"Captain Orochimaru, do we really not need to coordinate with the Land of Iron's attack tonight?" Ranwu asked uneasily.
"Why should we care about them? Those samurai sold this year's chakra metal quota to the Land of Lightning—they should have Kumogakure support them." Akaseki was highly dismissive of the Land of Iron's plight.
"But we really do need the Land of Iron's samurai to hold the north—" Ranwu argued.
Of course, Ranwu mainly hoped to reduce the Land of Iron's casualties because she had previously seen the miserable state of its villages.
Ranwu and Akaseki usually shared the same views when facing enemies or friends, but there was one situation in which their thoughts would be completely different: when the other party was neither an enemy nor a friend!
The Uchiha Clan's "emotions" rarely extended to people unrelated to them.
Once an Uchiha Clan member bestowed their innate ability to love upon everyone, including those unrelated to them—
The world would witness the most twisted form of "love."
However, Akaseki and Ranwu had both been mistaken about this matter—
Before Orochimaru could say anything, Jiraiya spoke first. "Not only do we need to coordinate with them, we should say—prepare to turn the tide with a scheme."
"?" Akaseki and Ranwu still did not understand.
"You should say 'turn the tide,'" Orochimaru corrected from the side.
Akaseki realized it then and hurriedly asked, "Could it be—Hanzō hasn't left?"
If the Land of Iron was going to lose, it would probably be because of this move!
"Most likely. When you three went after that fleeing Rain Ninja, we sensed it—the feeling of one's heart pounding in terror. It definitely wasn't an ordinary ninja. There shouldn't be a second existence like that in Amegakure," Jiraiya explained.
When Akaseki's group had caught up to