"Next, we'll deal with Takigakure and Otogakure!"
Kusana looked sternly at the Kusagakure higher-ups before him.
Now that the Grass and Rain Countries had merged, it was time to digest the gains from this war.
Of course~
Otogakure would be fairly easy to handle. According to Kabuto... everyone there was one of their own now!
They were all outstanding ninja who studied the advanced Spirit of Grass!
It wouldn't be a problem.
To be honest, when they heard that, everyone looked at Kabuto strangely.
As Kusagakure higher-ups, quite a few of them knew Kabuto had gone out to carry out a secret mission.
But wasn't that secret mission... to obtain Orochimaru's research secrets and secretly guide him into assisting Kusagakure's research?
What exactly had this guy been doing these past few years?
He had actually talked an entire ninja village into it!
Come to think of it, Orochimaru was rather pitiful... Not only had he worked for Kusagakure for years without pay, but now he had even lost Otogakure, the village he had painstakingly founded.
What a pity~
During the war, that guy had actually managed to escape. As a result, they had only swallowed up Otogakure and its main base for now.
As for the other branch bases... their situation was still unknown.
And no one knew how Orochimaru was doing now, either.
Kusana let out a regretful sigh, then looked seriously at everyone before him and said solemnly, "I trust you all know how to handle this."
Many of those present had followed him since Kusagakure's founding, while some had even followed him before that. Thus, quite a few already knew how to make them obediently comply.
Autumn was coming, and the leaves had begun to fall~
The bare branches could use something hanging from them, so they