Chapter 41: Root HQ Thief

"Stop! Who!"

"It's me! H!"

As soon as H reached a little inside the forest, he was surrounded by three masked ninjas.

"What are you doing here?"

The roots were quite vigilant, even though they knew that this person was Danzo's subordinate just like them, they didn't have much trust in each other.

"There is an important intelligence report."

H said calmly since he had a clear conscience, so he was very calm and knew that this was a necessary process to enter the root base.

The three ninjas did not speak and looked at H quietly as if waiting for something.

Suddenly, a figure suddenly appeared.

"No tail, safe."

It turned out that they were waiting for their companions to check if H was being followed.

"Go in."

The three nodded and left quickly.

H continued to run forward, and he was still about a few hundred meters away from the root base.

"They are really cautious, and all the members are either in pairs or groups, and the root members that are hidden in Anbu, I don't know who else is a spy so it's really troublesome."

In the shadow of H, Naruto saw such strict precautions of the root HQ and dispelled the idea of ​​controlling them through illusion.

If the battle cannot be resolved in the shortest time, it would attract the attention of the entire root, and it will be very troublesome to invade later.

Fortunately, Dark World has the function of positioning, as long as Naruto enters the interior of the root base, then he could directly pass through inside next time, and come in at any time.

And compared to Obito's Kamui, his Dark World had another advantage. Naruto's appearance was in the dark or the shadows, and he could also turn into a black shadow. Even if he kept staring, it was difficult for others to find his trace.

He just didn't know if there was some seal that could detect the use of space-time ninjutsu.

H came to an open space, opened a downward passage with the use of a handsign, and then jumped down, and the ground was quickly closed.

Along the way, Naruto saw ninjas standing in the dark, staring closely at H who just came in.

The root base was huge as if the entire mountain had been hollowed out, the depth was more than a few hundred meters, and various channels were intertwined, making different passageways for the ones who knew the place and an inescapable maze for those who didn't.

"Stop, what's your purpose for the visit?"

Yamanaka Fū blocked H's way.

"Fū-sama, there is news about the Nine-Tails Jinchūriki that needs to be reported to Danzo-sama, please let him know."

H said respectfully.

"Wait."

Fu went into the back room to make the announcement and quickly called H in.

"Danzo-sama!"

H knelt on one knee respectfully. 

Naruto was also looking at the man behind the Third Hokage known as "Darkness of the Hidden Leaf".

His right eye was bandaged and his face was wrinkled.

It was hard to imagine that Danzo is younger than the Third Hokage with his current appearance. 

"Hmm?"

Danzo, who was very thoughtful and very keen, felt someone staring at him, and raised his head, just in time to see H's head lowered quickly.

Sweat oozed from H's forehead, he didn't expect that he would be spotted immediately just by taking a peek at Danzo.

He had been away from the root for too long, and he had not seen Danzo for a long time. He had inherited the will of the "root", and Danzo was his belief!

"You said there was news from Nine Tails?"

Danzo asked indifferently.

"Yes, the team of Nine Tails Jinchūriki has received the mission of leaving the village, and will leave tomorrow morning."

H said respectfully.

"Out of the village... His instructor is… Kakashi?"

Danzo remembered the information he received two days ago.

"yes."

When H thought of Kakashi, he couldn't help but grit his teeth, he was a traitor of the root!  

"You can go back."

"yes!"

...

After H left, Danzo's face darkened and he thought.

'How dare Hiruzen let Nine Tails Jinchūriki out of the village? Isn't he worried that the Nine Tails kid would betray the village?'

'Or did he think that he had been able to control that brat after being influenced by his will of fire in the past few years?'

'Ridiculous, the will of fire, even dogs wouldn't believe it!'

Only the position of Hokage was absolute! 

"Danzo-sama, what shall we do?"

Yamanaka Fū came in and asked.

He and another ninja of the Aburame clan were Danzo's bodyguards and closest aids, so they could even discuss things with Danzo compared to normal root ninjas.

"Hmph! Hiruzen is old, and he thinks things are too idealistic. He only sent Kakashi to watch, not worried about whether Jinchūriki would betray the village. It's just stupid!"

Listening to Danzo scolding the Third Hokage, Yamanaka Fū was unmoved.

"Send a small team to follow them. If you find any problems with Jinchūriki, kill him first then bring him back to the village."

"I will do what Hiruzen doesn't do!"

"He can be at ease with that brat, but I won't be at ease if he plays with tenderness."

Danzo said with a sullen face.

"Yes! Danzo-sama!"

...

Outside, H walked out the same way he came, Naruto took the opportunity to divert and stayed when H passed by the shadow cast by the corridor above.

Voice of all things was still activated, allowing Naruto to avoid the guards and walk around with the shadows to check it out.

No one could find his trace, this was where the bug of this ability lay.

It was a pity that there will be no Flying Thunder God for the time being, and there was no way to mark these places with the Flying Thunder God seal.

Naruto checked the general situation of the root base and remembered several important places.

To him, it was just another Hokage building.

Information room, mission room, research room, ninjutsu room... everything.

It could be said that here, Danzo was the Hokage here. 

"This is..."

When Naruto passed by the ninjutsu room, he went in and took a look, and found many sealed scrolls with names on them.

What caught Naruto's attention was the word 'Uchiha'.

"Shouldn't Uchiha's ninjutsu scroll be taken away by the Third Hokage? Or are the ones here a copy?"

The Third Hokage couldn't let Uchiha's wealth fall into Danzo's hands, either it was copied or Danzo secretly hid them.

"And... the ninjutsu scroll of the Uzumaki clan?"

"Tsk tsk, Danzo has a lot of good things here~"

Naruto suddenly had a bold idea.

Since he may not be able to meet Danzo in the short term, wasn't it a pity to come here and leave without taking something? As for the subsequent movement, what did it have to do with him, Uzumaki Naruto?

"But before that... Transfiguration!"

Naruto used the upgraded version of one of the Academy Three Basic Technique in the shadow Space - Transfiguration, a flawless transformation into whatever he wanted to become, unlike the Transformation Technique, which used chakra and could be seen by someone with Danzo's strength, Transfiguration couldn't be found out.

"Next..."

Naruto appeared and slapped the ground with his palm. The darkness spread rapidly, engulfing the floor of the entire room.

"Darkness World Inventory!"

With the activation of Naruto's ability, the bookshelves in the room began to sink, swallowed by darkness, and brought into the Dark World.

When Danzo rushed over, he saw only a mask and a scarlet Sharingan.

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