Her plan exposed, Tsunade felt a bit embarrassed and started shouting.
Unfortunately, this trick didn't work on Shizune.
"Hokage-sama, gambling is out of the question. Even if you force me, I won't give you the money. You should give up on that idea."
"You..."
This brat needs a spanking.
Tsunade's chest swelled with anger, and she wanted to spank Shizune.
The older she got, the less cute she became.
"Bang!!"
Just as Tsunade was about to reason with Shizune, the door to the Hokage's office was pushed open.
The intelligence officer quickly stepped forward, placed the scroll on the table, and then saluted:
"Hokage-sama, this is an urgent intelligence scroll sent back by the advisor."
"Trouble?"
Yan and his team had only left two days ago. Based on the speed of the transport squad, they should have reached the Land of Iron by now.
If they were a bit faster, the medical supplies sent from the village would have already been handed over to the people of the Land of Iron.
Don't tell me there's a conflict with the Land of Iron.
Yan likes to stir up trouble, and coincidentally, Utatane Koharu also likes to stir up trouble. If the two of them are together and one of them disagrees with the other, trouble is bound to happen.
I hope I'm overthinking this.
Waving her hand to signal the intelligence officer to leave, Tsunade picked up the scroll and opened it.
"What?"
After a few seconds of staring, Tsunade stood up abruptly, slammed the table, and cursed:
"Damned Akatsuki, they really are persistent!!"
What happened to make Hokage-sama so agitated?
"Shizune, immediately send someone to notify the old man and the advisor elders. Tell them to come to the Hokage's office right away. Something very important has happened."
"Yes!"
Shizune quickly ran out of the Hokage's office and had the Anbu notify the Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura.
Am I destined to be busy?
Just when I thought I had some free time to rest, something happens to the village's advisor elder!
Tsunade felt like she was about to explode.
Although the intelligence scroll explained the reason, Yan had killed a member of the Akatsuki.
It seemed like Konohagakure didn't lose out.
But in reality, a village advisor elder had died.
If this news gets out, it will definitely cause a stir.
The first to arrive at the Hokage's office was the Third Hokage, followed closely by Mitokado Homura.
"Don't ask me what happened, just see for yourselves."
Tsunade raised her hand to stop the Third Hokage from asking questions and threw the scroll to him, letting him read it himself.
"???"
The Third Hokage looked at Tsunade, who was holding back her anger, with confusion.
Did Koharu have a conflict with Uchiha Yan on the way?
The Third Hokage opened the scroll, and Mitokado Homura moved closer to read it together.
"Thud!"
A few seconds later, the scroll fell from the Third Hokage's hand, and he stood there in shock, while Mitokado Homura's mind was also blown.
The contents of this scroll were deadly!
The team heading to Kumogakure Village had encountered members of the Akatsuki while escorting supplies into the Land of Iron. They ran into four of them at once.
That's equivalent to four lawless S-rank rogue ninjas!
A conflict broke out, and the elderly Utatane Koharu was no match for Kakuzu.
Before Yan could finish off the enemies and come to her aid, she had already suffered severe injuries.
In the end, Utatane Koharu succumbed to her injuries without even leaving a final message.
Moreover, the Akatsuki members admitted that their leader had captured a Konohagakure ninja named Shinnosuke, who died a horrible death.
Unable to bear such a blow, the Third Hokage felt dizzy and staggered a few steps.
Fortunately, Mitokado Homura reacted quickly and supported him in time.
"Hiruzen, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, maybe I didn't rest well."
Forcing out an ugly smile, the Third Hokage's mindset was completely shattered.
Now, he was almost becoming a lonely man.
On the night of the Nine-Tails attack, members of the Akatsuki controlled the Nine-Tails to attack Konohagakure, and his wife died.
Then Asuma went missing, his life or death unknown.
But the Third Hokage had already prepared for the worst.
Now even Shinnosuke was gone.
Just these things alone were enough, but what made the Third Hokage most distressed and sorrowful was that his old comrades were also leaving him one by one.
First Danzo, then Utatane Koharu.
Steadying himself, the Third Hokage took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:
"Tsunade, I think we must take the Akatsuki's existence seriously."
The Third Hokage's attitude towards the Akatsuki had changed from initial fear, to caution, to disregard, and now to absolute seriousness.
Everything the Akatsuki had done had reached a point he could no longer tolerate.
"It should be taken seriously."
Tsunade suppressed the anger in her heart with a blank expression:
"I originally thought the Akatsuki was just a group of rogue ninjas, lawless and chaotic.
Now it seems, I underestimated them. The Akatsuki, and even the Land of Rain, deserve the village's attention."
"So I decided to make the village's information about the Akatsuki public, so that other ninja villages can also be on guard against this organization."
The Akatsuki could act lawlessly and cause trouble in secret mainly because their whereabouts were hidden and no one paid attention to them.
If it reached the point where the Five Great Ninja Villages needed to take them seriously, let's see if the Akatsuki's activities would still be so easy.
To put it bluntly, the repeated probing by the Five Great Ninja Villages would be enough to give the Akatsuki a headache.
Tsunade believed that other villages would take it seriously, because not taking the Akatsuki seriously would mean that the disasters that once happened in Konohagakure could one day befall them too.
"Then let's announce it."
The two didn't even bother to discuss it with Mitokado Homura.
Tsunade proposed, and the Third Hokage made the decision. It was clear that both of them had reached their limit of patience with the Akatsuki.
The village's response came quickly.
Led by Yan, the team continued to Kumogakure Village, using the joint Jonin exam hosted by Kumogakure Village to expose the Akatsuki, letting the people of the Five Great Ninja Villages take a good look and recognize the existence of the Akatsuki.
Let's see if the other villages would be anxious.
"It seems the Akatsuki will have trouble. Our plan remains unchanged, let's continue to Kumogakure Village, let's go."
With Utatane Koharu gone, the village would no longer send people to handle foreign affairs, leaving everything to Yan.
Without the burden of the transport team, the three of them traveled quickly and reached Kumogakure Village in less than two days.
Just like in Konohagakure, ninjas from other villages arriving would be monitored.
As long as you didn't do anything excessive, your freedom wouldn't be restricted.
Of course, some important places in the village were off-limits to foreign ninjas.
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