"A terrifying force is hiding in the Shinobi World. I suspect Kinkaku and Ginkaku's rebellion, the fall of the Land of Whirlpools, and the fighting between Kirigakure and Iwagakure may all have been connected to it," Mito Uzumaki said, her expression turning grave.
"Kirigakure and Iwagakure?" Uchiha Yi thought of the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage. Truthfully, when those two fought during the First Shinobi World War, it had caught everyone by surprise.
After all, the Land of Water lay in the southeast, while the Land of Earth lay in the northwest. The two countries could hardly have been farther apart.
Yet during the war, those two countries had fought bitterly, as if neither would stop until the other was destroyed. No one seemed to understand what had set them against each other, but fight they did.
At first, Uchiha Yi had suspected Tobirama Senju of stirring up trouble between the two countries. After all, Tobirama Senju had done plenty of underhanded things.
Back in that era, whenever something smelled of a conspiracy, Tobirama Senju was the first person Uchiha Yi suspected.
Just as, in the future, whenever something happened, he would suspect Shimura Danzō.
"Yes. These White Ones can clearly pass themselves off as the real thing." Mito Uzumaki sighed. "But you can rest easy. There are none of them in Konoha, so you don't need to suspect the people in the village. Once you leave, though, you must be wary of everything outside.
"I thought they were isolated incidents before. Now it seems they're making a comeback.
"They've even set their sights on you!"
Mito Uzumaki refused to let Kushina Uzumaki go out again. Uchiha Yi could protect himself, but Kushina Uzumaki certainly could not.
Nawaki needed to be reined in as well. If anything happened to