Hello everybody and welcome to the next chapter. Took me long enough but I was once again busy in real life. In this chapter we'll see more of the Root organization with a lot of dialog from Sai, Sumire and her kidnapper and a long fight between Sai and Ramos. We'll slowly getting into the real deal and you can still guess who's gonna fight with who. You can expect multiple chapters in a row focusing on those fights, so you can be excited.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto/Boruto


Chapter 8: Sai vs Ramos

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Near Land of Fire/Lightning border:

"Hmm...Sai...", Ramos said in a questioning tone.

"Do you know who I am now?", said Sai as he stood before him, ready to fight.

"...Yes, I may heard your name in the past. You was the right hand of Lord Danzo right? A spy he abused to watch over your generation of shinobi", Ramos told him.

"You're right. Maybe not directly his right hand, but he still absolutely trusted me with his secrets", Sai answered. "And I may know who you are".

"Oh really? I would be suprised if you really know who I am despite me working undercover for my whole life, but at the end I really don't care", Ramos said.

"Did I made you curious? Anyway I think you know that I have to kill you, but before that, tell me where Miss Kakei is!", Sai shouted.

"If you know who I am then you should also know that you're no match for me. You're strong but not strong enough to deal with me".

Sai grabbed his equipment out of his bag. A scroll and one of his brushes.

"Then I have to squeeze it out of you", Sai said.

He quickly draw five creatures on his scroll before the called them out.

"Super Beast Imitading Jutsu!", Sai said as those five creatures sprang out of the scroll and attacked the root member.

"You really think you can defeat me with this?", Ramos shouted.

He starts performaning hand seals before he call out his jutsu.

"Fire Release: Fire Lance!", Ramos said before he raised his hand. His whole arm got covered by a scorching hot flame.

Sai's beast scrolls almost reached Ramos, but with his in fire coated arm, he quickly destroyed them with his fire jutsu.

"Useless...", Ramos murmered.

"You really think so?", Sai shouted before he created another batch of ink beasts to attack him.

"You're going to use the same jutsu over and over again?".

Ramos once again destroyed the beast with his fire lance, but got suprised when the last one suddenly flashed.

"Not exactly", Sai said, before the last beast exploded, creating a fire pillar around the area.

Ramos got hit by the explosion, the smoke created by the fire coating the spot where he stood.

'He got hit by my explosive beasts, but I doubt that he's down already'. Sai thought.

He looked over to the spot where Ramos was the last time and saw that he vanished from there.

"Not bad...", said a voice behind him. "Earth-Release: Mud Bomb".

'He's behind me...', Sai thought before he quickly turned around to dodge a big ball of compressed earth, it almost hitting him in the arm.

The Mud Bomb behind him crashed into the ground, creating a smaller explosion and leaving behind some kind of swamp field.

"You're pretty clever. You attached some kind of high flammable oil to your ink so I would ignite it with my fire jutsu. Too bad I saw that coming", Ramos told him.

"That just was the beginning", Sai said to him. "I have some more tricks under my sleeve".

"That was predictable for a former root member to use such nasty tricks", Ramos said.

"These nasty tricks will help me defeat you in battle, and possibly help me finding Miss Kakei", Sai said.

"What do you mean?", Ramos questioned.

"I thought you know everything about me and my past? Or anything about the previous root organization?", Sai asked.

"And I thought you would know who I really am right?", Ramos told him.

"Yes...you wasn't one of the fighting specialized root members. You was a high rank scientist working for Danzo in multiple million yen projects about artificial life and Chakra studies. You know how to develop those Chakra based weapons even before the other countries and hidden villages started to think about those. You was truly an ace when it comes to technology"

"...", Ramos just said nothing.

"...And you was the parter of Tanuki Shigaraki. You knew about his secrets and about the artificial beast sealed in Miss Kakei's body. Your boss assigned you to this mission to search it and bring it to him. Probably after hearing about the incident some years ago about a beast suddenly appearing in the hidden leaf village. You're one of the most hunted persons of the hidden leaf. You know so many secrets about us, that's why everybody in the village wants you dead."

