Chapter 398 The Hidden Cloud Village's Decision
After Killer Bee escaped from Obito, he did not take the opportunity to get rid of the surveillance of the Fourth Raikage.

Instead, he rushed to the Hidden Cloud Village without stopping, found the Fourth Raikage in the Hidden Cloud Village training ground, and told him about the attack he had suffered from the masked man.

Logically speaking, Killer Bee shouldn't have told the Fourth Raikage about this.

Firstly, he almost defeated the masked man, and secondly, he really wanted to break free from the control of the Fourth Raikage and embark on a spontaneous trip in the Ninja World.

But just when he wanted to take this opportunity to escape, the Eight-tailed Ushio-ki gave him a serious warning.

At that time, in addition to the masked man who attacked the two of them, there was also an extremely terrifying chakra aura nearby. This aura reminded the Eight-tailed Gyu-ki of the first generation Hokage who defeated it decades ago.

That is a power that surpasses the tailed beasts, and he is one of the few ninjas that the tailed beasts fear.

Although Killer Bee insisted on doing his own thing, he could not ignore the warning of the Eight-Tails. After weighing the pros and cons, he returned to the Hidden Cloud Village and chose to report the matter to the Fourth Raikage.

After listening to Killer Bee's description, the Fourth Raikage's face was covered with a layer of haze, and he looked very scary.

He heard that the masked man was going to attack the Jinchūriki, so he placed Killer Bee in Yunlei Gorge. As a result, this arrangement almost led to Killer Bee being kidnapped by the masked man, which made him full of anger.

After a moment's silence, the Fourth Raikage said to Killer Bee, "Killer Bee, are you sure that the ninja who attacked you is more powerful than the masked man?"

Kirabi nodded and said, "Brother, this is what the Bull Ghost told me. The Bull Ghost and I are good friends. It is impossible for it to joke about such a big thing."

"My intuition also tells me that there must be some powerful ninjas around."

Hearing this, the Fourth Raikage fell into deep thought. He did not doubt the brotherhood between himself and Killer Bee, but the masked man was already a very powerful ninja. If there was an even more powerful ninja behind the masked man, how should he protect Killer Bee?

After a pause, the Fourth Raikage looked at Killer Bee and said:
"Since the masked man has attacked you, you'd better not leave the village. No matter how strong they are, they can't be a match for the entire Hidden Cloud Village."

Kirabi nodded obediently and gave up the idea of ​​escaping.

At this moment, the anxious voice of Niu Gui suddenly rang in Kirabi's ears:

"Kirabi, the enemy is very powerful. The Hidden Cloud Village alone cannot protect you. You must unite more ninjas to avoid tragedy."

Hearing this, Killer Bee was slightly stunned, thinking that Eight-Tails was too cautious.

The Fourth Raikage also noticed Killer Bee's look and said to him, "Killer Bee, what did the Eight-Tails say to you again?"

"Gyu-ki asked me to tell you that the enemy this time is very powerful. It is not something that a single ninja village can deal with. We must unite the forces of other ninja villages and other tailed beasts to overcome this crisis."

Kirabi habitually waved his fingers and retelled Niu Gui's words in a rap style.

The Fourth Raikage frowned and began to think about what the Eight-Tails said.

The Eight-Tailed Gyu-ki is extremely powerful and is the second most powerful tailed beast among the Nine Tailed Beasts after the Nine-Tailed. If even the Eight-Tailed Gyu-ki is so afraid of the enemy, the enemy's strength must be extremely terrifying.

Even if the Hidden Cloud Village could withstand the attack from the masked man and others, it would still suffer serious damage.

By then, the Hidden Cloud Village will be able to avoid the attack of the masked man, but will not be able to avoid the attacks of other ninja villages, and will from then on become a second-rate ninja village in the Ninja World.

From this aspect.

If they could unite with other ninja villages to declare war on the masked man, not only would they be able to share the pressure from the masked man, but the Hidden Cloud Village would also be able to retain more strength to deal with subsequent wars.

But the problem is that the major ninja villages in the ninja world have their own feuds, making it very difficult for them to unite.

After all, the masked man is only active in the ninja world, carrying out sabotage activities in major ninja villages from time to time, and only a very small number of ninjas are affected.

In every major Ninja World War, the five major Ninja villages inflicted all kinds of destruction on each other.

After thinking about this, the Fourth Raikage looked at Killer Bee and said, "Come with me to the Raikage Building first. I must consult with other Jonins before making a final decision on the matter of uniting with other ninja villages."

Kirabi nodded, and the two of them walked towards the Raikage building and entered the Raikage's office.

