15.MEETING

Ren fell silent as he thought about the second event in his dream. He knew he had to mention Minato, but he was worried that his words would not be well-received by the old men in the room, who were eager to assess him. However, he knew that he had to tell them about it as the losses would be even greater for Iwa if he didn't.

He took a deep breath and began to speak, "The second event occurs at the end of the war, and it will stop the war between Konoha and Iwa, but at a great cost to Iwa."

Everyone in the meeting room stared at Ren, waiting for him to continue. Onoki spoke up, "Explain to us how it will result in our loss."

Ren replied, "With the battle against the Raikage, our fighting power will be reduced to 80%, and we will only be able to send a thousand people to fight against Konoha. However, Konoha will be able to focus all four of its great villages' forces on us from all sides, and all of our people will be cut down by a single person."

The people in the room were stunned to hear that a single person could kill a thousand people in battle. Some of them even began to plot to kill this person before the war started. Ren continued, "That person will be the Fourth Hokage of Konoha, and we need him to be alive at any cost. Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't be able to kill him because his strength increases to that of a Kage and continues to grow stronger."

The people in the room became furious, thinking that Ren was looking down on their skills and already anticipating defeat. "Please calm down," Ren said. "I know what you're thinking. I am not looking down on anyone. In fact, we can say that Iwa is one of the best shinobi villages so far. Konoha has more resources compared to the other four villages combined and more talented people, including the two strongest clans in the village. However, They were unable to protect the Senju clan from fully integrating into Konoha and losing the clan with only one person, who isn't even in the village. And as for the other clan, they are outcasted by the whole of Konoha. We may not be able to compare to the Uchiha and Senju clans, but we still come together as a village to make peace, following in Hashirama's footsteps. However, instead of achieving peace, we end up turning small-scale fights into large-scale village fights."

Onoki asked, "So, you're saying that the God of Shinobi, Hashirama, was wrong?"

Ren replied, "No, he was not wrong. He was able to achieve short-term peace in the name of recovering the village to defend against other villages. He turned everyday wars into wars that occurred only once every ten years. However, we need to find a new way to achieve lasting peace."

As everyone listened to Ren, they began to realize the gravity of the situation and the need for a new approach to achieving peace.

Ren "Let's say we achieved peace and what will happen to us." random person in the room " We will be able to live a happy life." Ren " Correct, and as the years go by population will increase and we need more resources to sustain the people, But the resources will increase at a slow pace, and need time to meet people's requests. As the number of people increases we have more options to select from thus competition increases and only a few people are able to live comfortably and the rest won't sit aside and do whatever it takes to make the life of their descendants lives better than theirs. Like how countries are formed new villages will form and to take the best resources conflicts will rise and again turn into war."

Listening to Ren all the people were surprised by the thinking of the child and they are confused as to what to say, Tsuchikage was also silent on what to say. Ren " So what I am saying is that we need to increase the resources, As the people will increase after the war was over and we also need to increase the resources, I am not saying we need to start now but we will have to in the future and we have to prepare with the plan for that. But these things for the latter, now we need to think of counter the attack we will face and recruit the clans in this war"

Random person in the room " What do you mean by recruiting the clans"

Ren " As I said we will have a huge population compared to now where do you think they will come from, The war is an opportunity for us to recruit clans that will help us have more military and be able to change our village better place then it is now tho I have to rely on you for controlling the people that have the bad intention and integrate the people in the village who wish to live a peaceful life."

Ren " Now to make the important decision in the meeting, that is to participate in the war or not?"

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