I'm talking about the fact that Hazou intended on continuing the argument past the point where it was reasonable to do so. Whether he did it himself or had Mari do it is irrelevant: he should not have tried to persuade Keiko to change his course, and should have either accepted her decision or, at the very least, gotten confirmation that Keiko was willing to consider alternate solutions before discussing them.
It's entirely reasonable to be bewildered and confused and a bit angry that Keiko just decided to unilaterally do something that effects pretty much everyone you care about in a potentially extremely negative way
At absolutely no point did she come up to us and say "Hey Hazou, this thing is really bothering me still and I'm thinking about just ditching the deal entirely. Like, I really really want to do that and I just don't want to sell any weapons to the 7th Path anymore, its too much for me."
What we got was aggression and the Team Dynamics equivalent of a "Checkmate."
Instead of talking to anyone about this, about how she feels about this, about what she wants to do about this, she spent her time reading up on Leaf legalese and preparing for "Keiko stands up at dinner and decides that The Matter Is Closed." She even brought Tenten there for moral support.
Quite frankly, I'm totally fine with ditching the Pangolin Deal. So what? We can pull off some bullshit to get money. We can probably do some 4d chess bullshit to get more scrolls anyway. I'm proud that she's brave enough to bring this up.
Thats not the problem here.
The problem is, in typical Keiko fashion, she priveleged "The Team will not care about my opinions or what I have to say so I must make sure this gets done regardless." or whatever over actually communicating literally any of this like a teammate.
I thought we already hashed this out with the Hazou-Keiko-Ami arc, in all honesty:
And what is left when my fury has exhausted itself…
"…is the knowledge that you never asked. You never cared."
Hazō flinched. "That isn't true at all, Keiko. I just thought… if I asked, you'd dismiss it out of hand. I thought it would better to at least have one meeting first."
"Of course I would!" Keiko said. "The very idea is appalling." She gestured in the vague direction of the inn with two frustrated hands. "Witness what you wrought after a single meeting!"
But then her hands fell to her sides as if the life had been drained out of them. "Yes, I would have refused. But Hazō, that is the point where normal people seek to persuade. You could have offered whatever arguments were compelling enough to override Jiraiya's better judgement. You could have considered my personality, which you know better than most, and the reasons behind my refusal, and applied your prodigious creativity to addressing my concerns. And even then… if despite your best efforts I held fast to my position..."
Stop being a pile of idiots that NEVER TELLS THE OTHERS ANYTHING and work together like an actual goddamn team. This isn't hard to do. It takes literal minutes! Pretty much all of those conversations happened on the order of 5 to 10 minutes. Is it so difficult to talk to your blood-brother about such concerns? Why? Why is it so goddamn difficult to communicate? Why is it so hard to work on improving these skills when all parties involve acknowledge that they frequently misunderstand each other and there are significant instances in which this causes massive problems?
It's just so petty to me.
