Bang.
Tsunade slammed her fist down on the desk. "Damn it!"
She had every reason to be furious. She had been exhausting herself for the village all this time, yet the situation hadn't improved. With the Akatsuki Organization pressing closer at every turn, the Ninja Village Allied Forces were on the brink of collapse.
So she had continued making concessions and trying to win Orochimaru over. Besides their past friendship, she had hoped to strengthen the Ninja Village Allied Forces before the war.
But things hadn't gone as planned.
Orochimaru had first orchestrated the prison break, then cracked the Reaper Death Seal. After enslaving and controlling the First and Second, he had used Impure World Reincarnation to enslave and control the sealed Fourth Hokage as well.
Now he had sparked a major battle in the Land of Rice Fields, indirectly causing the Ninja Village Allied Forces to lose half of the Nine-Tails and allowing the Akatsuki Organization to claim another Tailed Beast.
Orochimaru's many wicked deeds had left Tsunade with no excuse to keep protecting him, even as Hokage.
The atmosphere in the Hokage Office grew increasingly oppressive.
Seeing that her goal of suppressing the Third's faction had been achieved, Utatane Koharu stopped pressing the matter of Orochimaru and changed the subject. "The Akatsuki Organization has taken half of the Nine-Tails. The only ones left to reach their goal are the Three-Tails inside the Fourth Mizukage and the Eight-Tails inside Killer B of Kumogakure. We have to ensure their safety no matter what. We can't let the Akatsuki Organization succeed again!"
The Third said, "Agreed. I propose that we convene another Kage Summit!"
Tsunade nodded slightly. "From what we can tell based on the intelligence, the Akatsuki Organization is also preparing for the final battle. It's time for us to