In the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, Uchiha Mu sat in his office, listening as White Zetsu detailed the situation in the shinobi world.
"I never thought Konoha would actually join forces with Kumogakure and Kirigakure. Iwagakure will definitely be next. Mu, should we strike first?" Keiko Uzumaki was furious. She felt they had already treated the shinobi villages well enough.
They had ceded a huge share of the profits from the factories they ran with Konoha, yet even that had not satisfied them. Now they actually wanted to attack. It was simply unforgivable. This time, they would have to wipe the enemy out.
"No. If we strike first, we become the aggressors. Let them form their alliance." Uchiha Mu was not worried.
"But..."
"Keiko, calm down. We have the intelligence advantage. We're in an unbeatable position." Uchiha Mu had not expected this either. He had been quietly making his money during the Great Ninja War, only for several shinobi villages to band together against him.
That was interesting, but it was not the most important issue. Uchiha Mu asked, "How many people have moved onto our territory lately because of the war?"
"Two hundred thousand since the war began," Keiko Uzumaki replied.
The shinobi world had been chaotic before, but the fighting had been between shinobi clans. After the shinobi villages were founded, Hashirama Senju's presence had reduced it to clashes between squads. No matter how good the rumors about the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation were, people had not wanted to leave their hometowns.
The First Shinobi World War, however, had slapped them awake. Its scale far surpassed anything before it, and there were even nuclear blasts. One civilian settlement had been caught in the blast of a Tailed Beast Bomb fired by the Eight-Tails. Everyone there had perished.
When the news