In the Raikage's office, assistant Ma Buyi was sorting out documents for the Fourth Raikage. When he saw the Fourth Raikage and Killer Bee appear together, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes, and then he said:

"Master Fourth Generation, I have listed the methods for handling these documents and am waiting for your signature."

The Fourth Raikage glanced at the document, then seemed to remember something and asked Ma Buyi, "Ma Buyi, has anything big happened in the ninja world recently?"

"Let me think about it..."

Ma Buyi held his temple and said, "Fourth-generation master, there have been many major events in the ninja world recently. Which aspect are you concerned about?"

"Let's talk about it. I have a lot of time today."

"You should know about the Konoha Chunin Exam. The Third Hokage was killed by Orochimaru and Danzo, and the traitor Danzo was also wiped out by Jiraiya and Tsunade."

The Fourth Raikage nodded slightly, then said:
"I do know about this matter. I didn't expect that Uchiha Shisui was not missing, but was controlled by Danzo. Danzo's courage and scheming are really terrifying. If he becomes Hokage, it will be a big trouble for us."

In the eyes of the Fourth Raikage, Danzo and Orochimaru are the hawks of Konoha.

Orochimaru once assassinated Killer Bee's predecessor, the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, and the death of his father, the Third Raikage, also had an unclear connection with Danzo.

If Danzo really becomes Hokage, he will definitely put pressure on the Hidden Cloud Village.

After a pause, the Fourth Raikage asked, "How was the Fifth Hokage's election? Who became the Hokage in the end?"

Ma Buyi said without hesitation: "It was Princess Tsunade who became the Fifth Hokage."

"Tsunade became the Hokage?" The Fourth Raikage was not surprised by this and began to think about whether he could unite with Konoha to deal with the masked man.

Tsunade is different from Danzo. After she becomes Hokage, it is not impossible for the Hidden Cloud Village to cooperate with Konoha.

After a while, I can send an envoy to Konoha.

The Fourth Raikage then asked, "Apart from Konoha, are there any major movements in the other ninja villages?"

Ma Buyi said slowly:
"In the past few days, a major event has really happened in the ninja world. The Konoha rebel Orochimaru attacked the high-ranking leader of the Hidden Rain Village, Nagato, but failed. For this, the Hidden Rain Village used a large amount of money on the black market to offer a bounty."

"Orochimaru attacked the high-level officials of the Hidden Rain Village?" The Fourth Raikage frowned slightly. This piece of news would indeed not be a small matter under normal circumstances, but it seems insignificant now. No matter what the reason was, Orochimaru attacked the Hidden Rain Village, it had little to do with the Hidden Cloud Village.

It is impossible for the Hidden Cloud Village to contact Orochimaru at this critical juncture.

At this time, the Fourth Raikage seemed to remember something, looked at the sky outside the window, and began to connect all the events of the past few months.

Why did Orochimaru and Rasa, the rebel ninjas with Kage-level strength, attack the Konoha Village?

Why would Danzo join forces with outsiders to deal with his own Hokage? Could this have something to do with the masked man? After all, if Orochimaru and Rasa really wanted to cause destruction to Konoha.

There is no need to hold a gathering like the Chunin Exams, you can launch an attack at any time.

Unless Orochimaru and others received orders from others, it seems that the only people in the ninja world who can command dangerous rebel ninjas like Orochimaru are the mysterious masked man and the mysterious man behind him.

Suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind, the Fourth Raikage asked the question that concerned him the most: "Ma Buyi, what is the situation in the Hidden Rock Village? Has Ohnoki made any moves recently?"

Sackcloth took out a piece of information from his bosom, handed it to the Fourth Raikage and said, "Lord Raikage, the official Iwagakure Village has not released any useful information, but according to the feedback from our intelligence personnel."

"The Four-Tails Jinchuriki and the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, who have always been at odds with Ōnoki Masaru, have both been attacked."

"The intelligence personnel have two guesses. The first is that the Jinchuriki of Iwagakure was attacked by the masked man organization. The other possibility is that this is a drama directed and acted by Ōnoki himself."

After listening to Ma Buyi's report, the Fourth Raikage fell into a brief silence.

This information can confirm two things. First, the Jinchūriki of the Iwagakure Village was attacked just like Killer Bee. Second, Ōnoki did not want the attack on the Jinchūriki to happen to other ninja villages, so he deliberately blocked the news.

This approach is actually very smart, after all, there is a threat of tailed beasts between the five major ninja villages.

Although the disappearance or death of a Jinchūriki will not lead to an immediate outbreak of war, it will definitely cause the ninja village that lost the Jinchūriki to give up some of its profits.

