After Mitokado Homura left, Danzo and the Third Hokage looked at each other.
"Hiruzen, are we still going to declare them Missing-nin?"
"How? Does Root not need Explosive Tags and Kunai anymore? Or do Root Ninja never get injured?
"How about we join forces and kill Homura and Koharu?"
"Hiruzen, what nonsense are you talking about? That's Koharu and Homura! Have you forgotten our decades together?"
"So you do remember! Then forget declaring them rogues! Leave it for now. I'll find a chance to talk them around."
Danzo looked irritated. "Why is everyone getting stranger and stranger? First the Uchiha, now Koharu and the others."
"What happened with the Uchiha?"
"Inabi attacked me. If he hadn't forced himself to hold back, I'd already be dead.
"And someone who followed Fugaku around every day actually wants to strip Fugaku of the Clan Leader position.
"If Uchiha Itachi weren't still so young, Fugaku would already have been removed."
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The Third Hokage's head was full of questions. Danzo had nearly died? Inabi wanted to remove Fugaku, and Koharu and Homura were turning against them too? What on earth had happened tonight?
The more the Third Hokage thought about it, the stranger it seemed. He kept feeling that Utatane Koharu and Homura were hiding something from him.
Neither of them would talk, and he couldn't torture them, so he could only suppress his doubts and prepare to visit Naruto.
What puzzled him most, actually, was why Shukaku had done nothing. What had Uchiha Yan said to Shukaku?
In just two or three days, word that Uchiha Yan had tried to kill Naruto at the village gates spread throughout Konoha. Uchiha Yan's reputation had already been poor, and now everyone was calling for his head.
What people found most unacceptable was that Uchiha Yan