Naruto : The Demon Swordsman

In the conference room within the Uzukage's building, elders of the village, clan heads, and the S-rank shinobi of the village were gathered to have an important meeting.

Ashira addressed them "You all might have heard about what happened in the Hozuki castle. I will just give you a short summary for those who don't know about it.

The Kusakage and his shinobis tried to take control of Genkai's mind and killed the rest of his team which led to me sending a recovery team to find Genkai and bring him back. They slaughtered a lot of grass shinobi to complete the mission which included killing the Kusakage and the head warden of the Hozuki castle which has left the hidden grass defenseless."

Ashira then looked at everyone as he asked "You all should know what that means right?"

"A lot of bloodshed," Mirai Chinoike, the clan head of Chinoike clan said with a sigh.

"Yes, all the villages would try to take a piece of the weakened land of grass. Hashirama's power will not be an enough deterrent to stop them from attacking them but I am pretty sure that they would not be going full force to get the land of grass. They would not want to be annihilated by Hashirama after all." Ashira said

"I had a meeting with Hashirama and we have decided Konoha and Uzushiogakure would both defend the land of Grass till Kusagakure recovers enough to defend themself. Before I proceed forward, any questions?"

"Why should we even help Kusagakure after what their kage tried to pull off? Should not we also try to take advantage of the situation and get our own piece of land? Why should we get our shinobi killed for no reason and no profit?" One of them questioned.

"If we blamed the entire land of grass for the mistake of Kusakage and the rest of the upper echelons of Kusagakure then it would be unfair to them. The cycle of hatred would continue and the battles that happened during the warring states period would happen once again but on a larger scale. We sometimes have to let go for a better future. As for why we should help them, it is because of balance. Balance is pretty important between the different villages." He paused before he continued,

"Imagine Kiri getting a piece of land on the continent. They built a base there and when our shinobi traveled their area, they could send shinobi after our shinobi to ambush them. If Suna gets a piece of land there, they might start getting their own water and crops and they would lose their dependence on us. Then they might turn and join hands with our enemies. I could give you more examples about the other villages but you get my point right?"

Everyone nodded.

"The small countries together are also a force strong enough to compete with large countries like the Land of Wind. It would also break the balance between the small shinobi villages and the great villages. Land of grass is a supplier of crops and various other goods that help the economy of many countries...."

'Ah great, Economics.' Yoriichi tuned out the entire lecture on how the balance between the different countries would be broken if the land of grass was taken over by another village.

Yoriichi thought 'So somehow my involvement and existence in this world has led to an early start of the first great shinobi war. Satori should have been released much later in the future. But somehow my existence changed it? Well, It seems that the saying 'even a single action of a powerful man can change the destiny of millions of people' is true.'

[A/N: I just made that 'saying' part. Lol]

'But I can't be sure about it being a great war. it's just a small conflict for the Land of Grass. In the great war, the conflict was not restrained to just Land but also for power, money, resources, jutsus, tailed beasts, to satisfy the enmity and for elimination of threats. Well, this conflict would not last long with Uncle Hashi and me participating in it. ' Yoriichi thought with a smirk as it had been a while since he participated in something like a war. The last time he participated in a war was in his previous life as a special ops soldier.

The council continued to discuss a strategy to defend the hidden grass. After three hours of military strategy and planning, they finally have finalized a battle plan.

"Alright, so our plan is to send Kota's team, Hatsu's team, Yuriko's team, and Genkai's team without Genkai who would be replaced by Kakazu with a platoon of 100 shinobi each to the land of grass. So that's four hundred shinobi in total with enough powerhouses."

[A/N: Team 3 is Kiyoshi Watanabe, Benjiro Uzumaki, and Fumiko Kurama with their sensei being Kota Eizen of Crystal release.

Team 4 is composed of Hisame Hoshikagi, Ayaka Yuki, and Riku Hasegawa with their sensei being Hatsu Uzumaki of Steel release.Team 5 which will have Kin Chinoike, Hiromi Uzumaki and Chikao Yuki with their sensei being Yuriko Uzumaki of Swift release.]

"Genkai will be responsible for bringing in supplies, delivering reports to me, sending orders to frontlines and also acting as a backup if necessary."

"Now let's come to the main part of the plan," Ashira said with a grin.

"After you deal with the enemy shinobi, take whatever you found in their pockets including the Ryo, weapons, scrolls etc."

"Why are we disrespecting the dead?" Someone asked

"There are no values on a battlefield. There is no right or wrong on a battlefield. It's either getting killed or killing your enemy. We are not getting anything from the conflict. So to fund the war, we would have to steal from the dead bodies of the enemies." Ashira said with a stern tone.

"At some point of time, our enemies would realize it and would prohibit their shinobi from carrying much money and any jutsu scrolls. That's where the second part of our plan starts."

---------------

You can read additional Chapters of the novel on my pat*reon.

Thankyou for supporting me!

http://pat*reon.com/Charizard6