"I think you know to much about me", Ramos told him. "Yes you're right. I am that guy you're refering to and my boss really wants the beast back. Me and my team spended two years to find any leftovers of the beast until we heard about a little girl, who apparently was the daughter of Tanuki Shigaraki. We have spies around the world and when we heard about the incident, we decided to focus our search on the village. We never thought that we would find the creature in the village it originated from, but at the end, our knowledge about the village helped us to do this mission"

"Anyway, you know to much about. That's why I need to kill you right now".

"Who's gonna kill who?", Sai shouted as he opened his bag to grab something which looks like some kind of remote.

Sai pressed his thumb on the button and suddenly the remote extened itself and formed some kind of Chakra blade. With that, Sai rushed towards Ramos, ready to hit him with the blade.

"Lightning Style: Flash Grenade", Ramos said before he created a sparkling ball he throw onto the ground to create a bright lightning flash.

'Is he trying to escape?', thought Sai as he stopped his movement. He quickly jumped back, but the flash blind him at that moment.

"Fire Release: Bursting Blade!", said Ramos as he created a saw kind of blade with his hands. He immidiately throw it to the stunned Sai. He quickly jumped away from his spot. The fire blade causing an explosion when hitting onto the ground.

'That was close...', Sai thought.

"You're not the only one with explosives here", Ramos said, as he once again turned his arm into a fire lance.

"And you're not the only one with some kind of sword here", Sai shouted.

They both started rushing to each other, ready to clash.

'I won't lose'.

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Somewhere in the Forest:

Boruto and his team were still waiting for Sai to contact them. Until then they prepare themselve for the upcoming fight against those evil people.

'I can't wait any longer! We're chilling here while Sumire is in danger!', Boruto thought with an angry face.

He stood up and grabbed his bag, attracting the attention of everybody.

"Where do you want to go?", Taki asked him.

"We have to go now! Waiting any longer for Inojin's father to report us about the actual situation is a waste of time", Boruto argued.

"Stop now Boruto. We don't have a plan and we don't even know where they are", Sarada said.

"She's right Boruto. Stay calm. They won't hurt her. She still has Nue inside her body", Mitsuki told him.

"I hope you're right Mitsuki...", Boruto returned with a worried face.

"Hmm...", Hikari murmered quietly. "A beast...inside her body...".

"Is something Hikari?", Taro asked.

"...Maybe", she answered. "A beast sealed into a human...and the kidnapper want her beast for their plans..."

"You mean...oh no", Taro said.

"Yes...what will happen if they really want to extract it out of her body?", Hikari said.

"The team leader analyzed her seal mark after that one incident happened back then. The mechanics seems to be different to the ones involving the tailed beasts".

"But what if the Chakra of the Nue beast is connected or even fused with hers? And what will happen if that connection gets interrupted?"

"You mean that there's the possibility that she could...".

"Yes that may happen...Keep it a secret and don't tell the kids", Hikari said.

"You're right", Taro returned.

They didn't noticed, that someone was listening their conversation. A white snake was behind them without them knowing about it's existence.

'Another problem...', Mitsuki thought. 'If I'll tell Boruto about that, then I won't be able to stop him'

"Is something Mitsuki?", Boruto asked.

"N-No. Everything is alright".

"Are you sure?", Sarada asked. "You just looked like you was worried about something".

"I am not worried. I was just thinking how we're going to handle the rescue".

"I bet Inojin's father is strong enough to deal with those people", Boruto said.

"To be honest I am not sure", Mitsuki said.

"You see? You're definitely worried about the mission", Sarada said. "I can see it on your eyes"

"My eyes? Have my eyes anything to do with the mission?", Mitsuki asked.

"Oh Mitsuki...", Sarada murmered.

