Mifune's proposal was quickly approved by the four Kage.
After all, without Naruto and Gaara's talk-no-jutsu and leading by example, it would have been extremely difficult for shinobi from different villages to truly set aside all their grudges.
Three generations and over sixty years of blood-deep hatred could not be laid down or erased by a single phrase like "to defeat our common enemy."
Rather than forcibly grouping them together and causing endless internal conflicts, it was better to split the forces and let each fight on its own.
However, the deployment of the other smaller shinobi villages soon became the focus of contention among the four major villages.
"Kusagakure is close to Iwagakure, so naturally, they should attack alongside Iwagakure." Floating in midair with his arms crossed, Ōnoki had clearly set his sights on Kusagakure's force of no fewer than two thousand shinobi.
Though the village was not large, its history could be traced all the way back to the era of the Sage of Six Paths.
The Land of Grass, where Kusagakure was located, was surrounded by the Land of Earth, the Land of Fire, the Land of Rain, and the Land of Waterfall. It was a land of four wars, second only to the Land of Rain. Any shinobi village that could survive there was not to be underestimated in combat.
Thus, Ōnoki was not the only one interested in Kusagakure. A, the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure, was as well.
He glanced at Mui and Mujo, the brothers from Kusagakure, then boomed, "Kumogakure has never fought any large-scale wars with Kusagakure. Not only that, the same is true for Amegakure and Takigakure. Naturally, Kumogakure should lead them."
The implication was clear: Iwagakure had fought many wars against the surrounding shinobi villages in previous Shinobi World Wars. The