The next day.
Minato, the Ninja World's premier shuttle service, successfully brought the leaders and jinchuriki of the major shinobi villages to the desert in the Land of Wind, including his wife, Kushina.
The safest place in the Ninja World at present was beside Uchiha Mai. Since Uchiha Mai had come to the Land of Wind as the Mizukage, there was naturally no reason to leave Kushina behind in Konoha.
They stood amid a stretch of ruins.
Kazekage Rasa warmly introduced the site to the other Kage. "These ruins should be the best place in the Land of Wind for us to hold our meeting and hide the jinchuriki.
"A few years ago, a shinobi village of modest size still stood here. But with the outbreak of the Shinobi World War, and some problems arising within the village itself...
"The village was reduced to ruins in barely a month. We still haven't determined the exact cause, but this place is certainly suitable for a battle."
As Rasa explained, he directed his shinobi to take the jinchuriki beneath the ruins and settle them in.
Uchiha Mai extended his senses and noticed something odd. These seemed to be the ruins of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran from the movie The Lost Tower.
In that movie, Naruto traveled more than a decade into the past through the Dragon Vein beneath the Ancient Kingdom of Roran—or rather, to another parallel world whose timeline was more than a decade behind his own.
To think Rasa had picked this place. How interesting.
Uchiha Mai had originally chosen the Land of Wind for the meeting and the decisive battle mainly because its vast territory was sparsely populated, allowing him to minimize casualties in the Ninja World.
Naturally, choosing the exact location had fallen to Rasa.
These ruins