In this mass surrender incident, aside from Konoha, Kirigakure had suffered the greatest blow. It had lost more than half its forces in one stroke, and even its village had been occupied. With only a little over forty thousand troops remaining, Kirigakure's strength had plummeted, leaving it worse off than some second-rate ninja villages. Anyone with eyes could see that whether Kirigakure could even continue to exist was uncertain. No one knew how many years it would take to recover, and it might very well never rise again.
In the past, the other major ninja villages would certainly have rejoiced at seeing Kirigakure in such dire straits. But now, not only could they not be happy, they were all deeply worried.
The first to be concerned was Sunagakure, whose situation was similar. They felt they might become the second Kirigakure. Moreover, the enemy they faced had grown from four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand, completely destroying any hope of resistance. Their fate might be even worse.
At the same time, Kumogakure, which had already signed a peace treaty with Konoha, was also worried about the hundred thousand Cloud Ninja mercenaries fighting under Yugito. They had realized that Skywalker seemed to have a particular fondness for poaching people. Most of those hundred thousand Cloud Ninja had originally been prisoners abandoned by A and Killer B. They had already harbored resentment toward the upper ranks, and now even their families in Kumogakure were under Konoha's control. If all of them followed Yugito and defected to Konoha, Kumogakure would have no way to stop them, and would inevitably suffer a crippling loss. Although the two sides had signed an agreement, the condition of employment was the Cloud Ninja's "freedom"; it never stipulated that they had to return to Kumogakure. Wouldn't joining Konoha