Journey of Desires

- Tell me!

There were three people in the Raikage's office now, the window that had been broken earlier was all broken, but a new table had already been brought into the office, and repair work was being done on the wall behind the door.

When the stunned Raikage tried to comprehend what had happened and why everything had suddenly turned in such a direction, he heard Ban's words that Orochimaru wanted to contact him.

A week earlier, when Ban had talked with Orochimaru in the Land of Iron, this situation had resulted from their conversation, Ban was already planning to visit Kumogakure to study it, and after discussing the sanin's plans, he decided to combine business with pleasure and, in addition to tourism, took on the task of negotiating with the Raikage.

After Ay got to hear the name Orochimaru, he immediately became much more cold-blooded, during the Third Shinobi World War, he encountered this Ninja several times on the battlefield, and he knows his strength and intelligence firsthand, when information appeared that he betrayed Konoha, Ay was very happy, such an event weakened Konoha well, especially against the backdrop of the Kyuubi attack where Namikaze Minato died.

At the moment of understanding that this man was Orochimaru's messenger, the Raikage calmed down and calmly got up and headed to the hole in the wall, after which he shouted at Mabui to go up to him, during the battle, the girl went down and watched the battle for the last minute. The Raikage's order caused bewilderment among the people of Kumogakure, but knowing the hot temper of their Kage, they did not argue.

After which the two men headed to the office where the table had already been replaced, this is the norm for Kumo, since Ai very often breaks things in his office, the Raikage building has a whole construction team for repairing and installing furniture, and while the battle was going on, they replaced everything. There had already been a couple of times when replacing a table lasted longer than a couple of minutes, and as a result, Ai became even more furious.

Now, when Mabui entered the office and stood next to the table, Ai turned to Ban with a demand to tell why he came. Ban did not want to get on his nerves and began the story.

- I'll start with the main thing, is Kumogakure interested in obtaining the lands of the Land of Fire?

- What? Don't joke like that, it's too early to start another world war.

- No, that's not what I'm getting at. Orochimaru was framed, in fact, he conducted his experiments on the instructions of one of the leaders of Konoha, and when they were declassified, all the dogs were let loose on Orochimaru. As a result, he harbored a huge grudge against Konoha.

- Get to the point.

- December is coming soon, students from the Ninja Academy in Konoha are graduating in April, and the Chunin exam will take place in July, and there is 100% correct information that the exam will take place in Konoha.

Hearing such hints, Ei did not quite understand what his interlocutor was leading to, he is certainly not a stupid person, but you can't call him a genius either, but Mabui has a fairly high intellect, and hearing these words, she assumed.

- Do you want to attack the territory of the Land of Fire while the main forces of Konoha are concentrated in the village to protect it?

- Mm? No, Orochimaru wants to attack Konoha.

- What? What's the point of attacking Konoha at a time when it will be most protected?

- Well, let's start by imagining this situation. An important event is happening in Konoha, and then BAM! There is an attack on the village, and not just any attack, but from within the village, the attackers are one of the Ninja villages that sent people to the exam. Stupid? Yeah? Just one village, and a small one at that, like the Sound village, can't do anything to Konoha, right?

- Right...

- But what if the attackers are not one village, but two? What if three? What if the leader of the small village is a very strong Sanin who knows how to get into Konoha without being detected, and what if this Sanin understands Fuinjutsu and can put up a barrier of four lights that can easily hold back even Hashirama? What if the remaining two villages are great villages?

For ten seconds, the office was silent, they had known for a long time what a barrier of four lights was, the Raikage and Mabui thought about these words, after which Ai asked with more interest.

- And what role does Kumogakure have in this plan?

- Quite simple but clear, we need strong warriors in order to weaken Konoha enough so that you can freely take away some of the lands that you need most, you need to deprive it of its head.

- Don't keep us in suspense, and aren't you afraid that by telling us about this we will simply sell this information to Konoha.

- And why would you do that? By joining us, you will receive the lands that you tried to get during the second and third world wars.

- Okay, what is the essence of the plan?

- Well, actually, nothing complicated, during the chunin exam, a large number of jonin will be sent to Konoha who will activate the barriers of the four fires in the right places.

- Do you have enough masters of this level?

- No, we don't.

Hearing the answer, A frowned and wanted to say something clearly unpleasant, but Ban did not let him do it.

- But that's only a plus.

- What do you mean?

- Orochimaru agrees to provide training and knowledge for the jonin you will allocate for this operation.

Mabui was shocked when she heard these words, knowledge of the strongest barrier, plus training of specialists... This is an act of unprecedented generosity.