They didn't noticed that the other two team members just came back from somewhere.

"Here we are", said Namida.

"Any new information about what to do next?", Wasabi asked.

"No, nothing", Boruto said.

"I won't be sure about that", Taki answered. "A delivery bird is on our radar. That must be the message bird of our team leader Sai"

"Let me look", Taro said as he jumped up to the peak of the trees to watch over the area they are in. And indeed there was some kind of bird approaching them.

"Bingo. Here it is".

He jumped down onto the ground. He picked up a scroll from his bag and opened it.

"Step back everyone please", Taro said.

"O-Ok", Boruto said. "What are you doing?"

"We're immidiately going to encrypt the message. The bird is a special message bird Sai creates with his ink. The bird is the crypted message. If anyone tries to steal the bird to encrypt the message on their own, it won't work since it will self-destruct if it doesn't fly. The encryption algorithm is saved on those scrolls. The bird needs to fly into the scroll and we'll see the message appearing on it"

"It's almost impossible for anyone who doesn't have the encryption key to read the message out of the bird", Hikari said.

"Wow, that's impressive", Boruto returned.

"Okay now please make some room for us please", Taki said.

They did what they said and a short moment later the ink bird approaching them landed on the scroll. A bright light was coming from it and the bird got absorbed into the scroll. But then they noticed that there was still something lying on it.

"Huh? What's that", Taki said as he grabbed some kind of box.

"Open it", Hikari said.

Taki opened the box and was suprised to see hair in a little glass in it.

"Hair?", Hikari just said to herself.

"So Inojin's father left you to collect hair? Sounds like a waste of time", Boruto said.

"I think we should look the message first. Maybe that violet hair is gonna help us.

...

"V-Violet?", Boruto stuttered while being shocked.

"Boruto...", Mitsuki said.

"Let me look!", he shouted as he quickly approached them.

"W-Wait!", they said as Boruto grabbed the box out of their hands.

He immidiately looked into the box and what he saw made his heart skip a beat.

"That's Sumire's hair!", Boruto said in a suprised and yet still worried tone.

"Calm down Boruto", Mitsuki said

"I just can't! They probably hurted her, cut her or something else! Why she would cut her own hair?", Boruto argued.

Before Boruto could react, Mitsuki took the box out of his hand and gave it back to Taki.

"Let's read the message first and then we decide what to do", Mitsuki said.

"Yes", Taki said, as he grabbed the scroll from the ground and began to use his chakra to finish the encryption progress.

"Only a couple more seconds...", said Taki.

"I am also worried about Sumire, but we should think what to do first before", Wasabi said.

"I am sure without a plan we're going to fail", said Namida with a worried face.

"You heard it baka!", Sarada said to Boruto.

"...I hope it's not to late when we find her", Boruto told them.

"I am ready", said Taro. "Here's the message".

...

Root members are near the border between the Land of Fire and Land of Lightning, far North-East. The hair in the container is from Miss Kakei. With the hair you can locate her and me via the scent based location tracker. Don't open the glass if you're not ready. You have a little amount of time. First run to the direction I just mentioned, then use the hair to find me. I also send the Hokage some of it so he can send more teams to us.

...

"So he found them", Taro said.

"That's good news! Let's go now!", Boruto shouted.

"I am not sure if we should let you come with us. You're kids...", Taki said.

"Please let us help you with the mission!", Boruto said. "Miss Kakei is my friend...and I love her! I would regret everything if I wouldn't help her!".

"Yes please! We are all determined to help her!", Wasabi said.

"Me too!", Namida

"I have to help my friends in danger. As the future Hokage!", Sarada exclaimed.

"As the team leader, I have to agree".

...

"Okay you can come with us, but you also have to persuade our team leader".

"We won't dissappoint you!", Boruto said.

"Okay let's go!", Taki said.

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Hidden root hideout:

The two root members Nero and Azura as well as Sumire just arrived to the nearest hideout.

