Undercurrents in the Shinobi World

News that the Fourth Raikage had restarted the Five Kage Summit spread across the entire Shinobi World as swiftly as if it had grown wings.

This was another Five Kage Summit after the Third Great Ninja War, yet only six years had passed since the previous summit.

Six years sounded like a long time... but there had been four years of war in between. The Hidden Cloud Village had only reluctantly signed a peace agreement last year after Chen's attack.

In other words, the Shinobi World had only truly been at peace for the past two years.

That was nowhere near enough time, let alone for development. It was not even enough to recover from the scars of war!

By comparison, nearly thirty years had passed between the first Five Kage Summit and the second.

So six years really was a very short time.

That was why the Fourth Raikage's move drew the attention of countless shinobi.

This was the Five Kage Summit, something that would never be convened unless absolutely necessary... Once it was called, it meant something major had happened. That had long since become common knowledge in the Shinobi World.

For example, when the Third Great Ninja War had begun, the Hidden Mist Village's stated reason had been the disappearance of the Third Mizukage.

Then, as the party convening this summit, the Hidden Cloud Village must have suffered an extremely serious upheaval as well.

But what kind of upheaval was worth making such a huge fuss over?

The Fourth Raikage definitely had not disappeared, since he was the one who had initiated it.

Thus, under the deliberate investigation of spies, news that the Hidden Cloud Village had been attacked by the Unknown Force quickly spread everywhere.

An attack was just an attack... Hadn't Konoha been attacked by