Rendezvous

With the list in hand, Hatake Sakumo walked out of the Hokage Building.

He thought back over the intelligence he had just read and knew he might not have been able to do what Fugaku had done.

Konoha's secret communication network was pushed to its limits. Two hundred elite shinobi received their orders without anyone noticing.

Throughout Konoha, elite shinobi disguised themselves as ordinary villagers, quietly left the village, and headed toward the Land of the Moon.

Message Hawks flew thick and fast through the forests of the Land of the Moon. Many carried reports from Cloud shinobi stationed in various towns, covering both the Land of the Moon and the Land of Fire.

In the tent where the camp's intelligence was relayed, Fugaku continued playing the role of Mizuhara, a Kumogakure intelligence officer. Jieyi remained firmly under his control.

A quiet day passed. Fugaku spent most of it watching every shinobi in the camp, making sure no one sent another message back and ruined his plan.

Kumogakure's reply arrived quickly. Elder Tanaka and Yukui had set out with fifty village elites and would reach the camp in the next few days.

Fugaku frowned. Yukui was a name he had never heard before.

"Jieyi, have you heard of Yukui in Kumogakure?"

Jieyi thought for a moment. "Vaguely. He should be the village's Two-Tails Jinchūriki. They've kept him well hidden. There's no intelligence about him anywhere in the Shinobi World."

Fugaku nodded. Yugito, the Two-Tails' current Jinchūriki, probably had not been born yet, or had only just been born.

If Yukui had become the Two-Tails' Jinchūriki after the First Shinobi World War, Kumogakure had not fought in another Shinobi World War since. With the village deliberately keeping him secret as well,

it made sense that he had never been exposed.

Still.