Will Konoha have allies in the battle against Akatsuki? Naruto fans please comment?

sand will most likely help him, and because of killerbee i am beginning to think that the Raikage will also help. Something has really been bugging me though what ever happened to the star village? I think if he wanted to Masashi Kishimoto could make them a larger village and allow them to help also, but i'm pretty sure that we will see a lot of older and/or new allies in the war.