Chapter 14 Failure is failure, no excuses needed! (Ch 14)

Hidden Cloud Village.
After returning to the village, Kirabi followed Ai and prepared to walk towards the Raikage Building.
But when they reached the door, Ai stopped.
Kirabi was humming without paying attention, and bumped into Ai’s solid and broad back: “Asshole, why did you stop suddenly?”
Ai did not laugh or scold his brother as he usually did, but instead frowned.
Upon seeing this, Kirabi changed his attitude and became silent and serious.
This was the first time in their history that they had failed in a mission, and there was no doubt that they would be punished by Ai’s father, the current Sandaime Raikage.
“Bi, you should go back to Yunlei Gorge first. You did a great job on this mission. Just let me, your big brother, be embarrassed alone.”
Then, Ai felt a pain in his lower back.
Looking down, he saw Kirabi had hit it hard, and Ai hit him on the forehead with a chestnut. He screamed in pain and tears were about to fall.
“Asshole, why did you hit me!?”
Kirabi covered his forehead with his hands, his face full of stubbornness, and said while enduring the pain: “We are brothers.”
“Brothers, we share happiness and difficulties together.”
“What do you mean Big Brother can only be embarrassed by himself?”
“I don’t understand!”
“Even the peeping widow…” Kirabi shouted loudly, and the next second his mouth was covered tightly by Ai.
Ai’s mouth twitched: “You are right, no need to say more, I was wrong, brother.”
If Killer Bee really said this, in front of the door of the Raikage Building, he would really lose face and be socially dead!
The two took a deep breath, and walked forward with a fearless attitude, arriving at the Raikage’s office on the top floor, in front of the Sandaime Raikage.
The Sandaime Raikage looked up at his son and Killer Bee. From the expressions of these two people, he knew that the mission had failed.
He said indifferently: “Do you two have anything to say?”
Ai glanced at Killer Bee, and after struggling for a long time, he decided to explain: “Lord Raikage, during this mission, we encountered a team from Konoha.”
“The leader of the group is Minato Namikaze, who has mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique according to previous intelligence. Not only that, he can also use a non-series ninjutsu that even my arm guard can hardly resist.”
“Although the mission failed, Hi and I discovered the flaw and weakness of the Flying Thunder God Technique.”
“Next time…” Ai Zheng wanted to promise that he would kill the opponent next time he met him.
But at this moment, the expressionless Sandaime Raikage suddenly jumped up, glared at him, and smashed the desk in front of him with one punch.
The desk wailed and broke into two pieces, with documents floating everywhere in the air. The man on the side silently held his forehead with his hand.
The 8th table is gone this month…
“Asshole!”
“Failure is failure, no excuses needed!”
“Only the weak will find all kinds of excuses for their failures!”
This wasn’t the first time Ai saw his father get angry, but this was the first time he got angry at himself, and he just clenched his fists, feeling unwilling.
The Sandaime Raikage walked straight to Ai and put his forehead against his. “You bastard son of a bitch, open your eyes and look at me!”
“Tell me, are you a weakling!?”
“No, I’m not!” Ai responded loudly, and their eyes met.
“Then why did you fail!?”
“because…”
“Waste!” The Sandaime Raikage punched Ai to the ground, and the floor shattered directly. The figures of the two fell down layer by layer until they reached the first floor.
“I said, failure is failure, no excuses needed!!”
Ai’s head was held down tightly by the Sandaime Raikage’s hand, pressed against the rubble of the wall on the ground. He was full of dissatisfaction and clenched his gums.
You old man, if you want to fight me, you can’t do it in front of so many people. I don’t care about my face!
The opponent is mastering the Flying Thunder God Technique developed by the Second Hokage himself, a technique that even the Second Raikage could not detect the flaws in.
Although he failed this time, he also found the weakness of this technique. He had to endure such humiliation!
When I am strong enough in the future and become the Raikage, I will let you have a taste of this!
Ai thought so in her heart, but the next moment, she felt water stains on her cheek.
Where does the water come from?
Turning his eyes, he saw the tears of hatred in his father’s eyes for his father’s lack of resistance.
Dad… is crying?
From childhood to adulthood, for more than 20 years, no matter what happened, even when his mother died in the war, he had never seen his father cry. Why would he cry at this time…
“Dad, I…”
“Shut up, I’m not your dad. Isn’t that what you were thinking just now?”
Ai was suddenly speechless, and an indescribable feeling of guilt spread in his heart.
