"Damn Konoha! They actually dared invade the Land of Rain while Lord Hanzō was away. We absolutely cannot let the Konoha ninja look down on us!"
A Rain jonin spoke furiously. None of them believed Lord Hanzō would die, and in their eyes, Konoha's actions were a provocation against Amegakure.
Not long after Uchiha Fugaku and the others entered the Land of Rain, the Rain ninja received word. The man in charge at the time was Yu Zang, Amegakure's third-in-command, an elite among jonin. He normally handled some of Amegakure's affairs, and when Hanzō was absent, he made many of the village's decisions.
"Prepare for war. Konoha has fewer than two hundred people this time. We'll teach them a lesson, then immediately go search for news of Lord Hanzō."
Yu Zang spoke decisively. He knew Uchiha Fugaku and Shisui Uchiha were among the Konoha ninja, but so what? They had only a little over a hundred people, while the Rain had mobilized more than seven hundred ninja this time.
With a threefold difference in numbers, Yu Zang did not think Amegakure would lose. Besides, in his view, under Lord Hanzō's leadership, Amegakure had become the strongest ninja village beneath the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and could even barely negotiate peace with two great ninja villages.
The Second Shinobi World War had been Amegakure's most glorious era, and a period many Rain ninja yearned for.
The Rain ninja immediately sprang into action, sending out many scouting ninja to confirm Konoha's movements. Once they confirmed there was no ambush, they would launch a large-scale attack on the Konoha ninja. With their overwhelming numerical advantage, Yu Zang could not imagine how Amegakure could lose.
Konoha paid no attention whatsoever to the Rain's movements. They trusted the weapons Nawaki had given them, and even