Seeing Akaseki's reaction, Kusagakure's leader vaguely realized that perhaps he should not have mentioned the Uzumaki Clan. After all, he had originally intended to keep the clan's orphan in the village and work her like a beast of burden—
But now was hardly the time to explain any of that!
Somehow, Mui had learned about the Box of Bliss. The whole purpose of these Grass Fruit members sneaking back into the village and launching a rebellion was to seize it!
Now Kusagakure's leader feared that if they fed the Uzumaki Clan's orphan into it, Grass Fruit might actually be able to activate the treasure!
The Box of Bliss could absorb chakra and even swallow people like sacrifices, but it had never shown any other response.
No legend was needed. Anyone who saw that would assume it remained inactive because it "hadn't eaten its fill"—
Successive leaders of Kusagakure had been "feeding" chakra to the Box of Bliss, and even "feeding" it condemned prisoners. Yet compared with its demands, all that was a mere drop in the bucket!
But the Uzumaki Clan had immense chakra potential and a special bloodline. The Grass Ninja leader feared that once this sacrifice went in, the Box of Bliss really would open.
According to legend, once the Box of Bliss opened, it could grant a single wish—
Although the Grass Ninja leader was skeptical of that claim—"granting wishes" was far too vague and absurd, and none of the other Six Paths Tools had such an abstract effect—even an "ordinary Six Paths Tool" falling into those traitors' hands would be no small matter.
Thus, he could no longer worry about keeping the treasure secret. He could only hope that Konoha's Akaseki and those traitors would cripple each other, giving him a chance to reclaim it.
Akaseki