Sand Village.
The changes in Konoha's situation naturally drew the attention of this ally. As the saying went, fortunes changed with every passing year. Not long ago, Konoha had still had the leisure to worry about whether Sand Village was stable and urge them not to let chaos break out. In the end, Konoha itself was the first to descend into disorder.
There was no helping it. That was how it went—people could be eating someone else's melon and end up eating their own.
"Lady Chiyo, the Fifth Hokage's identity has been confirmed. Just as we predicted, it's Tsunade, one of the Three Legendary Sannin. She has returned to Konoha and become Hokage... Konoha's situation is rapidly stabilizing," a ninja reported to Chiyo.
"The Third Hokage died at Orochimaru's hands, the Uchiha Clan suffered heavy losses, Konoha's highest leadership was wiped out in one fell swoop, and that elite Jōnin Yuhara had no choice but to leave Konoha... Tsunade succeeded him as Hokage, and Jiraiya returned. Konoha seems to have suffered a tremendous loss, but in truth, the loss isn't quite that great."
Sand Village's intelligence network was quite capable. To be fair, however, the information Chiyo received was all common knowledge that could be found out with a little asking around in Konoha. Sand Village's advantage was simply that it received the news very quickly.
Chiyo assessed the damage Konoha's upheaval had caused. How should she put it? By comparison, Sand Village had suffered more. Konoha had endured severe internal turmoil and had even been a disorganized mess for a moment, yet strangely, it had managed to pull itself back together with astonishing speed.
Konoha and Sand Village differed in that Konoha could always find a suitable successor to the "Hokage" position.
Privately, Chiyo naturally hoped Konoha would suffer