi Seigaku's idea of getting rid of Temari and her Fourth Kazekage's old guard became even stronger.

Thinking of this, Ishiichi Seigaku took out a stack of documents and began to study them carefully.

If Uchiha Douhuan were here and saw what Ishiichi Seigaku was studying, he would definitely cry out in surprise.

For no other reason than that what Ishiichi Seigaku was studying now was precisely the history of Uchiha Douhuan's rise to power.

Well now, is this one a student of "Douhuan-ology" too?

Just as Ishiichi Seigaku was trying to find a way to get rid of Temari and the Fourth Kazekage's old guard from Uchiha Douhuan's deeds, a knock came on the door of the Kazekage's office.

"Come in!" Ishiichi Seigaku properly put away the documents in his hand before speaking.

"Lord Kazekage," the person who came to report was his trusted subordinate. After becoming the Acting Kazekage, Ishiichi Seigaku had immediately promoted him to be the Kazekage's secretary. At this moment, this person came before Ishiichi Seigaku with a worried look on his face, holding a stack of documents.

Hearing his secretary's address, Ishiichi Seigaku nodded with satisfaction. That's more like it. The Kazekage is the Kazekage. Not like that group of people who insisted on adding the word "Acting" in front.

"What is it?" Ishiichi Seigaku asked.

"Lord Kazekage, the village's funds for next month are already severely insufficient. We can't even pay the salaries of the hospital and the Anbu," the secretary said with a worried look on his face.

"What? How could this be?" Ishiichi Seigaku's brows furrowed upon hearing this.

"Previously, most of the village's financial expenditures were covered by the gold panned by Lord Fourth's ninjutsu. Now that the Fourth is dead, the funds left behind are almost used up," the secretary said.

"In that case... go and tell the ninjas in the Anbu and the hospital that this month's salary will be delayed a bit," Ishiichi Seigaku instructed.

"But, Lord Kazekage, if that's the case, won't the Anbu be dissatisfied with you?" the secretary said with hesitation.

"I also want to pay them on time now, but the village doesn't have a single penny left," Ishiichi Seigaku said with some impatience. "You go and tell them about the village's difficulties now. I, the Kazekage, am also living by tightening my belt. Everyone must work together to get the village through the current difficulties."

"Yes..." Seeing this, Ishiichi Seigaku's secretary could only nod and withdraw.

"Lord Kazekage, our spies set up at the Fourth Kazekage's residence saw Jonin Baki and Jonin Yashamaru enter the Fourth's residence with several high-ranking Jonin squad leaders."

"Damn it!" Ishiichi Seigaku slammed the table angrily upon hearing this. "What on earth are they plotting? Do they even have any respect for me as the Kazekage!"

Subsequently, Ishiichi Seigaku thought again of Temari, who had openly fought with him at the village gate today, and the sense of danger in his heart grew stronger.

[No, I can't drag this on any longer.]

Ishiichi Seigaku gritted his teeth and said to the Anbu who came to deliver the message, "Pass on my order. In three hours, the Sand Village will be under total lockdown!"

(End of chapter)

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