Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 481 I hope everyone is alright.

After Jiraiya left, Tachibana Kenkawa did not immediately return to the Mizukage's office, but continued to ponder in the meeting room.

According to Jiraiya.

This Five Kage Summit was initiated in the name of Konoha.

But in reality, it was Kazekage Rasa who first proposed it to Namikaze Minato.

The cause was that Sunagakure was attacked and almost lost the One-Tailed Shukaku.

At first, Rasa naturally wouldn't expose himself. His own huge Sunagakure village was in such an embarrassing situation that someone broke into the important secret base where the Tailed Beasts were stored by a single person, and even almost lost the Tailed Beasts. In the end, the enemy was able to retreat calmly.

The Sand Village was merely using the Sharingan and Wood Release Kekkei Genkai displayed by the attackers as a pretext to extort money from the Leaf Village.

After all, the so-called "Uchiha Bandit" wanted by Konoha had previously claimed to be Uchiha Madara and had also demonstrated the Sharingan and Wood Release abilities.

Regardless of whether the other party is really Uchiha Madara, he is definitely a Konoha rogue ninja.

Moreover, the timing of the attack coincided with the joint Chunin Exams.

It's worth noting that the initial proposal to jointly host the Chunin Exams came not from Kirigakure, the organizer of this year's exams, but from Konoha.

In short, Rasa had a thousand reasons to implicate Konoha in his own losses.

Unexpectedly, while the two sides were still negotiating and arguing, news came from Kirigakure that they had been attacked.

Even after successfully repelling the attack, they issued arrest warrants for Kakuzu and Moryo, clearly indicating that they had identified the attackers.

Naturally, neither of them was in the mood to continue arguing.

A lone attack and an organized provocation against one of the Five Great Ninja Villages are two completely different things.

However, even at this point, neither of the two sides had considered the so-called Five Shadows meeting.

After all, the Fire, Water, and Wind factions are still allies in name only.

Furthermore, they just held a joint Chunin Exam, showing an attitude of wanting to deepen cooperation.

The fact that all of them were attacked makes it hard not to think of the other two of the five major powers.

Moreover, the Hidden Cloud Village has not yet stopped its small-scale skirmishes with the Leaf Village on the border.

Even if they wanted to hold a Five-Shadows summit, they didn't have the necessary conditions.

However, before Konoha and Sunagakure could invite Kirigakure to learn more about the attack and make further plans, the situation became even more complicated.

News has finally spread that Roshi, the Jinchuriki of the Four-Tails of Iwagakure, has been attacked and gone missing.

Moreover, according to intelligence, the attack occurred around the same time as the attacks on Kirigakure and Sunagakure.

It also has four, or even more, unknown Kage-level powerhouses.

Furthermore, they had the audacity to launch an attack on four of the five great ninja villages.

This has crossed the line that the five great ninja villages tacitly adhere to.

Moreover, this is a real case of a tailed beast going missing, which could be a big or small matter.

Clearly, if the loss of the tailed beasts is not an isolated incident, then it must be viewed more broadly.

Once this news spread, even Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had previously advocated for settling things peacefully, knew that things were getting serious.

Even at this point, Sunagakure and Konoha no longer doubted Kumogakure, which had not yet been attacked.

If Kumogakure had so many hidden masters, and if we include the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee who were in the open, they wouldn't have ended up in such a mutually destructive battle with Konoha on the previous battlefield.

The Five-Shadow Talks are imperative!

In order to facilitate the Five Kage Summit, Konoha and Sunagakure planned to join forces with Kirigakure and Iwagakure, which had also been attacked, to put pressure on Kumogakure.

Let's end this pointless war as soon as possible and work together to deal with that secret organization that hides in the shadows and dares to challenge the authority of the five great ninja villages.

But right now, what Tachibana Kenkawa is thinking about is not whether or not to attend this Five Kage Summit.

Although his outward reply to Jiraiya was that Kirigakure needed to know Iwagakure's attitude before they would put pressure on Kumogakure together.

However, this was merely a pretext used by Tachibana Kanakawa on a whim.

At such a crucial meeting, it was impossible for Tachibana Kanakawa to be absent.

What's really troubling him now is...

"Elder Yuan, do you think we should lend a hand to those behind the scenes?"

Upon hearing this, Elder Yuan frowned at first, but then immediately understood what Jianchuan Ju meant.

"Is the Mizukage worried that Obito Uchiha and his group are not yet prepared to face an encirclement by the entire ninja world?"

Although Jianchuan Ju didn't speak, she nodded slightly.

That's right, this is exactly the situation that Tachibana Kenkawa was worried about.

Previously, when he and Elder Yuanshi were working together to finalize the future plan for Kirigakure.

Both believed that allowing Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu, the masterminds behind the chaos in the ninja world, was the best outcome for Kirigakure.

On one hand, while Obito Uchiha was stirring up trouble and collecting the tailed beasts, he would weaken the strength of various ninja villages and reduce the military pressure on Kirigakure when it achieved unification.

On the other hand, they allowed the other party to grow so powerful that no one could deal with them, and they became the public enemy of the ninja world.

Kenkawa Tachibana is confident that he can personally resolve the "crisis" and become a "hero" in the ninja world.

This will reduce the psychological and moral resistance from ordinary ninjas when implementing unification and reforms.

It is even possible to greatly reduce casualties during the unification process.

It's important to understand that if Naruto Uzumaki, the "savior," wanted to unify the ninja world, the situation he would face would be completely different from that of Madara Uchiha in the Dragon Vein world.

Just now

He had no idea how well Obito Uchiha's subordinates were collecting information.

At least the opponent shouldn't have a single tailed beast in their possession.

Although Orochimaru's defection left no information.

According to Jianchuan Tachibana's estimation, they may have already joined Obito Uchiha's side.

At this point, Orochimaru may have only just learned the basics of the Impure World Reincarnation technique, and it's even uncertain whether he would proactively tell Obito Uchiha about it.

Jianchuan Tachibana does not believe that Obito Uchiha at this stage has the strength to fight against the entire ninja world.

Originally, Tachibana Kenkawa only intended to hide the four-tailed beast in a secret space after capturing it.

In case Obito eventually becomes the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki.

Even on the Sunagakure side, Tachibana Kenkawa let the enemy off the hook, preventing Uchiha Hikaru from touching the One-Tailed Shukaku, which was still sealed.

In Tachibana Kanagawa's plan, the disappearance of a tailed beast would not be enough to cause panic among the five great ninja villages.

Unexpectedly, they ran right into an attack by the Hidden Mist Village.

By sheer coincidence, Tachibana Kanagawa unexpectedly orchestrated a disastrous start for Obito Uchiha, who was hiding behind the scenes.

Even Tachibana Kanagawa feared that this spark of trouble in the ninja world would be extinguished before it could even ignite, thanks to the combined efforts of the five great ninja villages.

Seeing Jianchuan Ju looking worried about the enemy, Elder Yuanshi could only offer a helpless words of comfort.

"Don't worry, Lord Mizukage. With your knowledge of Obito Uchiha's whereabouts, even now we can't find him. Even if the five great ninja villages join forces, it should be difficult for us to find him unless we exert our full strength."

"I doubt that Obito Uchiha would be so foolish as to jump out and face the combined forces of the five great ninja villages again before he was fully prepared."

After listening to Elder Yuanshi's analysis and thinking about Obito's mind, Tachibana Kanagawa could only silently pray for him in her heart.

I hope everyone is alright.

(End of this chapter)