1- Our clan is small, and lacks the hoard of shinies, tips, and tricks that other clans have. We're young, scrappy, and hungry, and I worry about giving too many of our clan secrets away. I worry that the future generations of Goketsu (if the world doesn't explode) will suffer for it. We're a young clan, and will be at a disadvantage to most every other clan... But I also recognize that the instinct to hoard knowledge and advantages may be incongruous with Uplift as a philosophy.
I endorse no plan wherein Naruto then gets to share the jutsu with anyone else. Literally just Naruto having it doesn't particularly disadvantage us.
2- Naruto hates Hazou's guts. He's friends with Kei and may be in a romantic relationship with Ami... But Hazou, himself? Loathes. I'm not sure we should hand a knife to someone who wants to stab it in our stomach (but I recognize that Naruto is disinclined to actually stab us... for now).
I think that a more accurate metaphor is that Naruto presently has many knives available and we're handing him a club. His ability to injure us is effectively unchanged, as the number of knives was already at 'mass overkill', but he can now handle enemies who are vulnerable to bludgeoning damage, by which I mean he has new capabilities.
3- Because Naruto hates Hazou, I suspect handing him jutsu would reek of bribery. Which, for obvious reasons, wouldn't help the situation any.
I disagree with this to some extent.
Naruto: "Are you giving this to me so I like you better?"
Hazo: "Honestly, I'm hoping it might help, but really, this is about what's good for Leaf."
Naruto: "I don't believe you."
Hazo: "You have to concede that what's happened here is that I've done something really, really good for Leaf."
Naruto: "I literally don't have to."
Hazo: "Sure, I guess not, but it's the truth. You can do with that what you will, but I don't think you're so stupid as to keep believing a fiction."
4- Naruto is a Jinchuuriki with (what seems to be) functionally infinite chakra, nearly-infinite shadow clones, a wealth of shinies left by his father (4th Hokage, better than Jiraiya, universally loved, respected, and feared), a wealth of shinies left by his mother (heir of Uzu, She of Adamantine Chains, Student of Uzumaki Mito), and all the jutsu Jiraiya left him (which was a whole hecking lot). I'm not sure he needs anything we have.
The word 'need' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We don't need it either. If you're saying, 'he is already extremely powerful', sure, but he doesn't have
this power and has no way of getting it, given that Jiriya told us that this was a holy grail jutsu.
5- Naruto isn't a Goketsu, and is thus outside of the agreement made to the Pangolins when we received this jutsu. Sure, Kei negotiated for other people learning Pangolin Jutsu for the Condura fight, but we don't know if that was a one-off agreement to fight a common enemy, or if it was a permanent alteration to their deal. Given the Pangolin mindset, I suspect it's the latter.
Kei actually didn't participate in those negotiations - she made a point of not doing so. The Pangolins did, personally, and it was framed as 'good practice haggling'. I think that the Pangolins are open to mutually-beneficial swaps. If someone else came up to them with Skywalkers II, then they wouldn't blink before handing out jutsu.
5.5- As fucked up as the Pangolins are, one's word is sacrosanct on the 7th Path. Deal-breakers and oathbreakers are widely scorned and reviled. Hazou already has enough red ink in his ledger for helping the Pangolins take over the Condors (see: the toads' reaction to hearing Hazou's name from Noburi, Enma and the other clans reluctant to believe Hazou's word about DRAGONWAR, etc). It's lucky enough that Hazou, having taken the blame for Kei no longer supplying the Pangolins with the Skywalkers/skytowers/whatevers (despite their contractual agreement to do so), was still able to sign on with the Dogs. I'd rather not push that too far.
I endorse no action which would violate our contract with the Pangolins - hence, my running this by Kei in the plan I wrote, wherein I assume that if she goes forward with this, she will manage that.
