Danzo had always wanted to control the Jinchuriki, but the Hokage wasn't willing to allow it.
For one thing, the Jinchuriki couldn't be pushed too far. And besides, if Danzo gained control over the Jinchuriki, his ambitions might grow out of control. That was a risk the Hokage wasn't willing to take.
"Now's not the time for this, Danzo," Koharu and Homura chimed in, siding with the Hokage for once.
"Hmph."
Danzo wasn't done yet, though. "The Hidden Cloud Village is reaching too far! They dared to target our Jinchuriki. Are you just going to let this slide?"
Who the hell attacked my men?
Although the Yamanaka clan's interrogation techniques had pried open every secret the spies were hiding, Danzo couldn't be satisfied. The matter of his men being attacked-and the stolen chakra metal-was still unresolved.
Still, this inspection hadn't been entirely fruitless. The Hidden Cloud Village had indeed gained access to certain nodes in Konoha's barrier.
They had been planning to infiltrate Konoha and carry out their Jinchuriki abduction scheme.
Thankfully, this internal inspection caught the problem. Otherwise, if spies from the Hidden Rain Village had managed to sneak into Konoha and kidnap Kushina, no one would have known until it was too late.
"So, what's your plan?"
Taking revenge on the Hidden Cloud Village won't be easy.
And with Konoha currently at war with the Hidden Sand Village, they couldn't just start another conflict with the Hidden Cloud under the pretext of battle.
The Third Raikage, with his infamous temper, would be all too eager for Konoha to strike first, giving him an excuse to drop his conflict with the Hidden Stone Village and focus all his efforts on attacking Konoha instead.
"If the Hidden Cloud tried to kidnap our Jinchuriki, then we'll target theirs," Danzo declared. Using their own tactics against them-that was Danzo's plan.
The Hidden Cloud had spies in Konoha, but could they guarantee that Konoha didn't have any spies in the Hidden Cloud?
They dared to go after the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? Well, they'd have to live with Konoha playing the same game.
It was classic hawkish thinking, very much in line with Danzo's usual methods.
Though the Third Hokage wasn't as aggressive as Danzo, the fact that the Hidden Cloud had dared to target Kushina made retaliation a reasonable option-he certainly wasn't opposed to the idea.
The problem, though, was that while it was easy to talk about revenge, executing such a plan was far more difficult.
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