What came next was the negotiation between Konoha and the Sand Ninja.
Konoha could not wipe out the Sand Ninja. Even if it had the power to do so, it could not afford to.
If the other Ninja Villages learned that Konoha had destroyed the Sand Ninja, they would drop everything and unite to attack Konoha first.
No one wanted to see Konoha absorb Sunagakure and grow that much stronger.
Konoha knew that, of course. What it needed was a Sunagakure that would submit to it.
Unless a Ninja Village could one day sweep across the entire Shinobi World on its own, wiping out one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages was all but impossible.
Seeing the Fourth Kazekage yield, Shikaku Nara nodded and agreed.
What followed would be a long negotiation.
Uchiha Yin and the others had no need to get involved. They only had to wait for orders. They might be stationed there to defend the area, sent back to Konoha, or dispatched to another battlefield. It all depended on their assignments.
Uchiha Yin and Uchiha Mikoto received orders to return to Konoha, while Tsunade and Kushina received none.
"The Uchiha Clan must have put pressure on them to bring you two back," Tsunade said with a frown.
"It takes at least five days to get here from Konoha, and the fighting on the Sand Ninja battlefield has only just ended. The news probably hasn't even reached Konoha, yet your orders are already here. I'm afraid the Uchiha Clan has plans for you."
Indeed, an intelligence ninja must have brought those orders before the war ended. Otherwise, they could not have arrived so soon...
"They probably heard Mikoto awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and couldn't sit still," Uchiha Yin said with a smile.
"Really? If that were it, wouldn't