"So here we are", Nero said.

The hideout was looking like a smaller family house. Azura was confused by the size of it.

"The other ones were bigger than that. Whatever. We won't stay for long anyway".

"We're only here to get picked up, remember that Azura", Nero said, as she carried Sumire.

They went into it and Azura was suprised to see an empty room.

"Here's nothing?", Azura asked.

"It may seem like that", Nero said, as he picked up his communication device which looked like a phone and walked to the middle of the room.

What do you mean?", Azura asked.

"Just look", Nero said, as he entered some numbers on his phone.

"Huh?", Azura was curious to see what he ment.

Some moments later the floor on the other end of the room revealed a secret stairway down, which left Azura in suprise.

"Oh I see. And I wondered why the hideout wasn't actually hidden".

"Do you really thought this empty room was the actual hideout?", Nero said.

They both walked down the stairway and immidiately closed after they went down. They saw a lot of high tech deviced in a quite bigger room. Nero then lied the still uncoscious Sumire onto the ground.

Nero entered once again some numbers onto his device. After that a hologram popped out of the device.

"What are you doing?", Azura asked.

"Calling the boss. Now that we're here, he can pick us up", he answered.

The device tried to connect them to their boss. After some seconds, the hologram turned from a simple light screen into a detailed human.

...

"We're in the hideout boss. We have the girl with the beast", Nero started.

After he spoke, the boss once again returned with a low pitched voice.

"Where's Ramos?", he spoke.

"E-Ehhh, we got some problems out there, but it won't take long until he's with us", Nero answered.

"So some people catched up to you and now he's fighting them?", the boss said in a serious tone.

"Y-Yes", Nero returned.

"And why they've found you?", the boss said in an angry tone.

"W-We don't know".

"Silence them and get ready. The headquarter will hover over your area and a helicopter is going to pick you up. Don't fail now!", the boss said before he hang up the phone call

"Now we only have to wait", said Nero.

"How boring. There isn't even a shower here", Azura said. "I hope Ramos and the helicopter will arrive soon".

"Ramos is already taking to much time", Nero said.

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Near Land of Fire/Lightning border:

Sai and Ramos were still fighting with their close combat ninjutsu.

"Take this!", Ramos shouted as clashed his fire lance jutsu against his Chakra blade.

'I slowly can't keep up anymore. I have to find his weak spot or I'll lose', thought Sai.

"Super Beast Imitading Jutsu: Birds!", said Sai as he draw dozens of birds on his scroll in an unbelievable speed.

"Those creatures you create are useless. You have to use strong Ninjutsu or Taijutsu to defeat me".

The birds Sai just summoned attacked Ramos.

"Fire Release: Blaze Bazooka!", Ramos called. He created orbs around his hands, which shooted many fireballs in a high fire rate.

The fireballs hit each bird, who explode after they got hit, creating a wall of smoke in front of Ramos. After some time three more birds emerged from the smoke wall.

"Stop with that. You won't beat me with that", Ramos said as he shoot three more fire balls against his ink birds

"Who said I want to beat you with that", said Sai, which voice came from behind Ramos.

There was another bird behind him and popped out Sai, who used the transformation jutsu to turn himself into one of his birds to get closer to Ramos.

"Assassination!", shouted Sai as he swinged his Chakra blade to hit Ramos.

"Arggh", Ramos shouted. He tried to dodge but still got hit at the back by the blade, causing a cut on his shoulders.

'That was close', Ramos thought.

"I may know your weak point now. You can't handle surpise attacks from behind", Sai said.

"Well I am old and I am not as strong as earlier, but my skills should be enough to beat you", Ramos returned.

"Yeah, you was one of the oldest members of the science team. You must be as old as Danzo was before he died".

"I don't care how old I am. I have a mission and I am not going to fail.

'I think I should use this jutsu now', Sai thought.

