In the original story, A was an upright, honorable man.
Regardless of right or wrong, he held fast to his own convictions.
And Kumogakure was different from the other ninja villages.
Take the rogue ninja in the Akatsuki, for example. It had gathered top rogue ninja from nearly every village, yet not a single ninja from Kumogakure.
Liumu glanced sideways.
Looking at A beside him, he figured the reason must have been inseparable from their village's leaders.
Konoha's crown prince, the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Sunagakure's One-Tail Jinchuriki Gaara, and even Roshi, the Four-Tails Jinchūriki who chose to leave his village-thinking back over all the Tailed Beast Jinchūriki, only Kumogakure's Yugito Nii and Killer B had enjoyed the brightest childhoods of them all.
And Killer B had even been chosen by A as his one and only partner.
Jinchūriki were their villages' ultimate strength in wartime, yet everyone shunned them for the creatures known as monsters inside them.
Liumu did not believe people were inherently good at birth.
Because if everyone were good, there would be no such thing as evil.
What could not be seen was the most frightening, but was what could be seen necessarily real?
And Kumogakure's last rogue ninja dated all the way back to Kinkaku and Ginkaku in the First Shinobi World War.
Several decades had passed since then.
A had no need to lie, because he knew that whatever he said, they would remain skeptical as Konoha ninja.
The current state of the shinobi world could not afford even the slightest disturbance.
The death of a single ninja could very well implicate every village.
As a candidate for Raikage, A could not have been unaware of the risks.
Looking at Minato nearby, Liumu said to A, "This is already the Land of Fire. You should leave