"Introduce yourself," Sasuke said to the woman after learning about the others.
"My name is Toshiko Yamada. I'm a former Mist ninja who went rogue to kill Orochimaru after he killed my brother, but I failed to do so and ended up becoming one of his imprisoned slaves". Toshiko said as she told Sasuke of her origins.
"I see; tell me about your age, your specialty, and your future goals. Also, I would like to know why you decided to stay". Sasuke questioned.
"I'm 26 years old and my specialty is Kenjutsu. As for the future, I don't know what I want. I decided to stay because I don't have anywhere else to go," She said, to which Sasuke nodded.
Sasuke asked these questions so he could understand his underlings better. There was one thing common between everyone who stayed: they didn't have any place to return.
"I promise to treat you all fairly in this hidden village but before that, we need more manpower to run the system systematically.
Orochimaru had many bases in the Land of Sound. We will go and free everyone just like what I did here.
After that, we will give them a choice to choose their future," Sasuke said, to which all responded differently.
"Okay, Boss," the fat shinobi said.
"Yes Sir," Toshiko said
"Ok," The skinny guy said
"Your wish is my command, Otokage," the middle-aged man said.
"I don't mind following you, Sasuke," Suigetsu said.
"I don't mind you calling me Otokage, but you must call me Sir when we are outside, or else my enemies might target the village for no reason," Sasuke said because he didn't want The Akatsuki/Obito or The Hidden Leaf to come after him yet.
"Yes Sir" x5
"Good, let's go and visit the other bases," Sasuke said as he left the base. Behind him walked his underlings.
For the next couple of days, Sasuke searched all the bases of Orochimaru in The Hidden Sound Village.
He freed all the innocent prisoners and killed the filthy scums.
Upon hearing his proposal, most people decided to leave and wanted to live a normal life so Sasuke put a Life Control Seal and The Tongue Eradication Seal on them and let them go.
As for the people who wished to join him, he gathered them all in a new base that was close to the main base.
The reason why he chose that base was simple. First, it was large enough to hold hundreds of people. Second, That place was rumored to be the center point of The Land of Sound and had a quite strategic location.
"So 71 ninjas in total," Sasuke said as he looked at the ninjas standing below him.
"Sir, I have gathered all the weapons and equipment in the storage room" Toshiko whispered to Sasuke.
"Good work, you are my personal secretary and my guard from now on," Sasuke said as he saw the middle-aged man walking towards him.
"Thank you, Sir," She said as she moved back a little to give the middle-aged man some space.
"Sir Otokage, I have finished my task," He said as he bowed down a little.
"What was your name again?" Sasuke asked for his name since he forgot. Although, he doesn't usually forget things but it was a special case since he never had to remember 70+ names in a short time.
"Yuuto Saki, Sir Otokage" He said.
"I see" Sasuke said as he clapped his hands to gathered everyone's attention.
"Attention everyone, as you may all know, that I have killed Orochimaru and taken his place. And all of you have decided to join this new village under my leadership.
There are some things that I must discuss before we move further.
First, We will keep using the other hideouts to cover our tracks and this hideout will be our main base from now on.
Second, I will use a Subordinate Seal on you so you don't betray us. Other than that, you are free to do any legal thing you want in your free time.
Third, I am making a bounty board on which all the available requests will be posted, including the rewards. You won't be forced to choose a mission if you don't want to. However, there might be some missions that you must do if I handed it over to you personally.
Fourth, You all will be evaluated by me personally. Once you have received your rank, you will work in a 3-man cell.
That's all for now." Sasuke finished his speech, which made everyone silent.
*Clap*Clap*
In the absolute silence, only one guy clapped which was Yuuto. Seeing him enthusiastic, others also started clapping.
....
"So that's the last shinobi," Sasuke said as he wrote down the rank of the last ninja as a chunnin.
For the last two hours, he had been evaluating everyone's ranks. He was surprised that not a single ninja among them was genin.
Every shinobi here was either a chunnin or jonin. In total, there were 21 jonins, 5 women and 16 men. Meanwhile, the rest of the 50 ninjas were chunnin, out of which 17 were women and 33 were men.
After the assessment, they were given headbands and basic ninja weapons. Sasuke even gave everyone some starting allowance so they didn't die from hunger.
Every Jonin got 10,000 ryo while the chunnins received 5,000 ryo. So 460,000+ ryo were spent just like that.
In the end, Sasuke made 23 teams of 3 which summed up to 69 ninjas. The only two who didn't belong to a cell were Yuuto and Toshiko since they were going to be his office staff.
Finally, they were all given a handbook which stated some miscellaneous rules.
For example, one of the rules stated that You must report to the Otokage if you are being harassed in any way by your teammates. They will be punished severely.
"Now I just need to put the requests on the board," Sasuke said as he took out all the papers from his inventory and stored them in the office.
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A.N: These chapters might bore you but they are important. Tick around till Deidara fight, after that, it is quite fun to read.
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