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CHAPTER 15

It happened in the dead of night.

Naruto stared forward, wearing his full combat uniform; black pants, a black long-sleeved shirt with dark blue stripes going down the arms and a Wave insignia on the shoulders and the back, with a jounin vest over his torso. There was a Wave forehead protector around his right upper arm and his kunai and shuriken pouches on his right thigh and hip respectively. His forearm protectors were over his sleeved forearms and so were his shin protectors. He idly touched them.

Kakashi leapt down behind him stealthily and crouched beside him, his dog ANBU mask in place. The jounin looked at the younger boy and signed, "Ready?" Naruto looked behind him at the other ANBU operatives who were also in crouched, guarded positions. There was Kakashi's old squad; Cat, Stork, Turtle and Mantis. Tsunade and Daku were also present, the woman was still warily eyeing the turbaned dark shadow that had appeared out of thin air but the blonde boy had assured her that he was with him.

She walked up to him, barely even making the leaves crunch under her feet and stood beside Naruto. She raised an eyebrow and Naruto presented a full-scale map of the ROOT hidden base, he propped it up on a tree and held up two kunai. He pointed at the entrance, then to the tree, then to himself and Daku. He then pointed at an entrance directly opposite, Kakashi would handle that one with Tsunade, then the five escape routes he crossed out, telling them that he had already sealed them shut, so no one would escape.

The woman shook her head and Naruto refrained from huffing in exasperation, the guards behind them chuckled under their breaths; she snapped her fingers and a person stepped out of the shadow of a tree, Daku snapped into position but Naruto silently told him to stand down. The moon shone slightly on the newcomer and all saw that it was the ANBU commander, Shikaku Nara. She pointed at the man and then to the exit, telling Naruto that he would be with the ANBU while she would be with Naruto and Daku.

Naruto shrugged and rolled his eyes. He adjusted his forearm protectors and nodded, telling all that he was ready.

He drew a clean line through the tree the map was tagged to and he frowned, drawing a visible blue cross over the map and smirked when the tree creaked inwards, revealing a small set of staircases that led down into the darkness, Kakashi, his former ANBU team and Shikaku flickered to the back entrance to begin their part of the mission.

Meanwhile, Naruto wore a pair of dark glasses and tapped the side of his glasses with his index finger. The shades flickered light blue and he could see clearly in the dark. The night vision allowed him to slip into the darkness, leading the two others behind him and remaining undetected. He looked around and his critical eyes caught the seals on the walls, he breathed a little louder and Tsunade and Daku paused. Naruto put both of his palms onto the ground and a seal matrix spiralled out, expanding and merging with the motion sensor seals that dotted the walls, effectively freezing them in time. The light reduced until it was pitch dark again and he continued his stealthy walk down the ROOT headquarters, making sure to breathe a little loudly again to tell those behind him to keep walking. The tree door closed behind them and they had one mission in mind.

Neutralise all ROOT ninja and Danzo.

Flashback

Tsunade allowed the information to sink in, staring straight into Naruto's eyes. She coughed into her hand and raised an eyebrow. "Yes, so?"

The blonde boy furrowed his eyebrows. "You knew?"

"Of course, I didn't know, but given everything I've seen you do, it won't surprise me that you lead a whole country. Not that I was expecting it." She scoffed, whipping out some sake from a compartment under her desk and swallowing a mouthful straight from the bottle. "My question is," she cleaned the corner of her lips with her wrist, "why didn't you tell me sooner?" she could just feel the beginning of a headache coming.

"I prefer revealing my secrets if or when I want." He crossed his arms. "Anyways, since I lead a whole country, it means I am not obligated to stay in this village."

"I understand that part and I won't mind if you stay in Wave. You did well with the defence, might I add, but the elders will raise some problems; you are Konoha's jinchuriki, the Yondaime Hokage's son. You hold a seat in the Konoha council, a large estate and pockets of land all over the fire country that Kushina had bought. How are you going to deal with that?"

"I'm aware that the elders wouldn't like to see me leave and I'm aware of all those other things. I plan to sell the land further away from Wave country and make the ones closer to home part of Wave. About the seat in council, you can have it, you are part Uzumaki and that alone connects you with the Namikaze clan,"

"And the estate?"

"I said I'll be moving to Wave, I didn't say I wouldn't visit; I have students here, y'know." He shifted in his seat. "And the elders are just there to advise you. They don't hold any sort of power even in the council."

"I know that. What I'm saying is that they might go behind my back and send a message to the daimyo that an Uzumaki jinchuriki who just so happens to be the Yondaime's son is planning on leaving his village of birth, and his country of origin." She then quickly added, "And no you cannot kill them."

Naruto's shoulder sagged a little at the last part but he responded, "I'm also the Daimyo of Wave, my village is fully allied to five other hidden villages and I foresee other alliances' coming soon. I hold equal political sway with the Fire Daimyo."

"The fact remains that Fire Country is three times larger than Wave. He can command Konoha to wage war with your village and the villages allied with you."

This was a tight spot, Naruto furrowed his eyebrows and ran through all the ways he could get out of this sort of situation, and sighed tiredly when he thought of one. "An alliance with Konoha, then."

"Full alliance?" Tsunade acknowledged that Wave was slowly rising in the shinobi world; most of the rice Konoha had in the first place was indirectly from Wave, bought from Grass Country.

Naruto shook his head. "Non-aggression treaty."

"Military and trade alliance. Not fully allied but I scratch your back, you scratch mine."

Naruto rubbed his eyes and thought about this; Fire country got the highest-ranking missions so if Wave performed joint missions with Konoha shinobi then there would be profit, there wasn't anything to trade with Konoha he couldn't get from any other hidden village. He wasn't particularly happy with aligning with a village that hadn't treated him kindly from the start. Wave, though had an excellent defence still had a fledgling ninja system; if the daimyo declared war on Wave he was confident that his seals would keep the attacking shinobi out but the problem lay on the fact that his shinobi would find it difficult to out.

