Kazahana Koyuki, the Daimyo of the Land of Snow.
After the Snow Ninja Village issued this seemingly peaceful proclamation that was, in reality, a declaration of war, she likewise used the official channels of the Land of Snow to announce to the entire world that the Land of Snow and she, Her Majesty the Queen, supported the Snow Ninja Village and Naruto. This was a war of national conquest, a war to unite the world, all in pursuit of a truly equal society. Whether or not anyone else believed it, the Snow Ninja Village and the Land of Snow were at least acting toward that goal and swearing to see it through!
And so,
the daimyos, officials, and nobles of various countries were all deeply shaken. After their initial stunned silence, officials across the nations hastily contacted one another. The daimyos of the five great nations—the Land of Fire, the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Water—directly dispatched their most important ministers to contact the leaders of their respective Five Great Shinobi Villages and confirm the situation. Once the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning confirmed from his intelligence reports that Naruto and the Snow Ninja Village were formidable, he acted decisively, appointing Dodai as acting Raikage. The choice of a new generation of Raikage could wait until after the war. The urgent priority was to eliminate the greatest threat to his country's security!
After all,
almost as soon as the Snow Ninja Village and the Land of Snow issued their declaration of war,
the intelligence agency of the Land of Lightning received reports that the Land of Snow and the Snow Ninja Village were mobilizing and consolidating large numbers of troops. Under these circumstances, Kumogakure, the Land of Lightning's most