Chapter 510: Maintenance Force
"Kaito, why didn't you agree to my joining that peacekeeping force before?"
Zabuza walked quickly to Kaito's side in the white snow, and asked in an indignant tone.
Terumi Mei, who was following Kaito, looked at Zabuza with some disdain and muttered in a low voice.
"It's the maintenance force! You can't even remember the name, and you still want to join? Will you be used as a gun after you get in?"
Seeing Terumi Mei glaring at him, Zabuza's first reaction was to shrink back.
But he immediately thought that his strength had completely surpassed Terumi Mei, and he didn't need to worry about being beaten at all, so he immediately glared back with an angry face.
But Terumi Mei had already retracted her gaze, and looked at Kaito who was walking in front with admiration.
'This girl is really not even pretending now!'
Zabuza, who glared back to no avail, could only retract his gaze in dismay and honestly follow Kaito's pace again.
Kaito himself, on the other hand, did not pay attention to the burning gaze of Mei behind him.
Instead, he was thinking about the second half of the previous Five Kage Talks.
'Mei is right. Zabuza will be strong enough by then, but to join the maintenance force, it is not enough to have strength alone. We still have to choose a guy with some brains.'
Originally, Kaito proposed that the five villages work together to form a force specifically targeting Obito, the behind-the-scenes organization, after the battle between the Hokage and the Raikage.
He thought that even if he could not gain actual control of this force, he could at least have more say because of his performance in the previous Five Kage Talks.
Of course, Kaito himself did not think much of this force that was destined to be a mixed bag and full of arguments.
After all, he had seen many mutual constraints between the five major gangsters in his previous life, even in this more barbaric and direct ninja world that valued fists more.
Kaito would not expect this, a joint force formed by the five great ninja villages that had previously fought each other to death, to play a practical role.
However, Kaito wanted to use this army jointly formed by everyone to communicate the latest investigation information about Uchiha Obito between the various ninja villages in real time.
This is the only positive effect that can be played by the ninja villages in this matter.
Secondly, Kaito is also paving the way for the possible Fourth Great War in the future.
After all, what he has been planning now is to "openly" defeat the mastermind behind the scenes in a turmoil that is enough to threaten the entire ninja world in the future.
Grab enough reputation to reduce resistance to the subsequent unification of the kingly way.
And forcing Black Zetsu and Obito to launch the Fourth Great Ninja War step by step will undoubtedly set up a perfect target.
If he can show enthusiasm and implicitly establish a leadership position in the early stage of the investigation and confrontation, then in the future Great Ninja War, he will definitely have more say in the leadership and command of the coalition forces.
Even directly go with the flow and become the commander-in-chief.
It can also be regarded as some beneficial initial investment.
At the same time, the last and more important point.
With the relatively backward information dissemination channels in the ninja world today, it is actually difficult for the leaders of each village to have any decent "exposure" in the entire ninja world during non-Great Ninja Wars. It's okay for those ordinary jonin who are still charging on the front line to carry out missions.
If they are a bit more hardworking, they can run around the ninja world to carry out missions and barely make some reputation.
But for the real high-level people like him who stay in the village all year round and never go out of the door.
More than ten years later, people may still only remember him for the few times he took action in the Third Great Ninja War.
On the contrary, this so-called joint force has a seemingly plausible goal and can run around in the ninja world with justification.
Maybe, while helping the Kirigakure Village to raise a few "stars" in the ninja world, it can also bring some reputation to the entire Kirigakure Village and him, the Mizukage.
It can also more or less reverse the "bloody mist" reputation that the Kirigakure Village left in the ninja world.
The above are the real intentions of Kaito to propose this "joint force".
It was also an important motivation for him to actively participate in this Five Kage Talks after discussing with the elders before attending the meeting.
However, although Kaito has demonstrated his strength and sold his favors, even the proposal to form this force did not encounter much resistance from the other Kages.
Even the provocation of the relationship between Konohagakure and other ninja villages, because of some accidents, the effect was surprisingly good.
Namikaze Minato and the Fourth Raikage Ai, who had fought at the meeting before, were very tactful and did not actively fight for the leadership of this force.
But the Tsuchikage Onoki and the Kazekage Rasa.
Even though they had vaguely realized that their own strength might be somewhat different from that of Kaito, the Mizukage, they still refused to give up easily.
They had been stubborn. They put on a rogue look, saying, "What we want is fairness. If you have the ability, you can kill us here."
In the end, the two of them even wanted to unite with the Fourth Raikage Ai, who had already begun to daydream, to jointly protect the interests of their own ninja village.
Fortunately, Kaito had not completely anticipated this situation before he set out.
After several rounds of wrangling, he saw that there was no effect and simply proposed a new idea.
Since this army will be jointly funded and manned by the five great ninja villages, and jointly participate in management.
Then the investment will be shared equally, and there is nothing to say.
But in terms of manpower, the strongest ninja who actually joined this army will be selected to serve as the commander of the army.
And the management positions at all levels will be delegated in turn according to their strength.
And the ninjas from various villages who joined this army naturally cannot leave their original ninja villages, and they must be rotated back regularly.
This will prevent one ninja village from occupying the command and management position for a long time.
At the same time, this is also a disguised way to prevent the personnel sent by a certain ninja village from being unqualified and perfunctory.
In the end, it is not known whether it was because they felt that since the Mizukage Kaito would not personally take part in the battle, the other ninjas of their own village would not necessarily lose to the Kirigakure Village. After a brief discussion, the other four villages all chose to agree.
Or perhaps several Kages saw their own interests in it.
The function of this force has also changed from the beginning.
Investigating and fighting against the behind-the-scenes organization of the activities against the tailed beasts.
It has changed to.
The five great ninja villages work together to form an elite ninja force to maintain the overall peace of the ninja world and work together to investigate and resolve the dangerous forces that may exist in the dark.
Instead, the original goal of building the team has become the first task after the formation of this team.
And the name of this force, after several discussions among the Kages, was finalized as.
The Ninja World Peace Maintenance and Investigation Force!
Referred to as the "Maintenance Force"!
(End of this chapter)