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As I'm watching these filler episodes, I am wondering, why was Danzo still
alive, after doing all the things he did to The Third? He hid a Wood style
user, he tried to assassinate Sarutobi (not even once), he tried to lure the
Anbu forces to join the Federation, he tried to manipulate the Hokage election
after the death of Minato, and so on (just from these couple of episodes,
without mentioning the whole "rivalry" between them).

The Third was aware of the situations, since he warned Danzo a lot of times.
So even if he was a member of the Hokage's council, why did Sarutobi endure
the disrespect and danger that came from Danzo? I would've been pleased even
with a ban from the Village, but given what he had done, Sarutobi could've
eliminated Danzo without any efforts.


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Why didn't Sarutobi kill Danzo?


Danzo was, in his own way, protecting the Hidden Leaf.

Danzo would normally do the "dirty work" and handle with that "black ops" of
the Hidden Leaf, thus keeping the village officials clean.

They had their disagreements, and yes Danzo did act in order to dispose of the
Third and have control over the Hidden Leaf, but Hiruzen always believed that
all he's doing was for the best of the village, so he let it slide.


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Danzo had Shisui's Kotoamatsukami. He also had Hashirama's cells, which
enabled him to use the jutsu to his advantage with regeneration. So there is a
possibility that even if Hiruzen wanted to kill him, Danzo could have used
Kotoamatsukami to manipulate the Third's thoughts about him.


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Sarutobi is a very uderstanding man, he probably just figured he'd give Danzo
the benifit of a doubt, thinking that age would give him wisdom and he'd see
that he was wrong,

too bad that never happened


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