Naruto: I'm Not a Pokémon

Chapter 481 I hope everyone is OK

After Jiraiya left, Kaito did not return to the Mizukage's office immediately, but continued to think in the conference room.

According to Jiraiya.

This time, the Five Kage Summit was initiated in the name of Konoha.

But in fact, it was Kazekage Rasa who first proposed it to Namikaze Minato.

The incident began with an attack on the Sunagakure Village, which nearly resulted in the loss of the One-Tail, Shukaku.

Naturally, at first, Rasa, the Kazekage, had no intention of revealing the embarrassing truth: that a single intruder had breached their heavily guarded secret base where the Tailed Beast was stored, nearly stolen Shukaku, and then escaped with ease.

The Sunagakure Village side just wanted to blackmail the Konoha side by using the Sharingan and Wood Style Bloodline Limit displayed by the attacker.

After all, the so-called "Uchiha Thief" wanted by Konoha had previously claimed that he was Uchiha Madara, and also demonstrated the two abilities of Sharingan and Wood Style.

Regardless of whether the other party is really Uchiha Madara, he is definitely a traitor of Konoha.

Moreover, the timing of the attack happened to be during the Joint Chunin Exam.

You know, it was Konoha that initially proposed to jointly hold the Chunin Exam.

In short, Rasa has ten thousand reasons to blame Konoha for his own losses.

As a result, while the two villages were still negotiating, news came from Kirigakure that they had been attacked.

Even after resisting the attack, they issued a wanted notice for Kakuzu and Mōryō, obviously having already identified the attackers.

Naturally, the two villages were in no mood to continue arguing.

A single person attacking and causing chaos and an organized provocation against three of the five major ninja villages are two completely different concepts.

However, until this point, neither village had considered the so-called Five Kage Summit.

After all, Konohagakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure villages are still open allies today.

Moreover, they had just held the joint Chunin Exam, and seemed to be trying to deepen cooperation.

All of them were attacked, which makes it hard not to think of the other two of the five major villages.

Besides, Kumogakure has not yet stopped small-scale frictions with Konoha on the border.

Even if they want to hold a Five Kage Summit, they don't have the conditions for it.

However, before Konoha and Sunagakure could invite Kirigakure to learn the details of the attack and make further plans.

The news that the Four-Tails Jinchuriki of Iwagakure, Roshi, was attacked and disappeared finally came out.

And according to the intelligence, the attack occurred at the same time as the attacks on Kirigakure and Sunagakure Village.

At the same time, there are four, or even more, unknown Kage-level strongmen.

And they had the courage to launch attacks on four of the five major ninja villages.

This has exceeded the bottom line tacitly followed by the five major ninja villages.

Moreover, this is a real case of a tailed beast being lost, so this matter can be a big deal or a small one.

Obviously, if the loss of the tailed beasts is not an isolated incident, then they have to look at the bigger picture.

As soon as the news came out, even Sarutobi Hiruzen, who had previously advocated peace, knew that the matter was serious.

Even at this time, Sunagakure and Konohagakure no longer doubted the Kumogakure Village which had not been attacked.

If the Kumogakure Village still had so many masters hiding in secret, plus the Fourth Raikage and Eight-Tails Killer Bee in the open, they wouldn't have fought with Konoha to such a point of mutual destruction in the previous battlefield.

The Five Kage Summit is inevitable!

In order to facilitate the Five Kage Summit, Konoha and Sunagakure prepared to join forces with Kirigakure and Iwagakure, who had also been attacked, to put pressure on Kumogakure.

End this meaningless war as soon as possible and work together to deal with the secret organization hiding in the dark that dares to challenge the authority of the five major ninja villages.

But now, what Kaito is thinking about is not whether to attend the Five Kage Summit.

Although his apparent reply to Jiraiya was that Kirigakure needed to know Iwagakure's attitude before they would put pressure on Kumogakure together.

But this was just an excuse that Kaito came up with on the spur of the moment.

Kaito would definitely not be absent from this meeting which concerns the overall situation.

What really troubled him now was,

"Elder Genji, do you think we need to help those behind the scenes?"

Upon hearing this, Elder Genji frowned at first, but then he immediately understood what Kaito meant.

"Mizukage-sama is worried that Uchiha Obito and his men are not ready to face the siege from the Ninja World?"

Although Kaito didn't say anything, he nodded slightly.

That's right, this is what Kaito is really worried about.

Previously, when he was working with Elder Genji to plan the future of the Kirigakure Village.

Both of them believed that allowing Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu, the masterminds behind the scenes, to wreak havoc in the ninja world would be the best situation for Kirigakure.

On the one hand, while Uchiha Obito is stirring up trouble and collecting the tailed beasts, he will weaken the strength of each ninja village and reduce the military pressure on the Kirigakure Village when it achieves unification.

On the other hand, if they allow the other party to grow so big that no one can deal with it and become the public enemy of the ninja world.

Kaito is confident that he can personally solve the "crisis" and become a "hero" in the ninja world.

This will reduce the psychological and moral resistance faced by ordinary ninjas when implementing unification and reform.

It is even possible to greatly reduce casualties during the unification process.

You know, if it was Uzumaki Naruto, the "savior", who wanted to unify the ninja world, and Uchiha Madara in the Dragon Vein world who wanted to unify the ninja world, they would definitely not face the same situation.

But now…

Kaito had no idea how much progress Uchiha Obito's forces had made in their collection efforts.

At the very least, Obito likely didn't have a single Tailed Beast in his possession yet.

Although there is no information after Orochimaru's defection.

According to Kaito's estimation, he might have already joined Uchiha Obito's side.

But at this time, Orochimaru may have just learned the basics of "Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation", and it is still unknown whether he will take the initiative to tell Uchiha Obito.

Kaito does not think that Uchiha Obito at this stage has the strength to fight against the entire ninja world.

Originally, Kaito's plan was simple: capture the Four-Tails and hide it in a secret dimension to prevent Obito from achieving his goal of becoming the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.

He had even spared the Sunagakure Village, instructing Uchiha Hikari not to touch the still-sealed One-Tail Shukaku.

In Kaito's strategy, the disappearance of a single Tailed Beast wouldn't be enough to put the Five Great Ninja Villages on high alert.

Who could've predicted that his actions would coincide with an attack on Kirigakure Village?

By sheer coincidence, Kaito had unwittingly dealt Uchiha Obito, the mastermind lurking in the shadows, a catastrophic "game-over" opening.

Kaito was afraid that this spark of chaos in the ninja world would be extinguished by the Five Great Ninja Villages before it could even catch fire.

Looking at Kaito who looked worried about the enemy, Elder Genji could only comfort him helplessly.

"Don't worry, Mizukage-sama. With your knowledge of Uchiha Obito's intelligence, we are still unable to find his hiding place. Even if the five major ninja villages join forces, it should be difficult to find him as long as we don't make any effort."

"I don't think Uchiha Obito is stupid enough to jump out again to face the combined forces of the five major ninja villages before he is ready."

After listening to Elder Genji's analysis, Kaito thought about Obito's brain, and finally could only pray for him silently in his heart.

'I hope everyone is okay.'

(End of this chapter)