Kakashi had maneuvered between Root and the Third. Though he had found no direct evidence, their answers had already given him the answer in his heart.
Both the Third and Root Danzo's upper ranks were wary of the Uchiha Clan, and they showed an astonishing degree of tolerance toward Sharingan experiments. Given his understanding of politics, that attitude likely meant they had tacitly allowed those unknown experiments to be conducted in secret.
Kakashi's greatest difference was that he cherished his comrades! One could say he had inherited his father's spirit, treating his comrades as his own life. Naturally, the village came before his comrades. After all, judging by how he had killed Rin, it was clear that Kakashi possessed the temperament of a hero.
Although Rin had willingly chosen death, had Kakashi regretted it? What he regretted most was failing to protect his comrade. He hated that the one who had died had not been himself.
But heroes often had a bottom line in their hearts. Once that line was crossed, a true hero would never choose to go along with them.
That was the difference between a hero and an ambitious tyrant. Both White Fang and Kakashi were Konoha's heroes.
He could understand the First Hokage's Wood Release human experiments. After all, that matter surely could not have bypassed Lady Tsunade, and the upper ranks were all disciples of the Second Hokage. As the saying went, disciples were like sons. Outsiders could not judge that matter, to say nothing of the Senju family's desire to control those who awakened Wood Release.
But what about the Sharingan? It would have been one thing if the Uchiha Clan had agreed, but this had been carried out in secret. From the very beginning, the Third and the upper ranks had never regarded