As expected, with Konohagakure sending reinforcements, the battle lines began to shift back from the interior of the Land of Fire to the Land of Rain.
Hanzō of the Salamander was so furious that he cursed the Shinobi of Sunagakure to their faces: "Absolute trash."
In his view, if Sunagakure had only held out for two more days, waiting for Iwagakure to join the fray as well, the three villages would have been fighting deep inside the Land of Fire. That way, his own Land of Rain could have been spared this wave of war.
Chapter 87