-Wait here, Miss Haruno, -The raccoon entered first. Two minutes later, she returned.
Mr. Shimura is ready to receive you, the woman said emotionlessly.
Sasuke sighed, closed her eyes and stepped into the office. Pulling the doorknob, she confidently entered the office. The office was made in black. Everything was black and cold: black walls, a black soft carpet on the floor, a black desk, behind which the head of the root, Danzo Shimura, proudly sat.
Sasuke glanced at him briefly. Damn, at 40, despite the black bandage on his left eye, Danzo gave the impression of an impressive man. An expensive black suit from Pierre Cordin, clearly tailor-made, a straight nose, sharp cheekbones, slightly plump lips, a crew cut... He was a head taller than her, and Shimura s whole appearance exuded power and coldness.
-Miss Haruno? His hoarse, low voice was cold and emotionless.
Yes, Sasuke smiled sweetly. I m Miss Haruno. More precisely, her sister. Sasuke.
That s how it is, Danzo stood up from the table and approached the girl. A cold, polite smile, more like a grin.
I didn t know that Miss Haruno had a sister, Shimura extended his hand to the brunette. She shook it confidently and looked boldly into her eyes.
- I m a cousin, I came to visit. Sakura came down with the flu, and I m replacing her, the girl confidently lied.
Danzo remained silent. The girl in front of him was clearly not Sakura's sister. He felt the strong chakra of the Uchiha clan and guessed the real origin of the girl in front of him.
Please have a seat, the man smiled feigningly. Sasuke confidently sat down, took out the recorder and read out the first questions.
Root is a fairly closed organization. But still... Why was it created and for what purpose? - Said Sasuke.
-Goal: protect Konoha. The invisible ones are those who support the great tree of Konoha from the depths of the earth. If not us, then who? These kids who just graduated from the Academy? The Great Loser or the Author of Porn Trash Jiraiya? -Danzo grinned. Cosmos needs to do dark work, Miss Haruno.
Darkness is evil, Sasuke said thoughtfully, crossing his legs. -The fact that your people are emotionless and hide their faces under masks... Trauma for life... They have no families, no attachments, no names... This is terrible...
-What are you getting at, Miss Haruno? -Shimura asked irritably.
Because you cripple people, children, the Uchiha repeated his tone. And then... where was your vaunted root during the attack of the Nine-Tails?
We evacuated civilians, Shimura lied, smiling sweetly. Ask your parents, they will tell you...
-What about your hatred for the Uchiha clan? what woman from their clan didn t give it to you at one time? -Read out Sasuke's question.
Danzo froze. The girl just asked him what? He was looking for confusion or embarrassment, but no, a sweet smile and a direct look...
He wanted to wipe that grin off the girl's face. Bend her over the table, pull down her jeans and flog her thoroughly with a rod or belt. Shimura closed his eye. Calm down, this brat is not interesting to him...
- What makes you think that it s a woman? -Coped with Danzo's emotions.
-It's always about women or relationships. You almost brought the clan to massacre. Fortunately, Fugaku Uchiha and his son Itachi were able to come to an agreement with Hiruzen and Minato. But you were pushing the situation towards civil war, Sasuke chuckled.
I did it for the good of the village, Shimura began irritably. The Uchihas set the nine-tails on the village.
-Is there evidence of this? Some mummer in a wig and a pumpkin mask lit up the sharigan on the night of the nine-tails attack. What if it was someone not from Konoha? You and I know about the black market for Sharingans. Yes, and the lenses of the Hugo clan are being sold on the Dark Net, the brunette was not at a loss. They would have conducted an investigation, and then they would have built a Ghetto for the Uchihas. If only they could sew a yellow star on their clothes.
-Miss Haruno! Shimura raised his voice. Are these your Sister s questions?
No, these are my questions, Sasuke answered.
-You are a cheeky little thing, Miss Haruno... -Danzo smiled sweetly. -What are you doing?
-I work at the sushi restaurant U Gaara , or rather, I work part-time on weekends. And today I missed a shift because of you and I regret it, Sasuke said without hiding her irritation.
-Do you want to join the Root? -Shimura was interested in the impudent girl. No one had spoken to him in such a tone for a very long time, no one had looked him in the eyes. He wanted to break her, bring her to her knees... To see fear and submission in these black pools...
-Where I want to join is in the intelligence corps with Levi Ackerman. There, at least the soldiers and intelligence officers benefit society, and do not work as emotionless puppets of an old puppeteer who amuses his ego by toying with other people s lives, Sasuke stood up and took the recorder. I think the interview is over.