Comments of chapter undefined of Naruto: The Outsider's Resolve

I personally disagree. First of all, thinking that a super secretive organization would target him over a drug raid is heights of ego/narcissism(or sense of self-importance). Takuma has been in the world long enough that he has lost any self-delusion of the "Main Character Syndrome"— as far Takuma is concerned, he's just another shinobi trying to progress in his career. Second, no one is going to believe that ROOT couldn't take out a genin like Takuma. That's like spitting in ROOT's face. Third, I believe the reason it seems that ROOT would be the obvious culprit is because or our perception of ROOT being the only organization possessing "assassins." But in the context of the world, there is are going to be plenty of assassination organizations. There are plenty of for-hire rogue shinobi and organizations. Zabuza and Haku is one of them. Akatsuki before their entire tailed-beast stealing plan was a merc organization, and they even got jobs from Hidden Stone. It's only logical that there are going to be other orgs who provide certain services. Fourth, it's a huge leap in logic. Everyone including Takuma will look at the facts. They will think why a target was put on Takuma? The obvious reason is his job— then they will look what did he do— he lead a raid on a drug farm, directly hurting the drug trade— and through that, they will think that a drug lord put the hit on Takuma. ROOT, a very high-level organization, who are involved in matters of huge importance wouldn't go after someone relatively unimportant like Takuma. At least, that was my chain of thoughts as I was writing this scenario.