After the Otsutsuki Toneri crisis, the Kage of every village understood the importance of the Search Team.
Now, virtually no one opposed this mission.
Even though the search took up the precious time of each village's Jonin.
After all, everyone could now see how great a threat the Ōtsutsuki Clan posed to the Shinobi World, so naturally, they dared not let their guard down at all.
But the lack of opposition among the villages' higher-ups did not mean their lower- and middle-ranking Ninja had no objections.
Although the higher-ups could forcibly suppress these dissenting views, if too many people objected, the Kage of each village would have a hard time brushing them off.
Now that the Search Team had produced results, they had something to show the lower- and middle-ranking Ninja.
That made things much easier.
Of course, Konoha was the exception.
Shihōin Naraku had forged Konoha into a solid, unified whole. His orders were absolute!
"Three days... the Intelligence Department has already worked very quickly," Naraku murmured to himself.
The investigation into the information from these ruins should be more or less complete now.
More scattered bits of intelligence or news might emerge later, but they certainly would not be as accurate or complete as the first batch.
After all, Sasuke Uchiha and the others had found only a single ruin, and a damaged one at that.
Obtaining this much intelligence was already quite an achievement.
He lowered his head in thought for a moment, then called out, "Someone, come in!"
An answering voice came from outside the door. An Anbu Ninja pushed it open, entered, and knelt on one knee.
"Go summon Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shikaku Nara to the Hokage's Office. We have important matters to discuss!"
"Yes!"
The ANBU figure flickered and vanished from the office.
Naraku