What had happened in Kirigakure could not be kept secret forever, and word eventually spread throughout the Shinobi World.
If the incident with the One-Tail had already made the nations wary of the Akatsuki, Kirigakure having two jinchūriki taken from it left the other shinobi villages fearing they would be next.
After all, although Sunagakure and Kirigakure ranked at the bottom of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, neither was a village the others could challenge.
The only conclusion was that the Akatsuki was even stronger than the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
And so, the small shinobi villages that no one in the Shinobi World paid any attention to began stirring, either reaching out to the Five Great Shinobi Villages or contacting Amegakure, where the Akatsuki was based.
They had never lacked opportunism. Once destruction came, sitting and waiting would only mean their demise.
At home, Zou Hyuga took a letter from the little shark summoning beast, tossed him into the pond, and added plenty of fish before sitting down on the tatami nearby.
The endearingly goofy shark was, naturally, Kisame's summoning beast, falling firmly into the seafood category.
When Zou Hyuga opened the letter, he found crooked handwriting and a strong fishy smell.
In the letter, Kisame reported that he had strictly followed Zou's orders, protecting Kirigakure's elder, Genji, without participating in the operation to capture the Fourth Mizukage and the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
Zou Hyuga had little interest in what had happened to the two jinchūriki. The only one with any connection to him was Naruto, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
If they really could not capture the Three-Tails' jinchūriki, he might suggest at a meeting that they use Impure World Reincarnation on the previous host. A reanimated body could be milked for chakra just as well.
Whether Obito, who was obsessed