"Think about this first Naruto; if any other village attacks you, you have full right to request reinforcements."

"But at the same time, I'm allied with five capable villages already." Then something came to his mind. "The elders; I also came to talk about them." Tsunade motioned for him to continue. "This guy," he tightened his snake rope around the ROOT ninja, "works for a secret faction in Konoha you aren't aware of called ROOT. They are led by Shimura Danzo."

The Senju sighed and closed her eyes, she shook her head. "Of course. What about the other two fossils, are they aware of this?"

Here Naruto unsealed a thick file from his middle finger and tossed it to her. "See for yourself."

She flicked open the file and looked through it. The first picture there was of Kohoru and Danzo in front of the latter's house at night with a featureless masked shinobi kneeling before them, the picture was clear as day, even though it was night, so she couldn't say it was falsified.

The next thing she saw was a handwritten report from a person ominously called Mole on all the missions she had done. The first ever mission was when she was nine; she was sent to kidnap some Kaguya members from Kirigakure so that they could be experimented on to see if they had dormant Dead bone pulse kekkei genkai, the children all died under the experiments, there was a mission where she was to kill some members of the civilian council during the failed Sand/Sound invasion.

It kept going, winding on and on and Tsunade's frown deepened when Mole got to all the archived missions every single ROOT shinobi did that only she, Fuu and Torune were privy to. ROOT stretched so far back they were part of the reason Uzishio was destroyed in the first place and why the Uzumaki weren't as strong as they were before; a ROOT ninja by the name of Rat had poisoned their water supply with slow-acting chakra-eating virus, weakening them exponentially. It was tragic.

Then there were more pictures of the elders taken mostly in dark stretches of roads with a small squad of ROOT ninjas kneeling before them or what she could only guess was in a section of ROOT training ground, but those kinds of pictures were of low quality and were far away, so the person had to zoom in until the picture looked a bit pixelated.

Tsunade scanned the pictures and tried to remember what Sarutobi Hiruzen, her sensei, had taught her team on whether or not a document or a picture was false. That the dates in the document should match with the dates that it was trying to incriminate in real life, if there were small crinkles on the side but the paper was still new then the document was copied in a rush; it was probably real. The pictures were that she should look straight at the edge of their bodies and check if there is any kind of distortion, then to the present ninja there and see if they too were distorted; no falsified picture was ever so present that the small bubble of difference was completely cut out. This was one of those moments she wished Jiraiya was present so he could use his experience in catching small details to look over the documents but for now, the pictures looked too convincing to just throw away.

She flipped to the last page and just barely held her hands back from squeezing the file; the document was short but detailed enough. It spoke about a military coup, led by Danzo, to usurp Tsunade as Hokage. This was to take place in about a year when the old war hawk was sure he would have enough shinobi. He had even gone to the extent that he had separated a few ROOT ninjas and was training them specifically for the coup. This was the most recent document, coincidentally after Naruto had declined to become a shinobi and Tsunade had threatened to cart the three elders off on one stretcher. It was Danzo, Kohoru and Homura who had personally signed the mission document. She gently dropped the thick file, making sure to close it and looked at Naruto. The boy hadn't moved throughout but was looking straight at her. He cleared his throat and spoke,

"This incriminates the three elders for criminal conspiracy and even attempted usurpation of the Hokage, a crime punishable by death. So you see, either way, those three do." She shifted in his chair and had the snake rope around the shinobi leap into the man's mouth, breaking the mask, and keeping his mouth open. Naruto stood up, walked to the ninja and broke all the seals that prevented him from speaking. He then whipped out a piece of paper from his pocket with a complex seal on it and slapped it onto the man's forehead, the fuinjutsu for Truth appeared after that. "He can now confirm everything you've seen."

And confirm he did. The truth that spewed from that man's lips could be said to look like a waterfall of words, Tsunade kept on throwing question after question and both could visibly see the effort the man was making to shut his mouth or even to bite off his tongue. All to no avail, unfortunately for him.

The woman got up from her desk and stood near the window, with her arms folded behind her. "Do you think Sarutobi-sensei knew, Naruto?"

The boy looked at her and shrugged. "He might have, once upon a time. I'm certain we can find records confirming or denying that fact. Somewhere…" She nodded slowly. "Your mutual benefit alliance sounds good enough for the moment. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Deal?" he stood up and stretched his hand to her, she shook it firmly and nodded.

"Deal."

Naruto smiled lightly and patted her hand. "You saw the plans to invade Wave, right?"

"He sure is a busy old man."

"It would be his doom." The boy released her hand and walked curtly to the dizzy, and thirsty ROOT shinobi. "I didn't plan on telling you this but I'm planning to stage a surprise attack on ROOT this night; my spy in their ranks has reported that even she is left in the dark about Danzo's travelling plans. Whether or not he would decide to move on Wave today. All she and her peers were to do is be prepared."

The Hokage rubbed the bridge of her nose and exhaled. "Tonight then. I'll put up an arrest warrant for Kohoru and Homura." She did so quickly and snapped her fingers. A cat mask-wearing ANBU flickered before her and knelt. Tsunade silently gave her the piece of paper and with only a half-second pause in surprise, the ninja leaped out of the window to go and relay this to her commander.

Both blonde village leaders had agreed that since Naruto had the map of the main ROOT headquarters in his mind, he would lead most of the shinobi in charge. The squad would be small to maintain some form of silence. Within the hour, both spoke and outlined the full details of Wave's alliance with Konoha and by extension the rest of the village alliance, while at the same time discussing how they would take down a bunker filled with brainwashed shinobi.

