- You'd be similarly eager to ferret out the enemy's plans, as Anbu Nee should, Danzo-kun," Uzumaki smiled venomously, "who has what forces, when do they plan to start pulling troops together, what routes to take, where is the best place to meet to gain an advantage? Why hasn't the Council gotten anything but the most general information that a genin can think of on his own? For some reason, your men are seen in various parts of the country, taking business away from criminal groups and removing promising children from the orphanages of the Fire Country, but it seems that they have no time to do their direct duties.
Having dropped a natural information bomb on the Council and made two aging shinobi's hearts ache, even if for completely different reasons, Mito leaned back in her chair and prepared to watch the show.
Her alliance with the village's smartest man was suddenly not only useful, but also surprisingly refreshing - she'd been wanting to give the two bratty youngsters a good thrashing, metaphorically speaking, for a long time now.
- Danzo? - Sarutobi turned to his companion in surprise, not expecting such a turn of events.
- My men? Nonsense," the shinobi didn't even raise an eyebrow at the accusation. - Where did this information come from?
- Danzo-Danzo, do you really think that the Anbu boys are not particularly stealthy, or that their tactics are unrecognizable? Or maybe you're the only one who has informants? - Uzumaki began to sneer openly. - Or maybe we have another organization in our country, capable of engaging dozens of shinobi to redistribute spheres of shadowy influence? Then the fact that you missed such a thing literally under your nose only speaks of an extreme degree of incompetence! I only had to contact a few old acquaintances from the court of the Daimyo to get the latest news and put two plus two together," the red-haired kunoichi glared at the one-eyed shinobi with a hard stare and felt a deep satisfaction in her revenge, "I always knew Saru wouldn't have the guts to keep you and your ambitions on a short leash.
The gathered kunoichi and shinobi, who had been in a bit of a daze up to that point, picked themselves up and some even began to emit a small amount of murderous intent, having digested Uzumaki's revelations.
And it wasn't even because the latter was well respected among the older generation of Konoha and her words were trusted by most, but because each of the clan heads present could well believe in such actions by Shimura, even bypassing the Hokage, especially since it wasn't only the Nara who were aware of the cuts to the Root's funding.
Many of them wouldn't bat an eye at finding a new source of money, but along with finding children with a talent for chakra manipulation, it was a lot like creating a personal army that didn't report to the Hokage.
Many of the clan fighters still in this organization had some very serious questions waiting for them when they got home!
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