I do not know about the validity of Kirk setting up the Senju Tree to be what it is. And I mean that part about it all having been that way before the fight and not just pulled out of thin air to save his butt.
However, you all know my thoughts on character death and CCing the remains to be your personal play thing without the creator of the character's consent. I am against that sort of thievery.
But...and this is just from reading the discussion, I am taking away a very different mechanism for accessing the dimension of the tree than what is being argued against working.
I see people saying, "You can't get into the tree because an anti-space time barrier is up and in effect about the tree."
Ok...but, the tree is not how Kirk is getting inside that dimension it leads to. If Uzu's barrier is in fact around the tree, it has only shut THAT door into the dimension, not ALL doors into the dimension. Clearly Kirk can access his dimension...the personal lab...from anywhere. The dimension is not inside the tree itself, the tree is only one available DOOR into the dimension. Kirk went through a different door to that dimension. So having the tree locked by the Uzu barrier is moot.
That is my understanding of Kirk's explanation of how the lab and tree function separately.
Now...as to what Kirk said to the public, or to Yujo in pms, or to anyone...that could be
1] back peddling to save his butt cause he changed his mind once he thought about it.
or
2] play acting a lie in order to go along with the farce while permitting him to protect the secret of him still having a way to come back and just pretending for everyone he was gonna be dead for all time. In a very dramatic come to my funeral kind of way.
I don't know.
I don't really think it matters.
As for making rp to counter an Edo Tensei user in the event of some far off death in the future, I think it is a smart thing to do and likely something that a person....and more than one person...has planned for considering how eager people are to use that jutsu. having a counter in your back pocket to be Edo Tensei Proof...is no different than training to have a counter for anything, like Raiton or sound jutsu or mind probes.
I however have no idea who has done what, created this or that. And I for one am tired of having it questioned all the time.
Perhaps it is best to feel good about the win by an inch instead of feeling bad about not gaining the win by a mile?
Yujo defeated Kirk. That is a win for Yujo. He didn't get to eat him too?
So what? I am sure he tastes bad anyway.
If ones objectives and goals in a game are going to be so very objectionable to most everyone who encounters them, then perhaps it is time to change the goals?
I look at it this way. Let's say I invite people over to do some DND. I feed them dinner, I craft the campaign, I run the NPCs, pit trials before the players who can use their creativity to succeed or fail and then the session ends and all is well. But then it is not enough to defeat all my monsters, but they have to then set fire to my house to exert some final defeating blow...well, uhm...no. But they really really want to do this thing....it is their goal.
It's seriously time to rethink their goals and examine why they even want to get together to play.