They had agreed to execute all the ROOT shinobi that were in all directly above the lowest rung. This meant only the newly inducted children whom the loyalty seal and the brainwashing had not fully sunk in would be spared and rehabilitated back into society. Naruto had even revealed that it was Wave who had masterminded the takedown of Hidden Star, so he wasn't averse to killing or going up against strong opponents, he had backed up since Tsunade was coming as well.

Naruto jumped out of the window and came back thirty minutes later wearing his combat uniform.

Flashback end

The stone-walled tunnel the three high-ranked shinobi were creeping through slowly lit up so Naruto raised his hand and motioned at the forked path ahead, then he went into the one going to the right. The two followed after and hid behind a small raised platform that stood in front of the opening and looked to the edge, noting that the ninjas on the other side of the platform were going through kata in sync with each other, making the occasional yells and grunts. The reason they weren't yet detected was that Naruto had taken the initiative to put super suppressors on each of them, knowing that suppressing her chakra was not Tsunade's stronger point.

The ROOT that was looking over the training was a female with short brown hair. The reformed-ROOT-ninja-turned-spy was not aware of the fact that an attack was underway but she had assured Daku that she would be ready if it was.

The headquarters was split into smaller sections, The largest was where the new inductees, or the orphans and kidnapped children were shoved into and forced to watch mind-numbing slides and videos, hypnotising them slowly until the slides of Danzo going about his day-to-day work, looking like a model human being. This usually took six months to set in the minds of the inductees before the loyalty seal was unwillingly administered, making it so that the idea that Danzo was all good would be fractured but it would be too late to deny it; all their memories now include Danzo and how best to serve him.

The program was only able to acquire new members every eight months or so.

Naruto used his pointer and middle finger to point to his far right and Daku blurred over there and hid in the shadow of an exit. Naruto sent an 'ok' signal to Tsunade and used his hands to count down from three. Three, two, one…

He threw his arms out over the platform, over Mole, and muttered, "Ninja Art: Fuinjutsu: Child of Paper Chaos."

The containment seals that Danzo had put around the training ground prevented even the smallest of tremors from being felt, while in reality catastrophe had fallen on all of the unsuspecting ROOT ninjas.

Mole whirled around and slid a nodachi out of its sheath that was on her left thigh, but she quickly dropped to her knee before Naruto as he stepped forward; he nodded silently to her and his eyes looked at the blazing inferno that had consumed everyone present, no one was spared. "It's time, Mole."

She muffled her agreement and followed after her master as he walked around the bonfire. He turned to Tsunade and said, "The base is too large for just us four to be walking together; for all we know Danzo is preparing to flee. We best split up."

"Agreed. I'm with you," she said but Naruto shook his head.

"No, I'm going with Daku." He continued quickly before she could voice her disagreement, "I have been fighting alongside Daku for a while. We work well together. Mole's fighting style complements yours. Trust me." Tsunade clenched her teeth in her frustration but conceded. "You two can take the right, we'll go left."

And both teams split up.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

The fight started immediately after Naruto and his dark shadow went through the tunnel.

Daku bent away from a kunai slash and kicked another whole Naruto flipped above him and smashed his elbow down on the unsuspecting ninja. Both leaned away from sword slashes and punched their opponents; Daku released a few weight seals and Naruto reduced his weight seals as well and blurred down the tunnel.

Naruto, with a fist full of shuriken, peppered a few featureless shinobi and Daku shot a barrage of wood spikes through another cluster of ROOT ninjas. They burst into a room and were surrounded; the seal master's blue barrier prevented the ninjas from getting to him and he used two snake ropes, flowing with wind chakra, and sliced through the multitude, while Daku would punch holes through those that came after him, occasionally throwing some poor ninja at Naruto so they too can be diced up.

The room began filling up more and Naruto held a single ram hand seal and touched the ground with his palm, a seal spiralled to life and Daku leapt up as it took effect; the hoard that was in the room froze abruptly in various attacking positions and the chakra began syphoning out of them, painfully and forcefully, into a storage seal on his pinkie finger.

Daku busily leapt from ninja to ninja, cracking their necks, spinning them completely to the other side and shooting wood stakes at others. Naruto and Daku sped out of the room, spattered in blood and sweat, to a much bigger room and a much bigger training ground, where they met up with team Kakashi, who were already decimating the ninja there, Shikaku had chosen to look over the new and semi-hypnotized inductees.

"Lightning Release: Deadly Tracking Fangs." Kakashi slapped his palms into the ground and arcs of lightning bounced through the ground and electrocuted a wave of ROOT ninja. He too was covered in blood but not that much. He looked over his shoulder and watched as Cat slit a ninja's throat and impaled her katana clean through another. She kicked the person off and flipped through two one-handed hand seals.

"Hazy Moon," she swung her sword in a circle, her team ducked the afterimages that flew after the motion and winced at all the unsuspecting ninjas that had been cleaved in half, not that many by many enough. She got into her basic kenjutsu stance and leapt into the fray again, disappearing in a flurry of sword strokes and slicing. Kakashi leapt after her to provide a sort of back up and both worked in tandem, dealing death to all that came to them,

Mantis and Stork also looked like they weren't in too much trouble. Stork, wielding a seven-foot-long bow staff, swung the weapon around and Mantis leapt from ROOT ninja to ROOT ninja, jamming his kunai through their heads and going after another without wasting any time.

What the ANBU team had in common was that all were in some way injured; Yugao had a thick slash to her midsection, exposing her bleeding stomach, Stork had purple bruises on his exposed arms and Mantis' mask was broken at the top bit, letting all see his teal green eyes, making Naruto realise that he too had blonde hair, after the man's protective headgear had fallen off as well. Mantis was a Yamanaka and Stork was probably a Nara, with the way he was non-verbally telling Mantis where to land next so he could deal out a fatal blow…or from all the shadow attacks he was using to hold the ROOT ninja in place while Mantis was nimbly moving around and decapitating them.

