Yuhara had once followed the Third Hokage to Root Organization's underground base. As he walked down the same underground passage again, he couldn't help letting his imagination run wild... Even if Shimura Danzō had once been a perfectly sane person, after spending ten consecutive years in this lightless underground space, his mind should have been more or less ruined. What was more, Danzō had always been gloomy by nature and fond of manipulating schemes and intrigues.
Since he had been holed up here all this time, it was easy to imagine that, no matter what happened in Konoha next, this great figure who aspired to become Hokage would cling even more firmly to his cowardly behavior. The farther he was from the position of Hokage, the more Danzō treasured the power in his hands. No matter what crisis Konoha faced, he had to preserve his subordinates' fighting strength, because that was his guarantee for seizing power in the future. Yet the more he cowered away like this, the farther he moved from becoming Hokage.
No, Danzō wasn't stingy with his strength. He would simply use it only when he was confident of success... What counted as something he was confident about? Eliminating the Uchiha Clan, for example. And what counted as something he could only "wait and see" because he lacked confidence? The Nine-Tails' rampage, the Konoha Crush, and Pain's invasion, for example.
The more Yuhara thought about it, the more he felt that Danzō was truly useless. In two years, even if they let Mini-Konoha Maru from the preschool become Hokage directly, he would still be much better than Danzō as Hokage.
After arriving at the familiar underground space, Yuhara was brought before Shimura Danzō.
A year earlier, taking advantage of sending Danzō out of the village on a