"Ink Mist technique", Sai said, as he created a huge amount of ink around his body. He shoot the ink all over the battlefield.

"What's that now?", Ramos said as the area around him was flooded with ink.

"You'll see soon", said Sai as he throw a paper bomb onto the ink.

The paper bomb exploded shortly after, igniting the ink, but instead of an explosion, the ink created some kind of mist.

"So you try to confuse me now?", Ramos said. 'I think I should end the fight now'

Sai grabbed some glasses out of his bag and rushed into the Mist.

'He won't be able to see though the Mist that good. Now I have to fight him in close combat with speedy techniques'

Sai now grabbed another Chakra blade out of his bag, now fighting with two at once. Before he attacked, he created some shadow clones around him to confuse him.

'Let's finish this', Ramos thought and activated his special eyes without letting Sai know of that.

Just after that, the shadow clones attacked him at once, not knowing who was the real Sai.

Ramos knew who was the real one and reacted.

"Fire Release: Fire Lance!", Ramos shouted as he clashed his jutsu against the Chakra blades of the real one.

"W-What?", Sai said in suprise. "How do you know?".

"Take a closer look", Ramos said.

Sai looked up at him and spotted a difference.

"Y-You have a Sharingan!", said Sai.

"Yes", Ramos said. "Spark Glare".

Ramos used some kind of Genjutsu on him, which paralysed Sai for a moment.

"It's over. Fire Release: Fire Lance", said Ramos as he first disarmed him first and then cuttet him on the belly, causing a deep flesh wound.

"AAAAAHHH", Sai shouted after falling to the ground.

"You've lost Sai. You're good but not good enough to beat me"

"Y-You prick!", Sai said as he felt unbelievable pain.

"Cry more about your loss. I am done with you. Happy dying".

"W-Where are you going!", Sai said.

"Delivering the girl to the headquarter, what else?", Ramos said.

"W-Why do you need her", Sai asked in pain.

You're going to die anyway so I'll tell you. We are collecting powers".

"W-Why that?", asked Sai.

"To strength our military force. We are aiming to rule over the five big nations and later over the whole world. The Nue is just one step. Later we're going to capture even the tailed beast"

'They sound like they were members from Akatsuki', thought Sai.

"We've builded up so much in the past ten years and we won't stop now. But I'll stop your life right now, on my own way. I love slow deaths"

'I think that's my end now. Sorry Naruto, Boruto and Miss Kakei...but I failed'

Ramos approached him before he called out his last jutsu.

"Nightmare Phantom!"

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Somewhere north-east of the Land of Fire:

Boruto and the others were jumping from tree to tree on their way to Sai.

"I-I have a question", Namida started. "D-Do we really have to fight those strong people who kidnapped Sumire?"

"Are you scared?", Sarada asked.

"M-Maybe...I mean I really want to save Sumire, but will we be able to actually beat those evil people in real fights?"

"Namida, be a little more confident about your skills", Wasabi said.

"I-I know but still...".

"If you think you won't be able to deal with them then you can still return", Boruto said.

"A-All alone! Never", Namida said.

"We can't turn back now. I am going to protect you all so don't worry", Mitsuki said.

"I'll also protect you Namida, okay?", Wasabi said.

"T-Thank you Wasabi", Namida returned.

"We're going to save Sumire as one team. We're all her friends so that means we five are also somehow connected", Boruto said.

"You're right. We are one team", Wasabi said.

"Hey kids, now hurry up and run a little bit faster. We don't have much time", Hikari shouted to them, who was with Taro and Taki a decent distance in front of them.

"Yes", the kids all said.

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Hidden root hideout

"I am back", Ramos said as he entered the room where Azura and Nero waited for him.

"Took long enough" Nero said before he saw the cut on his shoulder. "You're hurt? Maybe you're slowly getting all rusty":

"You're rusty garbage if you'll talk to me like that again", Ramos said.

