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Black Bear walked through the underground tunnel of Root's main headquarters. Red Cat and Blue Monkey were on guard. After his hand signs that indicated he was a member of Root and their responding signs to confirm that they weren't imposters, Black Bear was granted access. This process was repeated twice more as he made his way to the central chamber for his weekly briefing with their leader Danzo. Danzo gave out every assignment personally or through a delegate - who was identified to the Root member by Danzo in person. Scrolls or other documentation was a foolish risk to take. The patriarch of their organization sat on his chair in the center of room awaiting Black Bear's presence. Danzo's right eye was hidden by the bandages wrapping his head and his left eye was closed as always. He gave no indication that he had noticed Bear's presence as the jonin keeled before him. Black Bear knew that this wasn't the case; Danzo had been aware of him long before he had entered the room. Black Bear wasn't specialized in stealth, but as a member of Root and an Anbu operative his ability to move without giving any indication of himself was well refined. Still, it would be foolish to think that someone of Danzo's caliber could be taken unaware.
After Black Bear had been kneeling for a minute - long enough for any potential spies or followers to get close enough to be noticed, Danzo spoke. The jonin listened to the mission that the leader of Root gave him.
For the assignment he would have the name 'Yagi'. The first part of his mission was the training of 10 children to potentially become members of root. Black Bear had done such training several times in the past, this time he had a time limit of 3 years and the children would start at age 5 or 6. This was much less time than was normal. Danzo must have a method for dealing with a child with such a limited amount of emotional tempering.
Black Bear was confident in his ability to produce a child meeting the requirements for the second part of the mission. It would be a simple matter of weeding out the unqualified children. All in all that would be a far more simple task than their emotional training.
Yagi stood and removed the bear mask from his face and bowed to Danzo. In less than 15 minutes he had packed his possessions, changed out from the Anbu uniform and was out of Root headquarters heading towards the south-eastern training orphanage. All Anbu wore the same uniform, which only varied by their mask. No member of Anbu was supposed to know who another member was out of uniform (not that this stopped some familiarity). Now that Yagi was on a special assignment he could wear something more unique. Yagi's personal preference of clothing was dark blue with metal shoulder and shin guards. These strategic pieces of armor had saved his life multiple times as they provided a way to block attacks that got past his sword. Unfortunately the shoulder guards were too bulky to wear under his Anbu robes. He always felt vulnerable without his armor's protection.
In addition to the standard Root tip-less tanto Yagi had Steam: a great sword nearly 4 feet long and 1/2 a foot wide across his back. This was the other part of his equipment he missed while he was in the Anbu. His chakara sword could channel his water and fire attacks, greatly enhancing his prowess in a fight. Usually he kept Steam in a storage scroll, ready to be summoned if a fight required it. Knowing he could call upon it was different from the security of having the strangely cold weapon within reach.
The Mist-style sword taijutsu that he had mastered several years ago would finally be put to use. While Yagi couldn't feel pride about anything, he did marvel at how Danzo had orchestrated him having the knowledge in the first place. He had never thought that the purpose of him learning it was anything more than Danzo trying to make him a better ninja and allowing other members of Root to practice against a different village's style.
As he made his way to the training facility he felt a twinge of...something. Yagi remembered the emotional training he went through as a child. He had been trained and had trained several other children at the facility he was now heading towards. He knew that it was necessary, emotions lead to hate which lead to more fighting in a never-ending cycle. The training stops that cycle, but it wasn't something that he was looking forward to teaching again. However, he was Root; he supported the village from the darkness. This was for the sake of everyone.