Naruto - Light Ninja - Capítulo 86 - Negotiations with the Damayo of Kiri.

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Third Person POV
Land of Water.
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It didn't take long for Naruto and Akame to reach the Damayo's castle, where guards and requested ninjas from Kiri were at the entrance and watching around the castle. The gatekeepers quickly received them.

"Naruto-Sama! We weren't expecting your presence..." The men quickly greeted him as Naruto nodded.

"It was a last-minute decision. After all, I need to speak with the Damayo," Naruto said, knowing that the man wouldn't receive just anyone, but for Naruto, things were different.

"We will inform the Damayo immediately." A ninja said as he disappeared.

Naruto and his companion waited only a minute before he returned. "Naruto-Sama... He will see you..." The man commented with a hesitant tone, seeming like the Damayo wasn't expecting them, but Naruto didn't mind, the man was stalling too much.

A man came out of the castle, being the Damayo's castellan, and approached the two. "Naruto Sama and your companion, please follow me, our Damayo-Sama will be receiving you..." He spoke calmly, and Naruto followed as soon as the gates opened for them, and they entered the castle.

They proceeded to the dining room, where the man was eating with his family. He looked at Naruto approaching, not hiding much of his hesitation, and greeted him.

"Naruto... it's good to see you. I didn't know about your visit, or I would have prepared adequately for it." He said, and Naruto just smiled.

"I'm not a man of many demands, Damayo. Anyway, I hope we can talk... talk about the future of Kiri." Naruto said, keeping his smile.

"..." The man looked at him carefully. He was a thin man, very thin, sitting next to his wife, a very beautiful woman, but no surprise that a man with so much power could get. There were also a couple of children, the boy being 8 years old and the girl 6 years old.

The boy had a different look from his father. While his father was cautious with Naruto, the boy looked at him with admiration, seeming to see Naruto as some kind of idol, but he didn't say anything, after all, he had to respect his father.

"Well... I imagine you are hungry... Why don't you join my family and me? The meal is delicious." He suggested, and Naruto nodded, sitting with the Damayo.

They ate in silence while the Damayo occasionally glanced at Naruto, but Naruto just left the talking for later and focused on eating.

It was only after 10 minutes that everyone had finished dinner when the man referred to Naruto. "Well, why don't you accompany me to my office?" He asked, and Naruto nodded, following him while Akame stayed with his wife, even though she didn't know much about socializing like any other Uchiha.

"You may leave us alone." The Damayo passed the guards at the doors as Naruto accompanied him.

Sitting in a separate place, the Damayo was behind a table while Naruto watched him the whole time. The Damayo swallowed hard before addressing Naruto. "So... Naruto Uzumaki... I wasn't expecting you here..." He started as Naruto quickly cut him off.

"You knew I would come here anyway... How about we get to the point you know why I'm here." Naruto said.

"You know what you're asking for is a bit difficult, especially since we had to finance part of Kiri's reconstruction after the war that happened..." He spoke cautiously.

"You know very well that we need these projects... Kiri is still in a delicate position regarding the other elemental nations, and I'm personally taking care of most of the spies when I should actually be taking care of my real position in the village," Naruto said. After all, he spent more time on the coastal border than in the village in recent months, eliminating any spies entering the country, whether advancing by water or even commercial ships arriving. He could feel their emotions now and would easily know who had intentions against Kiri, even ordinary men without ninja abilities were hired to enter dispersed and collect information. Despite the country being closed except for some ports on the west side, no one could really enter Kiri, and if they tried, the ninjas took care of them. Naruto only acted for those whom no one could perceive.

"I understand... but you ask for a lot, and your projects don't seem anything ordinary..." The Damayo said, and Naruto just smiled.

"You should know, as a businessman, that the greater the risk, the greater the profit. You should bet on this ship project that I designed myself... it will be revolutionary," Naruto said as he took out a scroll and showed it.

Naruto had the memories of that Vice Admiral with engineering knowledge from the organization; he could create cannons and engines with the blueprint of highly technological ships for this world.

"But you want ordinary ninjas to fight with these things?" he commented, not understanding.

"No... ninjas are much stronger than that, but that doesn't mean we can't let ordinary people become military as well. After all, if they can't become ninjas... we can make them guardians of our waters."

"..." The Damayo read the scroll and saw the drawings, something he had never seen in this world. "But you are still asking for much more than your head in the Bingo Book..." he murmured, still hesitant to give a large part of his fortune.

