- Hiruzen, if you've got time for nonsense, I don't," Shimura Danzo's slightly annoyed voice sounded a few minutes later, "tell me why you're here.
- Danzo, you're always in a hurry," Sarutobi turned to his former partner without even thinking of saying hello, "but this time, your haste has done you a disservice.
The heavy and unhurried words of the man nicknamed God Shinobi, literally thickened and weighed down the air in the office, making you feel the obvious displeasure of its owner. Oh no, Hiruzen didn't press with murderous intent, not with an old friend who knew him like a peeler, such vulgarity in communication could be left to the younger ones, but he could create the mood of the conversation with one barely perceptible intonation of his voice during the years of power. And now he was letting the guest know how dissatisfied he was with him.
That was probably why Shimura preferred to keep silent, looking at his rival-friend with an unreadable look on his stone face, though he usually did not go for a word in his pocket and had his own opinion on any issue, not being shy to speak out.
- Years of calculations, searches, preparation of a suitable object, - the soft voice of the Hokage was spreading in the room and as if nails were hammering into the only listener, - unnoticeable influence on the object so that it did not understand anything, titanic labor of my most loyal people to make everything go exactly as it was planned....
The elderly shinobi's voice became quiet and thoughtful, but not for the unnoticeable Anbu Ne creator. No, Danzo understood perfectly well that the former teammate would not attack, but the veteran's instincts were giving threatening signals and making him tense up.
- The Hokage slowly stood up, leaning his hands on the table and giving his guest's only eye a hard stare, "It's all because some mutts got involved in the plan, even though there shouldn't have been a shadow of them around.
- Hiruzen, listen to me," Shimura began.
- No, Danzo, you listen, - interrupted him Sarutobi, gradually beginning to lose patience and watch the control of chakra bubbling in the body, - because of your haste and desire to get the knowledge of Uzumaki, which anyway, sooner or later would have ended up with us, albeit five to seven years later, the object of influence on the jinchuriki lost its usefulness.
- As if old Mito would let really worthwhile knowledge go to the wayside," Shimura twitched the corner of his mouth, "your boy will be stamped on his tongue and entangled in clan treaties before he knows it.
- Almost fifteen Fuinjutsu textbooks and scrolls, Danzo," Sarutobi almost hissed, not hesitating to raise his voice, "and that's in half a year and with the help of a pretty face and courteous treatment, snot-nosed Uzumaki just loaned them out with no strings attached! Do you realize that!? No conditions at all, because she liked the kid! When you practice denying your feelings, you start to forget how much power they have over people!
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