Yamato and the others' eyes widened.
This Kumogakure team truly hadn't come with the intention of forming an alliance. They had come to take advantage of the opportunity to plunder the Hyuga Clan's Kekkei Genkai.
But no one had expected...
Not only had their plan failed, Hyuga Sho had seized the moral high ground and turned the accusation back on them.
So here was the question.
As an ANBU member, Yamato, along with the other fifteen ANBU shinobi...
After seeing their own people attacked...
Should they intervene, or not?
Or rather...
Should they help Hyuga Sho, or the Kumogakure envoy?
If Hyuga Sho had come knocking and, without saying a word, insisted on killing someone to vent his fury, these ANBU would naturally have intervened at once to stop him, invoking justice and telling him that he couldn't disrupt peace and stability, and so on...
But the problem was...
Hyuga Sho had only used a little strategy.
And he had directly provoked the other side into attacking first.
What were they supposed to do?
"As the Deputy Head of the Torture Department... I order!"
Hyuga Sho announced.
"All ANBU, follow me and annihilate the enemy!"
During special circumstances, the Head and Deputy Head of the Torture Department could directly mobilize the ANBU.
In other words...
Even if Morino Ibiki was only a Special Jonin, if he ordered Elite Jonin Kakashi to lie down, Kakashi would have to lie down.
Of course, something like that would never actually happen.
For one thing, Morino Ibiki in the past couldn't beat Kakashi.
For another, it was better to leave some leeway so people could meet amicably in the future. Having the authority didn't mean you could actually use it. If someone was merely giving you face, did you really think they meant it?