Chapter 4: Hard on the Inside, soft on the outside.

"What a joke!"

After reacting, Hyuga Hiashi was the first to burst in anger

"It's clear that you, Cloud Shinobi, under the guise of an alliance, sneaked into the Hyūga clan's residences and wanted to kidnap my daughter. After I found out you actually tried framing me in Konoha!"

Feeling the chakra emitting from Hachiro's body he was certain this ninja was at the kage level.

However, his rationality was being devoured by his anger.

No matter how strong you the enemy was he wasn't just about to let people mistake him for a pushover.

"Yes, Hachiro Raiden, your behaving unreasonably."

Shikaku, who had a calm personality, couldn't help but say.

His son was just three months old, and he could understand Hyuga Hiashi's feelings to an extent.

"What are you talking about? Our people were killed, and you want to put charges on us!"

A Jōnin from Kumo shouted angrily,

"Don't tell me Konoha wants to go to war again!?"

Hyuga Hiashi was furious, just as he was about to say. "Who is afraid of whom!?"

Unexpectedly, Utatane Koharu's wrinkled old face shouted in horror,

"Please don't get us wrong! Konoha has no control intention of going to war with Kumogakure."

As soon as this was said, Hyuga Hiashi, Uchiha Fugaku and others looked at Utatane Koharu in slight disbelief and anger.

This weak, old women who does nothing but idly sit on the advisory board because she was lucky enough to be a disciple of the Second Hokage, and fights tooth and nail with them for her interests so easily conceded?!

She was talking to these Cloud shinobi so humbly and didn't even let them get a chance to say anything.

Mitokado Homura hurriedly added,

"Today konoha and Kumo have just formed an alliance. It's a day meant for celebration there's no need to be so angry."

Seeing the usually high-pitched old shrew acting with such humility, don't talk about Fugaku and Hiashi. The normally good tempered Yamanaka's and Akimichi's were all looking irritated.

You old vixen, if you're so easily intimidated just do everyone a favour and retire already!

"How about we both take a step back and play it off as if nothing happened?"

As if that wasn't enough for the clan leaders, Danzo, the elder with a reputation for being ruthless and cutting down everything that got in his way tried to take a step back as well.

Had it not been for the presence of the civilian council. Hiashi would have liked to rush over and slap the old man.

My daughter was almost kidnapped. You expect me to let this go so easily!

"Oh, Konoha sure Is a lawful Village, one of my brother's have died and you expect me to drop it as if he was worth nothing."

Hachiro did not restrain the Lightning building up around his body at all, and showed off its ferocity as a deterrence.

"Could it be you leaf shinobi think we will let you trample all over us?"

Except for Konoha's three elders the rest wanted to laugh at the absurdity of what they were hearing.

Us. Bullying You?

Anyone at the age of four can easily see what you're playing at!

You spectacularly failed in kidnapping a new-born child and now you want us to apologize to you!

Do you even know what shame is?

"Then, what does Mr. Hachiro Raiden want?"

Sarutobi Hiruzen said abruptly.

"Hokage-sama!?"

All of a sudden, Hyuga Hiashi, Uchiha Fugaku, Nara Shikaku and others looked at Sarutobi Hiruzen with disbelief evident in their eyes.

Forget the other three old elders.

But you are the Hokage!

Now the enemy villages are brazenly running around our village and destroying things and your apologizing for being a bad host to them.

You still want to negotiate when the other party has clearly committed crimes against us.

Don't talk about the shinobi from Konoha, even the cloud shinobi including Samui who he had warned ahead of time was surprised.

They all showed ghastly expressions one after another.

Negotiate? Really?!

The Third Hokage, who is called [The Strongest Hokage in History] and [The Professor], Konoha was humiliated and yet you can still endure and take a step back!

If the Raikage was in your place he would have made the aggressor regret being born in the first place.

At this time, when Samui and the others recalled Hachiro's evaluation of Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Konoha elders—

Hard on the Inside, Soft on the outside.

Sure enough, that's seems pretty accurate.

"Hand over the daughter of Patriarch Hiashi."

Hachiro showed one of them the a smile from the land of Lightning, and said in a tone that left no room for negotiation,

"We'll give Konoha a night to think about it. When we leave tomorrow morning, the daughter of the Hyūga better be leaving with us."

"If your village disagrees, not only will the alliance agreement be annulled, we will report back to Lord Raikage and officially launch an all-out war between Kumo and Konoha."

While speaking, he motioned to Darui.

Darui nodded, and slugged Tashida onto his back and gave his corpse a piggyback.

Hachiro turned around and led the crowd of Shinobi he arrived with to leave in strides, turning to face Sarutobi Hiruzen he said,

"Hokage-sama, please consider it carefully."

Bang!~

The moment the door closed,

Hyuga Hiashi said to Sarutobi Hiruzen with as much vigor as he could muster,

"Hokage-sama, my Hyuga clan is willing to take the lead! We will face Cloud Shinobi head-on!"

Giving his newly born daughter to the shinobi from the cloud would not only result in the loss of a pair of byakugan but his blood.

They had trampled on the dignity of the Hyūga clan and his position as Patriarch.

However, ignoring his fighting spirit and declaration Danzo spoke quietly to Hiruzen who was smoking his old pipe again.

"Hiruzen, it is too risky to start an all-out war with the cloud shinobi right now."

"Danzo, you!.."

Hiashi felt as if his anger was going to lead him to make some impulsive but very desirable decisions.

But before he could do so Koharu and Homura gave their views.

"Yes Hiruzen, we have to proceed with Konoha's interests in mind."

"Tobirama sensei handed Konoha over to our hands we must protect it."

They have been close friends for over half a century so they had general idea of Hiruzen's personality and thoughts.

Sure enough, when Sarutobi Hiruzen removed the pipe from his mouth, he still looked at Hyuga Hiashi kindly, but his tone seemed to be irrefutable,

"Hiashi, everything is for Konoha… the village will remember Hyuga's sacrifice."

As soon as he finished his sentence Hiashi could feel his knee's go weak as he staggered back and almost fell down.

The other participants in the meeting room didn't say a thing knowing that it would be impossible to change the final verdict.

Note: Sometimes I question my actions. Actions like why am I eating sweets that I don't even like? Isn't the whole point of their existence the fact that they taste nice? No?