Chapter 123 - For the Future.

Looking at the surprised faces of the Kages I couldn't help but smile at them, from their perspective that smile looked extremely devilish, definitely something coming out of a horror story.

"So, you all are having an unofficial 5 Kages summit, interesting... May I also participate?"(Aizen).

I said that in the most polite and overbearing tone possible, clearly indicating that their options were non-negotiable. And it seems that experience really speaks the loudest when Sarutobi is the first to get out of his funk and answer me.

"I see no problem with it Aizen, your input on this talk would certainly be welcome"(Hokage).

Heh, give it to the old man to know exactly what to say to diffuse a tense situation, and I am not even surprised, the guy had to deal with Danzo his whole life, this tension here must be like a walk in the park for him.

"With you on Konoha's side, the conflict is just pointless anyway, besides after my shameful defeat by your hands I was planning on tossing the towel anyways"(Raikage).

"I am just here for the fun, might as well listen to the strongest person on the planet now."(Kazekage).

With this, the Kazegake summons some snacks and beer and proceeds to share it with the now resigned Raikage. Everyone sweatdropped at the scene. I just found it amusing and picked some snacks for me too.

"Well, I can't do anything about it can I? might as well listen to what you have to tell"(Mizukage).

"I didn't even want this bullshit, say what you have to say fast, I am prepared"(Tsushikage).

With this everyone joined the Kazekage in eating snacks, the Raikage now seems to be drowning himself in alcohol, trying to forget the pain.

"Well, I don't want any land or resources, all I want is the war finished"(Aizen).

Most of the Kages are surprised by that sentence, they were expecting extremely harsh demands, and to become a slave in all but name to the strongest (Konoha), so everyone was a little bit surprised and extremely relieved, Sarutobi even seems proud that I have opted for the peaceful option.

"I know what you all must be thinking I know human need conflict to grow, no matter what kind of, so stopping the war forever is indeed an impossibility, but it doesn't mean the conflicts have to affect the innocent"(Aizen).

"Wait, what do you mean?"(Hokage).

Well, their surprise is not unexpected, no matter how far away from your home the war is, a lot of innocent people are affected directly and indirectly by it, so it wasn't unexpected the Kages surprise and innumerable questions. How? When? What?

"As some of you spies should have already informed yourselves, there has been a lot of things happening in the Land of Iron, and I telling all of you that it's all my fault"(Aizen).

"What?"(Kages).

This one was a little louder than the previous ones, but expected nonetheless, did you really think I could have done all that mess without anyone noticing, of course, the big 5 have spies in other countries, its basic information gathering strategy, I would be surprised if they had no spies.

"Let me explain what I am doing there. Simply I am building a tower-..."(Aizen).

And then I explained the tower and its purpose, how from now onwards conflicts would be resolved in the tower and not on full-blown wars, I even said about my prospects of creating more Sages to help the planet in general, the Kages seemed pretty doubtfully, but there was also a lot of anticipation on then seeing as there are a lot of benefits they could get from the tower.

The last bit we discussed was about transportation, and I said I will create numerous portal relays on countries all over the world to help in general transportation.