You Two Aren't Bordering Each Other, So Why Should You Sign a Peace Agreement

On the first morning of the 53rd year of Konoha, a weary-faced Kakashi returned from the consolation monument.

So many things really happened last year, and even though Kakashi was the one who experienced it first hand, now that he thinks about it, it's like a dream.

Kakashi wanted to tell his companions what happened, one by one.

If they could survive, then at this time to enjoy the happiness, will also have their share.

Unfortunately...

Kakashi walked through the streets of Konoha with immensely mixed feelings.

Since the year before last, Makoto had been working on widening and repairing the roads of Konoha, and reorganizing the overall structure of Konoha.

To this day, although the overall situation is still not as good as those big cities that have been famous for a long time, the whole Konohagakure still has a lot more new atmosphere.

Kakashi walked down the street to the newsstand and bought two copies of a lace tabloid from the summoning beast inside who was in charge of watching over the newsstand and looked a lot like an Akita Inu.

-In the tragic war, ninjas were inevitably injured and disabled, and the ninja beasts were no different.

As a matter of fact, the chances of the summoning beasts being killed in battle were always higher than those of the ninja.

In last year's war, even Orochimaru's Ten Thousand Snakes were killed in action.

The sword light that seemed to open up the sky and the earth directly chopped it into two, with no chance of escape at all.

Even from a certain point of view, it is good to die in battle directly instead, a hundred times over.

The most feared thing was to lie down all year round and not be able to get well again.

One or two is okay, if the number is large, it will become very troublesome... After all, for many ninja, the summoning beasts are really like the existence of their family members.

There really are many extremely poor ninja who had to endure the pain of killing their own summoning beasts.

Fortunately, times are different now.

Other villages, not to mention, anyway, in Konoha here, even if the summoning beasts injured and disabled, Konoha also support them for life.

The current Konoha finances are so abundant.

This was also one of Konoha's image projects.

Details like this, there are many, many more... Although maintaining these image projects cost a lot of money, many people feel that there is no such need, after all, ninjas are not little girls, eating this bowl of blood licking at the mouth of the knife, but Makoto still insists on this.

He just wanted to show all Konoha ninja that he cared about them.

Kakashi picked up the newspaper and quickly scanned up the contents.

Since it wasn't a proper newspaper, there were a lot of all kinds of messed up news. Many of the news even looked incredibly ridiculous to Kakashi, who knew the inside story.

But he just liked to read it.

After all, the truth handed over by the dark part was more or less uncomfortable.

Sometimes lies... were a little better instead.

Just looking at it, Kakashi noticed something strange.

In the past, these tabloids were usually interesting and disorganized, giving people a feeling of writing wherever they thought. And today's newspaper protagonist... was clearly Makoto.

It's not that Makoto hasn't been in the newspaper before, in fact, even in the serious newspapers, there are half a year's worth of things about him.

There's no way around it, Makoto is too good at making things happen.

Before also convergence point, is an industry an industry to come, to last year, directly is a small country a small country to come...

That is, now has not yet entered the traffic era, otherwise such a capable and able to whole live, especially a little bit of modesty is not the guy, will inevitably become the media's favorite.

But today's matter...

"The Godaime Hokage is able to climb a forty-story building with his bare hands."

"Able to jump from a height of six thousand meters unharmed."

"Able to drink ten liters of strong alcoholic beverages."

"Three meters tall."

"Makoto was ready to move forward one meter, so the earth moved forward one meter on its own."

"Princess Kaguya bore him children, twice - and at least one of the above rumors is true."

"That's too outrageous, isn't it? -

"Shikaku this guy doesn't even mull it over now, he just starts making things up? ...It's not quite like something he could do. -

"It can't be everyone's spontaneous behavior, right?"

The rumors about the Godaime Hokage were really getting more and more outrageous.

...Fortunately, the media and the common people didn't know that Makoto had actually done something behind his back. Otherwise...

Kakashi muttered, clasping the newspaper under his armpit as he continued walking towards his home.

Makoto worked overtime every day, but the thing the guy hated most in life was working overtime. So under his leadership, Konoha had always never worked overtime if they could.

It was actually very hard for Kakashi to follow him. Today is the first day of the 53rd year, it's rare that there's nothing going on, so let's all take a good rest first...

Just as Kakashi was thinking that, he saw his top boss, who had been beaten to a pig's head, lying on the floor of his house, silently shedding wide spaghetti tears.

