Hatake Sakumo already enjoyed tremendous renown throughout the shinobi world. The Iwagakure ninja had never expected to seize the territory under his command in one fell swoop, but when word arrived that Roshi might have been captured, the senior officers in their camp could no longer sit still.
Roshi was one of Iwagakure Ninja Village's jinchūriki. Jinchūriki were a product of the measures Hashirama Senju had devised to balance the tailed beasts among the Five Great Nations. Whether or not that balance had already failed, jinchūriki remained immensely valuable. No shinobi village could easily bear the loss of one.
"Han! Are you certain Roshi was captured by the enemy?" someone shouted at Han during the Iwagakure ninja's war council in the camp.
"I'm certain." Even now, recalling it left Han shaken. "If the tailed beast chakra hadn't drastically enhanced my physical abilities, including my senses, I might not have made it back either. There was an incredibly dangerous enemy there. His chakra terrified even the tailed beast inside me."
One reason Han had chosen to leave without hesitation was that Hatake Sakumo's squad already had him tied down. If another powerful opponent joined them, even the power of a tailed beast might not keep him from falling into a disadvantage. The other reason was that Five-Tails Kokuō inside him had sensed a peculiar chakra that put him on guard.
To some extent, chakra carried an individual's personal characteristics, and the chakra of ninja related by blood tended to share similar qualities. In Kazemori Masaki's previous life, it would have been equivalent to the concept of DNA. Identifying whether people shared a bloodline through their chakra was also a fairly common method in the shinobi world.
The chakra of Mangekyō Sharingan wielders likewise shared certain similarities. Over the past thousand years,