Herbicide
Zetsu couldn't understand how this had happened, he seemed to be... Wilting was probably the best description, even connecting himself to the statue hadn't really helped, and his spores didn't seem to work anymore, since it had started whenever he had tried creating clones they were even weaker than he was, if he managed to make them at all, and dividing into his two halves hadn't helped at all.
Worst of all, he had no idea how it had happened: a jutsu? A drawback inherent in the way he had been created? Poison?
He felt horrible, even working in his greenhouse didn't manage to make him feel better, if anything it made him feel worse.
It wasn't until he collapsed while working with his plants, and saw the jar that held the cause of his death that he realized what had happened. Maybe asking Sasori to make an herbicide that was as effective as possible hadn't been such a good idea after all, no matter how stubborn those weeds were.
Clumsy
Madara couldn't understand how it was possible, it should be almost impossible to disrupt a Sharingan genjutsu, and being a jinkuuriki shouldn't help Yagura, because the genjutsu affected the Sanbi as well, actually, the Sanbi was still affected, it was the Mizukage who kept getting out of the genjutsu, he didn't know how long he could keep this going, he had to reapply the genjutsu to control him almost every day, and had no idea how it could happen, it was one thing if he was in a fight and got seriously hurt, as in that case the pain might be responsible for disrupting the genjutsu, but nothing had happened lately, he did mostly paperwork, and he seriously doubted that a papercut was enough, he didn't even react to them if they happened at all.
In the end he decided it wasn't worth it, he was wasting his chakra and time, and he couldn't proceed with his other plans if he couldn't leave Kiri because he had to reapply the genjutsu on Yagura every morning.
Yagura swore as he stumbled out of bed, it was embarassing for a Kage to be this clumsy in the morning, perhaps he should move that little table somewhere else, even if he always felt more clearheaded and awake after stubbing his toe on it in the morning it was terribly painful.
Auctioned off
They all agreed that recruiting Kakuzu to Akatsuki wasn't such a good idea as it had seemed to. Yes, he was an S ranked missing nin, yes, he was a really experienced bounty hunter, probably the most experienced there was in the Elemental countries, yes, after he had started taking care of their organization's finances they were doing much better economically. The problem was that he seemed unable to kill his partners and avoid pissing off the rest. Others might think that the worst part was his habit of killing his partners, taking their hearts and cashing in their bounty, but that wasn't it, after the first time it happened Pain had taken it into account when choosing his partners, they might be S ranked missing nin, but the ones partnered with Kakuzu were not ones he really cared to keep in the organization for long, they were considered expendable, and at least he put their bounty in Akatsuki's funds. The real problem was his habit of selling other people's possessions to make money, such as Orochimaru's lab equipment or Sasori's puppets or tools, not to mention random pieces of furniture from their bases.
The problem came when one day the statue they were going to use to store the chakra of the biju disappeared.
"What do you mean you auctioned it off?" "I mean that I sold it to the person offering most money, do you have any idea how much some people are willing to pay for an ancient statue?"