- Those saboteurs tried to sneak into the clan," Sakumo told us, gripping the hilt of his sword tightly, "but the defense was timely, thank you, Ryo.
- I did it," the jonin said simply, straightening up a little proudly.
Now that my work has been proven to be effective in practice, the other clans will surely think twice about improving their own defenses.
The basic one, created by Uzumaki, is available to everyone, but it is necessary to activate it manually, but mine does it automatically, as soon as the Fuin sensors are triggered by alien chakra or the crossing of the protected border by a large enough body, albeit without chakra.
Outsiders don't get into the clan territory, and it's quite difficult for animals to do it too. As one can understand, this approach justified itself one hundred percent.
- It remains to be seen how such a large group of hostile jonins got into Konoha without a single alarm signal until the very moment of the attack," Shenesu remarked meaningfully, "although the barrier over the village created by Mito Uzumaki, as well as several teams of sensors on duty around the clock, are designed to prevent such a development. And how amazingly timely...
The blond shinobi's face darkened, and I could literally read his thoughts - betrayal! To be honest, I had similar thoughts, but at the same time, I shouldn't consider my enemies to be complete idiots, because the attack could have been developed for months, looking for vulnerabilities through spies that I wouldn't believe were absent, and only after calculating the odds was the operation launched.
I doubt that Hiruzen is so desperate to keep the chair under his heel that he would stage a fight in the middle of a village for a small chance to kill his opponent by other people's hands.
He's more used to acting in much less direct ways, and for this lapse in Konoha's defense system, the Hokage is going to have to sweat a lot already. Of course, there's also Danzo, who loves to radically fix problems, but he's not an idiot either and will choose to attack missions where he can do a much better job of cleaning up the mess.
- Let's not jump to conclusions," I cooled the hotheads, "this is too high-profile a case to sweep under the rug, so Anbu will conduct a thorough investigation and the conclusions will be brought to the heads of the clans and the Hokage.
- You're right, there is a motive, but it's not worth jumping to conclusions," he agreed, and I realized that he'd brought it up on purpose to make him think about it and increase his suspicion of his political opponent.
It was just a little insurance that our candidate for the fourth Hokage would continue to follow the course chosen by Nara, without thinking of switching to the side of the competitor. The chance of that is slim, given the character of the White Fang of Konoha, but life happens.
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