Naruto: From the capture of the main family to the behind-the-scenes mastermind

Chapter 103 The Daimyo is showing his attitude
"Yu, I'm going to be a father!"

"This is the third time I've heard this news."

"Eh?"

In the Hokage Building, Minato, who looked excited, froze in his place, "Who told you that?"

Hinata Yu pointed behind him, and Uchiha Fugaku, Nara Shikaku, and Tsunade walked into the room one after another.

Seeing this scene, Minato scratched his head and chuckled.

I was so excited today that I had to tell everyone I knew about it so that everyone knew about it.

"Ahem, let's not talk about this anymore."

Minato coughed twice, took out several bounty warrants from the drawer, and changed the subject, "You all know about the underground black market, right?"

"Yes, of course." Fugaku nodded seriously, took one of the copies, and looked at the huge reward on it. "The Kankinso just raised our reward, and it was destroyed. I'm afraid that in the eyes of outsiders, it was Konoha's doing."

The bounty on the Hokage and other high-ranking officials had just been raised when the underground black market of the Land of Fire was immediately retaliated by unknown persons and turned into ruins.

Who looks like it did this?
Of course it’s Konoha!
"This timing is really too coincidental." Shikaku also frowned, "Currently, only the underground money exchange inside the Fire Country has been cleaned up. Some staff members escaped by chance, and those who were caught by us all thought it was done by Konoha. It's really..."

Having said this, he paused for a moment before saying, "Shameless frame-up!"

"Do you think that Kaneki-sho directed and acted this out?" Tsunade sat on the sofa and yawned tiredly. "Do you have any evidence?"

There has been a lot of work lately and she is so tired... She doesn’t want to work!
"There is no evidence. I sent someone to check the exchange office and all the money was gone."

Shikaku's face was serious. "There are six money changers in the Land of Fire, and they have a total of 2 billion in reserve money! However, the place where the money was stored was not destroyed, and the key was not lost, but the money disappeared."

Logically speaking, this is impossible.

The background of the underground money exchange is indeed powerful, but in this world of frequent wars, there are always ninjas who are not afraid of death.

In order to deal with these people, the money storage vaults in underground money exchange offices are made very sturdy and have self-destruction functions.

Violent destruction of the door will turn the money inside into ashes.

Without the staff's key, there is no way to safely open the safe.

But the staff they captured revealed the location of the key under the illusion, and there was no sign that anyone had taken it.

Shikaku continued:

"And they all said that it was someone wearing a Konoha ninja forehead protector who attacked the gold exchange. But if it was really a Konoha operation, how could they escape? The staff are fine, and the 2 billion dollars seemed to have been transferred in advance. It doesn't seem like it was done by an outside ninja, so I suspect it was staged by the people behind the underground black market."

"Two billion?" Tsunade's sleepiness completely disappeared. After hearing this number twice in a row, her eyes lit up. "How about we go clean up the money exchange offices in other countries? We will definitely gain a lot!"

"..."

Several people looked at her silently, but Tsunade didn't care. "Anyway, according to Shikaku, they have framed us. We can't overturn the case in a short time. Can't we just go with the flow and make it true and get some benefits?"

"That's a good suggestion." Minato smiled and said, "But we need to identify the murderer behind this first. Yu, what do you think?"

Ignoring Tsunade's expectant expression, Hinata Yu glanced at the bounty in front of Minato, his eyes flickering, "Your bounty is very high, twice as much as mine."

Hearing this, Shikaku frowned, probably understanding what Hinata Yu was going to say, and wanted to interrupt him, but when he remembered his previous private conversation with Minato, he stopped. It's okay, the Fourth Generation doesn't have that kind of thought.

Hinata Yu's calm voice echoed in the conference room, "Counting the share of our promotion, this is not the wealth that ordinary nobles have."

"……I see."

Minato sighed, his eyes wandered over the few people, and said in a deep voice:

"But we can't be sure that the bounty was raised by that person, and even if the underground black market is related to him, we can't do anything about it."

After hearing Minato's words that served as a statement of his stance, Shikaku felt completely relieved. Fugaku frowned but said nothing.

Hearing this, Hinata Yu's expression remained calm and he smoothly changed the subject, "If that's the case, then if we want to investigate, we can only start from the black market. Let's leave it to the Root."

"Root... okay, I'll let the Anbu assist them." Minato thought of Orochimaru who had been very quiet recently, and nodded.

……

"Hey, Yu-chan, do you really think it has something to do with the Daimyo?"

After leaving the meeting room, Tsunade quickly came to Hinata Yu and whispered, "I understand that the bounty increase is related to the daimyo, but what's the point of destroying the underground black market?"

Among all the Konoha high-ranking officials, only her bounty remained unchanged. The problem was too obvious. Even though she usually did not participate in political affairs, she knew that it was the daimyo who took action.

But what does destroying the underground black market have to do with the daimyo?
Hinata Yu gave her a strange look, "Why are you asking me?"

"I don't think Shikaku will tell me with his attitude. You are quite rebellious and don't treat me as an elder. You order me around every day. I guess you are not that shy about the Daimyo."

As Tsunade spoke, she secretly expressed her dissatisfaction with Hinata Yu.

Why are you assigning her different kinds of work every day?
She is not the Hokage!

Is there so much work for a consultant?
It was clearly agreed that she only needed to work for the few days Fengying was visiting, but now Fengying has been gone for a few days, why is she still working? !
Hinata Yu had a speechless expression and wanted to say that it was Tsunade herself who had secretly gone to the casino and delayed her work, but he knew that the other party must understand this and was just complaining, so he ignored it and talked about the daimyo and the underground black market.

"This is an attitude. The daimyo raised our bounty to warn us and to show his strength."

Tsunade nodded upon hearing this.

She understood that.

The Daimyo obviously doesn't want to completely break off relations with Konoha right now, but there are voices within Konoha calling for Minato to become the Daimyo, so the other party must need to express his attitude.

Increasing the bounty is a euphemistic way to demonstrate his financial strength and express that he holds the lifeline of Konoha without appearing to be overly drastic.

After all, the bounty for the Five Kage has always been there, and few people have been able to complete it.

Hinata Yu: "The Daimyo has made his attitude clear, so he naturally wants to see Konoha's attitude. If the underground black market incident was staged by the Daimyo and his own arrangements in the underground black market, it means he wants to see the reaction of the Fourth Hokage."

"I see." Tsunade understood instantly, "No wonder you said that after sending the Root, Minato would send the Anbu to investigate together."

Minato was showing his attitude.

The joint investigation by the two major institutions of Konoha must have been a huge effort, but in the end they failed to find the Daimyo, the mastermind behind the incident, and did not deepen the conflict between the two sides, which has already demonstrated that Minato has no intention of overstepping the line.

(End of this chapter)