Naruto: Eroninja

Kin: Part II

Chapter 24 Kin: Part II

Kyuubi entered the shipping company that she now owned. Almost immediately she noticed many of her workers seem to busy themselves even more no doubt trying to leave her with a good impression. She was amused at their efforts and assumed it was due to what many of them were calling the front office massacre.. Naturally nobody died, but quite a few of the board would be enjoying a prison cell as they had been carted off to the Torture and Interrogation headquarters to answer question about some of the shady business dealings the company had engaged in. Entering the new president's office she gave the woman an amused smile as she saw piles of paperwork sitting on the red-head's desk. "Enjoying your new position?"

"Oh yeah it's loads of fun," she replied sarcastically, "I'm wondering how this company is even still doing business since it seemed to have been run by trained monkeys. Are you even aware that the previous president had a mistress that he was diverting large sums of money too?"

"No," Kyuubi said while fighting back the urge to laugh, "I guess it's a good thing I fired him then before Ibiki took him away."

"Har-har," Karin replied not amused, "Getting things to run great again is going to take some time. Luckily with your body's siblings being dead and the president removed it seems most of the corruption was weeded out."

"Excellent! How long before we're ready to expand?"

Looking at the Bijuu in disbelief Karin said, "A year or two at least."

"That's unacceptable," Kyuubi said quickly.

"Whether you find it acceptable or not doesn't change the timeline," Karin replied calmly still reading a report on the state of the company.

Kyuubi glared at the kunoichi as she growled, "Don't forget who you work for."

Karin placed the paper she was reading down and blew a breath up towards her bangs signaling her annoyance. "Look, you might be in charge of this company and all, but don't forget you recruited me. Now this company might once have been the biggest trading company in Fire Country. However that was years ago and the only reason we are even still among the top players is because of how skilled your body was at negotiating the contracts. Due to the mismanagement of those that came after many of the customers bolted once those contracts expired. This is both a good and bad thing."

"Pray tell, how exactly is the company shrinking a good thing?"

"For one, it's because of the company getting smaller that Ibiki was so quick to believe that the siblings tried to kill you."

"How so? I was of the opinion that it was simply because they were greedy."

"In order to offset the losses from all the lost business they began to take on risker and shadier customers. Customers who might be quite upset at a change of the status quo and thus they needed to handle you quickly as a result." Directing her full attention to Kyuubi, she pushed back her chair and crossed her legs before folding her hands in her lap. "Now as I said this decline didn't happen overnight and getting back to where it was won't happen overnight either. First we have to repair the company's reputation. Due to the mismanagement many of the shipments sent over the years were lost due to incompetence or stolen from a lack of protection as they passed through dangerous territories. In order to repair our good name we'll have to operate at the bare minimum of profitability. We'll offer jobs for less and insure that all shipments are all well protected by hiring shinobi to guard them."

Kyuubi did appear somewhat disappointed but her face showed that she understood that Karin knew what she was talking about. "I can see why Orochimaru put you in a position of authority. I wonder though, did you ever talk to him as candidly?"