About year after the Civil War in Kaminari no Kuni ended The Rokudaime Raikage with the help of Lady Daimyo Satake Kicho was able to stabilize the village and the Country by somehow getting all the remaining factions that had fought with Daimyo Yoshiaki and the Godaime Raikage to join him and Lady Daimyo Kicho willingly and united the village and Country again.
Not long after The Rokudaime Raikage had somehow forged an Alliance with Hoshigakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Star) and Takigakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Waterfall) as well as their Countries Kuma no Kuni (Bear Country) and Taki no Kuni (Waterfall Country). Where all three Countries and villages formed an Alliance where they would support and protect each other in any and all aspects such as Economically and Militarily needs and would work together to reach the same goals. Not long after this new Alliance The Rokudaime Raikage was able to get Yuki no Kuni (Snow Country) and Yukigakure no sato (The Village Hidden in the Snow) to join Kumo new Alliance and were then followed shortly by the Hidden Villages of Takumi no Sato (The Hidden Craftsman village) and Yugakure no sato (The Hidden Hot Springs Village) who both wish to join the new Alliance and were allowed to. After which when Takumi no Sato and Yugakure no sato joined them in the new Alliance it was then decided by the New Member Nations to give their new Alliance a name in which it was called The Heavenly Alliance.
Kurenai remembered hearing from Shizune about how nervous the newly formed Heavenly Alliance was making Konoha Council since it had growing rapidly in a very short time that it had been founded in and it had taken a great deal of Konoha missions from them not to mention the suppose new Military strength it had.
Kurenai also then remembered one morning two months after the newly formed Heavenly Alliance was created that the head of the Akatsuki member Kakuzu was found at the front of Konoha main gate and was staked on the his partner Hiden triple-bladed scythe which in turn was stuck to the ground like a pole in font of the gate. On the head a note was stuck on it which said,
"May the Spirit of Sarutobi Asuma rest easy now knowing that his murders have been punished. May his wife, son, nephew and students also find peace knowing that he has been avenged."
The note had been signed with a Lightning Bolt, when the news got to the Hokage, Kurenai heared that Tsunade had quickly sent Jiraiya out to find out who had done it. Where after a few weeks he returned to village and told them that he found out that it had been a Kumo Ninja that had killed Kakuzu and Hiden. He then told them he did not know the real name of the Ninja, but he did know that he was called Sourai (Blue Lightning) who had fought in the Civil War and earned great fame in it and had earned the nickname Sourai due to the fact that he was said to move like Lightning. He then told them that from what little information his information-network could give him about Sourai, where all they knew about him was that he was a mysterious Shinobi even to the people of Kumo and few had ever seen his face since he did not go out in public and move too fast for people on the Battlefield to get a good look at him the only thing they knew for certain about him was that he wore a bright blue trench coat with Black Lightning Bolts on the bottom edges of the trench coat and had a kanji symbol for "Storm" on his back. Jiraiya also learned that both Kakuzu and Hiden had sneaked into Kaminari no Kuni and ambushed the Jinchūriki of the Nibi no Bakeneko (Two-Tailed Monster Cat) when she was returning from a mission and captured her and as they tried to leave the Country with her, they were confronted by Sourai who fought and killed them both. This of course made both Tsuande and the Council very nervous at the fact that Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance were becoming a serious major Military power, where they had the power of the Jinchūriki of the Nibi no Bakeneko and the Jinchūriki of the Hachibi no Kyogyū (Eight-Tailed Giant Ox) from Kumogakure as well as the power of the Jinchūriki of the Nanabi no Kabutomushi (Seven-Tailed Horned Beetle) from Takigakure.
Not to mention the power of Sourai whom was strong enough to fight and kill two S Class missing Ninja's (who were also believed to be have been immortal) at the same time, not to mention The Rokudaime Raikage who was said to be extremely powerful since he had killed the Godaime Raikage (who was an extremely powerful Ninja that even a Sannin would have trouble fighting against), not to mention the rumour that was told, where nearing the end of the Civil War in Kaminari no Kuni the former Daimyo Yoshiaki sent for aid from Mizu no Kuni and Kirigakure no sato promising them a large reward if they sent help to him. Where they sent a fleet of fifty Warships with a force of Eight Thousand of the Mizu Daimyo Warriors and Samurai as well as Two Thousand Ninja's from Kirigakure.
But the fleet never returned, where a month later a single Kiri Ninja returned half drowned and was said to have told the Godaime Mizukage and the Mizu Daimyo that the fleet had been destroyed by a single man called Denkou (aka the Rokudaime Raikage) who created a massive Typhoon when the fleet was nearing Kaminari no Kuni shores and destroyed it. Although the story had never been fully confirmed (since the Godaime Mizukage had the Ninja executed soon after hearing what had happen to the fleet) it was still enough to make many people in Konoha be wary of whatever power The Rokudaime Raikage had, as well as earn the undying hatred of the Godaime Mizukage who hated him about as much as the Yondaime Tsuchikage hated the Yondaime Hokage.
Kurenai then just signed as she looked out more into the open sea in the past two years now.
The Heavenly Alliance had grown in strength with several more Countries either become part of the Heaven Alliance or just Allying to the powerful Alliance of Nations. Countries like Numa no Kuni (Marsh Country), Tori no Kuni (Bird Country), Oni no Kuni (Demon Country), An no Kuni (Red Bean Jam Country), Cha no Kuni (Tea Country), Mitsu no Kuni (Honey Country) and Na no Kuni (Vegetable Country) joined the Heavenly Alliance while Countries like Tsuki no Kuni (Moon Country), Kiba no Kuni (Fang Country), Tsume no Kuni (Claw Country), Shu no Kuni (Neck Country) simply became Allies to it but were not members of the Alliance.
But out of all the Nations that had Allied themselves to the Heavenly Alliance none where more surprising to the other Shinobi Nations and other Countries than when the powerful Neutral Military Nation Tetsu no Kuni (Iron Country) broke it Neutrality and Allied itself to the Heavenly Alliance although the ruler of Tetsu no Kuni Lord Mifune made it clear in letters to all the other Countries and Shinobi Nations that Tetsu no Kuni was Allied to the Heavenly Alliance through mainly Trade treaties and it would not involve itself in any Wars that the Hevenaly Alliance was in unless it was to defend the Alliance member Nations when they are attack unprovokedly and it would not attack or invade any Country reguardless of the situation.
But still the fact that Tetsu no Kuni would break in long standing Neutrality and Ally itself to Heavenly Alliance showed how powerful and influential it had become and how it had grown especially Kumo since it had been Kumo that had gathered all these Nations together to form a powerful Alliance and even with the losses they suffered from their Civil War it was the most powerful out of all the Nations in the Heavenly Alliance and had more than likely gotten stronger over the past few years and it was certain that Kumo was very influential in the decisions in the Heavenly Alliance.
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