The moment he said that, it directly ruled out the possibility of merging into one unified entity!
"People like us come from different ninja villages. None of us would be willing to abandon the villages our predecessors built." A shook his head.
That was the reality of it!
If they Kage had not become Order Users, then by the time they died of old age, the ninja world would have gradually blurred all distinctions between them.
By then, unification would not have been a problem.
But now, they were all Order Users, and their lifespans were nowhere near their ends.
If they wanted unity, their opinions were something that could not be bypassed.
"That's why I never shouted any slogans about unifying the ninja world." Kitahara Kaede was still trying hard to imitate that "smug" expression.
"The small ninja villages will benefit from the cooperation between the Five Great Ninja Villages. But compared to what we gain, that is merely a drop in the ocean." Tsunade said.
"Trade, learning, secret techniques, and everything else between the Five Great Ninja Villages can only be exchanged on equal terms. Those small ninja villages simply aren't qualified to stand on equal footing with us." Ōnoki sighed.
It wasn't as if small ninja villages lacked talented people, but they could not conduct equal exchanges with the major villages.
To say nothing else, if Hidden Leaf Village traded its food production for other benefits from the Stone Ninja Village, it only needed to make that trade once.
With a small ninja village, that same volume of trade would require dozens of separate transactions.
The major ninja villages could include those small villages while trading with one another, but they could not possibly open dedicated trade routes and plans specifically for them.
As for ninjutsu and