snavalu will write the stories while I will check the grammar (To the best of my abilities) and help them to write it. That means two people are working in the fic.
Feared Reverence
In an unknown location.
One day after contact with the Asaris.
Two people were facing each other.
"Why did you call me here, Uzumaki?" The woman who said that was none other than the Raikage.
"As you may recall, Shanxi was under attack by an alien force that previously attacked the research flotilla and soon began an attempt to subdue the colony."
"Yes, I already know that all this has been discussed in the last formal Kage meetings and among all of us informally." Yusuke sighed and put down his hand on the desk, channeling chakra to activate the seal. A colored hologram of the Shanxi system appeared in the middle of the table.
"Yes, that's true, but what is not yet known is that shortly after we manage to defend ourselves and recover the colony, we come into contact with another exotic species."
"What do you mean?" The woman exclaimed in surprise. "And you didn't call the others to report this, why?"
With a serious face, the redhead told him: "Sit down, Lady Raikage, this is not over yet and it is more serious." Hearing those words and seeing his serious face, the Raikage understood it to be a risky situation. "My Anbu gave me very important information that must be discussed between us, check it out." With those words, he handed her a parchment.
With the parchment in hand, she channeled her chakra, opened the seal and spent the next few minutes reading and rereading that document.
"Does this mean we can't directly confront them? Their numbers far outnumber ours." Sighing, the Raikage looked at the man in front of him and said, "Why did you really call me here?"
"I know with these numbers it looks like we don't have a chance, but individually man per man, woman per woman we are a far better fighter than them and our ships are much more resistant and have greater offensive capabilities, our only disadvantage is that they outnumber us. But I have an idea how to turn luck our way."
"How could we possibly stand a chance? For the past 300 years, we've purposely kept our population low so that even if divided among many worlds, we'd have control over everything. And now, even if we rewrite the ancient laws during the Ninja wars, we couldn't change our population. What's the genius plan you have for us to at least be able to defend ourselves, in case these aliens think about trying to take over one of our colonies in the future?"
"Simple, Project Seed will solve our problems"
Upon hearing this, the woman was startled and exclaimed: "That's crazy! You're crazy! If anyone heard you saying that you'd lose your head no matter if you're an Uzumaki or not. Tell me you're kidding, this is just another one of your stupid jokes, you know that even if the rest of Kumo does not agree with your idea of religion for the two gods, all our people agree that it would be treason and the highest degree of heresy! Please tell me that you do not intend to use such a barbaric plan as that." The only thing you could see in his expression was fear and anger, his thoughts were that he couldn't be thinking about this, this was completely unbelievable.
"Inaba! Sit down, please, listen to me. Of course, I know that this is madness and heresy for our entire religion, but it is necessary, do not think of me as a Monster. Of course, we will not use the seed project as it would have been incremented eons ago that was barbaric by all means we evolved that way we can do a lot more limbo and without having to get so dirty"
Practically yelling her name and then taking on a much more serious tone trying to get her to understand that yes, it was important and that she needed to pay attention.
"What do you mean we don't need to get dirty, you can hear yourself just saying those words, we're already dirty, how dare you even consider making this plan and creating beings just for war and death, I thought our people would have stopped this death wish and destruction, you can't be thinking of enacting this plan.
"I know those plans were totally inhumane in the past, but it's been three hundred years and our technologies are hundreds of years ahead. I do not intend to create beings that have only known war and death, I intend to create life, but I will not enslave them or give them only a purpose in life, they will be free to choose their path in life, listen to my plan, Inaba, I know it sounds crazy, but if you listen I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's not just for the good of our world and the colonies it's going to be for the good of all humanity now and in the future and even these children"
Calming herself and taking a deep breath, she thought to herself that Yusuke would never call her to such an unreasonable plan if he didn't have a better solution, so she decided to listen to him.
