"What did you say? We've already been completely surrounded by Akatsuki ninjas?"
Hanzo the Salamander looked grimly at the Amegakure ninja who had come to report.
"Yes. Every village and town without our ninjas stationed there, or with fewer than a hundred of our ninjas, has been occupied by Akatsuki ninjas. Now, over half of the Land of Rain has fallen into their hands. We only have the capital and a few villages left." The Amegakure ninja reporting to him gave a bitter smile.
"I remember Akatsuki only having a few dozen members, didn't they? Do you think an organization of a few dozen ninjas could accomplish this?" Hanzo felt insulted enough to want to cut him down.
"Lord Hanzo, that was the situation a few days ago. Akatsuki now has more than a hundred thousand ninjas," the reporting Amegakure ninja said.
"What? That's impossible! There aren't even that many ninjas in the entire Shinobi World. Where did Akatsuki get so many ninjas in just a few days?" Hanzo the Salamander cried out in disbelief.
"Not only that, but as long as they change their surname to Uchiha, they can awaken the Sharingan." Terror filled the reporting Amegakure ninja's eyes.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Are you under Genjutsu? Genjutsu Release!" How could Hanzo believe something so absurd? He immediately formed hand seals to dispel the Genjutsu on him.
"Leader Hanzo, it isn't Genjutsu. It's the truth." Yet the reporting Amegakure ninja spoke with utter seriousness.
"That's impossible!" Hanzo said again in disbelief.
"Lord Hanzo, look into my eyes," the reporting Amegakure ninja said.
Hanzo immediately looked up. To his shock, the reporting Amegakure ninja's eyes instantly turned scarlet. His pupils spun, eventually taking the form of a pair of One-Tomoe Sharingan.
"One-Tomoe Sharingan? Who are you?" Hanzo still could not believe