Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...
Within the Land of Lightning, four figures swiftly raced across a massive mountain peak. They were Naraku and the other three, who had just arrived.
Their destination was clear: Kumogakure.
Just as Naraku and the others were hurrying toward Kumogakure, the Fourth Raikage, who had returned to Kumogakure the previous night, had also gathered all of Kumogakure's upper ranks for an important meeting.
Those qualified to attend this meeting were all people with some degree of authority in Kumogakure, or individuals of exceptional strength.
At that moment, everyone could be seen looking with complicated expressions at the solitary one-armed figure before them. It was the Fourth Raikage.
Before the meeting began, the Fourth Raikage had already had someone inform everyone present of everything his Kumogakure forces had encountered during this operation, including Killer B being abducted by an unknown force, Kirigakure joining forces with Konoha, Sunagakure surrendering to Konoha, and Iwagakure already being occupied.
Although they had sensed something beforehand and had even received some intelligence, learning all that information at once still left them utterly shocked and incredulous.
They had never expected the Fourth Raikage's operation against Kirigakure to fail, much less that Killer B, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, would be abducted right in front of the Fourth Raikage.
They were equally astonished by Konoha's series of actions.
Especially upon hearing that Konoha had occupied Iwagakure, most of the Iwa ninja found it hard to believe. In the memories of the many Kumogakure ninja, Iwagakure, led by the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, possessed extremely formidable combat power.
Even if it could not compare to them, who possessed the strongest military forces, it was still far stronger than Kirigakure and Sunagakure. As for Konoha, while it might have been inferior to Konoha, the gap should not have been too