Dark Naruto's acting life

The long river of time keeps moving forward, and no one can stop it.

At this time, less than half a month had passed since the reconstruction ceremony of Uzushio Village.

The Kages from various villages and other guests invited to the Uzushio Village had already left.

They brought back what they saw and heard here to their respective villages, and as expected, the wind direction in the ninja world began to change once again.

In the past, all the major countries were full of hostility towards Uzumaki Naruto, the outlier, but now, no one dares to say a bad word about this young man.

Naturally, no one dared to underestimate the new Whirlpool Country, let alone covet it.

In general, countries have recently laid back and dare not make any major moves.

However, this does not mean that the world is at peace. On the contrary, the existence of Naruto Uzumaki makes all countries feel more urgency.

The terrifying power of one person destroying an entire country makes everyone fearful. They must do something to avoid being helpless when the other party makes a move in the future.

In the case of the Land of Earth, on the day of Ōnoki’s return, he visited the daimyo’s mansion and reported what he had seen and heard.

The Daimyo of the Land of Earth did not believe that one person's strength could reach that level, and just thought that it was Ohnoki's excuse to increase the village's funding. However, due to Ohnoki's tough attitude, the Daimyo had to be cautious. In the end, Ohnoki managed to double the village's annual funding with the powerful forces behind him and the network of relationships he had built up over the years.

Although Ohnoki still wanted more, he also knew that too much is as bad as too little.

With the money, Ōnoki began to plan against Uzumaki Naruto.

The first is that the long-shelved cloning program and forbidden technique development program were put back on the agenda.

In addition, the Iwagakure education system was once again reformed by old man Ohnoki, and a new elite class was established in the Ninja School. The elite class has only one goal: to match Uzumaki Naruto.

There is no reason why the great Iwakage cannot do what Uzumaki Naruto can do.

Most major countries are carrying out reforms and responses similar to this.

But there are some smaller countries that don't seem to care much.

Although the chiefs of each village explained to the leaders of various countries that the future wind direction would change, not many lords really took these things to heart.

Those idiots thought that the Land of Whirlpools was so far away from them that even if a war really came to pass, other major powers would not sit idly by. Instead of wasting a lot of money on some ninja village reform, it would be better to use the money to build a few more palaces and villas and recruit a few more concubines. Those would be tangible and visible benefits.

Not every lord of a country is wise and powerful. These hereditary nobles have long been accustomed to a life of extravagance and have no sense of preparedness. When change comes, they are the first to be eliminated, and they are also the ones who must be eliminated.

……

The Uzushio Village is particularly lively today.

In fact, the entire Whirlpool Kingdom was in jubilation.

The news that the ninjas from the Land of Lightning invaded the Land of Whirlpools, more than half of them were wiped out, a thousand were captured alive, and even the Raikage was captured alive spread like wildfire.

Everyone knew that the Whirlpool Country had finally been freed from years of humiliation.

The Thunder Nation, which has been riding on their heads for nearly twenty years, can no longer oppress them. Not only the Thunder Nation, they are no longer second-class citizens and can hold their heads high and live as human beings.

How can this not make people happy?

……

On top of Ming Tower.

The top leaders of Uzushio Village, including Naruto, Nagato, Gaara, Orochimaru and the like, all gathered here.

Today is also their celebration party.

At the banquet, delicious wine and food were served in an endless stream.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Everyone drank until their cups were empty, with smiles on their faces, especially the people from the Uzumaki clan, who were the happiest.

After all, after being oppressed for so many years, the tribesmen were in a state of panic, and now, they can finally hold their heads high.

The banquet lasted for four hours.

After eating and drinking their fill, everyone calmed down and started to discuss business.

Gaara took out a notebook from his arms: "Ever since Naruto defeated the first Hokage and Uchiha Madara, our Whirlpool Country has become famous. Recently, various countries have sent envoys to discuss the establishment of diplomatic relations with us. According to the plan, we did not reject any of these countries and signed non-aggression agreements and mutual trade treaties with them. Among them, there are several clauses in the mutual trade treaty that are completely beneficial to us. For example, the signatory countries will not collect taxes from our Whirlpool Country merchants, including tolls, commodity taxes, import taxes, etc."

Everyone smiled when they heard this. This was proof of the country's deterrent power. As long as you were strong enough, others would not dare to say a word even if they suffered losses.

Afterwards, Gaara reported many trivial matters, which were basically all good news for the Land of Whirlpools.

After all the general matters were explained, today's main topic was brought up.

——That is how much compensation should be demanded from the Land of Lightning.

As stated before, Naruto would not pass up this opportunity to legally blackmail the Land of Lightning.

They sent people to attack the village, which was a real invasion. Their demand for compensation was reasonable and legal, and no one could say anything.

After a discussion among everyone, the result was finally reached.

——One hundred billion in compensation, and the Land of Lightning will lease five port cities to the Uzushio Village.

Three days later.

Representatives from the Land of Lightning and the Uzushio Village sat at the negotiating table.

The delegation from the Land of Lightning consisted of more than a dozen people, while the Uzushio Village only sent three people.

They are Kabuto, Uzumaki Jungoro and Gaara.

Gaara was the person in charge of this negotiation.

He didn't say any more nonsense, just said: "We want 300 billion taels and 80% of the territory of the Thunder Country as compensation, otherwise the country will be destroyed."

The delegation from the Land of Lightning that visited the Land of Whirlpools this time has always been known for its toughness. When the Land of Lightning was in a confrontation with the Land of Fire over the kidnapping of Hinata, it was this group of people who came forward to negotiate.

At that time, their country of lightning was at its peak and war sentiment was running high, so they were aggressive at the negotiating table and eventually forced the Third Hokage to compromise, allowing Hyuga Hizashi, who killed in self-defense, to die, and finally calming the incident.

The self-defense perpetrators were forced to die in apology. Although there were many other factors involved, the result alone shows how powerful these diplomats were.

But no matter how good their mouths are, they will be at a loss when they meet the Uzushio Village.

Because Gaara and the others had no intention of talking from the beginning to the end.

After saying how much compensation he would give, he just rolled his eyes and looked up at the sky, as if to say, "You guys talk your own way, we can't listen."

The negotiation experts from the Thunder Country have never seen such a situation in all these years. If it were normal, they would have overturned the table and started fighting.

But now, they can only patiently say some nonsense. After all, times are different now. The Kingdom of Thunder has no capital to go against the Kingdom of Whirlpool.

Before they came, they knew that they would have to bleed this time, and the purpose of the negotiation was just to pay less.

The negotiations lasted for three days.

Just when these diplomats were looking greasy and embarrassed, the Whirlpool Country finally gave in.

The compensation was reduced to 120 billion taels, to be paid in one lump sum. They didn't want 80% of the territory anymore, just the five port cities of the Land of Thunder, and they were willing to return the prisoners of war.

When the people of the Thunder Country heard that the compensation had been reduced so much, they were overjoyed. Although some people saw that this was the other party's strategy, they had no choice but to agree at this point. After all, the situation was stronger than the people, and they had no confidence to compete with others. They could only be slaughtered like pigs.