Kakashi silently backed away and looked at the sign hanging outside the house, convinced that this was his home and not an accidental mistake.

"Hokage-sama ... why are you in my house?"

Makoto sat up.

"First ... grandpa forgot. -

"And then, grandpa forgot. -

"Finally, Grandpa forgot. -

"Do you understand?"

...Isn't this just not saying anything.

If it were someone else, I'm afraid that I really don't know how to deal with such a nonsensical boss.

It was good that Kakashi had followed Makoto for so long and knew his temperament well.

So Kakashi smiled.

"Hokage-sama, I have mochi at home, would you like to eat together?"

When one doesn't know what kind of expression to show, just smile.

Compared to last year, this year was much more organized, and many things were no longer hand-waved. Even things like mochi had been prepared more than usual - although this year's Hokage mansion's mochi were still handmade by him and Shisui together.

Everything could change, except this was exactly the same as last year.

"No need, what's meant to be is meant to be, and there's no use running away from it."

Makoto shook his head and stuffed a few bear cookies into his mouth.

Kakashi touched his ninja pouch, and sure enough, it was empty.

"Even Maximists like us should be aware of the fact that Maxim is not omnipotent."

T/N: Hiram Stevens Maxim invented the Maxim gun, the first fully automatic machine gun, in 1884

"Especially when dealing with women who are not prepared to be reasonable at all."

Kakashi understood.

It should have been Makoto's harem that exploded.

But it couldn't be helped, the previous Nono as well as Minatsuki were both gentle and strong women who had suffered and knew that happiness was hard to come by.

The most crucial thing was that both of them had very low status.

Makoto is simply a fried fish bureau for them.

But the people in the back are more... either princesses or diplomats...

...Honestly speaking, Kakashi felt that Makoto was not so much building a harem as remodeling his own family and friend relationships that had been destroyed by the war.

For a woman like Pakura, if Makoto sincerely coveted her flesh, he would have just said hello to Kazekage. But he didn't do that... Rather than coveting a girl, he wanted to be like he was as a child, with a childhood friend that he could chase and fight with...

While the Godaime Hokage was known for his ghostly nature, Kakashi knew that the guy was like a little kid sometimes.

But Kakashi didn't dare to say it.

Because he personally saw the miserable condition of Zabuza.

That was... extremely miserable and tragic.

"So, you plan to..."

"Kakashi, next I want you to do two things for me."

"Yes!"

A moment ago, he was still spitting on his boss, but as soon as Makoto said this, Kakashi immediately became serious.

He didn't even ask about the content of the task before directly agreeing to it.

"The first thing is that you, together with Shikaku, appropriately guide the rumors in the streets-about my previous battle, it should have spread all over the world by now as well, right?"

"Understood! But to what extent exactly?"

"If you're specific... let's just say that that sword came from the Nidaime's Kinjutsu catalog, and that the power was just as great as the cost. It's just that I have a special kekkei genkai, and it doesn't matter at all how my body breaks down, so I can survive after using a kinjutsu... For the specifics, let Shikaku grasp it himself, he should have a good idea in mind."

According to Makoto's plan, the ninja would definitely end up flipping off the big landowners and big nobles.

This was also the general trend.

But by no means would they flip now.

-What is Konoha's current population enough for now, ah, even the ruling system of the Land of Fire's capital can't be constructed.

He didn't want to be madly mixed with sand.

The great nobles, and even the daimyo were really frightened by the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

That terrifying sword mark made the great nobles both fearful and powerless.

Such extreme thoughts were bad and would hinder Makoto's next action.

So before opening the next round of battle, he had to blow off some steam and stabilize the nobles slightly.

"What about the second one?"

Speaking of business, Makoto's eyes, which were previously streaming with lasagna tears, gradually became sharp.

"Come with me for a double act, convince Terumi Mei to help convince the Seventh Prince to grab the undersea tunnel project."

The reaction of the Four Daimyos were still timely, and immediately after realizing the threat of the ninja, they were ready to start suppressing it.

However, the four daimyos also thought very clearly, a direct fight would not benefit either side - the big country would inevitably be smashed under the sharp attacks of the ninja army; the hidden villages, whose populations simply could not occupy the entire country, would only be crumbled into pieces, so it could be said that there was not a single winner.

Since this is the case... no matter what the four daimyos actually think in their hearts, when it comes to execution, their strategy is definitely to boil a frog in warm water.

