After leaving the Kurama Clan patriarch's residence, Shinji deliberately took a roundabout route through the village. Only after confirming that Yakumo's Red Dragon Eye couldn't spy on him did he return to his apartment.
He believed Yakumo wouldn't dare spy on him without good reason, but it never hurt to stay cautious.
After washing up, Shinji sat down at his desk.
Planning before acting had always been his habit. Now that the plan had gone awry, he naturally needed to consider everything before making a decision.
"The Inner Demon shares all of Naruto's memories. Unless it's an idiot, it should understand how dangerous the Akatsuki Organization is. It'll probably avoid them."
Shinji wasn't sure whether Naruto's Inner Demon had gone looking for the other half of the Nine-Tails, but he reasoned that it must know how dangerous the Akatsuki Organization was and wouldn't show itself recklessly in the Shinobi World. That meant he still had time to capture it!
The condition was that Nagato, Obito, and the others must never learn that Naruto had been controlled by the Inner Demon and gone rogue.
"If Yakumo hadn't reported it to me, even I, the captain of the Konoha Military Police Force, wouldn't have heard a thing. The village has done a decent job keeping this secret. It should stay under wraps for a while!"
The fact that even he hadn't received any word showed how tightly the village's highest echelons had sealed away the news that Naruto had been controlled by the Inner Demon and gone rogue. And at a time like this, the whereabouts of a Jinchuriki were already among the village's highest secrets. So even though Naruto hadn't appeared alongside Jiraiya and Yakumo, no one in the village thought anything was amiss; they simply assumed Naruto had been moved