Kakashi led Kaida through the living quarters that made up the remaining Hatake pound. It was clear the pce had seeer days, with an air of mencholy hanging over the slightly dipidated buildings. But looking at the various buildings, Kaida could clude that this used to be a really powerful o the time of its peak.

  Since we know only about 2 members of the Hatake , and both of them - the White Fang (Kakashi's father) and Kakashi - are proof that this had a lot of potential to rival bigger s like the Senju and Uchiha, maybe that's why their has been reduced to this state.

  Ohey were inside Kakashi's private residence, Kakashi turo Kaida.

  "Alright, we're alone now. Expin to me exactly what you're talking about the pn of helping Naruto."

  Kaida nodded and took out the paper again.

  "What is that?" Kakashi asked.

  "What I am about to tell you must not be leaked, that's ill both pass our chakra into this seal. It was made by a fuinjutsu grandmaster and will firm that our versation will not be leaked."

  "And what if one of us leaks our discussion?" Kakashi asked.

  "Our ability to wield chakra will be lost, and we will feel the gut-wreng pain," Kaida said while passing his chakra into the seal.

  Kakashi looked at the seal for some time. Since he was not even a fuinjutsu master, there was no ce that he could uand that seal, but seeing Kaida passing his chakra into it, he also passed his chakra.

  He didn't know why, but Kakashi could feel that he could trust this person. There was not a hint of jealousy in Kaida's eyes, but rather excitement, so Kakashi subsciously let his guard down.

  Luckily for him, Kaida didn't pn to take advantage of this opportunity. After passing his chakra, he looked at Kakashi and said, " we tinue now?"

  Kaida nodded solemnly. "To start, have you noticed anything unusual about how the vilge treats Naruto? Beyond just ign or resenting him for being the ails jinchuriki?"

  Kakashi's eye narrowed as he sidered this. "Now that you mention it, there have been a few strange is over the years. Caretakers being abruptly reassigned, supplies going missing, that sort of thing. I chalked it up to human error or sabotage by those blinded by hatred towards him being a jinchuriki."

  Kaida stated grimly, "That may have been the case, even if those people sabotage the supplies assigo a 4-year-old boy due to hatred. Lord Third and others should be aware of that, right? He should have assigned Anbu to provide ies like food and clothes, but he never did anything like that."

  Kakashi's face showed anger as he said, "Who could be behind something like that? And why?" But by now, he had already guessed who was behind this.

  "Think about it, Kakashi. Who in this vilge has the authority and es to orchestrate such a widespread spiracy? And who might view an incredibly powerful jinchuriki like Naruto as a potential on to be trolled?"

  Realization dawned on Kakashi's face. "Danzo..."

  Kaida nodded grimly. "From what I've pieced together, Danzo aims to pletely break Naruto's spirit and support system. Once he is isoted and depe, Danzo will likely attempt to manipute him into being a powerful on solely under Root's trol."

  Kakashi felt a surge of anger and protectiveness rise within him at Kaida's words. To think that Danzo would stoop so low as to deliberately make Naruto's childhood a living hell, all to try to gain trol over the ails' power - it was siing.

  "That ot be allowed to tinue," Kakashi stated, his voice hard. "Naruto is the legacy of the Fourth Hokage, my sensei. But I also know that I 't do anything against him at the moment."

  Kaida nodded solemnly. "I know that since Danzo has the full support of Lord Third, it is very difficult for anyone in Konoha to go against him. But our has taken too many hits from his schemes to not do anything, that's why tomorrow we are going to unch a full-scale political attack against him."

  Kakashi said, "There is nothing new in that. I 4-5 years, many s have raised many pints against him, and the only punishme from those pints was a vacation of 1-2 weeks. Why do you think that this time it will be different?"

  "Because when I said 'full scale', I meant it. There will be no going ba that attack. We have already allied with most of the major s. Due to the nature of Danzo's work, he has made many enemies both outside and ihe vilge," Kaida said.

  "If you were so sure, why did you e to me for help?" Kakashi asked.

  "Because even with this much preparation, I am sure that the punishment Danzo will get will be mostly a 6-month vacation, which is not enough. I want to at least take his power away from him," Kaida said.

  Though in his mind, he khat with Kotoamatsukami in py, Danzo's downfall was just around the er, but there was no reason for Kaida to tell Kakashi about that. He just tinued,

  "And for that, I need your help," Kaida said.

  "Which help could I provide you?" Kakashi asked.

  "You worked in Root for some time, right?"

  "Yes."

  "I want to know the location of some of the Root headquarters where they are dug experiments on Konoha's ninjas," Kaida said.

  "They're doing what?" Kakashi asked, shocked.

  "Are you saying that you worked for Root and don't even know this?" Kaida asked, genuinely shocked this time.

  "Even though I worked in Root, I was never a part of it, so Danzo never put his seal on my head. Sihat seal is one of the reasons Root ninjas 't disclose as, and I don't have that seal, I was old as and only given elimination missions," Kakashi expined.

  "Well, you should still know about some of the Root bases where they do experiments, right?" Kaida asked.

  "Only o is he Konoha hospital. I was once assigo guard some stists from that base to the Fire Capital, but I'm not sure that this is the base you're looking for," Kakashi said.

  "That's fine. I'll figure it out. Is there any other base where such acts may happen?" Kaida asked.

  "Does Lord Third know about this?" Kakashi asked after thinking for some time.

  "It would be a shame if he didn't even know what Danzo had doo Konoha's shinobi. That would just firm that he is not fit to tinue being the Hokage. I'm pretty sure that he knows about this, but he just turned a blio it," Kaida said.

  "If that's the case, then there may be two more bases where such things could happen. Those bases would require a huge amount of funding, which must be for tinuing the research," Kakashi said.