While Nawaki secretly went into seclusion to use the "True Dragon Nine Transformations" to fuse with the Tailed Beast's essence, the outside world had already begun discussing his actions heatedly.
The matter of Konoha and Sunagakure dividing the One-Tail between them could not be concealed at all. After the Fire Temple withdrew, the various countries noticed something was amiss and began investigating, so the full course of events quickly spread.
The countries of the Shinobi World did not react strongly to Sunagakure's intention to create a Jinchuriki, considering it perfectly normal. After all, every major ninja village had its own Jinchuriki. Even if Sunagakure succeeded this time, it would merely level out the gap between the various sides and would not pose much of a threat.
The major ninja villages were far more wary of Nawaki's actions! Splitting a Tailed Beast was unprecedented in the Shinobi World. Even Hashirama and Madara, who had once been invincible across the world, could not have done it. Otherwise, given Hashirama's personality, he would likely have divided the Tailed Beasts into dozens of portions and handed them out everywhere, leaving nearly every country with a share by now.
Now that Nawaki had paid such a tremendous price to exchange for half of the One-Tail's chakra from Sunagakure, his intentions were clearly far from simple.
All the countries of the Shinobi World believed that Skywalker was surely preparing some major move. Some thought Skywalker wanted to create a new Jinchuriki, while others believed matters were not that simple and that Skywalker might have an even greater scheme. After all, Konoha already had two Jinchuriki and numerous Kage-level experts. One more Jinchuriki did not seem especially meaningful, certainly not enough to justify the price Konoha had paid.
Sunagakure had not only gained a One-Tail Jinchuriki this