In the darkness,
the group discussed the intelligence for a while before vanishing from where they stood.
Tobitake Tonbo stood beside them, rubbing his chin as he watched them disappear.
"So they've been targeted. They won't get taken out and leave no money to pay for the mission, will they?"
He had no particular thoughts about the Hagoromo being targeted.
But if the employer got killed, wouldn't the money be gone too?
And that Gato—was he the same Gato Naruto would encounter in the Land of Waves later on?
He really was shady,
not interested in doing honest business, instead resorting to the methods of criminal gangs.
As one of the world's foremost capitalists, Gato was quite famous across the world.
Tobitake Tonbo had seen him in a certain ninja's memories.
Unlike the original story, where Gato only had a few thugs and bodyguards around him, this Gato had plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
Nor were the people around him merely ordinary hoodlum bodyguards.
Rich people
were all afraid of dying.
The more money Gato accumulated, the more afraid of death he became.
The ninja group gathered around him was no small force. It was not something one or two Jōnin could break through.
As for whether something happened later that made him act like an idiot, thinking he could personally lead people against Zabuza and Kakashi, no one knew.
At least, according to Tobitake Tonbo's current intelligence network,
Gato had at least two Jōnin-level ninja protecting him every day.
It seemed
his methods of amassing wealth had never stopped.
There were many differences in this world. Not everything followed the original story's plot.
Take the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, for example.
When he had watched it, it had been created by the Second Hokage. Yet in the Book of Seals,