Land of Lightning, Kumogakure.
With the Five Kage Summit over, the title "Sick Man of the Hidden Cloud" gradually became "renowned" throughout the shinobi world. A cloud of gloom hung over all of Kumogakure, and everyone wanted to strangle Kuroi to death. Marui and Omoi were implicated as well, on the grounds that they had failed to keep an eye on their companion and thus damaged Kumogakure's reputation. Kumogakure handed down severe disciplinary action: for three years, they would be ineligible for commendations or promotions to jonin.
For shinobi, every completed mission had to undergo evaluation, and this punishment directly affected their mission settlements and commissions.
As for Kuroi, the chief culprit, First Raikage A directly sent his disappointing brother-in-law off to Cloud and Lightning Gorge. Cloud and Lightning Gorge was a canyon naturally saturated with vast amounts of lightning, a sacred ground for training Lightning Release and tempering the body. A intended to give that worthless fool a thorough shocking and help him kick his bad habit of spitting everywhere. Back when he spat all over the village, everyone had tolerated it out of respect for the Raikage. Who would have thought that this time, he would disgrace himself before the entire shinobi world?
Now, whenever Kumogakure shinobi went on missions, they did not even dare cough or casually use the restroom, for fear people would call them weaklings—big-bodied but all show and no substance.
Compared with Iwagakure's localization of the Will of Fire and Sunagakure's study of Konoha's excellent, advanced culture, Kumogakure felt only deep disgust and contempt for Konoha. Konoha was nothing but a petty villain that hurt people from the shadows. If they could beat Konoha, young and old alike in Kumogakure would have skinned it alive.
Land of Water, Kirigakure.
As the shinobi world's only