After all, Kumogakure's war losses had been far greater than Kirigakure's, hadn't they?
Samui lightly bit her lip and nodded again.
Wasn't it just a matter of clinging to the Hokage's coattails?
There was no shame in that!
Sunagakure, Land of Wind.
Fourth Kazekage Rasa was also ready to depart.
Rasa was not as resigned as Samui, as optimistic as Mei Terumi, or as grimly resolute as Ōnoki.
As for the Fourth Kazekage's mood at that moment, how should one put it...
He felt rather conflicted.
As for the agenda of this Five Kage Summit...
Uchiha Minamoto had already informed the other four Ninja Villages.
It was all about the Akatsuki and the Tailed Beasts!
The Akatsuki could be set aside for now.
The key was the Tailed Beasts!
Rasa knew perfectly well that Konoha's Fifth Hokage had reclaimed several Tailed Beasts from Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Iwagakure in succession.
Kumogakure and Iwagakure in particular.
All four Tailed Beasts the First Hokage had sold to those two villages decades ago had been reclaimed by the Fifth Hokage!
Konoha now had six Tailed Beasts in its possession once again!
The Fifth Hokage had made it all sound so high-minded, talking about how the Akatsuki was collecting Tailed Beasts...
But the Akatsuki hadn't collected anywhere near as many Tailed Beasts as Konoha!
Rasa strongly suspected...
Uchiha Minamoto intended to collect the Tailed Beasts too!
Then again...
Uchiha Minamoto reclaiming the Three-Tails and the other Tailed Beasts from villages like Kirigakure could be considered "war reparations."
But Konoha and Sunagakure hadn't gone to war in nearly ten years.
Surely that Fifth Hokage had no reason to seize the One-Tail from Sunagakure?
Besides...
When the First Hokage had sold the Tailed Beasts back then, the One-Tail hadn't been included!
The One-Tail had been sealed