“Welcome, Clan Leader Aburame Yurō.
I truly wanted to greet you in person, but I am extremely busy right now.
Please forgive me.”
Yayoi welcomed Yurō in a somewhat warm tone and had him sit facing him.
On the table between the two was a map of the Night Kingdom marked with many symbols.
Irori brewed tea and placed it beside Yayoi and Yurō, then stood behind Yayoi like a loyal guard.
“Let’s skip the formalities.
We’ll have plenty of time to get to know each other later, so let’s talk about what concerns Clan Leader Aburame Yurō the most right now.”
Yayoi was direct.
Aburame Yurō took a sip of tea and nodded.
As Kakuzu had said, he was the type of person who liked to get straight to the point and did not like beating around the bush on important matters.
That was a good thing.
He preferred this type of superior.
The clearer the instructions and role assignments, the more he could avoid hidden dangers and unnecessary conflicts in the future.
“This is the Black Steel Forest.”
This area was where the Black Steel Forest was located, and its area was comparable to that of border countries.
This forest was rich in raw material resources and many new species of insects.
These were only the ones that had been discovered so far, and there were still many unknown aspects that had not been elucidated.
At most, military units would be stationed there, and development would take place in the more distant future.
“Understood.”
Aburame Yurō nodded with satisfaction.
As per the initial agreement, the Black Steel Forest would be controlled by the Aburame clan for the time being.
For the women engaged in oil production, this would be a new beginning.
Leaving their ancestral home was painful, but was it not true that leaving their ancestral home would open up a completely new world?
“Furthermore, I would like Clan Leader Yurō to also take on the position of head of the Intelligence Department.
The Aburame clan’s secret techniques are very suitable for infiltration, investigation, and espionage activities.
Clan Leader Yurō, I remember you were a rare sensory ninja.”
“I see.”
After all, the Aburame clan excelled at information gathering and target tracking.
Soon, at Yayoi’s prompting, Irori took out sealed documents.
“These are the ninjas we plan to incorporate into the Intelligence Department later.
Take them back and determine which ones are needed and which are not.” This chapter is updated first at g.com.
Yayoi believed that specialized work should be left to specialists and was not worried about situations becoming unmanageable due to delegation of authority.
Irori’s Ice Release had power that could directly attack even Tailed Beasts and was very effective against the Aburame clan’s insects.
Once the Seven-Tails’ chakra recovered and it suffered a little more, it would be complete.
At that time, his power would increase dramatically again, and his rule would become more stable.
Aburame Yurō silently accepted it.
His expression revealed nothing of his thoughts.
Next, Yayoi explained several details and the proportion of funds allocated to the Aburame clan each year.
“Do you have any other questions, Clan Leader Yurō?”
After finishing speaking, Yayoi took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.
“No, that is all.
Shogun, I am very satisfied with this outcome.”
Aburame Yurō shook his head and said this.
Although the Aburame clan had lost many things by leaving the Land of Fire, what Yayoi had given them in the Land of Fire far exceeded those losses.
Yayoi had made very detailed arrangements for the Aburame clan and prepared countermeasures for both the present and the future.
Next, the Aburame clan only needed to dispatch personnel to blend into this new country.
After the agreement was reached, Aburame Yurō chatted for a while before hurriedly leaving.
“Well, after all, when the Aburame clan faced a crisis before, he was the one who fought on the front lines first.”
Yayoi had gathered a lot of information about Aburame Yurō’s bloodline.
After talking with him, he had a rough idea of what kind of person he was.
Unconsciously, he thought of Aburame Shino from the original work.
He seemed like a similar type.
Building a good relationship with such a ninja clan in advance would allow them to avoid a lot of trouble in the future.
If it had been someone like the Uchiha clan, who thought they were the most important person in the world and were always talking about the Sharingan, that would have been truly outrageous.
After that, Yayoi did not continue with official duties and returned to the inner palace to rest.
Having lived two lives, this was his first marriage.
It was not a love marriage, and he had never even met the woman, but he still felt a strange sense of anticipation.
What kind of person would his future wife be?
Would she be chaste and meticulous?
Or lively?
Or strict and serious in personality?
Or emotionally delicate and prone to tears? Get faster updates on g.com.
Standing in the corridor of the inner courtyard, gazing at the lonely moon floating in the night sky, he fell into thought.
Yayoi could not sleep.
“She’s probably the type who handles things in a very traditional and meticulous way, isn’t she?”
…
Like Yayoi, his future wife, Hyuga Kichou, was also suffering from insomnia.
She was from the Hyuga clan, a prestigious family known since ancient times, and inherited a bloodline with power called a Bloodline Limit.
She was a noble existence even among ninjas.
In recent years, although powerful ninjas like Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara had not appeared, they were still one of the few powerful clans next to the two great clans.
Even within such a strict ninja clan, her family could undoubtedly be said to be the most old-fashioned and inhumane clan.
Originally, that family had seven children.
As the eldest daughter, she was very talented and was naturally designated as the head of the family.
The remaining younger siblings all had bird-in-a-cage patterns carved on their faces and had become a separate family determined to fight for the main family until the last drop of their blood.
Those with talent should be given intensive training and nurtured into excellent combat weapons.
Those with little talent were looked at as if they were seeing something completely different, with no emotion in their eyes.
They would use their own flesh and blood as cannon fodder to lure enemies, set traps to attack enemies, and achieve victory on the battlefield.
Three people had died for her.
Two of them had been used as cannon fodder by her father Hiden to attract enemy attacks and were killed.
The youngest was only four years old.
Radical clan members and the successive deaths of her younger siblings.
Her father had several women in the family, but to him, they were not women to be cherished and raised but mere breeding tools for nurturing weapons.
When she left, two of the family’s women were pregnant again.
If the war did not end, it was easy to imagine that the children of those two women would either become weapons used by their fathers in campaigns or cannon fodder to push the front lines, disappearing without a trace.
So, leave the old family and go to the new family.
She knew that.
And this time as well, she would travel to an unknown country as her father’s weapon to attack the enemy and marry a completely unknown man.
Then, she would wait for an opportunity, wait until the other party became useless, kill him, and seize even more benefits for the Hyuga clan.
“When you look closely, the moonlight tonight is truly beautiful.
It would be nice if I could enjoy this beautiful moonlight again someday…”
Her slender white fingertips gently stroked the windowsill.
The white-eyed girl wore a pure and captivating smile.
It was as if this was the only thing that brought her a sense of security in the present and the future.