Sasuke had been having a miserable time these past few days.
The surgery had always been what he pinned his hopes on, so when he learned that his surgical plan had been temporarily shelved, he felt overwhelming anger and humiliation!
Obviously.
The village's measures to ensure that things remained stable had infuriated Sasuke.
The village higher-ups' considerations were actually quite simple. Danzo, who held the position of Elder among the village's advisers, had just launched an operation targeting the Uchiha Clan.
Although the village had already stripped Danzo of his position as an adviser and Elder and imprisoned him,
at this sensitive moment, the village higher-ups could not confirm whether Shinji had regained his trust in the village—or whether this incident had caused him to harbor other thoughts.
Therefore, to guard against the unexpected, Tsunade could only shelve Sasuke's surgical plan.
After all, even Tsunade could not guarantee the safety of a First Hokage cells transplant. If anything happened to Sasuke during the surgery, the village would have difficulty explaining itself to Shinji.
Besides,
the village higher-ups had temporarily shelved Sasuke's surgical plan because they had another concern.
The strength displayed by Shinji Uchiha alone had already made the village higher-ups deeply wary. If the surgery succeeded, Sasuke would not only recover his Mangekyō Sharingan's Dojutsu, but also master Wood Release. By then, controlling these two hot-blooded young Uchihas would become even more difficult.
The village higher-ups had considered every angle, taking into account all the present and future troubles that might arise. Yet they had overlooked one thing: Sasuke's pride.
For a Uchiha genius who had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan at barely ten years old and carried the blood feud of his clan, his own dignity and that of his clan were the last things he could still protect.