After returning to the village, Uchiha Shunichi made some tentative inquiries about Kirigakure's Six-Tails, but Konoha's Intelligence Department had found nothing.
Tailed beasts were extremely important to a village. Ordinarily, a village would never let another shinobi village obtain even the slightest information about them. The intelligence on Iwagakure had been gathered by Jiraiya himself.
Other intelligence operatives were nowhere near that capable. If they had been, Danzo would not have refused to let Yakushi Nonō go.
While his responsibility for other incidents might have been debatable, Yakushi Kabuto's tragedy had undoubtedly been caused by Danzo alone. And at the time, they had all been members of Root.
So killing Danzo early had definitely been the right decision. Although it had cost Shunichi many uses of Regression, it now seemed well worth it.
Although Uchiha Shunichi wondered whether that Anbu Captain from Kirigakure had actually returned the Six-Tails to the village, he had no good way to investigate right now.
"Lord Shunichi, Jiraiya has returned to Konoha. Might Guy's team is back too..." Karin entered the laboratory and spoke to Uchiha Shunichi, who was busy working.
Since he could not be bothered to keep track of these things himself, Uchiha Shunichi had handed some miscellaneous tasks over to Karin. She had handled them quite well.
Gradually, Uchiha Shunichi had grown accustomed to this arrangement.
"They're finally back? Sounds promising..." Uchiha Shunichi was pleased by the news. He had been waiting for those two for a long time.
Judging by the timeline, Jiraiya, who now recognized the threat posed by the Akatsuki, should already have infiltrated Amegakure to investigate. But because Uchiha Shunichi had given him a general outline of the Akatsuki's intelligence from the start, Jiraiya had not gone there.
*Going by the plot, I've saved Jiraiya's life, one