RETURN

🔴 Early in the morning 5:00 AM

🔺Iwagakure Borders

After answering that question, Sakumo spoke "Minato are we forgetting something?" for that Minato replied "what is it Sakumo-san?", after thinking Sakumo spoke "I think I have forgot to seal the bodies of root-nin, I have only sealed their heads" when Minato heard this he thought 'what? Really? He is thinking it now?" and not showing that in his face, Minato spoke "No worries Sakumo-san I will go and seal their bodies and come, are the bodies still in the same place where you battled before?" for that Sakumo spoke "they are in the same place," and Minato spoke "I will back in a minute" and he flashed away, Minato then appeared where the battle between Sakumo and root took place, and opened his sealing scroll and sealed away the root-nin bodies and flashed and reappeared beside Sakumo, and spoke "Sakumo-san place your hand on my shoulder and you will feel dizzy for a while" Sakumo placed his hand on Minato carrying the root nin and then flashed away

Sakumo could only speak "wh—"

🔴 A min later

🔺Minato residence, Konoha

Just a minute later, Minato and Sakumo appeared in Minato startling Kushina, Sakumo felt little dizzy, and then quickly came back to normal, Kushina came downstairs after looking Minato she came running, but seeing Sakumo beside him she stopped herself and bowed and said "greetings Sakumo-san" and Sakumo also returned the greeting and said "sorry to bother you at this time", for that Kushina waved off her hand and said "no worries Sakumo-san" and she want to ask what happened but as she seen the body in the hands of Sakumo she decided not to,

🔴 Few Hours later,

🔺Hokage office

Hiruzen sitting in his office, anxiously thinking about the mission which he sent Sakumo and Minato to, thought ' I hope Sakumo and Minato successfully complete the mission without anyone casualties' he don't doubt the capabilities of Sakumo and Minato but he don't know what Iwa and Suna came up this time. Just when Hiruzen was thinking this, Minato appeared in front of Hiruzen

"what Minato? You do not enter like this what happened? What about mission? Where is Sakumo? Whose body is that? Hokage threw his questions worriedly

Minato put down the root-nin body, Hokage narrowed his eyes at that body and spoke "root…I see" In the meantime Sakumo also entered the office.

Sakumo quickly narrated what happened in the mission, when he started speaking about root, Hiruzen fuming with anger, although he didn't showed it on his face.

Minato quickly unsealed the heads and bodies of root-nin, when Hokage seen this and started speaking " we will deal with this matter later, I am sorry you have to go through this" and continued "any info about the plans of three villages"

Minato replied "yes Hokage-sama" and continued "the plan is this, first Kusa will come to us for aid for defending Iwa, but there will be no attacks on Kusa, it is to lure us to Kusa ," Hiruzen surprised when he heard that, 'Kusa betrayal huh..?' thought Hiruzen

Minato took out a map and started pointing out and started explaining the plans of the three villages,

🔴 Meanwhile

🔺Tsuchikage Office Iwagakure

a very short, old man Sitting in the Tsuchikage office he was fuming with anger while he seeing the report. He had a triangular beard and a moustache that had angular corners, a big red nose and thick eyebrows. The top of his head was completely bald with a traditional chonmage haircut at the back of his head which was tied with a yellow ribbon into a topknot. He is none other than The Third Tsuchikage Jinton no Onoki / Onoki of the Particle Style

And he balled at the council angrily "who did this? Any clues?" and the member who is in front of him replied fearfully "no Tsuchikage-sama" and he continued "we suspect that it is Suna, Tsuchikage-sama since no bodies have been found, Suna shinobi is also missing since the only who knows the plan is Suna and it can't be Kusa because Kusa didn't have that much power," while he was speaking he was interjected by an another member in the council "why can't be it Konoha, if they happened to know about the meeting, they won't sit quiet, they have lot powerful shinobi right?"

While the discussions are still going on Onoki thought 'Damn you Konoha'

🔴 Meanwhile

🔺Kazekage Office Sunagakure

A tall man with fair white skin sitting on his Kazekage seat, he had a calm look in his face when he is looking at the report. The man had a short messy dark-blue hair and narrow yellow eyes. He is none other than the Third Kazekage, Satetsu no Nori / Nori of the Iron Sand

While he is looking at the report an member in the council spoke "Iwagakure betrayed us Kazekage-sama", even so Kazekage didn't show any emotion on his face,

Nori thought to himself 'Iwa betrayal, It shouldn't be possible, they don't held any grudge towards us,' he stopped for sometime and continued thinking 'but still why would do that?' after a few seconds 'perhaps is it Konoha? They should be capable to that, by doing that they think we and Iwa wage against each other' and he continued thinking 'but how would Konoha know about this plan?, I have to inspect everyone in the council, '

Nori continued thinking 'well planned Konoha, we won't backdown, you will face the wrath of Suna'

🔺Hokage Office

After Minato explaining the plan, Minato started speaking "this plan won't work Hokage-sama, even though Tsuchikage continues with his plan, but I think Kazekage changes his plans, I think he would inspect every one who were participated while discussing it, he would kill them, we may lose our spies in Suna Hokage-sama"

Sakumo also spoke "that Kazekage may look young, but he is prideful when it comes to matter like this, but he won't let his pride takeover him" when Hiruzen heard this he went to thinking and spoke

"Kumo won't sit quiet if they heard this , that goes to Kiri as well, we will have to be ready for any situation", and he continued "we will discuss this later, we will have to deal our internal conflicts now"

Hokage spoke "I have killed every root spy in the administration office" when Minato heard this he was shocked Minato thought 'just what the hell is going on?' and Sakumo know what root is about just stood there.

Hiruzen ordered Minato to remove the seal of the root-nin, after a few tries he was able to remove the seal.

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Minato did not discuss about the mission with Kushina as it is a Top-secret Mission, that is the reason he took the body to his home, may be because of his sixth sense kicked in

Did justify the personalities of Tsuchikage and Kazekage?

I have given a name for Third Kazekage which is Nori

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