A minute after Naruko gives Karin the order, the shuttles once again announce to the major villages that Queen Naruko will be asking for an audience with the five leaders of the major ninja villages and that they are allowed to bring two extra people, whether they be advisors or bodyguards.
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(Hokage in Konohagakure)
Sarutobi felt very old for his advanced age and he truthfully wanted to just sit in his office and drink his stress away like a certain blonde Sannin. Too much has just been going on today yet not even a day after all this doomsday the alien woman who basically saved their entire world wants to meet with the leaders of the five major hidden villages. He had no idea what she wanted to gain from this. Was it all a clever trap using a guilty obligation to attend because she saved their lives? Did she wish to exchange cultures and perhaps set up trade? Did they even have anything on this planet that she wanted?...
He chose his two people: Shikaku Nara for his unrivaled intellect and more impressive ability to spot details, and after much internal debate and reflecting chose his second guard to be Orochimaru. Each were the best in those regarded fields and despite not being the strongest in his village, both could definitely hold their own against Elite Jounin and ANBU-class enemies.
Plus, he wanted to try to mend his former student, Orochimaru. The man suffered a complete mental collapse after the death of his parents and the death of Nawaki and Dan. The man grew an extreme distaste for the fragility of life so he sought out the secrets of kinjutsu to extend life.
While he wasn't privy to all of Orochimaru's experiments on capturing enemy nin who were originally slated for death. Is there even a difference anymore? he was aware of the evilness brewing within the man and hoped he could do this final act to quell it. Perhaps meeting someone who was from the stars would give him someone who could possibly answer some of his questions and give a more wise approach to his goal instead of human experimentation.
Though will that be enough? he wondered as they boarded the shuttle where they were ushered on by another remarkably (beautiful) human alien dressed in an armored skirt and chest plate with metallic gauntlets and boots and helmet piece. They may not seem intimidating but when they took into account the alien woman was taller than them all by at least four inches. Were they all that tall or was she a special case? Shikaku grumbled a troublesome when he imagined how annoying these women must be if they were all as tough as they looked. Orochimaru didn't hide his curiosity and he even let a little bit of excitement show as he asked her a question.
"Would your leader be willing to answer some questions I've been searching for for a long time now?"
What the three ninja caught was that she seemed completely at ease despite being in a village full of unknowns and in the ninja world, it is the unknown that gets most killed. These told them that either she was naive (unlikely) or that she knew they would be suicidal to try anything against her. They all heavily leaned towards the second option.
When the ramp raised and they all took a seat in one of the gel-like chairs sticking from the walls, she asked her own question.
"What sort of questions? We will refuse divulging any information on weaponry. Your species is already quite capable of killing each other efficiently."
It wasn't meant as an insult but it still felt like a blow to the gut to Sarutobi and Shikaku yet a look at the woman's face betrayed no emotion of embarrassment or repentance. Orochimaru took it as a compliment.
"While your weaponry and technology would be interesting to learn about, I'm more curious about your biology, as well as seeking answers to questions I have concerning… life in general and what wisdom she might have to impart with. Because of the ninja system our world lives in, majority of ninja die young and for those like us who have lived for decades, even fewer ever seek the answers to questions many consider unimportant due to their harden nature and cynical outlook on life."
The alien warrior thought over his words, nodding at his point.
"Possibly, if you keep your questions along that nature. The Queen is the oldest of our species, having been the first to gain true enlightenment and it was under her rule that we evolved past our cave-dwelling lives and ascended beyond the stars. She's led us through times of peace and numerous times of war against other space-faring empires and plagues. She doesn't like titles, but she has become known by all species across numerous galaxies that might still remember her as the 'Immortal Queen' due to her having stopped aging over three million years ago. While she is a warrior and a queen, it is no secret that she is a philosopher and a scientist at heart. She would certainly have answers to any questions you have."
This revelation left the three shinobi in complete shock while Orochimaru's face looked as if this woman was an angel sent by Kami to deliver the salvation he has long since sought for.
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(Tsuchikage in Iwagakure)
The Third Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, Onoki 'of Both Scales' (a nickname given to him for his fence sitting attitude and only picking sides that benefits his village or suddenly switching sides at a moment's notice) has, like Sarutobi, been having a bad day. The extremely old and short man wakes up in the morning, falls out of bed and hurts his back, gets helped up by his three year old granddaughter, Kurotsuchi, who laughs at his weakness and suggests he should retire, like hell I will, you damn munchkin! finally gets to his office by flying with his natural control over wind and earth, sits down only to find his desk overflowing with paperwork and the staff coffee tasting like crap, only to find out it really WAS crap that someone filled the lounge coffee maker with as some sort of joke they saw in a movie, executed said prankster as an example of going too far in jokes, returned to his office to find even more paperwork thanks to several complaints from ninja and civilians about the severe punishment dished out for a prank, and then the sun disappeared and left the world in total darkness only for an unimaginably massive 'star ship', as his people have begun calling it, to drop all of these 'anchors' as this 'Naruko' called them to pull their planet and moon through a portal the ship made to save them from being crushed to atoms by the gravity of an approaching unstoppable force of nature that formed from their sun finally burning through all of its fuel.
Sure enough, the spectacle of traveling through that portal with their only protection against the forces that would have crushed them (not referring to the black hole) being some sort of radiation emitting from the monstrously huge anchors was truly a religion changer to most as many started seeing this woman as a Goddess sent by Kami and what not.
Now, if that wasn't enough as he was also receiving stupid suggestions for making some kind of religion with this Naruko as its deity, dumb ass civilians need to go to the Daimyo if they want to start a new religion, he now has been informed by the female queen of these mysterious and hyper-advanced Spectras to meet with the rest of the rival Kages at the capital of the Land of Fire as she "requested" an audience with them. Now that word is what made him very suspicious of her intentions. She certainly has the weaponry and authority to rain fire upon the earth and they have no jutsu that could reach orbit so they couldn't possibly fight her yet she "requested" an audience with them instead of simply holding a knife to their throats and demanding one.
He wouldn't dare call her naive because if she knew enough about the ranks and names of their villages and capitals, then she had gained a source of information native to the planet and thus knew of the ninja world's nature. Did she simply abduct a ninja on his/her mission and interrogate him/her for information or did that advance ship have some kind of contraption to gather intel without the world knowing?
There were too many unknowns but he obviously had to attend despite knowing he would be floating at a killing range across from all of his rival villages' leaders. What would the world say about Iwagakure if the Tsuchikage declined the "request" which insulted the alien woman who saved their world? His village would obviously take a huge blow to their image, reputation, and no doubt when the Earth Daimyo would catch wind of it, he would go ballistic and possibly cut any funding for the ninja village and liquidate it.
Politically, it would be suicide to decline this "request" by an alien with unknown history, unknown capabilities, and unknown motives.
So with an angry grunt, he chose Kitsuchi and an up-and-rising chuunin named Deidara, who had a very powerful kinjutsu, to be his two bodyguards. Deidara's ability to make almost anything with enough clay could either create for them a quick method of escape and, if he had enough, bomb the hell out of the entire region if this queen or the other kages tried anything on him. Plenty of enemies both visible and hidden wanted him dead and living for as long as he has taught him to always expected the unexpected, but be prepared for the expected.