After a few seconds, the Sandaime Raikage stared into Ai’s eyes and said, “Since I became the Sandaime Raikage, I have only one identity, that is the Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village.”
“Since you became the successor to the Raikage, you have only one identity, and that is Ai.”
In the Hidden Cloud Village, the name of each Raikage is Ai. When the next successor to the Raikage appears, he will inherit this name, and along with him, there will also be Bi.
“You failed in this mission, and you want to find an excuse to shirk responsibility. Then, in the future, when you become the Raikage, what excuse will you use?”
“Every time you fail, there will be hundreds or thousands of compatriots who will pay for your failure, and even sacrifice their lives.”
“Are you going to kneel before their graves and make excuses to shirk your responsibility like you are doing now!?”
“Ai, you bastard son, tell me, do you understand!?”
“I understand! Lord Raikage!” Ai shouted with red eyes.
None of the ninjas watching from the side would laugh at this father and son.
Only such a person is qualified to be the shadow of their Hidden Cloud Village, their leader.
Only such a person is worthy of them entrusting their lives to him and obeying his command.
The earthen platform on the top floor looked down along the hole and smiled with satisfaction.
Ai has always been perfect in terms of strength, mission record, and treatment of his subordinates. Experiencing a failure is not a bad thing.
It’s just the right time to temper their character.
He believed that one day, Ai would be able to surpass the Sandaime Raikage and become the most powerful Raikage in history!
Kirabi on the side clenched his fists tightly.
Is this the responsibility that the eldest brother bears?
Compared with my elder brother, what was the ridicule and sarcasm I had endured?
As a brother, he must work hard, work hard, and work harder to keep getting stronger.
Until they never fail!
When he returned to the office, Dodai had already asked someone to move in a new desk, and the Anbu ninjas were also trying to fill the holes on the ground.
It is said that the owner of the furniture store not far from the Kumogakure Building has now supported the fifth geisha from Kabucho.
“Tell me, what is the flaw in the Flying Thunder God Technique?” said the Sandaime Raikage.
Ai repeats that the key to using the Flying Thunder God Technique lies in the mark, and that it can be rendered ineffective if it is bound by a sealing technique.
However, the strength requirement for the sealing technique is relatively high, at least an A-level sealing technique is required.
But there is a way to crack it, which is better than not being able to target it.
“I understand.” The Sandaime Raikage fixed his eyes on the map of the Ninja World in front of him, on which several locations were marked with red circles.
In the past four years, he sent ninjas to rob all the small families and small ninja villages in the ninja world that mastered the secret techniques.
Although only about half of the secret techniques and technologies were of some use to the Hidden Cloud Village, they also allowed the Hidden Cloud Village to earn a large sum of extra money.
Taking all this into account, their total economic output over the past four years is roughly estimated to be at least half more than that of Konoha!
This is even when there is an additional Hillwood City in the Fire Nation.
Marked on the map are those countries and ninja villages that have mastered special technologies or secret techniques, and bloodline limits.
These places have one thing in common: they are not one of the five major countries, but they also have considerable strength and are somewhat famous in the ninja world.
The Peacock Magic of the Star Village in the Bear Country, the body-building secrets of the Shikagakure Village, the Heroic Water of the Takigakure Village, the ninja tools of the Artisan Village, the chakra armor of the Snow Country, the spy secrets of the Suzakure Village, and the evil secret technique that has recently emerged in the Hot Spring Village, which is said to make people immortal.
“Tutai, how are the negotiations with Xingyin Village going?”
The Peacock Technique of the Hidden Star Village has the ability to fly. According to the investigation of the Anbu ninja, the key to learning the Peacock Technique lies in a meteorite that fell from the sky two hundred years ago.
“The Sandaime Hoshikage refused to sell the meteorite, but there is a Jonin named Akahoshi beside him who seems to have other ideas. The Anbu needs to test him for a while.”
“Have you found the location of Suoqian Village?”
“The Key Country has been searched thoroughly, but its location has not been found.”
Suzen Village is the most mysterious ninja village in the ninja world. No one knows its exact location and the only way to contact it is through the black market and its ninjas.
No matter what kind of information it is, as long as the money is in place, they can find a way to get it.
It is precisely because of this ability that everyone hates and wants that Suoqian Village is hidden.
The Sandaime Raikage clenched his fist and wanted to pound the table. The Anbu ninjas had been investigating the Suzen Village for two years, but had not found any trace of it yet.
