Still, even if mastering their own power was less troublesome for an Oni Person than for a tailed beast's jinchuriki, it would take time.
And that was precisely when the village would be at its weakest!
Clashes broke out between Kumogakure and Kirigakure almost every day.
Ever since all-out fighting had erupted a month earlier, it had never stopped.
During that time, Kirigakure and Kumogakure naturally discovered the people from Iwagakure and Sunagakure.
But neither the Cloud Ninja nor the Mist Ninja attacked the Stone Ninja or Sand Ninja.
Still, the people from Kirigakure looked decidedly unhappy when they saw those from Iwagakure and Sunagakure.
Since the people from Iwagakure and Sunagakure had not openly revealed their identities, Kirigakure did not know who they were.
But they more or less guessed that these were people sent by other Shinobi Villages, which made their expressions darken.
While they were fighting Kumogakure, all sorts of people were coming to the Land of Water.
There was no need to think about it. These people had to be here to see what they could gain.
Kirigakure naturally gave them no friendly welcome. If they had not feared that attacking these people would make the village's situation even worse, they would have wiped out every last one of those sneaking around long ago.
With Kumogakure and Kirigakure at war, neither had time to concern itself with anything else.
Iwagakure and Sunagakure, however, turned their attention toward the Hidden Leaf Village.
Kumogakure and Kirigakure were already fighting, so why did the Hidden Leaf Village seem completely unconcerned?
It was not that the Hidden Leaf Village did not care about the war between Kumogakure and Kirigakure. Rather, it had now sent more intelligence agents to various parts of the Land of Fire.
That was because the Hidden