Chapter 113 - Orochimaru [2] (1/2)
Orochimaru heard Naruto's voice before turning around calmly. Looking towards the blonde youngster, he said with a short smile: ''What brings Naruto Uzumaki, the 7th Uzukage and the current Uzumaki Clan Head... to my humble house?''
That was right, Orochimaru had quit Akatsuki after trying to steal the Rinnegan more than one time. Sitting on a chair that appeared seemingly out of nowhere, Naruto said with a small smile: ''I came to invite you, don't worry... Nothing of my invitation will be against your plans to strengthen Konohagakure.''
''I don't know what you mean, Naruto-kun.'' Orochimaru said with narrowed eyes.
''Please... You think that your little game would work on me? You have been there since the Second Great War and even after you apparently betrayed Konoha, all you did was to help them. You gave Tenzo aka Yamato to Danzo and not surprisingly, he became an ANBU along with Nii-san.''
Looking towards Orochimaru playfully, Naruto said: ''You had the chance to kill Nii-san but you didn't, you also threatened to rob Sasuke's body but even after having many chances through these years, you didn't. In fact, you even 'accidentally' left a Snake Summoning Scroll to him, how nice?''
Naruto always found Orochimaru's actions to be extremely strange so he started investigating and after linking one to two and two to four, everything was connected like a spider web. Smiling lightly, he said: ''At the plan you said to be 'Konoha Crush', all you did was to kill Jiji, not to destroy Konoha itself. After his death, Tsunade came and not surprisingly, Konohagakure was strengthened.''
''Should I also mention how you helped Konohagakure to deem Danzo as a missing-nin, removing his obsessive mind out of the Village?''
L.i.c.k.i.n.g his lips as Naruto started describing everything, Orochimaru said: ''You certainly investigated everything well, Naruto-kun. It's almost as if you knew them from the moment it happened.''
Seeing that he didn't get any reaction from Naruto, Orochimaru licked his lips excitedly once again before saying: ''It seems that you win, eh? Tell me, Naruto-kun... What is your invitation? I'm reaaaally curious!''
''Nothing much... I'm sure you've heard of Ero Sennin death, right? Don't fake it, I know you know the 'truth' of what happened, that pervert wouldn't let you out of it, after all.'' Naruto said as Orochimaru nodded, he did know that Jiraiya faked his death.
''I'll let you do your experiments on Uzushiogakure with just two limitations: You can't experiment on Uzushiogakure's shinobi and Konohagakure's shinobi as you want to strengthen it. Aside from that, I want your main project to be making Ero Sennin clone.''
Orochimaru narrowed his golden snake-like eyes before nodding lightly. However, he sighed slightly: ''I would accept your invitation if not because Akatsuki recruited me...''
Putting up a smile on his face, Naruto thought to himself: 'He wants protection, eh?' before saying: ''You don't need to worry about that. As long as you work for Uzushiogakure, we will wholeheartedly support you and protect you against Akatsuki as long as you don't break any of the limitations.''
''Deal.''
Without blabbering anymore, Naruto directly teleported the entire base along with Orochimaru to the side of his Uzukage's Office building. It was a piece of land he had reserved especially to a research base where Orochimaru would work on.
Money wouldn't be a problem, they already had a stable income even if a Daimyo wasn't supporting them with natural resources. At the start, the Fire Daimyo, who owed Naruto a favor, helped him with a way to maintain a stable economy.