Konoha.
"Hyuga Akira!!" Nawaki slammed the intelligence report onto the desk, his face contorted.
Minato Namikaze, who was collecting documents nearby, asked curiously, "What happened this time?"
Nawaki tossed the report to Minato Namikaze. "Read it."
Minato Namikaze took the report. It stated that Hyuga Akira had led a group of rogue ninja in an attack on Iwagakure, then gone out alone and nearly destroyed Takigakure.
"What on earth is he trying to do?!" Nawaki looked distraught. "Things had finally become peaceful. Why would he take it upon himself to do something like this?"
Minato Namikaze shook his head. "I wouldn't necessarily call it peaceful."
"Lately, shinobi from the major nations have been trying to assassinate the daimyo at the Daimyo Mansion. They've all failed, but the daimyo has ordered us in Konoha to punish them."
Sending people to punish the other ninja villages-how was that any different from starting a war?
Nawaki stared hard at Minato Namikaze. "Minato, you know what Hyuga Akira is planning, don't you?!"
He knew Minato Namikaze was close to Hyuga Akira and that the two were plotting something.
He should have been there at the time, but his primary personality had blocked all those memories. He knew nothing of the details.
So he could only direct his suspicions toward Minato Namikaze.
"Lord Hokage," Minato Namikaze said calmly, "Akira is wary of me now, too."
He had wanted to visit Hyuga Akira's wife, but had not been allowed to. It was clear that Hyuga Akira trusted no one now.
Nawaki sighed helplessly.
"So, Lord Hokage, what do you intend to do?" Minato Namikaze asked.
"Convene a Five Kage Summit," Nawaki said gravely.
"What?!" Minato Namikaze looked at Nawaki in astonishment.
The Five Kage Summit had long existed as a system that allowed the five