Hidden Leaf.
Hokage Building, conference hall.
Hiruzen Sarutobi sat at the head of the conference table. Seated beside him were the three elder advisors—Danzō of the Shimura Clan, Homura Mitokado, and Koharu Utatane. The remaining seats were occupied by the village's renowned elite Jonin and the heads of the major shinobi clans...
"Cough, cough..."
Once everyone attending the meeting had arrived, Hiruzen Sarutobi gave a light cough. His gaze swept over his three disciples—Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya—before he spoke solemnly.
"I gathered everyone here today for one matter only: Hidden Rain Village's declaration of war against the Five Great Shinobi Villages!"
With a wave of Hiruzen Sarutobi's hand, the Anbu members standing nearby distributed the intelligence dossiers prepared in advance to everyone present.
"Hidden Rain Village? Declaring war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages?"
When Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed this news, some of those present, whose information channels were limited, were shocked and puzzled. A small shinobi village dared declare war on all Five Great Shinobi Villages at once—was this some kind of joke? But since the words had come from Hiruzen Sarutobi himself, it clearly could not be a joke. They could only suppress their doubts and thoroughly read the materials that had just been handed out.
After everyone present had finished reading the documents in their hands, Hiruzen Sarutobi spoke again.
"You have all more or less finished reading the information. Three days ago, Hanzo the Salamander, leader of Hidden Rain Village, formally declared war on the major shinobi villages. He has only one goal in starting this shinobi war: to make Hidden Rain Village the sixth great shinobi village of the Shinobi World!"
"And Hidden Rain Village has somehow acquired military strength. In less than three days, it has occupied most of the Land of Birds, the Land