Three Kage Cooperation

Tsunade at several sheets of paper for a long time, then said to one of the intelligence ninjas who had come with her, "Are there any records matching this appearance?"

That intelligence ninja was indeed very knowledgeable; he carefully examined the few sheets of paper.

Then, somewhat uncertainly, he said, "Judging from its size, this monster surpasses all the Tailed Beast."

"While the strength of creatures in the Ninja World cannot be judged solely by their size, a monster of this caliber must possess extraordinary power."

"Although there is no corresponding entity in the village's records."

"However, I have a guess."

"Perhaps this is the legendary Ten-Tails."

"When the village was founded, it collected some secret information about various clans. Among them, the Lord Hokage's clan, as well as the Uchiha Clan Hyuga Clan, vaguely mentioned the origins of the nine Tailed Beasts."

"The information also mentions the term 'Ten-Tails'."

Then, the intelligence ninja pointed to the nine enormous eyes on the image of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and said, "This monster has nine eyes in total; they might correspond to the nine Tailed Beasts."

Tsunade frowned; she seemed to recall her two grandfathers mentioning the Ten-Tails.

She told the surrounding ninjas, "This matter is top secret in the village. No one is allowed to divulge it."

But these things can't be kept secret forever.

Many people witnessed the earth-shattering explosion that night, including intelligence ninjas from various villages.

Few could possibly identify it as Dust Release, Light Release, or Tailed Beast Bomb, but after relaying the information back to the villages, it wasn't difficult to arrive at this conclusion.

However, it's impossible for any village to guess the origin of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as easily as Konoha could.

But that's alright, if they can't guess, someone will tell them.

For example, the intelligence ninjas of the Cloud ninja obtained the conclusions they wanted with the secret assistance of the Iwa ninja.

Kumogakure.

To the surprise of those attending the meeting, the desk in Raikage's Office was completely undamaged.

"Information from Konoha: The Third and Fourth Tsuchikage Third Tsuchikage Iwa ninja, along with two Jinchuriki, have launched an attack on an underground base within the Land of Fire," the Fourth Raikage reported.

Killer B surprise, "You idiot, Konoha, the Iwa ninja Konoha, has the war begun?"

The Fourth Raikage shook his head and gestured to the ninja in charge of intelligence to speak.

"The owner of the underground base that the Iwa ninja attacked is not Konoha. According to analysis, the Iwa ninja wanted to obtain something called the Ten-Tails' body." After saying this, the intelligence ninja immediately looked at the two Perfect Jinchuriki.

Strangely, he was taken aback, because at that moment, the voice of the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon resounded in his mind.

The Fourth Raikage noticed that Killer B had lost focus, but instead of urging him, he patiently waited for him, a rare occurrence for him.

After a long while, Killer B ended his conversation with the Eight-Tails. Then he told everything the Eight-Tails had told him.

After listening, the Fourth Raikage quickly extracted the core meaning. "Does the Eight-Tails mean that the current nine Tailed Beasts were all separated from the original Ten-Tails by the Sage of Six Paths?"

"Is that giant monster hidden in the secret underground base of the Land of Fire the body of the Ten-Tails?"

"If one possesses the body of the Ten-Tails, it's possible to fuse with the nine Tailed Beasts and ultimately revive the Ten-Tails?"

Killer B nodded and continued in his strange tone, "You're right, you idiot brother."

The intelligence ninja then continued, "It seems the intelligence was correct; the Iwa ninja were indeed after the Ten-Tails' body. However, the intelligence stated that the Iwa ninja retreated in the end and did not take the Ten-Tails' body."

"We just don't know whether the Iwa ninja suffered too many losses or were simply unable to take the Ten-Tails?"

The Fourth Raikage said, "The Tsuchikage is always meticulous in his actions. He wouldn't attack the underground base if he couldn't take the Ten-Tails' body."

"He might even send us to our deaths."

