"absolutely No"No WAY am agreeing to this"
"Impossible"
"Unacceptable"
Shouted the elders one after another expressing their disagreement to rei suggestion, rei was just silently listening to them without saying much.
"am sorry young master but With our current power we can just attack them, Forcefully conquer them and make them a subordinate clan of ours, there is no need for us to make an alliance and stand on equal grounds with them, that"s just the way the world works "said one of the elders.
After a long silence rei finally said," it seems that all of you forgot not that long ago the Uchiha and Senju clan could have crushed us on a whim".
"that was in the past what does it have to do with anything," said an elder.
"what I am trying to say is what makes you so sure that we won"t lose our current power as easily as we gained it," said rei shocking all of them.
"I..." the elder had nothing to say.
"it"s exactly as you"re thinking right now elder, all of our enemies the previous ones and the ones we made in the last period what do you think they will do, and not just them even our current allies will turn against us" said rei, he took a deep breath and continued "but now imagine this, what if that happened after we signed the alliance?, right then it won"t matter because we will already be the strongest faction around".
"I... I agree with the young master" said one of the elders and continued "we can"t be sure of what will happen in the future so this is the best way to ensure the survival of our clan".
"I second that," said another elder.
"am with them"
"me too"
Seeing half of the elders agree rei smiled internally and gave himself a pat on the back for the good excuse he came up with on the spot.
"I on the other hand stand firm with my decision, I think it is foolish and unreasonable to stand on equal grounds with a clan that we can just send one of our strongest guys to destroy overnight" said an elder, with all the other elders that didn"t side with rei before nodding showing their approval.
"I think even you know that it is impossible for just one of our guys to eliminate them, don"t tell me you haven"t heard about their patriarchs??" said rei smiling.
The elder had no response to this sentence, cause even though the Shioya clan have been at peace the last years, the Uchiha and Senju haven"t and with time everyone has heard of the terrifying power of both clans patriarchs.
"young master we know that you and the Uchiha and Senju patriarchs are friends but you can"t let your emotions cloud your judgment," said another elder.
"hahahahaha, this is really funny" said rei and continued, "let my emotions cloud my judgment huh!!, if that was true I wouldn"t even be talking to you guys right now I am only talking to you cause I am being polite, I can just use bloodline suppression on you guys and then the only one I"ll have to convince is my dad" rei said while smiling s.a.d.i.s.tically at the elders opposed to him.
"YOU WOULDN"T DARE" screamed an elder, but you could see fear hidden deep inside his eyes.
"try me" said rei smiling and the elder started feeling really heavy and dizzy and couldn"t move, there was a feeling inside of him telling him to force him to obey rei and do his bidding any way he could and couldn"t resist at all cause it"s his own blood that was acting against him.
the pressure in the conference room was getting heavy by the second and all the elders that are not in rei side started breathing and sweating heavily.
"ENOUGH" shouted ryushi who have been silent all this while and slammed his hand on the table, immediately all the pressure disappeared as if it all has been an illusion, but the sweat covering the elders and their heavy breathing proved otherwise.
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After letting everyone calm down ryushi looked at rei and said, "rei I understand where you are coming from but we can"t just rashly make decisions like these ones that will affect the entire clan future, we need to think about it carefully first" said ryushi.
The truth was that secretly he was supporting his son, but he can"t just say that out loud in fear of causing a civil war, although he can solve that easily by using BS, he didn"t really like using that as he thought it is the same as taking people"s free will.
"come on father, what is there to think about, it is all benefits and no drawbacks," said rei then looked at the elders opposing him and continued "the only thing holding us back is the pride and ego of some people".
The elders got enraged but they didn"t say anything, first because of the BS, and second because even without that he can beat them all combined, and third because he was the current acting patriarch and son of the previous patriarch and angering him any more than now won"t be without consequences.
"sigh" sighted ryushi as he didn"t know how to solve this dispute, just as he was about to delay the meeting for another date he heard his wife say.
"I got it, honey you said that this decision will affect the history of the entire clan right?" asked Miyako and ryushi nodded not understanding where she was going with this.
"then why not let the entire clan decide, why not take a vote," Miyako said, surprising everyone present.
"hahaha, that is an amazing idea dear, good job, I agree," said ryushi, looking at the others awaiting their responses.
"sigh, sorry mom" rei though, as he was the one who used BS discreetly to make Miyako say that and make her think it was her own idea, and as a lot of the clan members are actually his shadow puppets he was sure he is going to win.
"I have no problem with that," said rei nodding.
"same here"
"I agree"
"that"s a good idea"
Soon enough all of them agreed to hold a vote in tree days to decide once and for all, after that they all left the conference room each going his own way.