Normally Danzo would be among these meetings as would Koharu and Homaru, but ever since the debacle with The Raikage the Elders powers began to decline. After the escapade with The Raikage, Tsunade could have used the event to have Danzo executed as a traitor, but unfortunately as much as she hated to admit it she needed Danzo to continue to lead and command his ROOT division, as Konoha needed all the manpower they could get. But even still she hadn't let Danzo get away for going against her, Tsunade was able to use Danzo's disregard for her authority as Hokage and for causing The Raikage to cancel the negotiations. To take away a good bit of the Elders and the Civilians Council member's power away from them. She was also able to use the event to gain more control over the ROOT division and although she still did not have full control over the division, she could still restrict their movements, where she forbid any ROOT operation to happen without her approval. Hence no ROOT agent could leave the village without her written and sign permission, she also forbid any ROOT agent or team to leave the village without members of her own loyal ANBU to accompany them. She even forced Danzo to give her a complete list of all his ROOT agents, with their names (both real and code), their skill level and what abilities they were capable of.
This of course severely weakened Danzo position, not to mention public support for him went down hill as a certain someone (coughcoughTsunadecoughcough) leaked it out to the populace of Konoha, what Danzo had done. Hence once people heard this, they turned on Danzo, as they blamed him along with Ashikaga Shin for ruining the possible Alliance between Konoha and The Heavenly Alliance.
Also at the same time that all this happening, Teuchi and his daughter Ayame had decided that to leave Konoha much to the sadness of Tsunade, most of the Konoha eleven and several others. When asked, Ayame told them that, neither she nor her father could take living in a place where they continue spit and curse Naruto for something that wasn't his fault. Hence they decided to move somewhere else for a fresh start in a new place.
Many of course could not blame them for wanting to leave, especially during these times, Tsunade herself and said she often pondered the idea of just leaving, but decided against it as she had reasonability's and she wasn't going to run away from them this time.
As Tsunade and the other's discussed their strategies, Jiraiya suddenly burst into the office, through an open window.
"Jiraiya!...What is the meaning of this?" cried Tsunade angrily as she wasn't in the mood for one of Jiraiya's shenanigans right now.
"Sorry Hime but I have something that you need to here now!" spoke Jiraiya urgently.
Seeing the seriously look on her former teammate face, Tsunade signalled Jiraiya to go ahead, which he did.
"A few days ago I learned through my intelligence network that someone had information that I would be interested in and how it involved Orochimaru. I then got word to him that I would meet him in an old abandoned Fortress outside Otafuku Gai. When he met me, he gave me this file", said Jiraiya showing the file to Tsunade and the others. "He then told me that Orochimaru and his allies are planning a major offensive against us that would destroy Konoha and they are just about ready to launch it".
"WHAT!" Cried Tsunade is shock.
"Are you certain of this Jiraiya-sama?" asked the ANBU Commander, to which Jiraiya nodded.
"I'm positive as I checked some of the things that the man told me about through my own intelligence network and what it says in this file and what he told me checks out. Orochimaru in planning a major attack against us, from what it says in this file, Orochimaru is planning a pincer movement. He and his forces along with the Hannya Clan forces, who Orochimaru sneaked into Ta no Kuni, will launch a massive attack from Ta no Kuni. At the same time Kusa forces along with Iwa forces, will launch their own attack from Kusa no Kuni, also at the same time Kiri's fleet will then land with most of Kiri's forces and launch their attack on us from behind. Once the three forces have attacked they will rapidly move forward and overwhelm any forces that we could assemble at the time to try and fight back. After which they would then surround the village to prevent any escape and then attack and destroy the village completely".
"Impossible!" spoke the ANBU Commander, "How could they plan all this out without us finding out about it?"
"Your forgetting this is Orochimaru we're dealing with here and very little is impossible for him", replied Jiraiya, which the ANBU Commander had to reluctantly agree with him on that.
Shikaku then asked Jiraiya if he could look at the file detailing Orochimaru plan, where both he and Shikamaru looked over the plan, once they finished Shikaku spoke.
"Troublesome, Orochimaru has planned this well, with the massive numbers he has assembled combined with surprise and rapid speed along with attacking us on three different fronts at once. He could easily overwhelm us and destroy us within three to four days of launching his attack, before we could even try and reorganise our forces and put up any kind of defence".
"And what's even more troublesome", spoke Shikamaru, "Is that Suna couldn't even help us since even if they somehow heard about the attack the moment it happened. Their forces would take up to three days at full speed with little rest stops to get to us, by which time it might be too late and even if they got to us in time they would be too exhausted to fight from racing here to help us. That is probably what Orochimaru planned, so that his attack on us would be easier".
"How many men will he have to attack?" asked Tsunade.
"According to the file that I was given Orochimaru has about Five thousand Shinobi's and the Hannya Clan have about Two thousand Shinobi's. Both the Hannya Clan and Orochimaru have been gathering Rogue Shinobi's, Missing-nins, Shinobi mercenaries and whatever type of Shinobi's who would be willing to fight for them to build up their numbers and they have been training them for many years. Iwa will be sending about Eight thousand Shinobi's and Kiri will be sending another Five thousand Shinobi's, altogether they will be sending over Twenty thousand Shinobi's against us".
"That nearly twice our numbers when combined with Suna forces", spoke the ANBU Commander worriedly. As at full strength Konoha had over Seven thousand Shinobi's to call upon and Suna had over Five thousand Shinobi's, giving their combined strength to be over Twelve thousand Shinobi's.
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