@MisterX Correct and what you posted as a response was instead the hidden Mist. Also we only see the triangle part.. my point being it could be either a Leaf or Waterfall. Another point is, why would it matter? If it's a leaf ninja it means it was an undercover one so that he could get the body(s) back. If it was Waterfall then they would have been ally's since they are on opposite sides of the Leaf and would be able to kind of flank them if they ended up attacking (providing they got the info they needed to do so... which they clearly didn't) Ok?
if he was from the leaf, it means that they all were from the leaf and pretending to be from the Mist..
I doubt if he was the only one from the leaf he'd be wearing his leaf headband.. that's moronic... if his mask falls off, he'd be dead in seconds..
if he was the only one he'd just put a mist headband..
So the question is why are Konoha ninjas, pretending to be from the mist, and attack kakashi and rin, other leaf ninjas..
and they have to stage it as if the mist took her,
so they were not following the hokage's orders, of they would've just taken her, without having to pretend to be mist..
so they were from Danzo's Root..
and what could've been so important about taking Rin alive, that the'd send more than 50 shinobi... to take just one little girl..
and besides the fact that they are Leaf is the reason Tobi wants to destroy Konoha.. because they were involved in Rin's death..
there is no other reason for tobi to hate Konoha.. he wanted to protect everybody from the village
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SO it makes huge difference that they are LEAF SHINOBI..