Naruto thrust his arms out and a wave of fire-sealed paper flew out like shuriken and sliced through a cluster of incoming ninjas. "Ninja Art: Paper Shuriken Barrage." The attack cut through the ninja and they were much too close to each other to dodge. He mentally winced when he saw a half of a person's face slip off and splatter on the ground, his sensory seals flared and he spun on his feet so he could use his blue rectangular shield to catch a small tanto-walking stick strike courtesy of Danzo, his tree roots seals powered on and he shoved the man away; he put both of his hand in a single hand seal. "Multiple shadow clone technique."

More clones than he could count exploded into sight and mixed into the fray, rushing to Danzo and giving Naruto some time to form a plan.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Your treachery will be your end, Mole," Torune droned as his poisonous beetles buzzed out of his sleeves and his shoulders. They hummed dangerously as they formed an intimidating cloud of darkness behind the Aburame man. Mole crouched into her fighting stance, stared at the older ROOT shinobi, and then at the man's partner, Fu Yamanaka.

"After all Master Danzo has done for you." Fu tutted in disappointment. He too was guarded, with both of his palms together and his back straight. The man looked over at his former comrade; seeing that she wore a dark one-sleeved shirt, pants and sandals that went up to her mid-calf, she also had on a featureless shinobi vest. Her hands clenched in their fingerless gloves and her short tanto was grasped in her left hand, while her right hand was on the ground, palm open.

Tsunade looked at both of their opponents and remembered their individual information; she looked at Mole from the corner of her eyes and the younger woman caught her eye. "I'll handle Torune, I know how to beat his beetles," the Wave ninja muttered. "Don't let Fu use any ninjutsu, Lady Tsunade. He's a Yamanaka."

"You think you can beat me, Mole," Torune said from across the empty, bloodied training ground. They had just appeared as Danzo commanded them to take care of her, they were too late to save the ROOT shinobi both Senju and Mole had killed. Tsunade was breathing slightly heavier with blood drenching her fists, while Mole only had blood on her weapon and her mask.

"Yes," she whispered to herself, responding to what the Aburame had said.

The women raced to the men and the men did so as well.

Fu hung back a step and fired through a few sets of hand seals, but was cut short as he had to flip away from an earth shock wave Tsunade had sent over.

The Sannin pulled her fist back and smashed it on the ground. A spire of rock fired out under the Yamanaka but the man proved his rank in the ROOT echelon by making sure the deadly attack flew under him. He got back upright and winced when he saw two new Tsunade's standing beside the original.

Mole scampered under Torune's right hook, making sure to roll away from the mass of poisonous bugs behind him. The man mentally commanded his bugs to go after her and she used her dexterity to flip sideways from the tsunami that came after her, just before her feet could meet the bugs under her she poofed away in a smoky body replacement technique, frustrating the man and having him order his hive to find her, they located her clinging to the edge of the walls, seeing as the ground they were fighting on was now dominated by poisonous beetles.

She flipped through four one-handed hand seals. "Lightning Release: Bug Zapper."

She used her pointer finger to point at her older opponent and short, fast arcs of lightning blasted out from the tip. Torune grits his teeth and runs lengthwise away from the attacks, wincing when he feels millions of his hives die after contracting the lightning attack.

He droned his jutsu. "Poison Cloud Technique." A sphere of bugs formed in his hands and he blew through it, a cloud of toxic poison surged to where Mole hung on the wall. She ran across the wall away from the attack while also going through her hand seals, a very short set.

"Wind and Fire Release: Combination Jutsu: Wind Meteorites." She spun around, while also leaping back, and ripped off her mask to reveal her face. She cupped her hands around her mouth and blew. The result was a massive chunk of hot gas in the shape of a sphere bursting from the hole and expanding exponentially until it made contact with the poison gas that was coming at her. She could hear the poisonous cloud hiss as it came in contact with her attack.

She blew four more wind meteorites and watched as the gases converged into them. Her attack had made use of deadly fire stored inside a bubble that sucked in whatever it came near so it would be burnt by the fire inside and she had successfully negated the life-threatening Aburame attack. With the air now purified and the meteorites combusting within themselves she darted to the older man with her sword held across her chest. Torune waved at her and some of the beetles clouding behind him buzzed to her. She could only throw an explosive tag wrapped in a kunai at the bugs, blowing up without hesitating. However, the backlash was that some of the dead bugs wafted over her unprotected face and her short sleeve.

She could immediately feel the beginnings of her chakra being leached and her strength reducing. Torune appeared beside her in a chakra-less body flicker and he punched her side, his blow not reaching skin level but still very deadly, he followed up with another jab to her stomach, driving all air out and finally a snap kick across her face that threw her into a mass of poisonous beetles.

He frowned when he saw her explode into smoke, but he instinctively knew that he had dealt a lot of damage to the younger jounin. Mole burst from the ground, a harsh gash across her face, and slashed him across the chest with her short weapon, he leaned away expertly and made to grab her hand but she pulled away in time and Spartan kicked him back only three steps, the space allowed her to flip away from the bugs that had attempted to creep up on her and stick on the wall again.

She winced as the poison wreaked havoc in her, blood spurting out of her mouth and her ears, and that was when she decided to activate her chakra high seal…

Fu jammed his sickles end-to-end and hurled them at the Tsunade clones. The weapon whirred dangerously in the air and the clones, as well as the original, separated.

The fighting ground was big enough so Tsunade didn't have to worry about stepping on a poisonous bug, so when she saw the man about to go for one of his clan's signature techniques she purposely slowed herself down, making it seem like she was not yet expecting the attack.

"Mind Body Switch Technique!"

Just as his consciousness leapt out of his body to her, she switched with a clone, as he was a sensor-type shinobi he knew who the original Tsunade was in the first place. Before he could cancel his jutsu, the Sannin, using a kunai she had picked from a dead ROOT ninja, flung the weapon and cleanly slit the clone's throat; years of being a shinobi taught her a few things and a few holes in some clan-based bloodline techniques.

