Chapter - 1
The ROOT...
... the mysterious place where you had no future neither past, where you had no name neither feelings... you were tools that were meant to be used by your higher ups as a nutrition and/or for the stability of the 'Great tree of Konoha'.
Here, you weren't meant to be recognized by people other then your colleagues. Here, you were meant to die a nameless death but were expected to go out with a boom and the thing is you weren't alone. There were thousands of shinobi who had died and will die a nameless but great death like you just so that the 'Great tree of Konoha' can prosper and that's the particular thing where this organisation got it's greatness from...
The shinobi population who never got into ANBU, who had just heard rumors about Danzo-sama's secret organization were always fascinated by that cool, badass and mysterious place called 'ROOT'.
But for the most part you couldn't get into 'ROOT' like 'ANBU' unless you were a legendary sannin like the snake summoner, Danzo-sama's right hand man, Orochimaru-sama.
But, well... that was an exception. He was just too talented to be left alone or let his talent waste. The proper 'ROOT' training was one of the reasons he didn't pursue his dangerous and crazy dream of learning every single jutsu. Who knows what would have happened if he did...
Hundreds of shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato, boasting a shinobi strength of 30,000 men/women, went and returned from missions daily. Some in the broad daylight, some in the dark night.
Few among these hundreds of shinobi's were 'ROOT' and 2 among these few ROOT's were the Konoha's jinchuriki and his permanent teammate.
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Disclosed Info -
Apparently, in the shinobi world 9 highly trained shinobi in the fields of immediate sealing, psychology and combat were raised along with the jinchuriki until they fully learnt to control their tailed beast's chakra. So, in a case of breakdown they were supposed to handle the jinchuriki or seal their chakra or sometimes their bodies.
Each jinchuriki was provided with a shinobi like this.
These 2 shinobis were apparently returning from a typical scouting mission that the younger ROOTS had to undergo in order to gain experience at the starting of their careers.
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Lateral ROOT (branch quarters) #7 -
"Report !" Commanded the distributor*.
"Branch squad* #2 reporting sir! Grounds G through K checked and nothing out of order was found. " said Sai.
"Positive. You are dismi-"
He was cut short when an agent dropped behind the mission desk and said something to him.
"Apparently, Orochimaru-sama is expecting the jinchuriki and his companion in Danzo- sama's cabin" said the distributor.
"Ha!" they replied before leaving.
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Disclosed Info -
1) Distributor refers to the low or middle level agent, who is currently resting or is injured, who assigns missions to other agents.
2) A group of agents that are less than 4 are referred to as a "Branch Squad"
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ROOT Headquarters (main building)-
Both of them arrived in front of he door and Sai knocked.
The door was opened a second later by Torune, Danzo-sama's left hand man.
"Branch squad #2 reporting sir !" said Naruto.
"Ah! jinchuriki ka? Do come in ." invited Torune.
"Ha!" They said and entered the room.
The room wasn't a brightly lit room but wasn't completely dark either. It has a desk at the centre, Root quarters map on the left wall and a book shelf on the right side. It looked like a minimalistic room from the outside. But... that was from outside.
They both got in and kneeled on one knee in front of the 'Yami of Shinobi' sitting on a chair and the snake sannin Orochimaru- sama standing behind him.
"How was your scouting mission? Were there any complications?" said Orochimaru.
"Positive! And no, there weren't any complications." replied Sai.
"Jinchuriki and Sai... You seem to have gained an adequate amount of scouting experience... for now and I would like to increase the level and amount of training of both of you as according to our agents the chunnin exams which are to be held in 6 months are going to be attended by both Kumo and Suna's jinchuriki and the number can increase as apparently the other jinchurikis are also of your age group.
So, just in case, if more jinchurikis participate then you both would also have to take part." Danzo said.
"I will talk to Hiruzen about arranging Jiraiya for teaching sealing and combat to you, Sai and he might also help improve your ink attacks and as for adding poisons and acids to your inks, Orochimaru will be there to help you. I will also assign Fù to perfect those combat techniques and tune them for lethal blows and he will also be helping you learn some more Yamanaka techniques." He ended.
"Ha! I will be ready as soon as you start." Sai said.
"As for jinchuriki, I and Torune would be there to improve your combat and killing part and maybe help you in utilizing in 'The Kyubi's' chakra for healing but it is not something to play with and to be dependent upon." said Orochimaru.
"Yes and you both would be put in really high pressure, do or die situations for training your mind but won't be learning any high level taijutsu, ninjutsu or sealing techniques. You would be learning slightly tougher form/technique of your current method but would be doing it again and again until it becomes a muscle memory.
This training is not for everyone and will definitely improve you for which you should be grateful but don't let it get to you head as they are many jounins ans high level chunnins who can clap both at the same time if you get full of yourself. Is that clear ?" Torune ended.
"Ha!" They both said kneeling.
" Keep the next 2 days off and on the third day from now your training will start for the next 6 months.
There are other people who would be training as hard, if not harder, than you.
Be Prepared. " Danzo ended.
