"Uh... Sunagakure surrendered?" Ōnoki blinked. The decisive battle had been yesterday, and they surrendered today? Was Sunagakure really that fast? Were they screwing with him?
"They did surrender," said Ganshin, who was responsible for Iwa's intelligence, with a bitter smile. "Apparently, they got beaten terribly."
Ōnoki curled his lip. "Even Rain Ninja could push them around. And Sunagakure wanted to fight Konoha?"
As he spoke, Ōnoki took the Intelligence Scroll and began reading through it slowly.
By the time he finished, the smile had vanished from Ōnoki's face.
Damn it! I thought that even if you Sand Shinobi were useless, you could at least make Konoha pay dearly. What the hell was this casualty ratio?
Out of five thousand men, two or three thousand had been crushed, while Konoha had lost only five or six hundred? Was this the casualty ratio between major shinobi villages? You were one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, not some worthless Grass or Hot Springs Shinobi!
Their home had been raided? The Kazekage had died in battle? Princess Tsunade had treated an army of five thousand all by herself? And she had dealt with Ebizo while she was at it? Wasn't that a little too outrageous?! Konoha was this powerful? He would never sleep soundly again!
Slamming his hand onto the desk, Ōnoki muttered, "How is Rōshi doing now? Can he control the Four-Tails yet?"
"It is still difficult. At present, he can only enter the Tailed Beast Cloak state. Any stronger, and he will lose control," an Iwa ninja answered.
"Ugh!" After sighing and pacing around the office twice, Ōnoki said, "Withdraw all the shinobi stationed toward the Land of Lightning... No, forget it. Pull back half of them!"
Although the Earth and Lightning Countries should have been banding together for warmth now,