There was silence in their half of the underground training ground.

The clone's head snapped up as the knife left a deep trail going through. The earth clone she had summoned didn't dispel immediately, as she had pumped enough of her chakra to keep it corporal for a time even after the fatal wound. Both the clone and Fu stood stock still in the same position as each other, the Yamanaka didn't even have the time for his body to fall before the clone was cut. A deep slash across his neck appeared and he fell on his knees, the clone following suit, blood gurgled out of his mouth and he cancelled his jutsu. He grabbed hold of his profusely bleeding throat and struggled to his feet, his eyes were too hazy to focus on one single thing so he was looking around, confused and dying. This meant that even though he could sense the incoming attack he was only able to bend away fractionally so his whole head wasn't caved in, though this didn't save him from being thrown far across the fight zone and on the wall.

He slowly slid to the ground and his head lolled to the side tiredly. He fell from the man-shaped hole in the wall and welcomed the chakra-enhanced stomp to his head, courtesy of the Slug Sannin. She dusted her hands and smirked to herself. "Still got it."

Her eyes then widened as she felt the ground tremble. She traced the tremors to the source on the other side of the fight zone and cursed.

Hot pink fire licked across Mole's body, growing higher and higher until it fully consumed her.

The complex seal for Chakra High burned on her forehead.

Mole's face was set in a serene smile.

Still attached to the wall, her hands slowly inched together into a monkey hand seal. She could feel the nature chakra thicken her chakra and all of her wounds healing over; she could even visibly see the fatal poison leaching out of her pores as sweat.

Torune stared at her with an empty look. His beetles paused as well, so when she leapt off the wall and stepped on the wave of poisonous bugs, he frowned as his insects were immediately burned on contact. He wisely took the initiative to attack her.

"Jar of Poison."

The poison that his bugs had been pouring into the corpses around him began to stack on top of each other, being pushed by the surprisingly strong insects until they formed a barrier of dead bodies. The corpses expelled deadly gas into the air, as Mole began her slow walk forward to her old comrade, and then the barrier that separated him from her exploded into a massive swarm of more poisonous beetles.

The loudly buzzing insects flew at the woman and she went through seven hand seals. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu."

The molten ball of fire that she blew out covered the entirety of her side of the arena, shining a deep pink instead of the usual red, and the fire washed over the arriving insects and burnt them all to a crisp, not stopping until it came to Torune. The man's eyes widened in horror at the single jutsu she had used and he quickly substituted himself with a dead body, just barely.

The pink ball of fire met the wall and shook the very foundations of the underground base, still not felt by Konoha's populace. The young woman quickly got into her signature taijutsu style and held her short tanto forward, before she blasted to where she assumed he had switched to. Torune leaped out of her way and cursed at the smouldering grove she had made in the wall when her tanto cut across it, her movements were faster than anything he anticipated and he began to visibly struggle away from her attacks.

At least now he knew what his victims felt when they tried to prevent him from touching them; just her fist wafting across his chest had burnt his shirt. The pink fire blazing around her increased in intensity and encased the Aburame, preventing him from escaping. He hissed when he couldn't even switch out of the circle of fire she had created; the fire closed up above them. Mole then slapped her palms together and the fire filled up inside, burning the older jounin to a crisp but only putting her in a state of bliss.

Mole did all of this with her serene smile plastered on her face.

The fire lessened and returned to her body before the seal on her forehead flickered out of sight; her knees wobbled tiredly, feeling her chakra density reduce as the nature chakra was leached out of her. Tsunade caught her before she could fall and lowered her to the ground. "Neat trick, kid." She looked over the younger woman and smirked slightly. "You're not even hurt."

"Master Naruto …he made the seal." She was out of breath but not hurt. Tsunade nodded and waited for the Wave ninja to regain composure before both sprinted to where the rest of the ROOT elimination team was.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Naruto rammed his blue rectangular shield against Danzo and both engaged in a sort of power tussle, with only a few small pockets of ROOT shinobi remaining, distracting Kakashi and his team from coming to his aid. Daku flickered to sight behind the bandage-covered man and swung his leg in a fast snap kick to his head, the attack would have removed any lesser man but Danzo wasn't any lesser man, she used his free hand to catch the high jounin speed kick and twisted it around, flipping Daku away but the dark shadow dexterous landed on his feet. Naruto punched his blue shield from inside and a vibration threw Danzo clear away, giving him time to think up something he could use to take down Sandaime's rival in both strength and intelligence. He focused with all his might for a tingle and Daku appeared beside him, the boy slipped a paper seal to the dark shadow and he knew exactly what to do with it, but not yet.

Naruto completely reduced his weight seals and both master and dark shadow ran at their opponent. The last member of the Shimura clan droned out a jutsu after he flashed through three seals. "Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere."

He then began spitting out fist-sized bubbles of air in random directions; some killed a few of his remaining ninjas.

Naruto pulled up his left sleeve and quickly unsealed a scroll. He threw the scroll open and it circled both Naruto and Daku, absorbing the dangerous wind attacks. He then rolled up the scroll and threw it at Danzo, blasting it accurately with a short beam from his chakra beam seal.

The result was that Danzo's attack exploded out of the destroyed scroll and went after him. The older man frowned at this and cut through the spheres with his tanto-walking stick, imbued with his wind chakra to elongate the weapon and sharpen it.

He quickly slashed at Daku, who had leapt at him, but the dark shadow spun in mid-air away from it; Naruto then commanded his snake ropes to go after the Shimura. The semi-sentient seal creations slithered quickly across the ground and lashed out at Danzo. The man glared at the silver ropes when his wind chakra didn't even dent them.

He cast his lone weapon at the attacking snake ropes, making sure to keep Daku at arms-length as well. 'I did not anticipate for this child to be this strong. Maybe Sai was correct; he is not to be taken lightly.'

