In a huge conference room, the Kage of the Five Great Shinobi Villages sat around a round table, while Atsumori, the general of the Land of Iron and host of the meeting, occupied a seat as well... The Land of Iron did not participate in the Ninja World War and maintained a neutral stance. They were the only ones who could host a meeting like this.
Although the five Kage appeared to be sitting in equal rows, the distance between them was actually quite considerable. After all, they had nearly beaten each other to death before. It would be unreasonable to expect them to sit shoulder to shoulder now, right?
Each Kage sat in his seat, with two guards standing on either side behind him. The other people they had brought stood against the walls some distance from the round table. On Konoha's side, the people standing beside the Third Hokage were Hyuga Hiashi and Inoichi Yamanaka.
Without a doubt, both of them were powerful sensory-type shinobi. One excelled at visual reconnaissance, while the other specialized in Chakra sensing. If anyone tried to pull something during the talks, Konoha would definitely discover it immediately. And once they did...
The Third Hokage of this period was no pushover either.
Yuhara's gaze swept across the room, and he noticed that several villages were exceptionally "militarily vigorous."
The Third Tsuchikage, "Two Scales" Ōnoki, specialized in the Kekkei Tōta Dust Release. His Dust Release: True Several World Stripping Technique should have been the strongest offensive and most destructive ninjutsu in the shinobi world at this point.
Among the guards Ōnoki had brought were two brawny men over two meters tall, as well as a middle-aged shinobi who was only one and a half meters tall. These three were the Third Tsuchikage's son Kitsuchi, Han