"Someone from Konoha wants to see me?"
Karatachi Yagura looked up at the Anbu ninja kneeling on one knee before him. After a moment's thought, he said, "Bring him here."
"Yes!"
After receiving his orders, the Anbu ninja leaped away.
"En?"
"Mizukage-sama."
Oyashiro En, who had already been promoted to the Shadow Guard, appeared in response.
"Go inform Araki and Hozuki Sengetsu. Hmm... bring the heads of the Kaguya and Yuki clans as well."
Karatachi Yagura decided to give Konoha's ninja an unforgettable show of force at their very first meeting.
"Yes."
Training Ground No. 3, Kirigakure.
"One, two, one! One, two, one..."
"Huff, huff..."
Several hundred people dressed in gray Kirigakure ninja uniforms were running laps around the training ground.
Someone at the front was leading them in chants.
A closer look revealed that the leader was Jonin Yanliu.
The view shifted.
On the other side, more than a hundred ninja formerly belonging to the Hunter-nin Squad had already moved past the most basic physical training. They were swinging the swords in their hands through the air again and again.
They were undergoing swordsmanship correction training.
Araki had discovered that although these people had some experience using swords, their fundamentals were an absolute mess.
If their movements were not standardized, they could not exert their strength fully. At best, the power of their sword techniques would be greatly reduced. At worst, incorrect exertion could even injure them while practicing more complicated sword techniques.
Therefore, they needed correction.
His gaze shifted again.
More than a dozen ninja stood atop the lake, practicing the most basic and most important first move of the Shigure Soen Ryu—Axle Rain.
Most of them already had fairly proper swordsmanship fundamentals, so they could begin the next stage of training.
Zabuza Momochi, Hua Bing,