However, that wasn't the end of it.
Just as the outside world thought the Akatsuki had already gone far enough in their madness,
news came from Iwagakure, in the Land of Earth: the Four-Tails and Five-Tails had both gone missing.
The time between the two incidents was no more than a day.
In fact, the four Tailed Beasts had all been captured on almost the same day. This was no longer just Sunagakure's shame. While the Fourth Raikage A was still seething with rage, the Third Tsuchikage—Ōnoki—had just received the news. First he stared in disbelief, then his face twisted with fury. The Akatsuki were openly challenging the authority of their great ninja villages. In his rage, Ōnoki immediately dispatched his elite personal Anbu to investigate the necessary details, then issued orders for all of Iwagakure to prepare for battle.
He ordered his son Kitsuchi, one of the only two Kage Level fighters in Iwagakure, to be ready to go to war at any moment.
Just like the Fourth Raikage A,
Ōnoki swore to make the Akatsuki pay the price!
Four Tailed Beasts captured in one fell swoop!
As the news shook the entire Shinobi World,
you could say that
not only were the leaders of the Five Great Shinobi Villages stunned,
but even Naruto was dumbfounded when he heard.
Hadn't they been captured one after another in the original story?
At least the Akatsuki had sealed one before moving on to the next, right?
This was one of the things Naruto had complained about when reading the original story in his previous life. The Akatsuki had captured the Tailed Beasts in order, with at least a month or two between each capture, yet the Five Great Shinobi Villages still hadn't reacted until all seven had been captured and the