He tore off the bandages covering half of his face to reveal his implanted sharingan.

Naruto's eyes widened, remembering a part of Mole's report that said Danzo possibly had an implanted doujutsu but he never could have guessed it would be the sharingan; this would complicate things a little but he would just have to improvise.

He front-flipped over the man as he reached for him, making sure to avoid his eyes, and threw his arms at Danzo so shards of lethally sharp paper went after the man. Danzo ran away from the paper and was replaced with a dead ROOT ninja, frowning when the paper subsequently exploded in a controlled ball of fire. Daku wasted no time engaging Danzo in a fast-paced taijutsu fight, going even faster and faster by the second. Danzo punched Daku's chest but the dark shadow followed the attack by leaning backwards and smashing his knee against the older man's chin. Danzo flipped sideways after the brutal attack but still landed on his feet, though his mouth was bleeding a little.

The man growled and leapt at Daku, the much faster opponent sidestepped and kicked the man's chin, throwing him to Naruto. The boy rushed at the airborne Shimura and just as the man's back met his rectangular shield he punched his side of the shield and a violent vibration reverberated through Danzo and flung him back to Daku, leaving his spine shattered from the attack. The loyal dark shadow sent a spinning kick to the returning man and he was smashed against the wall.

Deathly silence befell the fighting area as all watched the Sandaime's rival get bashed into a wall, dust blocked him from view and all assumed that the man's old body had finally given up. Shocking all that watched the fight, Danzo got out of the hole in the wall and merely cracked his neck, before he tore off his arm bandages to reveal the ten sharingan eyes embedded there as well as the pasty white arm that had always been hidden from view.

The man clenched the fist of his sharingan-covered arm and he used his fist to point at Naruto, correctly assuming that if he could take down the blonde boy the dark shadow would fall as well; trees began shooting out of the ground and warping toward Naruto. The boy encased himself with his iron bubble as a tree went and punched him, throwing him back a bit but he flared his tree root seals to stop his backwards movement.

The boy flipped through five hand seals. "Wind Release: Cutting Wind Scythes."

He made violent motions with his hands to the incoming trees, making sure they didn't touch him and puffed out an air of frustration when the B-rank attack didn't so much as dent the trees. Meanwhile, Daku was trying to get past the trees to take on Danzo. He wasn't too successful even with all the earth-shattering punches he laid on the trees that erupted from the ground to defend the Sharingan-eyed wood release user.

An idea came to Naruto.

His chakra beam seal sparked dangerously, arcs of lethal lightning shooting around him but not to the incoming trees. Then he perfectly combined his lightning affinity with his fire affinity, "Lightning and Fire Release: Combination Jutsu: Chakra Beam!"

With his left hand holding up his right wrist, a long blast of dark purple chakra shot out of his palm and warped together, forming a sharp drill at the very tip that dug through the trees. The seal master channelled more of his chakra into the attack and was met with limited success in his attack carving a wide path through the chakra absorbing trees but not meeting the summoner.

Naruto leapt through the hole that was reduced in size drastically fast and blasted his fire and lightning chakra beam attack at Danzo.

Danzo hastily erected a rock wall but that was all but useless in containing the same attack.

The lightning fire punched a massive hole through Danzo's chest and again bashed him against the wall behind him. Naruto cancelled his attack and pulled his right fist back, calling out another attack as he punched the air in front of him, "Fire Release: Chakra Beam!"

The fire chakra beam attack looked eerily like a blooming flower spiralling out of the centre of his palm and again bashed Danzo against the wall, pushing him deeper.

The level ten seal master cut chakra off from his attack, ignoring his blistering hot hand. He shook his hands as he looked straight through the dust and ash that had come after his attack, frowning when Danzo again pulled himself out of the wall, though this time he only had six sharingan eyes on his right arm.

The Shimura was in the last minutes of his Izangi and he would rather cut off his tongue than die in the hands of this child. He couldn't keep this beating up for long either, fading in and out of reality as his torso was repeatedly either broken apart or burnt to a crisp, and all from this boy. He could already feel the effects of the chuck of chakra leave his body after the kinjutsu.

"He's still alive, kid,"Kyuubi grumbled, on his feet and looking out of Naruto's eyes.

'Yeah, and it's getting on my nerves.' A blade made completely out of lightning flickered out of his chakra beam seal and he grasped the corporal chakra weapon with both of his hands; even though he wasn't too good with kenjutsu he could make full use of the lightning to deal out harm. His glasses anticipated the quick appearance of the ROOT commander and he stabbed his weapon clear through the man's stomach, aware that the older man was in dire straits for chakra.

Something was wrong; Danzo began chuckling evilly, even though his head lolled his chest from exhaustion and he hunched over slightly on the arm that was through his belly. Naruto glared through his glasses at the man.

"Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique," Danzo tiredly whispered, uttering the sharingan illusion.

Naruto winced as wooden stakes shot out of the ground and impaled his legs, he kept hold of the weakening man as the stakes were driven through his back, his chest, his arms and his shoulders. His incredible pain tolerance only permitted him to pant in pain and hiss with each breath. The air around him mixed and the roof turned blood red, the ground turned mucky black, and the air around them seemed palpable but Danzo was still impaled with his lightning sword; they were still in the same position they were in the real world.

More stakes rained down on Naruto and his knees shook under the pain he was feeling, his mind was shutting down from the numbing pain he was in but he refused to scream.

He could just barely sense Daku racing to them but he was coming much too slow, so he struggled to summon up some of his legendary Uzumaki stamina and activated an experimental seal on his back, between his shoulder plates and directly over his main chakra point.

"Sharingan Death Reverse Summoning."

The seal expanded all over his body, creating thin veins where chakra passed through and travelled across his arms. It spread from Naruto's back to his arms, rippling as an inky spider that raced down Naruto's hand and darted across the boy's lightning blade, entering Danzo's sharingan eye.

