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  Daichi and Lee could be seen doing push ups o each other.

  "So you'll be leaving at the end of this year?" Lee asked as he stretched his arms and pushed himself up from the ground.

  "Yeah. Gramps wanted me to learn about his business in the capital. So I'll be gone for about 3 years. I'll e back by the time my css is ready to graduate." Daichi replied as he exercised alongside the boy.

  "I see…"

  Daichi could hear the hidden sadness in that reply. He didn't know what to say so for the moment he decided to keep quiet.

  Suddenly Daichi saw Lee smile a big grin. "Yosh! When you e back, I'll definitely be a genin and we should spar. I 't wait to see how strong you will bee after 3 years."

  Daichi ughed hearing his excited tone. "Yeah. That sounds fun."

  "499… 500! Yosh!" Lee and Daichi got up from the ground and then walked through the forest.

  "How's your csses?" Daichi asked the boy.

  "I'm trating oaijutsu and theoretical csses as you said. My grades have slightly improved but it's still not enough. And those csses are sometimes fusing." Lee replied.

  Daichi thought about that for a moment and had an idea in mind.

  "Everyone learns differently… How about this? When you're trying to learn a difficult subject at home, I want you to put the book down and do a hundred hand stands or push ups as you read. I have a feeling that kind of method might work for a training nut like you. I'm not 100% sure it'll help you memorize everything but it's worth a shot."

  Lee's eyes widened iement as he heard that. "Yes! That's a most brilliant idea. Thank you my friend Daichi."

  He ran and gave Daichi a tight hug…

  "Ghaa… Easy there." Daichi pried Lee's hands off him. "We o get ready soon or we'll be te."

  "Yosh! Let's rad see who makes it out of the forest first." Lee shouted.

  Both of them ran as they ted to three. It was a usual thing and unsurprisingly it was Daichi who came first. Both of them went their separate ways afterwards.

  Daichi headed home and freshened himself and got ready. He created three shadow es to train the first step of the water chakra nature a his home.

  He arrived in his css a few minutes before the bell and the csses started as usual. He listened diligently and answered whatever questions were asked of him.

  As he listeo a lecture about a subject he already knew his mind drifted to his grandfather.

  'I wonder what that old man is doing right now?'

  —-

  he Fire Capital.

  Kensei was iwo story house he had only heard about and never been to before that day. He looked around and found several rooms with different types of equipment in ea.

  'So this is the safe house created by Sed Lord Hokage. Locations wise… The building isn't in a bad spot. It is not easily found or accessible and it is hidden and protected by seals that take energy from the surroundings… What kind of a seal does that?'

  Kensei waited for the arrival of certain people. 'I wonder… Will she e? Hiruze word that she agreed to a meeting… It seems the only thing I do is wait…'

  Kensei looked around the pbsp;'Might as well look around. Hiruzen told me he disabled the traps ihe pce…'

  Kensei opehe door to a room and saw several shelves of scrolls and dots. 'All that information… I'm half tempted to take it all with me.'

  Kensei suppressed his desires and looked inside another room. This one was like a small boratory. It didn't have any advanced mae but there were several gss beakers and jars with various substances inside, all beled aly preserved.

  As he looked around and waited, Kensei suddenly sehe presence of three other people. They ehe barrier and opehe door to the safe house.

  Kensei saw a fair skinned woman with brown eyes and straight blond hair enter first. She wore a green haori and underh had a grey kimono and matg dark bluish pants. Her most notable features were her sizable cleavage and violet diamond-shaped seal on her forehead. One of the three Legendary ninjas. Tsunade Senju.

  'Tsunade Senju… She's certainly aged sihe st time I saw her… But that transformation teique is impressive. And behind her are…'

  Behind Tsunade was another woman with average height, slender build a bck hair wearing a bck kimono. She was holding a small pinkish colored pig and the st oepping inside was a tall well built man with spiky long white hair. The sed of the Legendary three. Jiraiya the Toad Sage.

  'Shizune and Jiraiya… It seems all of them are here.'

  Tsunade and Jiraiya immediately reized the man ihe safehouse.

  The blond sannin had a smirk as she looked at Kensei. "And here I thought you retired a long time ago. Not to mention your dislike of Sarutobi sensei… So why exactly are you here doing this?"

  "I'm not here to help Hiruzen. I want to save Isen. And I'm going to create problems for Danzo… So there is a difference…"

  Tsunade smirked and said nothing else.

  "How is the young sapling you've adopted.?" Jiraiya asked as he stepped forward.

  "He's fine. He started on his third nature training before I left." 'There is no point in hiding it from him. They will eventually know what Daichi is capable of.'

  Jiraiya was surprised when he heard that. 'Looks like sensei was right. Only 9 years old and already training in a third chakra nature…? His talent and potential might be immeasurable.'

  They looked around the pce. Tsunade looked at the rooms with slight nostalgia. She had only e here a couple times and it was in the presence of her grand uncle and grandmother.

  Kensei looked at Tsunade's apprentice. "You must be Shizune."

  "Yes… And you're Kensei Yasaji right… I've heard a lot about you." The girl politely replied.

  The old man nodded and then turowards the approag Sanin.

  "I have something Hiruzen gave me. He said you would know what to do…" Keook out the scroll and gave it to Tsunade.

