Kumogakure and Kirigakure's Escalating Friction

In modern society, people sold company or national intelligence to others for huge sums of money. Such things were also common in the Shinobi World.

Among the Five Great Shinobi Villages, Kirigakure, which was plagued by the worst internal division, had the most serious problem with people selling village intelligence.

There were many people in Kirigakure involved in trafficking intelligence.

Forget ordinary basic intelligence—so long as you paid, some people would even sell you Anbu intelligence. And this was far from an isolated occurrence.

This problem had existed ever since the First Mizukage established Kirigakure but failed to bring all of the village's power under his control.

The Second Mizukage and Third Mizukage had likewise been unable to properly deal with it.

"With Genji's support, Yagura defeated the other contenders and became Kirigakure's Fourth Mizukage. Apparently, Genji of Kirigakure stepped forward because of the alliance between the village and Konoha."

"Hehehe, that old bastard really knew how to pick his moment."

When Kirigakure had been fighting itself to the death internally, Genji had not said a word. But the moment Konoha and Kumogakure formed an alliance, he sensed the threat and immediately stepped forward.

Unfortunately, their ingrained way of thinking prevented Kirigakure and Iwagakure from successfully forming an alliance.

Ōnoki was furious over Kirigakure's outrageous demands.

You were trying to form an alliance, yet you still made such extortionate demands? That was simply too much!!

If they did not want an alliance, then so be it. They would see who ended up unlucky next.

Kumogakure liked invading the Land of Earth, and it also had plenty of conflicts with the Land of Water. They would see whether Kirigakure regretted it.

After putting away the intelligence scroll on the table, the Third Raikage thought for a moment before decisively slapping the