Kumogakure was different from Iwagakure. The entire village could be considered militant, and the people who lived there all had a strong appetite for battle. That was why Shin Uchiha intended to make this quick.
Kumogakure did not have much worth coveting. Aside from the Raikage's Lightning Release Armor and Darui's Storm Release, there were only the two tailed beasts, the Eight-Tails and the Two-Tails.
In the latter half of the night, a very faint figure suddenly appeared atop a mountain some distance from Kumogakure. The moment he appeared, he blended into his surroundings.
Even if someone had been watching that mountaintop the whole time, they would have dismissed the fleeting figure as a trick of the eyes. They would never have imagined that an outsider was preparing to invade Kumogakure.
Kumogakure had always possessed formidable fighting strength, and the village's power structure was ranked entirely by strength. If you were strong enough, even the position of Raikage could be yours.
This made it completely unlike the other villages. It was almost like a mafia organization-even their Raikage had his subordinates call him "boss."
It was a village that prized strength above all else and sought abilities that could make its people stronger. That was why they were so keen on collecting tailed beasts, and why they could never forget Konoha's Byakugan.
Standing on the mountaintop against the biting wind, Shin Uchiha gazed at Kumogakure in the distance. He was using the Camouflage Concealment Technique for the first time in a while, blending his figure into the surroundings.
"Byakugan-activate!"
With a thought from Shin Uchiha, the Byakugan that had already become part of him quietly activated.
Unlike the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, his did not cause veins to bulge at the sides of his eyes when activated. Perhaps it was because