- This is...

- Yeah, I know, hard to believe, right? The truth is that Orochimaru has already come up with a countermeasure and this barrier is not dangerous for him, and by teaching it to someone who is not his loyal ally, he does not risk anything.

- So training our jonin in the barrier of four fires, plus a huge weakening thanks to which we can take the lands of Konoha without any problems... But what is our role?

- It's pretty simple, the head of Konoha is four people, the plan is to split into four squads and eliminate the entire ruling elite of Konoha. Orochimaru will personally deal with Hiruzen, the Sand village will be occupied with eliminating Danzo Shimura, as well as me and my squad, and the target of Kumogakure will be the Hokage's advisers Koharu and Utatane, they themselves do not pose a particular danger, but they are absolutely always and everywhere protected by more than a dozen top-level ANBU, but for the Raikage and his jonin this should not be a problem.

- So an operation to eliminate the government, because of which ordinary ninja will be stunned and we will have a lot of time to seize territory? But what about the battles with the rest of the Konoha ninja? And how will we retreat?

- There will be no battles with the rest of Konoha.

- What?

- My goal is to eliminate one very vile and cruel person, as well as harm to people who treated one person dear to me very badly, Orochimaru's goal is revenge on his offenders, and Sunagakure's goal is to improve the state of its village, you will be able to take revenge on Konoha, which brought you so much sorrow in the last war, and get the lands you wanted for so long. So no civilians or innocents will suffer, but Konoha and the Land of Fire will weaken.

- I see... But why not invite more villages?

- Our goal is to eliminate the top, three strong units will be enough, and of course the role is played by the fact that Onoki is very cunning and can turn everything in a completely different direction, disrupting our plans, and in Kirigakure there is still a civil war, although judging by the latest information it will end by the end of the year. But still, the state that Kiri will be in after the war does not at all favor such adventures, rather they will look for allies and help in strengthening.

- Okay, I understand your plan, I need to meet Orochimaru in person and then I will give a precise answer, I will wait for him within a week.

- Oh, his presence does not require a delay, but before that, I would like to ask about my personal matter not related to the plan to collapse Konoha.

- And what do you want?

- I need a ninja who knows the village of Kumogakure well, now my hobby is writing and I am writing a book about the villages of various cities of this era, I need an escort who can show all the interesting places, and can also stop us so that we do not get to places where we are not allowed. I am ready to formalize this as a mission and assign a reward of up to 150,000 ryo.

- Okay. DARUI!!!

After the shout, a dark-skinned man with a tired look entered the office.

- They brought Bee, I have a task for him.

- Right now...

After which, without waiting for an answer, he left the office, and Ban returned his attention to the raikage and asked.

- Decided to allocate me an escort of jinchuriki?

- Yes, Bee constantly climbs around the village and knows it well, and is strong enough to stand up for himself.

- Great, well then let's move on to the main thing.

After these words, Ban extended his hand to his neck, after which a very small white snake crawled out from under his clothes, and lowering it to the floor after a couple of seconds, white smoke appeared in the room due to the reverse summoning technique, the snake Sannin appeared in the office.

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From the upcoming book about the countries of the ninja world "Beautiful cities and what's interesting about them"

"We really liked the Country of Iron, this country is very safe for ordinary residents due to the fact that literally every village has its own samurai.

But the weather conditions can scare off a huge number of people, although the temperature here does not drop very low, but due to the location near the ocean, there is constant damp icy air that penetrates to the very bones.

An important thing I should point out is that it is incredibly difficult to find a hotel anywhere other than the capital of the country of samurai, although I should mention that the people here are not greedy, and renting a room or house in a village or small town here is not so difficult, and in one village to the east of the city of Osaga, the village unfortunately has no name, out of the kindness of their hearts they provided us with housing for free.

As for various food and delicacies, I can highlight drinks, due to the cold here they really like various warm drinks, the most popular types of drinks here are tea and milk.

The milk here is produced by rather unusual mountain goats, and regarding it I can say that it is quite different from the rest of the milk that I drank, and I must say that for the better, it has a very low fat content.

In general, warm milk and tea, swords and samurai, snow and icy wind, that's what I associate with the Land of Iron.

In addition to my brother's words, I also want to add that here you can find incredibly good and tasty bakeries, warm pastries and hot dishes are very good here.

And also clothes! To my surprise, local tailors are jacks of all trades, and can make not only warm winter clothes, but absolutely any that you order, what's more, I was able to order not only winter clothes and my usual ones that I wear all the time, but I also ordered bathrobes, nightgowns for the summer, and even sportswear for training."