"The Raikage was there himself?" asked a shocked Tsunade, since a Kage rarely ever leaves their home village unless for a major battle, a highly dangerous mission or for negotiations with another Shinobi village in neutral territory.
Kakashi just nodded his head again to Tsunade question.
"Kakashi tell use everything that happened in the battle", spoke Tsunade, wanting to know everything that happened there.
But just as Kakashi was about to speak a large puff of Smoke appeared right next to him and once it dissipated a badly wounded Jiraiya appeared in the room. Where much of his clothes were it tatters and covered in dirt and dried blood, his left arm was it a sling he was covered in cuts, he had many bruises on his arms and face and had bandages were wrapped around his abdomen and sides. Altogether Jiraiya looked like he came from a warzone and lost, which was fairly true.
"JIRAIYA!" cried a worried Tsunade when she saw her badly wounded former teammate appear in the room.
"JIRAIYA-SAMA" cried many Shinobi's and Council members in shock when the saw the state the Toad Sage was in.
Kakashi and Yamato quickly grabbed onto Jiraiya sides to keep him steadying as they saw him starting to wobble a bit.
"Don't worry about me everyone I ok", said Jiraiya, although he clearly wasn't.
"Jiraiya! What happened to you?" asked Tsunade as she had to fight the urge to jump over the Council table and go over to Jiraiya and heal him.
"I was ambushed by Kumo Shinobi's when I was gathering information in Kaminari no Kuni about Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance", replied Jiraiya.
"Kumo Shinobi's but how?" asked a shocked Inuzuka Hana.
"Kumo somehow knew that I had entered the Country and laid a trap for me, since they knew where I was heading, despite the low profile I was keeping there and they laid a trap for me and ambushed me", answered Jiraiya.
"But how did they find out?" asked Akimichi Chōza.
"I don't know", admitted Jiraiya.
"How exactly did they ambush you Jiraiya-sama?" asked the ANBU Commander.
For the next half hour Jiraiya went and explained in detail how he discovered that Kumo was destroyed and it people and its Shinobi's rebuilt the village in a new location which Jiraiya had no idea where. After which he then went and explained how he was ambushed by Soifon and her SHOCK-nins and what had happened.
Once Jiraiya had finished explaining what had happened Tsunade's and the Council concerns about Kumo (or to be exact New Kumo) and the Heavenly Alliance grew even more. Considering how close their Shinobi's came to capturing Jiraiya who was one of Konoha's strongest Shinobi and the fact that they were able to ambush him so flawlessly and then take away his Chakra and Jutsu's and then nearly capturing him.
Many of the Senior Shinobi's especially the ANBU Commander had to grudgingly hand it to the Kumo SHOCK division as their ambush of Jiraiya was near perfect, where Jiraiya had only escaped by a shear stroke of luck.
Although others like Danzo and Koharu grew greatly concerned at Kumo's Shinobi's skill level and the large scale version of the Kyuuin, which would be a highly effective tool to use in battle which the Kumo-nins proved against Jiraiya and the fact that they had no idea where this New Kumo was located.
"Jiraiya-sama you mentioned Several Shinobi's with abilities not known to be related to Kumo", spoke Yamanaka Inoichi.
"Yea seemly several different Clans have joined with New Kumo in the last few years", replied Jiraiya.
"Who exactly", asked Koharu, as she wanted to know what they may be up against.
"Well for one thing the Wengi Clan formerly of Suna has joined New Kumo, who as many of you know were known for the ability to use Sabuton (Sand Release), and mimic to a certain extent the Sand manipulating abilities that the Godaime Kazekage Gaara can do", said Jiraiya.
This caused several mummers among the Council members and Senior Shinobi's.
"Another Clan that is now part of New Kumo is the Kisaragi Clan from Wutai Country which existed until Tsuchi no Kuni (Earth Country) conquered it, and as some you know Kisaragi Clan are famed for their multiple Summoning Contracts", spoke Jiraiya.
This caused a murmur of worried whispering among the Council members.
"Also the Tatara Clan who are known for their Kōton (Steel Release) Bloodline and are now among New Kumo's Shinobi ranks", said Jiraiya shocking everyone in the room, (minus Kakashi and his teams as they already knew that the Tatara Clan were with New Kumo, thanks to Gai informing them of his meeting of a member in the Battle for Wave).
"Impossible!... The Tatara Clan vanished decades ago, there no way that they should still exist", said Koharu as she refused that Tatara Clan still existed and were now with Kumo.
"Well it's true, several members of the Clan were among the Shinobi's that ambushed me, and the abilities that those Shinobi's showed matched the abilities that the Tatara Clan were known for", replied Jiraiya.
"Then where have they been all these years, they couldn't have been with Kumo the whole time as we would have found out long ago", said Homura.
"From the rumours I've heard when I was in Kaminari no Kuni, they have been in isolation in the mountain ranges of Kaminari no Kuni ever since the founding of the Shinobi villages. But when the Civil War there started, they were accidently discovered by the Godaime Raikage forces, and when they refused to join him he wiped most of the Clan out and captured a large group of others. So to breed more of the Clan and have them loyal to him, but some survived the attack and joined the rebel factions, where once the Civil War ended they became an official Shinobi Clan of New Kumo", said Jiraiya.
"What Jiraiya-sama says is true since I witness and met a youthful member of the Tatara Clan in the battle of Wave and the story he told me match's what Jiraiya-sama told me", said Gai. Backing what Jiraiya said along with Kiba, Konohamaru, Lee, Moegi and Udon who nodded their heads in agreement with Gai.
This of course did not sit well with the Council as the Tatara Clan were a powerful Clan with a powerful Bloodline that would help make New Kumo even more dangerous and powerful.
"Also there are two other new Clans' with Kumo called the Yuki Clan and the Ishida Clan" said Jiraiya which got a curious look from everyone in the room as no-one had never heard of either Clans.
"Well they can't be very powerful since we never heard of them", scoffed Asai Heita.
"That is where you would be wrong as they are quite powerful, since I've since them in action first hand as members of those Clan's were among the ones who attacked me as well. The Yuki Clan have a special Bloodline which allows them to pass through solid objects and people as if they weren't even there. While the Ishida Clan have the ability to create weapons out of their own Chakra, where the weapons can almost destroy, pierce or slice through any armour or weapon they clash with", answered Jiraiya.
"We can support Jiraiya-sama claims as I and those with me during the battle of Wave met a STORM-nin with the ability that Jiraiya-sama described the Ishida Clan having", spoke Yamato, with Sai, Shino and TenTen's ANBU team members, Tiger, Wolf and Bird backing him up.
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