Some of Sunagakure's older-generation shinobi believed that the Third Kazekage's actions had betrayed a shinobi's proper role.
Shinobi should be tools that protected the nation and carried out missions, not rulers who controlled the country.
The Third Kazekage ruled the Land of Wind as a shogun. Although this had strengthened Sunagakure's economy and military power in the short term, it had filled Sunagakure's future with uncertainty.
These conservatives feared that the Third Kazekage's actions would invite intervention from foreign nations and might even turn Sunagakure into a target for opposing forces both inside and outside the Land of Wind.
Although no one could yet shake the Third Kazekage's power, divisions and conflicts within Sunagakure began to intensify, and the opposition between the conservatives and the Kazekage's confidants gradually emerged.
Meanwhile, though the current Daimyo of the Land of Wind and the former daimyo's sons appeared obedient toward the Third Kazekage on the surface, they secretly continued contacting the daimyos of other major nations, hoping to obtain outside aid against the Third Kazekage.
Together with some opposition nobles from the Land of Wind, the daimyos contacted the daimyos of the Land of Fire, Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, and Land of Water through secret envoys.
They persuaded the daimyos of those major nations with the logic that "when the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold," reminding them that if the Third Kazekage successfully stripped the daimyo of power in the Land of Wind, shinobi villages in other nations might follow suit in the future, ultimately threatening the ruling positions of daimyos everywhere.
The daimyos were quite wary of this.
The Daimyo of the Land of Fire and the Daimyo of the Land of Earth in particular realized that if the Land of Wind were successfully brought under Sunagakure's control,