However, times have changed, and ninjas have appeared in the ninja world that the tailed beasts are afraid of.

And unlike the first Hokage who distributed the tailed beasts decades ago, this time the super-powerful Hokage wants to recover the tailed beasts and make the five major ninja villages lose their support.

After hesitating for a moment, the Fourth Raikage told what happened to Killer Bee.

After hearing this, Ma Buyi's face suddenly darkened. He was worried about the future of Killer Bee and the Hidden Cloud Village. The Hidden Cloud Village had already lost the Two-Tails. If they lost Master Killer Bee as well...

Ma Buyi didn't dare to think about it anymore. She looked at the Fourth Raikage and said, "Lord Raikage, since the masked man is likely to attack Lord Kirabi again, what should we do next?"

"Should we get the other jonin in the village to come and discuss this?"

The Fourth Raikage thought for a moment, then said:

"I have already thought about what to do next. You can call them over. We in the Hidden Cloud Village cannot just sit there and wait to face the threat of the masked man alone. We must let the entire ninja world face it together."

Ma Buyi was stunned for a moment, then asked curiously, "What does Raikage-sama mean?"

The Fourth Raikage clenched his fist, slammed it heavily on the wooden table, and said in a decisive tone:
"I will contact the leaders of the other four ninja villages and convene a Five Kage Conference to discuss the future of the ninja world and plans to deal with the masked man."

"Five Shadows Conference?"

Hearing this, not only Ma Buyi, but even Kirabi was shocked.

The Five Kage Conference is a face-to-face meeting for the leaders of the five major ninja villages, and each meeting is enough to influence the future direction of the ninja world.

The first Five Kage Conference was presided over by the First Hokage, and the nine tailed beasts were directly distributed at that meeting.

The Five Kage Tournament that followed was called the Five Kage Tournament, but in reality it was not possible to gather the Five Kage together. The five major ninja villages were always unable to sit at the same negotiating table for various reasons.

And now the Fourth Raikage is actually announcing the convening of the Five Kage Conference, which is undoubtedly a shocking event.

The Fourth Raikage nodded and continued, "I have carefully considered all the attacks on Jinchūriki over the years and found that the masked man was behind them."

"It was the masked man who caused the Nine-Tails Rebellion. The puppet Fourth Mizukage was also a masked man. Even Rasa of the Sand Village, the Four-Tails and Five-Tails Jinchuriki of the Iwagakure Village, and Yukito are all inextricably linked to the masked man."

"Therefore, if we want to resolve the threat posed by the masked man, we must convene a Five Kage Conference."

After listening to the words of the Fourth Raikage, Sackboy and Killer Bee finally understood the seriousness of the matter. All of the above-mentioned things were related to the masked man, which meant that the masked man had become an enemy that the entire ninja world had to face.

Thinking of this, Ma Buyi immediately walked towards the assistant room nearby and said, "Lord Raikage, I will draft a letter to the four major ninja villages, inviting them to participate in the Five Kage Conference."

"By the way, Lord Raikage, where should the Five Kage Tournament be held?"

"Where will the Five Kage Tournament be held?" This question stumped the Fourth Raikage. Logically speaking, as the initiator of the Five Kage Tournament, this meeting must be held in the Hidden Cloud Village.

The Hidden Cloud Village can also rely on the other four Kage and the Shadow Guards to deal with the threat posed by the masked man.

But there was an unexpected incident at the meeting held in the Hidden Cloud Village.

The rebellion launched by Kinkaku and Ginkaku directly killed the Second Raikage and the Second Hokage, causing turmoil in the First Ninja World War, which had already ended.

With this previous experience, the other four Kage will definitely not come to the Hidden Cloud Village to participate in the Five Kage Conference.

Then it seems that the meeting can only be held in the neutral country of Iron Country. It is a country of warriors and all parties cannot set up ambushes in advance, so it is the most reasonable location.

"It will be set up in the Iron Country. I will contact Admiral Mifune."

The Fourth Raikage stated his decision, and then seemed to remember something, and said: "By the way, in addition to inviting Sand Village, Mist Village, Rock Village, and Konoha, we must also invite Rain Village this time."

"The Hidden Rain Village?!" Ma Buyi nodded, not surprised.

Although the Hidden Rain Village cannot be included in the five major ninja villages due to its population and land area, its strength is no less than the five major ninja villages.

Moreover, the Hidden Rain Village has close relations with several small ninja villages in the surrounding areas. It won’t be long before a brand new country emerges in the northern part of the ninja world, truly becoming the sixth largest country and the sixth largest ninja village in the ninja world.

If they were not invited to such an important meeting of the Five Kage Conference, it would undoubtedly push them to the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)