"The Tsuchikage's decision to retreat most likely indicates that he encountered some unexpected event, and it's not impossible that he suffered heavy losses."

"Send people to monitor the movements of the Iwa ninja and see if they make any further moves."

"Yes," the intelligence ninja replied and immediately left.

The actions of the Iwa ninja were easy to investigate, because it was originally the Iwa ninja who were guiding the Cloud ninja to think in this direction.

A few days later, the Top Secret Intelligence about the Iwa ninja searching for the Ten-Tails' body in the Land of Hot Water was analyzed by the Cloud ninja through various details and then compiled into the hands of the Fourth Raikage.

The Fourth Raikage smashed the desk, which had narrowly escaped destruction, with a single blow, and roared, "The Iwa ninja are indeed cunning. I thought they opened the land route to the Land of Land of Hot Water to isolate Konoha, but I never expected it was for the Ten-Tails' body."

"It seems the Iwa ninja are indeed after the Ten-Tails' body."

Inside the office, the other ninjas who had come to attend the meeting felt relieved to see the Raikage's Office smashed; now that was the atmosphere for a meeting!

Unlike the previous meeting, which was rather quiet, this time the Cloud ninja leaders spoke enthusiastically, providing the Fourth Raikage with many ideas.

Finally, the Cloud ninja concluded that the Iwa ninja had been plotting to acquire the Ten-Tails' body for a long time.

However, it was considered that obtaining the Ten-Tails silently within the Land of Fire would be far too difficult.

So the Iwa ninja deliberately stirred up trouble, scaring away the owner of the underground base and causing him to summon the Ten-Tails to the Land of Hot Water.

The Iwa ninja were willing to offend Konoha to the death in order to open a road to the Land of Hot Water.

The intention is now quite clear; barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Iwa ninja are plotting to secretly seize the Ten-Tails' body.

The claims about connections with the Kirigakure in the Land of Water, and the alleged annexation of the Land of the Falls, are all smoke and mirrors.

"What a Fox of Stone! His schemes are incredibly far-reaching," the high-ranking Cloud ninja couldn't help but marvel at in their hearts.

After reaching this conclusion, the Fourth Raikage continued, "After all this time, what's going on with the force secretly controlling the Ten-Tails' body? Has it been confirmed?"

The intelligence officer thought for a moment and said, "Based on the Intelligence Department's analysis, that force should be the owner of the White Experiment that the Iwa ninja mentioned last time, who infiltrated Great Ninja Village."

The Fourth Raikage thought for a moment and said, "Is it that white monster that can impersonate us ninjas so realistically?"

The intelligence ninja replied, "Yes, last time the Iwagakure captured some White Experiment and even gave us the testing methods, but those subjects ran very fast, and we didn't capture any alive."

"At the time, we speculated that these experimental subjects might be the work of Konoha, but now it seems that's not the case."

"I reckon the Iwa ninja deliberately led us to think in that direction."

The Fourth Raikage said, "So, it seems the Iwa ninja obtained information from those White Experiment and found their hideout?"

"Probably," the intelligence ninja replied.

"Very good, everything is now in a closed loop." The Fourth Raikage concluded.

"Continue the reconnaissance; we must find out the movements of the Iwa ninja. We must participate in this attempt to seize the Ten-Tails' body."

A few days later, a piece of intelligence was placed on the Fourth Raikage's new desk.

The Iwa ninja remained silent; all the intelligence ninjas had retreated.

However, the Fourth Raikage was very excited because his assistant had helped him analyze the reason.

"The Iwa ninja should have obtained the exact location of the Ten-Tails' body, but now that all eyes are on them, they've chosen to keep quiet and wait for things to calm down."

Most importantly, the Iwa ninja Cloud ninja identified from information gathered from various sources.

"The Land of Hot Water Springs, Cloud Spring Mountain. The body of the Ten-Tails is here," the intelligence ninja said slowly.

"This mountain is located in a relatively remote part of the Land of Hot Water. It has hot springs, but it's sparsely populated."

