[He leans forward in his seat now, heels stuck in the floor to push him up.]

Believe it or not, nearly all of them at the time that I left. [He points to two of the bottom symbols] Grass and Waterfall are small shinobi villages, just outside my country's border. We've been allies for over twenty years, ever since the last war.

[His finger drifts up to the symbol in the center, and he pauses.] Rain was like that too, but I'm not one hundred percent positive on how they stand right now. Nothing dramatic [to borrow her word], but they've had a change in leadership recently.

[He scratches at his chin... Even as he's looking at this, he can think of a couple of other villages he missed.]