The Third Hokage took a deep drag from his pipe, his eyes filled with complicated emotions as he looked at his old friend's particularly desolate back. He sighed inwardly as well.
He remembered everything that had happened these past few days...
Danzo had left the village without authorization. Just when he had begun worrying, Danzo suddenly returned, covered in dust from the road.
Then...
He convened the Kage Summit, invited the Kage of Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure, and unexpectedly persuaded all three to form the Ninja Alliance. Under the banner of exterminating the Grass bandits, they declared war on Sunagakure.
Of course, the declaration of war was merely on the surface. In secret, it was to find a new source of funding for the cash-strapped Konoha!
Only...
After just one day, he returned to the village and heard that Sunagakure had disbanded.
He had been rather shocked at the time, thinking the Ninja Alliance was truly so formidable that it had wiped out Sunagakure in a single day.
Then Danzo secretly sent someone to deliver word that everything was under control and told him to prepare the Flying Thunder Array Technique! (The Flying Thunder Array Technique was created by Minato after modifying the Flying Thunder God Technique. It allowed three ninjas to form an array and transfer objects or people within it elsewhere.)
Although he had no idea what Danzo intended to do, he hesitated for a moment before agreeing and secretly dispatching Genma Squad.
Yet only a few days later, Kakashi returned with nearly three billion.
He also said that Danzo had run in another direction to draw away the enemy. At the time, his heart had truly been full of emotion~
As expected of his old friend, a Konoha ninja who possessed an equally powerful Will of Fire!