Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, several months had gone by.
During this time, after the turmoil in the Land of Rain, the Five Great Shinobi Villages—and even the entire Shinobi World—had settled into an unusually quiet state.
Nagato Uzumaki had demonstrated his formidable strength. Until the Akatsuki Organization showed any further signs of ambition, the Five Great Shinobi Villages ultimately chose to hold back.
After all, with the strength of the Land of Rain and the Akatsuki Organization, they couldn't possibly crush the Five Great Nations outright. But if they focused their attacks on a single great village, they could certainly inflict devastating losses.
Until the Land of Rain showed its ambition, the Five Great Shinobi Villages couldn't truly unite to apply pressure. In the original story, even after the Akatsuki Organization had thrown down the gauntlet and begun capturing Jinchuriki, the Five Great Shinobi Villages were still arguing among themselves!
If Uchiha Obito hadn't taunted them right to their faces, who knew how long it would have taken to actually form the Shinobi Alliance for the Fourth Great Ninja War?
And now, the Akatsuki Organization and the Land of Rain weren't carrying out any plan to collect the Tailed Beasts, so the other Five Great Shinobi Villages naturally had no desire to bite into a hard bone that might break their teeth.
Even the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, Killer B, who had suffered huge losses, ultimately swallowed their anger.
The Fourth Raikage had been gravely injured by Nagato Uzumaki, the Eight-Tails inside Killer B had nearly had all its Chakra drained, and most of their subordinates had been killed. Yet even so, the hot-tempered Cloud shinobi didn't say they would go to war with the Land of Rain.
That kind of action simply