Sunagakure could no longer hold its front against Kirigakure. Naturally, it could not hold the Konoha front either.
Sunagakure had already agreed to surrender. The negotiations were simply dragging on.
Because by now, there was no one left in Sunagakure who could speak for the village.
Rasa and Ebizo were not the only Kage Level fighters Sunagakure had lost. The Quasi-Kage and Elite Jonin among Rasa's loyalists were dead too. Who was left to take charge?
So Pakura and Karura had no choice but to seek peace this time.
If they failed, this front would likely fall as well.
At the thought, Pakura and Karura shook their heads helplessly.
"Lord Yagura, is the intelligence report true?"
"It's a top-secret letter from Kirigakure's Assassination Squad. It should be." The speaker was a short, baby-faced man with silver hair, purple eyes, and a scar beneath his left eye that looked like a line of stitches.
He was Yagura, the future Fourth Mizukage.
At this point, however, Yagura was not the Three-Tails Jinchūriki, and it was unclear whether Madara Uchiha had taken control of him.
Holding a club-like weapon with a hook at the tip and green flowers adorning it, he lay in ambush along the road to Kirigakure.
"B-but it's hard to believe. How could the Sand Ninja do something like this? They sent their last two Kage Level fighters here as bargaining chips for peace?" a Mist Ninja said in disbelief.
"That's human nature for you. People are more terrifying than war."
"The elders of Sunagakure probably don't get along with Pakura and Karura, do they? Maybe they're afraid the two will seize power when they return."
"What an ugly little scheme." Contempt flashed through Yagura's eyes.
"Enough talk. We're here to ambush them and bring their bodies back."
"I hear