Uchiha's Recent Situation

Iwagakure, Tsuchikage's Office.

With the conclusion of the talks in the Land of Birds, upon hearing that the Four-Tails had run amok once again, Ōnoki rushed back to Iwagakure from the Land of Birds that very day.

Having spent the past few days dealing with various affairs in the village, an intelligence officer hurried into the office and handed the latest intelligence from the Land of Rain to Ōnoki.

"Tsuchikage, urgent intelligence from the Land of Rain."

Ōnoki nodded, opened the intelligence report, and quickly scanned through it.

His brow furrowed involuntarily as internal strife broke out once again among the Allied Forces in the Land of Rain, with Zebon sending word that the Third Kazekage was about to arrive in the Land of Rain.

Tapping his fingers lightly against the desk, Ōnoki sensed something suspicious about this internal strife, given that it was the Stone shinobi who had initiated it.

Takuma was an Iwagakure Elite, possessing a broader perspective than ordinary Stone shinobi, and even Takuma had turned against the Sand Shinobi at a critical juncture; could it be that he had sensed some conspiracy, or been manipulated?

In Ōnoki's eyes, the situation in the Land of Rain was growing increasingly elusive and unfathomable.

He slowly left his seat, walked over to the window, and looked down at Iwagakure.

The village looked like a massive construction site, with the devastation from this latest rampage by the Four-Tails being even more severe than the one from over a year ago.

During that previous occasion, Ōnoki had personally presided over the village and suppressed it; powerful though a Tailed Beast was, it could not unleash its full strength.

With this rampage of the Four-Tails, Ōnoki had investigated thoroughly for days, yet the whole affair lacked a single clue and remained full