Cruel News

Land of Wind, Sunagakure.

Kazekage's Office.

"Yashamaru, are you sure there was nothing wrong with the report you first submitted? Does Iwagakure really intend to eliminate Ninshu?" Rasa frowned.

"At that meeting, Iwagakure in Six Paths City did indeed give that impression," Yashamaru replied.

They had not even needed to use their carefully prepared chain of schemes to drive a wedge between them. The moment negotiations began, Iwagakure started denouncing Ninshu's ambitions. That was clearly not the attitude a normal partner would display.

"Then why has Iwagakure kept avoiding the subject of cooperating to send troops?"

At first, Rasa had been delighted by Yashamaru's progress and swiftly dispatched ninja to hold formal talks with Iwagakure, but the outcome had been far from satisfactory.

Iwagakure had not shown any intention of refusing cooperation. Yet whenever Sunagakure proposed jointly sending troops to wipe out Ninshu, Iwagakure found all sorts of excuses to evade the matter.

They had even said they could provide Sunagakure with supplies, but could not send ninja to the battlefield, claiming that the Ninja World War had left Iwagakure too severely weakened.

Rasa would be a fool to believe that. In the final battle, Iwagakure had surrendered so quickly that no one had suffered particularly great losses.

As for before that, although Iwagakure had suffered a few defeats against Konoha, it was absolutely not enough to call their losses severe.

"Perhaps they want to use this opportunity to weaken Sunagakure's strength?" Yashamaru considered before answering.

Compared with joining forces to deploy troops, Iwagakure definitely preferred to sit back quietly and watch the show.

"Perhaps. But Iwagakure is willing to provide us with so many resources. Something is strange here." Rasa crossed his arms, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.

Although Iwagakure assumed an evasive stance toward war, they