The illusion wavered, like it was hesitant to leave and Naruto channelled more of his chakra, the genjutsu wavered even more. "Kyuubi…"

"I've got you."The tailed beast jammed a tail into the ground and the seal turned red, then Danzo finally yelled in pain. The illusion shattered around them like glass and the man still impaled with the lightning sword slumped on the arm tiredly. Naruto kicked him back and with a swift slash, he cut the sharingan-littered arm off.

Danzo fell on his back and Naruto saw that Danzo's sharingan eye was bleeding. The boy whipped out a kunai and stabbed the eye before the man could find the strength to pull another stunt. His face remained stoic amid the man's pained yells and he waved over his shoulder at Kakashi's team, telling them that he was fine, and he sealed the mokuton, Sharingan-covered arm into a large scroll that he sealed in a smaller scroll; just in case Danzo had remote control over the limb.

He pulled out his kunai from Danzo's eye with a satisfied grunt.

Tsunade jumped beside him and looked at him with concern. He waved it away again. He could already feel the Kyuubi chakra in his system heal his wounds. "I'm fine, Tsunade. You should go and treat Team Kakashi; they need it more than me." He sent her a resolute thumbs up and passed the scroll that had Danzo's sharingan eyes to her.

"We'll talk later, Naruto." She went to treat the ANBU team as well as check on the almost fully hypnotised children, leaving Naruto with Danzo.

Daku stepped beside him and bent on one knee. "I've failed you, Master Naruto,"

"How so, Daku?"

"I was not of much help in this fight."

"No, if you were not present with me, I might have died from exhaustion." The dark shadow nodded but stayed on his knee. "Take this mental note for me, Daku: the reverse sharingan seal, first test, shaky success but only if I use a Kyuubi tail. Tighten the containment seal, the limiter seal and the chakra restraint seal inside. Get all that?" Daku nodded eagerly. "Also find a way to lengthen the life span of the seal." He could feel the sharingan destruction seal break apart on his back. Daku nodded. "Zabuza should be leaving for Kiri by sunrise. You may leave with him."

"Are you certain, Master?"

"I trust you to look over him, as well as ensure Kiri allies with Wave."

"Thank you, Master."

Naruto smiled lightly and nodded. "You may leave."

Daku snapped to his feet and with a salute, he disappeared into thin air, leaving Naruto with the one-armed Shimura.

Naruto threw a paper seal to the man when he was powering through some one-handed seals and when the paper connected with his chest wrought iron chains burst out and tightly wrapped around the man, sucking whatever chakra he had left, using that chakra to tighten hold as well as full restraining the one-armed man. This was the same seal he had given Daku at the beginning of the fight but with the development concerning Danzo, they couldn't make use of it, until now.

The one-eyed man glared harsh, painful death at Naruto and snarled. "Kill me. Finish me off."

Naruto shook his head and rolled his eyes. "I've studied fuinjutsu for long enough to know when a trap is lying in wait, Danzo."

"You…you know…"

"Since the very beginning, yes. I have not survived this long as a shinobi without being even a little smart." He shifted the custom super restraint seal, something he had created to hold down a jinchuriki, probably even at full strength. He scanned his detection seal over the paralyzed man's chest and smiled thinly when the Reverse Four Symbol Sealing came into sight.

Shimura Danzo's life was crumbling right before his very eyes, he could see more Konoha-centric ANBU flood his hidden base to confirm the death of every single ROOT operative in the base, jamming kunai into their heads when they were faking their deaths; from the corner of his eyes, he could see Tsunade attending to the barely even five-year-old and under orphans he had kidnapped from the orphanage a month ago, she was doing so with a Inoichi Yamanaka and a few other Yamanaka medics. He could see some ninja carting out all the knowledge he had acquired and stolen since before they were even born, and now this child wouldn't even allow him to die like a ninja with as many people going down with him.

He began to visibly struggle to summon up some chakra to activate the seal forcefully, even though he knew it wouldn't ever activate unless he was dead. The seal was supposed to seal people around his dead body immediately after he died.

Naruto shook his head in exasperation. "You're a seal master, Danzo. A level seven, if I'm not mistaken; so you are supposed to know that that seal wouldn't come off."

The younger seal master then bent down and began to work on the seal; there were two ways he could get the seal off: by cutting off the flesh it was written on, making sure to supply it with enough of Danzo's stolen chakra until he put it in a strong containment seal.

Or…

He could do it the old-fashioned way and remove it manually. He looked at the jinchuriki restraint seal, personally tested it on himself, and sighed when he saw that Danzo's chakra wasn't enough inside for him to simulate life into the seal; leaving him with his second option.

The blonde seal master sat down with his legs crossed beside the man and got to work removing the seal, aware of the jounin and chunin ANBU eyes locked on him. He could feel fascination in their stares, and from Mole, he could feel awe. All wondered just to what extent the boy had pushed himself through to be able to create as many seals as he did, most even right off the bat, while still having the physical and mental strength to push through a sharingan based genjutsu and cancelling it with another custom made fuinjutsu.

After having the suicide seal removed from his person, Danzo was taken to a cell, enhanced by super chakra suppressors and containers so that he couldn't even summon enough chakra to light a match, then he was taken to a cell opposite his teammates; none were in the same prison cell as the other.

A public trial had been scheduled for the next day and immediately that was an execution. They had all been charged with criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, fraudulent dealings within and outside the fire country, heading an illegal ANBU faction as well as supporting criminal activities. There were more charges levelled on them but Naruto couldn't be bothered to remember them. The daimyo had been made aware of what was happening and told that his attendance wasn't required.

The Wave leader had agreed with the Hokage to split the knowledge they had taken from the underground base, even though technically it was Konoha's. Tsunade had called it an act of good faith and Naruto in turn dropped a few Namikaze scrolls he had already gone through but had never been seen by another ninja.

