The other nations' first reaction was...
Holy shit, pick somewhere decent to defect to! Why choose the Land of Grass? Don't you know that guy is threatening the safety of the entire world?!
How could you be so selfish?!
Do you want to get launched into the sky?!
Unfortunately, they were dealing with the Land of Grass. Every nation was inherently at a disadvantage when facing it now, and they had not even managed to get their jinchūriki and tailed beasts back.
That man was simply too terrifying.
Destroying a nation single-handedly probably was not beyond him.
With the Land of Waterfalls pulling this move, the biggest headaches belonged to its former neighbors: the Land of Earth, the Land of Fire, and the Land of Rice Fields. The Land of Rice Fields in particular was trembling with fear.
They dreaded becoming the next small nation to be annexed. They did not have military forces as powerful as the Land of Rain's, and were not even remotely comparable to the Land of Waterfalls.
Konoha, meanwhile, was speechless.
All the friendly relations Takigakure had maintained with them before had been nothing but an act. Otherwise, why would it choose to submit to another nation?
What a bunch of ungrateful bastards!
However, Takigakure had no intention of speaking up now. After all, its very foundations now belonged to Kusagakure, and even the ninja stationed there were from Kusagakure's Twelfth Division.
From now on, its village leaders would also need Kusagakure's approval before officially taking office.
Fortunately, apart from that, the peaceful world inside the waterfall had not been affected much.
Outside, however, sweeping reforms engulfed the entire Land of Waterfalls. Its daimyō hurriedly fled with his funds, leaving only an empty Daimyō Residence behind.
The collapse of the administrative structure made it easy