They had never imagined they would run into Uchiha Yin on the battlefield.
"Not going to run? And what was that Signal Smoke you set off supposed to mean?" Uchiha Yin smiled, giving nothing away.
"Our village ordered us to flee without hesitation if we encountered Hatake Sakumo or Minato Namikaze and had no powerful senior ninja with us. The village wouldn't blame us."
"But if we encountered you, or a woman named Kaguya..."
He drew a deep breath, as though resigned to his fate. "No matter how many people are with us or who they are, we must send up a warning signal at once. As long as we do that, the village will raise our families as the families of heroes!"
The village had said nothing about whether it would blame them if they fled.
Rasa had glimpsed a fraction of Uchiha Yin's and Kaguya's strength. He didn't believe anyone could escape either of them.
Because there was no escaping.
Of the four great Ninja Villages other than Konoha, Sunagakure probably took Uchiha Yin's strength the most seriously.
Even Kirigakure, now under Madara Uchiha's control, did not take it as seriously as Sunagakure did.
The reason was simple: Black Zetsu had not told Madara Uchiha how powerful Kaguya and Uchiha Yin were.
So Kirigakure had no idea just how strong Uchiha Yin was.
Rasa, now the Fourth Kazekage, understood Uchiha Yin's strength all too clearly.
In Rasa's mind, Sunagakure had no hope of standing against Uchiha Yin unless every one of its leaders gathered to fight him.
Rasa hated Uchiha Yin deeply, but he would not underestimate him because of it.
That was why Rasa had issued the order.
Sunagakure's leaders had objected at first, but in the end, they backed his decision.
Of course, the rule was