JManM
Well Kiba definitely couldn't stand it. send the Hokage as a mongrel? He must receive a very expensive bill for his mission. I doubt that Kiba would waste his Shinobi potential in fighting for a daimyo or in a low-paying job. Rather introduce and will expand mass education to many other areas of activity (medicine, construction, agriculture, science, etc.) shinobi have a lot of potential not only in military affairs. Of course, basic military training is essential in such a world, but I think it's just compulsory education in a shinobi academy for everyone, with a further choice of direction, and not throwing 12 year olds into battle.
don’t be stupid, maybe Hiruzen could bend under the daimyo (and then danzo should be good at controlling garbage nobles), but I highly doubt that Kiba would have any respect for any daimyo or nobles, the maximum treaty for protecting the land of fire in exchange for funding, with any attempt to impose their will on the daimyo will quickly be changed. Daimyos simply have no reason to control Konoha, as soon as the shinobi expand the pool of their activities, any possible leverage on konoha will disappear. Without power, all you have to do is praise the gods every day for surviving. And what about the daimyo alliance? (It’s very easy for Kiba to make an alliance with other Kage and replace them with more loyal daimyo who will not dig under the ninja, here the fire daimyo just brazenly tried to intimidate Kiba, but instead he hung a target for himself, because no one can tolerate such will not.
OllieZ:Hokage still has to answer to the Daimyo. They are the military leaders of the Daimyos.
I love when a Naruto fic show a glimpse of the Background Politics... and not making the easy-way route of considering the Daimyos dumb and useless just because they don't understand the intricacies! Are you boosting Samurai too? I always though they were very underpowered and not given enough development. If they were that useless, I don't think they would be kept as bodyguards anymore.