"About ten days ago, on the night the Third Tsuchikage and Fourth Tsuchikage attacked the Land of Fire's underground base, the water level of the mountain spring on Cloud Spring Mountain suddenly rose significantly."

"This must have been caused by the faction to which the White Experiment belonged summoning the Ten-Tails' body."

The Fourth Raikage stood up, paced around his office, and finally said, "Send someone to contact Konoha. This time, I want to cooperate with Konoha to seize the Ten-Tails' body."

Killer B and the others were all taken aback upon hearing this.

Yugito hurriedly asked, "Lord Raikage, but there's only one Ten-Tails body. How will we divide it after we get it?"

The Fourth Raikage snorted and said, "Now is not the time to consider these things. How to divide the Ten-Tails' Ten-Tails can wait until we actually obtain it."

"But right now, none of us can be sure what dangers are involved in seizing the Ten-Tails' body. Bringing Konoha along is also to share the risk."

"What if this is another of that Fox of Stone's schemes?"

The others exchanged glances, but ultimately agreed with the Fourth Raikage's suggestion.

Tsunade was also surprised to receive the information from the Fourth Raikage, but she valued the matter of easing tensions with the Kumogakure more.

Konoha and Sunagakure have reached an agreement on an alliance, but neither side has announced it to the public yet.

If we can improve relations with Kumogakure, even if we don't expect to actually fight Iwa ninja together in the future...

At the very least, don't take advantage of Konoha's predicament while the Uchiha Clan is holding them back.

However, Tsunade also knew that the Fourth Raikage's invitation to her was not for good reasons.

So after weighing the options, Tsunade also sent a letter to Rasa.

His idea was the same as the Fourth Raikage's: to spread the risk.

A few days later, the Hokage, Kazekage, Raikage secretly gathered in the Land of Hot Water.

Accompanying them were three bodyguards, each with two bodyguards, and an elite team of one hundred men.

Rasa brought Ryosuke Kazuma with him.

Tsunade was with Kakashi and Shikaku Nara.

Yotsuki A was accompanied by Darui and an intelligence ninja.

The three parties shared similar ideas and none of them deployed a large-scale ninja force, for fear of leaking information.

The effect was indeed quite good; even Yichen was fooled. Otherwise, Yichen would definitely have gone off to have some fun.

After the three parties met in the Land of Hot Water, they exchanged a few sarcastic remarks, following international custom. Then they pretended to be very restrained and magnanimous, not wanting to hold a grudge.

Finally, the three parties headed together towards Cloud Spring Mountain.

There were more than 300 people from the three parties in total, with a clear objective, and none of them were particularly weak.

Therefore, they traveled very quickly and arrived at Cloud Spring Mountain in no time.

Tsunade and the others didn't intend to engage in verbal sparring with the enemy; instead, they chose to fight directly.

The Three Parties Allied Forces adopted the same method as Yichen and his group, choosing to use Area of Effect Ninjutsu to clear the way.

However, the Three Parties Allied Forces did not possess the same Ninja World attack methods as Yichen and his three companions before.

Of the more than three hundred people, only Two-Tails Jinchuriki Yugito, had this ability. The others, even Rasa, who was also skilled in group attack Ninjutsu, were not good at blasting through thick mountains.

On the contrary, Tsunade's Katsuyu can open a passage using highly corrosive acid. However, this method is still quite time-consuming.

So in the end Two-Tails Jinchuriki took the lead, and a Tailed Beast Bomb blasted into Cloud Spring Mountain, creating a large crater on one side of the mountain.

Then, three hundred elite ninjas unleashed Combination Ninjutsu.

Then the Katsuyu's acidic liquid corroded the side of the mountain that Two-Tails and the others had blasted out.

The Katsuyu's main body quickly moves to the other side and, together with its Two-Tails, exerts force on the mountain.

Finally, the Three Parties Allied Forces pushed down Cloud Spring Mountain, revealing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path beneath the mountain.