"Exactly. It's the same for Sunagakure—we'll fight to the death! We absolutely cannot let the village and the will passed down by our ancestors perish in our hands!"
Baki, the Fifth Kazekage, made his resolve and stance clear at that moment.
And that was only natural.
If the ninja below still had room to choose,
then the leaders of the Three Great Shinobi Villages had no chance of backing down. This involved the very core of their villages: the Special Jonin, Jonin, and others. They knew full well that Snow Ninja Village would never let them off easily after a war that destroyed their countries and villages. They themselves could never accept such an outcome, either. And the Kage needed no explanation. Watching their own villages be destroyed was an utterly unacceptable option in any era, for anyone.
At that moment, the Jonin representatives of the remaining Kirigakure and Cloud Ninja forces also voiced their resolve to fight Snow Ninja Village to the death. The two once-great villages had each been reduced to just over a thousand surviving ninja, and now they could only rely on the Three Great Shinobi Villages. Even if they would have to worry about those villages coveting their lands after victory, at this stage they had no choice but to bind themselves tightly to them. Only then would they have any hope of restoring their countries!
So when they saw that Tsunade, Ōnoki, and Baki had no intention of backing down, the taut nerves of the two Jonin representatives from Kumogakure and Kirigakure relaxed ever so slightly.
Deidara, standing off to one side, curled his lip in disdain. From the perspective of this rebellious young man of Iwagakure, Snow Shadow was truly terrifying. Snow Ninja Village's current strength probably exceeded the combined might of the