Otsutsuki Toneri had not joined the Akatsuki Organization. He had merely become allies with Black Zetsu and Obito.
Kimimaro, however, knew nothing of this. He had finally found a glimmer of hope for curing his bloodline disease, only for Black Zetsu and Obito to snuff it out. Worse still, they had set their sights on his Byakugan.
Not long after Otsutsuki Toneri descended into the shinobi world, Uchiha Chisen returned to Konoha.
"The allied forces are growing larger and larger-"
Inside the Hokage Building, Tsunade looked at Uchiha Chisen with a complicated expression.
As word of Uchiha Chisen's actions in the Land of Grass spread throughout the shinobi world, and the Earth, Wind, and Lightning Three Nations began assembling their allied forces, the daimyo of the smaller nations also began joining the Three-Nation Earth, Wind, and Lightning Alliance.
In just a few short days, the Three-Nation Earth, Wind, and Lightning Alliance had reached a staggering thirty thousand!
Those thirty thousand included wandering ninja, former rogue ninja, and samurai. Once the daimyo of the entire shinobi world united, the strength they could muster was enough to alarm even Konoha.
Even if all thirty thousand troops were ordinary ninja, their sheer numbers would have been terrifying enough.
And as the allied forces gained momentum, some ninja clans and the shinobi villages of smaller nations began sending ninja to join them. The entire shinobi world was now caught up in a wave of excitement.
The daimyo of the Three Great Nations, in particular, had never imagined that their call to arms would command such an overwhelming response.
With thirty thousand allied troops gathered together, killing Uchiha Chisen was hardly the limit of their ambitions. In their eyes, they could sweep through the Land of Fire itself and seize the most fertile territory in