"I understand what you are saying gentlemen", spoke Orochimaru smoothly, "But as Doku-kun has said there is no point in giving Konoha and Suna a new ally to help them in the War. Once we have Konoha and Suna out of the way we can deal with the Heavenly Alliance as we planned in our own time and as for Ryoku-kun belief that New Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance being secretly allied with Konoha. I can assure you that neither New Kumo nor the Heavenly Alliance is allied with Konoha".
"And how can you be so sure of that Orochimaru?" asked Shiro with a sneer, as he did not believe the Snake Sannin and wanted to make New Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance pay in blood for his humiliating defeat and the death Raijuta his most loyal supporter.
"Simply Shiro-kun", spoke Orochimaru with his traditional snaky smile, "Konoha as already tried to get an alliance with them"
"WHAT?" cried Shiro, while the other members of Orochimaru's coalition turned their head to look at Orochimaru, as they wanted answers to this new information.
"It seems that about two weeks ago my former team-mate Tsunade sent The Raikage a petition to try and form an Alliance with the Heavenly Alliance".
"Then we need to act now and attack The Heavenly Alliance before they coordinate a joint strike with Konoha and Suna against us", cried Ryoku furiously.
"There will be no need Ryoku-kun as the Heavenly Alliance has rejected the Alliance after The Raikage visit Konoha for talks", spoke Orochimaru with a smile.
"But you said Konoha was a forming an Alliance with the Heavenly Alliance" said Doku.
"I said that they tried to a form an Alliance with the Heavenly Alliance", replied Orochimaru smoothly. "The talks failed due to two certain incidents, one being a Civilian Council member who insulted The Raikage's wife. Who was also his bodyguard and is the Jinchuuriki of Nibi no Bakeneko (Two-Tailed Monster Cat)".
"The Raikage married a Jinchuuriki?" asked Shiro in surprise, to which Orochimaru nodded. As even he was slightly surprised by the information, but then again it wasn't that unexpected. As it was an unspoken tradition among the Shinobi nations that the Bijū's would be sealed into, the family of the village's own Kage. So to ensure that jinchūriki's not only had strong ties of loyalty to village and their leader, but they also serve to show off the Kage's might and it prevented the jinchūriki from turning traitor on the village. Hence marring a Jinchuuriki was not completely unorthodox for the tradition as it achieved the same goals as just placing it into a family member of the ruling Kage.
"The other reason as to why the talks failed was because seemly, Shimura Danzō the leader of Konoha's ROOT division sent in two teams of his agents to infiltrate Taki no Kuni and Kaminari no Kuni to try and capture Shinobi's belonging to the respected villages. He also had them disguised as Shinobi's from Iwagakure and my village so that if someone saw what happened, the Heavenly Alliance would blame us and they would side with them in the War. But fortunately for us, Danzo planned failed and his men were caught and identified by Kumo's and Taki forces", spoke Orochimaru.
"But why would Danzo have his men try and capture Shinobi's from Takigakure and New Kumo's, as there must be something your not telly us Orochimaru. Since The Raikage would not believe we would risk War with him just to capture some of their Shinobi's", spoke Shinrin.
"AAAAAHHHHH, that's quite correct Shinrin-kun, the reason why Danzo tried to capture Shinobi's from New Kumogakure and Takigakure is because The Raikage has created a special seal that blocks the abilities of Doujutsu's on people. Such as blocking the Sharingan's ability to copy Jutsu's and the Byakugan's ability to see the chakra circulation system inside another's body. He has also placed the seal on all his Shinobi's and all the Shinobi's of the other village that are members of the Heavenly Alliance. Hence you can see how useful such a seal would be to us in our War with Konoha, which would be why it would not have been hard for New Kumo to believe that we did try to get our hands on the seal had Danzo plan worked", spoke Orochimaru.
When the other leaders of the coalition heard this they had naturally been shocked to hear about a seal that could basically make Doujutsu useless and how it had been created by The Raikage. Orochimaru himself had to admit that he himself was just as shocked as they were, when he first heard about the seal, after which his respect for The Raikage's skill grew, as he doubted even his former teammate Jiraiya nor his prize pupil the Yondaime Hokage could have done it. Although he was still a little angry at The Raikage for creating the seal as it would make things very difficult when he finally got Sasuke as his new body and gained the Sharingan, where the seal would keep him from learning all of the world's Jutsu.
After getting over their shock both Shiro and Ryoku started to shout about how they should try and kidnap some Shinobi's from some of the other Shinobi nations that were part of the Heavenly Alliance. But their shouting eventually ended when Orochimaru, told them that if they tried they would fail just like Danzo men and it would have the Heavenly Alliance turn on them, which was something that they wanted to avoid right now.
Although Shiro did mention that he would be more than happy send his men disguised as Konoha-nins in Kaminari no Kuni and grab some Kumo-nins to analyze the seal. Although after saying that Orochimaru informed him that should he do that he would most likely fail, since if the same trick didn't work for Danzo it wouldn't work for him and also told him that New Kumo and the Heavely Alliance would declare War on Kiri if he did. In which case Kiri would stand alone as he would not help Kiri, both Doku and Shinrin agreed as they weren't going to support Shiro in his thirst for revenge and ruin their chance of destroying Konoha. Even Ryoku agreed, for even though believed the Heavenly Alliance was a threat, he wasn't going to let the best chance he had in destroying Konoha and finally getting his revenge on it slip pass his fingers.
After hearing this Shiro relented knowing his forces would stand no chance in defeating the combined forces of the Heavenly Alliance by themselves.
Once that matter was settled Doku spoke up, "So will New Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance declare War on Konoha after what happened at the talks there with The Raikage?"
"Unfortunately no, they will not", replied Orochimaru.
"Why is that?" asked Ryoku.
"I believe it is because The Raikage knows that Konoha is already on the verge of losing the War and doesn't see the point in attacking and destroying it when we will do it for him", answered Orochimaru.
This caused several of them to mummer around the table, as it did make sense, after the murmuring ended. Orochimaru then went on to explain what his spies told him about Jiraiya's near capture by New Kumo's SHOCK-nins and the fact that Kumo had been destroyed and rebuilt in a new hidden location.
When the other leaders of the coalition heard this, many of them grew concern to the fact, that New Kumo's SHOCK-nins were skilled enough to nearly capture Jiraiya the Toad Sage, the strongest of the Sennin. Orochimaru himself had been impressed, with the trap they laid and had Jiraiya not lucked out he would have been surely captured by the SHOCK-nins. He also made a note that should he ever come into conflict with a group of SHOCK-nins, he would not underestimate them.
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