  She took the scroll and ope. A gss jar twice the size of a human head appeared. I were several of the same flowers.

  Each flower was 3.5 to 5cm long in diameter. They were violet-purple and had greenish yellow spots.

  Kensei looked at the flowers and was fused. He didn't know why Hiruzen gave those to him. But he k had some significe to the pn.

  "What is that?" Kensei asked.

  Tsunade examihe gss jar for a few seds and replied. "It's a beautiful looking flower isn't it… But it's quite dangerous. Rhododendron ponticum. It has the ability to create toxic chemicals making it a poisonous pnt. The ar produced from the pollen of this flower be poisonous. It cause hypotension as well as bradycardia if ed iain quantities."

  Kensei slightly tilted his head. "Meaning…."

  Tsunade sighed and answered. "Meaning it cause low blood pressure and slows down the heart rate."

  Kensei's eyes slightly wide the implications. "How long will the effects st…?"

  Tsuhought about it for a few seds and replied. "If I make a few adjustments and add a couple redients, then about 4 hours. The heartbeat will be slowed down to about 1 or 2 beats per mihe person will be in a near death state."

  Kehought about the pn proposed by the Hokage. "4 hours huh. That's more than enough time for the whole thing to work… What do you o make the poison?"

  "I need a medical b. And a week."

  Kensei looked around the pce. "So that's why he told us to meet here."

  "Yes. Uobirama ducted several experiments here. He was a ninja but he was also a stist at heart."

  Kensei nodded and pletely agreed with that.

  —-—-

  Academy.

  The csses for the day were almost over. As Daichi was sitting there pleting his works a new quest box appeared in front of him.

  [Quest Created: Follow The Root.]

  Follow the root ninja Touma Asai. Find the location of the Root Base. Time Limit: 1.5 hour.

  .

  [ditions:]

  Must not be caught.

  Locate the entrao the Root base.

  Identify Touma Asai's tact.

  .

  [Rewards:]

  2500 Exp.

  .

  [Failure:]

  Reputation decreases with Danzo Shimura.

  Accept. (Y/N)

  Daichi went over the details of the quest and immediately accepted.

  'This quest doesn't have death or being forced to join the root or anything like that as failure… That means even if Danzo finds out that I followed his spy he wouldn't be able to do much about it… Must be because of Kensei and the Hokage. Not that I'm going to let something like that happen.'

  Daichi also noticed something strange. 'Why is there a time limit on this quest? Does that mean he'll meet his ta that time limit or will he personally go to the base? I guess I'll find out.'

  Ohe csses were over Daichi went to the bathroom and quickly created a shadow e. Ohe e left he took out his Invisibility cloak and put it on.

  Daichi found his cssmate leaving the grounds and followed him to his home. It was some ways from the academy and oouma reached his home Daichi moved to the opposite side of the building. He cautiously ehe building through an open window. He went to a er of the room and sat while uhe prote of the cloak.

  Daichi saw Touma preparing a report. 'Hmm… Must be about me, Naruto and Sasuke. It seems someone will e here and pick up the report.' Daichi g what was being written. It was an evaluation of his attitude, css performarength, behavior and friends.

  He waited and after some time he saw Touma finish writing his report and sealed them in a small scroll. Touma left the scroll he window ao another room. Daichi waited patiently and after about fifteen more minutes he saw a small bck cat jump into the room and grab the scroll. It swallowed the scroll and jumped out the window.

  'What the?'

  Daichi didn't waste anymore time gawking at what had just happened. He jumped out the window and followed the cat. The bck cat took a path through the forest ao the shadows. Its movements were silent and if one wasn't paying attention they would miss it.

  Daichi followed behind it and took a closer look. He found that it was not a real cat but something else.

  'Is that… Is that thing made of ink?'

  Daichi's eyes widened in surprise as he realized the implications… 'If that thing is made of ink then that means the one behind this is….'

  Daichi didn't have to wait long for an ahe cat suddenly jumped up a tree and reached its creator.

  Daichi saw two people and he immediately reized one of them while he had a vague recolle of the other.

  The first was a child with short bck hair and pale skin. He had a small backpad ainting something in his notebook while the cat jumped and nded near him.

  'That's definitely Sai. And unless I'm mistakeher one must be Shin.'

  Daichi got close and listeo their versation.

  "Well look at that. It looks like your ink Ninjutsu is a success. Now you know you make creatures that move on their own instead of inanimate objects. Well done."

  The boy Daichi knew as Sai smiled.

  "e o's head back." Shin said and both of them left.

  Daichi followed. 'So Sai is only beginning to learn how to use his ink Ninjutsu style.'

  Daichi followed them to the base of a cliff he forest. Daichi saw Shin making a seal and saw the rock part ways and both of them went inside.

  [Quest pleted.]

  Daichi was debating oher or not to follow them but he decided against it when the question pletion notification appeared.

  [Rewards:]

  2500 Exp.

  375 Exp.

  [You have found a hidden location. Added to the Mini-Map.]

  Daichi looked at his holographic map and it expanded and it indicated the new location by highlighting it for a few seds.

  'It looks like this venture wasn't all that bad. I found the location of a root base and got some exp. Not a bad way to spend an evening at all.'

  Author’s Note:

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