When Itachi refuses, he murders an Uchiha and has two ROOT members take turn impersonating him and attending meetings.

” wait wtf i haven’t finished shinden this is so fucking dark

[[ Danzo will get what he wants one way or another. Itachi’s cooperation be damned. These two ROOT members are brothers (lol) and end up being under Itachi’s command when Itachi is named a captain and is officially taken off all regular missions so he can focus on Uchiha surveillance.

They both die by Itachi’s hand. ]]

wow the more i find out about naruto post-ending the more i’m shocked and confused about how things turned out???

[[ Don’t get me started I’ll write essays for days. I was perfectly fine with Itachi not being mentioned at all, I didn’t expect it to and it would’ve done nothing positive, but you know, here’s Naruto screaming about how Itachi helped and everyone’s just..”ok! gosh he was so nice!” meanwhile Sasuke gets barely pardoned. ok.

some friend you are, naruto. ]]