"Wait, I haven't attacked Konoha, have I? This has nothing to do with Iwagakure, does it?" Ōnoki hurriedly stood up and said.
Kakuzu sneered, pulled a document from inside his clothes, and tossed it to Ōnoki.
"Iwagakure's combat deployment against Konoha"
"If you hadn't received word of peace between the Four Great Villages, Konoha would've been your next target once you were done with Kumogakure, right? This is your village's combat deployment plan," Kakuzu said with a smile.
"What is this? Why don't I know anything about it? I'm telling you, this is slander! He's slandering me! He's slandering me!" Ōnoki looked at the deployment plan. It was indeed accurate, but would he admit that? At the same time, he wondered how this document had ended up here.
"That's right! He's slandering us!! Why would we fight Konoha? How would we know Konoha wouldn't deploy its top-level fighters, let alone know to use flanking tactics against them? And how would we know to conceal our supply routes and wage an all-out campaign to cut off theirs?!" Shū, who stood behind Ōnoki—an Explosion Release Shinobi and one of the orphans Dave had taken in—excitedly stepped forward and shouted.
Yes, Shū had also been the one to bring back the document.
Everyone present froze...
Kakuzu picked up the document and looked it over... Hmm... It matched what he had said... Word for word, even...
Shū exchanged a glance with Dave, who winked to signal a job well done.
"Hiss... Even if it's exactly the same, Shū has always liked letting his imagination run wild. Maybe all those explosions scrambled his brain, and his wild guesses just happened to match. That doesn't count!" Ōnoki hurriedly said, proving himself every bit the old fox. Still, why did he feel that something was off?
"Well,