Nawaki's Aircraft Carrier Fleet

After Konoha formally signed an alliance treaty with the Land of Frost, Nawaki immediately dispatched one hundred thousand Konoha shinobi, along with the sixty thousand Hot Water shinobi they had previously absorbed, to garrison the Land of Frost. Together with Snow Village's tens of thousands of shinobi, their total force reached roughly two hundred thousand. Vast quantities of logistical supplies were also being continuously transported into the Land of Frost, making it seem as though they were preparing for a major war.

Upon receiving the news, Kumogakure became even more convinced that Konoha intended to launch an offensive from the western border. They threw themselves into preparations, determined to teach Konoha a harsh lesson. As for the Snow shinobi and Hot Water shinobi, they did not take them seriously at all. They were nothing more than cannon fodder Skywalker had found.

But no one could have imagined that the Land of Frost's string of actions was merely a smokescreen Nawaki had created to mislead Kumogakure.

At eleven o'clock in the late evening of April 1st, Year 48 of Konoha, a fleet of special warships quietly docked outside the largest coastal port in northern Land of Hot Water. These warships were completely different from the Shinobi World's traditional wooden seagoing vessels. Every one of them was forged from steel and coated in a special white paint. Several of the largest ships had particularly strange designs: narrow at the bottom and broad at the top, with tall, wide hulls above the waterline that resembled rectangular iron boxes. Apart from a small command tower, the uppermost decks were completely flat, and there were not even bulwarks along either side.

Most people in the Shinobi World would have been unable to tell what these massive, oddly shaped warships were for, but anyone from the