The prices of the food went down again after the problem of the Mist ended. The Mist was thankful for every village that helped them, so it started a cooperation with them to train their ninja together, so in the future it will be easier for the villages to work together.
The Sand who an ally with Konoha couldn't do anything but refuse since the Hokage told them to do so. But the Stone and the Grass and the Waterfall, all accepted. The new union became a real threat to Konoha who was an ally with Suna, and to the Cloud who were by themselves.
The Stone's economy started blooming after the help of the Ito clan, and it can be called a rival to the Cloud in term of economy, with even a stronger military; if a war were to start now, the Cloud had no chance of winning a war against the Stone alone, not to mention the alliance.
With the Ito clan's head (Voidne) marrying to the third Tsuchikage's granddaughter; it was rumored that the relationship between the Stone and the Leaf is starting to become better. Traders from both countries can now trade with each other without the need to hide. There are no longer small fights near the boarders between the villages. Konoha started blooming economically and everyone praised the benevolent Ito clan's head who gave everything to them on a plate of gold.
Hyuga clan tried to stand up against Ito, but half of their compound was filled with garbage once they even tried to bull it off. Almost everyone in Konoha started throwing garbage at the Hyuga's compound, some even talked about how ungrateful the Hyuga is, calling that the killer of Saito Eiji was a member of the Ito clan, and that Saito Eiji even went to kill people from the Hyuga and the Hyuga couldn't do anything.
Hiashi Hyuga couldn't do anything anymore, so he stopped attacking the Ito... It looked like the Ito already got the highest place in everyone's heart, and that his family influence is suffocating rapidly.
A year passed by, Voidne is now 5, but people think that he is 6. While Maho is 8! She wanted to go to the ninja academy but Voidne refused, so they fought it out until it turned into some kind of a weird sex challenge in the end, which Voidne won very easily.
Kurotsuchi is now being trained by her grandpa to be the next Tsuchikage. Onoki guessed that Voidne will be able to control Konoha, so if that happened, he was going to let his granddaughter become the Tsuchikage, thus Konohagakure and Iwagakure will unite to become one village. It might not be beneficial to the Stone when you look at it as an outsider, but Onoki knows better. The Stone wouldn't have reached what it reached without Voidne's help. You can't say that Voidne who gave everything to the Stone can't take it back, he is the most intelligent trader Onoki ever met in his whole life.
With Onoki also getting the news from his daughter that Mei the fifth Mizukage will marry with Voidne, so he knows that the Mist will also be under Voidne's control at that time. As for the Grass and the Waterfall, they will send daughters of elders and marry them to Voidne too, with that, Voidne will become the overlord of the whole eastern part of the continent, and the continent will finally find some peace.
Meanwhile, Voidne knew that Orochimaru was now a part of the Akatsuki, and what is a better way to get his attention than to kill Sasori?
With the activities of the Ito clan, Madara was forced to make Tobi hurry up the plan, otherwise the new giant will eat the whole shinobi world without giving Madara the chance to revive. Sasori went near the boarder of the Land of Rivers and disappeared, so the Kazekage followed.
Voidne did not go to the Land of Rivers at the time to avoid any suspicion.
Sasori united with Deidara who was there to help them fought with the fourth Kazekage, who was strong enough to hold them both for 3 days of continues fighting... The fourth Kazekage, was probably the best Kage in terms of Mana reserves.
Once the Kazekage fell, Sasori grabbed his neck and started mocking him and making fun of him, since he blamed him for the death of his parents... And that was the chance for the parasites, even though Sasori's body is a doll, the parasites can explode.
Deidara who was setting there waiting for Sasori to kill the Kazekage just saw them both explode, the guts of the Kazekage were everywhere, while Sasori's doll body parts almost broken everywhere.
With Sasori dead, Deidara was left behind chocking on air from how scary the bomb was. It is even more powerful than his bombs!
Deidara quickly left to report to the Akatsuki, but little did he know... My parasites was already on him, multiplying slowly to infect the Akatsuki one bye one drawing their demise!
Orochimaru who was far away saw the explosion and remembered the parasites and felt fearful. If the owner of the parasites really started targeting the Akatsuki, then they are doomed. It was the ultimate killing weapon, undetectable, multiplying fast, and do even leave with a huge explosion.
He started running to the Sound and decided to leave the Akatsuki, just for him to be even more surprised that Voidne caught up with him near the Sound and started negotiating killing the Hokage. To Orochimaru, that was a nice gift, so he welcomed it with open arms.
The planning went like that. Kazekage dies, Tsuchikage, and allies attack the Sand's boarder to draw Leaf's attention. Once Leaf's army leave, we assassinate the Hokage. Orochimaru agreed, he wanted to betray Voidne, but little did he know that Voidne actually improved his parasites into the size of viruses. Now even if he wanted to find them, it was impossible with his equipment. The funny thing is, the new parasite will chip away part of the soul with each time you die to it. With that, and with Kabuto also infected, he will probably lose at least 20% of his soul, which will render him useless.
The excuse Voidne thought of the attack on the boarder was 'military show of power'. The attack will not be that bad, they will actually kill missing nin, and even give food to the poor people living in the boarder, but it will be reported as an 'attack', so Konoha will need to help.
Once they arrive, it will be already too late, and 'Orochimaru will already have killed the Hokage'.