The waves were still churning violently. Countless shattered shipwrecks littered these waters, rising and falling with the swell.
"Sarutobi!!"
Chiyo roared Hiruzen Sarutobi's surname in impotent fury.
Because every last wreck scattered across the sea belonged to her Sunagakure!
Only two of the Sand Shinobi's ships had escaped disaster, and of those two, one was barely staying afloat, looking ready to follow in the Titanic's wake.
Sunagakure had suffered devastating losses!
Before even coming face-to-face with the enemy, they had already lost half their manpower.
Sarutobi was congratulating himself on having stationed one or two mainstays aboard every Konoha warship, keeping their losses in the tsunami relatively small.
Then he heard Chiyo's furious shout as she took her anger out on him, and he paused awkwardly.
"Elder Chiyo, it's all right. I'll give you two ships afterward. You can squeeze aboard without any trouble."
Chiyo nearly burst with rage at Sarutobi's "consolation."
With Sunagakure leaderless and without a Kazekage, we answered your summons to attack the Land of Water hoping to get a juicy bite for ourselves and divert some of the village's internal conflicts along the way.
Well, now we haven't tasted the meat or even had a sip of the broth, and over half our "conflicts" are gone!
Didn't Konoha claim to be a righteous force, the police of the Shinobi World?
How come you only looked after yourselves when disaster struck and ignored your allies?
Ships? Do you think those two ships are what I want!?
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The dull sounds of blows punching through the hulls made the Konoha Ninja, Sarutobi included, blanch!
Chiyo and the Sand Shinobi felt a little gleeful at their misfortune, but their faces fell again when they remembered they were all in the same boat.
"Patch the leaks!"
Sarutobi knew