Wonder if it can be tested with ma/pa around. Just a tiny bit, to check. If it is dangerous they smack him and cut it off as they would during sage training. If it isn't then we have a possible solution to our chakra problems.
That wouldn't be very nice, due to her touch phobia.
I suppose that's something to keep track of, as a divergence between Hazou and the Hivemind. We never intended to try and hide impossible-to-logistically-conceal parts of our project from the person we were knowingly inviting onto the project, but Hazou isn't made of dozens of people thinking in different directions for days on end and relies much more heavily on mental habits that can fail to properly integrate the implications of new information.
It may be more that Hazou wanted be the one to explain it, since it was his secret, and is miffed Kei went and skipped the part where she let him be the one to explain the cause, as we would generally allow Kei to do when it was her secret in question
Kei: I'm telling Tenten about runes.
Whoever wants my vote, add something to the effect of Hazo going "OK Kei got to show you runes so I get to teach you Shadow Clone" to Tenten and you've got it.Kei: I'm telling Tenten about runes.
Hazou: Fine, but I get to teach her shadow clone.
Snowflake:
Hazou: ...ugh, whatever, I'll show her rocket boots or something.
Hell if Hazou is the one to teach everyone shadow clone no one else should get in trouble for it later...
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Got an alternate outcome in mind? Either we die or become Leaf's greatest heroes for killing Akatsuki, necromancying Jiraya et al, or both. Neither result seems like we'd have to worry about this.
The plan then does not instruct Hazou to scribe any seals for anyone.
Presumably this was already discussed, but how is that supposed to work? Genjutsu don't have lingering effects by default. If we're postulating that Itachi might have genjutsu with lingering effects, we should specify that, or the Toad Sages won't understand what the hell we're asking of them. And if this is about his (supposed) mind-control, we don't know that it's a genjutsu, as opposed to a jutsu or some non-disciplinary Sharingan bullshit.
I'd bundle that with the Tenten-related section in "today". Something like:
This is the perfect time to get her the scroll. We're no longer Leaf nin. We're actually the opposite of Leaf nin. No other ninja is so thoroughly not a part of Leaf as we are at this exact moment.
The fact that we went on a hunt for the Squirrel Scroll is, to my understanding, public knowledge in Leaf (or at least on the record at an ordinary level of clearance) and I expect that makes Neck an unsafe place to go to again in the future, since even if we do not get intercepted directly there we risk leaving information behind in the hands of whoever is there when the hunter-nin do show up to investigate. It doesn't sound like the biggest OPSEC breach, but it still is one.
If we're going to go for it, we need to go all in on it IMO. Ambush a squad, drain them all and refill clones, have Mari wheedle all the intel possible out of them, then move on to the next squad, repeat as necessary until we know where the scroll is and storm in with a veritable army of Mari Shadow Clones (and friends). Make it as quick and efficient as possible. I can see it being something we pick up early on once we've reached the Eastern Continent. Some of our teammates need to unstagnate (and their continual acquiring of XP increases our safety, to be balanced against the loss of safety of doing the mission.) It would be a pretty decent boost for Mari on judgment day and potentially allows her to contribute her strength if Itachi and Kisame start prodding at the borders of Dog or something.
Oh, oops, sorry.
This gets us 0 XP, as was just proven.
