The Battle to Retrieve Princess Tobirama

Izuna controlled Susanoo and had just prepared to charge after them when he noticed a vast expanse of white mist rapidly rising around him.

The white mist was incredibly dense and expansive, quickly spreading to obscure the surrounding kilometer. It was also laced with Chakra, interfering with the Sharingan's vision.

"What is this?"

Izuna looked puzzled. The Sharingan wasn't the Byakugan; it couldn't see through Chakra-infused mist like this.

Chiri recognized the source of the mist.

"The Land of Water's signature jutsu: Hiding in Mist Technique!"

"Hiding in Mist Technique?"

"This is bad, Lord Izuna. I'm afraid we've fallen into a trap!"

Chiri knew that a Hiding in Mist Technique on such a vast scale couldn't be performed by an ordinary shinobi.

And there couldn't possibly be a large force of Kirigakure Shinobi lying in wait nearby; Lord Tobirama's exceptional sensory abilities would have detected them.

By that reasoning, only the First Mizukage—the man who had just founded Kirigakure in the Land of Water—could be powerful enough to do this.

One First Raikage, and one First Mizukage.

The leaders of two great Ninja Villages.

For them to gather here by sheer coincidence and ambush them was impossible!

This had to be a long-planned ambush!

"Fallen into a trap? Who's the enemy? What do they want?"

"I don't know, but it can't be anything simple!"

Rather than believe that the First Raikage and First Mizukage had joined forces on their own, Chiri would sooner believe that someone was manipulating everything from behind the scenes.

Otherwise, they couldn't have joined forces to ambush them so swiftly and precisely.

Even getting the intelligence alone shouldn't have been so easy.

Yet the enemy gave her the unsettling impression that they were watching every one of their movements, seeing everything they did. Something was very