Demon of Lust in the Land of Water 22

Demon of Lust in the Land of Water
Chapter 22

-VB-

The Mizukage finally arrived at Konohagakure after nearly six months of travelling.

The citizens of Konohagakure, despite their hesitance in greeting the leader of a village who they had been at war with before, nonetheless gave the man and his entourage the full festivities owed to a foreign dignitary endorsed by the Fire Daimyo.

Anko stared down at the Mizukage who waved out of his horse-pulled open-air carriage.

This guy was supposedly the Mizukage, but all she saw below her was a man obsessed with pussy.

Seriously, who else but a lecher would drive into the village with girls in his carriage?

And he was also supposed to be a religious figure, too?

She smelled corruption there. It stunk like the scaly bastard’s labs. How does a religious figure become a kage in the first place? On top of that, the guy didn’t even look anything over mid-twenties. None of the bingo books had anyone for Kiri who was both strong and young.

It had to be corruption.

… Ultimately, it wasn’t her business. She would do her job and pull some info out of him once he started his party here.

Oh yeah, he was known for his partying. He threw the best parties according to other ninjas who’s been at them without ulterior motive.

That clear distinction was something the missions office made sure to stated clearly to any ninjas willing to approach the Mizukage during his famous festivities.

Because those were the ninjas who came back with their dignity intact.

Others…

She giggled a little. As much as she didn’t like the guy, she had to give him her respect for his humor.

Dangling people butt naked in front of a whole audience of drunken nobles was something she would have done.

Well…

…

She grinned.

Her grin nearly split her face in half from how far she extended it. She felt her cheeks stretch but she couldn’t help it.

She just had a brilliant idea. Some might call it an insane idea.

But then again, this Mizukage was a corrupt and insane guy, right?

Right.

She had a plan.

-VB-

I smiled as I shook hands with the Hokage.

“You look very strong and young,” I grinned.

He smiled back and his grip suddenly strengthened. While continuing to shake my hand in a vice grip, he replied back. “Of course! It wouldn’t do for the strongest ninja of my generation to be frail.”

I laughed and allowed myself to “feel” the pain as our handshake ended. I shook my hand with a “nervous” grin. “My, my. That’s a strong grip.”

Sarutobi Hiruzen’s polite smile was full of teeth.

He dropped his smile a little bit. “I assume you will be holding your usual party here?” he asked me as we waved to the crowd, who went wild at the sight of two kages exchanging smiles of cooperation and bullshit.

The ninjas among them knew what was going on, but the civilians didn’t and they made up the majority of the crowd.

With a flourish of my hands, I pulled out a cup of sake from the aether. I turned it towards the Hokage, who looked surprised at his own cup in his own hand.

“To peace!” I proclaimed loudly while toasting and then drinking the cup in one-go.

The Hokage didn’t hesitate and quickly did the same.

He glared at me.

Perception was everything, and I had just used the civilian’s perception of this event to force the Hokage’ hand to make him drink a questionable source of sake.

“... It’s a good sake,” he grudgingly whispered. “You can’t keep doing that.”

“I know. I’m just doing it with you because you won’t act as rashly as, let’s say, everyone else.”

His glare intensified. “You’re taking advantage of me?”

“For our sake~!” I grinned as I abruptly pulled the Hokage into a shoulder hug and waved to the crowd. “Did ya hear that folks? We’re friends!” I shouted. “Expect to see Kiri-nin helping your Konoha-nin out in the future!”

I noted how quickly Hiruzen signed his ANBU to stay hidden.

“You are really pushing it,” he replied as he pried himself off. Then he curtly nodded with the same polite smile. “We’ll talk in depth what this means.”

“Hai, hai!”

It felt awesome to mess with people. I missed this feeling.

Of course, I wouldn’t be fucking with the Hokage too much. As the man said, I really pushed this as far as it was going to go. Any further and even the ever wise Professor might blow up.

But I did want to get close to Konohagakure and the Land of Fire for my own and national security reasons.

After all, the Land of Water was a very resource poor country compared to the Land of Fire. For the Land of Water, and by extension Kirigakure, to grow, I needed more resource than the currently semi-isolated Elemental Nations could each self-sufficiently provide.

Throwing gold at the Land of Fire?

That was just me devaluing their gold with gold made from literal nothing. Sure, it was still gold, but once there was a plenty of gold, why would people use it? It’s less valuable now.

But silver?

I haven’t touched that shit yet, and there was a huge stockpile of it in my caravan and back in Kiri. It wouldn’t affect too significantly, but it would be significant enough that the Land of Fire’s natural advantage over its competitors would be less powerful for a decade.

Because releasing ten ton of gold into the market? That was bound to cause an inflation that should at the very least last a decade.

With the formal ceremony done, I walked with my men to go see the sights Konohagakure had to offer.

And their women, too.