The Uchiha were already infamous, and that infamy only made them more prominent.
Even if Konoha's four big shots had no idea what that sort of notoriety meant, they understood one thing perfectly well—smearing the Uchiha with a few rumors wouldn't do a damn thing.
They were already covered in mud. What difference would another bucket make?
Someone with nothing to lose had nothing to fear.
Having seen through that, the Konoha F4 all fell silent.
"What do you think about convening a Jonin assembly?" Utatane Koharu asked after some thought. "Let the Jonin Commander hold a vote. If the Uchiha have any shame left, they won't be able to keep doing this.
Konoha belongs to all of us. Surely the other Shinobi Clans won't just stand by and watch the Uchiha wreck the village?"
Mitokado Homura and Shimura Danzō immediately nodded at the suggestion.
It wasn't a bad idea.
Put plainly, they would be shifting the target onto someone else.
The argument Jin Uchiha had devised dumped all the blame for the friction between the villagers and the Konoha Military Police Force onto the Konoha High Command.
And now...
Utatane Koharu was passing that blame on to all the Shinobi Clans.
You didn't want the Uchiha carrying on like this either, did you?
If the village fell apart, would your clans really escape unscathed?
"I agree!" Mitokado Homura nodded.
Danzo said nothing, but his expression showed his agreement.
Unfortunately...
Hiruzen Sarutobi's brow only furrowed further.
He glanced at the three of them, gave a muted sigh, and lit his pipe again.
Smoke drifted from his mouth, while Danzo and the other two stared in bewilderment.
"Hiruzen, that won't work either?" Danzo couldn't help asking.
"No, it won't," Hiruzen Sarutobi said slowly. "I just considered a Jonin Meeting myself.
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