“Damn it!” Just as his fist was about to fall, he was grabbed by Tutai by a layer of light yellow rubber that he spit out from his mouth.
“Lord Raikage, your salary this month is not enough for you to smash the desk again.”
“How many?”
“Eight.”
“How is this not enough?”
He remembered clearly that his monthly salary was enough for him to smash at least 27 tickets!
Dodai pointed to several holes that the ANBU were filling.
Now the truth is out.
The Sandaime Raikage silently withdrew his hand. As the Raikage, it would be easy for him to make money, but he only took the minimum wage and didn’t care about it at all.
Even when he took his salary, he only used it to buy tables and smash them to relieve his emotions.
“Which one do you think is a good next target?”
Tutai looked around and to be honest, it was difficult to attack any of the remaining ones, but if he had to choose a target.
He picked up the pen and marked the Snow Country on the map again.
“According to the investigation by the Anbu ninja, the Daimyo of the Snow Country and the leader of the Snow Ninja Village are brothers, but their relationship is not harmonious.”
The Land of Snow is the only country in the ninja world that is jointly governed by the ninja villages. After the death of the previous daimyo, the power of the country and the ninja village was handed over to the elder brother Fuuka Sosetsu and the younger brother Fuuka Nuto respectively.
Its advanced industrial technology is used in two directions.
The Snow Country developed a rail-mounted snow vehicle, and the Snow Ninja Village developed chakra armor, which greatly increased the chakra amount and strength of the ninja.
The Sandaime Raikage looked at the Snow Country on the map and thought to himself.
The Snow Country is located in the polar region north of the Lightning Country. Due to the kind character of Fuuka Soyuki, its relationship with the Lightning Country has always been rather ordinary. It is only on good terms with Konoha and needs to import a large amount of food.
It’s Fenghua Nutao who is more competitive and aggressive.
If we join forces with him, we can unify the Snow Country under his name and support him as a puppet.
Not only will it not attract the attention of other countries, but it will also be able to obtain a chakra armor production factory.
“Ai, support Fenghua Nutao to become our puppet and help us produce chakra armor. This task is left to you.”
“Yes, Lord Raikage!” Ai accepted the order without any hesitation.
…
Half a month later, in the Uchiha clan’s territory, in the park next to the Nanga Shrine.
This was the place where Yashiro and Akien held their wedding, and now Fugaku and Harume’s wedding is also held here.
Not only these two couples, this place has now become the preferred venue for the Uchiha clan and non-clan people to hold weddings.
Yahiko, Nagato and their group, who were not far from the Minamiga River, initially just envied the hustle and bustle here.
Not long after, Weitu Tenjiusuke went to the police department and handed an application form to Fugaku.
Hopefully, there will be another wedding there in the future, and the nine of them can do odd jobs there.
Although all their training expenses were reimbursed by the Hidden Rain Village, there were some other expenses besides training. If they asked Jiraiya for them, he would definitely pay for them.
But they can’t be so thick-skinned and still prefer to be self-reliant.
In the bustling venue, four boys, Yahiko, Daibutsu, Nagato, and Guiyi, were busy moving things, while three girls, Hydrangea, Hibiscus, and Water Lily, were helping to put up ribbons and decorations.
Konan is responsible for continuously using chakra to produce origami, which can also change into a variety of suitable colors.
It is because of Konan’s ability that many brides like her. Not only the Uchiha brides, but even other brides in the village will ask Konan to decorate their weddings when they have something to do.
He suddenly became the richest among the nine.
As for Jiusuke, with his flexible and clear mind, he is usually responsible for registering at the wedding venue.
He speaks nicely, is likable and has high emotional intelligence.
Before long, the wedding venue was set up before sunrise.
When the wedding was over and the banquet began, Harumitsu, Fugaku, Harume and others were sitting at a table, laughing and talking happily, when suddenly Tiger from the Anbu came up behind him and handed him a secret letter.
“Harumitsu, what’s wrong?” Kurama Caiyun asked.
Today is her daughter’s wedding, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of her previous knot in her heart. Who is the blind guy who disturbed her interest at this time?
After reading the message on the envelope, Harumitsu stood up with a blank expression and toasted Fugaku and Harume: “Brother Fugaku, sister-in-law, I’m sorry that Harumitsu can’t enjoy the fun with you today.”
Fugaku stood up in a black and blue dress: “Harumitsu, if you need me…”
“Today is a happy day, just be a good groom.” Haruki patted Fugaku’s shoulder.
Immediately use the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the office.