Makoto currently did not know their initial plan of action, but it was still no problem to grab a head start.

"Grabbing the undersea tunnel project... with the current situation of the seventh prince, even if he grabs it, does he have the ability to build it?"

Building roads has been a right thing to do since ancient times, and in ancient and modern times, any empire with a bit of foresight and even modern countries that have the ability to do so will build roads.

The various official roads in Ancient Rome and the Celestial Dynasty all originated from this.

Roads not only facilitated transportation, but also served as an extension of ruling power.

Where there were no roads, it was simply impossible for the emperor to control.

The undersea tunnels were essentially something similar.

But the problem was that the Seventh Prince's economy was poor.

Or rather, the brat didn't have an economy at all.

At present, the big landowners and the big nobles are completely tied together. Although the things the seventh prince did in the royal capital were very satisfying, they also completely offended these powerful people.

Although the funds seized from the royal capital were large, they were eventually going to run out.

The Seventh Prince is not alone now, he has close to half of the Land of Water in his name. Now that the war is beginning to settle down, he needs a lot of money to appease the people and restore the economy, while at the same time refurbishing the army and preparing for war.

-Worse yet, in the Spring after New Years. The Akatsuki organization has robbed the vital funds that should have been used to maintain the rule of the Land of Water, and now...

Building roads under these circumstances?

Kakashi was also looking at the accounts, and he didn't really see where the Land of Water could squeeze so much money out of it.

-Both princes were in a state of urgency right now, but there was nothing they could do about it. There were times when they would have preferred that the Four Great Countries had just hit them directly so that they could still have a reason to fight together and take a breather... But it was clear that the Four Great Countries wouldn't give them that chance.

They would stand on the dry shore and laugh as they watched the two princes constantly infight, eventually exhausting the last vestiges of the Land of Water.

"It's because there's no money, that's why we're building an undersea tunnel. -

"For such a big project, I don't know how many billions upfront. As long as the undersea tunnel is mortgaged at a good price, won't the money come?"

When Makoto said that, Kakashi could clearly see the bright golden light in the other party's eyes.

That represented the splendor of gold.

Kakashi didn't believe that Makoto making a move would be as simple as mortgaging the undersea tunnels of the Land of Water.

This is bound to be just the beginning, and there must be countless killing tricks behind... ah, Makoto is his top boss, that s all right.

In this era, tenderness and compassion are very extravagant feelings.

"I have understood... Then Hokage-sama, when do we start moving? And the injury on your head..."

As a ninja, injuries were really commonplace. But Makoto is the Hokage after all, walking around in the Konohagakure with a pig's head is really indecent.

"Nah, I'll just leave my injury for a while. -

"Those two women are very stingy, and they are holding their anger inside. If they don't let them beat them up, the matter will not be over. -

"Speaking of which, it's true that I am being unreasonable. They are all very good girls and could have chosen better partners, but they met me... Just think of it as a one-man show, over and over again, and again and again."

Kakashi expressed his inability to understand the thoughts of people in love.

But since Makoto was so insistent, there was nothing he could say.

While the two of them were talking, a few sounds of light landing came from outside.

-There were highly skilled ninjas coming from outside!

Both of them realized this matter.

"You retreat behind me first, I'll handle it here!"

Makoto said so, and walked towards the outside with a pig's head.

Kakashi instinctively wanted to block, because at this moment, the scene of the Fourth Ninja World War floated to his mind.

But the next moment, Kakashi suddenly remembered that the current Makoto was no longer the Makoto from two years ago.

Being a Kage is a laborious thing, the complicated work will inevitably take up a lot of the ninja's private time, resulting in a slow rise in strength, or even regression.

But Makoto, this guy, is definitely an exception.

Obviously doing more things than all the Kages combined, but not only did his power growth speed not slow down, but it got faster and faster.

Two years ago, both of them were still Elite Jonin.

And now...

Kakashi stood still, his face complex.

At the same time, Makoto took on Terumi Mei and Pakura.

There are some things that are destined to be unexplained, in that case... let's fight!

Everything was entrusted to the fist!

He was no longer the original him!

Makoto glanced at his attribute list and charged towards the two women.

[Intelligence: 4; Stamina: 3; Hand seal: 4; Taijutsu: 6; Ninjutsu: 3.5; Genjutsu: 6; Speed: 6; Strength: 6]

As he began to accelerate on his side, a storm began to arise.

Boom!