"Listen carefully to what I am going to say to you if it were anyone else sitting at this table and telling me this I would personally rip their head off, but as I know you would never tell me an idea if you had another plan and neither would you stop to being so inhuman, I know you have some crazy idea, so tell me and this plan should be damn good."
"I'm just glad you're trying to hear me." Yusuke smiled. "I know the plan was originally created by Orochimaru centuries ago, which initially was to use the cells of various powerful ninjas and important clans to create an army of thousands or maybe millions of ninjas using mainly white Zetsu material causing the clones to have abilities unique to other clans, but of course, we won't do that because we'll be creating genetically identical non-clone individuals."
"Sounds like a wonderful idea and very well thought out, but tell me, does the project need testing? Are you going to tell me that in the midst of this, there will be no failures even if the casualties are minimal? That will still not suit me. How can you be sure that it will be viable and that none of them, in the future, will not go crazy or have some lifelong health problem? It will be a problem if they have all of the problems and have the same lifespan as ours.
"Simple, With fundamental help from someone who is already an expert in the field," While saying these words, someone approaches from behind Yusuke's back. "I want you to meet a somewhat distant relative of mine, Gekkō Uzu Hebi, or just Gekkō."
The man bows. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Lady Raikage."
Looking hard at the newcomer, she replies, "Yes, I suppose I know who's going to secretly help you with that." The woman said with distaste. "Do you really need help from someone so despicable?"
"Desperate situations call for desperate measures. And please don't look at me with those glares. You know it's been generations since the Hebi family joined the Uzumaki family and they haven't done anything ethically deplorable nowadays. And our patriarch is strongly guarded by us Uzumakis. Furthermore, he paid for his mistakes in the several years of imprisonment he had under the orders of all the Kage many years ago."
"That's not to say that Orochimaru wouldn't be better off dead." Sighing and pressing her hand to her forehead, she said, " I understand he is the most qualified person for this job, but are you sure he is reliable and won't get out of hand?" Sorrowful, but already with a decision almost made in her mind, she asks her last question: "How do you think about putting all these children under the eyes of all the other Kages and sponsoring their upbringing and further education and training?"
"Oh! That's the easiest part! See, even though we managed to drive off the invasion quickly, it doesn't mean there weren't any civilian casualties. With the last attempts of the Xenos to resist, their ships launched an orbital attack to divert our attention and take out the last soldiers we still had on the planet. They didn't make it, because right after the attack, we acted as quickly as possible and destroyed them. But some of the newer cities didn't have good protection, since Shanxi is a relatively new colony. "
"What does this have to do with anything?" Inaba raised an eyebrow.
"Well, because the colony was still new, their records weren't that complete. An example is the birth records. The colonists, of course, tried to populate the new world quickly and had children in the control program allowing for new worlds. And as you know, wars leave many orphans. My plan is to use this small gap in the records to place them as war orphans. Soon, these children will be placed in foster care programs and adopted quickly. Their education will be taken care of by these families and their upbringing will be like any other child's. They will also be required to have training like our other children in the chakra academy. And in the future, most of them will definitely become ninjas."
After saying that, he handed her a document and waited until she had read it all before continuing.
"That's a proposal I intend to take to our next meeting with all the other kages, that the grip we've had on population numbers be lifted, or be more lenient, to replace the numbers that we so desperately need. And with that, we infiltrate. in genetic and birth treatments, placing the seed project as embryos, so that we increase our chances and have more assets in the future, Inaba."
"Fine, you've won over me, Yusuke. I just hope I don't regret any of this in the future."
"You won't regret it, Kodai-chan," hearing Yusuke saying her childhood nickname, and finally smiling makes the serious tone from the beginning of the conversation dissipate.
"And it better be true, Yusuke. Your idea is too risky and the consequences will be severe if it all goes wrong…"
Her expression showed how worried she was. Yusuke then took her hand to show that they were in this together, and she squeezed his hand back, showing that she understood what he wanted to convey.