This old man was Shimura Danzō.
Konoha's Darkness of Ninjutsu.
The Hokage's Assistant!
The leader of Root!
Konoha's second-in-command!
Yet he had never expected... to be captured twice in a row by such a tiny ninja village!
However.
At this very moment!
Danzo's face had turned somewhat green.
Especially as he looked at the two men before him, who helped him up and even enthusiastically dusted him off.
Kusagakure's Head of the Finance Department—Kakuzu, and Kusagakure's leader—Kusana!
Why were they looking at him like that?
Why were their gazes so fervent?
What did they want?
Danzo immediately panicked inside, and even his body stiffened.
But when he considered his situation, he could not help but sigh inwardly.
He had failed again~
At the time, Hiruzen Sarutobi had been wrangling with Kumogakure, and the village's attention had been entirely focused on Kumogakure.
There was no helping it.
Those bastards kept threatening war if Kumogakure was not given an explanation, while that weakling Hiruzen Sarutobi, in order to avoid war, could only keep arguing with Kumogakure and let them lead him by the nose.
Therefore, after discovering that the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had been taken away, as the leader of Root... at that moment, who besides him had the ability to bring the Nine-Tails back?
So, for Konoha...
He had made a decisive decision without the slightest hesitation and swiftly set out with the Root Ninja.
He was not worried about Kusagakure secretly taking away the Jinchuriki... They were merely a bunch of Grass Ninja!
Over the past three years... those people had kept coming to Konoha, so he had long since investigated their identities thoroughly!
Aside from Uzumaki Yangzheng and that shameless Grass Ninja—Mujie—who had some ability, he did not take any of the rest seriously at all.
Those people wanted to