Konoha's forces, organized into ninja squads, gathered one after another in the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.
The Cloud Shinobi had all pulled back. Apart from Kumogakure, five kilometers away, there were no Cloud Shinobi anywhere else in the Land of Lightning.
The border?
We were already fighting a siege around the village, and I was supposed to keep guarding the Land of Lightning's border?
"Reporting! Inuzuka Li's squad reporting for duty! Assigned strength: fifteen! Present: nine!"
"Reporting! Taiga's squad reporting for duty! Assigned strength: fifteen! Present: seven!"
"Reporting! ..."
"Reporting! ..."
As Danzo's trusted lieutenant and the camp's model worker, Yamanaka Arashi now had his pen flying across the page!
He only wished he had another pair of hands.
His heart surged with excitement too!
A counterattack against the Land of Lightning, the bandit of the Shinobi World! An army at the gates of one of the Five Great Nations!
The Shinobi World had never experienced anything like this. A sense of honor filled the heart of every ninja on the Eastern Front.
Never mind the two wars-even outside wartime, Kumogakure had constantly clawed at the Land of Fire's borders. Not to mention that they had plotted the death of Konoha's Second Hokage!
Calling it a blood feud was no exaggeration!
Today was the day to avenge that hatred!
Danzo sat inside the tent, his trembling legs betraying his agitation.
He dipped his brush in ink and swept it across the desk, writing a lengthy declaration of war! His strokes seemed to pierce the paper!
[In days past, our revered teacher's kindness weighed as heavily as the mountains and ran as deeply as the sea.]
[Yet under the pretext of an alliance, those people turned to treachery, bringing their blades to our revered teacher's neck, staining a foreign land