Chaos

Several ninja walked over to Fugaku and said, "Captain, Kumogakure's attitude is far from optimistic. Dispatching ninja to Konoha at a time like this means they likely harbor covetous intentions toward Konoha."

"We are allies with Kumogakure and just cooperated to force the Stone-Sand Allied Forces to retreat. Who would have thought they would turn around and send ninja to sneak into the Land of Fire to probe Konoha's reality and illusion."

Fugaku nodded and said, "Previously we were allies with Kumogakure and even signed a peace treaty, but those things are just waste paper in the face of tangible interests and can be torn up at any moment.

The reason Kumogakure was willing to send troops to help Konoha earlier was because Konoha paid a hefty price in interests, and Kumogakure itself coveted the Land of Earth's territory, wanting to seize an enclave close to the Land of Lightning in the Land of Earth to expand its own turf.

Otherwise, given the Third Raikage's profit-driven personality, how could he easily help Konoha force back the Stone-Sand Allied Forces."

In the valley, all the Konoha shinobi had fully gathered, and the remaining medical ninja got busy. In the battle with the Cloud shinobi, quite a few ninja were injured, especially the heavily injured Chunin who urgently needed medical treatment.

The sky gradually sank into darkness.

Inside Fugaku's tent, Aida Uchiha walked in.

"Aida, what is the matter."

"Fugaku, the situation is not optimistic. Viroi is the Raikage's confidant; once news of his death in the Land of Fire spreads, Kumogakure will likely use this as an excuse to directly dispatch troops.

Or use it as leverage to force Konoha to hand over the culprit. After all, you are one of Konoha's few genius ninja, and quite a few senior officials