Threats

Well, let's start the reunion," said Minato.

Then Shikaku cleared his throat and said "Let's proceed to the report of the damage caused by the invasion. During the invasion there were fifty-three civilian casualties and two shinobi casualties. In addition, the damage is estimated to total more than three hundred million ryo" Shikaku said.

Everyone present was furious, no one had ever dared to attack Konoha directly in the entire history of the village.

"As you all must know this attack was orchestrated by Danzo's followers to free him. For that they kidnapped the Daimyo's family and convinced him to infiltrate enemy soldiers disguised as the Daimyo's guard" Explained Minato.

Everyone in the room was even more enraged, the person that Konoha was subordinate to had betrayed them without a second thought. The room was abnormally silent, normally the civilian council members were loud and impulsive, but today everyone was silent

Minato seeing that no one was saying anything continued "But those followers of Danzo would never manage to invade Konoha and cause such great damage, so they requested the help of someone very dangerous. Orochimaru the snake sannin, one of Konoha's renegade ninja helped them."

Upon hearing Orochimaru's name many in the meeting room shivered, Orochimaru was one of the strongest ninja in the world, but that was not what terrified everyone, they all remembered the brutal experiments Orochimaru did before he was banished by the third Hokage.

One of the shinobi council members raised his hand and when Minato nodded he began to speak "Why would someone like Orochimaru help Danzo?"

"To answer that question we must reveal one of Orochimaru's greatest secrets. Orochimaru has achieved a type of immortality, for that he changes bodies regularly, he seeks out talented bodies so he can control them. Orochimaru covets to take the body of an Uchiha for years for that he made a deal with Danzo to obtain a talented Uchiha, for that Orochimaru would help Danzo to implant Sharingans in his body."

Everyone in the room shuddered to hear that Orochimaru had attained immortality and that to achieve it he would take other people's bodies 'He's a real monster' they thought. Those present were even more surprised by Orochimaru's obsession with the Uchihas, although they already knew of Danzo's plan to destroy the clan, they had never thought that Danzo planned to implant the eyes of the Uchiha into his body with Orochimaru's help

"But that's not the truth. Orochimaru didn't invade the village to free Danzo, his purpose for invading us was to kidnap a talented Uchiha with a lot of potential. Orochimaru invaded the village to kidnap Sasuke Uchiha and mark him with a cursed seal. During the chaos after the explosion he managed to kidnap the little Sasuke Uchiha son of the leader of the Uchiha clan" Said Minato.

The room was in absolute silence, no one expected the news of the kidnapping of the son of Fugaku and one of the heirs of one of the most powerful clans of the village. Those who were close to the Uchiha clan were furious to hear what had happened.

"Don't worry, thanks to the help of Jiraiya and my son Naruto we were able to locate him and bring him back to the village. The third Hokage also helped by taking on Orochimaru, but unfortunately he was unable to defeat him and Orochimaru poisoned him. But thanks to the intervention of Tsunade Uzumaki who managed to contain the poison and bring him back to the village the third Hokage made it to the Konoha hospital but he is in serious condition" Minato explained.

Those who were worried about Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief, but when they heard about Hiruzen's condition they became even more furious with Orochimaru, if he was no longer an appreciated figure in the village before, now Orochimaru was the most hated being in the village. Although the prestigious Hiruzen had fallen due to his negligence in office, Hiruzen was still appreciated by many and knowing his state at this time made them worry about him.

"Hokage-sama, you said that Orochimaru has marked Sasuke Uchiha with the cursed seal?" the leader of the Abúrame clan asked, seeing that Minato nodded he continued "That seal is similar to the one Mitarashi Anko had before Kushina-sama removed it right? If it is so that seal will continually try to influence her mind. Do you have any plans to remove it from Sasuke Uchiha or do you plan to contain it?"

Fugaku was about to respond, but Minato stepped forward "The cursed seal that Sasuke Uchiha was marked with is an advanced version of the seal that Mitarashi Anko had, Sasuke's seal attaches to the soul providing unimaginable pain when implanted and making its removal more difficult. But thanks to Kushina Uzumaki's Fuinjutsu skills we were able to achieve partial removal of the seal, Kushina managed to remove Orochimaru's piece of soul from the cursed seal making it impossible for Orochimaru to influence his mind. Sasuke will continue to have the seal, but it will only give him more abilities and won't hurt him" Minato explained.

Fugaku looked at him and nodded at his words, Minato had managed to come up with a perfect excuse for his son's situation and no one would question his use of the seal in the future.

Everyone in the room shuddered when they heard what Sasuke felt when Orochimaru put the seal on him, but they were glad when they heard that Kushina had been able to remove Orochimaru's influence from the seal. That only increased Kushina's prestige within the upper echelon of Konoha, one could say that Kushina's prestige in the village was almost as high as the Hokage's, that was due not only to her strength as an S-class Kunoichi but to her skill with fuinjutsu and her inventions that are revolutionizing the shinobi world.

After that they spent hours discussing the damage and how to fix it.

"Well, the meeting is almost at an end, but there is a very serious issue to discuss. What should we do about the Daimyo of the fire country?" Shikaku said.

The room once again plunged into silence, all eyes turned to Minato who had a serious look on his face. While most wanted to say that the Daimyo should die for what he had done to Konoha no one dared to do so, even though the ninja were powerful they were still subordinate to the Daimyo.

Suddenly someone knocks on the door. When Minato orders them to enter a ninja from the intelligence division appears with several rolled up scrolls. Shikaku stood up and picked them up and the ninja left the room.

Shikaku read the scrolls and began to sweat as he read them.

Minato seeing the state of his friend asked "What's wrong Shikaku, what's in those scrolls?"

"All the nobles of the fire country sent us scrolls asking for the immediate release of the Daimyo. Not only that, the Daimyo of the other four great nations did not send similar scrolls and said that if we did not release the Daimyo they would declare a joint war on us" Shikaku said with a grave expression.

Everyone in the room broke out in a cold sweat when they heard the threats from the other daimyo.

Minato became thoughtful when he heard Shikaku's words, the third Shinobi war had been five years ago and Konoha still hadn't recovered economically and militarily 'I wasn't planning to kill the Daimyo originally, I would only ask him for indemnities, but this changes everything. A war against all the Shinobi villages would be a disaster for Konoha' thought Minato.

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