"You don't understand that you were one of the causes for Kiri. You have responsibilities to this country. After all, when the madness of the Third Hokage was at its peak, you kept funding him... or am I wrong... Damayo of Kiri?" Naruto said with a narrow look as his voice grew more dangerous.

"Don't you understand? What could I do?! He could come here and kill me and my family at any moment!" The man spoke with a slightly scared tone, sweat dripping from his forehead, afraid of Naruto, as he knew this boy in front of him was extremely dangerous, and Naruto knew how to be threatening.

After all, the first time he met him, the man had been arrogant; he treated Naruto as someone inferior, and that was his mistake. Naruto didn't hesitate to release his conqueror's haki entirely to crush the man with his pressure. After that occasion, he began to treat Naruto with respect and never disrespected him again.

"Maybe you couldn't do anything back then, but now is your chance to redeem yourself," Naruto continued with a small smile to the slightly scared man.

"Why should we do this... why will this help this country...?" he asked with a lost tone.

"It's simple, Kiri is the only ninja village being restructured from scratch, and my plan is to create a revolution in the ninja system. Even if another village went through this, it wouldn't have all these people supporting the initiative. Much of Kiri's military strength was lost; it's time to create a new one in a way that no other in the world has done..." Naruto said.

"But the contracts are still not coming to Kiri... the village still can't sustain itself..." he said. It was true, after the civil war started, mission contracts from outside the country began to decline, and with the war, they reached their lowest point and did not increase after the country closed.

"That's why we are going to create a maritime force... I'm sure many foreign merchants would like to see their ships being protected from pirates and rogue ninjas at sea," Naruto said.

The Damayo remained silent this time, thinking about everything he heard while his eyes also fell on the scrolls Naruto had opened. "You think this will work as you say," he murmured.

"I'm very sure, but if it doesn't work, at least we tried to create a better world. After all, this project will start with Kiri, where we will create the Headquarters and expand even to the lands of the elemental nations. My plan is to involve the whole world in this..." Naruto said with a smile.

"Alright... I'll trust your words..." he said in the end, even if he wasn't fully agreeing with it, he had no choice.

"That's great, even if this doesn't work in the end, you will recover your money and have your name in history as one of the pioneers in this force called..." Naruto said as his gaze returned to the project name on the scroll above the table. "Navy," he finished.

In the end, they talked a bit more about the planning, and the Damayo ended up being responsible for many things, from bringing competent men from the country to Naruto, who received a letter from the Damayo of the Land of Snow. She was a woman known as Princess Koyuki, whom Naruto had escorted years ago when he worked as a mercenary. The Land of Snow even had steam-powered trains, so he got good engineers from that land, which was prospering and were the key to his warships succeeding.

After that, Naruto left with the man, who had a defeated look, as they entered the main hall. “Castellan, accompany me to the vault,” the Damayo ordered as Naruto approached the Damayo’s family with Akame.

“Naruto...” the boy said with a smile beside his mother.

“Hello, little Ihari. How are you?” Naruto spoke as he crouched down to talk to the boy and future Damayo of this country.

“I’m good! I’m also training to get stronger... although I hardly have time for it...” he said with some embarrassment.

“You will certainly become strong... but studying is important too,” Naruto said, knowing that the boy had at least 30 teachers living in this castle while they taught him all kinds of things and languages, as his future position required such knowledge.

“Yes! I will be a representative of Justice!” He spoke while his sister hid behind his mother’s skirt, and she just looked at her son with a sigh, while Akame remained silent with a neutral face.

The boy learned a lot about Naruto and ended up imitating his idea of justice, which was great, as this country could have a just ruler. It didn’t take long for the boy’s father to come in with his trusted man while bringing the scroll.

He approached Naruto, leaving the boy, and with some hesitation, handed the scroll to Naruto. “Here it is... the money you asked for,” he said, wanting to cry, as his vault had just been emptied with the money requested by Naruto.

Naruto nodded, taking the scroll and giving it to Akame to confirm that everything he asked for was there. While the girl inspected the storage of the paper with chakra and nodded.

Naruto smiled as he looked at the man. “It seems everything worked out in the end. I hope you managed to get the requested people and all the materials,” Naruto said while the man nodded cautiously.

“Let’s go then,” Naruto announced as he said goodbye to the Damayo’s family and finally left the castle, returning to his home in Kiri.

“What will you do today?” Akame asked Naruto in the morning at breakfast.

“I’m going to talk to Jil... about some things in an invitation Konoha sent us. I need you to take this to Mei,” Naruto demanded, handing a scroll to the Uchiha, who nodded.

After that, Naruto went a different way from Akame as he was going to meet Kiri’s main informant.