He made sure that the jutsu inside was below A rank, of course. The raid in the disbanded ROOT base was a joint one by Konoha and Wave so he was entitled to some of the loot but not all since he was only able to provide two, very strong, shinobi on such short notice. Likewise, he was not given anything above A rank. They had agreed that Naruto's students in Konoha would be given chances to move from leaf to Wave if they were scheduled for training with their teacher. Naruto had opened trade between Konoha and Wave as well as with the other villages he was allied to.

The boy had also requested that the rest of the genin be allowed passage to Wave if they wanted to meet him, not only his students. The two village leaders drew out a scroll and outlined their agreements and stipulations, making sure to sign and arrange for the seal to be sent to the other villages so they too could add their signatures. The alliance Wave had with Konoha was vastly different from the one he had with the other villages because the leaf wasn't given express permission to live in Wave and vice versa.

The next day the three elders were led out to a podium Tenzo had erected with his wood release for this specific occasion, heavily held down by seals, and forced to kneel in front of all present which just so happened to be ninety per cent of Konoha, except the too young children.

Tsunade read out all of their crimes, every single one, and asked them what they plead.

Only Danzo responded.

"It was all for Konoha."

Tsunade merely nodded and ordered a sword. Yugao presented her katana to the Hokage.

The Hokage first cut off Homura's head, then Kohoru, she looked at Danzo blankly and when she raised her hand to cleave his head off and for him to join his dead comrades he exploded into a plume of chakra smoke, in his place was the snake Sannin, Orochimaru. The man spared a glare at the cool Naruto, who stood beside the Senju Hokage and replaced himself with a log of wood.

"I should have expected something like this." Naruto sighed, but he shrugged and his eyes zoned onto exactly where the snake Sannin was fleeing with the heavily restrained war hawk. If the stress of the journey didn't kill Danzo then the constant draining of his chakra via his seals would; he assured Tsunade that. He pointed in the general direction of where they went and hoards of tracking teams and hunter ninjas went, after the prompting nod Tsunade gave.

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Orochimaru ran full tilt away from the leaf village, throwing swarms of snakes behind him to delay their progress. Then he created seal-less shadow clones, pumped with enough chakra, and sent them in random directions away from him. He jumped with the dying elder on his shoulder and when he encountered a small cave he entered and gently set the man on the wall.

He smirked widely down at the man and the man wearily looked up at him. "Why…did you save…me?"

The legendary snake summoner chuckled in amusement and raised an eyebrow. "Who said I saved you?" He thrust his hand through the man's neck and tore out his throat, killing him instantly. "I'm just here to take some of the Hashirama DNA in your body."

By the time the Konoha and Wave ninjas found Danzo, he was dead and mutilated beyond possible recognition.

Authors note

Jutsu list

Ninja Art: Paper Shuriken Barrage: this is a C rank attack that is a variation of Naruto's 'Child Of Paper Chaos' in the sense that the exploding fire affinity paper would fly out of his sleeves but on contact they would not explode but rather slice through their intended victim if the person is not quick enough to dodge. Naruto made use of the same concept as its counterpart; all the paper was attached to extra thin ninja wire that he had drawn wind affinity seals on so they would be fairly unseen and so that they would listen to Naruto's command, even if he changed the general direction of the attack. He created this jutsu to serve him if the conventional use of shuriken and kunai wouldn't serve his full purpose, since he can detonate the fire paper whenever he wants. No other ninja can use this jutsu.

Lightning Release: Bug Zapper: a B rank of unknown origins that simply shoots out a low-powered bolt of lightning from the pointer finger or a higher-powered bolt from the mouth.

Wind and Fire Release: Combination Jutsu: Wind Meteorites: this is a high-ranking jutsu created by an unknown member of the Uchiha clan that requires large chakra levels and monumental control over the user's own wind and fire affinity. A ball of fiery hot gas is encased in a bubble of air and blown to the opponent from the mouth. The wind surrounding the ball of hot gas inside constantly sucks in whatever it is near to the fire and when a set limit is reached the jutsu would combust within itself. The only known way to dodge this is by using a body replacement technique.

Lightning and Fire Release: Combination Jutsu: Chakra Beam: this is a low S rank attack that is made when Naruto combines two affinities that "work" well together. This jutsu can drill through chakra-draining wood-release trees, so it is safe to say that when it comes in contact with a person it would be fatal; the reason Danzo even survived the attack amid the gaping hole in his torso was that he had already cast his Izangi sharingan based attack. This jutsu has two-fifths attack power of the combined chakra beam attack, add in the compatibility of the affinity type he used and that is the reason it is low S rank. No other person but Naruto can perform this jutsu.

Fire release: Chakra beam: this is a high A rank attack that primarily makes use of Naruto's fire affinity chakra. It is one-fifth the strength of a full chakra beam.

Sharingan Death Reverse Summoning: this is a highly experimental seal Naruto created a few weeks after his encounter with Itachi Uchiha. The purpose is to destroy the sharingan eyes, especially if the person is in contact. The seal would detect where the doujutsu genjutsu was coming from and skitter over there, forcing the person to either flee or step on it, and if the victim steps on it the seal would take effect and destroy the eyes. The first testing was met with success and failure, in the sense that he had to make use of Kyuubi's chakra to break the genjutsu and the sharingan instead of his own.

Done.

The design for the rectangular shield was from Ironman's shield in 'Infinity War' (I do not own). The chakra beam was also obtained from Ironman and the Chidori.

What do you all think about the fights in the chapter? I'm in the sort of situation where I have a lot to say and a self-imposed word limit (11k max), so I apologise if the execution scene and Danzo's death were a bit rushed.

Don't forget to leave a review please, that would be very much appreciated.

See you when I see you.

Foy.