However, faced with such a situation, they could not come up with any good solutions for the time being. After all, this was a private matter, and the Hokage could not interfere overtly. As for covert methods, they were not suitable to be used against the Uchiha Clan.
Furthermore, they had already expended a vast amount of energy recently dealing with those rumors. When those rumors had targeted Hatake Sakumo, they hadn't paid much attention, but now that the fire had reached their own doorstep, they felt immensely irritated.
Worse still, Sarutobi Hiruzen and the others had all along believed that this was entirely the doing of Shimura Danzo, since he was the primary instigator who had stirred up this chaos. This severely undermined internal unity, preventing the issue from being resolved immediately and causing it to escalate.
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