Chapter 202: Mist Shadow Booty - 9
"Just how long have they been planning this?" Mei couldn't help but wonder in abject shock.
"Decades, more even," Daiki sighed, running a hand through his spiky hair, "They've been in the background fanning the flames of war between us all for ages. They want to keep us weak and against each other for when they're ready to put their plans into action. And it's why the Mist and Leaf specifically were targeted."
Her brows furrowed, "I could understand the Leaf, you have always espoused for peace between us, but why us? We've been long known as the Bloody Mist for a reason."
"Because of Yagura," Daiki shrugged, making her blink, "While personally I'm not too fond of the guy because he still forced my buddy to submit to him, he was in general a peace loving guy right? And he wanted to push for peace. If he ever got the chance, we would have most likely been allied already. And with us allied, the Sand wouldn't have dared push things like they have now, making for a three way alliance between three of the great five nations. It would cow both Cloud and Stone into submission and we would have been free as an alliance to grow stronger over time without interruptions."
"I see…." Mei bit her lip, her thoughts racing, "But because they wanted us weak for their plans, they couldn't allow that. So instead, they targeted Yagura and put him under some form of Genjutsu and made him do the complete opposite and destroy everything he'd been building up instead."
It was all beginning to make a vast amount of more sense now. And it brought a horrible pit to her stomach.
"It was the same reason why they targeted the Leaf as well and released the Kyuubi," Daiki added, "Someone attacked the previous Jinchuuriki when she was giving birth, when her seal was at the weakest and unleashed the Kyuubi. In the process of fighting them off and resealing the Kyuubi, the Yondaime died and we took a lot of losses in the process, not only only to the infrastructure of the village, but a lot of people too."
"They were behind the Kyuubi attack and the death of the Yondaime Hokage?" while she wasn't as surprised as she would have been due to the earlier revelations, it was still incredibly shocking to learn.
Minato Namikaze was a genius among geniuses. And monstrously power. Capable of killing a thousand Iwa shinobi in mere moments with his fabled Flying Thunder God jutsu. People thought of him as the second coming of Hashirama Senju and thought that if he were allowed to reach his prime, it would be all but impossible for the Leaf to be defeated even if the other four great shinobi villages allied against them.