In Kumogakure of the Land of Lightning, the Third Raikage, A, and the village's senior ninja secretly plotted a carefully designed scheme, intending to create a plausible pretext for their war of expansion.
At the meeting, Raikage A proposed a plan: send an elite squad to infiltrate the Land of Fire, disguise themselves as Kumogakure ninja on a mission, and then deliberately vanish within the country.
They meticulously arranged this "disappearance," hoping it would give Kumogakure legitimate grounds to wage war against Konoha.
Kumogakure's squad consisted of several highly trained ninja. They secretly infiltrated the Land of Fire, chose a location near Konoha's border, and deliberately cut off contact with their village.
They left behind forged clues, creating the illusion that they had been captured or killed by Konoha ninja.
Soon afterward, Kumogakure's envoys immediately confronted Konoha, claiming that their ninja had disappeared in the Land of Fire and accusing Konoha of bearing responsibility.
A few days later, the Third Raikage, A, directly questioned Konoha, demanding an explanation for what Konoha had done to the missing Kumogakure ninja.
In a forceful and threatening tone, he accused Konoha of trying to provoke a war.
"Does Konoha intend to destroy the peace of the shinobi world? Was it you who captured our ninja?" The Third Raikage's tone was full of hostility as he attempted to provoke Konoha in this manner.
Faced with such accusations, Konoha was thrown into tense discussion. Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen convened an emergency meeting with the heads of the major clans to discuss countermeasures.
Konoha's upper ranks suspected that Kumogakure's accusations were merely a pretext for starting a war, but they lacked sufficient evidence to prove it.
Seeing that Konoha did not immediately hand over the so-called "culprits" or accept responsibility for the disappearance, Raikage A decisively declared, "Kumogakure