Mayuri Kurotsuchi Card Game, starting from Naruto

Chapter 81 The Shadow Realm of the Nekomata

"What exactly does the Raikage want to do?"

Shimura Danzo tossed the border intelligence information to Rui at the negotiating table, expressing his dissatisfaction.

"I'm just reminding you not to go too far!" Rui glanced at the information on the scroll twice and then looked at it no longer. The information on it was originally planned by the Raikage's think tank.

"Excessive?" Shimura Danzo was so angry at Rui's shamelessness that he laughed. He said in a cold tone, "It seems that Kumogakure has not yet realized its predicament. Konoha will not agree to the conditions you have proposed."

"Is this your opinion, Hokage?" Rui ignored Shimura Danzo's words and instead stared directly at the Third Hokage, who was sitting opposite him in his Hokage robes.

"We are willing to cease hostilities and negotiate peace with Kumogakure. However, your conditions are too harsh; they are proposed by the victor to the vanquished! As the Hokage, I cannot accept them," the Third Hokage replied gently.

"But we cannot accept your terms of peace either," Rui said, slamming his fist on the table.

"Share technology and help build a medical system. Hmph! Konoha would never agree to just those two conditions." Shimura Danzo, annoyed by Rui's disregard, sneered coldly.

"This is the tenth day already, and we don't have time to drag this out any longer. If we can't reach an agreement, then we should leave," Rui said firmly, standing up.

"Where do you think this is?" Shimura Danzo stood up, constantly probing Rui's true attitude.

"Why do you think I brought Bi here!" Rui glanced contemptuously at Konoha, whose expression had suddenly changed.

Minato Namikaze had already reported to the higher-ups of Konoha that Killer Bee was the Eight-Tails' jinchūriki, so everyone present was well aware of this.

A Jinchūriki running rampant in a village, especially during wartime, is enough to cause considerable destruction to the village.

Chirabi is an insurance policy, but also a threat.

But now Rui has broken through this barrier, exposing this threat in the open.

"Enough!" The Third Hokage spoke up to stop the two who were about to draw their swords. He looked at Rui, who stood up as if to leave but did not immediately take his men away, and guessed that he had other plans in mind and did not really want to leave and start a new war with Konoha.

Having confirmed this, that was enough for the Third Hokage! All he wanted was a peace treaty with Kumogakure. Once he was certain that Kumogakure truly had this intention and purpose, and not some other plan, aside from some fundamental conditions, other peace terms could be discussed depending on the circumstances.

"What are your thoughts?" the Third Hokage asked directly.

"Since we've ruled out some impossible conditions for cooperation, let's settle the remaining disputed conditions in the peace agreement with force!" Rui said, arms crossed, his shoulder muscles bulging, as he boldly stated his demands.

"Absurd!" Shimura Danzo's eyes flickered, and he snorted.

"We in Kumogakure have always believed in the strong. Let's start a competition. I will select a few people from my team, and your Konoha Village will also select a few. When the strength and status are equal, whoever wins will decide one condition for staying or leaving." Rui still treated Shimura Danzo as air.

"A battle similar to the Chunin Exams?" The Third Hokage's face showed a thoughtful expression, and he finally nodded slowly.

"To bear witness, let the nobles of the Land of Fire in Konoha Village witness this." Having gotten what he wanted, Rui smiled and turned to leave the negotiating table with his Cloud Village team.

Every ninja village has a liaison office, and the person in charge of this office is usually some unfortunate nobleman.

If they had a choice, no nobleman would be willing to stay in a ninja village, a place so out of place for them, for long.

Soon, the news that the Cloud Village delegation was going to have a friendly sparring match with the Leaf Village ninjas spread quickly throughout the Leaf Village.

After discussion, the time was set for one day later.

The battlegrounds are readily available; whether you borrow a ground from a Chunin-level training ground or temporarily construct one using ninjutsu.

……

"Meow!" A blue and black cat leaped out of the shadows, grabbed the hem of Lu Nie's clothes with one paw, and with a powerful upward leap, landed steadily on Lu Nie's shoulder.

"When there are no outsiders, you can act normal, cat. After all, you said you're not a cat," Lu Nie said, looking at the cat on his shoulder.

"I think it's your fault for modifying me!" the cat licked its paw again, accusingly.

"I think it's perfect." Lu Nie carefully sealed the emerald green liquid in his hand and placed it in the shelf, saying softly, "Don't you like the feeling of moving through the shadows?"

Don't you like having your own private space? As long as you hide inside, no one can easily catch you.

You need to understand, it took me a lot of effort to transform you into your current form! If it were truly the Two-Tails, I might not have been able to successfully transform it with its chakra reserves.

"Don't mention her to me!" The cat purred a few more times. "They've decided to make their move when the competition starts tomorrow."

In recent days, some information regarding the technical development department's barrier vulnerability and some internal architectural blueprints has been passed on to those Cloud Hidden Barbarians through spies.

"Yunyin Barbarians?" Lu Nie temporarily put away the experiment in his hands and walked towards the door.

"I inherited the memories of the Journeyer. I have no good feelings towards those barbarians, especially their shadows!" Nekomata deliberately separated the name of the two-tailed creature from his own to distinguish them.

Lu Nie lifted the cat off his shoulder again, holding it high with both hands under its forelegs, and carefully observed the patterns on its body with his chakra.

The cat now possesses a technique called Shadow Domain, which allows it to transform a shadow into its own territory. This shadow can be the shadow of a person or the shadow of a building.

Especially at night, cats can roam freely in the shadows of the entire village.

The Shadow Domain is a secret technique whose chakra consumption is determined by the expansion space. Once activated, it will consume chakra constantly, just like the Sharingan being transplanted into an outsider without Uchiha blood.

Once forcibly shut down, everything hidden inside will vanish into nothingness, just like the closed shadow realm.

Therefore, after obtaining Nekomata's permission, Lu Nie directly tried to combine this technique with Nekomata himself.

As part of a tailed beast, although its chakra reserves are not as high as those of a complete tailed beast, the cat also possesses the characteristic of a tailed beast's chakra being inexhaustible.

The burden of consuming the Shadow Domain is not too much of a strain for it.

(End of this chapter)