"Chill out. I've already called the boss for us and we'll get picked up very soon.

"You've mentioned that I was fighting a guy during your phone call?", Ramos asked.

"Y-Yes and he wasn't exactly happy about that".

"You idiot why you've told him that?", Ramos shouted.

"W-Well he pretty much asked about it so...", Nero tried to find an excuse.

"Shut up now and leave me all alone until we're getting picked up. I need a break now"

"So what we're going to do first when we delivered the girl to the headquarter?", Nero asked.

"I'll tell you later", Ramos said.

"No tell me now or I'll tell the boss about your little injury on your shoulders".

"You're moving on thin ice Nero", Ramos said angrily.

"You can choose. Getting shitted on from the boss or spending twenty seconds of your life to tell me that?", Nero asked.

"You're going to pay for that in the future...", Ramos said.

"First we're going to experiment about the seal and the Chakra of the Nue. Then we let her attack smaller villages for us to rule over and when we're ready to rule over the world then we're going to extract the Nue out of her body and seal it into a human made weapon, where we can control it".

"Extracting the beast out from her body might kill her", Nero said.

"Yes, we never wanted her to be part of the organization or even as an agent. Too young and too sweet hearted", Ramos said.

"What a horrible life. Living all alone with a beast sealed inside of the own body and at the end dying in a unnecessary death", Nero said.

"That's our shinobi world. Abusing and getting abused", Ramos said. "Now shut up and let me rest".

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Near Land of Fire/Lightning border:

Boruto and the others almost arrived to the spot the location tracker said to them.

"We're almost by location. It's not guaranteed we'll see Sai there and there could even be some enemies waiting for us so get ready to fight", Taki said.

"Let us go ahead first if there are shinobi waiting for us , Hikari said.

"We're fine with this", Mitsuki said.

"I hope we'll see Sumire there", Boruto said.

"Maybe...", Sarada said.

"I feel scared but I am ready!", Namida said.

"Me too", said Wasabi.

"Only a hundred metres away. Get ready", Taro said.

After some time they arrived to the spot and noticed the damaged enviroment. Trees were cuttet, blown away or crushed into the ground and the ground looked like a bomb exploded.

"What happened here?", Boruto asked.

"Looks like some people fighted here", Hikari said.

"That must've been a pretty intense fight", Wasabi said.

"High Jonin tier class at least", Mitsuki said.

"I have a bad feeling", Sarada said as she tried to observe the area a bit more and saw something from the distance.

'I-Is that...!', Sarada thought and run to the position.

"Hey Sarada! Where are you going?", Boruto asked.

"Shut up and let me check something", Sarada said.

Mitsuki looked to the ground and found some leftovers of ink on it.

"I know who was one of the people who fought here", Mitsuki said. 'Now we have a big problem'

"What we're going to do now", Boruto said.

"So where is...", Wasabi started to say before she was interupted.

"OH NOOOO", Sarada screamed from the distance.

"What happened!", Boruto shouted.

"That's not good", said Mitsuki as he and Boruto ran towards Sarada.

"Hey what happend?", Namida asked, Wasabi followed her.

The kids all run to Sarada and were shocked to see what they've found there.

"Seems like the kids found something", Hikari said.

"Let's check that", Taki said.

The three ANBU went to the kids.

"Hey what's the pr...", Taro started to ask before he was silenced and shocked by the sight for himself.

"OH MY...", Hikari shouted.

"That's...", Taki started.

Boruto and his team as well as the ANBU team were all shocked who they've seen lying on the ground with a lot of wounds and unconscious.

...

"That's Sai!"


That's it for this chapter. I hope you liked it. The next few weeks are going to be difficult for me since I have to learn for my final exams. So I have to stop writing until at least beginning-mid February. I'll try to do a BoruSumi Valentine's day one shot story until then. I hope you understand my current situation, but you can still send me your suggestions for this and my other stories via reviews. I'll try to reply to the most of them.

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