I can very tenuously see the interpretation in which the agreement exists, and it only covers Hazou not working on dimensionalism and not taking concrete steps to interfere with the Akatsuki (in which case we've violated it by sharing stuff with Oro and Naruto, so he's going to kill us).
If I sell guns and someone commits a murder with a gun I sold them was I directly responsible for murder? No. No I'm not.
If I release a book about Nuclear energy and someone, having read that book, builds a nuclear bomb am I directly responsible for that? No. No I'm not.
If I release a textbook on coding and someone builds a startup worth billions of dollars, am I directly responsible for that startup such that I get equity? No, no I do not.
If I open source a bunch of sealing notes to all in Leaf, am I directly responsible for what they do with that information? No, no I am not.
Developing weapons and other sealtech for Leaf falls within "our work of Uplift," and is a necessary part of rebuilding Leaf's currently precarious strategic position. Hokage gets the last word on how those weapons are to be used, and while Hazo went to a lot of trouble to ensure that somebody Uplift-aligned would be "wearing the hat," the mad clan lord can't reasonably be held responsible for every detail of Leaf's foreign policy and strategic planning.
If Itachi didn't want Naruto to be biased against Akatsuki, maybe he should've thought of that when he was abducting and torturing someone who was, even at the time, an obvious eventual hokage candidate. If he didn't want Leaf to be currently scrambling for new defensive options, maybe he should have thought of that when he was carving chunks off their territory right after somebody - glares at Hidan - murdered the previous hokage. Doesn't take a jonin social spec to know that if you try to intimidate somebody into being calm and confident, you're gonna have a bad time.
If "interfering with Nagato's rescue" is to be interpreted so broadly that merely developing multi-purpose capacity infringes on it... Itachi does actually remember who won the Battle of the Gods, right? Nagato didn't successfully finish that ritual, so ninja all over the world are still naturally conflict-prone, so per his parting words we have to work toward lasting peace the hard way, and doing unprecedented things the hard way requires superior tools. What else are we supposed to do here? Roll over and be your slaves? Even if we wanted to, Nara projections say that leads to AMITY's immediate collapse and another world war, which probably wouldn't be good news for Nagato's rescue either.
This. Very much this.
@Noumero I'm trying to in your interpretation in what world can Hazo keep the Itachi deal even if Hazo wanted to?
If others in Leaf do things against Akasuki's interests such as Oro: Hazo's somehow broken the deal?
If Leaf's Hokage plans to kill Akasuki: Hazo's somehow broken the deal?
If Hazo follows Leaf's orders under threat of treason (death): Hazo's somehow broken the deal?
If Hazo dreams about weapon design but doesn't build any or do anything: Hazo's somehow broken the deal?
How could Hazo have complied with the deal under our Hokage, please tell me, so far as you understand it?
As from where I'm standing, you're saying it was impossible to comply with the deal? Which, if correct, makes one wonder why Itachi would go to such lengths to make a deal anyway, if he knew that he would later deem it impossible to comply with anyway? Why not just kill Hazo then?
We're developing weapons for the highly specific purpose of killing Akatsuki members, optimized to be deployed at the rift site, at the culmination of the rift race whose explicit goal is to interfere with the Akatsuki's resurrection of Pain.
But we didn't? You do understand that right? That's what I keep saying? Name me a weapon that we've built that could kill an Akatsuki member. Or even come close. We've done nothing of that sort! We've basically just goofed around with time sealing runes, some force domes, etc. Just because Naruto told us to build Akatsuki killing weapons doesn't mean we did! We didn't!
