Everyone expressed their support for recuperation. Even Shimura Keizo, an ambitious war maniac, finally uttered the word "agree" after being silent for a long time.
On the surface, the two Sarutobi and Shimura clans are not in serious trouble now, but to be honest, it is just a bluff. If the fight continues, they will definitely be the first to fall.
Although the reason for Uchiha's withdrawal is unknown, it is definitely a godsend opportunity.
Just when many senior members of the two tribes agreed to take a short break, a guard suddenly ran into the conference room quickly and said out of breath: "Clan leader! No, it's not good..."
Shimura Keizo stood up suddenly. "What? Is Uchiha attacking again?!"
"No, it's not," the guard took a few deep breaths, his tone calming slightly, and continued, "Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama are here!"
"Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama?"
"The deputy chief of the Senju and the ninja known as the 'Senju's First Speed'?"
"What are the Senju doing here?"
The senior officials present couldn't help but start talking.
Shimura Keizo closed his eyes and asked again: "Where are they?"
The guard pointed toward the door and said in a trembling voice, "Right outside the conference room door."
Hiss...
Everyone, including the two Kage-level ninjas Shimura Keizo and Sarutobi Furukawa, gasped. They originally thought that the two Senju brothers could at most avoid Uchiha's sight and reach their frontline military camp, but they ended up running directly to their front door!
Shimura Keizo rolled his sleeves and said angrily, "What do you guards even do?! You let foreigners reach our gate without noticing?!"
The guards were speechless. They didn't know how Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama managed it!
"That's enough, after all, there are only two of them," Sarutobi Furukawa said, standing up. "What do they want?"
"The two of them claimed they wanted to negotiate with Chief Furukawa and Chief Keizo."
"Negotiate?" Sarutobi Furukawa rolled his eyes and nodded. "Let them in."
"Yes."
Soon, the brothers Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama entered the conference hall.
Senju Hashirama bowed respectfully, "The deputy chief of the Senju clan, Senju Hashirama, greets the two clan leaders of Sarutobi and Shimura."
With that, Senju Hashirama gave a junior's salute to the two leaders.
"More polite than that Uchiha Madara..." Sarutobi Furukawa and Shimura Keizo couldn't help comparing Hashirama to Uchiha Madara, the current leader of the Uchiha clan, who had fought many times on the front lines.
Just like Senju Butsuma and Uchiha Tajima in the past, the future Warring States Period would belong to Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
"To be able to sneak in under the eyes of so many ninjas from our two clans, the Senju clan is certainly talented," Shimura Keizo said, laced with sarcasm.
"I'm sorry, Chief Keizo. With Uchiha and the four clans' ninja armies ahead, we couldn't deliver a letter, so we had to take this step," Senju Tobirama said, though his expression lacked any true apology.
"Tobirama, be mindful in front of the two clan leaders," Senju Hashirama chastised gently.
Tobirama clicked his tongue and said no more.
"Alright then, Deputy Clan Chief Hashirama, let's hear what you have to say. What brings you here, deep into our territory?" Sarutobi Furukawa asked.
"We came here to propose an alliance between the Senju and the Sarutobi and Shimura clans," Senju Hashirama began.
"To deal with Uchiha together," Senju Tobirama added.
Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama left Sarutobi and Shimura's conference hall with disbelief on their faces.
When Senju Hashirama proposed the alliance, Sarutobi Furukawa was surprised but understood Hashirama's reasoning. However, Shimura Keizo, an ambitious man who sought to elevate the status of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans above the Senju and Uchiha, immediately rejected Hashirama's offer.
This baffled the Senju brothers. They could clearly see that the war situation was unfavorable to the Sarutobi and Shimura clans. While no one in the Warring States wanted to get involved in the conflict between Uchiha and Senju, Shimura Keizo's outright refusal, even as his clan faced a crisis, was hard to understand.
More confusing still was the fact that Senju Hashirama's proposal did not involve making the Sarutobi and Shimura clans subordinate to the Senju, like the four northwest clans. It was simply a temporary alliance to deal with Uchiha.
Hashirama's real goal was to use this moment to strike Uchiha from behind, without violating the truce agreement signed a year ago. He wanted the support of Sarutobi and Shimura in realizing his dream of a united ninja village.
But Shimura Keizo rejected the offer. Hashirama then turned his efforts toward convincing Sarutobi Furukawa.
(End of the chapter).
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