Chapter 1003: War
After the Akatsuki members arrived in the Land of Iron, they mostly dispersed and split into four groups.
Su Xiao, Bubtni, and Amu were left with about Three Wolves. Su Xiao decided to wait for an opportunity. It wasn't wise to try to break into this fortress right now.
Five people, Sasuke, Zetsu, Karin, Suigetsu Hozuki, and Juugo decided to sneak in and wait for the five Kage to arrive.
Deidara flew on his clay bird and surveyed the surroundings. Given that it was currently a blizzard and everything seemed to be buried in the snow, it was almost impossible to detect it.
Obito also stayed around Three Wolves waiting for an opportunity.
The cold wind howled endlessly and blew snow everywhere.
A sledge was standing in a snowdrift, half covered with snow.
Su Xiao sat on the sledge, occasionally shaking off the snow that fell on his head.
Right now, he was watching Bubtney and Amu closely, as these two guys were currently having a showdown with each other.
Bubtney and Amu stared at each other. Their eyes stared at each other intently, and right in the middle of their bodies, sparks seemed to occasionally flash.
Bubtny's eyes were wide open and bloodshot, and he held up his eyelids with his paws to keep them from blinking..
Amu, on the other hand, was holding his eyes with his fingers, and there were tears in his eyes for a long time.
Twenty minutes ago, Bubtney, who apparently had nothing better to do, approached Amu and decided to play a "fun game" with him.».
The name of the game was peekaboo, and it was very simple-they had to stare at each other, and whoever blinked first had to eat twenty kilos of snow.
And here they were, staring at each other for a full 20 minutes, but compared to Amu's terrifying 85 points of stamina, Bubtney was obviously not that good at this game.
After about 30 minutes, Bubtney closed his eyes tightly.
He couldn't hold back any longer.
— Ho-ho-ho, " Amu laughed and started beating his chest with his fists like he was a gorilla.
Bubtney lowered his head and chewed on the snow with tears in his eyes.
He had to eat 20 kilos of snow no matter what.
Just as Bubtny was eating snow with tears in his eyes, the nearby space suddenly swirled and a figure emerged from the vortex.
Immediately after, the whirlwind disappeared, and the figure calmly stepped on the snow.
*Hr-r-r*
Two footprints appeared in the snow.
Obito came to see him, but the purpose of his visit was questionable.
— You look very relaxed, " Obito said, and stepped forward. Looking at Bubtney, he doubted what he saw, as he couldn't understand why he was eating snow.
— Hiccup, " Bubtney suddenly hiccupped and immediately belched.
Twenty kilos of snow were successfully destroyed.
— Do you think I'll be like Sasuke? Do you want me to go inside and set up an ambush? Su Xiao asked and looked at Obito sideways, and Obito smiled.
Of course, he knew that Su Xiao wouldn't go there like Sasuke.
— I'm going to take this opportunity to declare war on the five great shinobi villages, " Obito said and looked at the Three Wolves Mountains in the distance.
— So early? Su Xiao wasn't sure why Obito wanted to declare war right now. In the original story, Obito decided to fight the five great shinobi villages only after receiving help from Kabuto Yakushi.
— This is just a simple declaration of war, not the war itself. Moreover, even if we don't declare war, nothing will change. You should have thought about the purpose of this meeting of the five Kage, " Obito said, and sighed.
In fact, he didn't want to declare war right now, as the timing wasn't right at all.
Su Xiao understood what Obito wanted to say with those words.
This meeting was decided to be held, firstly, because each village lost its tailed one. The best thing to do now was to sit down and discuss things with each other.
Second, they wanted to discuss forming an alliance against Akatsuki.
Akatsuki really did a lot of bad things. At first, Akatsuki was nothing more than a group of rebel mercenaries, and with the exception of Hidden Cloud Village, all other shinobi villages hired Akatsuki at least once to participate in business on their behalf.
In fact, Akatsuki's heyday couldn't be unrelated to Hidden Cloud Village.
Although Akatsuki and Hidden Cloud Village seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but in reality, it wasn't. Hidden Cloud Village certainly didn't trust this organization and didn't want to hire it, however, it wasn't that simple.
Hidden Cloud Village had expanded very rapidly over the past ten years, and it was buying up ninjutsu everywhere, which required huge funds from the daimyo of Lightning Country. Of course, since the daimyo of the Lightning Country refused to allocate so much money, Hidden Cloud Village could only start developing its own technologies and techniques, which eventually led to an increase in the village's strength and replenishment of its treasury.
Due to the relatively peaceful situation, the daimyos of the five major countries began to reduce the funds that were allocated to provide Shinobi villages. This caused the villages to weaken, but that was normal. After all, in peacetime, shinobi were very expensive killers in the eyes of ordinary people. They were weapons, but no one needed weapons in peacetime, so all the daimyos cut down on the funds allocated and spent them on other things.
This caused the combat capability of the four main shinobi villages: Konoha, Hidden Sand Village, Hidden Mist Village, and Hidden Stone Village to gradually weaken, while Hidden Cloud Village quickly became stronger.
The other four major shinobi villages had no choice but to use relatively cheap means to deal with Hidden Cloud Village.
The Akatsuki organization was undoubtedly the best choice for suppressing this village. In fact, the cost of hiring people from Akatsuki was too low, the cost of "creating" 3 good chunins from scratch was much more expensive than hiring people from this organization.
So how could the four big villages not have resorted to the services of this organization?
Hidden Cloud Village played an important role in the development of Akatsuki, though not directly, but indirectly.
But the current situation was such that once the five Kage's meeting started, regardless of the outcome, they would all definitely be able to come to the same conclusion — they would want to destroy Akatsuki.
Given this, whether Obito declares war or not won't really decide anything. Instead of waiting for the enemy to strike, Obito decided to strike first, at least they would be in a better position.
The gathering of the five Kage couldn't be stopped, and it was impossible to kill all five Kage at once, so no matter how hard they tried, they wouldn't be able to avoid a war with the five main shinobi villages.
So Obito decided to kill one or two Kage, and then immediately declare war on all five villages, which would cause them to descend into chaos.
That the five villages wanted to deal with Akatsuki was very clear. After all, Akatsuki had captured virtually all of the tailed ones, and even if they declared war first, that wasn't really the main thing.
Akatsuki had an advantage that none of the villages had.
While all shinobi villages could only operate in daylight, they could also operate under the cover of night.
In fact, it wasn't the five main villages that decided when the war would actually start, but Akatsuki herself.
— Then declare war, but... " Su Xiao's voice suddenly dropped by half a tone, and hearing Su Xiao's words, Obito's pupils narrowed.
— Obito seemed to hesitate. — Very well.
Obito and Su Xiao reached a consensus.
Now all they had to do was wait.
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A day later, inside a tall tower in the middle of the Three Wolves Mountains.
This tower was very old. It was built at the very beginning of the birth of the Country of Iron.
This ancient tower didn't seem old and covered a large area. Initially, it was supposed to be the size of a football field. There were secrets hidden inside the tower. Its shape somewhat resembled a pyramid with a huge foundation and a pointed top.
Since the Country of Iron had to receive such high-ranking guests, it had completely prepared the sixth floor of the tower, the highest floor of the tower.
This would not only show the good attitude of the Iron Country towards its guests, but also help avoid some security issues.
The tower itself was built of solid stone and in fact was no worse than any military fortress, and due to the complex passages and the presence of a huge number of deceptions, without having a map or not knowing the inside of this tower, you could easily get lost in it.
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